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"Praying for All in Authority"
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when the wicked rule, the people groan." (Proverbs 29:2)
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Focus on Israel
1. Netanyahu, Mossad chief fly to Saudi, hold first known meet with crown prince - Times of Israel
In the first visit of its kind, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, where he met with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israeli and Saudi officials said Monday.
Netanyahu was on the ground in Neom, a Red Sea city, for more than three hours for the first known high-level meeting between an Israeli and Saudi leader. He was accompanied by Mossad intelligence chief Yossi Cohen, Hebrew media reports said.
News of the meeting was confirmed early Monday afternoon by Education Minister Yoav Gallant. “I congratulate the prime minister on this amazing achievement,” Gallant said on Army Radio. “The fact that the meeting took place and was made public — even if it was in only a semiofficial way — is something of great importance.” He said it indicated the growing “warm acceptance of Israel by the Sunni world,” and that this was “something our ancestors dreamed about.”
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2. Despite confirmation by Saudi advisers, Riyadh FM denies prince met Netanyahu - Times of Israel
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Monday denied widespread reports that Riyadh’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks Sunday along with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Iran and normalization, claiming that no Israeli officials had been there.
A Saudi government adviser earlier confirmed the meeting and the trip by the Israeli leader to Saudi Arabia on Sunday night to The Wall Street Journal, saying that the meeting, which had lasted several hours, focused on Iran and the establishment of diplomatic ties between Riyadh and Jerusalem, but did not yield substantial agreements.
Israel’s Education Minister Yoav Gallant also confirmed the trip, calling it “an amazing achievement.”
According to the Ynet news site, which quoted two officials involved in the talks, the Saudi crown prince did not object to the meeting being publicized. The meeting was also attended by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency chief Yossi Cohen, an Israeli official told Hebrew-language media.
3. Gantz launches probe in submarine case, testing Netanyahu partnership- World Israel News
Israel’s defense minister on Sunday appointed a committee to investigate the government’s controversial purchase of German submarines several years ago — a step that further strained his already poor relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The $2 billion purchase of the submarines and warships made by Thyssenkrupp is the focus of a sweeping corruption scandal in which seven businessmen, including confidants of Netanyahu, have been named as suspects.
Netanyahu, who is on trial for his involvement in three other corruption scandals, is not a suspect in the submarine case. But critics, including his defense minister at the time of the purchase in 2015, have said Netanyahu behaved improperly and may have had a conflict of interest.
4. Yesh Atid pushes to dissolve the Knesset - Israel National News
Leader of the Opposition, Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid-Telem), announced Monday afternoon that next week the Opposition will propose a bill dissolving the Knesset and calling snap elections.
“On the 2nd December, next Wednesday, we will propose a bill to disperse the Knesset. We won't withdraw it at the last moment, we won't negotiate over it, the bill will come to a vote.”
“It is time for elections. Nothing good will come of this government. It is a group of politicians focused only on themselves, on their own jobs, on their petty arguments. They're not working for the people of Israel, they're only working for themselves.”
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5. 156 UN Nations Affirm West Bank Settlements, East J'lem Not Part of Israel - Jerusalem Post
The UN General Assembly's Second Committee pushed back at the concept of de-facto Israeli annexation on Wednesday night, approving a draft resolution by 156-6 member states that called on nations to ensure that they do not treat the West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem as a part of sovereign Israel.
The six countries that opposed the resolution were Canada, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and the United States.
Israel formally annexed east Jerusalem in 1980, a move that has never been recognized by the US or the international community. It has, however, never annexed the West Bank settlements.
Still, it has expected that the international community would treat the settlements as if sovereignty had been applied and if these areas are part of Israel.
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The Daily Brief
1. Al Jazeera paid thousands to Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff's company, records show - Fox
Democratic Georgia Senate candidate John Ossoff's company was paid thousands of dollars for documentaries that it licensed to Al Jazeera, the controversial media company owned by Qatar, according to the candidate's financial disclosure forms.
Ossoff disclosed the payment in a July update to his forms that included income for Insight TWI, the company that he is the managing director and CEO of. Insight TWI on the form is listed as a "broadcast media production" company. Transactions reported on the form were all over $5,000.
Insight TWI produces investigative journalism, often in the form of documentaries, which are then licensed out to other companies that broadcast the content.
Ossoff's opponent, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., has hammered Ossoff on another payment his company accepted that was disclosed in the July form, which was from PCCW Limited. PCCW Limited is a Hong Kong-based media company that the Chinese government is an 18.4% shareholder in through the Chinese state-owned Assets Supervision & Administration Commission.
Lord, this man is taking money from companies that are known to be hostile to the United States. We pray that not only will this be spread far and wide, but that voters in the runoff election will be granted wisdom as they vote on December 5.
Diverse weights and diverse measures,
They are both alike, an abomination to the LORD. Proverbs 20:10
2. White House Pulls US out of Open Skies Treaty With Russia- The Epoch Times
The United States will pull out of the Open Skies Treaty—an arms control pact—with Russia, according to the Department of State on Sunday.
“On May 22, 2020, the United States exercised its right pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article XV of the Treaty on Open Skies by providing notice to the Treaty Depositaries and to all States Parties of its decision to withdraw from the Treaty, effective six months from the notification date,” State Department deputy spokesperson Cale Brown said in a statement.
“Six months having elapsed, the U.S. withdrawal took effect on November 22, 2020, and the United States is no longer a State Party to the Treaty on Open Skies,” Brown added.
The Open Skies Treaty is an agreement to allow nations to carry out reconnaissance flyovers to obtain military data and intelligence. For years, the United States has accused Russia of violating the terms of the agreement, not allowing its flights over Russian territory.
President Donald Trump earlier this year said he wanted to leave the agreement, which was signed following the end of the Cold War. It came as Trump and administration officials stated that they have been tougher on the Kremlin than previous administrations.
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--Father, we pray that a move of Your Spirit in Russia would bring an end to their cheating on the treaties. We ask for the souls of leadership and citizens alike.
--“Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.” Psalm 2:8
3. Kelly Loeffler quarantining after positive, inconclusive coronavirus tests: campaign- Fox
U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler will be quarantining after testing positive for the coronavirus, the Georgia Republican's campaign said Saturday.
Loeffler, who -- along with Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue, also of Georgia -- faces a Jan. 5 runoff that will decide which party controls the Senate, initially tested negative Friday morning with a rapid-results test before two campaign events she held with Vice President Mike Pence.
She also took a PCR test Friday, which came back positive later in the day, campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The senator received inconclusive results after taking an additional test Saturday. While no coronavirus tests are completely accurate all of the time, the rapid-results tests tend to be less accurate than PCR tests, which take longer for results, some experts say.
--Father, why have no Democrats been testing positive for Covid-19? And if they have, why is the media suppressing that information? Lord, we pray that You will reveal the collusion and lies of those who are meddling in not only elections, but in our daily lives. And may Sen Loeffler be healed quickly.
--“For he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.” Proverbs 23:7
4. Megyn Kelly says she removed her sons from their New York City school that has 'gone off the deep end' after it circulated a letter about racism - Business Insider
Former Fox News and NBC News host Megyn Kelly said that she has pulled her two sons out of their "woke" Upper West Side New York City school after a letter about racism was circulated at the school, which faculty were asked to read
On a November 16 episode her podcast, "The Megyn Kelly Show," Kelly talked about the letter, entitled "If You Really Want to Make a Difference in Black Lives, Change How You Teach White Kids." Nahliah Webber, the executive director of the Orleans Public Education Network, published the letter in June, and it's been widely circulated since.
Kelly said that schools, including the one her sons attended, have "gone around the bend...gone off the deep end." She went on to read what she called "highlights" from the letter, including a line that states "there's a killer cop sitting in every school where White children learn...Where's the urgency for school reform for White kids being indoctrinated in Black death and protected from the consequences?"
Kelly asked: "Which boy in my kids' school is the future killer cop? Is it my boy?" after reading the letter.
Father, we ask for all parents that You would bring truth so that children will not be constantly bombarded over lies about the color of their skin. Let them not be ashamed!
“But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.”Isaiah 50:7
5. Trump Lawyers: Pennsylvania Lawsuit Dismissal Moves Us Closer to Supreme Court- Breitbart
President Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers said Saturday they would file an appeal to the Third Circuit court after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit to challenge the results of the election in Pennsylvania.
Trump 2020 attorneys former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in a statement:
Today’s decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although we fully disagree with this opinion, we’re thankful to the Obama-appointed judge for making this anticipated decision quickly, rather than simply trying to run out the clock.
The lawsuit argued that the legal guarantee of “equal protection under the law” was violated after counties where voters were primarily Democrats took different approaches than counties where voters were primarily Republicans to help voters with problems with their mail-in ballots.
U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew Brann dismissed the suit on Saturday “with prejudice,” issuing a stinging rebuke to the campaign for trying to “disenfranchise almost seven million voters.”
--Lord, it seems that so many plan to give up the fight for our President. But our nation is in dire need of a move of Your Holy Spirit, so we pray on bended knee for Your mercy over America.
--“O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.” Habakkuk 3:2
6. Voting Data Analysis: Trump Got 10 Million More Votes Than in 2016 – The Epoch Times
President Donald Trump’s 73 million votes record is around 10 million more than he got in his last bid for presidency, based on current data. The president made significant gains with all racial groups, performing particularly well among minority voters.
According to the Edison Research exit poll from the 2016 general election, just 8 percent of black American voters chose Trump over Clinton. The same Edison Research exit poll this year shows that black Trump voters have grown to 12 percent—a 50 percent increase.
For both black men and women, there are significant jumps. Nineteen percent of black men voted for Trump in 2020, versus 13 percent in 2016. Just 4 percent of black women chose Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, but that figure has more than doubled to 9 percent against Democratic candidate Joe Biden this year.
Among America’s 40 predominantly black counties, Trump received 8 percent more votes than he did 4 years ago.
--Lord, we ask Your comfort over President Trump, and protection for his heart after so many have worked to destroy him over the last 4 years. He has worked hard, Father, so we pray for Your blessings and favor as this contested election continues.
--“For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved; Your hand shall find out all Your enemies: Your right hand shall find out those that hate You.” Psalm 21:7
7. China Issues Instructions for ‘Incoming Biden Administration’- Breitbart
Obey Beijing, do not challenge China’s assumed economic superiority and open your domestic markets without restraint: these are the three key instructions for Joe Biden issued in an op-ed published Sunday by the Global Times, official propaganda mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The piece outlines China’s vision of the future under a compliant Joe Biden administration, stating from the beginning the CCP wants a “partnership” that is “categorically different” than that offered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“Biden is, irrevocably, the 46th US president,” the editorial offers without evidence, before outlining just why the two countries should combine their resources in fighting the coronavirus epidemic.
To that end the Global Times maintains that supine America is a good America, warning its friend Joe Biden, “Demonizing China or slinging dirt on Chinese people will never help to stop the flare-up of infections and fatalities in America.”
--Lord, we bind these “instructions” and declare them null and void. We rebuke the plan of the enemy to place America in subjugation to China. We declare that the US belongs to God and not to any foreign government.
--“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Isaiah 40:8
8. Report: Apple Is Lobbying To Soften Bill That Fights Forced Labor In China – Daily Caller
Apple, the $2 trillion tech company, has lobbied Congress to soften the language in a bill aimed at preventing American companies from relying on forced labor in China for its products, according to a report from The Washington Post.
Two congressional staffers told The Post that lobbyists with the firm Fierce Government Relations have sought to water down the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
The bill, which passed the House by a vote of 403-6 in September, aims to ensure that American apparel and tech companies are not relying on forced labor of Muslim Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province.
The Chinese government is suspected of holding more than 1 million Uighurs in detention camps in Xinjiang, which is a heavy producer of cotton products and computer parts.
--Lord, as the lawlessness written in Your word overtakes our nation, we call for a move of Your Spirit to say NO to these corporations that do not care about the people that China is oppressing. Let Your Spirit rise!
--“So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” Isaiah 59:19
9. Gov. Brown encourages Oregonians to call police on neighbors who violate COVID-19 freeze-KGW8
Days before Thanksgiving, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said she believes residents who know their neighbors are violating the most recent round of COVID-19 protocols, which includes capping the number of people allowed in your home at six, should call the police.
“This is no different than what happens if there's a party down the street and it's keeping everyone awake,” Brown said in an interview Friday. “What do neighbors do [in that case]? They call law enforcement because it's too noisy. This is just like that. It's like a violation of a noise ordinance.”
The restrictions, known as a freeze, were implemented this week via an executive order by the governor. For the next two weeks in Oregon, and four weeks in Multnomah County, residents are banned from eating out at restaurants and going to the gym, among other restrictions. Social gatherings in our homes are also limited to no more than six people. Violators could face up to 30 days in jail, $1,250 in fines or both.
Critics of the freeze have called it unconstitutional. Clackamas County Chair-elect Tootie Smith said on FOX News the freeze made Oregonians “second-rate slaves” in their own homes.
--Lord, as governments encourage “snitching,” and have become more draconian in the actions that destroy small businesses, we beseech You for protection for ordinary citizens. We bind this virus in Jesus’ Mighty name and command it to disperse, but also pray that governments across the country will use more common sense and less heavy-handed approaches.
--“No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17
10. BREAKING REPORT: Largest Number of Cluster Votes In Wayne Co. MI Came From Psychiatric Hospital For Patients With Severe Mental Illnesses –Gateway Pundit
Yesterday, data scientist Sarah Eaglesfield tweeted about some interesting facts she uncovered while looking into Wayne County, Michigan’s voter data from the November 2020 election. According to 100Percent Fed Up, her data, so far, explores cluster votes in Michigan’s Wayne County, where hundreds of affidavits have been filed sharing eye-witness accounts of voter fraud and intimidation by paid election workers and officials and Democrat activists present at the TCF Center, where absentee ballots were processed.
Eaglesfield’s tweet reads:
“In order – clusters in Wayne County, Michigan with the most votes cast in #Election2020 were:
1. A psychiatric hospital (@NedStaebler is that you?)
2. Apartment block (but no apartment number)
3. A convent
4. THE FOUR SEASONS Care facility (really!)
5. Homeless drop-in centre”
Today, Sarah Eaglesfield shared the data she used to obtain the information she shared on Twitter yesterday. She tagged Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (who insists there was no voter fraud or intimidation of poll challengers in Wayne Co), Trump attorney Sidney Powell, President Trump, Joe Biden.
“My full 2,000 word report on election fraud & irregularities in Wayne County, Michigan is available to download: https://electint.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Wayne+County+Report.pdf… Important reading for ALL voters on both sides. Mistakes made.”
--Lord, it appears that these ballots were “harvested” by unscrupulous people in an effort to tilt the election. We pray that ALL voter fraud be revealed. We ask that You grant mighty heavenly wisdom to the attorneys for Trump and the judges, as these cases go to court.
--“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17
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The Daily Jot
Monday, November 23, 2020
Election chess game shaping up
The election should be as simple as one eligible voter, one vote, vote counted, tallied and results determined, but it is become more of a multilevel chess game where votes are just the movement of the first pawn, then the real politics begins. America is beginning to see that there are a whole lot of political maneuvers involved in getting a true vote count. As the hours approach where states must certify election results, politically-appointed officials, judges, lawyers, and some elected politicians in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona will wield more power over the presidential election than the normal citizen. This is a high-stakes multilevel chess match.
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell detailed in his column "The Greatest Electoral Heist in American History" how state officials were able to "weaken, alter, and eliminate laws" designed to preserve election integrity. He cites how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg funded a "charitable" organization working with Barack Obama's senior advisor David Plouffe. Zuckerberg poured over $400 million into assisting officials to have "safe and secure elections" by funding operations in Democratic strongholds on how elections were to be "conducted" according to a manual written by Plouffe. Blackwell documents how high-ranking Democratic Party state officials then "simultaneously" weakened ballot security protocols, acting on their own authority without concurrence from the state legislators that put those protections in the law.
To his point, Wisconsin Democrat Secretary of State Doug La Follette allowed voters to claim a COVID exemption so they wouldn't have to identify themselves when requesting an absentee ballot. Blackwell says Michigan Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson unilaterally voided the legal requirement that voters provide a signature when requesting an absentee ballot, AND also allowed civic groups running voter registration drives to register voters through the state's online registration website. Can you say Zuckerberg, Plouffe, Rock The Vote and more? Pennsylvania US District Judge Matthew Brann Saturday dismissed a Trump Campaign attempt to block the state's election certification, saying the there was no evidence of fraud. The mainstream media is not telling you that judge Brann was appointed by Obama in 2012.
Meantime, Federal Elections Commission Chairman Trey Trainor, a Trump appointee, told Newsmax that the election could be illegitimate if it is true that Republican observers were not allowed at polling places, duplicate ballots were cast, non-residents voted, and elections officials took questionable actions. This chess match will come down to courts, judges, and lawyers crowning a president-not the voters electing one. Sadly, some politicians don't care about the ramifications to this nation so long as they retain their power. And the fallacy that we have a say with our votes will continue until We the People end it by demanding reform. Remember Proverbs 29:2, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when the wicked rule, the people groan." There is a whole lot of wickedness going around and we didn't vote for that.
Classic Hymns
AMAZING GRACE
I was blind, but now I see! John 9:25
Lyrics
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below,
Will be forever mine.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.
Melody
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Words: Knowles Shaw, 1874
Melody: George Minor, 1880
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