When inferior companies are allowed to die natural deaths, the winners are consumers who get better products at lower prices and U.S. taxpayers who don’t have to pay for the mistakes of others.

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Today’s Feature

More Messianic Prophecies:

Hosea 2: 16—The Messiah will be referred to as our Husband (Ishi), not as our owner (Baali).

This verse says the Messiah will join Himself with us, and we will be united with Him the way a husband becomes one flesh with his wife. This is a description of the New Covenant in its purest and simplest sense, and in John chapter 17, Jesus uses analogous symbolism to describe His role in uniting Yahweh the Father with His people.

Hosea 11: 1—Yahweh called Him “out of Egypt.”

After the Messiah’s birth, His parents took Him to Egypt to flee Herod the Great’s persecution. Herod wanted to kill Him because he understood that the King Messiah had been born. This verse makes reference to the Messiah’s return to Israel following Herod’s death.

Micah 5: 2— He will be born in Bethlehem and descended from Judah.

This verse says the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, but it does much more than that. Micah 5: 2 reads as follows: “But as for you Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.”

This verse says the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, and it also says He was in the beginning. In other words, He existed before anything or anyone else. Only One Person has existed from the beginning—Yahweh.

This is what Targum Jonathan says about Micah 5: 2—“And you, O Bethlehem Ephrath, you who were too small to be numbered among the thousands of the House of Judah, from you shall come forth before Me the Messiah, to exercise dominion over Israel, he whose name was mentioned before, from the days of creation.” (Targum Jonathan as quoted in Dr. Moore’s book The End of History—The Messiah Conspiracy, Vol. I., p. 119)

And the Jerusalem Talmud (circa second century A.D.) says this about Micah 5: 2—“Son of Judah, Judaean! Tie your ox and tie your plow, for the King Messiah has been born!….He asked him: ‘From where is he?’ He answered: ‘From the royal fort of Bethlehem in Judah.’” (The Jerusalem Talmud, Berachoth, fol. 5a, as quoted in Dr. Moore’s book The End of History—The Messiah Conspiracy, Vol. I., p. 119) Obviously, this interpretation is not a Christian misunderstanding of the Hebrew Scriptures. It falls in line perfectly with the teachings of the ancient rabbis.

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Commentary

Volcker: Obama plans maintain “too big to fail”

Clinging to “too big to fail” is courting disaster. GM was too big to fail. Now GM is a government company that must compete with the likes of Toyota and Honda—car manufacturers that were great before the latest economic downturn. Is GM getting better? Yes. This is GM’s problem. So are Toyota and Honda and Ford and BMW and Mercedes and other car companies. The gap between them is widening, and the U.S. taxpayer is the loser. AIG was too big to fail. Today AIG is alive, but it will never be able to repay the money it took from Uncle Sam. Again, the U.S. taxpayer is the loser.

This is the bottom line. The fear of failure is important. It shouldn’t be removed from our economic system, even for giant firms. It’s the fear of failure that keeps rational people and organizations from doing incredibly stupid things. Companies that deserve to fail should be allowed to die. As I used to tell my students at the University of Virginia, when companies fail it has no effect on market demand. Existing demand is spread across the surviving competitors. When inferior companies are allowed to die natural deaths, the winners are consumers who get better products at lower prices and U.S. taxpayers who don’t have to pay for the mistakes of others.

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Today’s Events Shaping Our World

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U.S. and Western Hemisphere

Video, Click Title—school kids taught to praise Obama

Video, Click Title—NYPD misstep in terror probe

Video, Click Title—Obama: nations must scrap nuclear weapons

Video, Click Title—Honduran crisis talks mooted

Video, Click Title—winds, heat stoke California wildfires

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Israel and Middle East

“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

Isaiah 62: 6-7

Old City Walls

Aqaba and Midian Mt

Aqaba, Jordan with the Midian Mountains in the Background

Video, Click Title—Protests against Iran in NYC

Video, Click Title—Jerusalem terror attack one year ago If you’re an Israeli citizen, it’s been more than 60 years of uninterrupted hate and vitriol from people who chant “death to Jews.” It’s hard not to take them seriously.

Looking Down on the Sea of Galilee

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Middle East Special

Mass Marriage in Gaza

Below are 4 pictures of a 2009 wedding ceremony in Gaza. Notice the age differences between the brides and the grooms. Keep in mind that these people are Israel’s neighbors. Obviously, they see the world through a peculiar set of lenses. In the civilized world, this behavior is regarded as a psychological disorder called pedophilia.

For what it’s worth, Hamas gave $500 to each new couple. Click here for details.

Gaza wedding 1

Gaza wedding 2

Gaza wedding 3

Is that excitement on the brides’ faces?

Gaza wedding 4

And now for the honeymoon.

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China, Russia, India, and Asia-Pacific

Video, Click Title—New U.S., Russia relationship?

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Europe and Africa

Video, Click Title—how significant is the Staffordshire gold hoard?

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