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>> MUST READ ARTICLES:

• Iran’s Ayatollah: Kill all the Jews, annihilate Israel
• Incoming Israeli Air Force chief: Iran is our top concern
• U.S. toughens sanctions on Iran’s central bank

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Is America headed for implosion, or revival? Can America recover from our economic and spiritual challenges before it’s too late?

On Saturday, June 16th, we will consider these critical questions during a live, three-hour ”Implosion Simulcast“ broadcast around the country and around the world. Please sign up your church, home fellowship group, or small group Bible study today to participate in this unique event.

During the first hour of the simulcast, I will discuss the research I did for Implosion, examining the reasons why the United States faces not merely “decline” but the real and growing risk of outright collapse. We will consider what the Bible has to say about the future of America, whether the U.S. is ever mentioned directly or indirectly in Bible prophecy, examine historic lessons from the remarkable and sweeping Christian revivals known as first “Great Awakening” of the early 1700s and the “Second Great Awakening” of the early 1800s, and consider the possibility of a Third Great Awakening in our time.

In the second and third hours, I will take live questions at Houston’s First Baptist Church where we will be holding the event, as well as questions that come in via text, Twitter and Facebook from those watching all over the world.

With our national debt skyrocketing, our politics divided, many marriages and families crumbling, and the growing threat of another war in the Middle East, one thing is clear: 2012 is going to be a critical year for the United States. Will the Church step up and be the shining city on the hill that Jesus called her to be? Will we see God pour out His grace and mercy in a series of transformative revivals that will save our nation again as He has saved us in the past? Or will we continue rejecting God’s mercy and see our decline accelerate into a national death spiral?

The multiple crises we are facing are very real and the stakes are very high. Please talk to your pastor today about signing up your church for the Implosion Simulcast. You can also sign up your home fellowship group or small group Bible study to watch the simulcast together. I would very much like you to be a vital part of the conversation, and I’d also be grateful for your prayers that this conversation would spread virally and that even before June, millions of Americans would begin praying, fasting and fervently seeking God to have mercy on this great country before it is too late. Thanks so much and may God bless you as  you sign up today.

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• Help Christians bless needy Israelis now and be ready for a possible major new war in the epicenter — please consider a generous, tax deductible financial contribution to The Joshua Fund.
• Implosion is now available for pre-order.
• The Tehran Initiative is available in hardcover or e-book
• Follow the “Epicenter Team” on Facebook with the latest news from the Middle East along with prayer requests.
• Sign up for Joel’s (free) email updates called “Flash Traffic”

RESOURCES ON ISRAEL, IRAN AND BIBLE PROPHECY

• Study notes on the Book of Joel — Israel, Prophecy and the “Day of the Lord”
• Online video messages on the Old Testament Book of Joel from the 2011 Epicenter Conference
• Study notes on Ezekiel 38-39 — What Is The War of Gog and Magog?
• Online video message on “America In A Troubled World: What Does The Future Hold,” looking at several prophecies, including Luke 12:54 -56 and Ezekiel 38-39 at the “Inside the Middle East Conference” at the Moody Bible Church
• Audio of Joel’s message on how God is shaking the nations (from the Book of Haggai, chapter 2) at King of Kings church in Jerusalem (given in June 2011

The New York Times has published an article considering an interesting and important question: Are Israeli leaders talking so openly about the possibility of preemptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to pressure the West into taking more decisive economic and diplomatic steps to make a war with Iran ultimately unnecessary? Or are Israel’s leaders actually preparing the world — and their own people — for actual war. Worth reading.

>> Also worth reading on The Joshua Fund website: “Rumors of War: Could Hostilities Between Israel and Iran Break Out In Spring 2012?”