"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet"

BOMBING ROCKS JERUSALEM, AS ROCKETS HIT SOUTHERN ISRAEL

Also: MSNBC host calls Revelation "a work of fiction."

By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., March 23, 2011) -- Please pray for the people of Israel as they increasingly find themselves under attack from Radical Muslims and Israeli officials consider the possibility of a new war in Gaza. On Wednesday, a bomb went off in central Jerusalem. A 59 year old woman was killed in the attack, while 38 people were wounded, some severely. Most of the victims were young, between the ages of 15 and 30. This is the first bombing in Jerusalem since 2004.

Meanwhile, Hamas terrorists in Gaza fired 3 Iranian-made Grad rockets, several Kassam rockets, and dozens of mortars at innocent civilians in southern Israel again on Wednesday. More than 50 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel on Saturday. Such attacks have been escalating in recent weeks and a new report indicates that since the end of the Israeli military's Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza in January 2009, some 282 rockets and 193 mortar shells have been fired into Israel.

An Israeli pastor friend of The Joshua Fund just emailed us to say: "We heard the terrible explosion near Jerusalem Bus Station located just around a half-mile from our home. The first news from the field show that it was suitcase packed with explosives that exploded just outside the bus stop injuring at least 30 people….There is Jewish blood spilled on the streets of Jerusalem. The blood of the people the only guilty in to be born Jewish is again crying to the world in the hopeless efforts to be heard and understood. I was watching my son calling all the soldiers of his unit since all of them were on the way from Jerusalem Bus Station. Praise the Lord none of them was injured."

"'Comfort, O comfort My people,' says your God. 'Speak kindly to Jerusalem; and call out to her, that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.'" (Isaiah 40:1-2)

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ALSO: MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said last week on his program: "The Book of Revelation is a work of fiction describing how a truly vicious God would bring about the end of the world. No half-smart religious person actually believes the Book of Revelation. They are certain that their God would never turn into a malicious torturer and mass murderer beyond Hitler's wildest dreams." I've written about this on my blog, and posted a link to the video clip so you can see it for yourself. Please pray that the Lord will open O'Donnell's eyes and draw him to faith in Jesus Christ and a love for God's Word.