OLMERT PERES WITHDRAWL HALTED

1-Moderate earthquake hits Mexico coast. 2-UN wants European troops in Lebanon. 3-Olmert, Peres: Yesha Withdrawal - Not For Now. 4-30 missing after Ecuador volcano erupts. 5-The Hezbollah-Israel Conflict: By the Numbers. 6-The seven feasts are God’s blueprints.(John Hagee)

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.

Moderate earthquake hits Mexico coast, felt in city Sat Aug 19, 3:04 AM ET

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake rocked Mexico's Pacific coast early on Saturday close to the popular beach resort of Huatulco and was felt as far away as Mexico City, but no damage was reported.

The epicenter of the 5.5 magnitude quake was close to the surfing hotspot Puerto Escondido, but also shook the capital 240 miles to the northwest, Mexico's national seismological service said.People have called to say they felt it but we haven't received any reports of damage,said Yanet Antayhua at the monitoring center.A strong tremor rattled Mexico City last week without causing major damage, but brought back memories of a devastating 1985 quake that killed thousands.Huatulco and Puerto Escondido are both in the state of Oaxaca.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

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)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

UN wants European troops in Lebanon By Evelyn Leopold go

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) The United Nations appealed on Friday for Europeans to contribute to a U.N. force in Lebanon so a balance would be created between Western and Muslim troops acceptable to Israel and Lebanon.

The United States urged France, which has offered only 200 new troops, to increase its contingent.The objective of the U.N. force is to help the Lebanese army control the south, now dominated by Hizbollah militia, which on Friday began handing out bundles of cash to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing.

The Hizbollah action consolidated the Iranian-backed group's support among Lebanon's Shi'ites, embarrassing the Beirut government.People already had faith in Hizbollah. This will strengthen their faith,said Ayman Jaber, 27, with a wad of $12,000 in bank notes Hizbollah had given him.

Israeli and U.S. officials have voiced concern that Hizbollah will entrench its popularity by moving fast -- with Iranian money -- to help people whose homes were destroyed or damaged in the 34-day conflict with Israel.At least 1,183 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis were killed in the war that erupted after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.

At the United Nations, Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown welcomed promises from Italy and Finland to deploy troops and firm commitments from Nepal and Muslim nations Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

ISRAEL WANTS EXCLUSIONS

Still, Israeli officials have said that countries that do not have relations with the Jewish state should not be in the force. Indonesia and Malaysia are among them.You want a force which is broadly acceptable in its composition to both sides, which is why we have talked about this European-Muslim core to the force, Malloch Brown told reporters. I think the issue is balance.

The particular appeal I want to make today is that Europe comes forward with troops for this first wave,he said.The United Nations wants to field an advance force of 3,500 troops by September 2 and hopes to have the entire complement in place by November 4. The U.N. Security Council on August 11 authorized up to 13,000 troops in addition to the current 2,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL.

But France's reticence to contribute more troops has disappointed U.N. and U.S. officials, who expected Paris to take a lead role. The French military has hesitated following a loss of 58 paratroopers to a suicide bomb attack in Beirut in 1983 and some 84 soldiers in Bosnia in the early 1990s.Malloch Brown said France's representative had affirmed that new rules of engagement were very acceptable and correct and a reflection of the resolution that France had obviously been an author of. U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said France was still studying the rules distributed to dozens potential troops contributors on Thursday.

After they have done so, I am sure they will come back with a more complete and final response as to what their ultimate contributions will be,Casey said. I suspect we haven't heard the last from them.

BUSH APPEALS TO FRANCE

Even President Bush appealed to France from the Camp David presidential retreat. There's been different signals coming out of France,he told reporters. We hope they send more. In Lebanon, Hizbollah has not said where the funds are coming from to
compensate people for an estimated 15,000 destroyed homes. The plans appears likely to cost at least $150 million and the Beirut has yet to launch anything similar.

Lebanon's reconstruction chief said Israeli bombardment had inflicted a disastrous $3.6 billion worth of physical damage on Lebanon from which it could take years to recover. Al-Fadl Shalaq, head of the Council for Development and Reconstruction, said the devastation from the 34-day conflict exceeded that caused by Lebanon's 1975 1990 civil war. Trying to bolster a five-day-old truce, Lebanese troops moved deeper into the south and about 600 deployed in Shebaa village, near the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms enclave.

The Shebaa Farms is a small patch of land claimed by Lebanon, but occupied by Israel since it captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war. The United Nations deems the territory Syrian until Syria cedes it to Lebanon. On Thursday, the Lebanese army began deploying a force that will eventually number 15,000 soldiers south of the Litani River, about 13 miles from the border with Israel. Hizbollah fighters have melted away as the Lebanese army arrived, but they have not left the south or given up the rocket launchers they used to bombard Israel during the conflict. (Additional reporting by Beirut, Jerusalem, Paris, Rome and Washington
bureaux)

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.

Olmert, Peres: Yesha Withdrawal - Not For Now
By Hillel Fendel(INN)

PM Olmert told Kadima party colleagues this week he realizes that his unilateral withdrawal plan is irrelevant for now. Shimon Peres, in U.S., says the Lebanese war has lowered the plan's chances. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Kadima members that he cannot ignore the fact that something very basic has changed in Israel over the past few weeks, and that he must now adapt his government's agenda accordingly.

Speaking with leading Kadima Party officials, Haaretz reports, Olmert said he cannot ignore the situation in Judea and Samaria, but that rebuilding the north will now take up most of the government's time and resources.

Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, too, does not see Olmert's unilateral withdrawal plan occurring in the near future and possibly not at all. Speaking with American Jews in New York Thursday night, Peres said that the war in Lebanon lowered the chances for a unilateral Disengagement-like retreat from Judea and Samaria. He said that Israel must now focus on bilateral negotiations.The Kadima Party - founded by Ariel Sharon, headed by Ehud Olmert, and joined by Shimon Peres after many decades in the Labor Party - has based itself chiefly on one concept: a unilateral withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria. If the idea is now shelved, Kadima will have to reformulate its agenda.

Several Kadima members have been quoted, and a few have even gone on record, as opposing Olmert's plan. MK David Tal, formerly of Shas and Labor-One Nation, recently said that in light of the two-front war forced upon Israel, there is nothing to talk about now regarding further expulsions and unilateral moves. The whole idea of unilateralism has been shown to be worthless.

Minister Meir Sheetrit said, even before the Lebanese war, that he opposes the concept of a retreat from Judea and Samaria. A long-time supporter of the Disengagement ever since his days in the Likud, Sheetrit said six weeks ago that a unilateral withdrawal is liable to endanger Israel. The reality has shown that an Israeli retreat with no coordination with the other side is a mistake, Sheetrit said, and could bring the threat of Kassam rockets right to the center of Israel.Meanwhile, another Kadima member, Justice Minister Chaim Ramon, announced today (Friday) that he will resign his post on Sunday. This follows the decision announced last night by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to indict him on charges of sexual harassment. Ramon left the Labor Party and joined Kadima just days after Ariel Sharon founded it last November, and strongly supported the retreats from Lebanon and Gaza, as well as a unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. If Olmert appoints a replacement for Ramon, it is said that he will choose from among Minister Sheetrit, Interior Minister Roni Bar-On, or - a long shot - former Justice Minister Dan Meridor.

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

30 missing after Ecuador volcano erupts By DOLORES OCHOA, Associated Press Writer 51 minutes ago

BANOS, Ecuador - Rescuers searched Friday for 30 people missing after the devastating explosion of a volcano killed at least one person and forced tens of thousands to flee and appeared poised for a new eruption. Ecuador's Geophysics Institute urged residents and tourists who may be tempted to witness the spectacle to stay away from the 16,575-foot Tungurahua volcano in the nation's central Andes.There is more potential for it to do very big things. We see that there is a fault in the volcano and it is very unstable, institute head Hugo Yepes said. There is great activity inside.The volcano is now quiet, but geology professor Theofilos Toulkeridis, of Quito's San Francisco University, warned: It is not good news that the volcano is calm. That is not a good sign.If Tungurahua remained plugged up at the upper part of the chimney it would start to accumulate gas and magma, he told The Associated Press.

The more time that passes with it capped, the worse it is.Volcanic ash rained down about 140 miles west of Tungurahua, which exploded before dawn Thursday and smothered its lush green slopes in a dull gray blanket of ash. Trees were singed bare by fiery volcanic flows.Authorities had ordered the evacuation of a dozen
hamlets on the volcano's slopes.

Ecuador's Civil Defense said about 4,500 people were able to escape the rivers of fire — a horrific sight to villagers in the middle of the frigid Andean night. A dozen people were hospitalized Friday for injuries and burns.It was the 14th time Tungurahua has sent hot lava and ash onto villages on its flanks since its first recorded eruption in the Spanish colonial era in 1534. After remaining dormant for eight decades, Tungurahua rumbled back to life in 1999 and has been active ever since.

Carlos Puente, governor of Chimborazo province, said 30,000 to 40,000 people had inhabited the western slopes, the most damaged of the volcano, before the eruption, but that now no one is left.At least a dozen villages on the volcano's western slopes were seriously damaged or destroyed, and televised images showed the tops of electricity poles jutting from the smoldering flow that smothered more than 100 homes in the village of Juibe Grande. Authorities said the village's 600 residents escaped in time.

They were less sure about the many holdouts who refused to answer evacuation orders Wednesday in three hamlets high on the slopes of the volcano, which is some 85 miles south of the capital of Quito.A doctor said about 50 people from the village of Penipe were treated for burns caused by lava flows and incandescent rocks that burned them as they tried to flee.

They were also burned by vapor and the elevated heat in the zone. It was a scene of chaos, a Dantesque situation,Dr. Hernan Ayala told Ecuador's Channel 4 from a medical center in Riobamba, where many of the victims were taken.Rescuers recovered the body of a 50-year-old man in Penipe who was burned to death when he tried to return to his home to retrieve a television set, Puente said.

Hortensia Chicaiza and her husband searched desperately through an ash-covered field for food for her livestock.Does God do this in other places or does this only happen here? she said as she pulled up fistfuls of ashy vegetation.Pyroclastic flows — superheated material that shoots down the sides of volcanos at up to 190 mph — damaged access roads and blocked three rivers and forced the shutdown of a hydroelectric. Four jungle provinces were without power for hours until energy officials were able to rerouted lines.

18 August 2006
The Hezbollah-Israel Conflict: By the Numbers

The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel began on July 12 when Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist organization, killed eight Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and kidnapped two others on Israel’s side of the border with Lebanon. Hezbollah coordinated the kidnapping scheme to coincide with massive rocket and mortar shell attacks on IDF positions and Israeli villages. In response, Israel retaliated with an operation on southern Lebanon aimed at disarming Hezbollah and to rescue the abducted IDF soldiers. Hezbollah’s daily barrage of rocket attacks has taken a heavy toll on Israel’s civilian population, including its economy and its environment.

Since the conflict began:

159 Israeli citizens have been killed by Hezbollah rocket fire; of those 43 were Christian, Jewish, and Muslim civilians 116 were IDF soldiers killed in rocket attacks as well as in combat.

4,262 civilians were treated for injuries in hospitals; of those, 33 were seriously wounded, 68 were moderately wounded, and 1,388 were lightly wounded. Another 2,773 suffered from shock and anxiety.

Over 2 million people - a third of Israel’s population - were within Hezbollah rocket range.

300,000 - 500,000 Israelis have been displaced.
More than 1 million residents were forced to live in bomb shelters.
6,000 homes were hit by rockets.
7,600 damage claims have been filed.

A Snapshot of Hezbollah’s Rocket Attacks:

13,000 rockets are in Hezbollah’s arsenal

3,970: The number of rockets Hezbollah has fired into Israeli cities and towns; 901 landed in urban areas Of the missiles Hezbollah has fired at Israel:

Over 1,000 have hit the Kiryat Shmona area
808 have hit near Nahariya
471 have hit near Tzfat (Safed)
176 have hit near Karmiel
106 have hit near Akko
93 rockets have hit the Haifa area
81 rockets have hit the Tiberias vicinity
1,800buildings used by Hezbollah have been destroyed by Israeli forces
530 Hezbollah guerrillas have been killed by the IDF
309 Hezbollah rocket launchers have been destroyed by the IDF
33 Hezbollah-built tunnels have been destroyed by the IDF

Economic Losses to Israel:

$1.6 billion: The estimated cost of damage to the economy
$5.3 billion: The cost of the war
$335.4 million: The estimated compensation to be given to the population of northern Israel
$460 million: The amount of aid that will be given to local governments and emergency services in northern Israel
20 percent: The amount of decrease in tourism
$27 million: The amount of money hotels in northern Israel lost in one month of fighting [20]25,000 hotels in the north of Israel were empty
$222 million: The total expected loss to the tourism industry
630: The number of factories in northern Israel that were closed
$1.4 billion: The amount of money businesses in northern Israel lost
1.5 percent: Estimated loss in GDP

Environmental Loss:

50 - 60 years: Time it will take for forests to recover
6,178: The number of acres of grazing land burned
618: The number of acres of natural or planted forest burned

Humanitarian Assistance into Lebanon:

At least 70,000 foreign nationals were assisted by the IDF in the coordination efforts to evacuate Lebanon

57 airplanes with humanitarian goods for Lebanese civilians were permitted to land and unload at Beirut International Airport

The IDF allowed 213 passenger ships, 123 ground convoys and 196 helicopters to travel through Lebanon to evacuate expatriates and tourists.

GENESIS 1:14
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

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In the series, Prophecy of the Seven Feasts, Pastor Hagee teaches about the marriage of the Church as the Bride of Christ.

The contract written on our hearts is the original document represented by the ketubot which are written for earthly wedding ceremonies.The ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) is an ancient and beautiful element of the Jewish marriage ceremony. In its most traditional form, the ketubah is a prenuptial agreement, outlining the responsibilities of the groom to his bride.

There is evidence that early Christians (until the sixth century A.D.) continued to follow this Jewish tradition,stipulating the ordinary obligations of a what a husband should provide for his wife,adding the words to love, cherish,and honor. Though this marriage contract was a great advance for its time (dating back to the end of the first century, A.D.), today most couples choose wording which expresses their mutual love and commitments to one another.

Judaism has a precept known as hiddur mitzvah (literally: beautification of the commandment,) which states that if an object is required for ritual purposes, it should be made as beautiful as possible—hence the custom of highly illuminated ketubot. A ketubah is one of the few parts of the wedding that actually endures beyond the wedding day and is traditionally the first decorative item in a newly-wed couple’s home.

Prophecy of the Seven Feasts by Pastor John Hagee , JHMagazine

Leviticus 23 is one of the key chapters to unlocking the prophetic mysteries of the Bible. The seven feasts found in Leviticus 23 give us a divine blueprint for the future of the world. The word feast in Hebrew is mo-ed and it means a set time or an appointed time.

Another Hebrew word connected to the feast is mikrah, which means rehearsal or recital. The point is that God is showing us through the seven feasts, a rehearsal of the future at a set time.

Christians falsely assume these feasts are exclusively Jewish feasts. The Bible says,these feasts are the Lord’s…The New Testament church celebrated the seven feasts. St. Paul wrote to the church in Corinth,therefore let us keep the feast…
(1 Corinthians 5:8). The feasts are clearly the revelation of Jesus and of thing to come.

The seven feasts reveal God’s seven thousand year plan for man. Psalm 90:4,For a thousand years in thy sight is as but yesterday.

The point is that at the end of 6,000 years, the world as we know it will end and the seventh day will dawn.Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Satan will be bound in hell in chains. The Lion of Judah has destroyed the roaring lion who came to rob, kill and destroy.

The first feast is the Passover. The events leading up to the Passover are the most dramatic in Scripture. The Jewish people were enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years and they desperately needed a deliverer. God spoke to Moses from within a burning bush and revealed His plan.Each Jewish father was to take a spotless oneyear-old male lamb and tie it to the doorpost for four days, so the family could get to know the lamb. It was not just a lamb, but it was their lamb. The same way, Christ desires to be your personal Savior.

The second feast is that of unleavened bread. The thing that makes leavened bread puff-up is yeast. Yeast in the Bible is the type of sin born through pride. First Corinthians 5:6 says,purge out therefore the old leaven…We should look for every manifestation of pride and get it out of our lives, because if not, it will destroy our souls.Pride is rooted in idolatry. You worship yourself and don’t need God. Proverbs 16:5,Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord… none will go unpunished.The Jewish people at Passover purge the leaven out of their houses. They go through their houses to search for every particle of leavened bread.

The reason for doing so is in Exodus 12:15. God said anyone who ate leavened bread during the Passover week was to be put to death. God has zero tolerance for sin or pride.The Passover meal is served on a plate with three pieces of unleavened bread, that we as Christians can look at to represent the Father,Son and Holy Spirit. The Jewish tradition is for one piece of bread to be hidden in the home.The child who finds it receives a gift. Jesus Christ is longing to be found by all people to give the gift of eternal life, along with so many more blessings.

The prophecy of the feast of first fruits prophesied the resurrection of Jesus. St Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For as in Adam all die, so also, in Christ, all shall be made alive.Jesus rose from the dead on the 17th of Nisan,the exact day of the feast of first fruits. His resurrection guarantees resurrection for those who believe in Him.Israel was God’s firstborn. In Exodus 4:22,God told Moses, And you shall say unto Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son,even my firstborn. Why does the Bible say,The first shall be last and the last shall be
first”? Because the Gospel was preached to the Jew first and then to the Gentiles, but the Gentiles were the first to accept Christ as Messiah.We are all commanded to seek first the kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33).

Is Christ first in your life? First fruits is the wave offering praising God for the coming harvest. Revelation 23:11 says,And you shall wave the sheaf of grain before the Lord. On Sunday mornings, when you hold your tithe in your hand, this is your wave offering. You are thanking God for his provision and for the harvest He will send you. In the Old Testament, people were not permitted to eat the bread they had made,until they had given the first fruits of it. The point is that God will not let you enjoy the abundance of harvest until you have given the first fruits.

There are four things that determine your harvest. First you must plant your seed before you can expect a harvest. Second, the size of your harvest depends on how much you sow.Your prosperity gives God pleasure. According to Psalm 35:7,Let the Lord be magnified which has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.Thirdly, you must wait patiently for the harvest.Lastly, you can kill your harvest by murmuring.Murmuring sounds like this,Where is God when you really need him? I have waited long enough, God is not coming through this time.By doing this, God cancels your harvest.

The fourth feast found in Leviticus is the feast of Pentecost. The first Pentecost occurred at Mount Sinai, 50 days after God had delivered Israel from Pharaoh. They are there to receive the written word of God, in the Ten Commandments. Celestial shofars blew louder and louder and God said, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt. This was the first day of Pentecost recorded in Scripture.Remember, it is an elaborate rehearsal for the day of Pentecost recorded in Acts chapter two…Now when the day of Pentecost was fully come... meaning it was exactly the fiftieth day after Jesus rose from the dead.The Pentecost of Acts chapter two was the birth of the church. It was the marriage of God and His church in the upper room. Pentecost was the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. Out of that upper room came a people who went into the streets of Jerusalem speaking in every known language on the earth. Why? So that the world could hear the Gospel, so the church could be married to the living God, so that there would be a contract written in our hearts by God the Holy Spirit and so that the church of Jesus Christ could receive the Baptism of the
Holy Spirit.

The seven feasts are God’s blueprints. The message and mystery of these feasts is for every generation. It is God’s will for you to preview what He has in store for us in eternity. God is showing us through these feasts a glimpse of the future. They are a shadow of the glorious things to come.This unique and stirring prophetic devotional explores the feasts of Israel. His Glory Revealed will help you understand not only the meaning of each of the seven feasts, but the prophetic significance of each festival. These daily readings will also give you a better appreciation for the incredible complexity and majestic simplicity of God’s divine seventhousand-year plan for mankind.

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