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Pope Francis Blesses The ‘Christ In The Rubble’ Nativity Scene That Depicts Baby Jesus Wearing The Keffiyeh Headscarf Of The Palestinian People

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Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene featuring a Palestinian keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.

If you’ve been following the exploits of Pope Francis for any length of time, then you know just how anti-Christian and unbiblical he actually is. One of the ways he likes to show his hostility towards the God of the Bible is in his choices of s0-called nativity scenes. Back in 2020, Pope Francis unveiled a nativity scene that was straight out of a horror movie, something that could have been plucked from the deepest recesses of a pagan temple. Here in 2024, the Catholic monarch has put his ‘blessing’ on the ‘Christ In The Rubble’, a depiction of the baby Jesus as a Palestinian wearing the traditional keffiyeh scarf of a Palestinian. Check out our article on what the Bible has to say about Palestine.

“And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.” John 19:19 (KJB)

The actual baby Jesus was born in a place called Migdal Eder, the northern tip of Bethlehem, the tower of the flock where spotless lambs were born for use in the Temple in Jerusalem. Your King James Bible refers to this as Bethlehem Ephratah, the place where Rachel died. The fact that in 2024 that same land is, as lost people like to say, ‘Palestinian territory’, doesn’t change the equation one tiny, little bit. Pope Francis is of Antichrist, and everything he does and everything he says is helping to prepare the way for his arrival. Jesus was, and is, not only a Jew but the coming King of the Jews at the Second Advent. And when all is said and done, Zechariah 14:21 tells us that “in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.” There won’t be a ‘palestinian’ anywhere in Jerusalem or Judea.

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh.

FROM THE NY POST: In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional swaddling blanket with the black-and-white scarf — which has become a symbol of pro-Palestine activism. The manger used as a crib, meanwhile, is being surrounded by piles of rubble.

Even Pope Francis has gotten in on it. But many Christians and pro-Israel advocates are outraged by the apparent politicization of a sacred religious symbol. So-called “Christ in the Rubble” displays have become so popular that they’ve popped up everywhere from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, to All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, to the Vatican.

According to the Palestinian pastor who started the trend, the scenes are meant to send the message that, if Jesus were born in the same spot today, it would be in war-torn Palestine. Although Bethlehem is located in modern-day Palestine, Jesus was very much not a Palestinian. Many Christian faith leaders are offended, included Pastor Mark Burns of Harvest Faith Center in Easley, South Carolina.

“The fact of the matter is, Jesus was a Jew… To suggest Jesus was a Palestinian is to push a political agenda that is extremely offensive,” Burns told The Post. “The nativity is for everyone. It’s something that should surpass politics.”

Pastor Johnny Ellison of Chatt Valley Church in Phenix City, Alabama agreed: “If the Pope, or any group, is trying to turn the baby Jesus into a metaphor for Palestinian resistance, then they have failed before even getting started. Making the baby Jesus a symbol of military resistance is a defective biblical model.”

Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.

“Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical exploitation of the manger scene for political and propagandistic purposes, but it is also an absurd rewriting of history,” Dr. André Villeneuve, a professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, told The Post. “Everyone knows that Jesus was a Jew, a son of Israel. If he had been born in our generation, he would pray in a synagogue—not in a church or mosque.”

Luke Moon, executive director of the Philos Project which promotes Christian-Jewish relations, told The Post: “The Church should be telling the [nativity] story as it is written in the Bible — the story of a Jewish girl giving birth to a very special Jewish baby in a manger in the Jewish town of Bethlehem. It’s a story that shouldn’t be politicized by the Vatican.” READ MORE

Pope Francis drew criticism after unveiling the nativity scene with a Palestinian keffiyeh, aiming at neutrality.

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The Sad Truth About World War Trump Is The US Hasn’t Won, Iran Retains The Enriched Uranium, And The Tyrannical Regime Remains Firmly In Place

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World War Trump In Iran Has Not Delivered Victory As The Enriched Uranium Remains Unsecured, The Nuclear Threat Survives, And The Regime Still Stands

The sad truth about Trump’s war with Iran is this: America has not won in any final sense, the enriched uranium is still not secured, and the regime remains firmly in place. Strip away the press conferences, the slogans, and the chest-thumping, and that is where things stand. Until those three facts change, calling this a victory is not reality. It’s blatant and overt gaslighting propaganda. President Trump has failed in the war which he, Pete Hegseth and Jared Kushner started, and history will not be kind to the outcome.

“Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.” Luke 14:31,32 (KJB)

For all the talk of strength, dominance, and victory, the central problems remain exactly where they were before the shooting started. Iran’s enriched uranium has not been fully secured, the mullahs are still sitting in power, and the regime that has spent decades chanting “Death to America” is still firmly in place. That is not victory. That is not peace through strength. That is a very expensive, very dangerous standoff dressed up as success. The hard reality is that even now, the nuclear issue remains unresolved. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said this week that any deal would require extremely detailed verification, and reported that Iran still possesses roughly 440.9 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity, alarmingly close to weapons-grade. He also warned that inspectors have been denied access to key sites. In plain English, that means the world still does not have full control over the most dangerous part of Iran’s nuclear program. And that is what makes all the victory laps ring hollow.

If the uranium is still not secured, then the mission is incomplete. If the regime still stands, then the threat structure still stands. If negotiations are still bogged down because Tehran refuses core U.S. demands on enrichment and broader war aims, then whatever was won on the battlefield has not been translated into strategic victory at the table. The latest talks ended without an agreement, with U.S. negotiators saying Iran would not commit to halting its nuclear weapons development.

This is the part the media class rarely wants to say out loud: bombing a problem is not the same thing as solving it. You can strike facilities, you can damage infrastructure, you can issue ultimatums, and you can flood television screens with martial language, but if the regime survives, retains leverage, and keeps the most critical elements of its nuclear program beyond secure international control, then the deeper problem remains alive.

This is the scoreboard that matters, and from that perspective, Iran is doing quite well.

Iran understands this better than Washington does. The regime does not need to “win” in the conventional American sense. It only needs to endure. It only needs to outlast the pressure, preserve its core power structure, and keep enough of its strategic assets intact to bargain from a position of survival. Right now, that appears to be exactly what has happened. The mullahs are bruised, but they are not gone. Their system is battered, but it is not broken. Their nuclear file is contested, but not closed. That is why the spin coming from both political camps is so dangerous. One side wants to sell this as a show of overwhelming American resolve. The other side wants to reduce it to just another policy dispute. But this is bigger than that. The Middle East is once again proving that military action without decisive end-state control produces exactly the kind of instability that keeps the fire burning. And when the fire is in Iran, around the Strait of Hormuz, with nuclear material still in play, the whole world feels the heat.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Today We Ask Why Does Trump-Era America Look So Much Like The Mystery Babylon Woman From The Book Of Revelation?

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Does Trump’s America Mirror Mystery Babylon? How Gold, Global Influence, False Religion, And National Pride Now Stands In The Light Of Revelation

There is something about Donald Trump that makes the Babylon question almost impossible to ignore. He is not just a politician, not just a brand, and not just a former and present symbol of American power. He is a walking monument to gilded excess, worldly glory, national boasting, and religiously tinted political theater. Gold on the walls, gold in the branding, gold in the imagination, a golden goat in Mar-a-Lago, golden statues, gold as the visual language of success, dominion, and majesty. Add to that the constant appeal to God-language, destiny-language, providence-language, and a form of civil religion that wraps political ambition in sacred vocabulary, and you suddenly find yourself staring at something that looks disturbingly familiar to any Bible believer who has spent any amount of time in Revelation.

And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Revelation 17:18 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, Babylon in the book of Revelation is a description of a system that generates corruption, exports corruption, multiplies corruption, and mothers corruption. If someone wanted to argue that America under Trump looks like Mystery Babylon, this would be the heart of it: not merely that America is rich, but that it is seductive; not merely that it is powerful, but that it is spiritually adulterous; not merely that it influences nations, but that it teaches nations how to rebel in style. Think about it. What has America exported more successfully than appetite? Appetite for luxury, appetite for image, appetite for entertainment, appetite for self-definition, appetite for wealth, appetite for power without righteousness, and liberty without truth. That is why Lady Liberty can be read, not perhaps as the literal woman of Revelation 17, but as a chilling type picture of her spirit. A giant woman facing the nations, torch in hand, promising liberty while the nation beneath her exports debt, immorality, bloodshed, seduction, and confusion. That’ll preach because the contrast is quite real. The world is invited in under the banner of freedom, only to be catechized in fornication. Think about this. Donald Trump appointed Paula White as the head of the White House Faith Office, as well as being his ‘spiritual advisor’, and she for all intents and purposes is a witch. Today we take a wild ride into the dark side of the Trump White House, and show you the spirit of devils that live there.

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A mother contacted us today through our Bibles Behind Bars program with a heartfelt request for King James Bibles to be sent to her two sons incarcerated at Mid-State Correctional Facility, but the Lord had a much bigger plan in mind. What began as one mother refusing to give up on her boys has now opened the door for many more inmates at that facility to receive the word of God as well. What a timely reminder that when someone steps out in faith, the Lord can take that one act of obedience and multiply it into a blessing that reaches far beyond the original request! Loaves and fishes, anyone?

“When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.” Mark 8:19 (KJB)

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