Israel Prepares for Retaliation from Iran | CBN NewsWatch - April 4, 2024

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Israel preparing for potential

retaliation from Iran after the deadly

strike in Syria that took out Generals

in Iran's military and Iran hinting it

might go after the us as well a top

Israeli political leader calling for new

elections we're going to hear the

response from the government of prime

minister Benjamin

Netanyahu white Evangelical voters have

turned out for former president Donald

Trump in the last two elections we're

going to take a look at how this

Coalition came about and the key issues

in this year's race for the White House

and signs of the end times we're going

to hear from the co-authors of a new

book Revelation 911 about modern-day

events at the Temple mount in Jerusalem

and even UFOs and how they tie into

biblical prophecy all those stories and

more coming up next right here on CBN

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in Israel which is preparing for

possible retaliation from Iran after a

reported Israeli strike in Damascus

Syria that killed two Iranian generals

and other members of its military now

both the Israeli Defense Forces and the

home front command are preparing for war

CBN News Middle East bureau chief Chris

Mitchell brings us the story from

Jerusalem Iran's supreme leader

Ayatollah heni vowed Israel would pay

for the attack against its operatives

there will be slapped for that of course

day by day the regime will become weaker

and God willing it will get closer to

demise and destruction Iran's president

ra and Hezbollah Le Hassan Nella hinted

the US also might be targeted America is

undoubtedly an inevitable partner in the

crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza the

enemy will be defeated as well as all

who stand behind this enemy Iran May

view the upcoming alud day as a time to

retaliate on the last Friday of Ramadan

Iranians chant death to Israel and

demand the end of the so-called Israeli

occupation of Palestine anticipating the

threat the IDF is increasing its air

defenses and cancelling vacations for

all military pilots and calling up air

defense troops for Duty as the country

raises its defenses it's also preparing

to go on offense Israeli media is

reporting the IDF will launch a media

campaign to prepare the civilian

population for an escalation in the

north with the country on heightened

alert Benny gance is calling on his

rival prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

to agree to new elections in September

two years ahead of schedule I believe

that the the Israeli Society needs to

renew its contract with its leadership

neto's lud party says an election would

freeze Israel in its tracks as it wages

war in Gaza and prepares to step up the

fight against Hezbollah you still have

soldiers fighting inside Gaza with Kamas

and you also have have a a much larger

War potentially looming with hezb on the

North and if you go to an election right

now that could really paralyze uh the

ability of the politicians including the

Prime Minister who would then be a

caretaker prime minister with limited

Authority uh to be able to conduct the

war the way it is truly necessary as the

Israeli government deals with the

Fallout after The Accidental killing of

seven International Aid workers in Gaza

netan and President Biden are scheduled

to speak by phone today while Biden has

expressed outrage over the death and

opposes Israel's goals to invade Rafa

and wipe out hamas's last military

battalions in Gaza the White House

insists it still backs Israel in its war

against

Hamas and Chris Mitchell continues our

coverage now from Jerusalem so Chris

we'll talk about the possibility of

elections in a moment but first what are

you hearing about the preparations in

Northern Israel for greater war with

Hezbollah which is supported by

Iran well eim we've been hearing of a

major escalation for months with people

up there in the Galilee and further

Beyond and right near the border uh we

know people are buying generators uh

with the anticipation that there might

be major uh electrical outrage outages

uh so that's that's a big thing that

people are are doing about there's also

the talk of you know getting more cash

in case ATMs are unavailable uh they do

this all because Hezbollah has a much

bigger Arsenal than Hamas ever did it

has Precision guided missiles so they

may be able to H uh hit strategic

targets uh as well as power plants and

IDF bases uh right now we have 880,000

Israelis that are away for their homes

on the northern border and some are

saying the war with Hezbollah is INE

inevitable and by the way if you travel

to the northern border eim your GPS gets

scrambled and if you're in Google Maps

or ways uh sometimes it just has a a

weird weird uh locations and right now

it's not only in the northern border but

also in the center of the country the

goal behind that is to interfere with

any any Logistics uh navigation of uavs

missiles and even cruise missiles Chris

how much of an escalation was the strike

in Damascus which killed two Iranian

generals well it was a it was a major uh

step in the in the war between uh uh

Israel and some people say it took it

out of being a shadow war between now a

direct War uh between these two Powers

it wasn't an attack on one of Iran's

proxies you know Hezbollah uh Hamas or

the houis and probably the biggest

strike uh against the Iran leadership

since General sulimani uh you know about

two years ago actually about 2020 uh so

it raises the stakes in the region and

uh certainly that's why there reports

right now in Israel of cancel vacations

for idea pilot

and this uh increased escalation of of

Preparing People for perhaps some major

escalation and War on the northern

border let's switch now to the domestic

scene there in Israel and Benny Gans

calling for a new election is that

something the Israeli people

want well I would say most Israelis

don't want that certainly not in the

middle of a war uh you know many people

may not like Netanyahu may not agree uh

with him politically in many areas but

they do agree with his goals for the war

to eliminate Hamas and likely Hezbollah

next uh elections right now would really

the government for months and

just when Israel is at its most

vulnerable uh certainly now with the uh

the anticipation of some Iranian

retaliation uh it really doesn't seem to

be the time when you want to go to

elections uh what's happening is that

the same group that was uh proposing

these protests in the streets from

months that wanted to overthrow netan

before October 7th uh that group is now

emerging and they're also enlisting some

of the support of the hostage families

is with them so that's what's happening

right now but I would say the majority

uh if Israelis really don't want uh to

go to elections right now certainly not

in the middle of a war with a major war

looming on the horizon there's been talk

the White House is working with Israeli

leaders like gance to topple the

Netanyahu coalition government uh are

you hearing that on the the ground

there uh that's what I'm hearing as well

from first there was an intelligence

report a few weeks ago saying the

government of netanel may not last uh

that's certainly uh not necessarily the

case uh Benny gansen visited the White

House a few weeks ago he also met with

uh Senator uh Chuck Schumer and then uh

not too long after that uh Schumer's

speech on the senate floor calling for

new elections uh Biden agreed with uh uh

Schumer's speech and then gance last

night calls for new elections uh Schumer

says I was right all along some are

connecting those dots and they're really

seeing an orchestrated campaign to try

to undermine Netanyahu and the reason

for that is many they disagree with his

policies it's no secret that netan and

the White House disagree on a two-state

solution uh they disagree necessarily

what what will happen uh the day after

uh you know the war with Hamas is over

in Gaza and so that's what some people

are saying that they see the White House

kind of orchestrating this and trying to

undermine the netan government Chris we

know hostages are a major political

issue where do the hostage talks stand

now well unfortunately there seems to be

very little movement right now uh Ismail

Hanah who is the leader of Hamas in in

katar uh he was in tan as well not too

long ago he's saying that Hamas has

committ committed to two goals uh a

permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli

withdrawal from the Gaza Strip both of

those are non-starters for Israel uh

after October 7th so it seems like Hamas

is entrenching itself uh against uh any

any particular hostage deal and so I

don't see anything necessarily in in the

neartime future unfortunately that's not

good news for many of these families

whose hostages whose loved ones are

still in captivity for almost 6 months

now

Chris Mitchell reporting for us from

Jerusalem thanks as always for your

insights stay safe and of course we back

here are praying for you and our entire

team they're on the ground in

Israel coming up here at home the focus

on the white Evangelical vote in this

year's presidential election we're going

to take a look at how these voters came

to support former president Donald Trump

and some of the key issues in this

year's race for the White House we'll

have that story for you when we come

back

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voters have tended to favor Conservative

Republican candidates that's Evangelical

voters they've done that in the past in

the last two presidential elections

Trump gared the support of 80% of white

evangelicals CBN Chief political analyst

David Brody brings us this look at how

this Coalition developed and the key

issues in this year's

election defining the Evangelical voter

has always been a challenge and nowadays

it's become even more complicated former

GOP nominee for president Mike hucke

says evangelicals don't just fit into

one box anymore I get so tired of

hearing particularly this line well

evangelicals are all and then fill in

the blank evangelicals are not all

anything evangelicals are people with a

lot of different views hucke knows the

playing field because when he first ran

for president in 2008 his more populist

tone resonated with evangelicals bless

our President Donald Trump long before

Donald Trump came along I was talking

about working class issues and at that

time it was a little bit too soon for

the Republican party to hear it fast

forward to 2024 and headlines such as

Trump has transformed evangelicals and

is connect with a different type of

Evangelical highlight the

change those result from the former

president's appeal to those who might

not attend church regularly and are seen

as anti-establishment and anti- elitist

Chad Connelly leads to get out the vote

organization Faith wins I think it's

fair that he's brought out a whole

different segment of Voters that have

been really missing and that and it

includes evangelicals absolutely

includes evangelicals a growing distrust

of the federal government has helped

drive this change in 2017 31% of white

Evangelical Protestants expressed trust

in the government today the number has

dropped more than half to

15% perhaps a more telling shift is the

standard on personal morality of a

candidate more than a decade ago 30% of

white evangelicals believed an elected

official could commit personal immoral

acts and still be ethical in their

public life that number has now

skyrocketed to

72% then there's the contrast in

education exit polls in this year's GOP

primaries show that while Trump split

the college educated Evangelical vote he

wins more than 2third of those who

didn't go to college we heard during the

Obama years that the left wouldn't go

visit in the areas in Pennsylvania that

were coal mining areas that were just

blue collar go to work flag waving

God-fearing but it might have a beer on

a Friday afternoon kind of thing and go

to church once a month I do think that

Trump has brought those people out many

of those voters are likely former

Democrats or Independence who have added

a new layer to the Evangelical column

they're also seen as leaning toward

Trump on issues like illegal immigration

economic uncertainty and that lack of

trust in the federal government there's

something going on in the country what

he says makes sense and it makes sense

to the hardworking people of America

connell's group is planning a common

sense of America Tour which stops at

churches Nationwide instead of the usual

Church conference focusing on areas such

as life and marriage this tour will be

broader touching on issues deeply

affecting the church David I've been in

11 states this year not a single one

hasn't been affected by the drug

trafficking the fanol I've had churches

who had deacons or members or tithers or

people who really involved in their

church Sunday school teachers who've

lost kids to this fentanyl poisoning

stuff or even people in their family and

community and the churches are the back

stop so I just think this populist

movement is because people are fed up

with what's going on and you don't have

to be a Christian to see it David Brody

CBN News

Washington some current developments

like what happens at the Temple mount in

Jerusalem UFOs and more and how they're

tied to biblical prophecy we're going to

hear from co-authors of a new book on

the subject right after

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UFOs red heers and the Temple Mount what

do these phenomenons have to do with the

end times biblical prophecy the

co-authors of the new book Revelation

911 explain on this week's episode of

the global

way so the Apostle Paul talks about a

powerful delusion that will deceive much

of the world in the end times and so

with you know for decades now we've seen

all these tv specials Star Wars Close

Encounters you name it uh that sort of

created this uh UFOs and aliens as sort

of a religion to a certain number of

people in fact there's polls showing

that far more people believe in the

extra terrestrials and UFOs than believe

in the God as as he's described the

Bible a Biblical worldview and so as and

we've seen these Congressional hearings

and all these things going on about

supposed reverse engineering of alien

technology we've discovered we we wanted

to delve into this in Revelation 911 and

uh you know I interviewed a well-known

astrophysicist Hugh Ross that reasons to

believe and he knows other

astrophysicist that you know JPL and

NASA and they say that they don't

believe that these aliens are come from

another planet or another galaxy but

they're interdimensional and of course

that's what the Bible talks about

there's a great spiritual battle going

on so is it possible that these all

these uh reports of uh aliens and UFOs

is this a de demonic in nature Paul what

do you think the Nephilim fallen angels

they're receiving a lot of social media

attention so tell us why you believe

that's part of a great deception here

yes yes Gary I mean for sure we had the

Giants we know that in Genesis chapter 6

we know that the Giants then had to be

defeated when Joshua went across the

Jordan River into Canaan he ran into

tribes after tribe of Giants but God

gave us Deliverance even David took down

Goliath but in these last days we're

starting to hear about cloning

transhumanism artificial intelligence

using technology and and gene splicing

cloning we we're we're totally realizing

that man is trying to figure out a way

to recreate the Superhuman race these

super soldiers we even hear that being

said by Nations like Russia and others

that are studying this so we're in the

time of great deception we're in the

time of great uh trying to shift

everyone's attention away from God and

to have fear about the unknown when we

should really be putting our faith in

God we dig deep into this Gary in

Revelation 911 we even we uncover those

uh secret societies that are involved

and a whole lot of others that are

involved in this deceptive agenda so

we're keeping a focus on it in this book

to show just how close we are to the

coming of the Lord Troy how does AI play

into all of this because I know I've

interviewed a number of people who say

hey AI soon will be much smarter than

human beings uh so if it becomes smarter

than humans then why not just worship AI

instead of God I I can see how that's

the next progression how does this fit

into end times yeah yeah even the the

famous trans transhumanist Noah Harari

in Israel he's talked about using AI to

rewrite the Bible and so you know the

Apostle John you know 2,000 years ago

trying to describe what would be

happening in the end times he talked

about the image of the Beast the mark of

the beast and so the first first time in

history because we have artificial

intelligence Electronic Banking computer

chip implants neuralink implants brain

chip implants the surveillance State you

can actually have this Mark of the be

system for the first time in history

where you can't buy or sell and that's

what the Bible warns us of the

Antichrist and false prophet will

preside over a global economic system

and of artificial intelligence of the

super intelligence now been created we

we can see this and I think John the

Apostle talked about this in the Book of

Revelation just use terminology from the

the first century and Paul one part of

eschatology of course is the

construction of the Third Temple on

Jerusalem's Temple mount an important

event leading up to that is of course

the sacrifice of unblemished red heer

five red heers are now in Israel and I I

think they're in Shilo where the Ark of

the Covenant was one house so these

heers are now old enough to be uh part

of the ceremony so what are your

thoughts on that are we getting closer

to construction of the

temple oh very close uh Gary I've been

there 11 times I've been on the Temple

Mount 11 times just last year I was at

Shilo they were talking about these five

red heers that had already been brought

in from farms in Texas this is a focus

like you wouldn't believe each time I go

the the communication and the

conversation uh by uh some of my friends

which are actually some uh Ultra

Orthodox they are focused on building

this Temple so even the attack on

October 7th by Hamas was totally and

Hamas admits it it was what they called

the alasa flood but their fear was that

the red heer would the ashes would be

burnt and it would start the process of

building the Third Temple so you're

watching the whole world converge upon

the naval of the world the Holy Land

itself we are truly living now in the

beginning stages of a prophetic timeline

that won't turn back okay wars and

rumors of wars and signs and wonders the

book is revelation 911 how the Book of

Revelation intersects with today's

headlines Choy Anderson and Pastor Paul

Begley thank you for sharing your

insights we appreciate it God bless you

guys also on this week's episode of the

global Lane they discussed the Prof

prophetic significance of the coming

total solar eclipse we'll bring you a

look at the bogus trial and Hefty jail

sentences and fines given to 11

Evangelical Christians in Nicaragua you

can see all of that on the global Lane

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