Friends of the Bridegroom, Greetings to you, and the blessing of God to you and yours.  I just returned from my 10th trip to Lebanon.  As you know, Moses when he saw the promise land, saw into South Lebanon, clear to Sidon and Tyre.  I believe he saw to the Latoni River.  Now, South Lebanon is occupied by Hezzbolah, who is lead by Hassan Nasralla.  A radical Shi’ite who is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.  They now have two ministers in the cabinet, that is newly formed, and control the South of Lebanon completely.  This last civil skirmish was over the control of the airport, where they tried to fire the security officer, who is sympathetic to Hezzbollah, and was accused of looking the other way while weapon were beign smuggled.  The injustice to the Lebanese people with factions of PLO sponsored by Alquaeda to the North, thousands of PLO refugees, with many camps, and now 10,000 Iraqi christians in a camp is amazing. Beirut and surrounding christian communities and in a vice, between the north and south factions.  The Orthodox Catholics, Merionites, and Greek Orthodox communities are literally carrying the financial burden for the infra structure of Lebanon.  Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, do not pay for electricity and other fees, and taxes.  The collectors are afraid to go down into the south to collect, so the burden falls on the central part of the country.   While, Iran and Syria, send weapons and financial help to the Hezbollah Militia. A well trained terrorist force.  There was an eerie calm while I was there this time.  Qatar had brokered the peace, obviously paid off government officials, and the people wait to see what is next.  We continue to support believers and works in Lebanon.  We are able to minister from house to house in the south, and have friends and allies that welcome us there.  Michel and Nuna Matar, TMM Lebanon, and Tent of Praise, have had a tremendous ministry there for some 18 years.  They have had a prayer meeting in their home every Wednesday night for this long.  Many people have been lead to the Lord and have gone on into ministry through this prayer meeting.  When God speaks of His beauty, he always refers to Lebanon.  It is my belief that the reason for the strife and years of war is because it is part of the Land of Promise.  Now with the South infested with hate for Israel, unless the Lord of Glory moves, Lebanon will become an Islamic State.  In scripture, we see the invasion of Israel coming from the North through Turkey from Russia.  Geographically this is directly North of Israel.  Turkey recently elected a Islamic Prime Minister.  Non the less, the Lord is moving on the believers and we saw many come to the Lord, be filled with the Holy Spirit, delivered, and healed.  The Kingdom Gospel is being preached.  The presence of the Lord is strong, and great conversions are being seen.  I will post pics in the next couple of days.  This is just a quick update.

In the last two weeks another objective of radical Islam has been attained.  Radical Islam being defined as its objective the extinction in Israel and Christianity.  When I first began going to Lebanon in the mid 90′s the grafiti written on the bullet strewn walls of war torn Beirut said, “first the Saturday people then the Sunday people!”   One of my mentors over the years always said, “The beginning of a thing determines the end.”  The west is so naive to think that the Islamic beginnings are not rooted in spiritual darkness and violence.  Now  we have another country bordering Israel who’s objetive is to see Israel annihilated.  The Hezbollah Party, led by Hassan  Nassralla, backed by Iran,  has leveraged its way into the Lebanese Parliament to now have such a position that they will be able to control Lebanon by constant leverage of violence if their political will is not acted upon.  Sout Lebanon has beome virtually a militarized zone against Israel.  In 1998 I met with a Syrian Senator concerning water purification problems in his country.  After talking business, he wanted to talk about politics.  Politics and religion are inseparable in the Middle East,  They are intrinsically married to each other.  He told me that if it was not for the United States, Israel would dissolve like sugar in water.  I asked him if he knew how old the US was.  He said yes, about 200 years old.  My response was if the US is so young what has preserved Isarael for some 3,000 years. Being outnumbered by Arabs why are they still here.  Now, Israel is surrounded by her enemies.  The Lebanese government has acquiesed and settled for peace at any price.   Iran and Syria have so disrupted the Lebanese nation that the will to be free is no longer there.  The battle for Lebanon not only is strategic for surrounding Israel, but Lebanon is part of the promised land that Moses saw when the Lord took him up to view the promise.  When God speaks of His beauty in the scriptures He compares it to Lebanon.  She is called Israel’s sister.  Lebanon for years has been the gateway into the middle east.  Lebanese business men have help the west do business all overt the middle east for years.  The gospel, bibles, and literature have gone in through Lebanon for years.  Last week was a setback for Israel and the west, and now an army that the political west would not let Israel deal with Hezbollah, last year, has established itself in a most strategic place the border of South Lebanon.  Even though with the Syrian occupation during the civil war gone, the vacuum left has only embolden the radical terrorists, Hezbollah, and they have filled the vacuum and grew with its support from Iran and Syria where there influence has gained  control.  In a couple weeks I will be going back to Lebanon for my tenth ministry trip.  The brothers and sisters need our prayers and support.