KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
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.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
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.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
PSALMS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
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.
Abbas Wants Netanyahu to Present a Map of 'Palestine'
New precondition: PA Chairman demands that Netanyahu present a map for a future Palestinian state before peace talks can resume.
By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 4/5/2013, 10:16 PM-Israelnationalnews
Mahmoud Abbas-Flash 90
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu present a map for a future Palestinian
state before any peace talks can
resume, an aide told
AFP on Friday.
Abbas "wants to know, through a map to be presented by Benjamin Netanyahu to (U.S.
Secretary of State John) Kerry, what the prime minister's view of a two-state
solution would be, especially the borders," political adviser Nimr Hammad told
AFP.The remarks came just days
ahead of a visit by Kerry, who will hold fortnightly meetings with Israeli and PA leaders as he tries to revive the stalled peace process."Any return to negotiations requires Netanyahu to agree on 1967
borders," Hammad said, repeating one of Abbas’s usual preconditions for
talks with Israel.Abbas has insisted that participation in new talks be conditioned on
using the borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day War as the basis
for negotiating future borders.Abbas also repeated to Barack Obama, on his first visit to the region
as U.S. president in March, that a halt to Israeli construction in
Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem was a precondition for any peace
negotiations.Expectations are growing that the U.S. administration is ready to resume some kind of shuttle diplomacy to rekindle the peace process, which has stalled since 2010.Kerry accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on his first official
visit to the region several weeks ago and, after Obama left the region,
Kerry stayed behind and met PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Amman. He then
travelled to Jerusalem
for talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.After Kerry’s last visit,
PA officials said that he had begun to push for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the PA.Unconfirmed reports following that visit indicated that Kerry is
planning on offering Israel and the PA an outline which would see Israel
releasing terrorists from its prisons and transferring areas from Area
B, which is under joint PA-Israeli control under the Oslo Accords, to
Area A which is under full PA control.Kerry’s outline would have the PA undertaking a return to the
negotiating table and promising not to file lawsuits against Israel with
the
International Criminal Court.Abbas has continuously imposed preconditions on peace talks and has
demanded that Israel freeze Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria, and
eastern Jerusalem. When Israel froze construction for a ten-month period
in 2010, however, he refused to come to the table.
(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until
the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all
Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Kerry heads back to Mideast for fresh peace push
By BRADLEY KLAPPER | Associated Press – 17 mins ago APR 6,13
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry
headed to the Middle East on Saturday, his third trip to the region in
two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian
peace talks.
Istanbul was the first leg of a six-nation trip that will see him travel on to Europe and Asia.From Turkey, he planned to go to Jerusalem for meetings with the presidents and prime ministers of both
Israel and the Palestinians. Kerry accompanied President
Barack Obama there last month and made a solo trip to Israel shortly after.Though expectations are low for any breakthrough on Kerry's trip, his diplomacy represents some of the
Obama administration's most sustained efforts for ending more than six decades of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.Kerry probably will seek confidence-building measures between the two
sides. Negotiators and observers see little chance right now for
immediate progress on the big stumbling blocks toward a two-state peace
agreement.He may have more success on his first stop persuading Turkish leaders
to continue improving ties with Israel. The two countries were once
allies, but relations spiraled downward after Israel's 2010 raid on a
Turkish flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip. Eight Turks and one
Turkish-American died.Hopes for rapprochement improved
after Obama brokered a telephone conversation between Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Turkey's prime minister,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while Obama was in
Israel.In Turkey, Kerry also will coordinate with Erdogan and other Turkish
officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria.Kerry will also visit Britain and then South Korea, China and Japan,
where talks will focus on North Korea's nuclear program and escalating
threats against the U.S. and its allies.He is scheduled to return to Washington on April 15.
04/ 6/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Pope chooses Franciscan leader as Secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for religious
Fr Jose Rodriguez Carballo
Pope Francis has begun his appointments to the Roman Curia with a
surprise: Franciscan leader Fr Jose Rodriguez Carballo is the new
Secretary of the Congregation for institutes of consecrated life
Gerard O’Connell
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In his first significant appointment to the Roman
Curia, Pope Francis has taken the highly unusual step of naming the
actual head of a religious order, Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo, as
Secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for
the Institutes of Consecrated life and the Societies of Apostolic Life
(formerly known as ‘The Congregation for Religious’).When the Pope chose him, the 59-year old Spanish
priest was Minister General or head of the largest group of the
Franciscan family – the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), which has some
15,000 friars in 113 countries. He was first elected to that post in
2003, and re-elected for another six-year term in 2009 as head of an
order that is contracting in Western Europe and North America, holding
steady in Latin America, and gaining vocations in Asia, Africa and
Eastern Europe.The Vatican broke the news of Father Carballo’s
appointment on April 6, and said Pope Francis has raised him to the rank
of archbishop.Born in Lodoselo, Spain in 1953, Carballo did his
early studies in schools run by the Franciscans in that country and, in
1973, was sent to do biblical studies in Jerusalem. After being ordained
priest in Jerusalem in 1977, he gained degrees in Biblical Theology in
the Holy City and a further degree in Sacred Scripture from Rome’s
Biblical Institute. In the following years he held increasingly high
posts of responsibility in the Franciscan order in Spain and, in 2003,
was elected Master General of the worldwide order.He was one of the main concelebrants, together
with the Father General of the Jesuits, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, at the mass
for the inauguration of the Petrine Ministry of Pope Francis on March
19.He succeeds the American Archbishop Joseph Tobin
who had also been head of a religious order – the Redemptorists. Unlike
Carballo, however, the American had already finished his term as head of
his order more than a year before Benedict XVI appointed him to the
Vatican Congregation in August 2010. Two years later, however,
in October 2012, the Pope took the surprising decision to reassign him
to the USA as archbishop of Indianapolis.
In his new role as the second highest official in the Vatican congregation that oversees the life and work of some 900,000 consecrated men and women in religious orders and communities worldwide, Fr
Carballo will work closely with the Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de
Aviz, who has led this important office since 4 January 2011.
The Spaniard will bring his rich international
experience as head of a major religious order to his new post of
responsibility. Together with Cardinal Braz de Aviz, he is expected to
play a key role in working to overcome and heal the tensions
between the Vatican, and in particular the Congregation for the Doctrine
for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), and the leadership of the
umbrella organization of some 59,000 American women religious – the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR).
In April 2012, the CDF issued a highly critical
doctrinal assessment of the situation of the LCWR, accusing them of
taking positions that undermine Catholic teaching on the priesthood and
homosexuality and of promoting “certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.” In
the light of that report, Pope Benedict appointed the US Archbishop
Peter Sartain of Seattle to supervise the reform of the LCWR within five
years.
In recent months it had been widely rumored in the
USA and Rome that Benedict XVI would appoint an American bishop or
religious priest to that key post in the Vatican congregation to
reinforce that tough line, but this did not happen. Informed
sources in Rome now say that by choosing Carballo, Pope Francis has
clearly opted for a different, more Gospel-inspired approach to
consecrated life in general and, also, to help overcome the ongoing,
painful tensions with the American religious women.
According to the Vatican statistics (for 2008),
the Catholic Church has a total of 739,068 professed women religious on
all five continents. In addition to this, it also has 135,159
priests who have taken full vows in one or other religious order or
apostolic society in the Church. Moreover, the Church has another
54,641 professed men religious who are not priests.
Pope Francis makes first Curia appointment
Associated Press – 25 mins ago APR 6,13
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday named a Spanish Franciscan to be the No. 2 at the Vatican's office for religious orders, his first appointment to the Vatican bureaucracy badly in need of a shakeup.Jose Rodriguez, who also was elevated to archbishop, replaces U.S. Archbishop Joseph Tobin,
who was transferred from the high-ranking Vatican post to a Midwestern
U.S. archdiocese following his efforts to mediate tensions between the
Vatican and American nuns, who in the view of theological conservatives
had become too secular and political.Rodriquez, 60, is an outsider to the Vatican administration
and comes from the world of religious orders, like Francis who is a
Jesuit. Rodriguez is well-thought of among the orders, and last year
was elected president of an international association that gathers the
heads of the male orders. He has been twice elected head of the
Franciscans' Friars Minor order, one of the main branches of the
Franciscan order founded by St. Francis of Assisi, the pope's namesake.
American nuns have seen the election of a Jesuit pope devoted to the poor as a glimmer of home following a Vatican crackdown
under Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI. The nuns were accused of
focusing too much on social justice — one of Francis' priorities — at
the expense of other church issues, like abortion.
Rodriguez' predecessor, Tobin, is now archbishop of Indianapolis, which has fewer than 230,000 parishioners.One of the important tasks facing Francis is the reform of the
scandal-plagued Curia, or Vatican administration, which decides
everything from bishop appointments and liturgy, to parish closings and
discipline for abusive priests. Benedict commissioned a report on the
Curia for papal eyes only following such scandals as VatiLeaks, in which
Benedict's butler leaked the pope's private papers revealing feuding,
corruption and cronyism at the highest levels of administration.
Pope: “Faith cannot be negotiated, it requires courageous testimony”
Pope Francis
Bergoglio said this during today’s homily in St. Martha’s House,
nominating Franciscan leader, Carballo, as Secretary of Congregation for
Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
vatican insider staff
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Courageously testifying faith in its entirety:
this is the invitation Pope Francis sent out during the mass he presided
in St. Martha’s House this morning. The Pope stressed that although
some live faith superficially, martyrs of the Church do exist in today’s
world. The mass was attended by an Argentinean family and some nuns
from the Daughters of St. Camillus and the Sisters of Our Lady of
Charity.In his homily – Vatican Radio reports – the
Pope commented on the reading in which Peter and John courageously
testify the faith before Jewish leaders despite the threats made against
them, while in the Gospel, the Risen Jesus condemns the apostles’
disbelief. So the Pope asked this question: “How is our faith going? Is
it strong? Or is it sometimes a little bit superficial?” When the going
gets tough “are we courageous like Peter or a bit lukewarm?” Peter – he
pointed out– did not keep his faith on the low and did not make any
compromises because “faith cannot be negotiated.” “Throughout history,
the people of God have always been tempted to chop a piece off faith,”
the Pope said. More or less everyone is tempted “not to be too rigid.”
“But when we start to cut down on faith, to negotiate faith, selling it
to the highest bidder – he emphasised – we take the path of apostasy, we
begin to lack faith, lack faith in the Lord.”Pope Francis emphasised that the Church has had
many martyrs throughout its history, “because to find martyrs one
doesn’t have to go down to the catacombs or to the Colosseum: martyrs
are alive now, in many countries. Christians – Pope Francis stated –are
persecuted for their faith. In some countries they cannot wear a cross:
if they do so they are punished. Today, in the 21st century, our Church is a Church of martyrs.”The Holy See Press Office reported that today,
Pope Francis made his first Curia nomination: he chose the Minister
General of the Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.), José Rodriguez Carballo
as Secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and
Societies of Apostolic Life, raising him also to the dignity of
Archbishop of Belcastro.Fr. José Rodriguez Carballo was born in Lodoselo,
in the diocese of Orense (Spain), on 11 August 1953 and entered the
minor Seminary of the Franciscan Province of St. James of Compostela, in
Castroverde de Campos (Zamora), in 1964. The following year he moved on
to the Seminary of Herbon (La Coruña) and did his novitiate at the
Ponteareas Convent, professing his temporary vows on 9 August 1971.Carballo was elected Provincial Ministero f
Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and was President of the Union Franciscan
Provincial Ministers of Europe from 1993 to 1997. He was elected
General Definer (adviser) of the Order in 1997 and was appointed
Secretary General for Formation and Studies and Delegate of the Great
Chancellor for the Pontifical Antonianum University (Rome). On 5 June
2003 he was elected Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, 119th
successor of St. Francis of Assisi;on 4 June 2009 he was re-elected for
another six years; on 23 November 2012 he was elected President of the
Union of Superiors General. A Member of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples and of the Congregation for the Institutes
of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, he took part in
the Synods of Bishops of 2005, 2008 and 2012 and in the Synod for the
Middle East in 2010. He also attended the 5
th General
Conference of the Latin American Episcopate in Aparecida, in 2007.
Carballo has published some books and a number of articles on
Consecrated and Religious Life, Pastoral Theology, sacred Scriptures and
Franciscan spirituality; he speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian
and Portuguese and knows Latin and Biblical Greek and Hebrew.
Meanwhile, Martin Nesirky, the spokesman for the
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, has announced that Ban will be
received by Pope Francis in the Vatican this coming Tuesday. This will
be the first face to face meeting between Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the
UN Headquarters IN New York’s number one man and former South Korean
minister of foreign affairs. Nesirky said the meeting will mainly deal
with “development of UN-Holy See cooperation.” On the same day, Ban
Ki-moon will also meet Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti in the PM’s
residence, Palazzo Chigi.
U.S. 'Won't be Surprised' if North Korea Launches a Missile
White House press secretary says the American administration would not be surprised if North Korea launches a missile.
By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 4/6/2013, 1:12 AM-Israelnationalnews
Soldiers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in military training-AFP photo
White House press
secretary
Jay Carney said on Friday that the American administration would not be
surprised if North Korea followed through on its recent threats to
launch a missile."We've obviously seen the reports that North Korea may be making preparations to launch a missile. We're
monitoring this situation closely, and we would not be surprised to see them take such an action," Carney was quoted by
Politico as having said during a press briefing."We have seen them launch missiles in the past and the United Nations
Security Council has repeatedly condemned them as violations of the
North’s obligations under numerous Security Council resolutions, and it
would fit their current
pattern of bellicose, unhelpful and unconstructive rhetoric and actions," he added.Carney reiterated the United States' call for North Korean leaders to choose peace."We urge them to stop with the provocations and to focus instead on
meeting their international obligations and feeding their own people,"
he said. "They are only making themselves more and more isolated from
the rest of the world."The North Korean army said Thursday it had final approval
to launch "merciless" military strikes on the United States, involving the possible use of "cutting-edge" nuclear weapons.
In a statement published by the official
KCNA news agency,
the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) said it was formally
informing Washington that reckless U.S. threats would be "smashed by...
cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means".On Friday, it was reported that North Korea
has moved more intermediate range missiles to its east coast, pointing them toward the United States. North Korea's leaders have also
threatened neighboring South Korea.In another sign that it may be planning some military action, North Korea on Friday
warned foreign embassies
in Pyongyang that it was unable to guarantee their safety after April
10, adding that they should consider evacuating their missions amid
soaring nuclear tensions.European countries with embassies in Pyongyang, such as Britain and Russia, reported receiving a warning advisory.UN chief Ban Ki-moon described the daily threats from Pyongyang as "really alarming and troubling",
warning the situation could spiral out of control, and Germany summoned the North Korean ambassador to convey Berlin's "serious concern."
(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Embassies staying put in North Korea despite tension
By Jane Chung | Reuters – 6 hrs ago APR 6,13
By Jane Chung
SEOUL (Reuters) - Staff at embassies in
North Korea appeared to be remaining in place on Saturday despite an appeal by authorities in
Pyongyang for diplomats to consider leaving because of heightened tension after weeks of bellicose exchanges.North Korean authorities told diplomatic missions they
could not guarantee their safety from next Wednesday - after declaring
that conflict was inevitable amid joint U.S.-South Korean military
exercises due to last until the end of the month.Whatever the atmosphere in Pyongyang, the rain-soaked
South Korean capital, Seoul, was calm. Traffic moved normally through
the city centre, busy with Saturday shoppers.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a
government official as saying diplomats were disregarding the suggestion they might leave the country."We don't believe there's any foreign mission about to
leave Pyongyang," the unidentified official was quoted as saying. "Most
foreign governments view the North Korean message as a way of ratcheting
up tension on the Korean peninsula."
North Korea has been angry since new U.N. sanctions
were imposed following its third nuclear weapons test in February. Its
rage has apparently been compounded by joint U.S.-South
Korean military exercises that began on March 1.China's Xinhua news agency on Friday had quoted
the North's Foreign Ministry as saying the issue was no longer whether but when a war would break out.Most countries saw the appeal to the missions as little
more than strident rhetoric after weeks of threatening to launch a
nuclear strike on the United States and declarations of war against the
South.But Russia said it was "seriously studying" the request.A
South Korean government official expressed bewilderment."It's hard to define what is its real intention," said
the official, who asked not to be identified. "But it might have
intensified these threats to strengthen the regime internally or to
respond to the international community."The United Nations said its humanitarian workers
remained active across North Korea. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,
however, remained "deeply concerned" about tensions, heightened since
the imposition of U.N. sanctions against the North for its third nuclear
arms test last in February.The appeal to diplomats followed news reports in the
South that North Korea, under its 30-year-old leader Kim Jong-un, had
moved two medium-range missiles to a location on its east coast. That
prompted the White House to say that Washington would "not be surprised"
if the North staged another missile test.Kim Jong-un is the third member of his dynasty to rule
North Korea. He took over in December 2011 after the death of his
father, Kim Jong-il, who staged confrontations with South Korea and the
United States throughout his 17-year rule.North Korea has always condemned the exercises held by
U.S. forces and their South Korean allies. But its comments have been
especially vitriolic this year as the United States dispatched B-2
bombers from its home bases to stage mock runs.
"MADCAP NUCLEAR WAR"
North Korea's government daily newspaper said tension
remained high because the United States was "waging madcap nuclear war
maneuvers"."This is aimed at igniting a
nuclear war
against it through a pre-emptive strike," the Minju Joson said in a
commentary. "The prevailing situation proves that a new war, a nuclear
war, is imminent on the peninsula."A television documentary broadcast on Friday quoted
North Korean leader Kim as saying, during a provincial tour last month,
that the country needed to "absolutely guarantee the quality of our
artillery and shells to ensure a rapid pre-emptive attack on our
enemies".
But some commentators examining the outcome of meetings
in Pyongyang last week - of the ruling Workers' Party and of the
rubber-stamp legislature - concluded that Kim and his leadership were
more concerned with economic than military issues.Internet site 38 North, which specializes in North
Korean affairs, cited the reappointment of reformer Pak Pong Ju as prime
minister, the limited titles given to top military and security
officials and the naming of a woman to a senior party post."These personnel appointments make a great deal of
sense in the context of Pyongyang's declarations ... that its economic
policy will be modified by introducing systemic reforms while also
continuing the development of nuclear weapons," 38 North commentator
Michael Madden wrote."(They) appear to be important steps in moving key
economic development products and production away from the control of
the military to the party and government."North Korea has not shut down one symbol of joint
cooperation, the Kaesong industrial zone just inside its border. But
last week it prevented South Koreans from entering the complex and about
100 of them who have since remained were due to return home on
Saturday, leaving a further 500 there.The barrage of North Korean threats has created jitters
in South Korea's financial markets, with a top official warning a
policy meeting on Friday of long-term effects.Shares slid on Friday, but analysts said much of the
decline was linked to the Bank of Japan's monetary easing policies and
one analyst said further major falls were unlikely."In a sense, for now the yen is of greater concern than
the North Korea risk," said Ko Seunghee, a market analyst at SK
Securities. "There is a sense that the KOSPI (index) will not fall
sharply or drop below the 1,900 level unless big news about North Korea
breaks out."(Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Robeert Birsel)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) 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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
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,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) 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:(SUDAN,AFRICA) 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.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
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;(ISRAEL) 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,(OIL IS IN 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.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Iran: West Targeting Syria to Divert Attention from Israel
Senior
Iranian lawmaker charges that the Western media is creating a hype
against Syria in order to divert attention from “Israel’s crimes”.
By Elad Benari First Publish: 4/5/2013, 6:45 AM-Israelnationalnews
President Bashar al-Assad-AFP photo
A senior Iranian lawmaker charged on Wednesday that the Western
media is creating a hype against Syria as a tactic aimed at diverting
attention from “Israel’s crimes”,
PressTV reported.“Iran tries to counteract the negative wave of anti-Syria propaganda
by the Western media,” said the Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s
Foreign Relations Committee Vahid Ahmadi.“Over the past two years, the enemies of Islam have devoted all their
efforts to creating tension in Syria and causing problems in the entire
region in an attempt to divert the barrage of criticism from the
Zionist regime (of Israel) to another point and produce propaganda
fodder for their media,” he added, according to
PressTV.The Iranian lawmaker pointed to the Syrian nation’s discontent over the foreign
intervention in the country, saying, “Countries such as Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have
turned into the West’s puppets in the region which overtly interfere in Syria’s affairs.”Ahmadi underscored Iran’s determination to continue its support for
the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad “because Syria is Iran’s ally in
the region and it has always been one of the countries that has
protected the frontline of resistance against the Zionist regime.”Iran, a longtime supporter of the Assad regime, has remained by his side during the ongoing civil war in Syria.The Iranian
government has in the past
confirmed sending troops to support President Bashar Al-Assad in his battle against rebels.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
personally sanctioned the dispatch of the experienced officers to ensure that the Assad regime survives the threat to its survival.
At the same time, officials indicated a few months ago that Iran and Hizbullah, its Lebanese terror proxy,
have been building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests in the event that Assad’s government falls or is forced to retreat from Damascus.According to the sources, who spoke to the
Washington Post newspaper in February, the militias are fighting alongside Syrian government
forces to keep Assad in power. Officials believe, however, that Iran’s
long-term goal is to have reliable operatives in place in the event that
Syria fractures into separate ethnic and sectarian enclaves.
Assad: Erdogan Destroying Syria by Reconciling with Israel
Syria’s
President charges that the improvement in the relations between Turkey
and Israel is proof that Erdogan is trying to destroy Syria.
By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 4/5/2013, 11:05 PM-Israelnationalnews
President Bashar al-Assad-AFP photo
Syria’s President charged on Friday that the improvement in the relations between Turkey and Israel, following
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s apology
for the deaths of Turks on the Mavi Marmara, is proof that Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to destroy Syria."We cannot let stupid leaders destroy the relationship with Turkey,"
President Bashar Al-Assad attacked in the interview, which aired on
Turkey’s
Ulusal TV.The Syrian president claimed that Turkey’s reconciliation with Israel is a "small part of Erdogan’s destruction of Syria."“Because of the situation in Syria, Israel and Turkey united
suddenly, this is proof," said Assad, adding, “Erdogan walked shoulder
to shoulder with Israel. Our goal should be to maintain the relationship
[between Syria and Turkey], not to destroy it."Assad also attacked the Turkish prime minister over the civil war
taking place in his country, saying, "Erdogan is taking advantage of
what is happening in the region for his political future. He changed his
attitude toward us and began to help terrorists. This is why the
relationship with Turkey was destroyed."In the interview, Assad also warned that if the Syrian government falls, other countries in the region could suffer.He told
Ulusal TV that neighboring states who should be allies instead are being influenced by foreign powers."A fight in Syria would affect countries in the region. And perhaps
with a domino effect will impact faraway countries as well," Assad said.
"The Arab states that have not supported the Syrian regime are those
that are not independent actors but rather under the guidance of foreign
countries."Asked whether he would consider giving up power for the sake of
stability, Assad said that the wishes of other countries do not affect
him."I am an elected leader of the Syrian people," he said. "Whether I am
a president is determined by the Syrian people, not by foreign states."He singled out the United States as a nation that has "massacred millions" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.In an excerpt of Friday’s interview published earlier this week, Assad
accused Erdogan of not having said "a single word of truth" about Syria's conflict."Erdogan has not said a single word of truth since the beginning of the crisis in Syria," Assad said.
(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until
the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all
Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)