Prophecies Verify The Integrity Of Scripture
The Christmas season brings a profound opportunity for believers to share the saving Gospel with their loved ones — how God stepped into His creation, willingly died on the cross, and rose again so that mankind could inherit eternal life by their acceptance of this incredible gift. The precise prophecies that Jesus fulfilled during his first coming have brought numerous people to a saving faith. Jesus attested to the fact that Bible Prophecy is a powerful witnessing tool. In John 14, He states: “I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.” The apostle Paul also heavily used Bible Prophecy as evidence to the Jews and Gentiles of Jesus’ divine identity. Biblical prophecies had been fulfilled within the apostles’ lifetimes, and they used that fact to open the eyes and hearts of the lost. Astonishingly, that is also true of Believers today. Although we may not have witnessed Jesus’ first coming, the biblical prophecies surrounding His second coming vividly show that we, too, live in Biblical times.
The fentanyl triangle: China’s labs, Mexico’s cartels, America’s crisis
The abuse of synthetic drugs from China has contributed significantly to an escalating drug crisis in the United States, with opioids, particularly fentanyl, becoming the leading cause of fatal overdoses. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far stronger than morphine or heroin, is responsible for a sharp increase in overdose fatalities. China’s extensive chemical and pharmaceutical industries supply the precursors needed for producing fentanyl, often under the guise of legal businesses. Mexico acts as a significant conduit for smuggling fentanyl into the U.S., with major cartels like Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation deeply involved in its production and distribution. Fentanyl’s potency and lethality are primarily attributed to its high binding affinity for the μ-opioid receptors in the human body. When fentanyl binds to these receptors, it triggers a release of dopamine, which in turn causes feelings of euphoria, relaxation, and pain relief. Due to its chemical structure, fentanyl is able to bind to these receptors more effectively than other opioids, such as morphine or heroin, resulting in a significantly stronger effect.
The fentanyl triangle: China’s labs, Mexico’s cartels, America’s crisis | Watch (msn.com)
Insight: Rise in Mexican cartel violence drives record migration to the US
By Daina Beth Solomon and Laura Gottesdiener December 15, 20231:31 PM EST Reuters
NOGALES, Arizona, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Her daughter’s school shut down, Yomara said, after a shootout between rival gangs competing for control of drug and migrant trafficking routes in their southern Mexican town of Chicomuselo. Then, she said, produce vendors cleared out of the market after they faced demands to affiliate with the gangs; she feared her husband Carlos would be forcibly recruited if he turned up for his job on a construction site. After the assassination of a prominent local peace activist, Yomara and Carlos, who withheld their full names for security reasons, said they’d had enough, crossing into Arizona with their four-year-old daughter Karla in early November and turning themselves into United States border agents. “It used to be a peaceful town. Now everyone is fleeing,” Yomara, 26, said in an interview in Nogales, Arizona.
Rivalries between organized crime groups in long-violent states and an expansion of these battlegrounds to previously calm parts of the country is fueling what migration experts are calling the largest exodus of Mexican families in modern history. Yomara’s hometown in the southern state of Chiapas, once relatively untouched by gang violence, is now the site of a turf war between two of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel.
Some 180,000 Mexican migrants, traveling in family groups, crossed the border into the U.S. over the 12 months ending in October, four times more than the previous year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and a fifth of the 868,000 migrants of all nationalities traveling in family groups. Reuters obtained previously unreported survey data from the Kino Border Initiative, a large migrant shelter and resource center in Nogales, Sonora, and interviewed 21 migrant families along the border in Texas and Arizona who identified violence – not economic factors – as the primary driver for their decision to leave Mexico. The families represent a shift from the past, when Mexican migrants were primarily men in search of better-paying jobs. Some 88% of the Mexicans who passed through Kino this year said they were seeking to escape violence, according to the center’s interviews with 6,710 people.
FORCED OUT OF THEIR COMMUNITIES
In 2017, it was the opposite: 87% of the 7,148 respondents to the Kino survey said they were migrating for economic reasons, with only 2% citing violence. Those numbers are roughly in line with a 2022 survey by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration of more than 500 Mexicans who relocated to northern Mexico, nearly all of whom planned to enter the U.S. The survey found that 90% had fled violence, extortion, armed clashes or organized crime. A quarter of them reported having a family member who had disappeared. “We no longer only have migrants coming to the United States to work,” said Pedro De Velasco, Kino’s education and advocacy director. “We are seeing people who are forced out of their communities. They have to flee.”
It is unclear how many of these families will be able to stay legally in the U.S., because people who flee gangs often do not qualify for asylum. Applicants must demonstrate a fear of persecution stemming from their political beliefs, or belonging to a particular race, religion, nationality or social group. Over the last two decades, immigration courts denied 85% of asylum claims by Mexican applicants, according to a Syracuse University analysis, the highest rejection rate of the 19 nationalities that most often request asylum. “It’s extremely rare for Mexicans to obtain asylum by arguing that they are fleeing organized crime violence,” said Victor Clark, a security and migration expert at the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana, who has served for years as an expert witness in cases of Mexicans requesting U.S. asylum. “But many come with this dream of winning asylum,” he said. A U.S. State Department official told Reuters that Mexican migrants who do not qualify to stay in the U.S. are regularly returned to Mexico. When asked about cartel activity driving families north, the person said statistics were not available.
NOWHERE IS SAFE
Maria, a nurse’s aide from the western state of Michoacan, which has been rocked by conflict for years, said she fled with her three children in October after CJNG killed her partner and delivered his head to her front door in a box. The incident was captured on security cameras. Maria, whose full name Reuters is withholding for security reasons, said she planned to seek asylum in the U.S. and was awaiting an appointment on the government-run CBP One smartphone app to approach the border, because she feared the group would be able to find her anywhere in Mexico. “Where can you go in Mexico that doesn’t have this cartel? Where can you be safe?” she said. That fear is driving people across the border, said Falko Ernst, senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, noting that as cartels expand, they sometimes tap into far-flung networks of associates to track people down using their names and photos, as if putting out a search warrant.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in 2018 promising to reverse a decades-old security crisis by breaking with his predecessors’ war on drug cartels and prioritizing programs to help the poor. The poverty rate has since fallen six percentage points. Yet while the national murder rate has declined since its high in 2019, homicides have increased this year in Guerrero, Chiapas and Morelos, states from which many of the migrants are fleeing north. Those three states also recorded an increase in kidnappings over the last year. Critics of Lopez Obrador’s security policy say his administration has failed to curb impunity and corruption, allowing criminal groups to further entrench their operations or expand.
Mexico’s government did not respond to requests for comment.
Lopez Obrador has said much of Chiapas is peaceful, although he has acknowledged that organized crime groups near the border with Guatemala are fighting to control the flow of drugs from Central America. Speaking at his daily press conference in October, he said 15,000 members of the armed forces had been deployed across the state. For Carlos and Yomara, just getting away from Chiapas and across the border is a relief. “I feel calmer now, more at peace,” Carlos said, as the family waited along with dozens of other Mexican migrants for a bus from the border to a shelter in Tucson. “My daughter is going to be okay.”
Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon in Nogales, Arizona, and Laura Gottesdiener in Monterrey. Additional reporting by Jose Luis Gonzalez in Ciudad Juarez, Jose Torres in Tapachula and Ted Hesson in Washington; Editing by Dave Graham and Suzanne Goldenberg
So brace yourself for what is ahead, because we are going to experience so much chaos during the year that is in front of us. Now a time of global conflict is upon us, and many believe that 2024 will be the year when we finally pass the point of no return. 2024: The Rise of the Beast. Mohammed bin Salman. Man-by-Satan. MbS. For Those ‘Left Behind.’
Mark of the Beast. The Beast Who Requires a ‘MARK.’ (7) The Infrared Vaccination QR Code SMART MARK.
Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ testifies who is he is and his offer of salvation for mankind, through the forgiveness of their sins, the shedding of his blood and his resurrection. Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus communicates (witnesses) the who, what, where, when, why and how of mankind’s salvation. This is known as the gospel of Jesus Christ. Once again, seven (7) references regarding the Holy Spirit witnessing to Christ denotes God’s divine purpose and plan.
In His Service,
Night Watchman
Paul Rolland
Night Watchman Ministries
Make Your (7) Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs (7) of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. (7) Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask (7) God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that (7) Jesus Christ is who He claimed to (7) be; that He was both fully God (7) and fully man and that we are (7) saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. (7) Put your trust in Him as your (7) only hope of salvation. Become a son (7) or daughter of God by receiving Christ. (7777777) 7×7
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 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. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess (7) with your heart and with your lips (7) that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.