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1 Koinonia Institute Small Group Fellowship (KISGF) The Week of April 6, 2015 Dan Stolebarger

2 Introductory YouTube KISGF To sign up for KISGF just go to koinoniainstitute.org/subscribe and click the KI Small Group box

3 Upcoming Israel Tours BEREAN TOUR APRIL 26 - MAY 4, 2015 For more info check out the following YouTube at

4 Tonight s Worship

5 Koinonia Institute Small Group Fellowship ISSACHAR REPORT The Week of April 6, 2015 Dan Stolebarger

6 Spin & Counter spin Obama: Weakened Israel would be failure for my presidency White House: Iran would never agree to give up nuclear program President Barack Obama says he is "absolutely committed to making sure" Israel maintains a military advantage over Iran. Netanyahu on US TV: Iran s missile program aims at you, not us

8 PMW - Peace Partner The Mufti of the Palestinian Authority Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, appointed in 2006 by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the position of most senior religious leader in the PA, told a conference of "Muslim scholars and delegations from over 46 countries" that Israel must be destroyed in the name of Islam: "The land of Palestine is waqf (i.e., inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law). It must not be relinquished nor must any part of it be sold... It is the duty of the leaders of the [Islamic] nation and its peoples to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem. [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 23, 2015] This statement imposes prohibitions and obligations on all Muslims. First, according to the PA religious leader, all Muslims are prohibited from recognizing Israel's existence or signing a genuine and permanent peace treaty with Israel that "relinquishes any part" of "Palestine," meaning all of Israel. Second, he told the world's Muslim delegations that they and all Muslims have a religious obligation to "liberate Palestine" - meaning to destroy Israel.

9 Think About It The Palestinians want a state without negotiations, without compromise, and without a peace deal, he said. Imagine what a state like that would look like an extremist Islamist terrorist state. A state that will be funded by Iran, will be armed like Hezbollah in Lebanon, that will be as unstable as Syria and Iraq and as dangerous as the Islamic State. Ron Prosor

11 Iran Deal The framework agreement confirms repeated reports that the U.S. has capitulated to Iran s core demand that it retain all of its nuclear infrastructure. Under the parameters announced last night, Iran will not have to close any of its nuclear facilities, including the underground center at Fordow and the heavy water reactor at Arak. Likewise, Iran will not have to dismantle any of its 19,000 centrifuges. The only alleged benefit from this deal is Iran s commitment not to use this infrastructure beyond certain limits for the next decade or so. But pledges from Iran are entirely worthless, and no one should pretend otherwise. Iran has cheated and lied about its nuclear program since the day this illegal program was first discovered. Finally, this deal appears to provide accelerated sanctions relief to Iran. Iran will quickly reap the vast cash infusion that has motivated it to participate. A newly flush Iran will soon have more resources than ever to invest in its aggression in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and beyond. This is good news for Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi rebels and every other group who relies on Tehran for missiles, explosives and training. This is bad news for America, Israel and every one of us.

12 Bibi Furious with P5+1 Yesterday, an Iranian general brazenly declared, and I quote, Israel s destruction is non-negotiable, but evidently, giving Iran s murderous regime a clear path to the bomb is negotiable, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in fury on Wednesday. This is unconscionable. I agree with those who have said that Iran s claim that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes doesn t square with Iran s insistence on keeping underground nuclear facilities, advanced centrifuges and a heavy water reactor. Nor does it square with Iran s insistence on developing ICBMs and its refusal to come clean with the IAEA on its past weaponization efforts. At the same time, Iran is accelerating its campaign of terror, subjugation and conquest throughout the region, most recently in Yemen.

Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen will have a fate like the fate

13 Mohammad Reza Naqdi The commander of the Basij militia of Iran s Revolutionary Guards said that erasing Israel off the map is nonnegotiable, according to an Israel Radio report Tuesday. Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen will have a fate like the fate of Saddam Hussein. Naqdi s comments were made public as Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue nuclear negotiations in a new phase aimed at reaching a comprehensive accord by the end of June.

14 Verification? There are more than half a dozen shifting elements at play in the Iran nuclear deal currently being cobbled together in Lausanne, Switzerland everything from the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges to the fate of the underground facility in Fordow to the possible military dimensions of the program. But the future, assuming a deal is reached, will hinge on monitoring and verification, and that, to borrow a phrase from an Obama insider, is a problem from hell. The reports indicate that Germany s Der Spiegel revealed the existence of an undisclosed nuclear facility in Syria where as much as 50 tons of enriched uranium may have been taken, so that while it remained in Syrian territory, it was nonetheless under Iranian control. The facility is located deep in the Qalamoun region, territory controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force and Iran s terror proxy Hezbollah.

Israel s Right to Exist? Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to develop nuclear weapons. Period.

15 Israel s Right to Exist? Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to develop nuclear weapons. Period. In addition, Israel demands that any final agreement with Iran will include a clear and unambiguous Iranian commitment to Israel's right to exist." When asked about Netanyahu's demand, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Friday, "This is an agreement that is only about the nuclear issue. We have purposefully kept that separate from every other issue. This is an agreement that doesn't deal with any other issues, nor should it. And that's what we're focused on."

Speaking at the Israel Air and Missile Defense Conference in Herzliya, organized by the ihls defense website and the

16 Hezbollah Iran is placing guided warheads on its rockets and smuggling them to Hezbollah in Lebanon, a senior Defense Ministry official involved in preparing Israeli air defenses said Tuesday. Speaking at the Israel Air and Missile Defense Conference in Herzliya, organized by the ihls defense website and the Israel Missile Defense Association, Col. Aviram Hasson said Iran is converting Zilzal unguided rockets into accurate, guided M-600 projectiles by upgrading their warheads.

17 JNS.org The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah could fire between 1,000 and 1,500 rockets per day in its next full-scale conflict against Israel, according to the latest estimates from the Israeli Home Front Command. Last summer s Gaza war saw about 4,500 rockets and other projectiles hit Israel in roughly 50 days of fighting. The Home Front command source noted that Hezbollah has been rapidly upgrading its rocket arsenal for more accurate rockets that can target both military installations and civilian areas.

tanks in the city, which store more than 15 thousand tons of gas,

18 Haifa Residents of Haifa, in northern Israel, have expressed their fears that Lebanese based terror group Hezbollah will target ammonia tanks in the city, which store more than 15 thousand tons of gas, and will cause the deaths of tens of thousands of the city s residents.

19 Not Hard to Believe NEWS BRIEF: "Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz praised on Facebook: Our holy martyr Lubitz died for our prophet, Pamela Geller, March 26, 2015 "Piloting a plane to crash is not suicide, its mass murder. Lubitz was identified as a German citizen and Mr Robin said he was not known to terrorism links or extremist links... Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin added his religion was 'unknown'." However, the very fact that numerous Muslims were praising him on their Facebook pages as an Islamic martyr to the Prophet seems very clear to me that this co-pilot who drove this passenger plane into a mountain was carrying out a suicide mission for Islam. for the past several years, Islamic leaders have warned that they are going to strike at Western targets in Europe in retaliation for the continuous Western war against Islam. Western airline authorities must be shaking in their boots right now, contemplating the impact on business if passengers decide not to fly because they are concerned about one of the pilots being intent upon a terrorist suicide! Millions of jobs are dependent upon the international airline business.

20 Pew Polls NEW YORK (AP) Over the next four decades, Islam is expected to grow faster than any other major religion worldwide, with the Muslim population nearly matching Christians in both number and share of the global population, according to projections released Thursday. Christians will remain the largest religious group, increasing to 2.92 billion adherents by 2050 if current demographic trends continue. But Muslims will reach 2.76 billion, making each faith group about 30 percent of the world population, analysts from the Pew Research Center said. The projections in the report, The Future of World Religions, are based on birth and death rates, immigration patterns and rates of religious conversions,

The militants attacked the university at dawn, and lined up non- Muslim students for execution in what Kenyatta

21 Christians Martyred Kenya on Sunday began three days of national mourning for the 148 people, mostly students, massacred by Somalia s Shabab militants at a university in Garissa. The militants attacked the university at dawn, and lined up non- Muslim students for execution in what Kenyatta described as a barbaric medieval slaughter. The massacre, Kenya s deadliest attack since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, claimed the lives of 142 students,

22 Sources Jerusalem Post Israel Hayom The Times of Israel PMW Jerusalem Connection The Emet Report Behold Israel - Amir Tsarfati Algemeiner Jane Ben-Ari Caroline Glick Michael Utterback Tisha Michelle Yaniv Bar Earl Cox Ynet Shamrak Report The Israel Project

23 Koinonia Institute Small Group Fellowship BEREAN DEVOTIONAL The Week of April 6, 2015 Dan Stolebarger

24 Berean Devotional 6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7 I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Exodus 6:6-7

25 Reflections The four cups of Passover describe God s Redemption 1. I will bring you out Consecration - to declare set apart 2. I will deliver you Thank you Grandma Schwartz 3. I will redeem you Oh, the blood of Jesus 4. I will take you to be my people Any day now I shall be released!

26 8 And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt. 9 It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. Exodus 13:8-10

27 Jesus is: my Deliverer, my Rock, my Fortress my Security and my Shield.

28 SG Discussion Questions MATTHEW 1. Describe a modern day talmidim of Jesus. What is a rabbi s yoke? 2. What does it mean to you to be a Watchman - on the wall? What are you seeing in our world today? What do you see in regards to Israel? PSALMS 1. Psalm 81:13-14 How do you listen to God? How are you walking in His ways? What s the last thing God has said to you? 2. Share your selah moments from this weeks psalms portions. Psalm ISAIAH 1. What parallel does your nation currently have with Isaiah s description of Israel? 2. Share your thoughts about the flashing red lights found in Isaiah 5.

29 Prayer List HEALING Daniela Lillie - Cancer in her lung and liver / radiation starts soon Trevor Stolebarger - healing from gastroparesis Lucas Stolebarger - healing of body, soul and spirit Jane Ben-Ari - complete healing and recovery from aneurysm Katie Stolebarger - healing for stage 4 breast cancer Dick Suedkamp - Healing, self forgiveness and family reconciliation Nancy Missler - complete healing Mark Missler - complete healing Annika age 8 multiple brain tumors Shane - cancer of pancreas Lynda Jewett - vein dysfunction in legs Pam Goldsmith - healing from liver cancer Tom Minor - total healing from throat cancer John Minor - total healing Elaine Scholes - healing - multiple health problems due to paraplegiclosing eye sight and hearing EMPLOYMENT Brad Winters Enoch Campbell Peter Morgan OTHER Susie Meyerink - raise up Christian Leaders for the MOPS Mandurah GROUND Engineering - pray for the dismissal of lawsuits For the Peace of Jerusalem - Psalm 122:6 Ted and Linda Walker - New Ministry Opportunity in Israel Yaniv and Miri Bar - Friends in Israel Israel Spring Israel Tour German Translation Team Patrick and Shelley's marriage SALVATION Jacob Wendel Michelle Coffey's family

30 Thanksgiving 2015 ISOD - Great memories 2015 TALIMIDIM - Jobs WELL DONE! Mark Lillie (Daniela s husband) got a job close to home!

31 Reading Schedule Apr 6 Matthew 14 / Psalm 86 / Isaiah 7 Apr 7 Matthew 15 / Psalm 87 / Isaiah 8 Apr 8 Matthew 16 / Psalm 88 / Isaiah 9 Apr 9 Matthew 17 / Psalm 89 / Isaiah 10 Apr 10 Matthew 18 / Psalm 90 / Isaiah 11

32 For more information about Koinonia Institute go to koinoniainstitute.org For more information about any of our upcoming Israel Tours, please contact Sharon Stolebarger at:

Koinonia Institute Small Group Fellowship (KISGF) The Week of May 4th, 2015 Dan Stolebarger

Koinonia Institute Small Group Fellowship (KISGF) The Week of May 4th, 2015 Dan Stolebarger Introductory YouTube KISGF http://youtu.be/pdrvm3krt3u To sign up for KISGF just go to koinoniainstitute.org/subscribe