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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Remembering The One Who Met Every Prophecy This Christmas
According to the Scriptures, the Messiah had to come from a very specific bloodline, the Messiah had to be born at a very specific place, and the Messiah had to be born at a very specific time. It was exceedingly unlikely that anyone would ever be able to fulfill all of those prophecies, but Jesus did.
