Greetings in Messiah,

WE have been on a roll at Tsiyon! The main thing I want to tell you about today has to do with some great new features at our Tsiyon.net Member site, so you can take full advantage of what we are offering there.

What appears to be a small change is really quite a large change. We've changed the “Programs” menu tab to “Content.”  This is to accomodate adding new types of content, especially video archives. We have begun an archive of Sabbath meetings, which will be available to Tsiyon Partners starting next week. Other videos will also be available there, not the least of which is our Daniel Seminar - all eight days of it!

The main page for the Daniel Seminar has a lot of clickable options along with descriptions of each video. We think starting at the beginning and moving straight through works best, but if you want to go to a specific video you can do that easily from this page. To get to the Daniel Seminar, just go to the homepage and click the banner - or you can just click this link: http://tsiyon.net/content/daniel-seminar/ .

We've also added another new feature. Now you can easily review “This Week's Tsiyon Action Points” to the left-hand sidebar at the Tsiyon.net home page. These include clickable links to the next Midrash and Talmidim programs, Scripture portion, and weekly live-stream Sabbath meeting each week. This will make it easier for you to add these to your own action plan each week.

Also, find out more about the Midrash [http://tsiyon.net/eliyahu-ben-david-bet-midrash-archive/] and Talmidim programs [http://tsiyon.net/talmidimdiscipleship-training-program/] to prepare yourself for the second exodus.

Probably our biggest addition for our Tsiyon Partners is our live broadcast of our Sabbath Meetings. Last Sabbath we broadcast our Tsiyon Tabernacle Sabbath Meeting as a live video stream for all of our Tsiyon Partners for the first time! This was very exciting and we got some great feedback on that. We are doing that again, tonight at 8 PM CST, and the same every Sabbath from now on. The meeting will run an hour or so, and will include a number of our local people, as it did last week. I'll be giving you an update on some of our latest projects and plans in tonights meeting.

Our favorite verse right now is this one:

 “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of YHWH is risen on you."  Isa 60:1

If you haven't already, take in the Daniel Seminar to understand why we are so encouraged by this verse right now. It's awesome!

Until tonight at our live meeting,

Shalom, Eliyahu ben David

tsiyon.org / tsiyon.net

P.S.

Here are instructions to attend tonight's live Sabbath Meeting:

1. You must be a Tsiyon Partner to view our live stream. If you are a free member and want to be included just login now at Tsiyon.net and sign up as a Partner.

2. You must be signed into Google, before you sign into Tsiyon.net to actually view the live stream at our website.

Here are the details on that:

YouTube offers the best live video streaming service available globally, which works great for the global reach of our membership. However, to use the member privacy technology, our partners need to be logged in to Google (owner of YouTube) while viewing the stream. Just login to Google first. Then login at Tsiyon.net and view the video stream.

If you don’t presently have a Google login, no problem. You can get one free here. [I know - we are not thrilled with Google in some ways ourselves, but this is what works best. You don't need to use it for anything other than this if you don't want to.]

When you create your Google account use the same email address for your Google Account that you use with your Tsiyon account. This doesn't have to be a Google email address. The email address you submit to both Google and Tsiyon will act as a handshake with the live stream to be able to view the program, so long as you just login at Google before you login at Tsiyon.net.

One more thing: you will receive an email from Google/Youtube each time we broadcast a live stream inviting you to watch it at Google. You can and should disregard that and login to Tsiyon.net to view the stream.

This week we sent out invitation emails for everyone to join us for the private meetings on Google. Check your email.

This is more complicated to explain than to actually do. If you have any trouble with this contact us from our live help inside the website.

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Iran's underground silo for ballistic missiles

Israel and Iran engaged in a duel of messages on Wednesday and Thursday

Israel and Iran engaged in a duel of messages on Wednesday and Thursday (October 14-15), with Russia standing behind Iran.

Israeli military and intelligence sources were uncharacteristically forthcoming when they revealed on Thursday, Oct. 15, that 3,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards troops had secretly landed in Syria. This was the largest Iranian ground force ever to set foot in Syria.

Until now, Israel had kept under close wraps any intelligence obtained about the movement of the Iranian forces. However, in consideration of the large number of troops, the continuation of the Russian and Iranian airlifts of forces to Syria, and the possibility that the Iranian troops could be deployed on the Syrian side of the Golan, Israeli leaders decided to go public in this latest development.

This is because of their grave concern that Iran may take advantage of the IDF’s transfer of forces from its northern borders to the domestic fronts for quelling the current outbreak of Palestinian terrorist violence, to go for territorial gains on the Golan and the Israel-Lebanon border.

The IDF released information Wednesday night that it had sent drone and intelligence gathering units from the Northern Command to the center of the country to deal with the Palestinian terror.

The intelligence-gathering units are relatively new, attached recently to field brigades and divisions for supplying data gained by observation posts, forays behind enemy lines and questioning captured prisoners. The transfer of these units to the center of the country presents the IDF with difficulties on other fronts and may leave the military with no option but to start calling up army reserves very soon, if the wave of terror does not end.

Fearing the IDF may strike its forces in Syria, Tehran sent Jerusalem a deterrent message: the revelation of its underground tunnel networks for launching and storing ballistic missiles.

The missiles were shown loaded on dozens of giant trucks with team standing ready for launching, to show Israel that all his ready for immediate action, including war.
Revolutionary Guards chiefs were shown on Iran’s state TV inspecting the tunnels and the missiles and trampling contemptuously on US and Israeli flags.

The previous day, Iran announced that its forces had conducted a test of the new “Emad” long-range ballistic missile, without specifying the weapon’s range or the date and location of the launch.

In Washington, the Obama administration’s response to these messages was low-key, describing the ballistic missiles as a certain violation of the UN arms embargo against Iran.

In another military development connected to the Golan, US defense sources revealed Wednesday night that that Russia had airlifted to Syria Cuban army units to fight alongside the army of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The sources said they were members of Cuban armored corps units who would drive Syrian tanks, adding that the Cuban chief of staff, Gen. Leopoldo Cintra Frias, arrived in Syria with the troops.

debkafile’s sources: The arrival of the Cuban forces broadens the Russian war effort.

The fact that Cuban troops will man Syrian tanks attacking rebel groups represents a dramatic achievement for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proxy war in Syria.
They are not in the Middle East for the first time. In 1974, the USSR flew two Cuban tank brigades to Syria and placed them opposite IDF positions on Mt. Hermon and other parts of the Golan. From February to May, the IDF traded heavy artillery fire with the Cubans, accompanied by dogfights between Israeli and Syrian warplanes. This war, conducted on the Syrian side by Russian officers, ended on May 31,1974 with the signing of a separation of forces agreement between Israel and Syria.

In addition to demonstrating Russia’s strategy of establishing an international military coalition to support President Assad, the deployment of Cuban troops serves as a clear hands-off signal to Israel.