The Lord has impressed upon this writer for many years now the need for us to be continually watching. So when you read the posts here you see “be watching” over and over and over again. If you have ever asked “how do we watch?” This post is for you.

Matt 26:36 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.

38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

40 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter.

41 “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

Keep watch “with me” the Lord said and what was the Lord doing? He way praying…

Colossians 4:2
… Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Continue and watch in prayer is what “watch in the same” means here ^^^

1 Peter 4:7
… But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. …

^^^ Here it is said directly “watch unto prayer”

Jesus was praying and he told the disciples “keep watch with me.” So how was Jesus “watching?” He was watching in and through prayer. Why prayer? The sight needed to do the watching Jesus commanded us to do is spiritual sight.

Spiritual things are seen with spiritual eyes and this is done through prayer as demonstrated by our Lord.

grace and peace

A few high points:

• If once calculates from the year Israel became a nation (1948) we are in the 63rd year.  If this generation is the one that shall not pass before seeing the return of the Lord and the last seven years appointed to Israel, the tribulation could be starting one day this fall.
• The rapture happens before (seconds? days? ) before the tribulation begins, so Christ could appear in the clouds anytime.
• The birth pangs are greatly increasing – just today there were earthquakes in California, Virgina and New York.
• August 30th (29th of Tammuz) is a potential rapture date.
• Sept 9, 2011 is in the news for potential terror attacks.
• Sept 21, 2011, Last Day of Feast of Tabernacles, potential rapture date.
• Sept 26, Comet Elenin will come close. Some say the earth will be shaken and severely damaged when this occurs.
• Sept 28, 29th, 2011, Rosh Hashana, potential rapture date.

No matter what happens, God has believers covered. If you don’t know the Lord, you really should be making his acquaintance.

Sis C

“Fair Use for Educational and Information Purposes”

While the news that Israel is under attack is nothing new, the attacks have increased in frequency and in damage. Here are just a few of the headlines regarding Israel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4110783,00.html ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALERT!!!!!!!!!!
Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel says “very harsh retaliation is coming.”
“There will be a price tag to this event,” he said. “Gaza will be severely hit. It is clear that the plan (for the attack) came from terror organizations in Gaza…The IDF will soon prepare for a response.”

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234354 ISRAEL BEGINS RESPONDING TO MASS TERROR ATTACK!!!
ISRAEL DROPS AIRSTRIKES OVER GAZA KILLS 7 TERRORISTS IN RESPONSE TO MASS CIVILIANS TAGRETED BY GAZA MUSLIMS…STILL HUNTING FOR MORE THAT THEY SAY ARE HIDING…

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147001
MKs: Enough Missile Defense – End Hamas Completely Go Into Gaza Take Out Hamas!!!!
National Union MKs call on government to stop relying on “Iron Dome” and start hitting Hamas – hard. MK Ben-Ari called to not only target Hamas, but retake Gaza. “The one conclusion from the recent events must lead us to reoccupy Gaza,” he said.

80 Rockets FIred in Last 3 Days - – many more dying, babies hurt, 40 Rockets Fired Satureday Alone!!!
Hamas reportedly claims responsibility for Beersheba, Ofakim attacks; Ofakim: rocket lands on house causing shrapnel injuries to baby, 9-year-old, man; more than 80 rockets fired from Gaza.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234660
How To Strike Back Without Entering Cast Lead II ?
IT DOESNT LOOK POSSIBLE- – -IF ISRAEL GOES INTO GAZA TO TAKE OUT HAMAS AND OCCUPY GAZA MOST OF THOSE MUSLIM NATIONS WILL PROBABLY ALL ATTACK ISRAEL TOGETHER…
The fact that the PRC was the group behind the attacks on Thursday is another demonstration of how Hamas is continuing to lose control over the Gaza Strip as a growing number of terrorist groups – some affiliated with al Qaida and Global Jihad elements – reject its authority and believe that now is the time to begin escalating the front with Israel.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234660
Palestine Calls On U.N. Security Council To Hold Emergency Meeting To Stop Israel.
“Israel is preparing for war to distract attention from the Palestinian Authority’s plan for September,” said Mohammed Subh, the PA envoy to the Arab League.
He said that Arab League representatives would hold a meeting on Sunday to discuss the repercussions of Israel’s “assault” on Palestinian and Egyptian territories. “We have been expecting such an aggression,” Subh said. “We were expecting Israel to intensify tensions in the region as we approached the September deadline. Israel is seeking to create mayhem in the region.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111486,00.html ALERT!!
TOTAL GAZA INVASION VERY POSSIBLE SAYS ISRAEL!!!
POSSISBLE TAKE OVER OF GAZA IMMINENT AFTER HAMAS KILLS MORE CIVILIANS AND FIRES 40 MORE ROCKETS SATURDAY>>>
Israeli Minister: “Hamas will pay heavy price”
The forum of top eight government ministers was set to meet Saturday night to discuss escalating Israel’s response to the rocket fire from Gaza. During the deliberations the ministers will discuss all options, including a ground operation in the Strip and increasing the pace of assassinations of terror group leaders

http://debka.com/article/21226/
US defuses Egyptian-Israeli crisis: Egypt may post troops in E. Sinai
Intense diplomatic efforts by Washington Saturday night, Aug. 20, produced a compromise for resolving the Egyptian-Israeli crisis moments before their 1979 peace accord was overturned

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234550
HAMAS CALLS OFF TRUCE WITH ISRAEL!!!!!!!!   As Rocket Fire Continues From Gaza !!!
Hamas announced early on Saturday they were no longer committed to a more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a war in early 2009.
There is no longer any truce with the enemy,” the statement said in a move seen as paving the way for Hamas to escalate the violence with Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/30-rockets-strike-israel-day-after-coordinated-terror-attacks-kill-8-1.379518 MAJOR ALERT!!!! MAJOR ALERT!!!!!!!!!!
30 Rockets Strike Israel Since Thursday After Coordinated Terror Attacks Kills 8 Jews on Thursday!!
At least 7 wounded as Palestinians fire Grad, Qassam missiles at Israel; Iron Dome successfully intercepts rocket bound for Ashdod.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234543
‘Iron Dome’ intercepts rocket fired from Gaza at Ashkelon Friday Night
Three rockets explode in Eshkol Regional council, no injuries reported; seven injured by Grad rocket that explodes in Ashdod yeshiva; small fire started by rocket explosion near Kiryat Malachi in the South.
The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip toward Ashkelon late Friday night.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234530
‘Senior PRC commander killed in IDF strike in Gaza Strip’
An IAF strike in the northern Gaza Strip Friday evening killed Samed Abdul Mu’ty Abed, identified by Israeli media as a senior commander in the Popular Resistance Committees, Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported.
The man was riding a motorcycle at the time of the strike, according to multiple Palestinian reports. Another 22-year-old man was injured in the strike.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111223,00.html
ISRAEL – -  prepares for grim night of Friday as rocket fire continues unabated, Over 17 rockets, additional mortars fired throughout Friday. Airstrikes in Gaza continue to target PRC terror group, which threatens ‘resistance until martyrdom’

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234432 Israel Strikes Gaza Hard After Muslims murder Innocent Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu:
“The people who gave the order to murder our people and hid in Gaza are no longer among the living.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HOZrJXnuw0

 Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech and warning to terrorists!!!!

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111523,00.html
Israel fears further escalation in south
Defense establishment officials fear that the extent of rocket attacks from Gaza will increase Sunday. Due to the situation, the National Emergency Management Authority storage facilities will be opened in the morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nLDF8qh7qY Russia  Today News Video Update – ISRAEL MAY STRIKE LEBANON and HEZBOLLAH ALSO AT THIS TIME!!! – - –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAshdIHZ1Jo
Egypt protesters demanding end to Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXx-zBSkI88
Al Jazeera New Video reporst on situation in Gaza

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147005
A 38-year-old Ofakim man died Saturday night of wounds he sustained in a Gaza missile attack on the city, leaving a pregnant wife.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147003
Cabinet in Midnight Meeting as Attacks Continue
Netanyahu’s ‘cabinet of eight’ to meet at midnight as attacks from Gaza continue

NEWS FOR SATURDAY EVENING AND SUNDAY – -

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=234762 ISRAEL’S SECURITY MINISTER…GROUND INVASION BEING HIGHLY CONSIDERED!!!!!!
Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said on Sunday that the violence in the south will continue in the near future.
“The escalation will continue in the coming days. The public should act accordingly. These will not be easy times,” he said.
Also on Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom said that, in light of the ongoing onslaught, the government will have to consider entering the coastal strip.
“We cannot continue in a situation in which one million Israelis are living under constant rocket fire. The deterrence from Operation Cast Lead has exhausted itself. We will need to respond and we are not excluding the option of a ground invasion,” Shalom said.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=234761
Jordan warns escalation in Gaza threatens entire region !!!!!!!!!
The statement, made by Jordanian Information Minister Abdullah Abu Ruman, condemned “Israel military operations that left civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip and killed a number of Egyptian officers,” and warned against further “targeting of civilians” in Gaza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq8kcKz5eZ8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Egypt Turning Fast on Israel
Thousands Gather At Israel’s Embassay in Egypt and Take Down the Flag and Burn it… MASSES OF PEOPLE>>EGYPT IN A TOTAL FRENZY OVER WAR IN GAZA THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE>>>

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111566,00.html ISRAEL CALCULATING OPTIONS CAREFULLY…HIGHLY CONSIDERING GOING INTO GAZA!!!
IAF STRIKES GAZA AS ROCKETS CONTINUE TO POUND SOUTH ISRAEL SUNDAY!!! ISRAEL IRON DOME INTERCEPTOR STILL SHOOTING DOWN ROCKETS.                                                                                                                                   ISRAEL SAYS EVEN THOUGH THIS IS ISRAELS FIRST RESPONSE WITHIN 24 HOURS, IT SHOULD NOT IN ANY WAY LEAD PEOPLE TO THINK ISRAEL IS WEAK AND IT HESITATING…THEY ARE WATING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO STRIKE AND ARE DECIDING ON GROUND INVASION AND THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF HAMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=234751
Hamas, Arab League ask the UN to stop Gaza escalation UN has to take procedures to stop Israeli offensive,
” Arab League sec.-gen. says; Hamas FM says he’s in contact with int’l, regional bodies

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147010
A barrage of Grad Katyusha missiles were fired by Gaza terrorists at Be’er Sheva for the fourth day Sunday morning.
One landed on a school.Several missiles had already been intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system earlier in the morning over the souther coastal city of Ashkelon…

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147020 Likud Minister Says Stop Hamas Completely and For Good
Likud Minister Silvan Shalom told Be’er Sheva residents during a solidarity visit Sunday to a school hit by a missile, “We must stop this.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147018
Ashkelon Coast Targeted in Midday Rocket Barrages: Gaza terrorists switched focus towards midday Sunday and directed their missile barrages towards Ashkelon and the Eshkol district.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111863,00.html Arab League Demanding U.N Stop Israel!!!
ARAB LEAGUE AND JORDAN CONDEMN ISRAEL ESCALLATION…THE ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNED ISRAELI ATTACKS ON SUNDAY MORNING AND DEMANDED TO U.N TAKE ACTION TO STOP ISRAEL’S RESPONSE…!!!!
I HAVE AN IDEA..HOW ABOUT HAMAS STOPS FIRING ROCKETS AT INNOCENT PEOPLE OR ISRAEL WILL BLOW OFF YOUR FREAKING HEADS WITH THEIR TANKS..HOWS THAT FOR A RESPONSE…

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111602,00.html Israel’s Cities Pleading For More Iron Dome Systems
ISRAEL’S MAJOR CITIES FIGHTING OVER WHO SHOULD GET THE CURRENT IRON DOME MISSILE BATTERIES DEPLYED IN ITS CITIES THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND. COST IS 30-50,000 PER ROCKET THAT IS FIRED…

America must turn to the Great Physician.

When a person presents to their doctor, vital signs are taken to assess just how sick the person is. Unfortunately, an assessment of America’s vital signs indicates the nation is succumbing to total heart failure in addition to acute septicemia. Unless America takes drastic measures, including repentance and restoration, death is the expected outcome.

America’s Current Vitals:

1. Weak Respiration -  Fading Supremacy of God. The very mention of God, in-God-we-trust, etc. is actually forbidden now in some places and some situations. As our Creator, God is our lifeline, the very blood that keeps us alive. Without him, eternity is hell.

2. Weak Pulse – Diminished Power of Prayer: prayer to God Almighty has been suspended and is discouraged. Remaining in constant contact with God keeps the heart healthy. When the heart becomes diseased, it weakens and eventually dies.

3. Failed blood work – Churches have been infiltrated and taken down by the inter-faith virus. Messages from many pulpits are no longer about God Almighty, the One True God, they’re also about Islam and other false religions. This not only results in diluted blood, it infects the blood. Life expectancy for severe septicemia patients is not good. Again, death by infection results in eternity spent in hell.

4. Symptoms of the no-hell virus:  Infected pastors and leaders are spreading the “there’s no hell” virus. This deadly affliction causes blurred vision and affects the thought processes. The infected person can no longer see the reality of hell. Left untreated, the result is a frightening one – an eternity in the very hell so vehemently denied.

5. Presence of the Inter-faith Myth – left untreated, the inter-faith virus mutates, much like a form of religious ebola. America’s current leadership is actually dosing citizens with this nasty and deadly virus – deliberately telling Americans they should be not only tolerating but embracing the anti-God beliefs of Islam, Hinduism and other false religions. Death occurs quickly in those affected with this virus – they become weakened and bleed out.

The outcome for America is bleak. Diseased and dying, there’s nothing left to do but plan the funeral. The only thing that can save America now is a miracle from Almighty God. America needs emergency surgery to repair its heart along with a complete blood transfusion – Christ shed his blood to save us. Nothing but the blood of Christ can make us whole.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:3

…Verily, verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Acts 4:12

Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your prayers.

The following comes from G and K Detry of Isaiah 40 Ministries and warrants our attention.

Dear Prayer Warriors,  Please pray about what is being planned for Israel and the meetings coming up this Friday and next week in DC.  Our nation’s future and the future of ISrael are at stake!!!  We at Is 40 Min. have visited many of the Jewish communities in Samaria that are being targeted for expulsion.  Two of our 4 major projects are headquartered in Karnei Shomron!  Blessings, Gini Detry  Isaiah 40 Ministry

MK Katz Shows Knesset Scope of Communities Outside the “Blocs”
Based on his and most media analyses of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the Knesset Monday, National Union chairman MK Ya’akov Katz (Ketzaleh) on Tuesday said that the Prime Minister is talking about negotiations on removal of over 120,000 Jews from their homes.

Speaking to the Knesset, Ketzaleh said that based on the content of Netanyahu’s policy statement at the opening of the Knesset’s summer session Monday, the fact that the Prime Minister mentioned the need for “painful concessions” along with Israel’s desire to keep the “settlement blocs,” clearly implied holding on to the second while giving up the first.

While Netanyahu did not actually say specifically that Jews living outside the settlement blocs, or anywhere else,  would be expelled from their homes – and, in fact, according to news reports Monday night, sent reassuring messages to right wing Mks who were taken aback by his speech that he meant that there would be no negotiations whatsoever on the settlement blocs – Ketzaleh claimed that the Prime Minister’s intentions were very clear.

“This is a very specific plan that will be remembered for an eternal condemnation among the Jewish people, with the head of the Likud drawing up a list of who will be expelled and who will not,” he said.

The “settlement blocs,” as popularly defined, center on three areas – Gush Etzion, Maale Adumim, and the city of Ariel in central Samaria. These blocs contain numerous communities located in close proximity to each other, with major roads leading to the center of the country or to Jerusalem. Most of the blocs are either fully, or partially, within the security fence.

There are, however, numerous other blocs that Netanyahu apparently plans to give away, Ketzaleh told Mks.

On the “keep” list Ketzaleh distributed to Mks are most of the towns in Gush Etzion, the Eztion bloc south of Jerusalem, including communities like Efrat, Alon Shvut, Rosh Tzurim, Elazar, Neve Daniel, Har Gilo, and others along Road 60 north of Hevron. Altogether, nearly 20,000 Jews live in these communities.

Also to remain under Israeli control are the city of Maale Adumim and its surrounding communities of Kfar Adumim, Mitzpe Yericho, Keidar, and Kfar Adumim, where over 40,000 Jews live.

The same applies to the Kiryat Sefer (Modiin Illit) bloc, which includes Kiryat Sefer, Hashmonaim, and Matityahu. Over 50,000 Jews live in these communities, nearly all of them in Kiryat Sefer itself.

Most of these communities (except Ariel) are in close proximity to the 1948 border, Ketzaleh says, so Netanyahu hopes to make a deal to exchange land with the PA that would allow Israel to remain in these blocs.

A bigger problem is the city of Ariel and its surrounding communities – Barkan, Alei Zahav, Peduel, and Revava, and the communities closer to the 1948 border along Road 5, including Elkana, Sha’arei Tikvah, and Kiryat Netafim. The city of Ariel itself has some 20,000 residents, and even more important, it has the Barkan Industrial Zone, which is a major industrial facility that would be extremely expensive and impractical to move.

So, if Netanyahu has his way, Ariel and the towns to the west – those mentioned above, as well as the border communities of Oranit and Alfei Menashe – will remain under Israeli control. Altogether, some 47,000 Jews live in that area . The Palestinian Authority has stated numerous times that it would never agree to allowing Ariel, nearly 30 kilometers away from the green line, to remain under Israeli control.

Not as fortunate are the towns to the north of Ariel that, until now, were considered to be part of the “Ariel bloc,” includingKarnei Shomron, Emanuel, Yakir, Nofim and Kedumim – all of which, incidentally, are already, or are slated to be, inside the security fence – but are to be eliminated if that is what Netanyahu’s speech entails.

The same goes for the communities further north and east, including Shavei Shomron, Einav, Avnei Hefetz, Tapuach, Salit, Migdalim, Itamar, Elon Moreh, Har Bracha, and Yitzhar, which will also be cleared of Jews under the plan, Ketzaleh says. Also out of the blocs is the community of Tzofim; although it is very close to the 1948 border, but its proximity to the Arab city of Kalkilya makes it problematic. Altogether some 30,000 Jews live in these communities, with the largest of them Karnei Shomron, with over 7,000 residents.

Also negotiable according to one interpretation of the PM’s speech, but expendable according to Ketsale and others’ interpretations, are the communities of the Binyamin bloc, “the back of the mountain” (Gav Hahar) communities, north of Jerusalem hugging Road 60. Eli, not far from Itamar, is one, along with nearly all the towns north of Jerusalem – including Shilo, Beit El, Ofra, Psagot, Ma’ale Levonah, and others.

From many of these communities, one can see the vulnerable, densely populated Tel Aviv area. They are literally a rocket’s throw from the coast of Israel, which, from Netanya eastward, is only 70 km wide with Samaria and only 15 km wide without it.

Surprisingly, Ketzaleh claims, the Prime Minister also left out communities very close to Jerusalem which, for years, were considered “untouchable,” including Kochav Ya’akov, Mevo Horon, Givat Ze’ev, Beit Horon, Givon, Kochav Hashachar, Ma’ale Michmash, Geva Binyamin, and Har Adar. Also to be abandoned are the towns of the Talmon bloc, north of Kiryat Sefer, including Talmon, Nili, Nachliel, Na’aleh, Beit Aryeh, and others. Ketzaleh reported that over 67,000 Jews live in these towns.

Also excluded from the blocs are all the Har Hevron communities, including Kiryat Arba, Susia, Otniel, Negohot, Carmei Tsur, the historic city of Hevron’s Jewish community, Beit Hagai, Maale Hever and others. Over 14,600 Jews live in these communities. The same fate awaits Jews living in the “east Etzion bloc,” including Tekoa, Nokdim, Ma’ale Amos, and the extremely isolated Asfar, on the edge of the Judean desert.

Also troubling to many MKs on the right was Netanyahu’s pointed omission of the Jordan Valley as an important area that would remain under Israeli control. While the IDF would have to remain there for defensive purposes, Netanyahu said, MKs said that the speech marks the first time Netanyahu failed to mention a continued Israeli civil presence in the Jordan Valley – leading Ketzaleh, as well as many other rightwing Mks, to conclude that Netanyahu had crossed another “red line.” Some 7,000 Jews live in nearly 30 communities in the Valley – and they, too, said Ketzaleh, will find themselves homeless, if Netanyahu means to hold on to only the “blocs”.

Meeting Between Pres. Obama & PM Netanyahu (Fri. 5/20)

Intercede for this meeting that will take place at the White House on May 20th. Our very destiny as a nation rests upon our covenant with Zion. Pray that Obama will NOT turn his back on Israel, but will instead lend his full support to that nation when Prime Minister Netanyahu visits here this week. Ask that the mistakes of the past — fomented upon Israel’s head of state during his last visit to the Oval Office — not be repeated again, but will instead be washed away by the cleansing power of the Blood of the Lamb.

Pray, too, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will stand in the strength of the LORD against any and all forces that would seek to delegitimize Israel in this hour. Pray that no Palestinian Authority flag would ever fly higher than the flag of the sovereign state of Israel in the hearts of our U.S. leadership. Amen.

“I have found My servant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him, With whom My hand shall be established; Also My arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down his foes before his face, And plague those who hate him.”(Psalm 89:20-23)

NETANYAHU TO VISIT THE WHITE HOUSE ON FRIDAY, MAY 20TH

Barack Obama will host Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a meeting on Friday, May 20. “The leaders look forward to discussing the full range of issues of mutual interest to the United States and Israel,” the White House said in a statement.

OBAMA TO GIVE MIDDLE EAST ADDRESS AHEAD OF NETANYAHU

Barack Obama will give a major speech to the 10,000 supporters of Israel at the AIPAC conference on Sunday morning, May 22, officials announced today. At that time, he will lay out his new Middle East strategy after the killing of Osama bin Laden and amid upheaval in the Arab world.

A key sticking point is whether Obama, who gained a temporary boost in global stature with the death of the al Qaeda chief last week, will also use his coming address to present new proposals for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, a source familiar with the administration’s internal debate said. (Gallup.com, Reuters)

What does it mean? The timing of the Obama speech appears to be like a carefully crafted chess move on the game board. Is he intending to “trump” Netanyahu, garnering world media attention, and thus taking the “wind out of his sails” from Netanyahu when he addresses AIPAC on the evening of May 23 and the US Congress on May 24? Is the timing of Obama’s speech intended to apply more pressure on Netanyahu and designed to influence his addresses to AIPAC on Sunday morning, May 22? (Commentary from Hebrew Nation)

For more information on the possible implications of this unusual lineup this weekend, please go here and read an article by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post titled, “Column One: Obama’s newest ambush.”

Ask the Lord to be in the midst of these meetings, and that His will would be brought forth.

For Prime Minister Netanyahu:“. . . My arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him. . .” (Psalm 89:22)

Intercessors For America  5/18/11