Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
Islamic terrorists attempting to take over Iraq are showing their blood lust by posting videos online of their extreme violence against Christians and others who do not follow their extremist views.
The U.S. State Department has taken note that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has committed a mass murder of Iraqi troops.
“The claim by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that it has massacred 1,700 Iraqi Shia air force recruits in Tikrit is horrifying and a true depiction of the blood lust that these terrorists represent,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. “While we cannot confirm these reports, one of the primary goals of ISIL is to set fear into the hearts of all Iraqis and drive sectarian division among its people.”
The United Nations has said that a half million people have fled the city of Mosul after last week’s capture by the Islamic extremists.
President Obama informed Congress on Monday that approximately 275 U.S. troops will be deployed to support U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy located in Baghdad. Iran reportedly has sent 500 Revolutionary Guard troops into the country to help the Iraqi government.
Prophecy unfolds like a scroll, in the order of God, each angel sounds a destructive warning, that begins with Gods House. 1Pe 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator
Our Creator has a plan, that we will forever remember the ashes under our feet, are the members that will be defeated and never eat of the Tree of Life, and seat at the feet of Jesus. If I can have compassion on Jesus, to share in His suffering, then I will forever be grateful, what all he has done for me! I defend Him, He defends me!
It is the time of Jacob’s trouble! The time we fight with God, like Jacob did, and as it dawns on us, we say, Bless me before you leave me! I want to crave the blessing of Jesus, like never before.
Patience under provocation is evidence of trusting in the Holy Spirit!
Let us pray and may The Lord have mercy on the Iraqi Christians and our troops…..protect each one of them we pray Lord.