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The feast of Shavuot (called pentecost, or the feast of weeks) has been celebrated this week in the land of Israel and throughout the Jewish world.

In 2005 the Israeli Knesset passed what was called the “Disengagement Law” which ordered the removal of the 21 Israeli Settlements and the eviction of the settlement’s 8000 inhabitants from their homes in the Gaza strip and banned any settlers moving there in the future.

In 2005 the Israeli Knesset passed what was called the “Disengagement Law” which ordered the removal of the 21 Israeli Settlements and the eviction of the settlement’s 8000 inhabitants from their homes in the Gaza strip and banned any settlers moving there in the future.

As then nations of Ukraine and Russia are about to embark on the final push for victory, the world is constantly spun a yarn of imminent Ukrainian victory. The Bible paints a different picture in the long term, including much of Europe coming under Russia’s control.

May 14, 1948 - “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.”

The scripture is very clear, that when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to the earth, all nations will be deceived. There will be a world wide deception.  The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah says, "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.” (Jeremiah 16:19)