BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS – October 24, 2023

“We really hope this is the beginning for the release of the rest of the hostages, which is more important and more important than their release, we hope this will continue.” -Daniel Lifshitz, grandson of one of the hostages

(Jerusalem, Israel) — [CBN News] Hamas released two more Israeli hostages Monday evening, and Israel released bodycam footage of the October 7 massacre, as the Israel-Hamas War continued for the 18th day. (Screengrab image: via CBN News)

Hamas posted video of its fighters taking care of Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, before handing them over to the Red Cross in Egypt, which then brought them to Israel.

The women were kidnapped on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz near the Gaza Strip. It brings the total of those released to four. Their husbands are still in captivity.

Daniel Lifshitz, grandson of one of the hostages, said, “We really hope this is the beginning for the release of the rest of the hostages, which is more important and more important than their release, we hope this will continue.”

At least 220 Israelis are still being held hostage by Hamas, including 30 children. One of them, Ohad Munder Zichri, turned 9-years-old in captivity Monday.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron became the latest world leader to visit Israel in a show of solidarity.

Macron arrived in Tel Aviv Tuesday and met with Israeli-French nationals who lost loved ones, as well as families of hostages. He also met with President Isaac Herzog.

Earlier, Israeli officials showed journalists terrorist bodycam footage of the initial Hamas invasion. Most of the material was not for publication, but officials said the release was made to combat a “Holocaust denial-like phenomenon” that is appearing in the media. (Screengrab image: via X)

One clip was released showing a victim’s car cam as terrorists riddled the vehicle with bullets until it crashed.

The material included an instruction manual detailing the offensive plans of the Hamas attack, as well as how to handle the kidnapped Israelis.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff, told the nation they are working together as an iron fist to eliminate Hamas.

“I want the citizens of Israel to know something else.” Netanyahu declared. “We make the decisions here and in the War Cabinet unanimously. We do so with great responsibility. We do so with deep awareness. We are fighting together and we will win together – only together.”

Gallant stated, “I welcome the formation of the War Cabinet. I think it is a blessing for the State of Israel and for the people of Israel. It is a message of unity for all of us here in the country and to our enemies ahead of the difficult stages that await us in the war.” (Screengrab image: via CBN News)

“We are conducting a war. I have seen that the forces in the field are ready and prepared,” Halevi said. “We see only one thing – the security of the State of Israel.”

Israel’s military buildup continues along the Gaza Border. The I.D.F. said Tuesday it struck more than 400 terror targets in Gaza in the past 24 hours, killing Hamas commanders and operatives who were preparing attacks.

In the north, Israel struck a military compound, a military post and an observation post used by Hezbollah during the night. The strikes were in response to rocket and anti-tank missile launches from Lebanese territory.

Julie Stahl is a correspondent for CBN News in the Middle East. A Hebrew speaker, she has been covering news in Israel fulltime for more than 20 years.

Click Here to watch the CBN News report.

[FoxNews.com] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, is introducing a resolution on Tuesday to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, accusing the progressive “Squad” member of “antisemitic activity” and “sympathizing with terrorist organizations.” “The [Democratic] Party has done nothing to hold her accountable. They’ve done nothing to rein her in, and no one else here has done it. And so I thought it was right to list examples of—this isn’t just new. This isn’t a one-off thing. This is exactly who she is,” Greene told Fox News Digital. Greene accused Tlaib of leading a pro-Palestinian [insurrection] on Capitol Hill last week… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.

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“One day, as I’m praying, a Man appears in front of me—normal size, but His being shines like light. This light is not a normal light. This light carried identity in it. And you knew that He is holy and instantaneously, I knew I am not. Even though I had prayed so many prayers, even though I had fasted so much and I had read the Koran … I knew, even though I have kept all the rules and regulation of Islam, I knew I am not just and I’m not holy and I knew the only just thing for Him to do is to kill me. But I didn’t want to die. So I ran to the corner of the room…” -Afshin Javid, former Hezbollah fighter

[CBN News] In early October, Afshin Javid was visiting Israel with his ministry Cyrus Call, which promotes friendship between Persians and Jews. But like millions of others, he found himself in the middle of a war when Hamas launched a bloody attack on Oct. 7. (Screengrab image)

As a former Hezbollah fighter, Afshin himself is no stranger to violence. He sat down with CBN News to tell his story.

Click Here to watch Afshin’s incredible testimony in this CBN News interview

“I was on my way to the United States to convert Christians to Islam, and I had 30 illegal passports at that time. I was arrested and put in jail in Malaysia. I was a dedicated Muslim who not only prayed the prayers, but I read the Koran once every ten days cover to cover. So I was very dedicated in my time in jail,” Javid said.

“One day, as I’m praying, a Man appears in front of me—normal size, but His being shines like light. This light is not a normal light. This light carried identity in it. And you knew that He is holy and instantaneously, I knew I am not. Even though I had prayed so many prayers, even though I had fasted so much and I had read the Koran and I had volunteered to work on landmines or I had participated in hanging people trying to please Allah, I knew, even though I have kept all the rules and regulation of Islam, I knew I am not just and I’m not holy and I knew the only just thing for Him to do is to kill me,” he recalled.

“But I didn’t want to die. So, I ran to the corner of the room, literally held my head in my arms, and just cried out, shouting, ‘Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me,'” Javid said.

“And I didn’t think He will forgive me because He is just. Still, I felt a touch on my left arm, and He said, ‘I forgive you.’ And I felt the weight just lifted off me. And I knew I’m forgiven, but I don’t know how. And I was confused. Still, I say, okay, I don’t understand. Only God can forgive, but You just forgave me. You are God, but you are a different God than the one I have studied about. This is not Allah. So who are You that forgives me? And He said, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,’ he continued.

“And I thought, That’s very powerful. It means a lot because as a Muslim, you pray ‘Show me there’s a straight path.’ And so the way is a direction. Truth is something you measure. Life is a source, but he claims to be all those three. I never thought the way is a Person. The truth is a Person, and life is a Person, and all of them is the same Person,” Javid explained.

“So I said, ‘I don’t understand what is Your name?’ And He said, ‘Jesus Christ.’ And it was as if someone grabbed all my bones out of my body. I just fell like a piece of meat to the ground. And I just began to weep,” he told CBN News.

“It’s like, you know, being colorblind, and then suddenly you see colors, and you realize the world is so much more beautiful than you ever thought. And if you ask me what made the world so colorless, it’s the hatred, the anger that is in the heart of every Muslim. People say, ‘Why did you hate the Jews?'” Javid said.

“I had never met a Jew. I thought Hitler was a good man for doing what he did. He just didn’t finish the job. I don’t know why I hated them. No Jew had ever done anything bad to me. God didn’t design us to hate; He didn’t design us to want to see someone dead. He did not design us for these things. These are designs of satan. How do you think killing the people to whom God gave this land is going to please Allah? Jesus is not a God that celebrates when Jews are killed,” he explained.

‘No One Should Celebrate When One of the Sons of Father Abraham is Killing Another’

When Javid visited the CBN News bureau in Jerusalem, he met an Israeli woman named Sasha Ariev, whose teenage sister had been kidnapped by Hamas in the attacks of Oct. 7. He and his wife wept as they watched her story. He introduced himself to her, off-camera, prayed with her, and apologized to her.

“There is absolutely no justification or explanation that can make any of this okay,” he told her with tears in his eyes. “No one should celebrate when one of the sons of Father Abraham is killing another. And I just want to say I’m sorry that your family is going through this.”

Sasha was grateful for his words.

“Thank you very much,” she answered. “I’m sure that a lot of Muslims around the world—they do not want this to happen.”

Off-camera, Javid and his wife invited Sasha to visit them for dinner.

Her reply? “I’ll be happy to come and bring my sister with me.”

Javid made a point of stating his support for Israel.

“We are standing with all the Jewish people, with the people of Israel. And we are mourning their sorrow of their family members that have been lost, but also for the right of Israel to exist,” he said.

At the end of his interview with CBN News, Javid offered a prayer for those on both sides of the war in Israel.

“The Creator of Heaven and Earth, God Almighty. You love the world, the whole world, all the people of the world. So much that You sacrificed Jesus Christ so that we will not perish but have eternal life. I pray today that the revelation of Jesus Christ would go forth amongst the Muslims and the sons of Ishmael,” he prayed.

“Father, I pray that You would remember that covenant with Ishmael, that You would go forth because Ishmael is thirsty for the revelation of love, for the revelation of Jesus Christ, for the revelation of salvation. Father, I pray that there would be a hand of protection that would protect Isaac on every front, not only in Israel but all around the world. Give us visions, dreams, and wisdom to speak peace in this war, in Jesus’ mighty name I pray. Amen.”

“…It’s the left that decided ‘woman’ is a dirty word, that decided we needed to toss out basic biology and basic grammar … They’re using nonsense words to erase women and girls, and … to erase our voices and experiences. Today, we’re taking a stand against woke nonsense…” -Gov. Sanders

[DailyCaller.com] Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order at the Arkansas state Capitol [last] Thursday eliminating “woke” language from state documents, according to Little Rock-based outlet KARK News. Sanders said she considered terms such as “pregnant people,” “birth giver” and “laboring person,” to be “woke” terms, according to KARK News. Huckabee signed the executive order flanked by women and said, “we’re taking a stand against woke nonsense”… Click Here to read this full article from the Daily Caller.  (Screengrab image)

Governor Sanders’ Executive Order follows:

EXECUTIVE ORDER TO ELIMINATE WOKE, ANTI-WOMEN WORDS FROM STATE GOVERNMENT AND RESPECT WOMEN

WHEREAS: Women are women;

WHEREAS: An XX chromosome is an XX chromosome. The science is clear and real;

WHEREAS: There are things only women can do, like perform the miracle of birth;

WHEREAS: Government should reject language that ignores, undermines, and erases women;

WHEREAS: Government should celebrate gender distinctions between men and women—not erase them; and

WHEREAS: It is the policy of this administration to prohibit the use of woke, anti-women words for official state government business.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, acting under the authority vested in me as the Governor of the State of Arkansas, do hereby order:

(1) All state offices, departments, boards, and commissions are prohibited from using exclusionary, sexist language in official state government business, effective immediately.

(2) In official government documents, the following exclusionary and sexist terms shall be replaced with accurate, female-affirming alternatives:

a. Rather than “pregnant people” or “pregnant person,” use “pregnant women” or “pregnant mom.”

b. Rather than “chestfeeding,” use “breastfeeding.”

c. Rather than “body fed” or “person fed,” use “breast fed.”

d. Rather than “human milk,” use “breast milk.”

e. Rather than “birthing person,” use “birth mom.”

f. Rather than “laboring person,” use “birth mom.”

g. Rather than “menstruating person” or “menstruating people,” use “woman” or “women.”

h. Rather than “birth-giver,” use “woman.”

i. Rather than “womxn” or “womyn,” use “woman.”

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this 19th day of October, in the year of our Lord 2023.

Greer noted, as observed by Mercola, that “governments and drug companies ‘have misled the world to a far greater extent than previously known.’ If these findings are correct, it would also mean that ‘the so-called ‘vaccines’ are actually altering the human genome and causing permanent production of the deadly spike protein,’ and this internal production of spike protein would, in turn, ‘trigger the immune system to attack its own cells.'”

(Ottawa, Ontario) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The presence of Polyomavirus Simian Virus 40 (SV40), which is a monkey-linked DNA sequence known to cause cancer when it was used in old polio vaccines, has been confirmed by Health Canada to be present in the Pfizer COVID shot, a fact that was not disclosed by the vaccine maker to officials. (Image: Pixabay)

As first reported by The Epoch Times last week, there is still ongoing debate among scientists regarding the findings, with some reporting SV40 poses a cancer risk and was hidden on purpose while others say it is nothing to worry about.

As per an email that was sent to The Epoch Times, Health Canada said it “expects sponsors to identify any biologically functional DNA sequences within a plasmid (such as an SV40 enhancer) at the time of submission.”

“Although the full DNA sequence of the Pfizer plasmid was provided at the time of initial filing, the sponsor did not specifically identify the SV40 sequence,” Health Canada added.

Health Canada noted that Kevin McKernan, a microbiologist and former researcher and team leader for the MIT Human Genome project, and Dr. Phillip J. Buckhaults, who is a professor of cancer genomics as well as the director of the Cancer Genetics Lab at the University of South Carolina, had raised in a public manner earlier this year how SV40 was present in the jabs.

After this, Health Canada noted, it was “possible for Health Canada to confirm the presence of the enhancer based on the plasmid DNA sequence submitted by Pfizer against the published SV40 enhancer sequence.”

SV40 is used to enhance gene transcription when the shots are made.

According to McKernan, he noted in correspondence to The Epoch Times, that Pfizer did not let it be known of SV40 being in the COVID shots given its cancer link when it was used in polio vaccines decades ago.

McKernan shared his concerns about SV40 but did say there is no straightforward evidence yet if it is a full-blown carcinogenic. He did warn the public that SV40 promoters are still a concern due to the risk of them “integrating into the human genomes near oncogenes, which are genes that have the potential to cause cancer,” as noted by The Epoch Times.

According to Buckhaults, “People have a right to have their concerns taken seriously and addressed by competent, caring scientists, even if their concerns end up being invalidated. We should look for monsters under the bed and report results honestly”…

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“The Georgia Supreme Court just threw out an absurd argument against our state’s LIFE act, and so GEORGIA’s HEARTBEAT LAW REMAINS IN EFFECT!” -Frontline Policy

[PJMedia.com] It’s an encouraging day for supporters of life in the Peach State. The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s fetal heartbeat law, known as the LIFE Act, is legal, which means that it will stay on the books. (Image: Unsplash-Maria Oswalt)

“That means most abortions will continue to be banned once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity, typically around six weeks of pregnancy and before many know they are pregnant, while the Fulton County Superior Court considers other arguments made by abortion advocates and providers about why the restrictions should be lifted,” reports WSB Radio.

Pro-abortion groups brought a challenge to the courts that the law was unconstitutional when the General Assembly and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp passed the law in 2019.

WSB reports that “abortion rights groups and providers argued that when the state statute passed in 2019, Roe v. Wade was the law of the land and the state constitution does not allow the Legislature to enact statutes that violate the law.”

However, the court ruled that the constitutionality of the law four years ago has no bearing on its validity in a post-Dobbs Georgia.

“The state argued that it didn’t matter if the law was not constitutional when it passed the General Assembly in 2019, it is now in line with the law as established when the US Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the 1973 decision had been wrong all along,” WSB points out…

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“We have great churches doing great work, but there are a lot of folks that never get touched by church ministry. The idea of the crusade is to energize our churches, but also to be able to reach into some other avenues to touch people’s lives.” -Don Lum, director of evangelism at the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board

[ToddStarnes.com] More than 10,000 people gathered for a four-day crusade that brought together dozens of Bible-believing churches across Jackson, Mississippi. (Image: Unsplash-Ismael Paramo)

“This isn’t a photo from a concert or a party,” Gov. Tate Reeves wrote on X. “This is from a revival event that happened a few nights ago right here in Mississippi. God is working here, and He has truly blessed us!”

The Metro Mississippi Go Tell America Crusade with Rick Gage was believed to be the largest gathering of Christians in Mississippi’s state capitol since the late Billy Graham held a crusade more than 40 years ago.

“We saw an incredible move of God throughout this whole campaign,” Gage, known as the small-town Billy Graham, told the Christian Index.

“Anyone who says evangelistic outreach events don’t work anymore just needs to talk to the folks in central Mississippi.”

“We have great churches doing great work, but there are a lot of folks that never get touched by church ministry. The idea of the crusade is to energize our churches, but also to be able to reach into some other avenues to touch people’s lives,” Don Lum, director of evangelism at the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, told the Baptist Record.

Two thousand people accepted Christ during the event and many more rededicated their lives to Christian service and ministry.

“To God be the glory,” one attendee wrote on social media.

“I absolutely love love love this,” wrote another. “It’s a time of revival, worship and forgiveness!!!!! One mind, one accord and unity!!!! I’m so thankful for the love of God, He reached way down for me. God died, shed His precious Blood for all mankind. He said whosoever will, let him come. I’m thankful. Thank you for this beautiful post of people loving each other and loving God.”

Many others blasted Gov. Reeves for promoting the crusade and accused him of breaking the law.

“Mixing politics with religion? Tax the churches,” one angry person wrote. “This is a Christian klan rally.”

But the messages of support and encouragement far outnumbered the critics.

“I’m praying for all on here that slam the Gov. for praising a revival,” wrote one resident. “Lord soften these folks’ cold hearts. Thank you Tate for reminding us what is important in our lives.” Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here