SUNDAY October 22- 2023- YEAR 2- Episode# 85 Good Sunday Morning with Fr Andre on KNUS 710 am: Israel and Palestine - (Psalm 55)Against a friend proved traitor

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Fr Andre and the Mission of Hope and Mercy teams in the US and Lebanon. 

ON THIS SHOW: 

Good Holy Sunday Morning my dear friends, dear listeners, my dear American people in whose hands God has entrusted a lot and from us He will demand a lot. 

Unfortunately This Sunday, we have to mourn. We have to mourn finding out that Hamas and its affiliate really wanted to annihilate the Jewish people from the face of the earth. 

We have to mourn the explosion of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza;

We have to mourn the stabbing to death of the Palestinian child in Illinois and his mother who is in the hospital;

We have to mourn the bombing of the Orthodox Church inside Gaza, and the many home and people who died;

We have to mourn most of all, the attack against the innocent people who inside Israel on October 7th, when they were celebrating the peace in Music and dance, over 1400 of them were slaughtered and killed. 

We have to mourn the many hostages that Hamas still has and do not want to return;

We have to mourn that many of the Palestinian people have to evacuates their homes, or are left because of Hamas under the threat of being bombed and killed, or without food and medication. 

This is not God’Will. In fact, if this is the intention of Hamas or anyone else that in the name of religion or in the name of any disguised secular doctrine made of hate you want to justify evil, I have news for you: You are fighting against God. And we know in the Bible what happens to those who fight against God. 

In this regard, I like to remind us of the Wisdom of a great Jewish rabbi: Gamaliel who in the Acts of the Apostles chapter 5: 38-39, when many of the Pharisees and the Jewish Rabbis were fighting agains the newly established church, rose and told the other Jewish Rabbis: “ Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”  (Acts 5:38-39)

Therefore it is good to use our common wisdom, to humble ourselves and put concrete and reachable goals to ourselves. God will oppose and will destroy every evil goal. Hamas cannot destroy Israel. This fight is not between human beings but from the devil. This fight is not between a particular nation against another nation, but it is the kingdom of satan trying to rise against the Kingdom of God. We know who wins in the End: GOD and His Kingdom. 

So I am afraid my friends, that there could be a horrible and horrific evil dimension in this attack of Hamas against Israel. The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are being weaponized and we must STOP NOW and we must TRUN TO GOD NOW. This battle unless it ends up finding a way to serve the righteous cause of the Palestinians, and to accept and welcome the Jewish people and accept them in the Holy Land as their home and nation ,might end up causing major existential damages in the faith of all the children of Abraham: Jews, Christians and Muslims. This might be chapter 2 of a third world war, and all the people who believe in the ONE and TRUE GOD must be one and one on GOD’s SIDE. 

My message to you today, for any person of faith wether a Jew, Christian or Muslim, if you are trying to identify and claim your religious identity vis-a-vis what is happening in the Holy Land, I can tell you that there is one option for you to take if you are trying to act with conscience and under God’s Divine Will: is to take Jesus Christ’s Option of Pardon and Redeeming Love. Sooner or later you have to take this Jesus Christ’s Option if you want to have life and experience peace: you must forgive, even your enemy and you must denounce death. If you want the world to see peace, and to survive the nuclear winter, you must forgive your enemy and stop the treason plots against your bother and sister who are also children of Abraham. If you wish to stop the potential of a third world war who is using our religions in order to destroy you, and life, and who is using you as a weapon, you have to stop and pray to God with the Option of Christ: which is love of God and the neighbor and even the love of the enemy. This is Jesus Christ’s Option when he was nailed on the Cross, He looked to His Father in Heaven and said: “Father, forgive them their sins, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34) and consequently, there was life for all in HIM. Amen.