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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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Please Take A Moment To Register To Attend The 2025 5th Annual NTEB Camp Meeting Featuring A Call To Missions And The Street Preacher Boot Camp

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The 2025 NTEB Camp Meeting at Bethany Baptist Church is set and ready to go and we are looking forward to seeing you come out and fellowship with us

We are so very excited for the start of the 5th annual NTEB Camp Meeting, if you love ministry and reaching lost people for Jesus, this just may very well be our best camp meeting ever. This is the first camp meeting we will be having at Bethany Baptist Church, and we are thrilled about that. The Lord has given us a full cup and full plate, our theme this year is missions, both here at home and on the foreign field. Pastor Joel Tillis, on the ground right now with the Suncoast Ministry Team in Honduras, will be our opening speaker talking about The Mission Field Mandate.

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.” 1 Thessalonians 1:8 (KJB)

If you’re on Facebook, then no doubt by now you have seen how the Lord is using CPR Missions and Banners Unfurled to evangelize and preach on the streets. Banners Unfurled is a ministry geared towards helping street preachers and those interested in starting a street preaching ministry. Both these ministries will combine to conduct a Street Preaching Boot Camp on Saturday afternoon on May 24th, and you are invited to come a be a part of it!

Locations & Directions:

Camp Meeting Days & Times:

  • FRIDAY MAY 23RD: Doors open at 6:45 PM, meeting starts promptly at 7 PM, and will go until about 8:30 PM. Pastor Joel Tillis will be the opening speaker.
  • SATURDAY MAY 24TH: Street Preaching Boot Camp on St. George Street in downtown Saint Augustine starting at Noon, led by Aaron McMahon and Brant Zeller. In the evening, church doors open at 5:45 PM, meeting starts promptly at 6 PM, and will go until about 7:30 PM. Various missionaries will give fresh updates from the mission field.
  • SUNDAY MAY 25TH: Doors open at 9:45 AM, meeting starts promptly at 10 AM, and will go until about 12:30 PM. Bro. Kevin Mann author of the “First Mention Study Bible” will preach both the Sunday School and Sunday Service. Dinner on the grounds to follow immediately after the end of the service!! 

Featured Speakers for the NTEB Camp Meeting 2025:

  • Pastor Joel Tillis from Suncoast Baptist Church will give us updates on evangelism here at home and what the LORD is doing through his mission in Honduras which they have had for the past twenty years.
  • Bro. Aaron McMahan from CPR Missions in Tennessee will speak on cross-country witnessing of the gospel and the call the LORD recently gave him and his wife Theresa to go to the mission field in New Guinea.
  • Bro. Brant Zeller from Banners Unfurled, a dedicated frontlines street preacher holding forth the word of life in downtown New Orleans, he’ll talk on the necessity of street preaching on the “highways and hedges” in these last days.
  • Bro. Kyle Gorzell from Broken Pieces Ministries reaching the lost on the streets of downtown Baton Rouge, and he’ll be speaking about the tremendous street corner ministry the Lord gave him and his wife, Raigan.
  • Bro. Kevin Mann is an author and preacher who will speak about what the LORD Is doing with the publication of his King James First Mention Study Bible.

DIRECTIONS & INFO: Bethany Baptist Church is located at 5465 Co Rd 208, St. Augustine, FL 32092, for online map click here. If you are on Facebook, please follow our page for updates and event notifications. A detailed itinerary of times and events will be posted as soon as we work it all out. Please keep all of us here at NTEB and Bethany Baptist in your prayers as we seek the LORD’s guidance for planning out this awesome annual Camp Meeting event, thank you!

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We recommend any of these three hotels because of their proximity to Bethany Baptist Church. All you have to do is get in your car, turn west onto CR 208, and you’ll be at the church in under 10 minutes. For this reason, we’ve identified these 3 hotels as being the best combination of affordable price, quality and convenience. 

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Israel Cancels Independence Day Celebrations As Fires Rage Around Jerusalem Leading Some To Speculate That Hamas In Gaza Is Behind Massive Blaze

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As Israel heads into Independence Day, the smell of fire and the thick grey smoke give a sense of unease, with multiple sources alleging Hamas terrorism and fear of major damage to the Armored Corps museum in Latrun, a significant memorial site

As you read this, reports of rain falling from the sky have started coming in over the last hour, helping firefighters to begin to put out what was most assuredly the biggest fire in the modern day history of Israel. But don’t let that fact prevent you from wrapping your head around the fact that the blazes were arson, started by Hamas, and set on the Israeli Independence Day celebrations. Timing is everything, and that’s the memo.

“Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.” Psalm 68:9 (KJB)

There are many ways to wage a war, and using a military with guns and tanks is only one of them. The terrorist events that took place on October 7th, 2023, were basically planned and carried out by an aggressor, Hamas, who is many times smaller and quite inferior to the combined might of the IAF and the IDF. Yet with the element of surprise and some rudimentary planning, Hamas scored a win for the record books. I have no doubt that Hamas set these fires to show the Jews that, even on their Independence Day, Israel will not be free from their grip.

Israel Ablaze in National Emergency Believed To Be Terrorist Act

FROM THEMEDIALINE: A massive wildfire broke out on Wednesday in Israel in the forests between Eshtaol and Latrun, west of Jerusalem, forcing evacuations and road closures as thousands gathered across the Jewish state for Memorial Day observances. Fanned by high temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds, the fire, believed to have been set intentionally, spread rapidly through multiple locations across Israel.

“It’s a terror attack on Israel,” Eli Beer, president of the United Hatzalah emergency response organization, told The Media Line. He noted that fires were started in 20 separate locations. A security source also confirmed to The Media Line that a terrorist act was likely behind the fires, adding that several people had been arrested.

A map circulating in Israeli security circles depicts the locations of the fires, almost all of which are marked on the Israeli side of the Green Line separating the West Bank from Israel and Gaza—not in the areas inhabited by Palestinians. Hamas posted on social media a call for Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel to “burn whatever you can of groves, forests, and settler homes” and “set their cars ablaze.”

Several individuals from East Jerusalem have been arrested by Israeli police on suspicion of attempting to ignite fires in the area, including a man in his 50s from Umm Tuba who was arrested after allegedly trying to set fire to an open field in southern Jerusalem. When confronted by police, the suspect attempted to flee but was apprehended after a brief chase. Authorities found a lighter, cotton, and other incendiary materials in his possession.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Transportation Minister Israel Katz described the situation as a national emergency. On social media, Likud lawmaker Dan Illouz called for “an immediate closure of Judea and Samaria and an iron-fisted response” to the fires.

“We don’t wait for an attack—we thwart it,” he wrote. “We have learned the lesson, from both old and new history.”

In an interview with The Media Line, Chaim Rafalowski, disaster management and EU projects coordinator for Magen David Adom emergency services, described the situation as “very serious.” “We’re hoping that the National Fire Service will manage to get things under control so it doesn’t escalate into a full-blown disaster,” he said.

Authorities shut down major arteries including Highway 1, the main road connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and Highway 3. Drivers abandoned their cars and fled on foot as smoke engulfed the roads. “People found themselves in immediate danger as fires approached their vehicles,” Rafalowski said. Beer described the sight of abandoned cars as reminiscent of scenes from the October 7, 2023, attacks. READ MORE

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Moderna Faces Suspension Over COVID Jab Violations Including Misleading Regulators And Directly Targeting Parents And Children With ‘Incentives’

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Pharmaceutical company Moderna was found misleading regulators and offering children incentives for trial participation in their mRNA COVID injection

When I worked for one of the world’s largest drug makers back in 2000, they had something called the Key Opinion Leaders Program, and it found doctors willing to become evangelists for their products and put their names into a massive database. Then, the drug company plied those doctors with large amounts of cash ‘honorariums’, put them up in 5-star hotels with $3,000 bottles of wine and paid all their expenses as they were flown around the world touting the particular products. Shortly after I left the company, this program was found to be highly illegal and shut down. Moderna during the pandemic did a variation on that theme, using their salesforce to appeal directly to parents and children, offering parents cash and the kiddies toys. They had to bribe people to take their poison.

“So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.” 2 Kings 4:40 (KJB)

Today is Day 1,871 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve, and the list of people we personally know whose lives were either ended or severely impacted after taking either the Pfizer of Moderna mRNA COVID injection is a dauntingly long list. We here at NTEB have called for and continue to call for a Nuremberg 2 trial to bring everyone involved with this massive global deception to justice. The only problem with that is, along with Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, you will also have to put Donald Trump and about half of the Republican Party on trial as well. Trump has famously said he considers himself the father of the COVID vaccine, so there’s that. Unlike many of you, I have personally seen what goes on inside the walls of some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and while they do some good they also push harmful drugs that can wreck your life while they make themselves insanely wealthy. Moderna, along with Pfizer, are guilty of COVID war crimes against children and all humanity, and hopefully one day will face justice.

Drug maker Moderna faces suspension over targeting parents and children with their mRNA COVID shot

FROM THE TELEGRAPH UK: Moderna could face suspension from Britain’s pharmaceutical trade body following a string of breaches of the regulatory code. The Covid vaccine maker is due to be audited by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) over “unacceptable” practices that brought discredit upon the industry. If found to be lacking adequate compliance systems, Moderna could ultimately be suspended or expelled from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (APBI). It follows several code breaches, including representatives of the company offering children £1,500 and teddy bears to take part in Covid vaccine trials.

In a fresh ruling, which is expected to be published in the coming days, the company was also found to have misled regulators about when it first became aware of the financial incentives to children. Moderna claimed it had taken action as soon as it was notified about the cash offer by the Health Research Agency in January 2024, but it has now emerged that senior executives were informed in August 2023 by the campaign group UsForThem, yet failed to take action.

Under the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) regulations, it is prohibited for incentives or financial inducements to be given to children or their parents. The PMCPA ruled the company had shown a lack of transparency that was “completely unacceptable” and brought discredit upon the industry.

A senior employee was also found to have co-authored three articles, including one with Nadhim Zahawi, the former vaccines minister, which promoted Moderna’s Covid vaccine without disclosing he worked for the company. He also sent promotional tweets from a personal account without revealing his role. The PMCPA said the article and tweets amounted to advertising the vaccine, and viewed the failure to inform readers of links to Moderna as unacceptable.

Molly Kingsley, the founder of UsForThem, said: “Many of the previous judgments against Moderna have revealed how readily it put profit ahead of the health and safety of children. Now it has also laid bare just how little regard it has had for the regulatory system that was supposed to keep it honest. Never before has a company so new to the pharmaceutical industry been rebuked in this way.”

In two new rulings, Moderna was found to have made ten new breaches of the code. UsforThem said it was particularly worrying as they related to three senior executives at the company. READ MORE

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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