IRAN TESTS RADAR EVADING MISSLE

1-Ernesto upgraded to hurricane. 2-At least 93 dead in floods in Indian desert state. 3-Firefighters continue to battle Turkey forest fires. 4-Israel 'not fooled' by Iran nuclear assurances. 5-Iran test fires long-range missile. 6-Iran Test Fires Long-Range Missile.

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;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.(GLOBAL WARMING)

Ernesto upgraded to hurricane
August 27 2006 at 04:26PM ,By Jim Loney

Miami - Ernesto grew into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Sunday and threatened deforested Haiti with floods and mudslides as it headed for the Gulf of Mexico a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.Forecasters said Ernesto could become a Category 3 hurricane with 185km/h winds in the Gulf, home to a quarter of US oil and gas production, and its most likely path would take it ashore on Florida's west coast near Tampa on Thursday.But first, the growing hurricane took aim at Haiti, where past tropical storms and hurricanes have killed thousands of people, and Cuba.The US National Hurricane Centre said Ernesto's top sustained winds rose early on Sunday to 120km/h, up from 95km/h just a few hours earlier.

The storm was about 185km south-west of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, at 12h00 GMT on Sunday and was a Category 1 storm on the five-stage Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.A hurricane warning was issued for the southern coast of Haiti meaning hurricane conditions were expected within 24 hours. Forecasters said up to 30cm of rain with up to 50cm in isolated areas could fall on the island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.Tropical Storm Jeanne killed about 3 000 people in Haiti two years ago when its rains triggered floods and mudslides in and around the city of Gonaives.The Miami-based hurricane centre said Ernesto could become a Category 2 hurricane before it reaches the coast of Cuba on Monday. A Category 2 storm has top sustained winds from 155-177km/h and can cause moderate damage.

By Thursday, it could be a Category 3 hurricane with 185km/h winds as it approaches the US Gulf coast, forecasters said.The hurricane centre said the storm's most likely path would take it ashore on the US Gulf coast between Alabama and the Florida Keys, leaving New Orleans outside of the cone of danger. But Ernesto's potential path had fluctuated dramatically in the past few days.People in New Orleans, still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina's blow last August 29, were keeping a close eye on the storm. Forecasters said warm waters could greatly strengthen Ernesto as it approached the Gulf, where a quarter of US crude oil and natural gas production is based.Our entire coast is on alert,Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday as New Orleans prepared to mark the first anniversary of Katrina.

Katrina flooded most of the historic Southern city after breaching its levees and killed about 1 500 people on the US Gulf Coast.

Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Cuba issued hurricane watches as Ernesto approached. A hurricane watch meant hurricane conditions could be expected within 36 hours.Hundreds of Jamaicans cleared supermarket shelves of basic supplies and headed for shelters. Cuban authorities prepared to evacuate the town of Cocodrilo on the Isle of Youth.Ernesto was moving northwest at about 15km/h and on that track its centre was expected to pass near the south-western tip of Haiti on Sunday afternoon and near the south-eastern coast of Cuba on Monday morning.The hurricane centre said a tropical storm watch might be required for parts of the Florida Keys later on Sunday.

Oil prices rose on Friday as Ernesto developed. On Saturday, British oil major BP said it would pull 800 non-essential workers from its Gulf of Mexico drilling rigs and non-producing platforms, cutting its offshore Gulf work force by a third but not affecting production.

Additional reporting by Eric Beech in Washington, Peter Henderson in New Orleans and Erwin Seba in Houston

At least 93 dead in floods in Indian desert state Sun Aug 27, 5:32 AM ET

BARMER, India (AFP) - At least 93 people were killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods caused by monsoon rains that have swamped the normally drought-prone desert state of Rajasthan, reports said.

Eight more bodies were recovered Sunday in the state's Barmer district, where the majority of the flood-related deaths have occurred, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.The district is near the border with Pakistan, or about 887 kilometres (549 miles) west of the Indian capital New Delhi.

State officials, citing the numbers of people still missing, said Sunday that the death toll could reach as high as 300, the report said.Government officials had announced Saturday that 51 bodies had been recovered from Barmer, where vast swathes of land remained under water according to aerial footage shown on Indian television.Since the floods began, 51 dead bodies have been found in Barmer. The search is on for 50 (more) people,said Rajendra Singh Rathore, the state's public works minister, according to PTI.

Navy divers and army troops had been called in to rescue around 200 people who had taken shelter atop houses, vehicles and sand dunes after the unusually heavy rains in the desert region, Rathore added.The army had flown nearly 3,500 people by helicopter to higher ground.Rathore said around 47,000 animals had also been found dead.In Barmer's Kawas village, the rains initially brought cheer last week, providing relief from a drought that had lasted for six years. But residents said bloated bodies of people and animals were now floating in the water.Earlier this month, more than 10 million people were affected by floods in four states.
Western Gujarat state faced the brunt with its diamond-polishing hub of Surat remaining under water for five days.

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.

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Firefighters continue to battle Turkey forest fires
Aug 22, 2006, 17:07 GMT

Ankara - Firefighters continued to battle a number of blazes Tuesday in the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea regions with investigators looking into claims that one fire in the Kas region may have been deliberately lit, the Anadolu news agency reported.

By Tuesday afternoon firefighters had brought under control fires in Kusadasi and Adana but were still battling the forest blazes in the Kas and Bodrum regions on the Mediterranean coast. Anadolu quoted a police official saying that the blaze in Kas appeared to have started almost simultaneously at four separate points, leading officials to suspect that it may have been a deliberate act of sabotage by the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) which has in the past been responsible for lighting forest fires.

Using water-dumping helicopters and planes, firefighters were having difficulty bringing the Kas blaze under control due to high winds and rugged terrain. Some 300 hectares of forest had been destroyed in the fire. Another fire in the Bodrum region had destroyed 700 hectares of forest. The blaze had not been brought under control by Tuesday afternoon. In Kusadasi, fire-fighters were mopping up on Tuesday after bringing under control on Monday a blaze that destroyed some 700 hectares of forest. The fire missed by just a few metres from destroying a house in the area of Selcuk where Mary, mother of Jesus, purportedly spent her final years. Apart from the Kas blaze authorities have blamed carelessness and in the case of the Kusadasi fire, a lightning strike, as the cause of the fires. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS,GPS,BIOMETRICS ETC)

Israel 'not fooled' by Iran nuclear assurances Sat Aug 26, 11:42 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel said it was not fooled by assurances from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Tehran's nuclear programme was no threat to the Jewish state.

Israel is not fooled by such declarations, the sole aim of which are to avoid
sanctions being imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council, government spokesman Avi Pazner told AFP Saturday.Ahmadinejad has often stated his true intentions concerning Israel, he said, a reference to repeated calls by the Iranian president for the country's destruction.Ahmadinejad said Saturday that one cannot deprive any nation from its rights. The Iranian nation will defend its rights to nuclear technology with force.

Iran is no threat to any nation, even the Zionist regime, he said in Khondab, in central Iran, after inaugurating a heavy water production plant just five days before a UN deadline to suspend sensitive nuclear fuel cycle work.The heavy water plant at Arak will supply heavy water to be used as cooling fluid for a 40 MW research reactor due for completion by 2009.The International Atomic Energy Agency has voiced concern over the risk of diversion of nuclear materials, as the research reactor could produce 8-10 kilograms (about 20 pounds) of plutonium a year -- enough to make at least two nuclear bombs.Iran is under intense pressure from the international community to suspend its controversial programme of uranium enrichment, and the UN Security Council has given Tehran until August 31 to comply or face the threat of sanctions.Western countries, led by the United States, believe Iran wants to create nuclear weapons, but the Islamic republic insists it only wants civil nuclear power and has the right to master the required technology.

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
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
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.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
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.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES) shall come against him 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, 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, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

EZEKIEL 38:1-12 (THE FIRST WAVE THAT MARCH)(EZEKIEL 38+39)

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, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE 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; 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.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Iran test fires long-range missile
Sunday, August 27, 2006; Posted: 8:03 a.m. EDT (12:03 GMT)

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran test fired a long-range, radar-evading missile on Sunday from a submarine in the Gulf as part of war games that began earlier this month, state television reported.The missile was called Sagheb, which means Piercing, but the report did not give the missile's range.Minutes ago it was launched from a submarine in the Persian Gulf and it hit the target, television
reported.Western nations have been watching developments in Iran's missile capabilities with concern amid a standoff over the country's nuclear program, which the West says is aimed at building atomic bombs. Iran says the program is only civilian.

Iran's military also held war games in the Gulf in April. Those exercises were interpreted by analysts as a thinly veiled threat that Iran could disrupt vital oil shipping lanes if pushed by an escalation in the nuclear dispute.A navy admiral, named only as Kouchaki, told state television the missile had been designed and produced in Iran.It can be installed and launched by Iran's navy. It is a long-range missile, with a very high speed and destructive power. It is also radar evading,he said.The Islamic Republic has three aging Kilo class diesel-electric Russian submarines and also builds midget submarines. The Sagheb is listed as an air defense
missile by the Nuclear Threat Initiative Web site (www.nti.org).Military analysts say Iran often exaggerates its abilities, They argue that its military equipment is outmoded and that new missiles Iran claims to have produced are often modified versions from other countries such as North Korea.

But they also say Iranian forces could, if pushed, cause havoc in shipping lanes in the Gulf, even if they would be no match in any conventional confrontation with the high-tech forces of the U.S. and other navies operating in the area.(Reuters).

Iran Test Fires Long-Range Missile
15:49 Aug 27, '06 / 3 Elul 5766

(IsraelNN.com) Iranian state-run media reports that a long-range surface-to-surface missile was successfully test fired in the Persian Gulf on Sunday. The test exercise was part of ongoing major military exercises that began about a week ago, as Tehran continues to ignore American warnings to cease weapons development, especially Tehran’s ongoing nuclear enrichment program.The Jupiter missile, Iranian officials state, was designed by local experts using Iranian know how, rejecting reports that the advanced weaponry is being developed with the assistance of other countries.