World Watch 2.18.23: Prophetic, Last Days News Just Like Jesus Said

Ukraine & Eastern Europe

• The US has just accused Russia of committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
• Zelenskyy at the Munich summit:
  • “It is clear that Ukraine will not be Putin’s last stop, he will continue to other countries that were part of the Soviet Union.”
  • “It is possible that the Russian ‘payment’ to Iran for the assistance with drones – will be to enrich Iran’s uranium to a weapons level 90%״
• Will Putin and Lukashenko declare unification of Russia with Belarus? If so, it would automatically allow Russia to attack Ukraine from Belarus’s territory!
• Feb. 16: An extensive and unusual missile attack from Russia and the Black Sea early in the morning against cities in Ukraine. Air raid sirens were set off all over the country, and explosions were heard in Lviv, Odessa, Kharkiv, and other cities. According to the report, at least some of the missiles were without warheads and were launched with the aim of disrupting and exhausting the activity of the air defense systems.
• The French Foreign Ministry calls on French citizens to leave Belarus immediately. This comes after the American call for the citizens of the United States to leave Russia. Something serious seems to be going on beneath the surface.
• The president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, warned today of an intention to carry out a pro-Russian coup to establish a government that would be loyal to the Kremlin. According to Sandu the plan is to take over public buildings during demonstrations against the government, with Kremlin supporters from Russia, Belarus, Serbia, and Montenegro, who have undergone military training, leading the coup.
• This is the closest a US warship has been to Russia since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began – The Black Sea. 

Ukraine Running Low on Weapons and Ammo?

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, recently announced that “the current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defense industries under strain.”
 
He then urged that the countries helping Ukraine “ramp up production.”
 
Earlier today, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed the urgency of his country’s need for weapons, saying, “Delay has always been and still is a mistake.” Foreshadows

Elsewhere

A move towards Ezekiel 38?

Officials in Sudan said last night that all understandings have been reached with Russia for the establishment of a Russian military base in the Red Sea. They said that the army supports the agreement and now the approval of the civilian government is required, and that Moscow agrees to most of Khartoum’s demands, including the supply of weapons and military equipment.

• Iran:
  • The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy targeted a Liberia flagged & Israel owned oil tanker named CampoSquare in Arab Sea. The oiler belonged to Zodiac Maritime Limited. It was on its way to UAE.
  • 40 days after the execution of some of the protesters in Iran, the protest has resumed.
• An ISIS Senior Leader was Killed and Four U.S. Service members wounded in Helicopter Raid in Northeastern Syria
• Central Command of the US Army: Feb. 14 we shot down an Iranian-made drone that was conducting a patrol mission over an American base in northeastern Syria.

Russia, North Korea & China

• South Korea and the US will hold a military exercise next week in Washington, as part of the countries’ joint effort to deal with North Korea’s missile and nuclear threats – the Ministry of Defense in Seoul said. Following this, North Korea threatens to take an “unprecedented response”
• Russia has just deployed nuclear-armed ships for the first time in 30 years.
• Russian nuke bombers have been spotted near Alaska!
• The United States State Dept. is urging US citizens to leave Russia IMMEDIATELY!
• North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward Sea of Japan! According to the published data, the missile flew for more than 60 minutes and fell in the exclusive economic waters of Japan, about 200 km west of the island of Hokkaido
• China naval helicopter flies near ship in Japan’s economic zone. A Chinese naval helicopter approached a Japanese research ship within the country’s exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, the Fisheries Agency has said.
• Officials in Taiwan told the Financial Times that Chinese spy balloons enter the island’s airspace “frequently,” averaging “once a month,” and that they reach an altitude of 20,000 feet. According to officials in Taiwan and the US, the balloons were designed to collect atmospheric information to improve the accuracy of radar and missile systems.
• Former Army secretary urges the US to ‘wake up’ and ‘prepare for the worst’ against Chinese aggression.

Signs in the Sky

• After Biden Sent $1B to PLO, Israeli Deaths Rose 900%
• Knesset passes law stripping terrorists of citizenship
• Israel works to ramp up gas exports in light of energy demand in Europe
• Israeli Border Police officer killed by a 13-year-old Palestinian in terror attack outside Shuafat
• 24 hours in Jerusalem: three terror attacks

Lebanon is threatening war with Israel

In a televised speech earlier today, Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, blames the Americans for the difficult situation of the Lebanese economy due to the economic sanctions by the US against various parties in Lebanon and Syria. He claims that by doing so the Americans are trying to influence what is happening inside Lebanon in order to make Hezbollah — their resident terrorist organization — give up the armed resistance.

Nasrallah explicitly threatened that if the Americans continue to cause chaos and collapse inside Lebanon, they will lose and the fire will be directed at their ally in the region – Israel!

Turkey/Syria Earthquakes

• Death toll in Turkey & Syria surpass 46,000.
• Buildings are still collapsing as the earth is still shaking.
• The General Director of Risk Reduction in the Department of Natural Disaster Management in Turkey announced that the energy released by the earthquake was as powerful as the explosion of 500 atomic bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima.

Prayer for Turkey / Syria

Praise God that none of the Frontiers UK teams on the ground have sustained life threatening injuries, and many of them are now working to support those that are injured and homeless. Turkish churches are also responding to the crisis, providing much needed supplies and accommodation.

Pray for:

• Food and medical supplies to get to those who urgently need them.
• Provision of accommodation for those made homeless.
• Good longer-term plans to be established for the rebuilding of this area.
• Those who have lost homes and livelihoods in this earthquake and those who are grieving lost loved ones, that they would receive the comfort of Christ.
• Those who are providing help to those in need, that they would know the strength of the Lord upholding them through this time.
• The light of Christ to shine brightly in the darkness that many people in this area are experiencing, and for many to meet Jesus through this situation.

If you think this is bad, check out this special report on future, prophetic earthquakes.

Other Seismic Weather Events

• National state of emergency declared as Cyclone Gabrielle causes widespread destruction across New Zealand’s North Island 
• National disaster declared in South Africa as extreme rains cause widespread damage
• Malawi experienced a devastating hailstorm at the end of November that brought heavy and large hail with strong winds. The locals had never seen hail like it before and it has left many homes, schools and businesses with badly damaged properties. The crops that are planted are now damaged with the hail, which will lead to a poor harvest. Please pray – For good rains, as most family’s survival entirely depends on it. Adequate rainfall that will guarantee good harvest for the coming year. For families to receive the fertilizer needed for their farms, although the costs are rising. – Starfish Malawi

• Reports of many believers in financial stress in Central Asia associated with the current economic downturn. They have nothing to fall back on.
• World Health Organization confirms outbreak of an Ebola-like virus in Equatorial Guinea.
• Oil Prices Fall On Renewed Inflation Fears
• America: Inflation surged 6.4% in January, higher than expected
• The Lebanese Lira continues to crash and is now traded 72,000 Liras for one US dollar.
• Bird flu continues to spread and one UK Expert calls for work to start on a vaccine with risk to humans ‘increasing’

• Scientists are now saying that the terms ‘male,’ and ‘female’ should be replaced with ‘sperm-producing,’ and ‘egg-producing’ to be ‘inclusive’
• U.S. Democrats bill lures teens to run away for trans surgeries without parental consent
• Preschool Teachers Drill Students in ‘Woke’ Gender Language
• Mississippi struck with a 900% increase in newborns being treated for syphilis.
• California Christian teacher, Jessica Tapia, lost her job after refusing to hide students’ gender transitions from parents and keeping them in the dark by lying to them.
• Man says his bisexual wife came out as nonbinary after their child, who had identified as bisexual, switched to transgender, lesbian.
  • “Our daughter came out as bisexual in middle school. In high school, she reassessed and came out as trans and lesbian,” Berlatsky wrote. “My daughter coming out as trans also prompted my wife to think about her own gender. She’s since come out as nonbinary, though she’s retained she/her pronouns.
  • “My wife has known she’s bisexual since she was in middle school in northwestern Indiana, though she was heavily and miserably closeted until college. It’s been a relief for her — and a validation — that our daughter felt comfortable coming out at home and school,” he wrote.

• North Korea: Succession questions raised by presence of Kim’s daughter
• UK: Shamanism is now Britain’s “fastest-growing” religion amid growing “climate change” anxiety.
• America:
  • 1 dead, 3 hospitalized in shooting at El Paso mall, 1 person in custody.
  • Michigan State shooting: 3 killed, 5 wounded. The shooter killed himself.
  • Mississippi: six people fatally shot in Tate county. A suspect has been taken into custody without incident after being spotted inside a vehicle.
• Armed groups in northern Mozambique have been leading a campaign of terror that includes torching villages, beheading people and kidnapping. This has forced more than 820,000 people to flee their villages.

How the Assad Regime is benefiting from the earthquakes. Via Amir Tsarfati

A 7th Iranian cargo plane landed in Aleppo with equipment and “aid” to Syria.

Until yesterday (Feb. 15), 112 aid planes have landed in Syria since the earthquakes, and the prominent countries that sent the air aid are:

• United Arab Emirates: 34 cargo planes
• Iraq: 11 cargo planes
• Libya: 10 cargo planes
• Algiers: 7 cargo planes
• Iran: 7 cargo planes
• Oman: 5 cargo planes
• Kazakhstan: 4 cargo planes

In addition, over the course of 8 days, 2100 trucks with equipment entered from Iraq, led by the Shia militias.

All of the above aid only goes into the areas under the control of the Assad regime (and not into the area under the control of the rebels in northern Syria).

I would like to emphasize that most of the damage caused by the earthquake was in the areas under the control of the rebels in northern Syria and not in the areas under the control of Assad and this is also indicated by the distribution of the number of dead:

• About 1400 in the territories under the control of the Assad regime.
• About 4000 in the territories under the control of the rebels.

It can be said that Assad benefited greatly from the earthquake.

• Europe is now considering a digital currency to counter the U.S. and China’s tech dominance.
• U.S. Department of State has been funding a “disinformation” tracking group to blacklist conservative media.
• Brazil: All Universal Basic Income Recipients (welfare) Must Be Vaxxed
• EU parliament votes to ban new sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2035.
• Japanese Yale professor says old people should just kill themselves in ‘mass suicide’ in Japan, suggests euthanasia be compulsory.
• Justin Trudeau Hijacks Canada’s Healthcare and Threatens Provincial Premiers to Cut Off Healthcare Funding Unless They Agree to Digital Health ID 

World Government Summit via Foreshadows Report

Sounds Like Globalists Are Eager for Another International Crisis

Earlier this week, the World Government Summit was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The theme this year was “Shaping Future Governments.”
 
One of the sessions was titled “Key Predictions for a Changing World Order.” During the session, one of the panelists said the “international order” needs some kind of “shock” event to bring about a global “transformation.”
 
He said, “The big question is…how [are we] going to go through this transformation? It has to be—it cannot be gradual, it has to be…driven by a part—by a certain shock that will happen.”

The Latest Push for Global Governance from Klaus Schwab

The founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum gave a keynote address earlier this week at the World Government Summit.

In the speech, he said, “…today it has become a reality that we live through artificial intelligence, new space technology, and industrial biology…Our lives in ten years from now will be completely different, very much affected, and who masters those technologies, in some way, will be the master of the world.”

He continued, “My deep concern is that these technologies, if we don’t work together on a global scale, if we do not formulate, shape together the necessary policies, they will escape our power to master those technologies.”

Cuba #27

Cuba has risen ten places on the World Watch List, thanks to an increase in violence and pressure in all spheres of life. The dictatorial regime intensified its repressive tactics against all Christian leaders and activists that they view as opposing Communist principles.

The state does not allow Christians freedom of conscience on social issues. For instance, if the state passes new legislation on marriage, churches will be forced to comply. If they don’t, church leaders are likely to be monitored and threatened by the state security agency. Government measures include arrests, abductions, arbitrary fines, close surveillance, denials of licenses and religious visas and physical and mental abuse.

Central African Republic (CAR) #24:

CAR Rose seven places in the latest World Watch List

The ongoing conflict has displaced thousands of Christians and many live in camps for internally displaced people. Igna* was forced to flee her home after a rebel group assaulted her and now lives in a camp. Pray for her healing and that God will protect her and her family from further harm.

Most of the country is occupied by armed militia groups who are responsible for a range of human rights abuses. When Christian leaders have publicly denounced the violence, they’ve been threatened, and their churches ransacked and torched. Pastors are especially at risk, with some even being attacked during church services. 

Meanwhile, those who convert from Islam are at risk of persecution from their family and local community. There are reports of Christian mothers being allowed to attend Christian gatherings on condition that her children are sent to the mosque. Given the poverty many Christian families live in, parents are sometimes enticed into giving their daughters in marriage in exchange for gifts, while some Christian women agree to convert to Islam to survive.

Burkina Faso #23

In the midst of a deepening security crisis caused by last year’s military coup, jihadist activity is expanding and Christians are increasingly being targeted and killed. Ask God to heal and comfort those severely traumatised and affected by jihadist attacks, and pray for wisdom for Open Doors partners strengthening the church with trauma care and relief aid.

On 28 April 2019, Martine’s pastor and father closed his sermon with a question. “What was the last word of Jesus?” to which Martine responded: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34) The church then prayed for their enemies.

Ten minutes after the service, a group of Islamic extremists attacked the church and killed several men, including Martine’s father, husband, brother and brother-in-law.
Yet she says…
“I want those who did this awful thing not to die without knowing Jesus Christ.”

“My father said that if it is because of the name of Jesus that people want him to flee, he will never flee this village,” Martine recalls. “Even if it would mean death, he would die for the name of Jesus. He would not be afraid of what can only kill the body but not the soul.” Martine

“Burkina” means “upright”, showing how the people are proud of their integrity, while “Faso” means “fatherland”.

B.F. rose from number 32 to number 23 on the World Watch List.

Elsewhere

• India #11: Increasing numbers of states in India have implemented anti-conversion laws, which are designed to stop Hindus being forcibly converted to other religions. However, these laws are often used as an excuse to harass and intimidate Christians. Pray for a change of narrative around Indian identity so that the culture becomes more accepting of minority faiths.
• Sudan #10: Following a military coup in October 2021, Sudan is afflicted by ongoing unrest. This has resulted in a lack of protection for religious freedom. Churches have been forced to close and in some cases their land has been confiscated. Please pray for political stability and for a government that recognizes equal protection for all religious expressions.
• Nigeria #6: My father – A story from a VOM-supported Crisis Care Home
• Pakistan #7: Christians make up only around 1.8% of the population in Pakistan, but in a predominantly Muslim country, this small number of Christians is not well tolerated. Christian girls are abducted, abused and forcefully converted to Islam. Pray for protection for women who suffer domestic violence and girls who are forced into early marriages.
• America: The Anti-Defamation League: There has been an increase in incidents of violence against Jews in the United States following Kanye West’s anti-Semitic statements.
• Turkmenistan #26: Church leaders are particularly vulnerable as targets for persecution – whether through unwarranted fines, physical attacks or arrest and imprisonment on false charges. 
  • Fines can be issued for holding illegal gatherings, possessing religious literature and even for downloading Christian songs. Printing and importing Christian materials is restricted, so there is a dwindling lack of resources to support local Christians. 
  • Christian converts from Islam are the most vulnerable to persecution, and many hide their faith to avoid being targeted by their families and communities.

More on Christian Persecution

• Day of the Christian Martyr
• Praying for the Persecuted Church

• Laos: Please remember AsiaLink partners as they travel throughout Laos speaking to various groups about the dangers of people trafficking. They also take opportunity to share the gospel at these gatherings and rejoice that 28 people recently trusted Christ as Saviour. 
• Pakistan: Please pray for an AsiaLink partner currently completing some Bible School training outside the country. He plans to return to Pakistan next month to host bible classes in the city of Quetta. Please pray that this time of training will be beneficial in preparation for this vital ministry.
• Senegal – Wycliffe: The Gusilay team in Senegal have recently finished translating the book of Genesis and are now recording parts of it. Pray that the voice actors would speak their lines in an engaging way for the recording of the voices of the Genesis film. Praise God for all who were involved in composing songs about Abraham and creation and pray that it would give them a desire to know the stories behind the songs. Pray for God to be at work in the hearts of many in the Gusilay community as they hear his word.
• Nepal: Our AsiaLink partner in Nepal has been encouraged at how his Salvation booklet has been a great help to many, giving them a clearer understanding of the doctrine of Salvation. Sadly he has met many nominal churchgoers who have no grasp of the true gospel. Please pray.
• Iran: Despite extreme attempts to suppress the church in Iran, it continues to grow year on-year. Thank God for this counter-intuitive growth and for the many hearts that have been set free through the gospel.
• Iraq: “I studied about all sorts of religions online and fell in love with the teachings of Jesus Christ.” These are the words of a young medical student in northern Iraq. Praise God he has become a follower of Jesus and is eager to share Him with others through his work as a doctor.
• Israel: In recent days, our missionaries have found that many Jewish people who previously wouldn’t engage in a conversation, are now open to talking about Jesus. One missionary who has experienced this change of attitude among the Jewish people is Misha Vayshengolts.
  • He regularly conducts Bible studies and evangelistic bus tours for Russian-speaking Jewish migrants in Israel. These tours are extremely popular – news of them is spread among the Jewish community by word of mouth and increasing numbers are attending. International Mission to Jewish People (IMJP)

The Asbury “Revival”

Asbury Revival begins to spread across multiple campuses

“‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike— and they will prophesy.’

“But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭2‬:‭17‬-‭18‬, ‭21‬ ‭NLT‬‬