Sunday December 22
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And Then, Everything Turned
As the rebels advanced on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s longtime ruler, did something no one in his right mind would have predicted even a few weeks earlier. According to numerous published reports, he called on Israel for help. Let that sink in. Assad, puppet dictator of Syria — propped up and controlled by Iran — suddenly found himself reaching out to Iran’s mortal enemy, Israel, to save him. For a variety of reasons, Israel could not and would not militarily intervene on behalf of this cruel man. But that he would come to a point of such extreme desperation shows how much the Middle East changed in a matter of days.
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A Failure Of Biblical Proportions
In Jeremiah 31:35-36 it says, “Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name."
