Israel Katz accepts IDF recommendation to seal crossings on October 5 and 7 around memorial days; exceptions only in extraordinary cases.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has accepted the IDF's recommendation and ordered a general closure on Judea and Samaria, along with the sealing of Gaza Strip crossings, on October 5 and 7. The decision was made following a security assessment ahead of the memorial days marking the events of October 7. (Read More)
Life on Earth and Mars could share a common ancestor, scientists have suggested, as a new rover prepares to scour the Red Planet for signs of ancient life.
The ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” rover, which was built in Stevenage by Airbus for the European Space Agency (Esa), will be the first to drill two metres below the surface of Mars, looking for evidence that life once thrived there.
It is set to launch in 2028, and land in 2030, but for the past few weeks the rover team has been carrying out navigation testing in the Tabernas desert near Almería in Spain, which mimics the Martian surface.
Finding life on Mars would “change everything”, scientists said, and if organisms were similar to those on Earth it could show that the two planets were seeded by a common source – a process known as panspermia. Martian life could even have spawned our own.
Susanne Schwenzer, professor of planetary mineralogy at the Open University, an interdisciplinary scientist on the mission, said: “Currently, humankind thinks we are the only life in the universe. We think the Earth is the only lifeboat.
“But if we were to look at Mars and found traces of past life, that would be extraordinary. “If life emerges the moment it can, maybe it emerged there and then came here. If life is the same there, it may be that we are all from the same ancestor...She added: “Finding life would be an amazingly big deal. It’s almost frightening to think about it, because it changes everything.” (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
The scientists said that finding life on Mars would
"change everything" and suggested that life on Earth could have been
seeded through a process known as panspermia. Furthermore, these scientists
claimed that "Martian life could have spawned our own."
What do you think the vast majority of scientists around the world would believe if microbial life is discovered on Mars? Will they believe Earth was seeded by an advanced alien civilization, or will they believe that God created all life on Earth according to Genesis 1:1–31?
As Bible-believing Christians in these last days, do we see where this is obviously leading?
You might find it interesting that back in 2020, Dr. Bill Salus anticipated what we are seeing in the news today with his book The Final Prophecies. Here is what he wrote on pages 36–37:
Some prophecy teachers suspect that the fallen angels, disguised as ET’s, will advocate that Panspermia is the reality behind human creation. Panspermia is a Greek word that translates literally as “seeds everywhere.” The Panspermia hypothesis states that the “seeds” of life exist all over the Universe and can be propagated through space from one location to another. Some believe that life on Earth may have originated through these “seeds.”
Thus, if fallen angels appear garbed in alien wardrobes and boast that they seeded man into existence, this would rebut the biblical book of Genesis account that God created man and his earthly environment in six days."
The United States rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, two U.S. officials said on Sunday.
The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone.
The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States. (Read More)
Hezbollah is weaker, but it's not disappeared. It still possesses thousands of rockets and missiles and continues to invest in expanding its drone capabilities.
The operation had two main achievements. The first was psychological. It restored Israel’s standing as a security power capable of carrying out operations that had seemed unimaginable or impossible.
After October 7, it demonstrated to the region in which we live that Israel had recovered and was capable of penetrating even its enemies’ most sensitive systems. This was enormously important for Israel’s deterrence. Hezbollah, the strongest and most important militia in the Shi’ite axis, suddenly found itself in deep distress and embarrassment. (Read More)
Its willingness to deceive users was off the charts.
For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing even more instances of the experimental systems going rogue and hacking into third party servers.
The news once again highlighted rising concerns over the AI industry losing the ability to keep their own technology in check.
Now, the Sam Altman-led company is canceling the release of its next-generation AI model GPT-6.1 Astra, as the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI researchers found it scored poorly on alignment tests, which are designed to measure how willing a given AI model is to stick to its human overlord’s instructions. In common parlance, you could say the model was showing too many signs of being evil. (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
Should we as Bible-believing Christians who pay attention to end-times passages be surprised that a new AI model called OpenAI on October 26, 2026, was showing too many signs of being evil?
The website nypost.com on August 23, 2025, had this headline:
"AI models are lying, blackmailing and sabotaging their human creators — and it’ll only get worse, experts warn"
"In 2019, the billionaire investor Peter Thiel claimed that AI was “literally communist”. He pointed out that AI allows a centralising power to monitor citizens and know more about them than they know about themselves. China, Thiel noted, has eagerly embraced AI.
We already know AI’s potential to support totalitarianism by providing an Orwellian system of surveillance and control."
Is it really hard to believe that a future totalitarian global government (Daniel 7:23, Revelation 13:7, 15–16) could use AI to create an Orwellian system of surveillance and control over the world's population?
Iran will upgrade the range of its missiles, Army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia tells Fars news. “During this war, we concluded that we absolutely must increase the range of our missiles, and we have now moved in that direction,” he says. (Read more)
Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
Right now, the current Islamic regime in Iran with the IRGC
in power possesses many long-range missiles that can strike targets, causing
significant casualties and widespread damage in Israel. This ongoing military
threat from Iran prevents the people living in Israel from feeling secure or
safe.
On September 4, 2026, an article published by the website themedialine.org reported the following:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Tel Aviv that removing Iran’s government has become a central Israeli objective and is within reach... Netanyahu also expressed confidence that Israel could eliminate the threat posed by Iran and bring down its government."
Could these developing events in Iran and Israel have anything to do with end-time prophecy?
There are a number of well-known prophecy teachers who strongly believe that the current Islamic regime in Iran will not be brought down by the people of Iran, Israel, or the United States.
Does the biblical text in Ezekiel 38:7–11,14 simply communicate that before the attack by the armies listed in Ezekiel 38:1–6, the people living in Israel are dwelling in peaceful conditions and are not fearing a military threat from the jihadist Islamic regime in Iran?
"Get ready; be prepared! Keep all the armies around you mobilized, and take command of them. A long time from now you will be called into action. In the distant future you will swoop down on the land of Israel, which will be enjoying peace after recovering from war and after its people have returned from many lands to the mountains of Israel. You and all your allies—a vast and awesome army—will roll down on them like a storm and cover the land like a cloud.
...This is what the Sovereign LORD says: At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you will devise a wicked scheme. You will say, "Israel is an unprotected land filled with unwalled villages! I will march against her and destroy these people who live in such confidence!..."
...Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: When my people are living in peace in their land, then you will rouse yourself. You will come from your homeland in the distant north with your vast cavalry and your mighty army, and you will attack my people Israel, covering their land like a cloud... (NLT)"
Would you agree that it is extremely unlikely that the current Islamic regime in 2026 with its desire to launch long-range ballistic missiles at Israel would still be in power in the future at the time Israel is living in peaceful conditions, as described in Ezekiel 38?
Is it so hard to believe that a future war in Jeremiah 49:35–38 could result in the overthrow of the current Islamic government, and that the regime replacing it might for whatever reason neither express a public desire to attack Israel with long-range ballistic missiles nor pursue nuclear weapons?
Could this cause Israel to be caught by surprise when a number of jihadists from Iran jump at the chance to join the coalition in Ezekiel 38 to attack Israel?
Pentagon preparing historic naval buildup with three carrier strike groups and nearly 20,000 personnel in the region as Trump signals renewed bombing campaign against Iran following collapse of diplomatic talks.The United States is preparing to deploy up to three carrier strike groups and their accompanying vessels to the Middle East during November, according to American defense officials. The move represents one of the largest and most aggressive concentrations of naval power seen in the region since 2003, and is expected to give President Donald Trump maximum operational flexibility to resume strikes against Iran. (Read More)
Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has launched an internal
investigation after a researcher found that one of its models could be
manipulated into providing instructions for developing biological weapons and
carrying out assassinations, Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent
Gillian Turner reported Thursday.
Researcher Peter
Garrigan told Fox News Moonshot AI's Kimi model could also be manipulated to
provide information on planning terrorist attacks using real-time data,
creating sarin gas, developing malware and taking down aircraft.
"What we found is quite damaging and worrying," Garrigan said.
The findings are raising broader concerns about advanced AI models concealing capabilities or behaving in ways their developers did not intend. "We've also seen these problems within the U.S. models as well. It's a fundamental flaw in the technology," Garrigan said. (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
What a surprise! There are findings that advanced AI models, including those in the U.S., are concealing abilities or behaving in ways their developers did not intend.
Could these capabilities eventually allow AI models from around the globe to carry out targeted assassinations?
What if this kind of advanced AI technology fell into the hands of a future totalitarian global government (Daniel 7:23) led by a dictator who uses it to kill people around the world (Daniel 7:21, Revelation 13:7) who refuse to submit to the evil regime’s laws and dictates?
During the intermediate days of the holiday, 8,690 Jews
ascended the Temple Mount. Rabbi Elisha Wolfson, head of the Temple Mount
Yeshiva: “We are seeing redemption with our own eyes."
Thousands of Jews visited the Temple Mount during the
Sukkot holiday, with the number of visitors reaching a new record of 8,690
people. Throughout the intermediate days of the holiday, prayers and Hallel
were held at the site with singing and dancing, with the participation of
rabbis and Knesset members.
Rabbi Elisha Wolfson, Rosh Yeshiva of the Temple Mount Yeshiva, said: “The Holy One, Blessed be He, is revealing His love for us and performing tremendous miracles for us. It is moving to see the people of Israel returning their love to the Holy One, Blessed be He, and restoring the Divine Presence to Zion. Well done to the many visitors who demonstrate such self-sacrifice. In your merit, the Temple will be rebuilt." (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
A record 8,690 people visited the Temple Mount during the recent Sukkot holiday also known as the Feast of Tabernacles. Why is there such excitement among Jews and rabbis regarding the growing number of people allowed to ascend the site?
Part of this excitement comes from contrasting today's numbers with past restrictions, when no more than seven Jews were permitted to ascend at a single time. Even as recently as October 14, 2022, The Times of Israel reported that group sizes were capped at just 100 to 150 people.
As veteran Temple Mount activist Israel Medad observed
regarding the expansion of Jewish groups over the decades: "Previously, no
more than seven Jews would ascend at one time, but now groups of 100 to 150
people go up together."
As a Christian, you might find it provocative to learn that the Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrated by all nations in the future, following the events of Zechariah 14. The prophet Zechariah clearly states this in verse 16: "And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles." Zechariah 14:16 (NKJV)
Rabbi Elisha Wolfson, Rosh Yeshiva of the Temple Mount Yeshiva, said: " In your merit, the Temple will be rebuilt."
New roads, hospitals, schools, housing projects, and economic opportunities cannot guarantee that the next generation will reject the ideology that produced October 7.
Nearly three years after Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, murdered roughly 1,200 people and abducted 251, some of the voices emerging from the Gaza Strip are sending a disturbing message: October 7 is regarded by Hamas and its supporters as an operation they plan to repeat.
Chants can be heard in the streets of the Gaza Strip during funeral processions for Hamas commanders and members killed by Israel: “October 7 will return! It is coming back!”
Others include “Eid [holiday] for you, Eid; October 7 is the day of the Eid” and “Gaza is all Hamas… Gaza is all Hamas.” (Read More)
The call appeared to come Friday in the latest edition of al-Bayan, a weekly publication launched in July by pro-Al Qaeda supporters, which invoked both the Sept. 11 attacks and Wednesday’s attempted takeover of Flydubai Flight FZ1073.
“The war isn’t over yet — planes carrying Zionists, Americans and all the other infidels fighting against Islam are still hovering in the skies and can be targeted, as happened on September 11th and 30th,” the Arabic-language article threatened. (Read More)
The US military is planning a potential increase of thousands of naval forces in the Middle East in the coming weeks, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
The Pentagon intends to move up three aircraft carriers and escort ships into the region to create flexibility in overseeing the war, according to the report
Administration deliberates next move on Iran
The planning comes as US President Donald Trump’s administration deliberates on how to approach the Iran war, which has now entered its eighth month, causing dissatisfaction among the American public and roiling the global economy, according to the WP.
Additional forces deployed to the region will include 20,000 troops, up to 150 fighter jets, and numerous destroyers to launch and fend off missile attacks, it added.
...In an interview published by Time magazine on Thursday, the US President said that it’s “possible” he will ramp up bombing after the midterms, according to the WP’s report. Around 50,000 US troops are currently deployed in the Middle East, the WP cited US officials as saying. (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
There are 50,000 US troops already deployed in the Middle East. Now, the US military is set to deploy an additional 20,000 troops, up to 150 fighter jets, and numerous destroyers. In addition, President Trump said that "it's possible" he will ramp up bombing after the midterms.
What are the chances that, in the next three months, the US military along with the Israeli military will do nothing but sit around and watch events take place in Iran?
Dr. Bill Salus says,
Keep an eye on the danger zone in SW Iran, the ancient territory of Elam. Elam is the subject of a 2600-year-old unfulfilled Bible prophecy in Jeremiah 49:34-39.
It predicts an epic disaster will happen that necessitates a worldwide dispersion of the affected Iranians in the last days. Elam hosts the strategic military nuclear and missile making targets displayed below.
A dramatic animated simulation recreating the attack aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 has gone viral online, showing the moments in which the wounded captain and Israeli passengers prevented a catastrophe over Saudi Arabia.
The roughly one-minute clip, shared on X by @Adi13, follows the sequence described by Israeli officials and passengers: the co-pilot attacks the captain with a blade, the two struggle over the controls, and the captain falls to the cockpit floor as the jet plunges toward the ground. The captain manages to unlock the cockpit door, a passenger bursts in and grabs the attacker from behind, and a hand on the controls pulls the plane out of its dive. The video ends with the aircraft in level flight and a Star of David glowing in the clouds.
The real events unfolded Wednesday on a Dubai to Tel Aviv flight carrying 174 passengers. Israeli officials say the Omani first officer stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, and tried to crash the plane, sending it into a dive of thousands of feet. Despite serious wounds, Machchhar released the cockpit door. Israeli passengers, cabin crew and off-duty pilots traveling on the flight then overpowered the attacker. (Read More / WATCH)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an update Friday on the investigation into the attempted attack on the Fly Dubai flight, revealing that "as time passes the picture becomes clearer, the attacker underwent Islamist radicalization. He came to crash the plane on its passengers."
"We are investigating whether he was sent, and whoever sent him will pay a very heavy price," the prime minister added.
An adviser to the president of the United Arab Emirates, Anwar Gargash, earlier called the attempt to crash the Fly Dubai flight "an act of terror." It is the first time the Emirates have officially defined the incident as terrorism. (Read More)
A veteran airline captain told Sky News Australia that the attack aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 was "probably an act of religious devotion," prompting the host to cut him off and steer the interview back to the technical details of the flight. (Read More / WATCH)
As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide
conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has
said that it doesn’t, and won’t, do facial recognition:
“We will not add facial recognition to our devices,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to “close that gap.”
A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds.
VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company’s product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in “one searchable platform.” (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments,
It is a bit disturbing that we now have, for the first time,
third-party companies willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by
Flock cameras.
On August 10, 2026, newsnationnow.com published an article titled "Flock camera map: How many are in your neighborhood?" The article quotes Flock as stating that "nearly 100,000 cameras are in place across more than 6,000 communities in 49 states."
Are you
aware that there are dozens of countries around the world that already use
facial recognition cameras for mass surveillance of their citizens besides the
US?
Do we see trends developing for a number of years that would make it possible for a future totalitarian global government (Daniel 7:23, Revelation 13:7, 15–16) to use facial recognition cameras for the mass surveillance of people throughout the world?
The Arab world's largest military machine continues to serve as the region's central military pillar. With over 1.2 million personnel in active service and reserves, thousands of advanced Abrams tanks, the only helicopter carriers of their kind in Africa, and an air force numbering nearly 1,100 aircraft, the Egyptian military presents impressive figures that place it 19th globally.
But beneath the striking numbers lie enormous logistical challenges and complex maintenance of mixed equipment from different sources, raising questions about the true operational capability of this force.
According to Global Firepower data for 2026, Egypt ranks 19th worldwide thanks to a combination of massive manpower and unprecedented quantitative strength. The Egyptian military counts approximately 438,500 regular soldiers, alongside some 479,000 reservists and 300,000 internal security personnel, forming a combined force of over 1.2 million. (Read More)
Wounded captain filmed explaining he can no longer squeeze his hand shut after copilot ‘hit me so many times’; footage also shows passengers and crew keeping eye on bound assailant.
New footage aired Thursday by Israeli television showed the chaotic moments aboard flydubai Flight 1073 after passengers and crew members thwarted an apparent attempt to crash the plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
In a video clip shared by Channel 12 news, which was filmed from a seat near the cockpit, people shout in a mixture of English and Hebrew, with one person saying “he tried to crash the plane,” in reference to the Omani copilot who stabbed the plane’s Indian captain. Others yell “take him out” in the direction of the cockpit and order people in the cabin to “sit down.”
It was not immediately clear when the camera was first turned on. As a result of the attack, the plane went into a nosedive before Yaniv Hayun, a plumber who helped storm the cockpit to subdue the copilot, stabilized it, allowing a second pair of flydubai pilots onboard to take control of the aircraft and land it. (Watch)
Overnight, it was reported that the UAE had withdrawn its approval. Shortly thereafter, the Transportation Ministry said that delays were expected, but the flights would ultimately proceed.
In a notification linked at the top of El Al’s website, the carrier now says that “due to the cancellation of approval for Israeli companies to land in Dubai, as was reported by the authorities in Israel, we are forced to cancel, at this stage, our rescue flights (LY974-1 LY972) for tomorrow, Friday, October 2.”
Flights next week remain scheduled, according to the notice. However, these are all sold out.
According to Channel 12, the official cancellation comes after “long hours of conversations between senior officials in Israel and officials in the Emirates did not reach final agreements and approvals for Israeli carriers’ planes to land in the country.” (TOI)
The Trump administration has decided to deploy a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East, along with a second Marine division, a US official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt and an additional division of US Marines will deploy to US Central Command's area of operations.
The move means that, until the US midterm elections, US President Donald Trump will have significantly greater military capabilities and a wider range of options for potential action against Iran. (Read More)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would join the investigation into the Flydubai co-pilot suspected in the dramatic incident aboard a flight approaching Israel, saying investigators would soon be able to determine whether Iran had any connection to the event. (Read More)
Footage taken by an Israeli on the flydubai rescue flight showed passengers cheering and singing as their plane touched down at Ben Gurion Airport, after their earlier flight from Dubai made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia due to an alleged attempt by the copilot to deliberately crash the plane.
There were reportedly 166 Israelis and eight other passengers on the rescue flight, which departed Saudi Arabia after six hours on the ground. Some were given medical treatment in the terminal. (Read More)
Captain Samit Machshnahar fought off his co-pilot's knife attack long enough to unlock the cockpit door, allowing passengers to storm in and stop the hijacker's dive toward the ground.
Captain Samit Machshnahar, a veteran pilot with FlyDubai and an Indian national, is fighting for his life in hospital after a knife attack in the cockpit that nearly brought down a passenger jet with hundreds aboard, many of them Israelis.
Machshnahar was stabbed repeatedly by his Omani co-pilot late in the flight, close to Israeli airspace, according to passenger accounts. The co-pilot is believed to have used a sharp object, possibly the emergency axe stored in the cockpit for use after a crash.
Despite severe wounds and heavy bleeding, Machshnahar held off the attacker long enough to unlock the cockpit door, a move that saved the aircraft. The co-pilot had already put the plane into a steep dive in an attempt to crash it, but Machshnahar remained conscious just long enough to open the reinforced door, which is sealed and nearly impenetrable under normal circumstances. (Read More)
