JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
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 ANIMAL 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)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
Peace talks in crisis after latest PA-US meeting-Head of PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs says Israel refusing to free fourth group of inmates, and that the issue is non-negotiable-By Avi Issacharoff March 28, 2014, 7:44 am 15-The Times of Israel
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are in crisis after the latest attempt to reconcile key differences failed.
Early Friday morning, a meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and American special envoy Martin Indyk on the scheduled fourth prisoner release ended without a breakthrough. According to Ziad Abu Ein, director-general of the PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, the meeting concluded in deadlock. Abu Ein said Israel is still refusing to release a fourth and final group of longterm prisoners, a move that had been scheduled for this weekend, and has introduced new conditions for their release. Abu Ein said Israel conditioned the release on the continuation of talks beyond the current end of April deadline, as well as several demands related to the framework agreement that Secretary of State John Kerry has been drafting as the basis for continued negotiations. Kerry met with Abbas in Amman earlier this week to try to resolve the crisis, without success.Writing on his Facebook page, Abu Ein accused Israel of violating the agreement in which 104 prisoners are to be released in exchange for the PA not continuing its campaign against Israel and its bid for statehood via the UN and other international institutions. “Israel says ‘yes’ only if the talks continue, and this represents a clear violation,” he charged. Israel has freed three groups totaling 78 prisoners, but baulked at the final group because no deal has yet been done on extending the talks and because the PA is demanding that Israeli-Arab inmates be included in the group.“We will not pay twice,” added Abu Ein. “For eight months, the killing and settlement building has continued, and, as per our commitment, we didn’t turn to any international institutions [to protest].”
Under a July 2013 deal for the relaunch of the peace negotiations, Israel said it would release 104 Arabs held since before the 1993 Oslo peace accords in exchange for the Palestinians not pressing their statehood claims via the UN.If the releases do not go ahead as scheduled this weekend, Palestinian leaders are threatening to renew their diplomatic push at the United Nations.Abu Ein said that the Palestinian leadership emphasized that it will not enter negotiations about the prisoner release arrangements, which were already concluded, and that Israel must fulfill the terms of the deal and release the fourth batch of security prisoners. The United States has proposed freeing Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in a trade-off deal in which Israel would agree to proceed with the next round of prisoner releases, including Israeli Arab prisoners, and the Palestinian Authority would agree to extend the current peace talks, Israel’s Army Radio reported Wednesday.It said the offer had been conveyed to Israel and the PA, but there was no official confirmation. However, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was quoted telling journalists accompanying Secretary of State John Kerry to a meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday morning that there were currently no plans to release Pollard, who is serving a life sentence.In exchange for Pollard, Israel would agree to release 26 prisoners, among them around 20 Arab Israelis, and the Palestinians would agree to continue talks until the end of 2014, according to the Army Radio report.Kerry reportedly made the offer after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear his intentions to cancel the final stage of a prisoner release, previously agreed to as a bargaining chip for starting peace talks this past July, unless Abbas agreed to extend the talks past the upcoming April deadline.Right-wing Israeli politicians have objected to the prisoner release, particularly the release of inmates who are Israeli citizens, but the inclusion of Pollard in the deal would likely help bring them aboard.
Outgoing security adviser: ‘Palestinians haven’t budged’-‘An agreement without Palestinian recognition of Israel as Jewish is not worth the paper it’s written on,’ says Yaakov Amidror
By Elhanan Miller March 28, 2014, 12:43 pm 12-The Times of Israel
The Palestinians “have not moved one inch” in their negotiating positions since 1994, while the Netanyahu government has made dramatic concessions unacknowledged by world opinion, Israel’s outgoing national security adviser said on Thursday.Speaking on a panel titled “Whither Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations?” organized by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Yaakov Amidror compared Israel’s current offers to the Palestinians to those presented by former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to the Knesset on October 1995, a month before his assassination.“Israel made huge steps towards the Palestinians, while the Palestinians — at the very least — did not budge an inch. In certain areas, they even moved backward,” Amidror said.Amidror served as national security adviser under Netanyahu from March 2011 until November 2013, and was involved in the current round of talks with the Palestinians. As a senior officer, he served as head of the research department in Military Intelligence and as secretary to the minister of defense.The retired Israeli general highlighted two issues where Israel made a dramatic move towards the Palestinians: accepting a Palestinian state, while Rabin only agreed to “less than a state”; and limiting the Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley to the Jordan River, while Rabin envisioned the entire valley under Israeli control.On the latter issue, Amidror said, “The Americans didn’t even notice the difference until we turned their attention to it.“The world doesn’t acknowledge the huge shift Israel made, and even in Israel there’s low sensitivity to this,” he added.In the past, Israel has accepted the principle of land swaps with the Palestinians in the ratio of 1:1 for inhabited areas in the West Bank annexed by Israel, a principle Rabin never envisioned, he said.Tactically, Israel has agreed in the past years to undertake goodwill measures intended to advance negotiations, such as a freeze on settlement construction in 2010 and the release of Palestinian prisoners with blood on their hands.“From a diplomatic point of view, I know of not one Palestinian concession since the start of negotiations until today,” he said.“They [the Palestinians] have a clear line: They want a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital. Everything else is secondary. Why? Because they feel as though they’ve made their big concession already by settling for 22 percent of what they regard as historic Palestine.”Amidror highlighted the importance of Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Such recognition, he said, is not important for Israel — which will continue defining itself as it wishes — but for Palestinian society, to “close the issue of 1948,” or the very existence of Israel.“The more I speak to Palestinians, the more I understand that the real issue for them is 1948, not 1967,” he said. “It’s clear to me that if the agreement with the Palestinians does not include recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.”Amidror expressed deep understanding for the Palestinian difficulty with Israel’s creation. “There is no other case in history where a nation returns to its land after 2,000 years, claiming ownership over it while knowing that an indigenous people is living on it,” he said.“This is truly a strong argument for the Palestinians and for the world,” he added. “[The Israeli precedent] could destabilize the entire world order.”
Canada: Talks should consider Jewish refugees from Arab states-Still, peace process ‘as it is currently structured’ offers best hope for a positive solution,’ FM John Baird says
By Raphael Ahren March 27, 2014, 6:39 pm 9-The Times of Israel
The Canadian government reiterated its position that the fate of Jewish refugees from Arab countries should be considered in any final peace deal with the Palestinians, but hinted that the current negotiations should be allowed to proceed without the issue complicating them.“Fair and equal acknowledgement of all refugee populations arising out of the Arab-Israeli conflict requires the recognition of Jewish refugees,” Foreign Minister John Baird said in a statement Wednesday. “Such recognition does not diminish or compete with the situation of Palestinian refugees.”Baird’s statement follows a decision by the House of Commons, which earlier this month adapted a report submitted to parliament last year to recognize the experience of Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.The 17-page report, authored by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, noted that during the course of its hearings, members “learned of the discrimination and hardship faced by Jewish people living in the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century [which] surged over the years in tandem with the crisis moments of the Arab- Israeli conflict, in particular the 1948–49 and 1967 wars.”The committee heard that since 1948, roughly 850,000 Jews fled persecution and violence in the Middle East and North Africa, and that about 650,000 immigrated to Israel, while the rest settled in other countries, including Canada.The reported concluded by recommending that Ottawa “officially recognize” the Jewish refugees’ experience, and asking the government to encourage “the direct negotiating parties to take into account all refugee populations as part of any just and comprehensive resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflicts.”Baird said he accepted the suggestions, but indicated that it should not be overplayed in the current phase of US- brokered talks.“The government of Canada agrees in principle with the committee’s second recommendation, that the experience of Jewish refugees should be taken into consideration as a part of any just and comprehensive peace deal, however, we believe that the peace process as it is currently structured offers the best hope for a positive solution,” the foreign minister said in a statement.“Canada continues to advocate for a comprehensive, two-state solution reached through a negotiated agreement between the two parties that guarantees Israel’s right to live in peace and security with its neighbors and leads to the establishment of a viable and independent Palestinian state.”Israel has raised the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab states repeatedly in the peace talks, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel Thursday. “We believe that it’s impossible to be color blind when talk about the fate of refugees. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to leave their homes in Arab nations across the Middle East; and when one talks about the suffering of refugees, about their compensation and their rights, obviously this is a population that cannot be ignored.” Doing so would be “racism,” the senior official said.The Palestinians, however, are only “focused on their own refugees” in the negotiations, the senior official said. “They’re unwilling, as far as I know to deal seriously with this issue.”A so-called framework agreement to extend the talks beyond its initial April deadline, to be presented by US Secretary John Kerry in the coming weeks, will reportedly include for the first time a call for compensation to Palestinian and Jewish refugees.JTA contributed to this report.
Report: Israel Refuses Last Terror Release-Senior PA official reveals that Israel has told PA it will not release last batch of terrorists on Saturday.By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 3/28/2014, 12:50 PM-Israelnationalnews
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official announced Friday that Israel has told the PA it will not go through on the fourth and final batch of terrorist releases, which was set for Saturday night."The Israeli government has informed us through the American mediator that it will not abide with its commitment to release the fourth batch of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday 29," PA official Jibril Rajoub told AFP." Israel has refused to commit to the names that were agreed upon of prisoners held by Israel since before the 1993 Oslo agreements," added Rajoub, calling the move a "slap in the face of the US administration and its efforts."Rajoub reiterated PA threats to take unilateral moves for recognition at the UN next week, in breach of conditions of the peace talks, due to the release not occurring. "Not releasing the prisoners will mark the beginning of the efforts in the international community to challenge the legality of the occupation," threatened the PA official.The release, intended as a "gesture" to promote the stalled peace talks, has been widely protested in Israel. Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon threatened to resign if the move went through. So far Israel has released 78 of the promised 104 terrorists; many of the terrorists were convicted of murdering Israeli citizens.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has set the terrorist release, as well as a construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, as a condition for continued talks. Abbas has brought talks to a loggerhead by refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.Rajoub back in February said “if the talks fail, armed struggle against [Israel] could be a strategic solution for the Palestinian people,” Rajoub said, emphasizing that Palestinian terrorist groups “never abandoned the solution of an armed uprising.” The calls for renewed terrorism have been increasing lately in PA, and Abbas's Fatah movement.
OIL IN ISRAEL
JOB 29:6
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
GENESIS 12:3
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAEL) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
GENESIS 14:10
10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits;(CRUDE OIL) and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain
DEUTERONOMY 33:19,24
19 They (ISRAEL) shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
Woodside delays signing landmark Israeli gas field deal-JERUSALEM/MELBOURNE, March 28 Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:09pm EDT-The Times of Israel
(Reuters) - Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd has delayed signing a landmark agreement to take up to a $2.7 billion stake in Israel's Leviathan gas field, but said on Friday it was in talks to overcome remaining issues.The agreement was supposed to be signed on March 27, however sources have said Woodside was balking at a push by the Israeli government to cut the potential share of profits Woodside could take on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Asia."Discussions continue with the parties and the Israeli government with a view to resolving the remaining issues and executing definitive agreements," Woodside said in a statement to the Australian stock exchange. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch and Sonali Paul; Editing by Richard Pullin)
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Germany in renewed push for EU treaty change
Today @ 09:50-MAR 28,14-EUOBSERVER-By Valentina Pop
Berlin - German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has said discussions on revising the treaty to secure the eurozone's architecture will begin after the May EU elections."After the EU elections the debate about treaty change will be back on the table. The federal government will plead for institutional improvements, at least in the eurozone. The monetary union needs a joint finance- and economic policy, with corresponding institutions," Schaeuble said in an interview with Handelsblatt published on Thursday (27 March).He repeated his call for a eurozone parliament and a permanent chief of the Eurogroup, the informal gathering of eurozone finance ministers.Schaeuble made similar comments in a speech in the Belgian city of Bruges the same day and in a joint op-ed with his British counterpart, George Osborne, published in the Financial Times.The British government is seeking support for its own reformist agenda, which revolves around Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt to renegotiate the terms of UK's membership of the EU, culminating in a referendum on whether the country should remain in the Union.Schaeuble subscribed to the idea that further eurozone integration should not become a disadvantage for the countries outside the euro.“So future EU reform and treaty change must include reform of the governance framework to put euro area integration on a sound legal basis and guarantee fairness for those EU countries inside the single market but outside the single currency,” the two ministers wrote.The Conservative government in Britain, traditionally close to business and banking interests, is concerned that the nascent banking union in the eurozone and further regulation of the financial system will impact London's financial powerhouse.Speaking at Bruges' College of Europe, Schaeuble sought to allay these fears, saying that "as long as the UK will not join the eurozone, maybe we can find a two-speed solution,” FT reports.But in a self-promotion video posted on YouTube, Schaeuble also said that "freedom needs rules and boundaries.""I also fell to the temptation of deregulation, deregulation, deregulation. And in the end, financial markets destroyed themselves. And who had to rescue them? The stupid politicians, who suddenly were good enough for that. That's why we are applying the lessons learnt and create rules. They don't like it, but it has to be," the German finance minister said.
Departing Europe, Obama seeks to reassure Saudis
By JIM KUHNHENN 4 hours ago-MAR 28,14-Yahoonews
ROME (AP) — President Barack Obama is leaving the European continent and shifting his attention from an Eastern European power play to the complicated religious and tribal politics of the Middle East.After four days spread across European capitals in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy, Obama is off to Saudi Arabia to reassure Arab allies that despite troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, greater energy independence back home and nuclear talks with predominantly Persian Iran, the United States is not abandoning the Arab world.Obama's overnight trip has only two items on its public schedule: a meeting and a dinner with King Abdullah at his desert camp, a 30-minute helicopter ride from the Saudi capital of Riyadh.White House officials and Mideast experts say the Saudi royal family's main concern is Iran.They fear Iran's nuclear program, object to Iran's backing of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria and see the government of Tehran as having designs on oil fields in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes identified the points of anxiety in the relationship when he described Obama's agenda for the trip last week as: "Our ongoing support for Gulf security, our support for the Syrian opposition where we've been very coordinated with the Saudis, the ongoing Middle East peace discussions, as well as both the nuclear negotiations with Iran but also our joint concern for destabilizing actions that Iran is taking across the region."The Saudi anxieties have been building over time, according to Simon Henderson, a fellow at The Washington Institute, a think tank focused on Middle East policy."Ever since Washington withdrew support for President (Hosni) Mubarak of Egypt in 2011, Abdullah and other Gulf leaders have worried about the reliability of Washington's posture toward even longstanding allies," Henderson wrote this week. "President Obama's U-turn on military action against Syria over its use of chemical weapons last summer only added to the concern, which has likely morphed into exasperation after recent events in Crimea, where the Saudis judge that President Obama was outmaneuvered by Vladimir Putin."The technological advances that have increased oil and gas production in the United States have also made Gulf states nervous, said Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of its Saban Center on Middle East Policy."A lot of people in the region, I think, are naturally asking themselves what America's energy independence means for America's willingness to invest in the security of energy and supply from the Gulf," she said.Obama spent the past four days trying to secure European unity against Russia's incursion and subsequent annexation of Crimea. But ahead of his meeting with King Abdullah, Obama also met with Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the richest emirate in the United Arab Emirates federation and a Saudi ally.Not all the Saudi concerns are aimed at the U.S. Obama's meeting with King Abdullah comes just days after an Arab summit in Kuwait City ended with participants divided over which opposition factions in the Syrian conflict to support. Those tensions are especially evident between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, a small but oil-rich Gulf state.Saudi Arabia and its allies have accused Qatar of arming militant Islamic fighters in the Syrian conflict.That dispute, among others, undid a possible Gulf Cooperation Council session that Obama had hoped to attend in Saudi Arabia.Friday's talks also come in the aftermath of Saudi Arabia's refusal to grant a visa to the Washington bureau chief of The Jerusalem Post who had sought to cover Obama's trip. Rhodes told reporters that the U.S. government reached out to Riyadh to intervene but to no avail."We made it clear how important it was to us that this journalist, like any other journalist, have access to cover the president's trip," he said.
ISAIAH 24:1-23 (THE TRIBULATION 7 YR PERIOD)
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Washington state mudslide death count expected to jump above 25
By Eric M. Johnson 2 hours ago-MAR 28,14-Yahoonews
ARLINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Washington state officials said the confirmed death toll from a huge mudslide in the U.S. Pacific Northwest was likely to rise sharply from 25 on Friday as residents accused local authorities of a slow early response to the disaster that had cost lives.A rain-soaked hillside collapsed without warning on Saturday, unleashing a deluge of mud on dozens of homes in a river valley near the rural town of Oso, in Snohomish County, some 55 miles northeast of Seattle.Authorities fear that some of the 90 still missing might never be found in the square-mile heap of mud-caked debris and muck. Officials were expected to revise casualty tolls during a press conference at 9 a.m. local time on Friday."In the next 24 to 48 hours, as the medical examiner's office catches up with the difficult work that they have to do, you're going to see these numbers increase substantially," fire district chief Travis Hots said on Thursday.An estimated 180 people lived in the path of the landslide."This is going to get harder and harder," said Dan Rankin, mayor of nearby Darrington, as he choked back tears at a town hall meeting attended by hundreds on Thursday evening. "We need each other more and more."Shawn Scott, 51, a former U.S. soldier living in Darrington, said he went in as an authorized volunteer on Monday and Tuesday, but by Wednesday, as it became increasingly clear that no one else would be found alive, he stayed home."The rescue effort's one thing, body recovery's another," he said. "There's plenty of people for that."However, Hots said some 200 people continued to comb through the treacherous disaster site without respite. "I haven't lost hope yet. There's a lot of people up there who haven't lost hope yet."
SPEED VERSUS SAFETY
All of those discovered alive in the mud were rescued by helicopter within the first few hours after the landslide, and rescuers have not found further signs of life, officials said.Authorities were investigating the cause of the mudslide and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources said it would review recent forestry activities in the area to determine if they might have been a factor. No earthquake had occurred in the region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.Many residents voiced anger that local officials refused to allow volunteers to join the search for survivors immediately after the slide, when chances for finding any were greatest.While some used their intimate knowledge of the area to sneak into the disaster zone to help, others said they returned home feeling frustrated and helpless.Officials warned that conditions were too dangerous to allow non-professional volunteers into the disaster zone even though they finally agreed on Tuesday to start allowing volunteers to join the official rescue teams.Local politicians told the Seattle Times newspaper that county authorities had wasted time by failing to quickly recognize the scope of the disaster and could have sought more experienced help rather than conducting efforts alone.The state National Guard's commanding officer offered to deploy a 50-member search team on Saturday, an offer local emergency management officials did not accept until Monday, a Washington Military Department spokeswoman said.While county officials did not initially grasp the magnitude of the devastation, there was no room for more personnel because of quicksand-like conditions and fears of further slides, military department spokeswoman Karina Shagren said."There wasn't a resources issue, there was a safety issue."(Additional reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in Darrington, Steve Gorman and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles, editing by Mark Heinrich)
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) 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,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
36 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-03-28 06:43:02 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)36 earthquakes in map area
4.0 163km S of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2014-03-28 06:39:09 UTC-05:00 11.0 km
2.8 7km NNW of Harper, Kansas 2014-03-28 06:23:26 UTC-05:00 1.9 km
5.3 38km SW of Khorugh, Tajikistan 2014-03-28 05:24:11 UTC-05:00 93.6 km
4.9 100km ESE of Neiafu, Tonga 2014-03-28 05:05:57 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.3 10km SSE of Los Andes, Chile 2014-03-28 02:50:40 UTC-05:00 98.7 km
4.9 109km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2014-03-28 02:07:49 UTC-05:00 33.7 km
4.6 39km NW of Isangel, Vanuatu 2014-03-28 01:20:37 UTC-05:00 178.8 km
2.7 10km NW of Calipatria, California 2014-03-28 01:10:35 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
2.7 10km NW of Calipatria, California 2014-03-28 01:08:29 UTC-05:00 1.1 km
2.5 19km WSW of Three Forks, Montana 2014-03-27 23:45:19 UTC-05:00 8.3 km
2.5 10km NW of Calipatria, California 2014-03-27 23:42:18 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
3.4 10km NW of Calipatria, California 2014-03-27 23:15:29 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
3.4 84km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-03-27 22:54:54 UTC-05:00 24.0 km
3.1 10km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska 2014-03-27 22:52:45 UTC-05:00 7.8 km
2.8 175km SE of Tok, Alaska 2014-03-27 22:11:49 UTC-05:00 0.2 km
4.1 74km SSE of Khonsa, India 2014-03-27 22:09:53 UTC-05:00 93.0 km
2.7 12km NNE of Hawaiian Ocean View, Hawaii 2014-03-27 21:47:54 UTC-05:00 6.4 km
5.4 72km SW of Vinchina, Argentina 2014-03-27 19:10:37 UTC-05:00 13.4 km
3.3 18km WNW of Kalifornsky, Alaska 2014-03-27 18:57:01 UTC-05:00 78.5 km
5.5 63km SW of Vinchina, Argentina 2014-03-27 18:50:52 UTC-05:00 9.9 km
2.5 74km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2014-03-27 16:21:42 UTC-05:00 100.0 km
3.1 16km SE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-03-27 16:01:43 UTC-05:00 107.0 km
3.5 5km SW of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-03-27 15:05:16 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
2.6 Quarry Blast 10km ESE of Redmond, Oregon 2014-03-27 14:45:03 UTC-05:00 0.0 km
2.9 49km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska 2014-03-27 14:19:34 UTC-05:00 25.0 km
4.3 81km E of Ishinomaki, Japan 2014-03-27 13:46:05 UTC-05:00 51.1 km
4.8 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-03-27 13:20:20 UTC-05:00 498.4 km
4.2 39km WSW of Obihiro, Japan 2014-03-27 13:17:53 UTC-05:00 33.1 km
4.9 38km SSE of Pucallpa, Peru 2014-03-27 12:59:12 UTC-05:00 141.0 km
2.5 81km SE of Atka, Alaska 2014-03-27 12:57:08 UTC-05:00 25.0 km
4.2 27km N of Piru, Indonesia 2014-03-27 11:44:44 UTC-05:00 55.5 km
2.6 84km E of King Salmon, Alaska 2014-03-27 11:40:05 UTC-05:00 100.0 km
4.9 141km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2014-03-27 10:32:29 UTC-05:00 24.3 km
2.9 179km S of Adak, Alaska 2014-03-27 10:14:05 UTC-05:00 25.6 km
2.7 80km ESE of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2014-03-27 09:43:10 UTC-05:00 99.9 km
4.8 121km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2014-03-27 06:52:37 UTC-05:00 133.1 km
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