Iran’s Supreme Leader at a tribute to “martyrs” at Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum south of Tehran, February 1, 2019
Amid economic uncertainty, Iran’s regime has begun 10-day celebrations of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The regime’s ceremonies in Tehran began on Saturday at 9:33 am local time (0603 GMT), exactly 40 years after Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, returned to the Iranian capital after a 15-year exile in Paris.
Senior regime and military officials are gathering at Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum south of Tehran. The Supreme Leader offered prayers and recited verses from the Qur’an.
Another ceremony is being held at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, where Khomeini delivered his first speech after exile.
Feb. 1, 1979 is the day of a determining movement that united all voices of a nation, moving an ocean of humans to flow like a single wave towards a divine & humane destination. On this day the world witnessed one of the most amazing popular uprisings of history. 1/31/82
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) February 1, 2019
The head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts and Guardian Council, Ayatollah Jannati, told an audience in Tehran on Friday that the US and other countries had failed: “In these 40 years, the entire world tried to destroy the Islamic ruling system. All world powers believed the Islamic government would be limited, and would collapse after a couple of years.”
But he said the enemy campaign continued:
Today, the damn US is doing whatever it can to destroy the Islamic system…. It urges other countries not to work with Iran. And those intoxicated by the petrodollars have come to the US’ help in order to break the power of Islam.
State media mocked a 2017 statement by John Bolton, now US National Security Advisor, that “the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution will not last until its 40th birthday”.
And the Iranian military unveiled a long-range surface-to-surface missile to mark the occasion. Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami proclaimed that it has “a very short time for its preparedness, can fly at a low altitude, has high precision and accuracy and is capable of heavily destroying ground targets”.
Questions Over Europe Economic Link
But as the regime celebrates, questions are already growing around an European link needed to prop up Iran’s economy amid US sanctions.
The European Union announced the launch of a Special Purpose Vehicle on Thursday, after four months of negotiation. The SPV provides for non-dollar trade in oil and other commodities and goods, bypassing the comprehensive sanctions imposed by the Trump Administration on November 5.
But the initial phase of the arrangement, known as the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, is limited to pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and food. Operations will take months to establish, with Iran needing to establish its own mechanism.
And the EU made the SPV conditional on Iran acceding to an international convention against terrorist finance and money laundering, joining the Financial Action Task Force.
Iran Daily, Feb 1: Europe Launches Economic Link with Tehran — But It is Limited
Iran’s hardliners have blocked the Rouhani Government for months from completing the accession, fearing that it will affect links with groups such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestine’s Islamic Jihad.
The Expediency Council, which resolves disputes between branches of the regime, again delayed its review on Saturday. It cited the start of the 10-day celebrations.
The Council has deferred a resolution of the dispute three times, despite the Guardian Council twice approving the Government’s revised arrangements.
Iranian officials initially welcomed the launch of the SPV, but on Friday senior judiciary official Mohammad Javad Larijani — the brother of Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani and incoming Expediency Council head Sadeq Larijani — denounced the arrangement, “The text of INSTEX, compiled by the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, is a nonsensical document.”
Amid the US sanctions, which followed the Trump Administration’s withdrawal in May from the nuclear deal, Iran’s oil exports have fallen almost 60% since April and non-oil exports dropped 57% in December.
The International Monetary Fund is projecting a 3.7% fall in Iranian GDP this year.
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I want to pass along some very important news that everyone needs to hear!
In December of 2017, Donald Trump made history by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Why is this big news? Because by this the Jewish people of Israel are now able to press forward in bringing about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
Jewish Rabbis have publicly announced that their Messiah will be revealed in the coming years who will be a leader and spiritual guide to all nations, gathering all religions under the worship of one God.
Biblical prophecy tells us that this Jewish Messiah who will take the stage will be the antichrist “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). For a time he will bring about a false peace, but “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15)…then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).
More importantly, the power that runs the world wants to put a RFID microchip in our body making us total slaves to them. This chip matches perfectly with the Mark of the Beast in the Bible, more specifically in Revelation 13:16-18:
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”
Referring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. This Mark couldn’t be spiritual because the word references two different physical locations. If it was spiritual it would just say in the forehead. RFID microchip implant technology will be the future of a one world cashless society containing digital currency. It will be implanted in the right-hand or the forehead, and we cannot buy or sell without it. Revelation 13:11-18 tells us that a false prophet will arise on the world scene doing miracles before men, deceiving them to receive this Mark. Do not be deceived! We must grow strong in Jesus. AT ALL COSTS, DO NOT TAKE IT!
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
People have been saying the end is coming for many years, but we needed two key things. One, the Third Temple, and two, the technology for a cashless society to fulfill the prophecy of the Mark of the Beast.
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If you haven’t already, it is time to seek God with all your heart. Jesus loves you more than you could imagine. He wants to have a relationship with you and redeem you from your sins. Turn to Him and repent while there is still hope! This is forever…God bless!
“EITHER HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ULTIMATELY OWES ITS ORIGIN TO MINDLESS MATTER OR THERE IS A CREATOR…” – JOHN LENNOX
We all know God exists. Why? Because without Him, we couldn’t prove anything at all. Do we live our lives as if we cannot know anything? No. So why is God necessary? In order to know anything for certain, you would have to know everything, or have revelation from somebody who does. Who is capable of knowing everything? God. So to know anything, you would have to be God, or know God.
A worldview without God cannot account for the uniformity and intelligibility of nature. And why is it that we can even reason that God is the best explanation for this if there is no God? We are given reason to know or reject God, but never to know that He does not exist.
It has been calculated by Roger Penrose that the odds of the initial conditions for the big bang to produce the universe that we see to be a number so big, that we could put a zero on every particle in the universe, and even that would not be enough to use every zero. What are the odds that God created the universe? Odds are no such thing. Who of you would gamble your life on one coin flip?
Is there evidence that the Bible is the truth? Yes. Did you know that the creation accounts listed in the book of Genesis are not only all correct, but are also in the correct chronological order? That the Bible doesn’t say the Earth was formed in six 24-hour days but rather six long but finite periods of time? That the Bible makes 10 times more creation claims than all major “holy” books combined with no contradictions, while these other books have errors in them? The Bible stood alone by concurring with the big bang saying, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1); and says our universe is expanding, thousands of years before scientists discovered these things. Watch a potential life-changing video on the website listed below with Astronomer(PhD) Hugh Ross explaining all these facts based on published scientific data. He has authored many books, backed even by atheist scientists.
Jesus came to pay a debt that we could not; to be our legal justifier to reconcile us back to a Holy God; only if we are willing to receive Him: “For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23).
God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten son, so that whoever believes in Him, through faith, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus says if we wish to enter into life to keep the commands! The two greatest commands are to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind; and your neighbor as yourself. All the law hang on these commands. We must be born of and lead by the Holy Spirit, to be called children of God, to inherit the kingdom. If we are willing to humble ourselves in prayer to Jesus, to confess and forsake our sins, He is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking of Him; giving us a new heart, leading us into all truth!
Jesus came to free us from the bondage of sin. The everlasting fire was prepared for the devil and his angels due to disobedience to God’s law. If we do the same, what makes us any different than the devil? Jesus says unless we repent, we shall perish. For sin is the transgression of the law. We must walk in the Spirit so we may not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, being hatred, fornication, drunkenness and the like. Whoever practices such things will not inherit the kingdom (Galatians 5:16-26). If we sin, we may come before Jesus to ask for forgiveness (1 John 2:1-2). Evil thoughts are not sins, but rather temptations. It is not until these thoughts conceive and give birth by our own desires that they become sin (James 1:12-15). When we sin, we become in the likeness of the devil’s image, for he who sins is of the devil (1 John 3:8); but if we obey Jesus, in the image of God. For without holiness, we shall not see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).
The oldest religion in the world is holiness through faith (James 1:27). What religion did Adam and Eve follow before the fall? Jesus, Who became the last Adam, what religion does He follow? Is He not holy? He never told us to follow the rituals and traditions of man but to take up our cross and follow Him (Luke 9:23). There are many false doctrines being taught leading people astray. This is why we need the Holy Spirit for discernment. Unlike religion, holiness cannot be created. It is given to us from above by the baptism of the Spirit. Jesus is more than a religion; He is about having a personal relationship with the Father. Start by reading the Gospel of Matthew, to hear the words of God, to know His character and commandments. Follow and obey Jesus, for He is the way, the truth, and the life!