Welcome to Bible Believers Fellowship and the ministry of bbfohio.com. I'm Pastor Greg, and I welcome you to our current events update, and then our study in Micah chapter 7, verses 18 through 20, titled, Who is a God like unto thee? The conclusion of this two-part message can be found at bbfohio.com, as we now begin with part one of two. The current events update. Number one, Israel's still at war. Today's date, 6-12-24, is that correct? Day 250 or 249, according to who you ask. 120 hostages still remain unaccounted for, although 50 plus possibly considered deceased. No hippo yawning from the audience. The Biden endorse, somebody give him some coffee. I think it's done down there. The Biden-endorsed ceasefire deal has been rejected by Hamas. You wouldn't really know that from what a lot of the news media is saying, but that's what happened. Here's a young lady who's going to explain it for us. Hamas doesn't care about Palestinians. They care about killing Jews. And they don't care about Gaza. They care about destroying Israel. And that's been clear for decades. I mean, that's just their entire M.O. That's what they want. And Hamas also, it's not just the IDF, but there's other reporting too that shows that they put the hostages in civilian areas. They were paying Palestinian families to guard these hostages in homes. So when the IDF goes in to rescue the hostages, they have no choice but to go into civilian areas and civilian homes to get these people out. And Carol Markowitz put up an interesting tweet. are you you know really bright and a you know how well and it's still in prison in russia so that's that's something that we see every time that happens and that i think that we can't so and the only way we're going to get out was by being rescued and there were protests over the weekend slamming israel for going in and rescuing these civilians these people who have been kidnapped from music festival in October, and as Stephanie was saying, yeah, the outlet that the journalist who was keeping three men in his home on the payroll of Hamas worked for is a not-for-profit in Washington state, and there's actually an effort today by a Jewish organization, who isn't here, it's the National Jewish Advocacy Center, and Holtzman Vogel sent a letter to Merrick Garland saying, you know, you really need to look into this, and you really need to get the IRS to pull the funding, the charitable status designation, rather, from this group, because groups that are advocating for terrorism anywhere in the world have absolutely no business being designated by charities as, you know, from the United States of America. You know, it's just amazing. I think it was eight ISIS members they arrested today. Did you see that? And those came over from the southern border. It's just, I don't care what political party you affiliate with, Joe Biden is a criminal, and he is purposely bringing terrorists into this country. The one thing we can be thankful for is so far they seem to all go toward liberal cities. And I'm like, you know, I don't wish evil on anybody, but if they're going to come in here, okay, go to LA, go to Chicago, go to New York, go to those places that are begging for you to come in. Hamas, in response, was demanding, they're in no position to demand anything, U.S. written guarantees to a permanent ceasefire and hostage deal. And things like this make you wonder about many of the so-called innocent civilians there in Palestine. So we are here in Gaza on the beach used by civilians and normal civilians like us that want to go and enjoy a Sunday morning on the beach. And you can see on the left side behind you, you can see all the umbrellas, the beach stuff that you can sit and enjoy, including the lifeguard house. But actually this place is a storage for rockets and missiles. You can see here a container that we found here on the beach with the 20 rockets with a range of 150 to 200 kilometers flight that can reach from here to from Gaza to Haifa and even norther. That's exactly the problem. They are using human civilians as a human ship in order to protect There are crimes, and this is one of the crimes that they are doing. The world needs to know what they are doing, and this is part of it. This is important, isn't it, for the world to understand that civilians were living surrounded by arsenals like this with absolutely no idea, and that they were being used as human shields. I'd say most of the women and children probably had no idea But a lot of the civilian men especially knew that those things are there, and they know what's going on. The so-called innocent Palestinians is a big exaggeration, put it that way. There are some. And there are in every war, and we've talked about that. I won't rehash all that in the last couple of current events. But regardless, civilian casualties are inflated. And when confirmed, you find out they're the fault of Hamas, because Hamas is using civilians to hide their arms, to hide their, like, what do you want to call it, bunkers or whatever, and that sort of thing. You can see behind me, there are 20 rockets. four in each row with a distance of 150 kilometers. You'll see that each missile is rigged to red wires. And the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, the engineers that are here, are about to blow them up to deactivate them so that they can't be used. What's striking about this, though, is that this is a beach. This is where people come. from Gaza to swim in the sea and to relax. And these missiles, they're here amongst them and they had absolutely no idea. And that's what Israel is trying to demonstrate here, that this weaponry was hiding in plain sight within civilian areas. If Israel had just bombed that area, then the news headlines would have been, Israel bombs beach, you know, or something like that. And this is what it looked like when those missiles were destroyed. And that scene has been repeated hundreds of times since October 7th, where they have found these missiles and other explosives being hidden in schools, in hospitals, in mosques. And when you fight a war, you fight wherever the enemy is. And if they go into a church or a school, like they did in Germany, you blow it up. Meanwhile, the fighting with Hezbollah escalates on the northern border. This is some of the headlines you're seeing today. And Hezbollah claimed that there's 160 rocket barrage that they attacked with. I mean, they're taking credit for it. But they did kill this guy, I can't pronounce his name, but he was the senior commander of Hezbollah there in South Lebanon, so good riddance. So we bring back the explosive map. It's looking like this again, all over. You're not hearing a lot about what's going on, but it's still happening down in Yemen. There's still things going on all over, including in Iran and Syria and all that. It's just ready to blow, and we're gonna stand with Israel. Amen, amen. Number two, the hunter conviction. For the first time ever, a sitting president's child has been convicted of a federal crime. A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on all three felony charges on Tuesday morning, including charges related to purchasing a gun while he was actively using cocaine. CNN speculates that President Joe Biden may overturn his only living son's sentence. Hunter could face 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $750,000. but likely will receive far less than the maximum as a first-time offender. Conservatives are calling for accountability after the guilty verdict. Representative Jim Banks suggested Hunter Biden's conviction is a smokescreen for more serious crimes. Hunter's lawyers are expected to file an appeal. So now that the little stuff is out of the way, let's move on to the corruption and bribes involving Hunter's daddy. Number three, the Vatican horror update. This is from a Catholic news site. Vatican hosts summit on protecting human life from climate change with pro-abortion governors. Think of that. The Vatican is hosting a summit on protecting human life from climate change And they're having pro-abortion governors as speakers. So it's OK to kill the babies. But let's not forget all the deaths as a result of climate change. We purposely use many Roman Catholic sources like this one to demonstrate that we're not misrepresenting the facts in some anti-Catholic manner, as we have often been accused of doing. Just FYI, some people think when we use certain news sites, we're somehow endorsing them. We're not. We're just showing you that even those who are on the other side of the fence are recognizing this stuff. This summit was not about protecting babies from abortion. Its title was From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience. And both Gavin Newsom of California and Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts spoke at it. Both these governors promote transgenderism and abortion. Now be prepared. At some point the Vatican will mythologize Jesus. and I believe the final Pope will be the Antichrist. How's he going to claim to be Christ when the Catholic Church has historically agreed with the position that Christ was real, that Jesus was real, et cetera? They'll change their doctrine. Folks, the Roman Catholic Church is constantly changing their doctrine. And they claim that they've been, they're the true church and they've been infallible. The papal announcements are infallible and they've been unchanging since Peter. Well, that's a lie, Peter was never a Pope. They only started having any authority in Rome over other churches after Constantine in 325 AD. And it wasn't for another 100 years before there was even a claim to the Roman Bishop being superior over other churches, the way it's taught today. But they've changed their doctrine on Mary just within the last 100 years, just, what was it, 1950s was when they come up with the, I think it was the, Consumption of Mary, when she was supposed to have gone to heaven without dying or something? Assumption. Is that what it's called? Assumption of Mary? Some of you Catholics know? Where she went to heaven without dying. Did you know that? Mary didn't die. That's what the Catholic Church has been teaching now for about 75 years. Back in the mid 1800s is when they started teaching that she was born without original sin. That's the immaculate conception. A lot of people get that mixed up with Jesus. When Jesus was born, it was the miraculous conception. But the immaculate conception is the idea Mary was born without original sin. Neither one of them are in the Bible. But why do I say that? Look, 1 John 4, 3, and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And that last Pope will be the Antichrist, they're all Antichrists. And a lot of Popes through the years, by the way, didn't believe in Jesus in any way, shape, or form. A lot of the Popes, some of the Popes, anyway, believed in his historicity, at least. But a lot of them didn't. They were of the spirit of Antichrist. And this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come. And even now, already is it in the world. So when that last Pope comes along, somehow or other, either before him or when he assumes power, they're going to mythologize Jesus. You already have thousands of Roman Catholic theologians, in quotes, who are teaching that it doesn't matter whether you believe in Jesus literally or not. And a lot of them have their degrees in theology, but they also have gotten their ordination or whatever they call it in Buddhism. and transcendental meditation and these other Eastern mystic cults that we're going to talk about here in a minute, in our study for a minute. So, all you have to do is open your eyes to what's going on and you'll see that it's all lining up, all at once, all perfectly at the same time. It's an amazing thing. Be informed, pray and act accordingly. Who is a god like unto thee? Micah 7, 18 to 20. So we're going to conclude our study of Micah 7 and of the entire book asking that question. Who is a God like unto thee? As we get into our text, verses 18 through 20, I want you to read the even verses with me. So join right in in verse 20. Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again. He will have compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth of Jacob and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. Amen. So Micah ends by glorifying God for keeping his word. And so we see the God of mercy there in verse 18, the God of compassion in verse 19, and the God of truth there in verse 20. The God of Israel is unique in the mercy of his forgiveness of the sins of his people. That may kind of just over the heads of those Christians, especially who just kind of take it for granted that when you're talking about God and religion, Well, in Christianity, it's all about Jesus dying for our sins, and by faith in the gospel, the death, burial, and resurrection, having repented toward God with faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, we're forgiven, amen? And so we just figure whatever that other religion is, they must have something along the same line, something to do with the forgiveness of sins, and if you believe that, you're wrong. And it was very important for someone to tell me that. Actually, before I was saved, someone said, that's not true. And they went through several of the religions, and I'm like, there's no way that's true. And then I looked them up, and it was true. In other religions, there is no way for you to have your sins forgiven, except for what you could say is a hope that God will let you in or whatever they call God will let you into heaven, but it's nothing like Christianity. And because people aren't really interested in knowing these things, they don't look any of this up, they attend churches obviously, they don't teach it for the most part and everything, most Christians are totally unaware of that and they go through life thinking that all these other religions are just kind of like Christianity, only not. And it's far from that. First, let's look at the God of mercy there in verse 18. Who is a God like unto thee? Well, let's stop there for a second. No other God on earth is like the God of Israel. And what I mean by that is, for example, Israel prays toward a black stone in a box called Kaaba in the city of Mecca. Islam, what'd I say? Early stages. Islam prays toward a black stone in a box called, by the way, Israel is as lost as Islam right now, but we'll get back to that, in a box called Kaaba in the city of Mecca, and this is what it looks like. Those are all people, by the way. Tens of thousands of people go around and around that box in the middle. Now let me show you again, if you look at the, That's the Kaaba, that big box, and down in the corner is the black stone of Islam. And they're all going around that, and they're saying their prayers, and it's called the Hajj, you make your trip to Mecca. And that's the end, you want to end up there, that's the big thing. Now if you look at the Kaaba, it's in this elaborate area, and down in the corner is a little black stone, Right there in the middle, you can see it in the bottom corner there. And they made it very similar to female genitalia. And we'll leave it at that. Just to tell you that most religions are sex cults. Outside of biblical Christianity, most religions are sex cults. And Islam is no different. Muhammad just happened to have the voice of a God named Allah who is a devil but telling him that he could have as many women as he wanted. Guess who else had that kind of thing? Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith starts a religion and guess what? He can have sex with as many women as he wants to. More man. If you study the Egyptian and other ancient religions, you'll find it's all about fertility. If you study Freemasonry, you'll find that it's all about, G is for the generative principle, and it's all symbolism, and behind that symbolism is the whole sex religion. So this practice dates back prior to Muhammad when the same rock was just one of many gods among the Arabs. That black stone was originally associated with the worship of the goddess Alat. Alat? Alat? See how close that is? Folks, every Muslim five times a day bows toward that black stone. If you are caught praying in any other direction, you can be killed, if you're in a Muslim country, and you'll be excommunicated, or whatever their word for it is, from the local mosque, if they catch you here in this country, anywhere, praying any direction other than toward that black stone. Yeah. I just wanted to say that you got that book over there called The Truth About Muhammad by Robert Spencer. Yeah. Yeah. And Spencer's like, I think he's a Catholic, but his books on the history of Islam are very good. Robert Spencer. Now, Hindus, they worship millions of gods, small g, with no single true eternal creator God to speak of. Once in a while, you'll run into, they'll say, well, we have a God like that. But he's not. He's not the creator of all things and he's not the God or anything like that. They have one God where they give him credit for a great deal of the creation or something like that, but it's really convoluted. There's no idea in Hinduism of a God and there's no concept of forgiveness of sins. No one in Hindu religion claims to have died and paid for anybody's sin or come up with any other way to forgive you of your sin. You know what Hinduism really comes down to? It's preparing you to die. Meditative practices and frame of mind so that you can die kind of slide into it. You know, die a good death. Like Jenny's former pastor used to say, you're gonna die, and you're gonna die once, and you'll do it the right time the first time. You won't have to do it over. But that's what, by the way, yoga, that's what yoga is, a Hindu practice, and it's not for health benefits. It might calm your nerves for a little while or whatever, but the purpose of yoga is to get you in a state where you're ready to die. That's the real purpose of yoga. There are some other forms of yoga that have different purposes, but the yoga that's used in all the places where they do the workouts and everything, that's what, they're using the form of yoga that is preparing you to die. And a lot of yoga, again, sex. A lot of the yoga, if you get into yoga and you go into some of the higher levels, it's all about sex. Then Buddhism. It's an offshoot from Hinduism. It's an atheistic, agnostic, pantheistic sect. They have no concept of a being called God. And a lot of people, well the Buddhists worship their God. No they don't. The Hindus worship their God. No, they worship a few million. And that's destroyed the whole concept of God. The very idea. This is our response to a statement. I sent this about Buddhism. I responded to them, but Buddhism is often misunderstood as an atheist religion, but this is not entirely accurate. While Buddhism does not subscribe to a traditional concept of God or a creator deity, it does acknowledge the existence of a higher reality or ultimate truth. That's not God. See, they don't have any concept of God in Buddhism. A higher reality or an ultimate truth is not God. It's mysticism and everything, but New Age, Mormonism, the LDS called the Latter-day Saints, Eastern mysticism, animism, they're all polytheistic. Many gods, ancestor worship, where all your ancestors become gods when they die, it has nothing to do with our concept of God. There's no comparison. It's like looking at, I mean, Momo is as cute as can be, but he is not a human being. And claiming he is, okay, liberals probably would buy it, but, you know, anyone not in the woke transgender thing anyway isn't going to buy the idea that Momo's a man. That's what Satan is behind the whole transgender woke thing, folks. It's the whole Orwellian, you name it, whatever, it all goes back to Genesis 3. Christ God said, twisting the language, ye shall not surely die. That's not a man, that's a woman. There are kids who are flunking their tests in school because they refuse to say that a man can get pregnant. That's in America. They're nuts. And folks, I'm telling you, more people than you realize are nuts. They're all being handed over to a reprobate mind in preparation for the rapture in the Antichrist. You had better decide that you're not going to cross that line with them. Because you start compromising, you go there, it won't be long, you'll be gone.