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1 Key West Church of God RAYMOND L. SHOCKLEY, Pastor 1419 White Street Key West, Florida USA Website - Momentin.Com fax March 18, 2015 Dear Friends, The visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his speech before a joint session of the American Congress took center stage. Millions of people watched this courageous Israeli leader deliver an apocalyptic warning of coming destruction to Israel and the world. His speech took place under the shadow of President Barack Obama s Secretary of State John Kerry negotiating with Israel s greatest enemy Iran concerning their getting a nuclear bomb. While on the surface Mr. Obama is promising that Iran will never have a nuclear bomb, the details of negotiations seem to guarantee the pathway for Iran to acquire the bomb. Listen to the warning of Israel s leader, it is a dire warning reminiscent of the Hebrew Prophets of old. My friends, I ve come here today because, as prime minister of Israel, I feel a profound obligation to speak to you about an issue that could well threaten the survival of my country and the future of my people: Iran s quest for nuclear weapons... if Iran s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program is not part of the deal, and so far, Iran refuses to even put it on the negotiating table. Well, Iran could have the means to deliver that nuclear arsenal to the far-reach corners of the earth, including to every part of the United States. So you see, my friends, this deal has two major concessions: one, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade. That s why this deal is so bad. It doesn t block Iran s path to the bomb; it paves Iran s path to the bomb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns of dyer consequence if the Iranian nuclear deal was allowed to progress in the direction it was on. Prime Minister Netanyahu is not the only Israeli to be used by God to warn the world of a coming nuclear holocaust. Hear the warning of the Prophet Jeremiah out of the past some 2600 years ago! Jer. 25:31-33 KJV A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. (32) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. (33) And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. 1

2 What is this controversy God has with the nations? It is the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. God has given them to the Jewish people. He has made the Jewish people to serve as a prophet to the nations of the earth. God warned in Psa 105:15 KJV Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Ignoring this warning the nations of the earth are yielding to the wicked demands of Islam joining hands to force Israel into a treaty that would force her to give up control of Jerusalem and a large part of land of Israel. The same Islamic forces are planing to annihilate the rest of Israel at that time, taking advantage of her weaken state. God has promised to destroy the wicked. Who are the wicked? The answer is found in the following passage. Isaiah 34:2-8 KJV For the indignation (outrage) of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. (3) Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. (4) And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. (5) For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. (6) The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. (7) And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. (8) For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. With the same references used in Jer , there appears to be a nuclear war. The reference to the controversy is here called the indignation! We are given evidence as to what the evil is that spreads from land to land. In both Jeremiah and this passage we see effects common with a the explosion of the nuclear bomb, a great whirlwind, heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll! Both references describe the forces that will produce the mushroom cloud that will be seen rising all over the world. The prime minister is hoping to stop the spread of such an awful evil. We are also being told where this war over Jerusalem begins. It begins in Idumea, in Bozrah. Where are these areas located? Both places are areas belonging to the Kingdom of Edom. The Kingdom of Edom was founded by the twin brother of Jacob, who was the progenitor of Israel. Gen 36:8-9 KJV Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. (9) And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: The modern Palestinians are the decedents of Esau. It is in the land they control that the war starts, but it does not stop there, it spreads though out the world. A great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. America s prophetic visitor comes hoping to warn us off of the path that will surely lead us to the time of great whirlwinds! Hear the frightening warning, Absent a dramatic change, we know for sure that any deal with Iran will include two major concessions to Iran. The first major concession would leave Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure, providing it with a short break-out time to the bomb. Break-out time is the time it takes to amass enough weapons-grade uranium or plutonium for a nuclear bomb. According to the deal, not a single nuclear facility would be demolished. Thousands of centrifuges used to enrich uranium would be left spinning. Thousands more would be temporarily disconnected, but not destroyed. Because Iran s nuclear program would be left largely intact, Iran s break-out time would be very short about a year by U.S. assessment, even shorter by Israel s. 2

3 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminds us what we must never forget, Today the Jewish people face another attempt by yet another Persian potentate to destroy us. Iran s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei spews the oldest hatred, the oldest hatred of anti-semitism with the newest technology. He tweets that Israel must be annihilated he tweets. You know, in Iran, there isn t exactly free Internet. But he tweets in English that Israel must be destroyed. For those who believe that Iran threatens the Jewish state, but not the Jewish people, listen to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, Iran s chief terrorist proxy. He said: If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of chasing them down around the world. But Iran s regime is not merely a Jewish problem, any more than the Nazi regime was merely a Jewish problem. The six million Jews murdered by the Nazis were but a fraction of the 60 million people killed in World War II. So, too, Iran s regime poses a grave threat, not only to Israel, but also the peace of the entire world. To understand just how dangerous Iran would be with nuclear weapons, we must fully understand the nature of the regime. I m standing here in Washington, D.C. and the difference is so stark. America s founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran s founding document pledges death, tyranny, and the pursuit of jihad. And as states are collapsing across the Middle East, Iran is charging into the void to do just that. I ll say it one more time the greatest dangers facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons... But that, my friends, is exactly what could happen, if the deal now being negotiated is accepted by Iran. That deal will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons, lots of them. Other headlines confirm the warnings of our esteem visitor. Headline - The Reason Obama Has It Out For Netanyahu May Be More Terrifying Than You Thought Possible - Why Obama fears a strong, persuasive Netanyahu. By Lowell Ponte Mar 3, In the wake of 9-11, we in the West are all Israelis now. We need to wake up and smell the danger that threatens us. This week, a modern Paul Revere arrived in Washington, D.C., to warn us that The terrorists are coming to cities we call home. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this from hard experience as a battle-wounded commando; brother of commando Yonatan killed rescuing skyjacked Israelis in Entebbe, Uganda; and leader of an American ally that faces incessant terrorist attacks. What prompts Prime Minister Netanyahu s speech before Congress is that Iran whose theocratic Islamist rulers believe they could trigger an apocalyptic war that brings the cosmic world triumph of Islam may be within months of producing its first atomic bomb. Iran s rulers are building missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto the cities of Israel, Europe, and the United States. For Iran, the biggest supporter of terrorism, atom-armed terrorists may also become the delivery system of choice. 3

4 The next 9-11-like terrorist attack could vaporize Washington and New York City beneath mushroom-shaped clouds killing millions, replacing our freedom with garrison states, and crashing our economy. (When Israel would have taken out the Iranian nuclear threat, as they did Iraq & Syria s) Mr. Obama, however, reportedly in 2014 quietly threatened the Netanyahu government, warning that our Persian Gulf fleet would destroy any Israeli aircraft that attempted to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. President Obama has made little secret of his hatred for Mr. Netanyahu. Obama apparently fears that a strong, persuasive leader like Netanyahu might undermine his weak-kneed, submissive negotiations with Tehran. Did Mr. Obama s Muslim father or Indonesian Muslim stepfather teach him the Islamic religious doctrines of al-taqiyya, idtirar, kitman, or hiyal all of which hold that lying is moral if done to protect Muslims or advance Islam? Surely he recognizes, therefore, that no treaty with Iran s doomsday Islamists can be trusted. Or perhaps, given all his deceptions, President Obama secretly embraces al-taqiyya far more than we know. End of quote Headline - Ayatollah Tells Air Force: We Enriched Uranium 20%; Commanders: Death to America, 'Death to England,' 'Death to Israel Mar 5, By Terence P. Jeffrey In his speech to the Air Force commanders, the ayatollah followed his assertion that Iran had been able to enrich uranium to the 20 percent level by accusing the U.S. and its allies of being greedy in negotiations for a nuclear deal and asserting that the Iranian nation will not submit to greed and tyranny. The audience of Air Force commanders and other personnel responded to this with a chant, according to an English-language transcript produced by BBC Worldwide Monitoring and available through Nexis. Allah Akbar [God is great], they chanted, according to the BBC transcript. Khamenei is the leader. Death to the enemies of the leadership. Death to America. Death to England. Death to hypocrites. Death to Israel. End of Quote Do not miss the point, the leaders of Iran have an apocalyptic theology that they are fated to cause a great chaos where 80% of the world will die; Israel and America will be annihilated; and that will bring back the Islamic Messiah. If they get the bomb, they must use the bomb. They will use it on Israel, and they must use it on America. The honorable Benjamin Netanyahu reminds us of America and Israel s common heritage, Because America and Israel, we share a common destiny, the destiny of promised lands that cherish freedom and offer hope. Israel is grateful for the support of American of America s people and of America s presidents, from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. Our fates will take different routes when and if this country turns on Israel. We must as a country choose wisely what route we will take. To walk with Israel in opposing evil and wicked men, will place us among the few. To turn on Israel will cause us to walk with the many on the 4

5 broad road of destruction. Mat 7:13-14 KJV Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: (14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. I fear that America s leadership has it on the path of destruction. It appears in Scripture that Israel will have to stand alone, but this valiant man declares that if necessary Israel will stand alone and prevail. But I can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over. We are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. And the soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time in 100 generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves. This is why this is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. The words of the Prophet Zechariah must have been ringing in the ears of the Israeli Prime Minister, Zech. 12:2-3 KJV Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. (3) And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. If all the nations of the world join together against Israel they will all be destroyed! It is an attack on Israel that will start the war that will claim victims from one end of the world to the other. Rev 6:12-14 KJV And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; (13) And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. (14) And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. The sun turning black could be a solar eclipse. The moon becoming as blood could be a blood moon. The stars of heaven, when using the Greek word for heavens would simply be the stars of uranium. That is what a nuclear bomb is a star of uranium. These stars of uranium are being cast upon the earth by the fig tree when she is being attacked by a mighty wind. The fig tree is the national sign of the nation of Israel. She is retaliating against an attack, perhaps that being sent from Iran, the bomb that Mr. Obama allowed. The heavens departing as a scroll is the poetic picture of the nuclear mushroom cloud. The leaders of the world at that time call it the wrath of the Lamb. Rev 6:16-17 KJV And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: (17) For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? America s guest came echoing a divine warning that I am afraid has fallen on deaf ears. Sadly even in the Christian church most have no ability to see or hear the warning. Mat 13:14-15 KJV And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: (15) For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. It is not God s desire that any of us perish in the coming tribulation, hear Him as he pleads with us, Luke 21:34-36 KJV And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with... cares of this life, and so that day (tribulation) come upon you unawares. (35) For as a snare shall it come on 5

6 all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. (36) Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. That escape is the rapture of the church, which would remove the believer from the earth and place him in the presence of Jesus in Heaven. We are told to pray that we can escape what will soon come upon this earth. Our time is short; we must be ready. The world is heading down the broad road; we must go and remain on the narrow road leading to eternal life. The message of the Month - WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE SHORTNESS OF TIME? 1Co 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short. This is a timely message showing revealing evidence of the soon coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the following tribulation. You need this message, and it will be yours just by requesting it. Moments in Bible Prophecy - Having been privileged to have the radio ministry of Moments in Bible Prophecy has been one of the joys of my life. I enjoy doing each program. I especially enjoy hearing from the listeners and getting first hand evidence of Moments in Bible Prophecy s influence. Because of the internet and shortwave Moments in Bible Prophecy is taking the light of the Gospel to the world. There is only one thing that I find difficult and that is raising the money it takes to pay the bills. Every month air time has to be paid for. The website must be paid for, supplies, postage for mailing the newsletters and the master CDs to the radio station. Raising the money to keep it all going is a constant pressure. When those of you who have chosen to help me carry this load write a check, it really makes a difference. I want to share a dream I had the other day. When I first woke up I thought that is was a strange dream, I just dismissed it as a late night pizza gone bad. Then as I thought on it, I saw something I want to share with you. This is the dream, My truck had run out of gas. The only gas I had left was in the hollow of the last rung of a ladder I was carrying. I took the ladder from the truck and physically carried it to a Shell gas station. I got the ladder to the station and proceeded to fill that last rung of the ladder with gas. Then as I struggled with the ladder to get it back to the truck, I woke up thinking this is sure heavy. I wishing someone would come along and give me and the ladder a ride back to my truck. If that dream had any meaning, what could it have meant? Is it possible that the ladder represented my out reach, the radio ministry? You use a ladder to reach what you couldn t normally reach. Radio and internet help me to reach people in a way I never would be able to do otherwise. It also seems to reveal that I personally am out of gas and on the last rung of my physical strength. I need someone to come by and help me get this outreach to where God wants it to go. It may be that you are that someone. God may be leading you to help me reach a world in darkness. If you are so directed and are sending a check make it payable to the Key West Church of God. You may give online at or Thank you for your prayers and support; without it this outreach would not be possible. Your Friend in Christ, Raymond L Shockley Moments in Bible Prophecy