EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

The Bible says there would be 10 WORLD REGIONS at the end of the age. I Believe this to be 10 WORLD trading blocks.

Leftist leaders reject U.S. trade planVenezuela, Bolivia, Cuba form economic/political alliance
Sunday, April 30, 2006 Posted: 0907 GMT (1707 HKT)

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Bolivia's new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday that rejects U.S.-backed free trade and promises a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation. With Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez seated nearby, President Evo Morales signed an updated version of the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, adding Bolivia as a third member. In Cuba and Venezuela we find unconditional solidarity, Morales said. "They are the best allies for changing Bolivia.

The document signed included the same language of the political declaration signed last year by Castro and Chavez. That pact contained much leftist rhetoric and few specifics, but was followed by closer economic ties and boosted trade between the two vehemently anti-U.S. governments. After Bolivia was joined in the earlier agreement on Saturday, the three presidents signed a second document with more concrete proposals. Cuba promised to send Bolivia doctors to provide medical care to poor people, and teachers to conduct literacy campaigns. Venezuela will send gasoline to the Andean nation and set up a $100 million (€80 million) fund for development programs and a $30 million (€24 million) fund for other social projects.

Cuba and Venezuela also agreed to buy all of Bolivia's soybeans, recently left without markets after Colombia signed a free trade pact with the United States. Dressed in his typical olive green uniform, Castro, who turns 80 in August, said sharing the spotlight with two younger, like-minded leaders "makes me the happiest man in the world. Afterward, the three presidents were greeted by tens of thousands of cheering people gathered in the broad Plaza of the Revolution to celebrate the signing.

The agreement is "a clever mixture of politics and economics, weighted toward the politics," said Gary Hufbauer, an economist at the Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank. Venezuela-Cuba trade is expected to reach more than $3.5 billion (€2.9 billion) this year -- about 40 percent higher than in 2005. The deal signed between Chavez and Castro has Venezuela -- the world's fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier to the United States -- selling 90,000 barrels a day of crude to the communist-run island at international market prices, but in exchange for agricultural products and other services instead of cash.

The addition of Bolivia will beef up the grouping's economic potential with the Andean nation's vast natural gas reserves.Morales, a union leader who was swept to power on a leftist platform and has railed against American economic and drug policies, vowed during his campaign to be "the nightmare of the U.S. government. He, like Chavez, has tried to maintain a vibrant private sector while claiming an ever-larger state role in managing the economy. He has also toned down his rhetoric since taking office in January. The Cuba-Venezuela deal -- known by its Spanish acronym ALBA, also the word for dawn -- provided a framework for the leaders to blast Washington's efforts to expand its free trade with Latin American countries.

The U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas hemispheric trade pact stalled last year, but Washington since has signed nine free-trade agreements with Latin American countries. The three presidents called the FTAA a U.S. effort to "annex" Latin America. Chavez and Morales have warned they could pull their countries from the Andean Community economic bloc if members Colombia, Peru and Ecuador go through with trade pacts with the United States.

Colombia and Peru have reached such agreements with Washington. Negotiations between the United States and Ecuador were suspended after nearly two weeks of street protests in March by indigenous groups in Ecuador opposed to such a pact. According to any reasonable definition of the term, this is not a trade agreement," Michael Shifter, a political analyst with the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, said of last year's ALBA deal. "It's an attempt to pose a real counterweight to the U.S. role and agenda in Latin America.

Shifter predicted few other Latin America nations would join ALBA, instead preferring trade agreements with the United States.But he said Chavez is likely eyeing Peru as a potential ALBA member if nationalist Ollanta Humala prevails in a presidential runoff expected for May 28 or June 4. Humala was the front-runner in the April election. Their leaders' embrace of the socialist-tinged ALBA has rattled Bolivian and Venezuelan business leaders. The government should reach out more to the business sector and create a common agenda, figure out what markets interest us, where there are possibilities and separate the ideological and political from trade and economy," said Gary Rodriguez, general manager of the Bolivian Foreign Trade Institute. Cuba ranks 88 among countries that Bolivia exports to, shipping just $5,291 (€4,220) in goods to the Caribbean nation last year, according to the institute. Venezuela is Bolivia's fifth most important export market, accounting for $167 million (€133.2 million) of its $2.7 billion (€2.15 billion) in exports.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.

Storms Batter Texas With Wind and Hail (associated press)

GAINESVILLE, Texas (AP) - Storms battered eastern Texas with wind up to 100 mph and hail the size of baseballs, damaging buildings and slamming parked airplanes into one another at an airport. When you have winds from 80 to 100 mph it can do damage similar to that of a tornado,'' said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

That can do some very, very big damage. No major injuries were reported in the storms late Friday and early Saturday, authorities said. Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged, and some areas still lacked power Saturday afternoon, said Kay Lunnon, spokeswoman for the city of Gainesville, near the Oklahoma border. Hangars were damaged at the Gainesville Municipal Airport, and the high wind shoved airplanes parked outside, said Airport Director Matt Quick. About 15 planes were damaged at the airport, where about 70 aircraft are based, Quick said.

To the south in Waco, the storms destroyed a home and damaged other buildings, authorities said. Two homes were damaged in Coldspring, north of Houston. No injuries were reported in either place, and the weather service did not confirm that tornadoes caused the damage.

About 4,000 customers lost power in the Houston area, where streets flooded but no serious damage was reported, authorities said. In Liberty County, northeast of Houston, officials reported damaged homes and toppled trees.

Moderate quake jolts Japan, no reports of damage 43 minutes ago

TOKYO (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 jolted central Japan on Sunday, but the Meteorological Agency said there was no risk of a tsunami and national media said there were no immediate reports of damage.

The Meteorological Agency said the epicenter of the tremor -- which occurred at 1:10 p.m. (0410 GMT) -- was 10 km (6 miles) under the sea off the coast of Shizuoka prefecture, around 120 km west of Tokyo.

In the coastal city of Atami -- a famous hot spa resort -- the earthquake measured a lower five on the seven-point Japanese intensity scale, which measures ground motion, the agency said.

A quake with that reading can cause hanging objects to swing violently, windows to break and cause damage to less earthquake-resistant house. But NHK television quoted the Shizuoka fire department as saying there were no immediate reports of damage.

High-speed Shinkansen bullet trains were running as usual, although some regular trains in the area were operating at a slower speeds, NHK said. Kyodo news agency quoted Chubu Electric Power as saying the earthquake had had no effect on the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above.

In October 2004, a quake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the Niigata region of northern Japan, killing 40 people and injuring more than 3,000. That was the deadliest quake since a magnitude 7.3 tremor hit the city of Kobe in 1995, killing more than 6,400.

EU and US strike different tones on Iran 49 minutes ago

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union struck different tones on Saturday on how to respond to Iran's nuclear defiance while insisting they were in full agreement. Speaking at a transatlantic conference, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said no one was considering military action over Tehran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment and Europe did not want to join a "coalition of the willing" against Iran. Influential U.S. Senator John McCain told the Brussels Forum in a speech on Friday night: "There is only one thing worse than military action, and that is a nuclear-armed Iran.

He said the United States would not stand by and let Iran wipe out Israel, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinjenad had called for. The Islamic republic, a major oil and gas producer, denies it aims to build a bomb and says its programme is purely for civilian energy purposes. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, a leading Democratic foreign policy expert, said the response to Iran's nuclear programme, which the West says is aimed at making weapons, was a defining issue for transatlantic relations. Iran is THE test case about whether we'll have effective transatlantic cooperation," Holbrooke said. The more divisions there were in the West and with China and Russia over Iran, the more likely it was that the United States would face the terrible choice painted by McCain, he said.

UNITED?

Solana, who has been involved in efforts by the EU's three main powers, Britain, France and Germany, to negotiate a solution with Tehran, said he did not believe there were differences between the United States and Europe on Iran. NATO and EU foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, had debated the issue at a meeting in Sofia on Thursday and "nobody at that point in time considered the possibility of a military solution in Iran. He said he did not believe anyone was seeking a "coalition of the willing" to act against Iran and no European country wanted that. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried said the next step was a strong U.N. Security Council resolution. I cannot predict how things will come out, but that is where we are headed, united with Europe," he told reporters.

Asked why he was unwilling to talk of military action unlike McCain and Holbrooke, Solana said that he held political office and did not have the same freedom of speech. The most important thing was to work with Russia and China to build the broadest possible consensus on a United Nations resolution raising pressure on Tehran to comply with international demands to halt nuclear enrichment. The U.N. nuclear watchdog delivered a report on Friday saying Iran had done little or nothing to prove it was not developing nuclear arms. It had hampered checks by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and rebuffed requests to stop making nuclear fuel, the report by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said.

NASA launches climate satellites By Irene Klotz Fri Apr 28, 6:48 AM ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Friday launched two research satellites to help scientists refine computer models that forecast the weather and chart global climate change. CloudSat and CALIPSO blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:02 a.m. EDT (1002 GMT) after a week of delays for weather and technical issues. The Boeing-built booster originally had been slated to fly last year, but a machinists' strike forced several months of delays. CloudSat has powerful radar instruments to peer deep into the structure of clouds and map their water content. Although only about 1 percent of Earth's water is held in clouds, it plays a crucial role in the planet's weather, scientists working on the mission said.

CloudSat will answer basic questions about how rain and snow are produced by clouds, how rain and snow are distributed worldwide, and how clouds affect the Earth's climate," principal investigator Graeme Stephens of Colorado State University said. Using instruments 1,000 times more powerful than common meteorology radar CloudSat was designed to render three-dimensional maps of clouds that will identify the location and form of water molecules. Complementary and virtually simultaneous studies by sister probe CALIPSO will pinpoint aerosol particles and track how they interact with clouds and move through the atmosphere. CALIPSO is an acronym for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations.

Aerosols are formed by natural phenomena like forest fires and human activity such as driving cars. Aerosols are considered a key factor in understanding why the planet is growing warmer and if anything can be done to stem or reverse the change.Computer models predict average surface temperatures on Earth will increase between 3.5 degrees Celsius and 9 degrees F over the next 100 years. The uncertainty stems from the role clouds play in moderating heat. Aerosols in the clouds can either cool the planet by reflecting solar energy back into space, or increase temperatures by trapping heat in the atmosphere. We need to understand the aerosol effect on climate because it counteracts the effects of greenhouse gases," said CALIPSO principal investigator David Winker of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

The Ozone will be completely depleted in the near furture, If G-d would not shorten the daylight hours all people on earth would die from the heat.

MATTHEW 24:29
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:8-9
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

One dead in northern India heat wave Fri Apr 28, 11:33 AM ET

NEW DELHI (AFP) - At least one person has died of heat-related illness as summer temperatures rose across northern India while a powerful severe storm threatened the country's southern islands. A vagrant died of heat stroke in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar where the mercury Friday rose to 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit), police and officials from the meteorological department said Friday.The weather office reported sweltering conditions and said the sizzler was a result of temperatures rising rapidly in the past week. It warned the "heat wave conditions" were likely to worsen over the next few days.

The dusty district of Hissar in Haryana state adjoining New Delhi, recorded northern India's highest temperature with the mercury touching 43.3 Celsius (109.9 degrees Fahrenheit), weather department officials said. The fierce sun beat down on the Indian capital of 14 million people with swathes of residential districts reporting brown-outs and water shortages. Meanwhile a severe storm over the Bay of Bengal, meanwhile, intensified further Friday and swirled off India's tsunami-ravaged Andaman and Nicobar islands, naval meteorologists tracking the storm told AFP.

Strong quake rocks eastern Taiwan Fri Apr 28, 9:53 AM

ET TAIPEI (AFP) - An earthquake registering 5.6 on the Richter scale has rocked eastern Taiwan, but the seismology centre said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The tremor struck at 17:05 pm (0905 GMT) with its epicentre seven kilometres (about four miles) northeast of Hualien city and six kilometres under sea. Taiwan, lying near the junction of two tectonic plates, is regularly shaken by earthquakes. The country's worst, a magnitude-7.6 quake, killed some 2,400 people in September 1999.

Philippine volcano showers ash on surrounding villages Sat Apr 29, 5:30 AM ET

LEGASPI, Philippines (AFP) - A Philippine volcano spewed a column of ash nearly a mile (1.6 kilometers) into the sky, showering surrounding villages with ash, vulcanologists said. The Philippine Institute of Seismology and Vulcanology said steam inside Mount Bulusan, located 600 kilometers (370 miles) southeast of Manila, caused the ash to come out.

There were no reports of casualties or damage. The incident occurred at 10:44 am (0244 GMT) Saturday. There was no sign of lava in the 1,565-meter (5,133-foot) volcano and the government is not raising the alert level around Mount Bulusan.Bulusan had a similar eruption of ash last month.

The Bible says 1 / 3 of the trees will be burned.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Wildfires already burning in ManitobaLast Updated
Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:10:29 EDT CBC News

With the threat of spring flooding barely past in Manitoba, officials are expressing concern about the threat of wildfires. Provincial fire officials say 20 wildfires have started across the province already this year and eight are currently burning, mostly grass fires. Two of the eight fires are considered out of control. Water bombers have been put on standby earlier this year in Manitoba. (Ruth Bonneville/Canadian Press) Water bombers are on standby and some firefighting crews have been called in to duty, three weeks earlier than normal.

Conservation department spokesman Tom Mirus told CBC News the warm, dry weather is creating perfect conditions for fire. Today's temperatures of 22 C and a breezy wind is exactly what we don't want," he said. Mirus expects it will be a bad year for grass and forest fires because so much vegetation drowned in the wet weather over the last couple of years. Dead grass ignites very easily and burns like gasoline. A person cannot outrun a grass fire," he said. "The grass fires are so bad this year, they are running into the forests and starting the forests on fire immediately. About half of the fires in the province each year are caused by humans, Conservation officials say. Open fires are prohibited in Manitoba every year from April 1 to Nov. 15, except with a permit or in approved fire areas such as campsites.

And of course for this story we go to luke once again.

LUKE 21:11,25-26
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Tsunami Network on Lookout for Giant Waves By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Fri Apr 28, 6:17 AM ET

WASHINGTON - More than 200,000 people perished when a monstrous wave swept the Indian Ocean in 2004. In hopes of avoiding a similar disaster here, a tsunami warning system has now been expanded to both coasts of the United States. We take building this warning system very seriously," Conrad C. Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, said in an interview. DART Deep-ocean sensors in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean now listen for earthquakes on the seafloor, sense the pressure of waves passing over them, and radio their findings to scientists at warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii. Unlike wind-driven surface waves, tsunamis are caused by seismic activity such as undersea earthquakes, landslides or volcanoes.

That means tsunamis are deep, reaching all the way to the seafloor, so that when they reach land they are forced upward into often towering walls of water that can inundate coastal communities.Occurring relatively rarely, they drew little public attention until the tsunami that originated on the Indonesian coast in December of 2004. Shaken by that devastation, governments and scientists redoubled their efforts to prepare coastal populations for this hazard and to find ways to issue warnings. Deadly tsunamis have struck Hawaii and the waves have caused serious damage on the West Coast also, so government scientists have been wary of the waves in the Pacific for years. A 1946, a Pacific-wide tsunami destroyed the U.S. Coast Guard's
Scotch Cap lighthouse at Unimak, Alaska, killing all five of its occupants. That wave reached the Hawaiian Islands about five hours later, obliterating Hilo's waterfront and killing 159 people.

And a 1964 quake in Alaska generated waves that caused damage in southeastern Alaska, in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and in the states of Washington, California and Hawaii. More than 120 died. Hardest hit was Crescent City, Calif., where waves reaching as much as 20 feet destroyed half of the waterfront business district. Eleven people lost their lives there. There was extensive damage in San Francisco Bay. On the Atlantic side, people have been killed in the last 150 years by these waves striking the Virgin Islands, Panama, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and even Canada. Lautenbacher's agency has now expanded itsobservations in the Pacific and added coverage of the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and eastern Canada, he said. The administration, which helps communities develop plans to deal with hurricanes, tornadoes and other emergencies, expanded its tsunami planning and now has certified 29 coastal communities as TsunamiReady. That means they have conducted public education programs, established evacuation routes, and set up means to issue warnings. There had been six deep-ocean tsunami sensors in the Pacific previously.

Now there are 10 in that ocean and five in the Atlantic and Caribbean, with plans to have a total of 39 in service within two years. The DART sensors combine a unit on the seafloor that detects seismic activity and measures water pressure with a floating buoy overhead. When the submerged unit feels seafloor shaking or senses changes in pressure overhead that indicate a significant wave it tells the floating unit to radio the information via satellite to the warning centers. Those centers are now staffed full time and have new computer models that
use the information to estimate the danger to a variety of coastal areas. The center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii issues warnings for Hawaii and foreign countries, while the one in Palmer, Alaska, sends warnings to the continental United States.

Lautenbacher explained that the warnings go to National Weather Service offices and are disseminated through its warning systems including NOAA Weather Radio, weather and other emergency communications systems and direct connections to state and local emergency response officials. In addition to expanding its network of DART deep-ocean sensors the agency
has installed nine of a planned 16 new sea-level stations that track sea level and has upgraded 20 of the 33 stations in use. And researchers have improved their database of nearly 2,000 tsunamis that have occurred worldwide in the past, extending as far back as 2000 B.C. This information helps identify areas particularly at risk.

On the Net:


TsunamiReady http://www.tsunamiready.noaa.gov/ NOAA tsunami activities http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/ Location of DART buoys http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart.shtml DART II buoy system: http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/Dart/dart.shtml

Sometime in the near future there will be a comet or meterite hit the earth, just not this time says NASA.

NASA Says Comet Fragments Won't Hit Earth Tariq MalikStaff Writer
SPACE.com Thu Apr 27, 4:00 PM ET

Chunks of a comet currently splitting into pieces in the night sky will not strike the Earth next month, nor will it spawn killer tsunamis and mass extinctions, NASA officials said Thursday. The announcement, NASA hopes, will squash rumors that a fragment of the crumbling Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (SW 3) will slam into Earth just before Memorial Day. There are some Internet stories going around that there's going to be an impact on May 25," NASA spokesperson Grey Hautaluoma, told SPACE.com. "We just want to get the facts out.

Astronomers have been observing 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, a comet that circles the Sun every 5.4 years, for more than 75 years and are confident that any of the icy object's fragments will remain at least a distant 5.5 million miles (8.8 million kilometers) from Earth - more than 20 times the distance to the Moon - at closest approach between May 12 and May 28. We are very well acquainted with the trajectory of Comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3," said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office, in a written statement. "There is absolutely no danger to people on the ground or the inhabitants of the International Space Station, as the main body of the object and any pieces from the breakup will pass many millions of miles beyond the Earth. The main SW 3 fragment, dubbed Fragment C, will make its closest pass by Earth on May 12 at a safe distance of 7.3 million miles (11.7 million kilometers), NASA said, adding that skywatchers will be able to use small telescopes to spot the comet chunks by scanning the constellation Vulpelca during the early-morning hours.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other instruments have been watching SW 3's disintegration. The comet's numerous fragments stretch across several degrees of the night sky. For comparison, the Moon's diameter covers about one-half a degree in the sky. Catastrophic breakups may be the ultimate fate of most comets," explained Hal Weaver, a planetary
astronomer of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in a statement. Weaver led a team of researchers during the Hubble observations of SW 3, and used the space telescope to study the break up of comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 - which was ripped apart by Jupiter's gravity and hit the giant planet between 1993 and 1994 - Hyakutake in 1996, and 1999 S4 (LINEAR) in 2000, NASA said.

Hubble's new SW 3 observations suggest that chunks of the comet are pushed behind its tail by the outgassing of Sun-facing pieces. Smaller pieces appear to be ejected from their nucleus faster than their larger brethren, while other fragments seem to simply fade away. When set alongside studies by other observatories, Hubble's images may help astronomers determine
what is causing the comet's disintegration as it nears the Earth and Sun, the space agency added. German astronomers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann first discovered the SW 3 comet in 1930 while hunting for asteroids.

Despite its relatively short orbital period, the icy object was not seen again until 1979, and then was missed during a 1985 pass. Since then, however, astronomers have kept a close eye on SW 3 and in 1995 observed its initial break up. Aside from a great sky show, the comet poses no danger to Earth and its inhabitants, NASA officials said.

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Iran has missiles capable of hitting Europe: Israel
Thu Apr 27, 6:23 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Iran has purchased North Korean long-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting Europe, according to the head of Israels Military says. Some of the missiles, which have a range of 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) and are known in the West as BM-25, have already arrived in Iran, General Amos Yadlin was quoted as saying Wednesday by the Haaretz newspaper.

While Iran already had missiles capable of hitting arch-enemy Israel and US bases in the Middle East, the new weapons pose a threat for countries elsewhere in the region and in Europe that now come into Iranian range, Haaretz said Thursday. The new ground-to-ground missiles operate on liquid fuel. They were originally manufactured in the Soviet Union, where they were adapted for use by submarines and able to carry a nuclear warhead.

After the Soviets retired the missiles from service, they sold them to the North Koreans, who developed them to carry a heavier payload, Haaretz said. Iran's medium-range Shahab-3 missiles, with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,280 miles), already put Israel and US bases in the Middle East within reach. Several weeks ago, Iran successfully test-fired a new high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying huge warships and submarines, and another capable of avoiding radar detection and striking a number of targets simultaneously.

Iran's ballistic weapons programme has heightened fears in Israel and much of the rest of the international community already anxious to prevent the Islamic republic from seeking to develop nuclear weapons. To counter the Iranian threat, Israel has developed its own Arrow missile, which can intercept the Shabab-3 and thwart an attack on its territory.

Nine killed by storm in eastern India Tue Apr 25, 6:45 AM

ET KOLKATA (AFP) - At least nine people were killed and scores injured in a tropical storm that hit the eastern Indian city of Kolkata and surrounding districts overnight. The storm, accompanied by rains, snapped power lines and uprooted trees stalling traffic on city roads late Monday, West Bengal state's inspector general of police Raj Kanojia said Tuesday.Biswarup Mukherjee, a spokesman for Kolkata Electric Supply Limited, said large areas of the city had been without power.The storm also threw rail and air services into disarray, he said.G.C. Bose, director of the regional meteorological office in Kolkata, said the storm packed windspeeds of up to 109 kilometres (68 miles) per hour.

He forecast more winds and rains for Tuesday in Kolkata and its outlying areas. Of the nine dead, four were electrocuted when overhead electricity lines gave way in the winds, Kanojia said.Two others died when their houses collapsed while three were crushed when trees fell on their vehicles, he said. "Scores of people were also wounded. We don't have an exact figure," the
police official said. The rain and winds forced political parties campaigning for state polls in Kolkata due on April 27 to cut short their programmes and scurry for cover. Many flights in and out of Kolkata were delayed due to the storm with some diverted, an airport spokesman said.

Tornadoes Touch Down in Central Oklahoma
By ASHLEY GIBSON, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 25, 9:48 AM ET

OKLAHOMA CITY - A powerful storm system spawned at least two tornadoes and several severe thunderstorms, causing damage in central and northeastern areas of the state Monday, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.West of Oklahoma City, two tornadoes tore through sparsely populated areas of Canadian County, damaging hangars at the
municipal airport south of El Reno. Television footage showed debris from the buildings being lifted and flung about as the tornado moved overhead. Parts of the hangars' roofs were ripped away and a couple of airplanes were moved outside.

Damage from the storms, which formed near U.S. Highway 81 and Interstate 40 about 40 miles west of Oklahoma City, appeared to be isolated, Lt. Stewart Meyer, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman said. Nearby, employees and patrons watched as the twisters danced west and south of the Denny's Restaurant along I-40, restaurant manager Danielle Landers said."We had about seven tables at the time," she said. "There were a few people that wanted to go outside and see the tornadoes, but most people waited inside until the storm passed. We didn't see any damage."Near Tulsa, a storm toppled trees and damaged at least one house, a mobile home and an auto dealership as it moved through around 1 p.m.

Resident Leslie Shanks said he saw a tornado twist a tree in his front yard and noticed that another tree had fallen onto the back of his house."It hit and was gone," Shanks told the Tulsa World. Some 2,618 Oklahoma Gas & Electric customers and between 3,000 and 4,000 AEP-PSO customers lost electric power at the height of the storms. Service had been restored to
all but 1,200 AEP-PSO customers by 8 p.m., officials said.

Nicaragua's San Cristobal volcano spews cinders, gas
Mon Apr 24, 2:12 PM ET

MANAGUA (AFP) - The San Cristobal volcano near here has entered an eruption phase with cinder and gases spewing from its crater amid increased seismic activity, according to the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter). The volcano, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Managua, has had "moderate explosions in its crater that have released gases and volcanic cinder" carried by winds toward towns 25 kilometers (16 miles) away, the institute said.

The 1,745-meter (5,745-feet) San Cristobal volcano has been active for several years, but seismic activity, small eruptions and gas releases in the crater, have increased since Friday.
"In every period there is a phase of strong activity with high tremors" during which explosions can occur inside the crater, Ineter said.

Between 30,000 and 50,000 people live around the volcano. The last time a significant eruption phase occurred was November 1999, with moderate explosions coming from the crater.

Here we go Iran can only hurt the US by cutting off oil. If they do we will see a quick inflation increase. The Bible does say Famines will be bad in the last days. And people will only be able to buy a Loaf of bread for a days wages. If Iran cuts the oil this could start to occur.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

These verses say there will be great inflation in some places, yet riches in others.

IRAN SAYS, "THE MUSHROOM CLOUD IS ON ITS WAY."
Mike Evens

The threats that Israel faces from Iran escalate daily…sometimes it seems almost hourly. First, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boldly declares that Israel should be “wiped from the map,” then he audaciously announces that the Holocaust is a myth perpetrated by guilt-stricken Europeans. Now he is exporting that hatred globally.

Reports have surfaced that Islamic militant recruiters are enlisting homicide bombers in England because of the ease with which they can enter Israel. As many as 70 attacks have been threatened in coming days.

When faced with total annihilation of her kinsmen, Esther was challenged by Mordecai with these words: “For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14)
Esther rose to the challenge, proclaimed a day of prayer and fasting, and was an instrument in God’s hands to deliver her people from destruction.

In a recent rally in New York City (yes, the same New York City attacked by terrorists on 9/11) a group calling themselves “Islamic Thinkers Society” waved banners and flags symbolizing the desire to bring the entire world under Islamic rule. Here are just a few excerpts from this chillingly radical group:

The leader of the group cries in Arabic, and those gathered respond in kind:“With our blood and our lives we will liberate al Aqsa!”Leader: “Israeli Zionists, what do you say? The real Holocaust is on the way. Takbeer!”Response: “Allah Akbar!”

And another verse of this demonic chant issues this warning:“Zionists, Zionists, you will pay! The Wrath or Allah is on its way!Israeli Zionists you shall pay! The Wrath of Allah is on its way!The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real Holocaust is on its way!”

This diabolical tirade ends with:“Islam will dominate the world. Islam is the only solution!Takbeer…Another mushroom cloud right in the middle of Israel!” It is time for the people of God to stand up and be counted! It is time to call this nation to fall on our faces before God Almighty, repent, and seek His face for deliverance for our nation and for the nation of Israel.

Iran threatens global retaliation if US attacks 35 minutes ago

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader warned the United States it would be "harmed" across the globe if it decided to attack the Islamic republic over its disputed nuclear programme. The threat came as hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed the regime would resist any UN Security Council demands for a halt in uranium enrichment, at the centre of fears the country could acquire nuclear weapons. Amid the escalating war of words, the head of Iran's nuclear organisation Gholam Reza Aghazadeh held talks with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei ahead of Friday's UN deadline for the enrichment freeze.

There was no sign of a breakthrough after the 90-minute meeting in Vienna, although Aghazadeh's deputy at the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed Saidi, said the talks had been "encouraging.

In one of his toughest threats, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned: "The Americans should know that if they launch an assault against Islamic Iran, their interests in every possible part of the world will be harmed. The Iranian nation will give a double response to any strike. The Security Council has given Iran until Friday to suspend enrichment work, which makes fuel for civilian nuclear reactors but can also be extended to also material for a bomb. Oil-rich Iran has rejected the demand, insisting it wants only to generate electricity.

The deadlock could open the door to UN economic sanctions or even military action, something the United States has not ruled out although Russia and China are opposed. The alert and decisive nation and government of Iran... will not pay attention to these threats," Khamenei said in a speech to factory workers in Tehran.

The previous day, Khamenei had also said the Islamic regime was ready to share nuclear
technology with other countries. The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said this showed "how irresponsible Iran is and why it represents, in our view, a grave threat of proliferation. The hardline president meanwhile repeated that the country "won't back down one iota" in the worsening crisis -- which has already helped nudge world oil prices to record highs. Prices slid slightly on Wednesday, with New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June, at just above 72 dollars a barrel. If international institutions respect our legitimate rights, we will respect their decisions.

However, we will not regard these decisions as valid if they are intended to deny us our rights," Ahmadinejad told the official IRNA news agency. He also warned Iran could "reconsider its relations" with the world body. The IAEA has been investigating Iran for more than three years, but the UN watchdog says it is still not in a position to judge the true nature of the country's nuclear programme. Western powers, led by the United States, are convinced Iran is seeking either the bomb or the "strategic capacity" to make one. But according to Ahmadinejad, the dispute was merely serving as a trial for international bodies to prove whether they are defending the rights of nations or whether they are acting as puppets in the hands of some bullying powers. The rest of the world must "accept Iran as a nuclear country, which is an undeniable fact, he asserted.

Iran's national security chief Ali Larijani had warned on Tuesday that sanctions would merely bring an end to UN inspections, while an attack would send Iran's nuclear activities underground. The IAEA is still seeking documents on dealings Iran had with a nuclear black market network run by disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Kahn, the father of his country's atomic bomb. It also wants to interview military officers who may have overseen secret enrichment or "dual-use" activities and to find out if Iran hid work with sophisticated P2 centrifuges, which can enrich uranium more quickly and abundantly than earlier models.

The IAEA also seeks documents Iran has on making uranium hemispheres that form the core of atom bombs and has questions about work that could be aimed at designing missiles with nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks in central Siberia city focused on, among other things, the Iranian nuclear standoff. The Security Council's five permanent members -- Britain, China, France, the United States and Russia -- plus Germany plan to meet in Paris on May 2 to thrash out a strategy.

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT WORLD TERRORISM IN THESE LAST DAYS.

ACTS 17:24-32
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

REVELATION 3:10
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

MATTHEW 24:32-35
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

LUKE 21:24,32
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

LUKE 21:25-36
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree (ISRAEL), and all the trees;(INDEPEDENT NATIONS).
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

MATTHEW 24:33-39
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

We see here Israel had to be a nation and in control of Jerusalem before any SIGNS would mean anything. Then, there would be destruction of churches, religous deception, wars (Nations and Ethnic Groups), famines, great earth quakes, persecution and anti-semitism, gospel preached worldwide.

Also signs in the sun, moon, stars, distress of nations due to the waves and violence (Terrorism). As is said in Noahs day.

GENESIS 6:1-3,5-7,11-13
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

In Noahs day the whole Earth was flooded, one end time sign flooding due to massive Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Storms. The 2nd sign World Violence (terrorism).

SO WE SEE ONE OF THE FINAL SIGNS OF THE LAST AGE IS WORLD VIOLENCE (TERRORISM) BEFORE THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH TO HEAVEN.


Here are the major terrorist activities since 1979 (WORLDWIDE LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)

1-US EMBASSY TAKEOVER (NOV 4,79)

2-KIDNAPPING OF 18 AMERICANS (1982-91)

3-SUICIDE TRUCK BOMBING OF US EMBASSY (APR 18,83)

4-SUICIDE TRUCK BOMBING OF US MARINE BARRACKS (OCT 23,83)

5-BOMBING OF US EMBASSY ANNEX (DEC 12,83)

6-SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK AT US EMBASSY COMPOUND (SEP 20,84)

7-MADRID RESTAURANT BOMBING (APR 12,85)

8-LEBANON / ALGIERS HIJACKING OF FLIGHT 847 (JUN 13,85)

9-ELSALVADOR GUN ATTACK (JUN 19,85)

10-GERMANY MAIN AIR BASE BOMBING (AUG 8,85)

11-EGYPT CRUISE LINER HIJACKING (AUG 7,85)

12-MALTA / EGYPT AIR FLIGHT 648 HIJACKING (NOV 23,85)

13-ROME / AUSTRIA GRANADE / GUN MASACRES (DEC 27,85)

14-GREECE BOMBING OF TWA FLIGHT 840 (APR 2,86)

15-GERMANY DISCO BOMBING (APR 5,86)

16-SCOTLAND PAN AM FLIGHT 103 BOMBING (DEC 21,88)

17-LANGLEY VA CIA HEADQUARTERS GUN ATTACK (JAN 25,93)

18-NEW YORK CITY WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING (FEB 26,93)

19-SAUDI ARABIA BOMBING OF US MILITARY COMPLEX (NOV 13,95)

20-SAUDI ARABIA KHOBAR TOWERS BOMBING (JUN 25,96)

21-KENYA / TANZANIA US EMBASSY BOMBINGS (AUG 7,98)

22-YEMEN BOMBING OF USS COLE (OCT 12,2000)

23-NEW YORK TOWERS / WASHINGTON PENTAGON BOMBINGS (SEP 11,01)

24-BALI TERROR BOMBING (OCT 12,02)

25-MADRID SPAIN TRAIN BOMBING (MAR 11,04)

26-LONDON TRAIN BOMB ATTACKS (JULY 8,05)

27-EGYPT RESORT BOMBING (APR 24,06)

Well we see a Volcano is erupting in Peru And in Australia, the 3rd Major Cyclone (Hurricane or Typhoon) in a Month Monica could be the worst yet Officials say.

Peru Evacuates Village Near Volcano Sun Apr 23, 9:47 PM ET

LIMA, Peru - Authorities evacuated some 200 people from their southern Peruvian village in the shadow of the erupting Ubinas volcano Sunday, an official said. Sixteen families from the southern Andean town of Querapi were evacuated to a village three hours away, Alfredo Siu, the regional director of the Civilian Institute in Arequipa, told The Associated Press. About 60 other residents had already been evacuated from the same village over the past three days.

Some families refused to be evacuated, fearing they would lose their livestock and belongings, Siu said. President Alejandro Toledo issued a state of emergency for the area Saturday after Ubinas — about 470 miles southeast of the capital, Lima — spewed acid-laden ash and vapors into the air, killing livestock and causing eye and respiratory problems for nearby residents.
The volcano started erupting in February. Between 40 to 60 livestock, including vicuna and llamas, died near the slopes of the crater, and many more were reported ill, probably from drinking acid-contaminated water or eating ash-coated grass.Toledo sent a plane full of tents, blankets, food and medicine to the area Sunday.

Tropical Cyclone Monica Threatens Australia's Northern Coast

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Australia's far north is set to be hit by ``very destructive'' winds later today as Tropical Cyclone Monica, categorized as the most severe cyclone, hits the northern coast of Arnhem Land, the Bureau of Meteorology said. The cyclone, which has caused the shutdown of Alcan Inc.'s alumina refinery at Gove, was upgraded to Category 5 late yesterday.
The bureau today warned of ``dangerously high tides'' that may cause ``extensive flooding'' along part of the coast and ordered the sounding of emergency sirens in the Gove area, including the town of Nhulunbuy.

Arnhem Land is land belonging to Aboriginal communities. About 200 residents of Nhulunbuy have sought protection at the town's cyclone shelter, many of them from the area's Aboriginal population, Australian Broadcasting Corp. said on its Web site. Schools in the area will be closed tomorrow, it said. The cyclone should remain close to its current intensity as it moves
toward the west along the north coast today,'' the bureau said. Tropical Cyclone Monica was about 175 kilometers (109 miles) east north-east of Nhulunbuy and moving west north-west at 8 kilometers an hour at 7 a.m. local time today, the bureau said on its Web site. The cyclone has wind gusts of as much as 320 kilometers an hour.

Alcan, the world's second-biggest aluminum producer, yesterday warned customers of potential interruptions to supplies on contracts from its Gove refinery. Work has also stopped on a $1.3 billion expansion to almost double alumina production at the site. The Montreal-based company intends to resume production and work on the expansion project ``as soon as weather
conditions stabilize and it is deemed safe to do so,'' Jacynthe Cote, chief executive officer, Alcan Bauxite and Alumina, said in an April 22 statement on Alcan's Web site. Company officials in Australia and Canada didn't immediately return phone calls seeking further information.

The Bureau of Meteorology issued a ``cyclone warning'' for coastal and island communities between Cape Shield and Croker Island, including Nhulunbuy. It issued a ``cyclone watch'' for areas including Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. A ``cyclone warning'' advises of gale force or stronger winds during the next 24 hours, while a ``cyclone watch'' warns of possible gale force or stronger winds within 24 to 48 hours. Cyclone Larry, the most powerful storm to hit Australia in 30 years, last month struck Queensland state with winds of 290 kilometers an hour, wiping out more than 90 percent of the nation's A$350 million ($260 million) banana industry.

Typhoon Muifa creating battering waves
Tim Ballisty, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

What started Tuesday innocently enough as a moderate tropical storm has become a small, but potent, typhoon east of the Philippines. Typhoon Muifa (Moy-fa) became worthy of its prefix today when winds were estimated at near 105 mph. Muifa is at best meandering to the north while churning in the Philippine Sea just east of Manila. In fact, for all intents and purposes,
the typhoon has stalled.

Though forecast to move west over the islands, forward progression will be slow. Bad news for the island chain as flooding and mudslides will result from the copious amounts of rain expected to fall over the next 48 hours. There is no doubt that the large and powerful waves have been battering the eastern coast of the northern Philippines. The system is forecasted to weaken
gradually over the next 5 days as it heads towards southern Vietnam. The Atlantic and eastern Pacific Basins remain quiet.

Spring Snow Brought Up to 5 Feet to Plains Thu Apr 20, 10:35 PM ET

LEAD, S.D. - Residents of the northwestern Plains on Thursday started to dig out from this week's spring blizzard, which dumped up to 5 feet of snow, cut power and threatened to flood low-lying areas. The heaviest snow was reported in the city of Lead in western South Dakota, near the Wyoming line, where the weather service reported 59.4 inches. Crews struggling with
the weight and volume of snow also had to find a place to put it after scooping it up, said Pat Milos, Lead's city administrator.There's nowhere to put it when there is this much of it," Milos said. About 10 miles to the north in Spearfish, part of the roof at a Wal-Mart store collapsed Thursday afternoon, apparently under heavy snow. There were no reports of injuries.

Colder overnight temperatures, with lows in the high 20s to low 30s, could help lessen the flood threat by slowing the snow melt, said Col. Dan Mosteller, South Dakota Highway Patrol superintendent. It will give the snow a chance to soak in a little bit rather than running off," he said. In southwestern North Dakota, the town of Bowman recorded about 18 inches of snow, the
weather service said. The potent storm in some areas knocked down trees and power poles. Wind gusting to 84 mph overturned a mobile home in the Nebraska Panhandle, and gusts to 71 mph were reported in eastern Montana, officials said.

The South Dakota Rural Electric Association reported about 2,000 power poles were downed, with trees knocked onto lines and many lines snapped. More than 5,000 customers remained without power Thursday in the Dakotas. State officials fully reopened Interstate 90 Thursday morning after clearing about 95 miles of the highway from Gillette, Wyo., to Spearfish, S.D.
The road had been closed since early Wednesday. Four deaths were blamed on the storm, including a utility worker who was electrocuted while working in near whiteout conditions Tuesday night in northwestern North Dakota, authorities said.

Ranchers were concerned about possible losses during calving and lambing season, said Kristi Turman, director of the South Dakota Office of Emergency Management. They're getting dug out and getting into their fields and checking their cattle, Turman said. "We don't have an exact number on losses.

The Bible says there will be a single Economy in the Future were no one can buy anything unless they have a Computer chip implant in their right hand or forehead.

REVELATION 13:7-9,15-18
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him (THE EU WORLD DICTATOR) over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,( THE EU DICTATOR) whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
15 And he (THE FALSE POPE) had power to give life unto the image of the beast,(THE EU WORLD DICTATOR) that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD WIDE) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(COMPUTER CHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(666)

NOTICE THIS GLOBAL SYSTEM HAS TO DO WITH BUYING AND SELLING (A GLOBAL ECONOMY, HEADED BY THE (FUTURE EUROPEAN UNION WORLD DICTATOR ).

THE FALSE VATICAN POPE IN THE FUTURE FORCES EVERYONE ON EARTH TO WORSHIP THE EU POLITICIAN OR THEY WILL BE MURDERED. AND HOW CAN EVERYONE ON EARTH BE TRACKED BUT BY COMPUTER CHIPS AND GLOBAL TRACKING SATTELITES.

AND SCEPTICS SAY BIBLE PROPHECY IS HOG WASH. I GOT NEWS FOR THEM, PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED NOW FASTER THEN EVER. LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS THE SIGNS COME QUICK AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT AND CATCH PEOPLE OFF GUARD.
AND THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS ONCE THE PROPHECIES BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, IT WILL BE LIKE A WOMAN HAVING A BABY. THEY WILL GET MORE INTENSE AS CHRISTS RETURN TO EARTH BODILY GETS NEARER.

IMF wins new powers to police global economy By
Lesley Wroughton and Sumeet Desai Sat Apr 22, 7:46 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund won new powers to police the world economy after its 184 member countries endorsed a new framework to monitor how the economic policies of one country affects others. The countries, represented by finance ministers or central bank governors, also agreed that some emerging economies needed more say in IMF decision-making that could lead to a proposal for ad hoc increases in their voting shares by the next IMF gathering in September. We resolve to make the IMF more fit for purpose in a global economy and more able to address challenges that are quite different from those of 1945, when the IMF was created," Britain's finance minister, Gordon Brown, who also chairs the IMF's policy-setting committee, told a news conference.

The IMF should be more able to address global questions with multilateral surveillance," Brown said.The International Monetary and Financial Committee, or IMFC, said IMF surveillance would focus on spillovers and links between countries' economic policies and reaffirm their monetary, fiscal and exchange-rates frameworks. IMF Managing Director Rodrigo Rato
will have the authority to bring nations together on an ad hoc basis to thrash out any economic misalignments based on IMF analyses.Officials said this would create a new forum that better reflected the rise of Asia in the global economy and could possibly replace bodies like the Group of Seven industrial countries, which some say can no longer call all the shots.

One of the problems facing the G7 is that major economic players like China are not part of the club, even though it is the fourth-largest economy in the world.

PRESSURE ON CHINA

The United States has pressured the IMF to broaden its surveillance to include the exchange rates of emerging countries, as Washington also pushes Beijing to loosen its tightly managed currency. The IMF made the case that such a move was also critical to coordinating economic policies and preventing the unruly unwinding of huge global imbalances in trade and
investment flows that could spark a world recession. Member countries welcomed efforts to enhance monitoring of exchange rates but most said they were hesitant about the IMF publishing analyses on the theoretical fair value of currency rates because it was market sensitive. China, however, said this did not mean the IMF should interfere in how countries manage their exchange rates.

Fund surveillance should comply with the objective of promoting exchange and financial stability and respect the autonomy as to exchange rate systems that is granted to all (IMF) members," China's Governor Zhou Xiaochuan told the IMF committee. In addition, Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, said rebalancing the global economy not only had to do with more
Asian currency flexibility. I believe what is paramount now for each member country and region is to implement steadily the policy measures needed to strengthen its respective economic fundamentals, which would contribute to resolving global imbalances in a smooth and orderly manner while maintaining sustainable growth." he said.

STRONGER VOICE

Addressing reporters, the IMF's Rato said the committee gave him a clear mandate to propose changes to the voting shares, or quotas, of some countries by September. I have spoken several times about the need for increases in voting power for some countries, including a number of emerging market economies, to ensure they have a role in the fund's decision-making
process that accords with their increased importance in the world economy," he said. An IMF proposal already circulated among members would give ad hoc increases to a small number of countries like China, South Korea, Mexico and Turkey.

Other nations that could also possibly qualify include Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.
But tensions remain between industrial and developing countries over how to reallocate voting power beyond initial increases in the quotas for some emerging nations. The Group of 24 finance ministers for developing countries from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America on Friday called for a more comprehensive package with timelines to greater representation,
fearing changes could stall after any initial increases. They said it was "imperative" that a concrete proposal is worked out by the September meeting, which should also include a new formula to calculate quotas based on purchasing power parity of a country and not gross domestic product as is currently the case.

U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Saturday he would support the ad hoc increase "if it is credibly linked as a down payment on near-term fundamental reform," like those to increase the fund's watchdog role on currency issues. Although it is generally recognized that China's quotas do not properly reflect its global economic weight, an increase in its voting share may be controversial in light of proposed U.S. legislation threatening a veto of such a move in the absence of Chinese currency reforms. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck called for "equal treatment," saying some European countries -- like Germany -- were also underrepresented in their quotas. Countries like Ireland and Spain are also considered
underrepresented.

We all agreed to focus on countries which were clearly underrepresented," French Finance Minister Thierry Breton told a news conference, also pointing to the need to give countries in Africa a stronger voice.

(Additional reporting by Tim Ahmann and Gernot Heller)

As we see in Ezekiel 38 and 39 RUSSIA will be the head of the Muslim Army that marches to Israel in the future, so this is no accident that Russia and Iran are both testing missles.

Russia is now involved with the muslim countries bigtime like the Bible says will happen, because Russia will feed the Muslim countries weapons as well as leads the final March against Israel in the future.

EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TUBOLSK) (CITIES IN RUSSIA TODAY) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog (RULER), the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN, IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer( GERMANY), and all his bands; the house of Togarmah(TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(SUDAN, PARTS OF AFRICA)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.( LOTS OF MUSLIMS COUNTRIES MARCH).
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(Saudia Arabia) and the merchants of Tarshish,(Spain) with all the young lions thereof, (USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, UNITED KINGDOM) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(DIRECTLY NORTH OF ISRAEL ON A WORLD MAP IS MOSCOW) thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMB).
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Russia tests missile, official says U.S. missile-defense plans a threat to USA.
Front page / Russia PRAVDA04/23/2006 00:02 Source:

Russia test-launched a missile on Saturday and a military commander said U.S. missile-defense plans could threaten the strategic balance between the former Cold War foes, Russian news agencies reported. Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces, which are responsible for the country's ballistic missiles, successfully launched the K65M-R missile from a testing ground at
Kapustin Yar in the southern Astrakhan region, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

The commander of the forces, Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, said the main purpose of the launch was to test "a uniform warhead for land- and sea-based ballistic missiles" and newly developed elements of a system designed to penetrate missile defenses, Interfax reported. Solovtsov said that plans for a U.S. missile-defense system "could upset strategic stability," the agency reported, suggesting that the test was part of an effort to ensure that Russian missiles are capable of foiling any U.S.

shield. He said the test involved optic and radar measurement systems that reproduce similar U.S. systems, according to Interfax. The planned scale of the United States' deployment of a ... missile defense system is so considerable that the fear that it could have a negative effect on the parameters of Russia's nuclear deterrence potential is quite justified," Interfax quoted him
as saying. President Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia has missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system, specifying that they can change their flight path on approach to a target.

Solovtsov said the system being tested Saturday would make missiles more difficult to spot and their trajectories more difficult to predict. Russia opposed Washington's withdrawal in 2002 from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in order to deploy a national missile defense, saying the U.S.-Soviet pact was a key element of international security. Putin called the decision a mistake that would hurt global security but not threaten Russia. The treaty banned missile defense systems on the assumption that the fear of retaliation would prevent either nation from launching a first strike, reports AP.

Like the Bible says it will be WORLD flooding like in Noahs day and the sea and the waves roaring (STORMS, TORNADOES, HURRICANES, TSUNAMIS). The EARTH being destroyed by the EARTH.

Is it not interesting that the weather service in the USA is called NOAA (NOAH). WORLD WEATHER like in noahs day, no accident they called the weather site NOAA.

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(Climate Change).

Flash floods, landslide kill at least 23 in Indonesia

Thu Apr 20, 1:07 PM ET JAKARTA (AFP) - Flash floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains in Indonesia's East Java have killed at least 23 people, the state Antara news agency said as mopping up operations got underway. The disaster is the latest to strike on the island of Java, one of the most densely-populated in the world, where scores of people have been killed this year in rain-related catastrophes. Until noon (0500 GMT) we have registered 23 dead victims, with most killed in Bendungan subdistrict," the top government official in Trenggalek district, Soeharto, was quoted as saying Thursday.

In hilly Bendungan, 13 people were killed in a landslide that hit three hamlets there after two days of heavy rain, he said according to the report. Hermanto, who heads operations at the East Java search and rescue agency, told AFP he did not yet have a toll but had sent a team to Trenggalek. We are also readying teams from the surrounding districts to help efforts in
Trenggalek," Hermanto said. Flows of water, mud, rocks and other debris swept through Trenggalek district early Thursday and cut the main road linking it to the nearby town of Ponorogo, district spokesman Joko Setiono said, according to Antara.

Setiono said the floods, which hit six subdistricts as well as the district town of Trenggalek, were subsiding. In some areas, the flood had risen as high as two metres (6.6 feet), he said. Hundreds of houses along with schools and office buildings were hit by the floods after heavy rain swelled the Ngasinan River, Setiono said. East Java Governor Imam Utomo and other officials
toured the worst hit areas to express sympathy to the victims and see what assistance was needed, an official from the province's administration office said.

She said the governor was disbursing financial aid for the families of the dead as well as cash for local officials to buy aid including food. Waters had already subsided in Trenggalek town by afternoon and the military as well as local officials and residents were busy cleaning up, another local official, Suwanto, told ElShinta radio. The town's two-storey hospital was innundated, forcing 50 patients to be moved to the second floor, Suwanto said, adding that water had damaged most of the medical equipment.

Flash floods and landslides in Indonesia are not unusual, although monsoon rains typically hit a peak in January. In February, at least 19 people were killed in Central Java by floods and landslides. At least 12 people were killed in similar disasters in
January on other islands in the archipelago nation, while more than 150 people were also killed on Java in two separate landslides. Environmental activists have warned of more frequent disasters in Indonesia unless extensive areas are reforested on Java, which has been largely stripped of its original forests.

Heavy rains devastate half of Colombia; 70 dead since March

Tue Apr 18, 12:52 PM ET BOGOTA (AFP) - Pounding rainstorms in Colombia since early March have claimed 70 lives in flooding and mudslides that have devastated about half the country, the Civil Defense authority said. Fourteen people are missing and 165 were injured in
the rains that began on March 6 and are forecast to continue until June, Colonel Eugenio Alarcon, Civil Defense chief of investigations and operational development, told AFP on Tuesday.

Flooding, mudslides and high winds have affected 16 of the country's 32 departments and some 24,000 people, destroying 225 homes and damaging 2,000 others, he said. The worst disaster occurred in the Pacific coast port of Buenaventura, where an avalanche of mud and rock last Thursday buried a village, killing 31 people, according to the latest toll available.

On March 19 another mudslide killed a dozen Boy Scouts and their guide in the Nevados park in the coffee-growing western region.According to the official weather institute IDEAM, the rainy season would continue until June and is the first of two forecast for this year.

Major earthquake hits distant Russian Far Eastern region 53 minutes ago

MOSCOW (AP) - A major earthquake hit a distant region of Russia's Far East on Friday, causing unknown damage and casualties, a Russian emergency official said. The U.S. Geological Survey and Japan's Meteorological Agency estimated the quake's magnitude at 7.7. The quake struck at 12:25 p.m. local time in the Koryak region, nearly 7,000 kilometres east of Moscow and some 1,000 kilometres north of the largest city in the area, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, said Oleg Kotosanov, a duty officer with the regional emergency situations ministry.

The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which destroyed more than one-half of the city's buildings and left between 3,000 and 6,000 people dead 100 years ago this week, was estimated at a magnitude of between 7.7 and 7.9.

UPDATE ON THEM 3 RUSSIAN QUAKE SATURDAY APRIL 22,2006

Quake destroys three Russian villages: report
Sat Apr 22, 1:23 AM ET

MOSCOW (AFP) - One of three earthquakes that hit Russia's remote northeastern Kamchatka peninsula almost completely destroyed three small villages, local authorities were quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. Inhabitants called the Koryakiya region's administration on a satellite phone to report that "the villages are practically entirely destroyed, even brick stoves fell apart," officials said, adding that rescuers flown in by helicopter were assessing the situation. The temblor measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck at 1114 GMT, at a depth of 40 kilometers (25 miles). It was located in Koryakiya, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Il'pyrskiy and 6,300 kilometers (3,910 miles) north-northeast of Moscow.

The quake was the third that rocked the peninsula on Friday, according to the Kamchatka seismological service, the first measuring a massive 7.9 degrees and the second 6.2.
Thousands of people in Koryakiya, a sparsely populated district, were affected by the earlier quakes, but only four required medical attention, with about 50 more believed to have only minor injuries, the emergency situations ministry said. The Kamchatka peninsula, which is roughly the same size as Japan, is one of Russia's wildest regions, known for hot springs, 29 active volcanos and a large population of brown bears.

Strong earthquake strikes eastern Japan; 3 injured, no tsunami danger
Fri Apr 21, 12:09 AM ET

TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 shook eastern Japan early Friday, injuring three people but there was no danger of tsunami, the Meteorological Agency and police said.

The 02:50 a.m. local time quake occurred 10 kilometres below the ocean floor, just off the east coast of Izu Peninsula, about 90 kilometres southeast of Tokyo, the agency said. In Ito City in Shizuoka prefecture, one of the most strongly shaken cities, a 64-year-old woman suffered minor bruises on her head when a wardrobe fell on her, local police spokesman Mitsuo Sugibayashi said.

In nearby Kanagawa prefecture, two women aged 67 and 52 also suffered minor injuries, police said, providing no other details. The agency said there was no threat of a tsunami - potentially dangerous waves triggered by seismic activity. The quake, felt most strongly in Izu Oshima, moderately shook buildings in the Tokyo region but didn't cause any damage.

Japan, which rests atop several tectonic plates, is among the world's most earthquake-prone countries. A magnitude five quake can damage houses and buildings in densely populated areas.

In Daniel 2+ 7 we see the World into 10 Regions. I believe this means 10 WORLD TRADING BLOCKS THE WORLD WILL BE PUT INTO.

Right now theres way more then 10 blocks but i figure the world will change the blocks of the world to only 10.

DANIEL 2:40-44
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings (10) shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

DANIEL 7:7-8,19-20,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

TRADING BLOCKS AND COUNTRY GROUPS OF THE WORLD SO FAR.

EUROPEAN UNION
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UnitedKingdom. http://www.europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

OPEC MEMBER COUNTRIES
Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America
http://www.opec.org/

COMMONWEALTH MEMBER COUNTRIES
Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, Fiji Islands, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Zambia
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/

NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES
Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, uxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America
http://www.nato.int/

SAARC MEMBER COUNTRIES
Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
http://www.saarc-sec.org/

OPEC MEMBER COUNTRIES
Founder Member: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela
Full member: Qatar, Libya, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Algeria and Nigeria
Associate member: Gabon http://www.opec.org/

EFTA MEMBER COUNTRIES
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
http://www.efta.int/

APEC MEMBER COUNTRIES
Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
http://www.apecsec.org.sg/

ASEAN MEMBER COUNTRIES
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam http://www.aseansec.org/

NAFTA MEMBER COUNTRIES
Canada, Mexico, United States of America
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/nafta.html

ANDEAN COMMUNITY
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
http://www.comunidadandina.org/endex.htm

CARRIBEAN COMMUNITY
Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
http://www.caricom.org/

MERCOSUR / MERCOSUL COUNTRIES
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
http://www.mercosur.org/

SADC MEMBER COUNTRIES
Angola, Botswana, DR Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
http://www.sadc.int/index.php

COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
http://www.cisstat.com/eng/index.htm

BALTIC STATES, FORMERLY PART OF THE SOVIET UNION:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

PACIFIC COMMUNITY / COMMUNAUTÉ DU PACIFIQUE
American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn islands Samoa, Solomon islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, UK, USA, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna http://www.spc.org.nc/

GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL MEMBER CONTRIES
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E.
www.gcc-sg.org/

ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WESTERN AFRICAN STATES - ECOWAS
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
http://www.ecowas.int

COMESA MEMBER CONTRIES
Angola, Burundi, Comoros, D.R.Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe http://www.comesa.int/

China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust By JOE McDONALD,
Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 18, 3:17 PM ET

BEIJING - Beijing will use artificial rainmaking to clear the air after a choking dust storm coated China's capital and beyond with yellow grit, prompting a health warning to keep children indoors, state media said Tuesday. The huge storm blew dust far beyond China's borders, blanketing South Korea and reaching Tokyo. The storm, reportedly the worst in at least five years, hit Beijing overnight Sunday, turning the sky yellow and forcing residents to dust off and hose down cars and buildings.

Hospitals reported a jump in cases of breathing problems, state television said. The government was preparing to seed clouds to make rain to clear the air, state TV said, citing the Central Meteorological Bureau. It did not elaborate, and the bureau refused to release more information. Storms carrying chalky dust from the north China plain hit Beijing every spring, but newspapers said this week's was the heaviest since at least 2001. The Beijing Daily Messenger said 300,000 tons of sand and dust were dumped on the city Monday.

That was "definitely one of the most serious pollution days in Beijing," weather forecaster Yang Keming said, according to the China Daily newspaper. "Small children had better stay at home during such days. The dust reached Tokyo on Tuesday, the first time that has happened in six years, said Naoko Takashina of Japan's Meteorological Agency. Dust from China was found in more than 50 locations throughout the country, she said. The Japanese agency warned of reduced visibility but did not say any health dangers were expected.

In South Korea, a light layer of dust blanketed the country, but no ill effects were reported. Rain was forecast overnight Tuesday, and the weather bureau said it should clear the air. The dust storms are expected to last through at least Wednesday in Beijing, neighboring Tianjin and a swath of north China stretching from Jilin province in the northeast through Inner Mongolia to Xinjiang in the desert northwest, the China Daily and other media said. That region is home to hundreds of millions of people. More storms were expected later in the week in Xinjiang and other parts of the northwest, according to news reports.

China's government has been replanting "green belts" of trees throughout the north in an effort to trap the dust after decades when the storms worsened amid heavy tree-cutting. Last week, the western Xinjiang region was hit by its worst sandstorm in decades, which killed one person and left thousands stranded after sand covered railways and high winds smashed train and car windows.

Associated Press reporters Chisaki Watanabe in Tokyo and Bo-mi Lim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.


Wildfire Season Could Be the Worst Ever
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 18, 11:41 PM ET

WICHITA, Kan. - This year's wildfire season could be one of the worst ever, with 2.15 million acres already burned nationwide this spring — more than five times the average, fire officials said Tuesday. Fires have been especially bad in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska and New Mexico. Fire departments say they are straining under the load with little relief in sight from windy, dry conditions.

The acreage numbers, released Monday, count only fires reported to the National Interagency Fire Center as of April 13. They do not include the hundreds of grass fires that firefighters in beleaguered states have been too busy fighting to file all the paperwork on. It is rare we burn this many acres this early in the fire season," Ken Frederick, a spokesman for the fire center,
said. More than 30,665 major fires have been reported nationwide this year so far, compared with an average of 17,288 in the same period, the agency said. The total area burned is more than five times the average 380,048 acres. Fires have killed 18 people and destroyed more than 1,100 buildings this year.

Texas alone has fought 1.3 million acres of fires, and more than 115,082 acres have burned in Oklahoma, the agency said.Grass is so dry in some areas it ignites 50 feet in front of the flames just from the heat. Fires are jumping four-lane paved highways, and the flames spread so fast trucks going 30 mph cannot outrun them, he said. We are seeing stuff that hasn't happened in the last decade," said Jim Schmidt, an emergency management director in Kansas. "We are seeing cedar trees igniting 40 feet in front of our fire trucks — exploding with no moisture in it.
On the Net: National Interagency Fire Center: http://www.nifc.gov/

GeoEye to Supply European Commission with OrbView-3 High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
Imagery To Be Used To Monitor Crops To Support Subsidy Programs.

DULLES, Va., April 19, 2006 – GeoEye, the world’s largest satellite remote-sensing imaging company (OTCPK: ORBM), announced today its partner European Space Imaging (EUSI) received an additional contract from the European Commission to supply OrbView-3 high-resolution map-accurate imagery. The contract was awarded on April 5, 2006 and is valued at $2.15 million (EUR 1.8 million) over the next four years. The imagery will be collected by the company’s OrbView-3 high-resolution earth-imaging satellite. Together with its recently renewed three-year contract to supply imagery from GeoEye’s IKONOS high-resolution satellite, EUSI continues to be one of the largest suppliers of commercial satellite imagery to the European Commission.

The imagery will be processed and delivered to the European Commission by EUSI located in Munich, Germany. The contract requires GeoEye to begin imagery collections over 24 specific European sites to support the European Commission’s agricultural subsidy controls. The European Union is using satellite imagery as a tool to verify farmer’s declarations and claims for subsidies. In addition, the European Commission will use OrbView-3 imagery in support of national security related projects. The European Commission has been an excellent customer, and we are committed to continuing to meet all of their expectations,” said Adrian Zevenbergen, general manager for European Space Imaging. “For the past three years the European Commission has ranked GeoEye’s IKONOS satellite with a 98-100% performance success rate, so we are confident the OrbView-3 satellite will maintain this contract’s same demanding schedule and performance requirements.

“We are delighted that the European Commission has chosen to use imagery from the OrbView-3 satellite in support of agricultural subsidy controls as well as for security related projects. OrbView-3 has been used by several Asian countries as well as by the US Government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for similar purposes. This contract will now give us
an opportunity to demonstrate this satellite’s capability and value to the European community,” said Timothy J. Puckorius, GeoEye’s senior vice president of International Sales. GeoEye is currently building its next-generation commercial satellite imaging system, GeoEye-1, which will have a ground resolution of .41-meter panchromatic and 1.65-meter multispectral. When launched in early 2007, this satellite will greatly increase our capacity to collect a large amount of data within a short timeframe, which is ideal for monitoring crop subsidy programs.

About GeoEye

Headquartered in Dulles, Va., GeoEye is the world’s largest commercial satellite imagery company, delivering the highest-quality, most accurate imagery and products to better map, measure, monitor and manage the world. GeoEye was formed as a result of ORBIMAGE’s acquisition of Space Imaging in January 2006. The company is the premier provider of
geospatial data, information and value-added products for the national security community, strategic partners, resellers and commercial customers. GeoEye operates a constellation of three Earth imaging satellites – OrbView-2, OrbView-3 and IKONOS – and possesses an international network of more than a dozen regional ground stations, a robust image archive,
and advanced geospatial imagery processing capabilities that are unmatched in the satellite imagery industry.

Its products are the cornerstone of the remote-sensing industry enabling a wide array of applications including intelligence gathering for national security and defense, mapping, local government planning, and natural resources and environmental monitoring. The company maintains a comprehensive quality management system and has achieved corporate-wide ISO certification. For more information, visit http://www.geoeye.com/.

Well now people are starting to horde silver and gold like the Bible says would happen in the last days. But as we read in the scriptures the Gold and silver will become worthless in the future. It will not save people while the judgements from God are happenning on the whole Earth.

EZEKIEL 7:3-19
3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

It's a gold rushTAVIA GRANT
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Don Carlson has worked at Albern Coins & Foreign Exchange Ltd. in Calgary for more than a decade and, with the small exception of some pre-millennium panic buying, he's never seen so many customers carting off silver bars and gold coins. I've been in the business since 1991 and these are new highs for me, for both metals,” the general manager says. He's not the only one surprised by the growing appetite. In Ottawa, silver demand at the Royal Canadian Mint tripled in the first quarter. Kitco.com, a global gold dealer based in Montreal, has hired 10 new salespeople to take calls, while another distributor, based in B.C., is busy shipping coins across the country.

Rising geopolitical tensions and record oil prices are boosting the allure of precious metals, sending gold to its highest level since 1980 and silver to a 23-year high Tuesday. But it's not just exchange-traded funds or mining company shares that are popular. Canadians — and investors around the world — want the real, physical stuff. In Calgary, Mr. Carlson is seeing huge interest from middle-aged and older people who have cash on hand and want to park it in gold and silver. We're seeing a lot of new faces,” he said. “It's basically cash-and-carry. People like to have it in their hands.

Like other dealers, Mr. Carlson says silver demand is particularly strong. Sales of 100-ounce silver bars are surging and, at $1,692 a pop, many customers are buying several bars at a time. Clearly, silver prices that have already surged 58 per cent this year aren't deterring clients. Coins are also selling at a steady clip, he said. While Albertans may be the biggest buyers of gold and silver these days, interest is growing across the country. At the 98-year-old Royal Canadian Mint, investment demand for silver Maple Leaf coins more than tripled in the first quarter
while demand for one-to-10-ounce gold bars doubled, said David Madge, the Mint's executive director of bullion and refinery services. He expects silver sales this year will be the best in a decade.

You know commodities are hot when people are pawning their old gold and silver trinkets to the Mint. The Mint's recycling business, which buys old jewellery or silver flatware from individuals and turns them into coins and bars, has soared in recent months in lockstep with the run on commodities prices. Thus buyers of Canadian gold coins can't be certain whether they're derived from Aunt Bessie's wedding ring or come fresh from the mines. Kitco.com, the world's largest Internet-based bullion dealer, knows this better than most. It added about 10 salespeople to its
desk earlier this year to field floods of incoming calls.

Investor interest has soared for several reasons, said Jon Nadler, Kitco.com's investment products analyst. Demand in China and India is growing, while supply is dwindling. Worries about a decline in the U.S. dollar are mounting. Energy prices are soaring and tensions in Israel and Iran are rising. Those factors are prompting more people to see gold as a hedge in their portfolio, he said. It's very, very strong and across the board, and not just in Canada,” he said. “People are feeling more comfortable with holding gold than they had before.

In B.C., Martin Levy is managing director of the country's largest direct distributor of Maple Leaf coins. His company, Border Gold Corp., is seeing everyone from plumbers to bankers adding precious metals to their holdings. People in the trades, who have their own small companies, you see them buying and putting 5 to 10 per cent of their portfolio in gold,” he said. At the same time, “a lot of business people, with higher income, are putting high hundreds of thousands or even a million or two million into gold.

Gold prices soared $4.50 (U.S.) to reach a 25-year high Tuesday, closing at $623.30 an ounce, while silver jumped to $13.78 an ounce.

Volcanoes are happening during the tribulation period. as we read in Revelation 6:12-17

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Indonesian volcano spewing smoke, lava
By NINIEK KARMINIASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia -- The volcano that looms above his village is spewing smoke and lava, and scientists warn it could erupt anytime. But like many people farming the fertile slopes of Mount Merapi, Ismail says there is no need to panic.Merapi is part of my life, as it is all of our lives around here," he said Tuesday, as the 9,700-foot mountain rumbled in the background. "We know nature, and we are not worrying. Volcanologists watching Merapi, in the heart of densely populated Java island, disagree.

Aside from the visible signs of increased activity at its peak, sensors within the crater have detected a rise in seismic movement in recent weeks, and a major eruption is possible, they say.Authorities have been ordered to prepare for the possible evacuation of the thousands of people who live close to Merapi, which last erupted in 1992, sending out a searing cloud of gas that burned 60 people to death. About 1,300 people were killed when it erupted in 1930.

Mount Merapi lies about 18 miles from Yogyakarta, a city of 1 million people, More than 100 trucks are on standby to transport refugees, and emergency shelters have been prepared and stocked with food and medicine, Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah told reporters in Jakarta. Many people living around Merapi and the other 129 active volcanos in Indonesia - more than any other nation - believe that spirits watch over the peak and will warn
them when a major eruption is imminent.

Although most Indonesians are Muslim, many also follow animist beliefs and worship ancient spirits. Often at full moons, people trek to crater rims and throw in rice, jewelry and live animals to appease the volcanoes. If animals start coming down from the top then that is a sign for me to leave," said Ngadio, a rice farmer in a village on the dangerous western slopes of the volcano. "Hot clouds will always follow the animals' descent.

Sask. volunteers forced to stop sandbaggingUpdated Tue. Apr. 18 2006
7:21 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff

Dozens of volunteers on the Red Earth First Nation reserve in northeastern Saskatchewan have been told to stop sandbagging in the face of a relentlessly rising Carrot River. On Monday, the rising Carrot River submerged the road bisecting it, making it difficult for trucks carrying sandbags to get to the north side of town, where there are 80 homes and several other buildings.Phone and power lines on the Red Earth reserve were turned off. Boilers in the school and other public buildings were also shut down. Richard Kent, emergency co-ordinator for the Prince Albert Grand Council, said by late Monday afternoon eight homes on the reserve were flooded. Sandbagging continued at the south end of Red Earth, which is about 240 kilometres
northeast of Saskatoon.

Water levels in the Carrot River have surged to five times their normal volume, due to heavy rains last fall, deep snow over the winter and an early spring thaw. The flooding kept 1,000 residents of the reserve from their homes. They were forced to evacuate over the weekend due to rising water. There are about 370 evacuees in Prince Albert, and 442 are in Saskatoon,
mostly at the Field House. Glenna Chryderman, a Salvation Army volunteer, is one of dozens of volunteers trying to help the evacuees being housed at The Saskatoon Field House. Just to see those little children's faces, and the fact that these people have been uprooted. They have had to leave their homes. For me, I just think of how that would effect me and I think we have
to have some compassion," she told CTV Saskatoon.

Flooding in Manitoba

Flood-weary Manitobans are welcoming the latest weather outlook from Environment Canada, with meteorologists now forecasting 10 millimetres of rain in the Red River Valley Tuesday and Wednesday -- down from a previous forecast of up to 50 millimetres. Ten millimetres likely won't pose a problem in the flood zone around the province's Red River Valley. Provincial
officials also warned, however, that areas in western Manitoba now face the threat of flash floods in coming days as heavy rainfall heads toward that area. A flash-flood watch has been issued for the Riding and Duck mountain regions, with Environment Canada predicting as much as 70 millimetres of rain in that area beginning as early as Tuesday night.

There's some good news and some bad news," Alf Warkentin, Manitoba's chief flood forecaster, told reporters Monday afternoon. The good news is that the heavy rain for southeastern Manitoba and the Red River Valley is not going to happen. The bad news is that the heavy rain is going to happen in western Manitoba, areas west of Brandon and Dauphin. Environment Canada says most of the precipitation will travel along the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border and move north -- rather than hitting the southern part of Manitoba as was previously forecast.

Manitoba Premier Gary Doer said he is waiting to see what happens. I'm just going to wait and see and won't uncross my fingers until after the crests have left the Red River Valley," he said in Ste-Agathe after a tour of the affected areas. Meanwhile, there is little relief for the hardest-hit region around Morris, Man. -- about 60 kilometres south of Winnipeg -- where the Red River has crested.

Although Morris is surrounded by a dike, travelling in and out of the town has proved a challenge due to flooded roads.It's going to be a while . . . before levels fall," said Warkentin. "It's going to be a slow decline and the rain will serve to reduce that rate of decline on the Red River. So levels will remain very high and there will be access problems for probably another week or so or even longer."

We see more record flooding around the world!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP WORLD, CONNECT THE DOTS. BIBLE PROPHECY=JUDGEMENT OF SIN (WORLDWIDE). THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS TO COME.

Worst still to come in Romania and Bulgaria floods18.04.2006 - 09:51
CET By Andrew Rettman EU OBSERVER

Flooding in EU candidates Romania and Bulgaria is set to peak on Wednesday (19 April) and Thursday, local authorities predict, with the lower reaches of the river Danube staying abnormally swollen for up to a month. The Danube is currently flowing at 15,800 cubic metres a second - twice the usual for April and the heaviest since 1895 - inundating farmland and villages but with no casualties so far, press agecies say. Over 3,000 people fled the Romanian villages of Rast and Negoi after Dykes burst on Monday. Police also evacuated tourists from a hotel in the southern town of Calarasi.

About 100,000 hectares of Romanian farms and forests have been submerged, with authorities planning to channel water away from towns toward a further 26,000 hectares of open land. In Bulgaria, almost half of the industrial town of Nikopol has been flooded with problems also reported in Vidin, Fetesti, Ruse and Zabovanovo. The biggest worry now is the inflow of mosquitoes and the stink of sewage coming from the flooded houses," Nikopol civil defense head Georgi Linkov told Reuters. The floods first hit Serbia over the weekend after melting snows and spring rains in central Europe. Most of Belgrade has been kept safe by 250 km of dykes and barriers but the waterlogged defences are in danger of collapse.

The Serb towns of Ritopek, Veliko Gradiste and Smederevo have also tried to keep the river at bay with sandbags and basic equipment. The volunteers are tired. It's hard to keep up the tempo day after day," one Serbian official indicated. The water levels are higher than during the floods of 2005 and 2002, which killed dozens, but response units were better prepared this time around, BBC correspondents say.

AND IN THIS 2ND STORY, YES THERE WILL BE A QUAKE WARNING FOR CALIFORNIA, THEN A TSUNAMI WILL DO CALIFORNIA IN THIS TIME.

San Francisco faces big shaker (100 YEARS LATER) By Molly Bentley in San Francisco
The 1906 aftermath at 8:12 AM ON APRIL 18, 1906

Another magnitude 7.9 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area would probably produce much stronger shaking than the catastrophic 1906 event of the same size. The wider region should also expect thousands of fatalities and economic losses in the billions. These conclusions are contained in two reports released to coincide with the 18 April centennial of the great quake that destroyed the city and killed 3,000 people. The studies will be discussed at a special conference this week. Scientists say the next big quake - a magnitude 6.7 or larger - will likely come within 30 years. The first study, When the Big One Strikes Again, was commissioned by conference organisers and provides an estimate range of the death and damage toll for Northern California if an earthquake similar to 1906 hit the region today. The city was shattered, and what remained then went up in flames.

The other study, produced by the US Geological Survey (USGS), shows how shaking intensity would change if the San Andreas Fault were to rupture in a different place to 1906. USGS scientists believe they have been able to reproduce the ground motion that occurred 100 years ago fairly accurately, making it a useful model to estimate the damage caused by the next big quake. These studies allow us to model the shaking and fill in the big gap in the data," said Dr Greg Beroza, a geophysicist at Stanford University who helped create the USGS simulation. "We can apply the results to other large earthquakes.

One of its shaking scenarios suggests that out of the 10 million residents in 19 counties, a 7.9 earthquake could kill 1,800 and seriously injure 8,000 if it hit at night; and kill 3,400 and seriously injure 13,000 if it hit during the day. Total economic losses could reach more than $120bn. Daytime casualties are typically higher than night-time, when people are in homes that are less susceptible to collapse than commercial buildings," said Dr Kircher. However, the proportion of night-time deaths is raised slightly in San Francisco itself, where older homes are more vulnerable to collapse. Roughly one quarter - 800 - daytime deaths and almost a third of night-time deaths- 574 - would be in SF city districts.

The estimates are based on death by building collapse by shaking alone; not by fire, which could raise the death toll. Of the city's 400,000 residents in 1906, it is estimated that 3,000 died from both building collapse and the conflagration that swept the city immediately afterwards. While it was unlikely a fire that size would rage again, smaller fires were very possible, said Dr Kircher. Soft storey" architecture often features an un-reinforced garage.

Preparing for the 'Big One

We expect fires to contribute significantly to the total loss," he added. Adding in the cost of damage due to fire and lifeline infrastructure - such as highways - could raise the economic bill to $150bn. And this does not include long-term economic impact, the sort experienced in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The total is 10 times the loss from the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, a 6.7 tremor on the San Andreas Fault centred in a mountainous region 100km (60 miles) to the south of San Francisco.

The second set, referred to as M7.9, is based on a standard model of energy propagation from an earthquake occurring on the segments of the fault that ruptured in 1906; a sort of generic 7.9 quake. Death and damage estimates are lower in the MMI model than in the M7.9; 800 night-time and 1,600 daytime deaths for the region, and $90bn dollars in economic loss. While the population has increased 10 fold since 1906, when less than a million people called the greater San Francisco Bay area home, the number of fatalities does not increase proportionally in the recent estimates. Our knowledge of earthquakes and how they affect buildings have advanced quite a bit and our seismic codes have been advancing," said Dr Beroza, "but we're still talking about thousands of deaths. Will the public say that's acceptable?

Dr Kircher said that an important finding of the study was that vulnerable buildings - un-reinforced masonry, older reinforced concrete and "soft-storey" - made up less than 5% of all buildings in the region but would kill more than half the people. Fixing those buildings would cut our casualties in half," said Dr Kircher.

Moveable epicentre

The second USGS study to be presented to the conference offers scientists a re-creation of the 1906 shaking, and a how it might change if the fault ruptured other than where it did, 2km off the coast of San Francisco. The computer model draws on a new and highly detailed 3D geologic model of the Bay Area. While scientists do not know when the next big quake will come or where it will originate, they do say that a 7.9 quake is unlikely to mirror 1906. There is no guarantee that the next big one will begin exactly where the last big one began," said Dr Beroza. "It will be different and may not start in the same place." In the USGS simulations, a rupture at the northern end of the San Andreas Fault, with the same amount of slip, creates the same or greater shaking for San Francisco as it did in 1906; while an epicentre at the southern end of the northern portion of the fault, near San Juan Batista, creates considerably stronger shaking for the city.

This is due to variations in local geology and the fact that the energy from the rupture and seismic waves increase as they propagate toward the city. Things could be worse for San Francisco itself with a rupture that begins south of the city, than it was in 1906 when the rupture began very close to it," said Brad Aagaard, a USGS research geophysicist who ran the simulations. This, ironically, makes the original 1906 quake, with its epicentre near the city, a best-case scenario for San Francisco if a 7.9 earthquake were to hit again. But increased shaking in one area means less shaking somewhere else. Moving the epicentre to San Juan Batista produces more intense shaking for San Francisco, but milder shaking in the Silicon Valley region. The bottom line is that the next large event on the San Andreas Fault will differ in some ways from the 1906 earthquake, said Dr Aagaard. "We need to consider many scenarios in order to be prepared for such an event.

The 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference continues through to 21 April in San Francisco.

SUMMARY OF DAMAGE AND LOSSES SCENARIO 1906 MMI

M7.9 NUMBER OF SEVERELY DAMAGED BUILDINGS
Residential buildings 80,000 120,000
Commercial buildings 7,000 10,000

SOCIAL LOSSES DUE TO BUILDING DAMAGE
Displaced households 170,000 250,000
Serious injuries - night-time 4,000 8,000
Serious injuries - daytime 6,000 13,000
Immediate deaths - night-time 800 1,800
Immediate deaths - daytime 1,600 3,400

DIRECT ECONOMIC LOSSES DUE TO BUILDING DAMAGE
Structural damage $15bn $20bn
Non-structural damage $57bn $75bn
Contents and inventory damage $14bn $17bn
Business interruption $8bn $11bn TOTAL DIRECT ECONOMIC LOSS >$90bn >$120bn

Source: When the Big One Strikes Again

BLOGSITES OF WORLD EVENTS AND PROPHECY HAPPENINGS

7 YR PEACE TREATY http://israel7777777.blogspot.com

AISH (WESTERN WALL CAMERA) www.aish.com/wallcam/
ANIMAL DISEASES (REV 6:7-8) www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasiticpathways/animals.htm
ARAB BUSINESS REPORT www.arabbusinessreport.com/
ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT www.arableaguesummit.com/
ARABIC NEWS http://www.arabicnews.com/
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BIBLE PLACES www.bibleplaces.com
BIBLE PROPHECY LINKS www.bible-prophecy.com/links.htm
BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, WEAPONS (REV 9:18)
www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL30699.pdf

CANADA WEATHER TORNADOES (LUKE 21:25-26)www.mb.ec.gc.ca/air/summersevere/ae00s02.en.html
CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS http://www.cwnews.com/
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ENCYCLOPEDIAwww.wacklepedia.com/index.html
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EU HOME SITEwww.europa.eu.int
EU OBSERVERwww.euobserver.com
EUPHRATES RIVER (REV 9:14-16 )
http://web.bryant.edu/~langlois/ecology/euphrates.htm
EURO (EU CURRENCY)www.europa.eu.int/euro/
EUROPEAN JOURNALwww.europeanjournal.com

FAMINES (MATT 24:7)(REV 6:5-6)www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768999.html

GLOBAL WARMING (CLIMATE CHANGE) (LUKE 21:11)www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/
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MESSIANIC NEWSwww.messianicnews.blogspot.com
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MIDEAST TIMES NEWSwww.metimes.com/
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARCHIVESwww.nuclearweaponarchive.org/

OZONE DEPLETION (MATT 24:22)www.epa.gov/ozone/

RAPTURE SITE (REV 4:1-2)www.raptureready.org
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SANHEDRIN (ISRAELIS RELIGIOUS JUDGES)www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Sanhedrin.html
SPACE SIGNS (NASA) (LUKE 21:11,24-25)
www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts1_front/index.html
SPAIN POST (DAN 7:23-25)www.spainpost.com

TEMPLE INSTITUTE (REV 11:1-2)(DAN 9:27)www.templeinstitute.org
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WORLD BANKwww.worldbank.com/
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES http://www.wcc-coe.org
WORLD CURRENCIESwww.banknotes.com/images.htm
WORLD EARTHQUAKES (MATT 24:7)www.earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
WORLD FACT BOOKwww.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html
WORLD FLAGSwww.worldatlas.com/webimage/flags/flagcnty.htm
WORLD FLOODING (NOAA) (GEN 6:11-13)www.noaa.gov/floods.html
WORLD RADIO STATIONSwww.live-radio.net/worldwide.shtml
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (DAN 7:7,23) UNDER EU CONTROLwww.wto.org/
WORLD TV STATIONS (REV 11:7-10)
www.high-techproductions.com/tv_stations_from_around_the_world.htm
WORLD WAR (REV 9:14-16,16:12-16)www.123world.com/wars/index.html
WW3 CHINA MARCHES ACROSS THIS DAM (REV 16:12)www.adiyamanli.org/ataturk_dam.htm

YNET NEWS http://www.ynetnews.com/

Pope's Easter message calls for nuclear diplomacy17 April 2006

VATICAN CITY: In his first Easter message, Pope Benedict called for an "honourable solution" to the nuclear standoff with Iran, a truly independent Palestinian state, and global cooperation to combat terrorism.

The Pope, speaking on his 79th birthday, made his appeal for world peace in his Easter "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message to nearly 100,000 people as he concluded the first Easter season of his pontificate. The Pope, who marks the first anniversary of his election on Wednesday, led a joyful Easter mass in a sunny St Peter's Square on the most important day of the Christian liturgical calendar, when the faithful celebrate Christ's resurrection from the dead.
In the speech, televised to millions of viewers in more than 65 countries at the end of Easter Sunday mass in the square, he listed his worries about problems facing the world, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Concerning the international crises linked to nuclear power, may an honourable solution be found for all parties, through serious and honest negotiations" he said in a clear reference to Iran, which announced last week it had become a nuclear power by enriching uranium.

The United States wants targeted sanctions on Iran that include a freeze on assets and visa restrictions. In another part of the speech, the Pope defended Israel's right to exist, a passage which appeared to be an indirect criticism of statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be eliminated. But he also called firmly for the establishment of a Palestinian state. May the international community, which re-affirms Israel's just right to exist in peace, assist the Palestinian people to overcome the precarious conditions in which they live and to build their future, moving towards the constitution of a state that is truly their own," he said in the part of his address dedicated to peace in the Middle East.
In other parts of the "Urbi et Orbi" address, the Pope expressed his concern over terrorism, as he has already done several times since his election on April 19, 2005 to succeed the late Pope John Paul. May the leaders of nations and of international organisations be strengthened in their will to achieve peaceful coexistence among different races, cultures and religions, in order to remove the threat of terrorism," he said. Mentioning Iraq, he prayed "may peace finally prevail over the tragic violence that continues mercilessly to claim victims.

The Pope also prayed that the spirit of the risen Christ bring relief and security to Africa, particularly the people of Darfur in western Sudan, who he said were "living in a dramatic humanitarian situation that is no longer sustainable. Chad broke diplomatic ties with neighbouring Sudan on Friday and warned that it might stop sheltering thousands of Sudanese refugees who have crossed the border to escape an ethnic conflict in the Darfur region.
This is the first Easter for the 1.1 billion member Roman Catholic Church since the death of Pope John Paul, who was in his final days a year ago and was only able to make brief appearances in the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.

John Paul died on April 2, a week after Easter

Manitoba flooded, Indiana hail storms and destruction in China, Columbia also hit with landslides and storms.

Rising river forces evacuation of reserve with 1,100 people in northern Sask.

JULIA NECHEFF Fri Apr 14, 7:30 PM ET (CP) - Residents in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan were coping with major flooding at the start of the Easter long weekend as heavy spring runoff swelled several rivers. Wide swaths of farmland along the Red River in southern Manitoba were under water on Good Friday. In northeastern Saskatchewan, the Red Earth First Nation hustled to get out of the way of the threatening Carrot River as leaders ordered a general evacuation of the band of 1,100. Band and provincial officials, and volunteers from another reserve in the area, evacuated the most vulnerable residents first. Between 250 to 300 people - the elderly, mothers and babies, and pregnant women - were loaded onto buses and sent to stay in Prince Albert.

Chief Miller Nawakayas said remaining residents were to be moved out first thing Saturday morning and would be going to Saskatoon. About 100 homes along the Carrot are in danger of being flooded when the river crests, likely on Saturday, the chief said. The Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, they're predicting (flooding) as early as Saturday during the day and it
could continue on until Wednesday next week," Nawakayas said. The chief said an ice jam was complicating the problem. When he went to check the river Friday morning, the water level was only about a third of a metre from the top of the bank. In Manitoba, dikes were protecting towns along the Red River but many farms were already under water and accessible only
by boat. The Red crested at Emerson on the U.S. border on Friday morning, carrying runoff from North Dakota. Wind fanned rippling waves on what should have been fields. Federal and provincial politicians took a helicopter tour to get a bird's-eye view of the flooded valley.

In some places the river was up to 15 kilometres wide and covered more than 40,000 hectares of farmland. Part of federal Justice Minister Vic Toews' riding is submerged. The Conservative cabinet minister joined Manitoba Premier Gary Doer, Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz and local civic officials for the tour. They said the flood of 2006, while bad, is not as devastating as Manitoba's flood of the century nine years ago. Certainly the extent of the flooding is not like it was in 1997 when both the premier and I flew over this area," Toews said."I'm very confident that the provincial municipal officials working together with the federal officials have got it in hand. I'm quite pleased to see the progress that has been made," he said. Katz said the Red is expected to crest in Winnipeg on April 20, but he thinks the city will be OK if Mother Nature co-operates.

He said his heart went out to his fellow Manitobans. A lot of us are not experiencing what they're going through but I'll tell you what after having the opportunity to see what's going on in southern Manitoba, coming from Winnipeg you have to feel relatively lucky right now and thank God for the floodway," the mayor said. While the politicians were sounding upbeat, Manitoba chief flood forecaster was issuing an ominous warning of storm clouds on the horizon. A major weather system is developing that could bring heavy precipitation to southern Manitoba on Monday and Tuesday, Alf Warkentin said. It does appear at this time that it could produce a significant amount of rainfall and it certainly has the potential to alter the flood situation quite significantly," he said. Areas that have crested could crest again, possibly at higher levels, so this is something we'll have to watching very, very closely." Warkentin said he's also keeping an eye on Saskatchewan.

The Carrot River, which is causing so much havoc on the Red Earth reserve, threatens The Pas in northwestern Manitoba and rural homes along the river, he said. Peak flows on the Red Deer River will eventually move into Manitoba as well.

Storms in China kill 21, destroy thousands of homes Fri Apr 14, 11:10 PM ET BEIJING

(AP) - Torrential rains in central and eastern China have killed 21 people and destroyed thousands of houses, the government said Saturday. Storms in the central province Hubei killed 11 people and forced 37,000 to flee their homes, China's Xinhua News Agency said, citing local civil affairs authorities. It said 11,000 houses were destroyed. In Jiangxi province in the east, rains killed 10 people and caused the equivalent of more than $100 million Cdn in damage, the
government said. Local authorities in both areas were distributing tents and bedding, Xinhua said. It said the central government has dispatched teams with more aid to the regions.

Tornadoes rip through eastern Iowa, killing 1 and damaging university

Fri Apr 14, 8:32 PM ET IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Tornadoes tore across the University of Iowa campus, ripped walls off a downtown church and killed a woman in a trailer outside of town. The U.S.National Weather Service said five tornados touched down in Johnson County on Thursday night, the most destructive carving a five-kilometre path of damage through downtown and the university. High winds, hail and at least one tornado hit Illinois as well. There was debris flying everywhere inside the house," said Melissa Fortman, an Iowa sophomore who huddled with friends in the basement of the Alpha Chi Omega house as sirens sounded.

She then decided to run upstairs for her homework just as the tornado hit. I couldn't go downstairs because there was debris and glass flying up the stairs, so I just hid in a telephone booth we have in our house and I just hid there crying," she said. Entire walls of the sorority house were gone and the interior of several rooms were visible from the street. Two cars had been tossed into a nearby ravine and glass, debris and tree limbs littered the neighbourhood. The twisters swept across eastern Iowa, with the worst damage from Iowa City southeast through Nichols, about 30 kilometres away, the National Weather Service said. We have a path in the Nichols area that's four to five miles long," said Maj. Dave White of the Muscatine County sheriff's office. He said the tornado hit farms and a trailer with a man and woman inside.

It blew it off the foundation and the trailer rolled and basically disintegrated," White said. The woman, whose identity was not released, died in the storm. Gov. Tom Vilsack declared a state of emergency for Johnson, Jones and Muscatine counties.In Iowa City, 30 people were reported treated at hospitals for storm-related injuries. Downtown, one-half the roof of St. Patrick's
Roman Catholic church was torn off. Store windows were shattered, some buildings were partially collapsed and homes and apartments were heavily damaged. Thousands of homes in Iowa and Illinois were without power but utility officials said it was expected to be restored by midday Saturday.

Illinois was hit by high winds and hail and the weather service confirmed one tornado touched down in Lincoln early Friday morning. We had lot of hail with this whole system, from Galesburg southeast to Champaign and Vermilion counties," said Chris Geelhart, a weather service meteorologist based in Lincoln.Some of it did get up to the size of baseballs."

Well in these 2 stories we see Iran still wanting to destroy Israel and in the 2ND story Russia gives hamas money. Just like the Bible Says in Ezekiel 38+39 The Russians lead this Muslim horde against Israel in the future.

Iran President Again Lashes Out at Israel By ALI AKBAR DAREINI,
Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran - The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched uranium for the first time. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

Ahmadinejad provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map. On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: "If such a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied?" The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, "will be freed soon. He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon.

"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations.The three-day conference on Palestine is being attended by officials of Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian territories. Iran has previously said it will give money to the Palestinian Authority to make up for the withdrawal of donations by Western nations who object to Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. But no figure has been published. On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium using a battery of 164 centrifuges, a significant step toward the large-scale production of enriched uranium required for either fueling nuclear reactors or making nuclear weapons.

The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is confined to generating electricity. The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until April 28 to cease enrichment. But Iran has rejected the demand.The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, was quoted Wednesday as saying Iran could develop a nuclear bomb "within three years, by the end of the decade.

Russia breaks from West with Hamas aid offer By Vera Kalian Sat Apr 15, 6:22 AM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Saturday it had promised emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, breaking with fellow mediators the EU and Washington which have stopped funding to try to force Hamas to recognize Israel. A Foreign Ministry statement said the offer came in a telephone conversation on Friday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.Mahmoud Abbas highly appreciated the intention of Russia, confirmed by Lavrov, to grant the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority urgent financial aid in the nearest time," it said.

Russia is a member of the quartet of Middle East mediators searching for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with the United Nations, the EU and the United States. The United States and the European Union have halted direct aid to the Palestinian Authority because it has not renounced violence, recognized Israel or agreed to abide by interim peace deals.Washington has barred American citizens and organizations from most business dealings with the Palestinian Authority.Israel has also blocked the transfer of customs and tax receipts.Larvov had earlier criticized the halting of aid, though he has urged Hamas to meet the demands of international mediators.

He said the only way to make Hamas meet international demands was to work with it, not boycott it. It was wrong to deny aid to the Palestinians "purely because in democratic elections they elected a government made up entirely out of Hamas members ... we are convinced that this approach is mistaken," he was quoted as saying last Tuesday. Russia is the only major power to have received Hamas on an official visit since its landslide win in Palestinian parliamentary elections in January. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday the "unholy alliance" led by the United States would not bring down the new Hamas government and warned of grave consequences if it did.

There was major quakes in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus and when he returns the greatest quake in hsitory occurs. So all kinds of quakes should not be new to us. All major prophecies deal with Earthquakes.

1 KINGS 19:11-12
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

ISAIAH 29:6-7
6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

EZEKIEL 38:19
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

AMOS 1:11
11 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-5
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (THIS IS JESUS OUR GOD RETURNING BODILY TO EARTH)

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MATTHEW 27:46-54
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

MATTHEW 28:1-7
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

ACTS 16:26-27
26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

REVELATION 8:5
5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

REVELATION 11:13-19
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

REVELATION 16:16-21
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Last 7 days

Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.0 or Greater in the Rest of the World - Last 7 days

This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours).

The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Update time = Fri Apr 14 13:00:02 UTC 2006

MAG UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s LAT deg LON deg DEPTH km Region
MAP 4.9 2006/04/14 10:26:10 9.526 93.063 38.1 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/04/14 10:10:24 62.464 -146.457 90.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.9 2006/04/14 09:51:24 -56.150 -27.178 113.6 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
MAP 5.5 2006/04/14 09:27:41 35.327 89.691 10.0 WESTERN XIZANG
MAP 3.2 2006/04/14 07:48:31 64.727 -148.423 15.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.4 2006/04/14 07:33:42 35.837 140.313 25.2 THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.9 2006/04/14 03:43:08 47.788 152.931 136.2 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.9 2006/04/14 03:30:20 -25.928 -177.811 152.2 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

MAP 2.9 2006/04/13 22:09:59 61.499 -140.857 1.0 SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, MAP 3.1 2006/04/13 21:28:29 60.924 -147.325 1.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/04/13 21:03:02 40.533 -124.800 2.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MAP 3.5 2006/04/13 19:12:54 60.029 -151.960 67.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/04/13 19:06:27 32.626 -115.819 14.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.6 2006/04/13 18:44:34 32.593 -115.822 11.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.2 2006/04/13 17:40:50 40.904 -123.597 20.1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 2006/04/13 17:34:12 53.326 -166.962 15.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, MAP 2.6 2006/04/13 16:40:14 34.087 -118.591 5.3 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA,
MAP 2.6 2006/04/13 16:14:20 51.487 -177.233 1.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2006/04/13 14:48:54 35.548 -120.861 7.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 2006/04/13 10:35:18 41.778 144.145 38.4 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 5.4 2006/04/13 08:35:52 56.169 164.112 30.6 KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA,
MAP 2.7 2006/04/13 08:33:24 36.583 -121.121 7.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 2006/04/13 07:13:43 36.746 -121.432 6.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 2006/04/13 04:58:28 52.435 -170.440 42.3 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, MAP 5.2 2006/04/13 04:27:22 41.809 142.684 37.2 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.0 2006/04/13 01:56:51 57.299 -159.177 60.0 BRISTOL BAY

MAP 2.8 2006/04/12 21:38:51 19.343 -155.062 6.6 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.7 2006/04/12 21:10:49 54.886 -160.034 5.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.8 2006/04/12 16:56:30 37.747 20.943 35.0 IONIAN SEA
MAP 5.7 2006/04/12 16:52:01 37.655 21.073 11.5 SOUTHERN GREECE
MAP 5.1 2006/04/12 14:39:04 1.659 97.065 34.8 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 2.5 2006/04/12 14:37:03 36.484 -121.020 8.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 2006/04/12 11:47:45 33.727 48.834 41.6 WESTERN IRAN
MAP 2.6 2006/04/12 11:44:21 33.187 -115.609 2.4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 2006/04/12 08:59:22 -23.879 -66.601 193.9 JUJUY, ARGENTINA
MAP 2.7 2006/04/12 07:47:34 61.231 -152.285 5.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.4 2006/04/12 07:08:09 -8.091 -74.245 155.8 CENTRAL PERU
MAP 2.5 2006/04/12 06:18:08 63.599 -149.551 1.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/04/12 05:42:44 19.241 -68.792 2.2 NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
MAP 5.0 2006/04/12 05:36:51 19.917 121.472 36.5 BABUYAN REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.6 2006/04/12 05:01:43 40.086 -122.561 16.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 2006/04/12 04:46:38 18.791 -64.280 35.5 VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 2006/04/12 02:41:57 46.199 -122.191 0.5 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASH
MAP 3.3 2006/04/12 02:33:45 19.048 -64.404 63.9 VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP 3.2 2006/04/12 01:56:26 18.789 -64.326 42.1 VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP 4.4 2006/04/12 01:42:15 22.710 121.280 39.8 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 6.0 2006/04/12 01:06:59 56.263 164.153 30.0 KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUS

MAP 4.7 2006/04/11 23:14:57 11.712 143.495 21.4 SOUTH OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS MAP 3.8 2006/04/11 21:26:49 53.289 -161.176 33.3 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/04/11 21:02:06 61.281 -152.289 1.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/04/11 18:09:04 35.684 -121.119 4.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 2006/04/11 18:07:33 62.535 -149.448 60.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.5 2006/04/11 17:29:28 37.658 21.023 10.0 SOUTHERN GREECE
MAP 4.9 2006/04/11 16:32:54 -0.299 125.052 35.0 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 3.1 2006/04/11 15:10:09 61.767 -151.460 100.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2006/04/11 13:40:56 37.405 -118.623 14.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 2006/04/11 10:33:23 -13.180 166.615 137.9 VANUATU
MAP 2.7 2006/04/11 09:19:53 60.148 -149.196 5.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 2006/04/11 08:46:07 34.676 140.387 68.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST JAPAN
MAP 4.6 2006/04/11 07:09:00 -21.897 -179.732 606.9 FIJI REGION
MAP 4.9 2006/04/11 06:33:58 2.724 128.078 44.2 HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.1 2006/04/11 06:12:53 18.121 -94.519 163.5 VERACRUZ, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 2006/04/11 05:40:01 19.079 -66.805 46.3 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.9 2006/04/11 05:38:00 18.859 -66.739 76.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.4 2006/04/11 05:18:34 59.767 -153.267 120.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/04/11 05:03:46 19.047 -66.780 9.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.6 2006/04/11 05:02:00 18.520 -66.585 83.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.3 2006/04/11 05:00:04 19.274 -66.748 71.6 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/04/11 04:58:37 18.867 -67.457 7.0 MONA PASSAGE
MAP 2.8 2006/04/11 04:55:19 59.899 -150.498 1.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 2006/04/11 04:53:19 14.033 -92.468 24.1 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 3.3 2006/04/11 03:29:21 35.360 -84.480 19.8 EASTERN TENNESSEE
MAP 4.6 2006/04/11 02:37:00 -14.819 -73.933 100.0 CENTRAL PERU
MAP 3.4 2006/04/11 02:01:22 51.198 -178.362 1.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/04/11 00:35:14 38.333 -118.704 11.1 NEVADA
MAP 5.5 2006/04/11 00:02:44 37.707 21.234 23.7 SOUTHERN GREECE

MAP 2.8 2006/04/10 23:32:22 19.003 -66.759 64.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 2006/04/10 23:14:30 60.549 -150.407 30.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 2006/04/10 23:03:37 -1.724 67.825 10.0 CARLSBERG RIDGE
MAP 4.7 2006/04/10 23:01:45 -14.971 -174.376 60.5 SAMOA ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.8 2006/04/10 22:05:46 23.520 70.045 35.0 GUJARAT, INDIA
MAP 3.1 2006/04/10 18:16:41 19.215 -155.671 0.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.5 2006/04/10 17:07:01 38.331 -118.705 11.6 NEVADA
MAP 2.5 2006/04/10 16:36:26 35.993 -117.388 4.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 2006/04/10 15:51:53 -6.038 154.265 35.0 BOUGAINVILLE PAPUA NEW GUINEA MAP 3.1 2006/04/10 15:31:53 54.133 -164.230 15.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA MAP 4.6 2006/04/10 15:24:42 42.427 136.973 297.2 EASTERN SEA OF JAPAN
MAP 4.5 2006/04/10 15:00:33 32.840 137.861 319.7 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.7 2006/04/10 14:30:48 39.875 -122.883 0.1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.8 2006/04/10 14:17:10 -29.391 -177.524 53.5 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND MAP 4.7 2006/04/10 13:36:48 14.596 40.013 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION
MAP 5.1 2006/04/10 11:26:00 43.671 144.733 120.3 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 2006/04/10 11:16:42 40.349 -124.397 12.6 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MAP 4.7 2006/04/10 10:25:05 4.676 95.082 30.0 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA MAP 4.5 2006/04/10 10:15:06 5.348 125.380 56.3 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 3.1 2006/04/10 08:11:42 17.262 -67.660 10.3 MONA PASSAGE
MAP 5.7 2006/04/10 06:26:14 7.477 -37.018 10.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 3.0 2006/04/10 05:47:52 19.290 -67.201 26.2 MONA PASSAGE
MAP 3.1 2006/04/10 05:08:04 19.102 -64.902 53.0 VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP 2.9 2006/04/10 04:45:56 46.197 -122.182 0.0 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASH
MAP 4.9 2006/04/10 04:06:09 7.458 -71.522 35.0 TACHIRA - APURE REGION, VENLA MAP 5.2 2006/04/10 02:36:37 -0.652 99.941 30.0 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA MAP 2.5 2006/04/10 01:50:28 63.340 -151.670 5.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.7 2006/04/10 00:21:25 37.624 141.127 80.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF JAPAN

MAP 5.1 2006/04/09 23:48:19 -5.600 147.883 181.0 EASTERN NEW GUINEA
MAP 5.2 2006/04/09 23:27:21 35.393 27.134 33.2 DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE
MAP 4.6 2006/04/09 22:50:03 -7.448 106.022 30.0 JAVA, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 2006/04/09 22:12:10 54.585 -161.233 15.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.8 2006/04/09 20:50:46 -20.408 -70.228 34.4 OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE
MAP 2.6 2006/04/09 19:20:45 35.741 -121.100 0.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 2006/04/09 18:28:15 29.479 128.723 61.4 NORTHWEST OF THE RYUKYU ISL MAP 2.9 2006/04/09 17:54:54 39.885 -123.220 1.2 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 2006/04/09 17:42:18 61.502 -146.332 5.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/04/09 16:54:57 60.302 -140.997 1.0 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 2006/04/09 16:27:48 13.190 -89.077 64.0 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 4.5 2006/04/09 16:27:26 32.045 138.582 289.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 4.8 2006/04/09 14:58:15 -18.963 169.284 299.5 VANUATU
MAP 2.8 2006/04/09 14:41:29 35.240 -92.240 8.2 ARKANSAS
MAP 3.0 2006/04/09 14:37:13 59.946 -153.234 140.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/04/09 13:51:12 52.223 -165.826 200.0 SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISL
MAP 4.6 2006/04/09 12:58:31 14.722 146.333 53.7 ROTA REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA MAP 4.6 2006/04/09 12:22:06 4.084 126.505 20.0 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA MAP 4.4 2006/04/09 11:06:05 -13.750 -14.541 10.0 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE MAP 4.6 2006/04/09 10:42:21 12.517 -89.440 30.5 OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR MAP 4.9 2006/04/09 10:36:35 12.632 -89.163 27.0 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 4.3 2006/04/09 09:24:08 36.181 115.418 51.4 HEBEI-SHANDONG BORDER , CHINA MAP 4.1 2006/04/09 08:45:09 -35.060 178.860 268.0 OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH MAP 2.6 2006/04/09 05:22:04 60.785 -151.162 70.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/04/09 03:44:29 17.888 -66.578 13.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.1 2006/04/09 02:16:27 44.412 148.217 58.0 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.9 2006/04/09 01:40:24 18.778 -155.294 15.2 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 4.8 2006/04/09 00:37:11 41.749 142.712 35.0 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION

MAP 5.0 2006/04/08 22:03:04 -0.125 -18.130 10.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.2 2006/04/08 15:41:38 -38.360 176.040 158.0 NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND MAP 3.4 2006/04/08 15:36:58 57.028 -158.731 200.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.5 2006/04/08 15:19:27 2.465 96.368 30.0 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
MAP 2.5 2006/04/08 14:48:46 35.719 -121.094 4.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 2006/04/08 13:46:36 18.467 -65.547 100.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.2 2006/04/08 13:27:39 -7.018 125.139 524.9 KEPULAUAN BARAT INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 2006/04/08 13:03:32 18.606 -66.811 16.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 2006/04/08 11:10:59 -28.425 -67.650 110.0 LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA
MAP 2.6 2006/04/08 11:07:32 46.199 -122.184 0.0 MOUNT ST. HELENS WASHINGTON MAP 4.3 2006/04/08 11:03:31 -38.710 175.380 211.0 NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND MAP 2.8 2006/04/08 10:56:52 35.713 -121.096 5.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 2006/04/08 10:48:07 18.945 -65.004 16.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.9 2006/04/08 10:38:05 18.967 -65.002 19.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.3 2006/04/08 10:05:15 55.367 -161.453 10.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.5 2006/04/08 09:56:54 -5.299 103.639 60.8 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA MAP 3.4 2006/04/08 09:10:48 35.733 -121.102 8.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 2006/04/08 08:04:04 -23.080 179.124 544.7 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 4.5 2006/04/08 07:47:31 -7.495 128.530 121.0 KEPULAUAN BARAT INDONESIA
MAP 2.7 2006/04/08 06:25:11 17.638 -66.274 18.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.3 2006/04/08 06:21:06 1.114 97.255 23.1 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 2006/04/08 06:08:05 18.991 -65.091 27.3 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 2006/04/08 03:49:25 47.679 -120.118 0.4 WASHINGTON
MAP 5.0 2006/04/08 03:08:04 -6.411 154.185 77.1 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA
MAP 4.8 2006/04/08 03:06:16 -14.155 -75.952 39.1 NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU MAP 4.2 2006/04/08 02:49:41 -9.269 -79.113 56.9 OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU MAP 4.2 2006/04/08 02:22:49 -2.760 29.787 10.0 RWANDA
MAP 4.3 2006/04/08 01:32:56 50.915 179.236 29.7 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, MAP 2.9 2006/04/08 01:13:06 40.286 -124.406 21.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

MAP 4.5 2006/04/07 23:41:04 10.795 92.080 30.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION MAP 3.0 2006/04/07 22:24:42 35.724 -121.102 6.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 2006/04/07 21:25:45 62.991 -150.795 100.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.1 2006/04/07 19:58:46 -23.285 -175.111 10.0 TONGA REGION
MAP 2.6 2006/04/07 17:40:44 19.781 -156.204 13.4 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.3 2006/04/07 17:39:05 66.248 -142.157 1.0 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 2006/04/07 15:19:30 -29.482 -176.972 10.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.5 2006/04/07 15:00:02 44.946 150.220 64.6 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.6 2006/04/07 14:36:30 51.284 179.722 56.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN, ALASKA MAP 4.2 2006/04/07 14:30:42 -17.926 -178.506 562.6 FIJI REGION
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PASSOVER OR EASTER IS THE TIME WHEN JESUS OUR GOD SACRIFICED HIMSELF SO THAT ALL MEN ON EARTH COULD BE SAVED. WE PRAISE THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD FOR DYING FOR US AND COMING BACK TO LIFE THAT WE MAY LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER ON EARTH. FOREVER MEANS FOREVER.

AND WE PRAY COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS OUR KING AND SAVIOR.

MATTHEW CHAPTERS 26-28 JESUS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.

MATTHEW 26:1-75
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.
30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear.
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.
72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

MATTHEW 27:1-66
1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
36 And sitting down they watched him there;
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.
57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

MATTHEW 28:1-20
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Serbia braced for record floods Matt Prodger BBC News, Belgrade

The army has been called in to help with the effort Serbia is bracing itself for the highest river levels in 25 years as flood waters from central Europe make their way south. The situation is at its worst in the northern province of Vojvodina, near Hungary, where flooding has driven hundreds of people from their homes.

For days soldiers and civilians have been battling a natural enemy. In northern Serbia they have been building barricades of sand bags to keep the ever rising waters at bay. The rivers have been swelling to a peak which has yet to come. The Danube, the Sava, the Tisa, the Tamis and their tributaries have all flooded.

It is the same water that last week ravaged parts of Hungary, Germany, Austria and the Czech republic. The areas around Serbia's second largest city Novi Sad are particularly vulnerable, but low lying parts of the capital, Belgrade, have also been hit.

It is not just the human cost of flooded homes that is a worry, there is an environmental concern as well. Sewage and industrial pollution may be washed back into the rivers when the waters fall.

Scores of Belgrade's popular riverside bars and restaurants have already closed and they will remain so for some time. More rain is forecast.

Indonesia boosts alert level at huge volcano, fearing eruption Wed Apr 12, 10:42 PM
ET JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)

Indonesia raised the alert status of a massive volcano on Java Island to the second-highest level, warning increased activity at its crater means it could erupt anytime, volcanologists said Thursday. Monitors have been watching Merapi closely for several weeks and late Wednesday raised its status to "Beware," one notch below the highest level that requires immediate evacuation of villagers living on its slopes.

"An eruption could happen at any time," said Heru Suparogo, from a monitoring station overlooking the crater of the 2,968-metre mountain.

Passover Goes High-Tech in Israel By LAURIE COPANS, Associated Press Writer
Wed Apr 12, 3:02 PM ET JERUSALEM

With the Palestinian territories sealed off and armed guards posted at synagogues, Jews gathered Wednesday for the ritual Passover meal that commemorates the flight of the ancient Israelites from bondage in Egypt. During the weeklong Passover holiday, observant Jews eat matzo — unleavened bread — to illustrate how the Israelites had no time to let their bread rise as they fled.

Israeli security forces were put on high alert for the duration of the holiday, with some 13,000 troops deployed across the country to prevent possible attacks by Palestinian militants. Security forces have received more than 80 warnings about planned attacks, somewhat higher than the usual level, media reported. The police commissioner, Moshe Karadi, said each synagogue would have at least one armed guard, and police would be posted at hotels where many Israelis were attending Passover meals after sundown Wednesday.

Four years ago, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis at a ritual Passover dinner in a hotel in the coastal town of Netanya. In the Gaza Strip, two armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire Wednesday as they tried to infiltrate Israel. A violent group, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, said the
two had been on a mission to attack Israel, but did not elaborate. The army said the two were seen by troops who fired at tank shell toward them, followed by missiles from aircraft.

The Israeli military also enforced a blanket closure of the West Bank and Gaza, barring all Palestinians from entering Israel. For Israelis, Passover is a time of travel and family get-togethers. More than 800,000 Israelis, or more than one-tenth of the population, were expected to travel abroad in the coming week, Israel TV said. Many of those staying in the country planned to attend festivals or take short trips.

In the preparations for Passover, religious Jews scoured their homes and rid their pantries of forbidden food items. Smoke wafted through the air of Jerusalem and other towns across the country Wednesday morning as people burned bread and other leavened foods in communal bonfires. Piles of charred bread were still smoldering in Jerusalem's Makor Baruch
neighborhood in the early afternoon.

The Internet offered a wide variety of sites for those who put a premium on convenience when carrying out the ceremonial custom of "selling" nonperishable forbidden food to a non-Jew, for "repurchase" after the holiday. Faxing sale transaction requests through a religious intermediary was another option. The government took the low-tech route. Israel's chief rabbis, in keeping with state tradition, sold the country's leavened foods to an Israeli Arab from a suburban Jerusalem town Tuesday for a $4,350 down payment.

The man will sell the food back to the state after the holiday ends, and the buyer will have his money reimbursed. Ahead of the holiday, media reported heavily on the growing poverty in Israel, and soup kitchens and not-for-profit groups were busy Wednesday handing out the last of holiday meals to tens of thousands of destitute Israelis.

Israel's economy grew more than 5 percent in 2005, but many of Israel's disadvantaged, hurt by deep cuts in the government's social spending, didn't feel the upturn.

Well you don't think World flooding is happening, just look at the titles of my last few weeks stories. California, Kenya, Israel, Europe, Australia. All had storms and flooding.

Like a preacher predicted in a revelation from God, first California gets a Earthquake as a warning, then California gets destroyed by a Tsunami in the future.

Northern California Saturated by Rain, Faces Mudslides, Floods April 12 (Bloomberg) --

Northern California, saturated by the wettest weather in more than 100 years, may get more storms in the next four days that threaten to weaken hillsides and undermine levees already at bursting point.

``The ground is saturated. It really can't hold any more water,'' Don Strickland, a spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources, said today in a phone interview. ``The reservoirs are full, the levees are sodden which makes them vulnerable, and it's still raining.''

Scattered showers may last through Sunday, when heavier rainstorms are forecast to drench the Bay Area, said Steve Anderson, a National Weather Service forecaster in Monterey, California. San Francisco had its wettest month of March since 1904, the weather service said.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared an emergency in seven northern and central California counties this week. Flood warnings have been issued in Northern California, and rising water levels threaten levees from the Sacramento area to communities along the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley.

If we want to learn by the Israelis we better start reading the scriptures they do on feasts and holy days, because Prophecies will be happening on those days and they will go by what the Israelis read on these days I believe. How the judgements will come upon the Earth.

Here are the Passover scriptures for Christians to read along with Israelis on each of the 8 days of passover. HAPPY PASSOVER TO ISRAEL STARTING TOMORROW AND HAPPY EASTER TO CHRISTIANS ALSO ESPECIALLY FRIDAY TO MONDAY.

PESACH ( PASSOVER ) ISRAEL FREED FROM EGPYT BY GOD


DAY 1 OF PASSOVER FROM TORAH ( WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 2006)

EXODUS 12:21-51
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

NUMBERS 28:16-25
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

DAY 1 OF PASSOVER FROM THE PROPHETS (WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 2006)

JOSHUA 3:5-7
5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

JOSHUA 5:2-6:1,27
2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the
place is called Gilgal unto this day.
10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

ISAIAH 52:13-53:12
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

2ND DAY OF PASSOVER (TORAH) (THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2006)

LEVITICUS 22:26-23:44
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall
wave it.12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

NUMBERS 28:16-25 READ FROM DAY 1

DAY 2 OF PASSOVER FROM THE PROPHETS (THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2006)

2 KINGS 23:1-9,21-25
1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

SHABBAT( FRIDAY) DURING PASSOVER (FROM TORAH) (FRIDAY APRIL 14, 2006)

EXODUS 33:12-34:26
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

SHABBAT ( FRIDAY ) DURING PASSOVER (FROM PROPHETS) (FRIDAY APRIL 14, 2006)

EZEKIEL 36:37-37:14
37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MIDDLE DAYS DURING PASSOVER (FROM TORAH) (SAT APRIL 15 - MON APRIL 17, 2006)
NUMBERS 28:19-25 (READ FROM DAY 1)

MIDDLE DAYS DURING PASSOVER (FROM PROPHETS) (SAT APRIL 15 - MON APR 17, 2006)

EZEKIEL 37:1-14 (READ FROM SHABBAT DURING PASSOVER FROM PROPHETS)

7TH DAY OF PASSOVER (FROM TORAH) (TUESDAY APRIL 18,2006)

EXODUS 13:17-15:26
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

NUMBERS 28:19-25 (READ FROM DAY 1)

7TH DAY OF PASSOVER (FROM PROPHETS) (TUESDAY APRIL 18, 2006)

2 SAMUEL 22:1-51
1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the
blast of the breath of his nostrils.17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

8TH DAY OF PASSOVER (FROM TORAH) (WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 2006)

DEUTERONOMY 15:19-16:17
19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

NUMBERS 28:19-25 (READ FROM DAY 1)

8TH DAY OF PASSOVER (FROM PROPHETS) (WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 2006)

ISAIAH 10:32-12:6
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

SCRIPTURES ANYTIME DURING THE FESTIVAL OF PASSOVER

MATTHEW CHAPTERS 26-28
MARK CHAPTERS 14-16
LUKE CHAPTERS 22-24
JOHN CHAPTERS 13-21

Flash Floods in Kenya Kill Several, Displace Thousands
voa news

Red Cross says Isiolo area hardest hit April rains have triggered flash floods in parts of Kenya, including Nairobi, displacing thousands of people and killing at least three.

Abbas Gullet is the secretary general of the Kenyan Red Cross / Red Crescent Society. From Nairobi, he spoke to English to Africa reporter Joe De Capua about the floods. “We’ve been facing this very serious drought that we have faced for many years and now the long rains have finally come to most parts of the country. So there have been heavy rainfalls received
in many parts of the country and in particular in northern Kenya in Moyale, Marsabit, Mandera, Isiolo.

But the area (most) affected was Isiolo and in Garba Tula Division where about 3,000 people were displaced by flash floods four days ago. And they were serious, but the waters have subsided in that area. The Red Cross has been in the area since Saturday. This happened Thursday last week and we were there Friday, Saturday and distributed some relief items. There are floods reported in other parts of the country, but not very serious yet. God forbid, it doesn't become serious, he says. However, rain over the past five days caused flash floods in poor parts of the Kenyan capital. Gullet says,There are three people who have lost their lives also in the city of Nairobi in some of the slums.

The flood victims lived along riverbanks. The Red Cross / Red Crescent Society has dealt with such problems before.This is a perennial problem, he says. There is also concern that the rains could trigger outbreaks of disease.

Well just like i mentioned would happen in the future 80-120 pound hail will be falling on people during the 7 yr tribulation, well here is a sample of the future.

REVELATION 16:16-21
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: (80-120 pounds) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

This hail falls on people when all Nations are gathered against JERUSALEM. This is at the very end of the 7 yr treaty just before Jesus returns to earth bodily.

Three foot block of ice falls in Oakland Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. - Even the experts are having trouble explaining a solid block of ice that fell from the sky, crashed into earth and left behind a three-foot hole in the grass.

The ice fell at Bushrod Park in Oakland early Saturday when homeowner Jacek Purat of Berkeley was waiting nearby to show apartments to prospective renters. "It was totally amazing. ... I saw this flash, like a streak. Then I saw this explosion, like a big boom! I came over and it (the field) was all covered with ice. Some were this big," Purat said, making a head-size circle with his two hands.

Brooks and Judith Mencher said they were standing on their back porch near the park when they heard a sound like a very loud rocket. "It kind of went 'whoosh!'" Brooks Mencher said.
The impact "knocked turf 20 feet away," according to Oakland Police Sgt. Ron Lighten. No one was injured.

Lt. Charles Glass of the Oakland Fire Hazardous Materials Team said the ice was pure water. "It didn't come from a toilet on a plane or anything like that." Glass said the ice that firefighters pulled from the hole was about the same size of the hole - three by three feet and two and a
half feet deep.

Tony Hirsch, a Columbus, Ohio-based aviation expert, said ice falls of pure water are not uncommon: "Ice builds up on airplanes and falls off as they prepare to land." But Hirsch said the airplane "would have to descend through what we call visible moisture, rain or clouds, for ice to build up."

The skies were partly cloudy Saturday morning. He said a large chunk of ice could build up on the vertical stabilizer or in a wheel well: "When they lower their landing gear, it falls off."
The National Weather Service said San Francisco Bay area storms haven't been violent enough to hatch a gigantic hailstone on its own. "There's nothing meteorological that would create a piece that big falling into Oakland," said weather service forecaster Diana Henderson.

It could simply be an unexplained "ice fall," one expert said. Big balls of ice sometimes fall from the sky without any real explanation.

Its about time George W goes after Iran, and let Israel do some bombings to, to get back at Iran for suppling Missles from Russia to Hamas in the Gaza strip. If they do not Bomb Iran the first wave of WW3 when Ruusia and the Muslims march to Israel could happen.

Even though I think the 1ST WAVE OF WW3 is after the Rapture of the Church, then the 7 year treaty signing, then midway through this 7 yr covenant Russia and the Muslim horde march. I BELIEVE!

But our God (JESUS) is in control and all I have to say is let Gods prophecies be fulfilled so he gets the praise and glory. And I pray this in KING JESUS' (OUR GODS) name AMEN AND AMEN. It is done.

Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sitesBy Philip Sherwell in Washington
(Filed: 09/04/2006)

The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

Mahmoud Ahmedinejad: 'The new Hitler'

Some US military chiefs have unsuccessfully urged the White House to drop the nuclear option from its war plans, Hersh writes in The New Yorker magazine. The conviction that Mr Ahmedinejad would attack Israel or US forces in the Middle East, if Iran obtains atomic weapons, is what drives American planning for the destruction of Teheran's nuclear programme.
Hersh claims that one of the plans, presented to the White House by the Pentagon, entails the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites.

One alleged target is Iran's main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, 200 miles south of Teheran.
Although Iran claims that its nuclear programme is peaceful, US and European intelligence agencies are certain that Teheran is trying to develop atomic weapons. In contrast to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, there are no disagreements within Western intelligence about Iran's plans.
This newspaper disclosed recently that senior Pentagon strategists are updating plans to strike Iran's nuclear sites with long-distance B2 bombers and submarine-launched missiles. And last week, the Sunday Telegraph reported a secret meeting at the Ministry of Defence where military chiefs and officials from Downing Street and the Foreign Office discussed the
consequences of an American-led attack on Iran, and Britain's role in any such action.

The military option is opposed by London and other European capitals. But there are growing fears in No 10 and the Foreign Office that the British-led push for a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear stand-off, will be swept aside by hawks in Washington. Hersh says that within the Bush administration, there are concerns that even a pummelling by conventional strikes, may not sufficiently damage Iran's buried nuclear plants. Iran has been developing a series of bunkers and facilities to provide hidden command centres for its leaders and to protect its
nuclear infrastructure.

The lack of reliable intelligence about these subterranean facilities, is fuelling pressure for tactical nuclear weapons to be included in the strike plans as the only guaranteed means to destroy all the sites simultaneously. The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings among the joint chiefs of staff, and some officers have talked about resigning, Hersh has been told. The military chiefs sought to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans for Iran, without success, a former senior intelligence officer said. The Pentagon consultant on the war on terror confirmed that some in the administration were looking seriously at this option, which he linked to a resurgence of interest in tactical nuclear weapons among defence department political appointees.

The election of Mr Ahmedinejad last year, has hardened attitudes within the Bush Administration. The Iranian president has said that Israel should be "wiped off the map". He has drafted in former fellow Revolutionary Guards commanders to run the nuclear programme, in further signs that he is preparing to back his threats with action. Mr Bush and others in the White House view him as a potential Adolf Hitler, a former senior intelligence official told Hersh.

"That's the name they're using. They say, 'Will Iran get a strategic weapon and threaten another world war?' Despite America's public commitment to diplomacy, there is a growing belief in Washington that the only solution to the crisis is regime change. A senior Pentagon consultant said that Mr Bush believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy". Publicly, the US insists it remains committed to diplomacy to solve the crisis. But with Russia apparently intent on vetoing any threat of punitive action at the UN, the Bush administration is also planning for unilateral military action. Hersh repeated his claims that the US has intensified clandestine activities inside Iran, using special forces to identify targets and establish contact with anti-Teheran ethnic-minority groups.

The senior defence officials said that Mr Bush is "determined to deny Iran the opportunity to begin a pilot programme, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium".

© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2006

Well for the second time in 5 days Tornadoes destroy and kill people, another 11 died for a total of 35 deaths in the last week due to 80-90 Tornadoes.

The Hail was once again the size of Golf balls to soft Balls in places. Last year to this point in the Tornado season there were 96 Tornadoes. This year there has been over 400 Tornadoes already, a 400% increase in Tornado activity.

People better start realizing that God is warning the world to repent. And this is only the beggining of sorrows to come in the near future.

10 different tennessee counties reported Tornado touchdowns.

Tornadoes strike Tennessee, kill 11 By Pat Harris Sat Apr 8, 12:05 AM ET NASHVILLE,

Tennessee (Reuters) - Tornadoes battered the nation's midsection on Friday, killing 11 people in central Tennessee in the second deadly tornado outbreak in the state this week, officials said.
The winds knocked over walls at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin where some 200 students had huddled inside a building and watched as the storm approached. Despite the heavy damage to the campus, the injuries were mostly minor cuts and bruises.

What had been stately brick homes near Gallatin were heavily damaged, and rubble was strewn across upscale neighborhoods. And several people were rescued after being trapped in their cars by storm debris. The 11 confirmed deaths were in communities near Nashville, including eight fatalities northeast of the city in the outskirts of Gallatin in Sumner County, said Eddie Boatwright of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.

In Warren County, where the other three deaths occurred, authorities said some mobile homes were destroyed and a truck overturned. A series of tornadoes on Sunday across the central United States left 28 people dead, including 24 in west Tennessee where a huge twister obliterated homes in its path. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center reported 42 tornadoes were sighted on Friday in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana and Kentucky. The violent weather grew out of a powerful storm system working its way across
the nation.

Warning sirens sounded across central Tennessee on Friday as dark funnel clouds sent tornadoes spinning to the ground, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, some as big as baseballs, witnesses said."Cars were tossed around" in Nashville's suburbs, the city's mayor, Bill Purcell, said, although the city itself appeared to have been spared.

A tornado damaged a hospital in Ashland City, though no one was hurt. Patients had to be transferred to another facility. A pylon carrying power lines collapsed on a home in Ashland City. The storm uprooted trees and downed power lines, knocking out power to thousands, authorities said.

Ironically, authorities were holding emergency response drills in Nashville to prepare in the event several disasters struck simultaneously. Earlier on Friday, volunteers simulated a plague outbreak, a skyscraper collapse and a bomb blast at a popular venue."We were all highly mobilized because of this exercise," Purcell said.

WILL NUCLEAR WEAPONS BE USED IN THE FUTURE?

YESSSSSSS DEFINATELY.

INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.

2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

Iran has missiles to carry nuclear warheads By Con Coughlin(Filed: 07/04/2006)

Iran has successfully developed ballistic missiles with the capability to carry nuclear warheads.
Detailed analysis of recent test firings of the Shahab-3 ballistic missile by military experts has concluded that Iran has been able to modify the nose cone to carry a basic nuclear bomb. The discovery will intensify international pressure on Teheran to provide a comprehensive breakdown of its nuclear research programme.

An Iranian Shahab-3 missile on parade in Teheran Last week, the United Nations Security Council gave Iran 30 days to freeze its uranium enrichment programme that many experts believe is part of a clandestine attempt to produce nuclear weapons.

Iran denies it is trying to acquire a nuclear arsenal. But ballistic missile experts advising the United States say it has succeeded in reconfiguring the Shahab-3 to carry nuclear weapons.
The Shahab-3 is a modified version of North Korea's Nodong missile which itself is based on the old Soviet-made Scud.

The Nodong, which Iran secretly acquired from North Korea in the mid-1990s, is designed to carry a conventional warhead. But Iranian engineers have been working for several years to adapt the Shahab-3 to carry nuclear weapons.

"This is a major breakthrough for the Iranians," said a senior US official. "They have been trying to do this for years and now they have succeeded. It is a very disturbing development."
The Shahab 3 has a range of 800 miles, enabling it to hit a wide range of targets throughout the Middle East - including Israel.

Apart from modifying the nose cone, Iranian technicians are also trying to make a number of technical adjustments that will enable the missile to travel a greater distance. Western intelligence officials believe that Iran is receiving assistance from teams of Russian and Chinese experts with experience of developing nuclear weapons. Experts who have studied the latest version of the Shahab have identified modifications to the nose cone.

Instead of the single cone normally attached to this type of missile, the new Shahab has three cones, or a triconic, warhead. A triconic warhead allows the missile to accommodate a nuclear device and this type of warhead is normally found only in nuclear weapons.

According to the new research, the Iranian warhead is designed to carry a spherical nuclear weapon that would be detonated 2,000 feet above the ground, similar to the Hiroshima bomb.
Although US defence officials believe that Iran is several years away from acquiring nuclear weapons, they point out that the warhead could hold a version of the nuclear bomb Pakistan is known to have developed. Iran has acquired a detailed breakdown of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

The development of the Shahab-3 is just one element of a wide-ranging missile development programme. In 2003 the Iranians concluded another secret deal with North Korea to buy the Taepo Dong 2 missile, which has a range of 2,200 miles and would enable Iran to hit targets in mainland Europe.

Earlier this week the Iranians announced that they had successfully test-fired a new missile, the Fajr-3, which has the capability to evade radar systems and carry multiple warheads.

First the lies of the Divinci Code that said Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a Child. Now the lies that says Jesus asked Judas to have him killed.

These are doctrines of demons and people believing these lies as the Bible says would happen in the last days before Jesus would return to Earth.

JUDE 14:4-18
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

2 PETER 3:3-7,12
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2,16
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;(OF JESUS) continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

2 TIMOTHY 4:1-4
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Ancient text amends the Jesus-Judas story By John Noble Wilford and Laurie Goodstein
The New York Times FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2006

An early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years. The text gives new insights into the relationship of Jesus and the disciple who betrayed him, scholars reported Thursday. In this version, Jesus asked Judas, as a close friend, to sell him out to the authorities.Though some theologians have hypothesized this, scholars who have studied the newfound text said, this is the first time an
ancient document defends the idea.

The discovery in the desert of Egypt of the leather-bound papyrus manuscript, and now its translation, was announced by the National Geographic Society at a news conference in Washington. The 26-page Judas text is said to be a copy in Coptic, made around A.D. 300, of the original Gospel of Judas, written in Greek the century before. Terry Garcia, an executive vice president of the geographic society, said the manuscript, or codex, is considered by scholars
and scientists to be the most significant ancient, nonbiblical text to be found in 60 years.

"The codex has been authenticated as a genuine work of ancient Christian apocryphal literature," Garcia said, citing extensive tests of radiocarbon dating, ink analysis and multispectral imaging and studies of the script and linguistic style. The ink, for example, was consistent with ink of that era, and there was no evidence of multiple rewriting."This is absolutely typical of ancient Coptic manuscripts," said Stephen Emmel, professor of Coptic studies at the University of Munster in Germany. "I am completely convinced."The most revealing passages in the Judas manuscript begins, "The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot during a week, three days before he celebrated Passover.

The account goes on to relate that Jesus refers to the other disciples, telling Judas "you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me." By that, scholars familiar with Gnostic thinking said, Jesus meant that by helping him get rid of his physical flesh, Judas will act to liberate the true spiritual self or divine being within Jesus. Unlike the accounts in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the anonymous author of the Gospel of Judas believed that Judas Iscariot alone among the 12 disciples understood the meaning of Jesus's teachings and acceded to his will. In the diversity of early Christian thought, a group known as Gnostics believed in a secret knowledge of how people could escape the prisons of their material bodies and return to the spiritual realm from which they came.

Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton who specializes in studies of the Gnostics, said in a statement, "These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion, and demonstrating how diverse - and fascinating - the early Christian movement really was."
The Gospel of Judas is only one of many texts discovered in the last 65 years, including the gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene and Philip, believed to be written by Gnostics. The Gnostics' beliefs were often viewed by bishops and early church leaders as unorthodox, and they were frequently denounced as heretics. The discoveries of Gnostic texts have shaken up Biblical scholarship by revealing the diversity of beliefs and practices among early followers of Jesus.

As the findings have trickled down to churches and universities, they have produced a new generation of Christians who now regard the Bible not as the literal word of God, but as a product of historical and political forces that determined which texts should be included in the canon, and which edited out. For that reason, the discoveries have proved deeply troubling for many believers. The Gospel of Judas portrays Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus, but as his most favored disciple and willing collaborator. Scholars say that they have long been on the lookout for the Gospel of Judas because of a reference to what was probably an early version of it in a text called Against Heresies, written by Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons, about the year 180.

Irenaeus was a hunter of heretics, and no friend of the Gnostics. He wrote, "They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which they style the Gospel of Judas."Karen King, a professor of the history of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, and an expert in Gnosticism who has not yet read the manuscript released Thursday, said that the Gospel of Judas may well reflect the kinds of debates that arose in the second and third century among Christians."You can see how early Christians could say, if Jesus's death was all part of God's plan, then Judas's betrayal was part of God's plan," said King, the author of several books on the Gospel of Mary.
"So what does that make Judas? Is he the betrayer, or the facilitator of salvation, the guy who makes the crucifixion possible?"

At least one scholar said the new manuscript does not contain anything dramatic that would change or undermine traditional understanding of the Bible. James Robinson, a retired professor of Coptic studies at Claremont Graduate University, was the general editor of the English
edition of the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of Gnostic documents discovered in Egypt in 1945."Correctly understood, there's nothing undermining about the Gospel of Judas," Robinson said in a telephone interview. He said that the New Testament gospels of John and Mark both contain passages that suggest that Jesus not only picked Judas to betray him, but actually encouraged Judas to hand him over to those he knew would crucify him. Robinson's book, "The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and his Lost Gospel," predicted the
contents of the Gospel of Judas based on his knowledge of Gnostic and Coptic texts, even though he was not part of the team of researchers working on the document.

The Egyptian copy of the gospel was written on 13 sheets of papyrus, both front and back, and found in a multitude of brittle fragments. Rudolphe Kasser, a Swiss scholar of Coptic studies, directed the team that reconstructed and translated the script. The effort, organized by the National Geographic, was supported by Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art, in Basel,
Switzerland, and the Waitt Institute for Historical Discovery, an American nonprofit organization for the application of technology in historical and scientific projects. The entire 66-page codex also contains a text titled James (also known as First Apocalypse of James), a letter by Peter and a text of what scholars are provisionally calling Book of Allogenes. Discovered in the 1970s in a cavern near El Minya, Egypt, the document circulated for years among antiquities dealers in Egypt, then Europe and finally in the United States.

It moldered in a safe-deposit box at a bank in Hicksville, New York, for 16 years before being bought in 2000 by a Zurich dealer, Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos. The manuscript was given the name Codex Tchacos. When attempts to resell the codex failed, Nussberger-Tchacos turned it over to the Maecenas Foundation for conservation and translation. Robinson said that an Egyptian antiquities dealer offered to sell him the document in 1983 for $3 million, but that he could not raise the money. He criticized the scholars now associated with the project, some of whom are his former students, because he said they violated an agreement made years ago by Coptic scholars that new discoveries should be made accessible to all qualified scholars.

The manuscript will ultimately be returned to Egypt, where it was discovered, and housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo. Ted Waitt, founder and former chief executive of Gateway, said that his foundation, the Waitt Institute for Historical Discovery, gave the National Geographic Society a grant of more than $1 million to restore and preserve the manuscript and make it
available to the public."I didn't know a whole lot until I got into this about the early days of Christianity. It was just extremely fascinating to me," Waitt said. He said he had no motivation other than being fascinated by the finding. He said that after the document was carbon dated
and the ink tested, procedures his foundation paid for, he had no question about its authenticity. "You can potentially question the translation and the interpretation, he said, but you can't fake something like this. It would be impossible."

New Evangelical Group Could Buck Promised West Bank Pullouts

Pro-Israel group led by leading Evangelist Rev. John Hagee will seek to influence U.S.-Mideast policy. James D. Besser - Washington Correspondent

A newly created Evangelical pro-Israel lobby group could clash head-on with an Israeli government determined to pull out from 90 percent of the West Bank by 2010 and with the Jewish groups that will line up to support it. Leaders of Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, predict their group will be a major force in American politics like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying giant that has activists in virtually every congressional district.

And they insist their support for the Jewish state won’t come with any strings, political or theological. But some Jewish leaders are skeptical.“It raises questions,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.In November, Foxman sounded the alarm over Evangelical groups that he said were trying to “Christianize” the nation. But he said he still welcomes Evangelical support for Israel — with some conditions.“Will they be able to differentiate between their biblical prophecy mode and their pragmatic pro-Israel mode?” Foxman asked. “Maybe they will. We’ll have to wait and see.

”Other pro-Israel leaders noted that CUFI officials have adamantly maintained that Israel has a right to all of the territories and opposed last year’s Israeli withdrawal from Gaza — positions that will almost certainly conflict with those of the new Israeli government.“If they oppose the government, it’s an anti-Israel lobby as far as I’m concerned,” said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Yoffie cautioned that CUFI, which will gather in Washington in July for its initial meeting — has yet to flesh out its positions. But he warned that “if we’re talking about a group that is going to oppose any territorial flexibility for Israel, we’re talking about a group that opposes the government of Israel and the clear will of its people.

I would consider that dangerous to Israel.”CUFI was created by Pastor John Hagee, founder and spiritual leader of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, which has become one of the nation’s largest mega-churches, claiming more than 18,000 members. His ministry also broadcasts on television and the Internet.Rev. Hagee has raised millions of dollars for Israel, but an official with a San Antonio Jewish group said “he prefers to give his money through the Houston federation because he feels there are many in the San Antonio [Jewish] community who do not trust his intentions.”Last week Rev. Hagee briefed a select group of Jewish leaders in New York under the auspices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

A participant said “he was asked directly, could his group support further land give-backs? What he said was that there are many ways it could support Israel. The sense I got was that while they won’t support it, they may not oppose it.“At the same time,” the participant continued, “he was very clear that the Bible said God gave the land to the Jewish people, and that they’re not supposed to give it away.”Rev. Hagee emphasized to the Jewish leaders that CUFI would not “support conversionary behavior, it would not allow proselytizing,” this participant said.Asked exactly what a biblical mandate to the land meant, “he did not address the more controversial elements of the question,” the participant said. “He merely said he sees certain passages in the Old Testament as a ‘real estate contract’ with the Jews.

“My sense is that he’s well coached. He’s been told where the hot buttons are and how to avoid them. He’s not going to step on a land mine,” the participant said.“We believe there is a lot of Christian support for Israel out there that hasn't been effectively mobilized on a timely basis in Washington,” said Gary Bauer, the former GOP presidential hopeful and now president of American Values, a conservative group. Bauer is on the CUFI board and is handling its Washington operations. “What we hope is that when an issue comes up, such as no taxpayer money for Hamas, CUFI will be able to get to a lot of different Christian organizations around the country to mobilize them.”He said he expects the group to work closely with AIPAC. “I am in regular contact with them,” he said.An early project of the group will be to organize “honor Israel” nights in churches around the country to “send a strong signal to our friends in Israel and hopefully encourage the Jewish community in the United States.

”Rev. Hagee has been a leading Christian supporter of Israel and in a series of books, a leading interpreter of biblical prophecies about the Christian apocalypse. His publisher says he is “known best nationally for his End-Time writings.”In his most recent, “Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World,” he writes of the Iranian threat to the Jewish state.Muslim countries, he said, “may agree to sign a peace accord, but if they do, it will be one that is good for only seven years, and it will only be for the purpose of redeveloping their army for the destruction of Israel.”When he talks about the need to support Israel, Hagee downplays his prophetic perspective. But on his ministry Web site, he lays out his position: “I believe that the generation that is alive today will see the mass ingathering of believers commonly called the Rapture.”That refers to the belief that Bible-believing Christians will be removed from the earth before a terrible seven-year “tribulation” period that many Evangelicals say will immediately precede the return of Christ.

His 1996 book “The Beginning of the End” was subtitled “The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Coming Antichrist.”In his 1998 book “Final Dawn Over Jerusalem,” he writes, “Christians and Jews, let us stand united and indivisible on this issue: There can be no compromise regarding the city of Jerusalem, not now, not ever. We are racing toward the end of time, and Israel lies in the eye of the storm.”In 2002, Rev. Hagee in a sermon called the coming Iraq war “the gateway to the Apocalypse.”Rev. Hagee, unlike many other prophetic preachers, has avoided publicly detailing what will happen to Israel and to Jews when these events come to pass. But Paul Boyer, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin and a leading expert on the religious right, said he is “very much within the camp of fundamentalist biblical prophecy believers.

”Part of that view, Boyer said, “is that Jews will have the right to the biblical land and to rebuild the Temple but also, when the ‘antichrist’ arises, there will be a mass persecution of the Jews, two-thirds of whom will be slaughtered. It will be worse than the Holocaust.”Boyer said Rev. Hagee “focuses entirely on what you might call the brighter side of the story — the right of the Jews to the land — and does not follow up with the darker side.”The prophetic view, he said, insists that “God’s plan must be fulfilled, and any proposals or steps toward compromise on any of these questions — the Jewish right to the land, Jewish control of the Temple Mount — is contrary to God’s plan and must be opposed.”If that becomes part of the CUFI platform, it could put the new lobby group “in a real dilemma,” Boyer said. “You could have a pro-Israel lobby that lobbies against the policies of the Israeli government.

”And that could affect U.S. policy in the region, he said.“Potentially it builds a body of political momentum in America against compromise, against any hope of resolving the conflict short of the total destruction of one side,” Boyer said. “It’s built in to the apocalyptic worldview that sees everything in absolute terms heading to a final confrontation between good and evil.”Even some Jewish leaders who have criticized the Christian right say they are not too worried about sweeping prophetic visions affecting U.S. policy. But several said they will be watching the group closely.Rabbi James Rudin, the former interreligious director of the American Jewish Committee and author of the recent book “The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans for the Rest of Us,” said the possibility of the group being guided by apocalyptic prophecy is “a risk, but I don’t think it’s very likely.”

Rabbi Rudin said he welcomes the support of Evangelical Christians such as Rev. Hagee because “we don’t have the luxury, given the extreme situation Israel has always found itself in, of saying we can’t accept their support because of their motives.”Jewish leaders are more worried about the possibility the new lobby will actively work with opponents of the current Israeli government’s policies, especially as it begins the controversial process of leaving most of the West Bank.“My view is, we should respect him and suspect him,” Foxman said. “We certainly do not need a new lobby in Washington that will selectively support the Israeli government’s positions.”Gary Bauer, the CUFI board member, conceded that there could be clashes between the group's core beliefs on issues like Israel's right to all the land and supporting the elected government in Israel.“Pastor Hagee is still wrestling with what is the proper approach,” he said. “We are both very skeptical that (the Olmert plan) will bring peace, and there is widespread agreement that giving up any of Jerusalem would not only be ill-advised from a strategic standpoint but would cause widespread consternation among Israel's Christian friends.”He said he has been “critical of people who sit in the safety of Washington, DC and lecture Israel on what it should or shouldn't do.

But he also disputed whether Israel's recent election was a mandate for withdrawal.“The way I look at the elections, I don't think there is a consensus in Israel that it's the right approach. In such a gigantic thing for an nation like Israel to do that you would want a much larger consensus than there appears to be.”If CUFI does oppose new withdrawals, it could be a big boost for groups like the Zionist Organization of America and Americans for a Safe Israel, which have already announced plans to fight the plan in Congress and the media.

The European Counterweight : A Leaderless Superpower

With its expansion to 25 member states, the European Union is poised to become a vast federal superstate. As it seeks to be a “counterweight” to U.S. Global interests, will Europe replace America as the world’s leading superpower?
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It has more people (454.7 million) than the United States—a larger consumer market—more troops (collectively, almost two million armed forces personnel)—and, with more votes on the United Nations Security Council and every other international body, stronger political muscle.
It has a president, a legislative body, a flag, a national anthem, a motto (“Unity in Diversity”), open borders between member states, a constitution (yet to be ratified), a Bill of Rights, and a court system that can overrule the highest of any member court.

It also has an emerging common culture that speaks a common language: English. (ONE SINGLE LANGUAGE, MODERN DAY TOWER OF BABEL).

The decades-old European dream of becoming a kind of “United States of Europe” is becoming a reality. Speaking at the Carnegie Council’s “Books for Breakfast” program, T.R. Reid, bureau chief for The Washington Post and author of the book The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy, observed, “I think it’s fair to say that
Europe is more united today than at any time since the Roman Empire.

Let Europe Arise!”

Within a 75-year span, the European continent was ravaged by three brutal war campaigns: the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), World War I (1914-18) and World War II (1939-45). Together, an estimated 60 to 70 million Europeans were killed. In the aftermath of WWII, the United States became a world-leading superpower, countered by the Soviet Union. As the Iron
Curtain came down on Europe, dividing East from West, war-torn nations on both sides raced to rebuild their armed forces.

Another continental war seemed to loom on the horizon. And so leaders, thinkers, idealists and religionists set out to fulfill a vision: a reorganized Europe free from nationalist strife, military competition and arms races. On September 19, 1946, in Zurich, Switzerland, Winston Churchill gave a speech that addressed the state of Europe and its future. “If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance,” he said, “there would be no limit to the happiness, to the prosperity and the glory which its three or four hundred million people would enjoy.

…all the while there is a remedy which, if it were generally and spontaneously adopted by the great majority of people in many lands, would as if by a miracle transform the whole scene, and would in a few years make all Europe, or the greater part of it, as free and as happy as Switzerland is today.

What is this sovereign remedy? It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”Churchill proposed that this unified European state be spearheaded by a partnership between France and Germany. Continuing, he said, “The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important. Small nations will count as much as large ones and gain their honor by their contribution to the common cause.

we must re-create the European Family in a regional structure called, it may be, the United States of Europe. And the first practical step would be to form a Council of Europe. If at first all the States of Europe are not willing or able to join the Union, we must nevertheless proceed to assemble and combine those who will and those who can. The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

In all this urgent work, France and Germany must take the lead together. Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations, mighty America and I trust Soviet Russia—for then indeed all would be well—must be the friends and sponsors of the new Europe and must champion its right to live and shine.

“Therefore I say to you: let Europe arise!

Churchill’s speech laid the groundwork for today’s European Union—and marked the prophetic path it will take.

From “Military Pygmy” to “Flabby Giant

Before the EU’s expansion to 25 members, the commander of NATO called Europe a “military pygmy.” Since then, the EU’s combined military manpower has grown to almost two million armed forces personnel—more than the United States. Yet the same commander upgraded Europe to being only a “flabby giant,” because its troops are not united into a large, single
military force. There still remains a technological gap between European forces and the U.S. military, especially in transportation, intelligence and modern weapons technology. But the EU would rather spend funds on its burgeoning welfare programs and let the U.S. protect it from external threats.

Indeed, one of the key reasons for forming the EU was to find an alternative to war. Today, European politicians and academics tend to view the use of military force as a relic held over from the era of colonialism and world-spanning empires. In their secular thinking, war is judged as a waste of time and money, and is immoral. Yet this thinking is bound to change as the European Union grows into an economic, political and, potentially, military juggernaut. It already possesses virtually every component necessary to be a counterweight to American supremacy.

Could men, when given access to such power, deny human nature and pass up the opportunity to become the global leader in all arenas? With 25 democratic nations each having a say in EU affairs, the government is too large and unwieldy to govern efficiently and effectively. Only when the member states concentrate on countering U.S. interests are they unified and unanimous. Just as a corporation, school system or church cannot be successfully governed by committee, neither can a government. Someone must be in charge—someone must take responsibility for when things go wrong—someone must captain the ship.

To become a federal superstate with supranational governance, capable of executing decisions with speed and precision, Europe must have a strong leader guiding the way.

Plans are already in the works.

A Future EU Foreign Minister?

To do away with bureaucratic confusion and institutional frictions, and to establish a stronger foreign policy presence, the EU Constitution introduced the creation of a future office: EU Minister for Foreign Affairs. This individual’s role would be to represent the EU’s foreign interests and positions—to allow the 25 member-states of Europe to speak with one voice and act jointly in international affairs.

The future EU foreign minister would also be vice-president of the European Commission, responsible for external relations—development issues, human rights, foreign and security policies, etc.—and chair the Foreign Affairs Council. To assist in carrying out the functions of this office, the EU Constitutional Treaty calls for the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), which would be an administrative body the foreign minister would preside over, and from which he would appoint EU ambassadors.

Issues have already arisen, such as working out and agreeing to the foreign minister’s powers and duties; deciding if he will have his own independent secretariat, or be part of the Council or the Commission; and determining whether he should be authorized to represent the EU in trade and development policy. Suppose that this new office successfully allows Europe to carry out its foreign policy and interests speedily and effectively. Would EU leaders conclude that a similar office needs to be created—one that would handle Europe’s internal affairs?

A “Club Within a Club”

The EU requires unanimity in deciding key issues. Yet, ever since expanding to its present size—25 nations, all desiring a say in how the government should operate—administration has become unwieldy. For instance, EU members cannot agree as to how Europe should address the economy and high unemployment within member nations. Such division keeps the EU from effectively challenging America’s financial clout, or China’s increasing economic presence.

Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has offered a bold solution: the creation of an EU core. This “United States of Europe,” a name Mr. Verhofstadt has proposed, would function as a “club within a club” of the EU political machine. Only a small group of member-states bound closely together, he argues, would solve the current administrative logjam.

The model for Mr. Verhofstadt’s proposal already exists: The 12-nation single currency euro zone—Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain. “Twelve countries within the European Union have already handed control over their monetary policy to the European Central Bank. When EU finance ministers meet, the 12 ministers from the euro zone hold talks among themselves before they meet the 13 colleagues whose countries haven’t adopted the euro.

“In that pre-meeting, the most important decisions for the euro zone are made—in the club of the avant-garde. And it’s a model that could conceivable be transferred from finance policy to other areas—with the euro zone core leading the way” (“European Union’s Future: A Club Within a Club,” Der Spiegel). Both Paris and Berlin have shown interest in this proposal.

How Will It All Come Together?

With Europe weighed down by bureaucracy and regulations, and inefficiently governed by committee, dramatic changes in government must take place before the EU can surpass America’s global leadership. Imagine this future scenario: The materialistic morals and values of secular Europe have left a spiritual hunger in the lives of millions, waiting to be satisfied. Conditions are ripe for a charismatic religious leader to fill this spiritual void. Through
awesome miraculous powers—bleeding statues, signs in the sky?—this leader sparks a religious revival throughout the continent; Europe’s spiritual roots are re-awakened.

As was done for centuries in European history, this religious leader, backed by throngs of fervent believers, will use his new-found standing to influence government policy and civil laws. Through him, religion gains a voice in state affairs. He then uses his clout to endorse a popular European statesman who shares his values and vision for Europe—perhaps a “rising star” whom many see as destined for a bright political future. (Could this man’s shrewdness, charm and deft diplomacy become evident with his successful tenure as the EU’s foreign minister?)

The religious leader uses his increasing authority to influence—even pressure—the heads of the “club within a club” to hand over governing powers and authority to his political counterpart. Europe is no longer ruled by committee, but by one man—one voice—one will and purpose.
Does this sound far-fetched? Is it even conceivable that secular Europe would zealously embrace religion and transform itself from democracy to one-man rule?

Before you answer, remember the world before 9/11: Who would have dreamed that a group of terrorists could hijack four U.S. planes, demolish the twin towers of the World Trade Center and destroy a portion of the Pentagon? Who would have imagined that the U.S. and its allies would wage a worldwide war on terrorism, invading Afghanistan and Iraq, and toppling the
government of Saddam Hussein?

This may come as a surprise, but this hard-to-believe scenario was foretold long ago in an ancient book of historic records, poetic writings and religious text. It’s called the Bible. While it continues to be the world’s leading bestseller, the Bible is greatly misunderstood and sorely misinterpreted by hundreds of millions of readers.

Even the overwhelming majority of Christians and their most highly educated religious leaders cannot comprehend its teachings. For instance, very few know or understand that an estimated one-third of the Bible is prophecy, 90% of which pertains to our time—now—and to “the world to come” (Heb. 2:5; 6:5). It speaks of a future leader who, endorsed by a powerful religious
leader, will receive government authority from ten heads of European nations (or groups of nations)—possibly a “club within the club”? (See Revelation 13:1-10.)(REVELATION 17:12-13)(DANIEL 7:23-24)

Europe’s rise to global preeminence will become a reality—and, to worldwide astonishment, the United Kingdom and USA will not be a part of this!

Is this not interesting for believeing the lie of Land for security, Israel will suffer with hail and water (STORMS). As well as the whole world as this scripture says.

ISAIAH 28:15-23
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Western Galilee farmers demand compensation for tornado damage (HAIL AND WATER)
By Haaretz Service

Western Galilee farmers are demanding compensation from the Agriculture Ministry for the exstensive damage to crops and property caused by Tuesday's storm. The Agriculture Ministry began inspecting the damage and assessing its extent Wednesday. A clean-up operation began after a day of storms, including a tornado, wrought large-scale destruction in the area and left 70 people injured. Three people are still hospitalized. Israel Radio reported that Agriculture Ministry officials and insurance agents visited the western Galilee on Wednesday afternoon to inspect the damage caused by the storms.

Numbers of greenhouses in the area sustained damage in the storms, the radio said, in particular avocado, lychee and summer fruit crops. The village of Julis in the Galilee suffered hundreds of thousands of shekels of damage in Tuesday's strong winds. Homes in the village had broken windows and doors. Electricity poles were also knocked down, but have since been repaired. The head of Julis local council told Israel Radio on Wednesday that not one government office had been in contact to offer assistance in the wake of the storms that affected the homes of dozens of residents.

Officials from the Public Works Department were also out in force Wednesday, inspecting damage to roads. Tuesday's storms were the latest in a week of extreme weather conditions in Israel. On Sunday, heavy rains led to the deaths of five people - two of whom were washed away and three who were killed in a road accident after driving into pooled water. A total of 70 people, including 20 children, were admitted to hospital in Nahariya following the violent weather. Most of the patients suffered light injuries caused by flying objects or road accidents. Two children, aged six and seven, suffered deep cuts.

Meteorologist Nachum Malik said the tornado was an indication of increasingly unpredictable weather in the country. "When this kind of phenomenon occurs over water it is called a water spout, but when it occurs over land it is called a tornado. To use military terminology, this is an escalation in terms of weather and a very rare occurrence in Israel. This is an example of how extreme the weather in Israel has become," he said.

Europe flooding death toll rises BBC NEWS

Volunteers have been helping to defend vulnerable towns in HungaryRising floodwaters have continued to cause chaos across central Europe, with more heavy rain expected next week.
The government in Hungary has deployed more than 10,000 troops and police to the worst-hit areas as the river Danube climbed to record levels in Budapest.

In Austria, an 18-month-old boy was found dead on Tuesday as rising water in rivers caused a second dam to break. At least a dozen people have lost their lives in recent floods in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia. In the Hungarian capital, the Danube reached a record 8.48m (26 feet) on Tuesday and was expected to peak at 8.6m (28 feet).

About 25,000 people, half of them volunteers, have struggled to maintain flood defences before the reinforcements were announced. Dresden - devastated by floods in 2002 - has also been affected. The BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest says most fears now focus on rain forecast for later in the week. Eight cities in Germany were affected by floods on Tuesday, with a total of 1,300 people evacuated.

Floodwaters also continued to threaten residents in Czech towns in the north and south-east of the country, preventing thousands of people from returning to their homes. Authorities warned on Tuesday that floods in the Czech Republic would last for at least another week, as more snow was expected to melt in the mountains. In Slovakia, the situation appeared to have stabilised with river levels falling across the country.

One of the SIGNS of the last days is that Israel will be hated, just like all these colleges around the world are doing, coming against ISRAEL. In fact 85% of all colleges are against Israel .......... BOOOOOO. But they will pay though.....!!!!!!!!???????

Matthew 24:9-13
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity (SIN) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Anti-Israel bias at colleges scrutinized By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
Tue Apr 4, 7:08 AM ET

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, responding to allegations that an anti-Israel bias is rampant on college campuses, approved recommendations Monday aimed at ensuring that Jewish college students are protected from anti-Semitic harassment.

The recommendations grew out of a November hearing at which speakers cited examples of anti-Semitic incidents. One frequently cited involved a 2004 documentary that said Middle East Studies faculty at Columbia University were intimidating Jewish students who defended Israel.

(A faculty committee investigated and found no evidence of anti-Semitism.) Last September, a non-profit group called "StandWithUs" showed a 45-minute documentary depicting examples of anti-Israel speakers on campuses.

The commission, an independent, bipartisan federal agency that does not have enforcement powers, also urged university leaders to "set a moral example by denouncing anti-Semitic and other hate speech," and to ensure that Middle East studies departments protect the rights of all students. It recommended Monday that the Department of Education "vigorously" enforce the federal law that bars discrimination based on "race, color or national origin," and that Congress clarify that "national origin" can refer to Jewish heritage.

"We should inform students of their right" to file a complaint if they believe they have been harassed, commissioner Jennifer Braceras said. Students at the University of California at Irvine, including two who said they were assaulted because they were Jewish, filed a
complaint in 2004 with the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. That case is still open.

Now, "you'll see a number of suits filed," says Gary Tobin of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in San Francisco. Vanessa Zuabi, 21, a UC-Irvine senior and former vice president of the school's Society of Arab Students, says the issue is complex. For example, she says, a structure built two years ago by her group was burned down. "Controversy has gone in all directions."

First we have Iran and Russia talking to Hamas, Now India, Japan and China will recognize Hamas. Isn't this Intersting that in the Future the 1ST wave in WW3 is Russia and the muslim Countries. And the 2ND wave is China and the Kings of the east as well as the 15% left from the Russia , Muslim defeat.

I would say all the countries from Ezekiel 38-39 are all lining up, and the EU is talking privately to Hamas setting that up for the domination of the EU in the MIDEAST. For they SIGN the future 7 year treaty with Israel and many.

LEADERS IN THE LAST DAYS

NORTH - RUSSIA
SOUTH - EGYPT
EAST - CHINA
WEST - THE EUROPEAN UNION ( NOT THE U.S.A)

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south (EGYPT) push at him:(EU LEADER IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIMS) shall come against him (EU LEADER IN ISRAEL) like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land,(ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM) and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east (CHINA) and out of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT OF THEIR ARMY 15%) shall trouble him:(EU LEADER PROTECTING ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain (JERUSALEM ) yet he (EU LEADER) shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

Hamas confirms talks, France denies By JPOST.COM STAFF

A Hamas official confirmed on Monday that France held secret talks with its representatives on behalf of the European Union, a break in the policy of isolating the new Palestinian government.
The Palestinian source further claimed that France was attempting to improve relations between the European Community and the group that Israel had urged countries to reject.

French Ambassador to Israel Gerard Araud previously refuted the allegations made in a report submitted to officials in Jerusalem, Army Radio reported. Israel also suspected that other countries including India, Japan and China would soon publicly recognize the Hamas-led
government.

According to the report, despite the refusal of the US and Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians, the European Union, Russia and India were already holding secret or open talks with Hamas officials. The Foreign Ministry announced that it planned clarification talks with France and all other countries who allegedly engaged in discussions with the Hamas-led government.

Reportedly, the EU talks have been sponsored by France, while India has already held official meetings with senior Hamas officials and Russia held consultations with the organization even prior to the Palestinian parliamentary elections, publicizing the talks after Hamas' landslide victory.

Japan and China also expressed willingness to publicly recognize the Hamas government. Israel was concerned that these countries and many others would follow Russia's lead and hold official meetings with the movement.

The United States has remained a staunch supporter of the policy of isolating Hamas. It has not backed down from its policy of shunning the new Hamas-led Palestinian government and has not made any attempts to pressure Israel into negotiating with the organization.

You dont think Prophecies are coming to pass bigtime. TORNADOES, HAIL (5 INCH) Kill and destroy the midwest U.S.A.

There were 349 TORNADOES in the states from Jan 1 to Mar 31. Three times last years end of march totals and five times the Average. You tell me if the sea and waves are roaring or not.

And Genesis 6:13 says the Earth would be destroyed with the Earth.

GENESIS 6:11:13
11 The earth (WORLDWIDE) also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(TERRORISM)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

REVELATION 16:21
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Thunderstorms and tornadoes kill at least 27 in South, Midwest
KRISTIN HALL 46 minutes ago

NEWBERN, Tenn. (AP) - Tornadoes shredded homes to their foundations, hail tore holes in the rooftops and high winds toppled even freight cars as a line of violent storms cut zigzagging paths of destruction that killed at least 27 people across America's midsection.

The worst damage from Sunday night's storms occurred along a 40-kilometre swath of rural western Tennessee, where 23 of the deaths occurred and state troopers using dogs searched for more victims amid the rubble of brick buildings and toppled trailers."Most of the houses, you can't count. They're just gone," said Roy Childress, who was part of a church relief crew that was delivering food and water to survivors Monday.

The dead included an infant and the grandparents who had been babysitting him. A young couple and their two sons, ages 5 and 3, were also killed, their bodies found some 800 metres from their house."It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow," said Larry Taylor, the boys' grandfather and the only funeral director in rural Bradford. He was planning to bury the family in two separate caskets, with each child alongside one of his parents.

"I'd give everything I had for that not to have happened,' he said through tears. "Those little boys were my life."Severe storms also struck parts of Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Strong winds were blamed for at least three deaths in Missouri. A clothing store collapsed in southern Illinois, killing one man.

In Arkansas, Logan Hawley tried to escape by driving with a group of other people to a tornado shelter."We couldn't see anything," Hawley said. "It was just brown in front of us." The car crashed at an intersection, so the six people inside had no choice but to sit terrified as the tornado passed."I just closed by eyes and hoped it was a dream," he said.

The brunt of the storms, some packing softball-sized hail, blasted an area between the small town of Newbern, 130 kilometres northeast of Memphis, to Bradford. Twenty-three people were killed, including an infant and the grandparents who had been babysitting him. A family of four was also killed. Gov. Phil Bredesen said more than 1,000 buildings were seriously damaged or destroyed and about 75 people injured, 17 of them critically.

He asked President George W. Bush to declare Dyer and Gibson counties federal disaster areas.
"Our first priority is helping those impacted to get back on their feet quickly and to bring back a sense of normalcy at a time when they need it most," said Bredesen, who planned to visit the area Tuesday.

The Tennessee Valley Authority estimated that more than 18,000 customers in Tennessee and Kentucky were without power Monday. The storms developed after a cold front approaching from the West slammed into a mass of warm, humid air, said Memphis meteorologist Jody Aaron. A tornado in Dyer County apparently had winds of up to 330 kilometres an hour.

The weather service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it had preliminary reports of 63 tornadoes. About a half-dozen tornadoes struck Arkansas and one destroyed nearly half the town of Marmaduke, according to a local official. Authorities cordoned off the town after a gas line ruptured, and three people remained unaccounted for Monday.

About 50 kilometres from Newbern, a tornado caused extensive damage to the southeast Missouri city of Caruthersville, although Mayor Diane Sayre said there were no known deaths in the city of 6,700. In southern Illinois, a man died when a clothing store collapsed in the St. Louis suburb of Fairview Heights. An off-duty police officer survived for nearly an hour in the store's debris before he was pulled to safety.

In downtown Indianapolis, tornado-force winds shattered dozens of windows in an high-rise office building. The storm hit just after thousands of people had left a free outdoor concert by John Mellencamp held as part of the NCAA men's Final Four basketball tournament.

Earthquake strikes New Zealand; no wounded By JPOST.COM STAFF

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale struck not far from New Zealand's capital Wellington early Monday. No damage was reported. The epicenter of the quake was 60 kilometers underground and some five kilometers from the capital.

Flash floods claim lives of 5 people By ELANA BROWNSTEIN AND YIGAL GRAYEFF
The Jerusalem Post

Five people were killed and many others left injured Sunday when heavy rain caused flash-flooding throughout the country. Umm al-Fahm resident, Samir Mahmid, 23, was found dead by rescue workers Sunday afternoon, after torrential rains and flash flooding washed away her car on Highway 65 in the Wadi Ara area near Wadi Mei-Ami.

Mahmid's husband, who was traveling with her in the car, was rescued from the vehicle by a nearby IDF soldier, police said. Dozens of other cars were trapped in the Wadi Ara area, where up to two meters of rain was reported. Highway 65 was closed to traffic in both directions as crews worked to rescue trapped motorists.

A head on collision on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley, between Tomer and Gilgal, left three people dead and two seriously wounded when flood conditions caused a driver to lose control of his vehicle sending him into oncoming traffic, police said. The wounded were transported by army helicopter to Haddasah Har Hatzofim Hospital in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian man, Iyad Taha, 26, from the West Bank village of Beit Anan was found dead after rains swept away his car in close proximity of the security fence near the village of Bili'in.
Three people were rescued from the Northern town of Musmus after their home was destroyed in addition to two elderly residents of Musmus who were rescued and transported to the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera.

Many other homes were damaged as a result of the flooding. Another couple who was trapped in their vehicle near the Megiddo junction was rescued, as well as six people who were trapped in a restaurant near the Megiddo junction. Two policewomen were also rescued from flooding near the Megiddo junction. Several homes were flooded in Hod Hasharon due to heavy rains on Saturday night. In Ra'anana, a 37-year-old woman gave birth in a Magen David Adom ambulance which was stuck in one of the country's main traffic jams caused by the rain.

In one of Israel's rainiest days this year, more than 112 millimeters of rain fell in Jerusalem, 67 millimeters in Tel Aviv, 21 millimeters in Haifa and 17 millimeters in Beersheba. The Kinneret water level rose 1.5 centimeters over the past 24 hours.

Severe storms, possible tornadoes leave at least eight dead in west Tennessee 50 minutes ago

DYERSBURG, Tenn. (AP) - At least eight people in west Tennessee were killed as severe storms and possible tornadoes swept across the state, emergency officials said. Local emergency officials reported the eight deaths in Dyer County, and they were concerned the number of fatalities could rise, said Kurt Pickering, spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Details on the deaths weren't immediately available. The Jackson Sun newspaper reported another fatality in neighbouring Gibson County.

The National Weather Service National Weather Service reported that tornadoes were spotted in five counties in Tennessee's northwest corner, and officials said the storms caused extensive damage to buildings.

We see in Ezekiel 38 that Iran will come against Israel in the future. So these missles tests are just the beggining of trouble in the Mideast.

Ezikiel 38:1-9
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

Here we see RUSSIA the leader of this future muslim horde going to Israel to destroy them. And notice in verse 5 we see Persia (IRAN) in that horde. As well as other muslim nations. RUSSIA the leader, IRAN, IRAQ, ETHIOPIA, LIBYA, GERMANY, TURKEY, SUDAN AND PARTS OF AFRICA.

Why would these Muslim want Israel destroyed? Well in Psalms we see what Iran and the Muslims are calling for.

Psalms 83:3-5
3 They (ARAB NATIONS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

Russia is supplying all these Muslim countries with weapons against Israel, the whole world is decieved into thinking Russia is a peaceful democracy and now we see Russia gave Iraq warning of the 2003 war before the states attacked.

Its all a Deception Russia will be the leader of the Muslims when they march to Israel in the future. And Egypt will be the leader of the muslim countries until then.

Iran says missile it fired can reach Israel

Invisible to radar, too: Israel and the United States warn that it's a sign of a country with aggressive plans The Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's military said Friday it successfully test fired a missile not detectable by radar that can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously, a development that raised concerns in the United States and Israel. The Fajr-3, which means ''victory'' in Farsi, can reach Israel and U.S. bases in the Middle East, Iranian state media indicated.

The announcement of the test firing is likely to stoke regional tensions and feed suspicion about Tehran's military intentions and nuclear ambitions. I think it demonstrates that Iran has a very active and aggressive military program under way,'' State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said in Washington. ''I think Iran's military posture, military development effort, is of concern to the international community.

Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, did not specify the missile's range but said how far it can travel depends on the weight of its warheads. But state-run television described the weapon as ''ballistic'' - suggesting it is of comparable range to Iran's existing ballistic rocket, which can travel about 1,200 miles and reach arch-foe Israel and U.S. bases in Iraq and the Persian Gulf region. 'Today, a remarkable goal of the Islamic Republic of Iran's defense forces was realized with the successful test firing of a new missile with greater technical and tactical capabilities than those previously produced,'' Salami said on television.

A brief clip of the missile's launch was shown. 'It can avoid anti-missile missiles and strike the target,'' said Salami. He said the missile would carry a multiple warhead, and each warhead would be capable of hitting its target precisely. This news causes much concern, and that concern is shared by many countries in the international community, about Iran's aggressive nuclear weapons program and her parallel efforts to develop delivery systems, both in the field of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles,'' said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev.

The combination of extremist jihadist ideology, together with nuclear weapons and delivery systems, is a combination that no one in the international community can be complacent about,'' he said. Yossi Alpher, an Israeli consultant on the Mideast peace process, said the news ''escalates the arms race between Iran and all those who are concerned about Iran's aggressive
intentions and nuclear potential. Clearly it's escalation, and also an attempt by Iran to flex its muscles as it goes into a new phase of the diplomatic struggle with the U.N. Security Council.

Andy Oppenheimer, a weapons expert at Jane's Information Group, said the missile test could be an indication that Iran has MIRV capability, which are intercontinental ballistic missiles with several warheads, each of which could be directed to a different target. From the description, it could be a MIRV. If you are saying that from a single missile, separate warheads can
be independently targeted then yes, this is significant,'' he said. If the missile is adaptable for nuclear warheads, then they are well on the way,'' he added. ''But they have not made a nuclear
warhead yet.

The current estimates are it could take five years. Iran's existing ballistic rocket is called Shahab-3, which means ''shooting star.'' It is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Israel and the United States have jointly developed the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system in response to the Shahab-3.

Interesting last 3 days since the Israeli elections, like I said prophecy is on the fast track now.

Bahran ship sinks kills at least 62 people. Australia gets 2nd cyclone hit and in the states as many as 20 Tornadoes hit causing fires to run rampant from the winds. The Quake in Iran yesterday and now this Quake in Indonesia.

Quake hits eastern Indonesia 2 hours, 53 minutes ago JAKARTA

(Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck off the eastern Indonesian island of Talaud early on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, an Indonesian official said.

The quake's epicenter was in the sea 42 km (26 miles) west of Talaud and at a depth of 33 km, staff official Lukito of the Jakarta earthquake center told Reuters.

Talaud is between Sulawesi, one of Indonesia's major islands, and Mindanao in the Philippines, and lies around 2,250 km northeast of Jakarta.

"We have confirmed the situation with the police officer at Talaud and he said there were no reports of damage and casualties," Lukito said.

An official at the earthquake office in Sulawesi's Manado, the nearest major city, also said there were no reports of victims or damage so far.

Indonesia's vast archipelago runs along part of an area of intense volcanic and earthquake activity known as the Pacific "Ring of Fire.