following weeks of increasing tension along the ukrainian border
russia launched a full-scale attack on its neighbor early thursday morning
russian president vladimir putin announced military operations
saying that the goals included the demilitization of ukraine putin said interference from other
countries would lead to quote consequences that you have never experienced in your history
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky has urged citizens to donate blood to help wounded soldiers
we are already handing out weapons and will hand them out to defend our country
to everyone who wants and has the capacity to defend our sovereignty the future of ukraine
depends on every citizen president biden released a statement condemning russia's unprovoked and
unjustified attack vowing quote the world will hold russia accountable ukraine is a democratic
country of about 44 million people it voted for independence after the fall of the soviet union
and ukrainian officials say the country plans to join nato and the european union shabbat shalom
and welcome to israel update as you can see i'm in my home i'm not recording this in a studio as
i normally would i had another show planned for everybody but because of what's going on with
russia and the ukraine we just wanted to come on here and speak about it for a couple of minutes
obviously there's a lot of fear right now a lot of people are uncertain about what's going on we
don't know the long reaching effect that this situation could potentially have the butterfly
effect of this could be unbelievable and so you know the thing for you and i i think to remember
in this time is that throughout the centuries throughout the millennia there have been wars
kingdoms have risen and fallen kings have risen and fallen people groups have risen and fallen but
god has remained the same he's remained constant and he's defended and protected his people israel
now i know that right now this might not seem like oh it's going to impact
israel directly but the truth of the matter is that that it will it's such a huge part of it
and so um you know the military alliances that are going on where you look at the nuclear superpowers
happening you know who could be players here what would happen if this did actually go nuclear the
implications are actually too much to comprehend because we saw the impact of world war one and two
and those obviously weren't nuclear wars whereas a world war three would be nuclear
i say all of that going we as people need to be like the sons of isuka who know and understand
the times in which we're living but we also have an unshakable trust in in the god of of abraham
that's that's where we get our foundation from and so some of this has been predicted in scripture
you know it does seem like we're probably inching somewhat closer to ezekiel 38 and
39 the war of gog and magog and when you see that an ancient prophet predicted
and saw a military alliance that at the time would have seemed absolutely absurd and impossible
he predicted a military alliance that's happening now um what that leans in and shows us what
prophecy shows us is that god is completely in control he sees the end from the beginning he's
the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end the first and the last there's nothing that he's
unaware of there's nothing that he's afraid of there's nothing that he's concerned about
but for us right now the reality is there is some fear the reality is there is some
concern there is obviously some stress involved you know for those in the united states we're kind
of going well what's going to happen what's going on for people in europe i mean some of you watch
from europe that's a whole other level because you're right there with everything that's going on
but i think for us something that we need to just constantly be aware of is that we
cannot give in to the hype and we cannot give in to the fear surrounding what's happening
in terms of allowing our peace to be shifted but we need to pray we need to be watchful we
need to be mindful we need to be careful where we're getting our sources of information from
um jane donné and i recorded a show this week with general Michael Flynn he's an excellent man it was
a real honor to do that with him and obviously he's a brilliant military strategist the man's
got three masters degrees he's a brilliant human and speaking to him somewhat it kind of opened
my eyes a little bit and i realized a little bit more of the depth of what's going on in
the situation he just released this an official statement as well about everything that's going
on with russia and ukraine but the point is this we've spent so many years being boots
on the ground in Ukraine everything that we're doing now a couple of weeks ago Yael
the president of the ifcj she and i did a show and we started sowing towards the ukrainian jews when
they started being rumblings of their being trouble on the border of Russia and Ukraine
and so far we've raised some money we're obviously trusting god that we're going to raise a lot more
because the truth of the matter is that the jews in the ukraine are being persecuted
and now more than ever they need our help and so the show that gael and i did together
and we spoke about the work that they're doing on the ground and we are partnering
partnering with them to do that work ourselves as well so obviously i'm not going to go to ukraine
myself i can't yale's just being there and beyond that when when we sobbing and when we're giving
we're doing something that's eternal and we're also helping save the lives of ukrainian jews
yale just had a flat land this last week with about a hundred ukrainian jews that were leaving
because of the persecution and on the ground right now we're wanting to sew towards having
emergency medical supplies they need that now more than ever especially with what's just happened
especially in eastern ukraine i mean god only knows i'm recording this on thursday by the time
friday comes there could be full-blown war i don't know but what i do know is that i've myself have
been sowing into this campaign because i believe in it so much but you're going to see a little
video at the end of this and my encouragement to you today as an act of faith is to give
and to say god let this whatever it is that i'm able to give let this go towards
the Ukraine Ukrainian situations that we're marrying our finances and our faith and so
that's my encouragement to you today i always say without any pressure of course but if you
feel moved in your heart i would encourage you to do that because it's a way that we can help in the
situation in a practical manner where children are being fed old people who are holocaust survivors
who have no heating in their homes they're we're providing heating for them we're providing food
we're providing shelter and of course we're providing um safe haven for them to leave the
ukraine go to israel and that's performance of ancient prophecy in the book of zechariah which
is incredible to know we're able to be part of but again very short today just wanted to let
you know we're watching the situation in ukraine and obviously our heart immediately is to try and
help the jews who are struggling there and who are being persecuted because always the jews get
persecuted first in a situation where there's war so we're praying continue to pray with us
um make sure you watch the house of destiny show tomorrow houseofdestiny.tv and um we'll just
keep you updated and alert dubies on a flat right now back to israel we'll be hearing from him next
week for sure but please continue to stand with us pray with us and i'm trusting god that we're going
to be able to raise so much money to sin to help the jews in the ukrainian are being persecuted and
who are struggling because of the situation but um god bless you guys let's keep praying let's
keep watching and um we'll see you next week on friday as always at israelupdate.org god bless
there is a crisis in ukraine our beloved jewish ukrainians are under attack the jews always come
under attack first and we like you love israel and the jewish people together we are committed
to standing with jews around the world zachariah chapter 8 this is what the lord almighty says
i will save my people from the countries of the east and the west i will bring them back to live
in jerusalem they will be my people and i will be faithful and righteous to them as their god
thousands of years ago the prophet zechariah saw the time we are living in right now a time when
jews who had been scattered throughout the earth would be brought back to jerusalem miraculously
and dwell once more in the holy land with the holy one of israel by partnering with us on
this project you are part of fulfilling ancient prophecy every cent donated will go directly to
the ukrainian jews in need and together with us we will be the hands and feet of prophecy in action