Glenn Beck is Restoring Courage....in Jerusalem.

Yes, thats right, the guy who the media accuses of being an anti-semite seems to be the only national figure with a microphone who is willing to talk about Israel, Jerusalem and the whole host of nations and global organizations arrayed against it.  "Things in Israel are going to get bad...its only a matter of time [before] the enemies of freedom will attack the center of our faith, our common faith--that is--Jerusalem."

Glenn went on a secret trip to Jerusalem last week to pave the way for a rally in August he calls "Restoring Courage."  He has no idea how many will attend, or can afford to attend, but he is asking for a global effort to encourage people to gather in the Holy City "to stand with people of all faiths all around the world."

Glenn is not equivocal about how events are unfolding. "No time in the history of man has a group of people made the right choice at the right time...I just know that the old hatreds are starting up....the very gates of hell are going to open up against us."

I was in Israel recently, and I sensed that even there a great many people are in denial about the gathering storm clouds that bode ill for the Jewish State.  And yet who can deny that increasingly Israel stands alone among the nations of the world as it tries to defend its borders from infiltration by Arab terrorists and its very legitimacy in the capitals of Europe and, soon, America.

Alone among the nations, but not alone.  For God is involved in the affairs of man, and is not indifferent as to the outcome.  Says Glenn, "Good and evil is very clear now.  We must stand together and beg for His assistance and His forgiveness.  We must do Good and we must restore courage in ourselves and then...stand."