DEVIL IN DETAILS HARRY POTTER

1-6.0 quake jolts Aleutian Islands. 2-Earthquake hits near Papua New Guinea. 3-Montserrat volcano spews ash and steam. 4-Ernesto power outages climb. 5-India rush troops, helicopters to flooded desert state. 6-Iran: We won't give up nuclear program.7-Israel, U.S. React to Continuing Iranian Uranium Enrichment. 8-Foreign ministers set for tough talks on Middle East, Iran. 9-Devil in the detail: Vatican exorcises Harry Potter.

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.

6.0 quake jolts Aleutian Islands Fri Sep 1, 10:33 AM ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A strong earthquake jolted the central Aleutian Islands early Friday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, but the quake had a magnitude of 6.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and it could be felt in Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island and Akutan Island. It occurred at 4:04 a.m. about 12 miles northeast of Unalaska Island.The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Center said the earthquake quake did not pose a tsunami risk.

Earthquake hits near Papua New Guinea Fri Sep 1,

CANBERRA, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck Friday under the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea, but there were no reports of damage on land and there was no major tsunami threat, authorities said. The magnitude 6.7 quake struck 38 miles south of the island province of Bougainville and 33 miles beneath the seabed at 6:19 a.m. EDT, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake did not pose a major tsunami threat, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

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.

Montserrat volcano spews ash and steam Thu Aug 31,

OLVESTON, Montserrat - Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano blasted ash and steam into the air on Thursday, and authorities warned the Caribbean island could see heightened activity in coming days. The eruption did not affect the northern side of the island, where all of Montserrat's 5,000 residents live, but the Montserrat Volcano Observatory raised the alert status.The volcano is extremely active, observatory director Sue Loughlin.Thurday's blasts sounded like jets flying over the tiny British territory, much of which was buried by an eruption in 1997 that killed 19 people.

The volcano's dome collapsed partially on June 30. It wasn't clear what would result from the latest activity, which included rock falls.It's really the uncertainty that causes us to put the alert level up,Loughlin said. We expect something to happen but we don't know exactly what it might be.More than half of Montserrat's 12,000 inhabitants have moved away since the volcano sprang to life in 1995.Access to the deserted southern zone was closed Thursday.On the Net:Montserrat Volcano Observatory: http://www.mvo.ms/

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.

Ernesto power outages climb Fri Sep 1, 6:35 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ernesto, downgraded to a tropical depression after a Thursday night landfall in North Carolina, left more than 243,000 utility customers from North Carolina to New Jersey without power late Friday. Utilities in the trail of Ernesto's wind and rain began restoring electricity on Friday while companies still in its path in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey stood by to begin work after the storm moves through.In Virginia, the storm hit the Dominion Resources service territory in the Tidewater area the hardest, a spokesman said. About 155,000 customers lacked electric service late Friday, down from 270,000 earlier in the day.

Crews began restoring power in the south as the storm moved northward.The worst of the weather is behind us,said Dominion spokesman Dan Genest.Dominion, like other utilities, starts restoring service to emergency facilities, critical infrastructure and locations that can return the largest numbers of customers first.Pepco Holdings Inc., which serves mid-Atlantic states, reported nearly 29,000 customers in Maryland and the District of Columbia without power late Friday due to Ernesto. More than 35,000 in Delaware and 5,000 in New Jersey were without power, according to utility Web sites.Exelon Corp.'s Pennsylvania unit, PECO, was bracing for outages overnight, the company said.Progress Energy Inc. said 19,000 customers were still without service in North Carolina late Friday. At its peak, Ernesto knocked out service to about 63,000 Progress customers in North Carolina.

India rush troops, helicopters to flooded desert state Fri Sep 1, 2:04 PM ET

JAIPUR, India (AFP) - Troops and helicopters were deployed to India's northern desert state of Rajasthan to rescue trapped residents as monsoon rains flooded yet another district, officials said. Helicopters also dropped aid parcels to residents cutoff by road after heavy rains lashed the state's normally arid Jahalawar district in the desolate Thar desert, officials said.More than 150 people have already died and thousands left homeless in nearby Jodhpur and Barmer districts.Four villages are inundated and hence helicopters are now been deployed because of the distances here,an army spokesman said.Soldiers on powerboats were called in to the region to scour for residents who might need evacuating to higher ground as helicopters dropped food, milk and medicines to others.

He said the task was difficult given the huge size of the state's districts and isolation of some of its villages.Thirty-five people who clamored atop a hillock to escape the fast-rising waters were rescued Friday, state relief secretary R. K. Meena said in the state capital of Jaipur.The flood situation is grim but under control and there has been no human losses in Jahalawar,Meena said.

However he warned the state should remain on alert as dams threatened to overflow and rivers continued to burst their banks.

Lakes as wide as 10 kilometres (six miles) have formed, cutting sand dunes in half, amid warnings Rajasthan's non-porous gypsum rockbed could lead to an ecological catastrophe as accumulated water would not seep into the earth for months.

It's already a nightmare as we see from the geological point of view,said a spokesman from the state-run Central Arid Zone Research Institute, based in the flood-hit district of Jodhpur.The flash floods, caused by 10 days of heavy monsoon rains, have also killed tens of thousands of animals, whose bloated carcasses have raised fears of water-borne diseases, another state official said.

Flooding also damaged the Munnabao railway station, from where India's only train to Pakistan departs.The state's public works minister, Rajendra Singh Rathore, has put Rajasthan's financial losses at four billion rupees (86 million dollars).In Barmer, which had suffered a drought for the last six years, the rains initially brought cheer to parched villages, but now residents stranded on sand dunes are mourning lost family members and homes.

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: We won't give up nuclear program By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writers Fri Sep 1, 9:01 AM ET

TEHRAN, Iran -Iran underlined its disregard Friday for the U.N. deadline to halt uranium enrichment — now expired — when its president vowed never to give up its nuclear program and accused the West of misrepresenting Tehran's nuclear activities. Iran had until midnight Thursday to halt its enrichment activities or face the possibility of economic sanctions under a United Nations Security Council resolution passed July 31.Although the U.N. nuclear watchdog reported Thursday that Iran has not halted enrichment, thereby opening the way for punitive measures, U.S. and other officials said no action would be sought before a key European diplomat meets with Tehran's atomic chief next week to seek a compromise.

On Friday, in the first comments by an Iranian official since the deadline passed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told a rally, Exploitation of peaceful nuclear energy is our obvious right. We will never give up our legal right.The West's claim that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons is a sheer lie,state TV quoted him as telling the gathering in Maku, northwestern Iran.

The West basically opposes progress by Iran.Striking a more conciliatory note, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi urged the West to desist from taking hasty action, saying that the current situation underlined the need for talks with the Security Council's permanent members plus Germany, state TV reported Friday.

John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council would wait to consider possible actions until European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, met Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, sometime in the middle of next week.The EU reiterated on Friday its commitment to a diplomatic resolution.

For the EU, diplomacy remains the No. 1 way forward,said Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the EU presidency.He said this is not the time or place for the international community to hit Iran with sanctions. Tuomioja spoke at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Finland.U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan also was expected to raise the issue during a visit to Tehran this weekend.But council permanent member Russia signaled its impatience with Iran Friday, saying it regrets Tehran's decision not to halt uranium enrichment by the deadline, according to reports by Russian news agencies.We share the position of (the International Atomic Energy Agency) and express our regret that Iran has not fulfilled Resolution 1696 by the designated date and refused to stop work on uranium enrichment, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin was quoted as saying.

Russia and fellow veto-wielding council member China have generally taken a back seat to other council members in the push to get tough with Iran on its nuclear programs. Trade sanctions could cut off badly needed oil exports to China and Iran is building a reactor with assistance from Russia.In the aftermath of the deadline, comments by a conservative Iranian cleric implied that Tehran may be counting on divisions within the council to avert sanctions.The U.S. supports sanctions, but we hope others will use their wisdom,Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said during his Friday prayer sermon. He described Russia and China as independent and said that Europe should be independent and not follow the U.S.

U.S. and European diplomats have said they are focusing on low-level punishment at first to win backing from Russia and China. Proposals include travel bans on Iranian officials or a ban on the sale of dual-use technology to Iran. Russia and China are expected to resist heavier measures, like trade sanctions.

Ahmadinejad denounced the United States Thursday, accusing it of applying a double standard to its foreign policy. They claim to be supporting freedom but they support the most tyrannical governments in the world to pursue their own interests, he told a crowd of thousands in the northwestern town of Orumiyeh. The Iranian nation will not succumb to bullying, invasion and the violation of its rights,Ahmadinejad said. In a report Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Tehran had not halted uranium enrichment and said three years of IAEA probing had been unable to confirm the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program because of lack of cooperation from Tehran. Iran denies it is trying to acquire atomic weapons in violation of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, with the sole aim of producing electricity with nuclear reactors.

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.

Israel, U.S. React to Continuing Iranian Uranium Enrichment
21:53 Aug 31, '06 / 7 Elul 5766
by Hana Levi Julian(INN)

Israeli officials met Thursday night and U.S. President George W. Bush had harsh words for Iran’s defiance to comply with the United Nations Security Council deadline to cease nuclear development. The United States called for the sanctions threatened by the U.N. Security Council earlier in the year to be imposed on Iran as the deadline ran out. It is time for Iran to make a choice,said United States President George W. Bush. Speaking at an American Legion veterans’ conference, President Bush said We’ve made our choice.

We will continue to work closely with our allies to find a diplomatic solution, but there must be consequences for Iran’s defiance. We must not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

There was dissention among the ranks of the U.N, with most other member nations reluctant to commit to the course they threatened months ago.The European Union continues to maintain that only through diplomatic relations will Iran be persuaded to end its race toward nuclear energy. Russia and China have also expressed reservations about imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.President Ahmadinejad reiterated earlier in the week that the country’s lofty program would continue, ignoring the U.S.-led threats of international sanctions.In response, Bush said, We know the depth of suffering that Iran's sponsorship of terrorists has brought. And we can imagine how much worse it would be if Iran were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad has consistently said Iran’s uranium enrichment program is intended to produce nuclear energy solely for domestic purposes. Opposition factions in the country, however, maintain the goal is quite different, and IAEA inspectors have agreed.

The IAEA officials have continued to warn that some nuclear activities in Iran have nothing to do with domestic use. This includes the detection of experimentation with polonium-210, a substance used only in deep-space exploration and production of nuclear weapons. Iran does not have a deep space program.

LAND FOR PEACE
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.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE 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 that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) 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 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Foreign ministers set for tough talks on Middle East, Iran
01.09.2006 - 09:51 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / LAPPEENRANTA - EU foreign ministers are gathering in a Finnish lakeside fortress to discuss strategy on the Middle East and Iran amid fresh and controversial plans by the Finnish EU presidency to open contact with the Palestinian Hamas movement. Ministers will arrive for a two-day informal meeting in the town of Lappeenranta on Friday afternoon (1 September), with the most contentious topic - the bloc's line on the Middle East on the agenda first.

Just before the talks on Thursday, Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja proposed a major EU policy change towards the Islamist Hamas movement which has been leading
the Palestinian government since earlier this year but which also figures on the EU's list of terrorist groups.

Hamas is not the same party it was before the elections, Mr Tuomioja told German daily FT Deutschland. We have to be able to talk to anyone who is relevant,he added.There are many ways of having contact ...nobody will start with press conferences and photo opportunities.The proposal is likely to face criticism from states which traditionally support Israel, such as Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The public EU line on Hamas has so far been that official contacts with the group would be established only if Hamas recognises Israel, renounces violence and respects past agreements.

EU failure on Lebanon?

Strong exchanges of view are also expected on the EU's handling of the Lebanon crisis, following France's criticism of the bloc's failure to give EU foreign policy representative Javier Solana a stronger mandate to intervene. Europe was insufficiently active in the Lebanese crisis, although France had recommended on a number of occasions that the high representative be given a mandate to speak out on behalf of the 25 member countries, as he is doing on the Iranian issue,said French president Jacques Chirac earlier this week.

Helsinki has also signalled that it is not fully happy with the way the EU operated, with Mr Tuomioja writing to colleagues ahead of the Lappeenranta talks that I believe that it would be timely to evaluate the EU's role and our own working methods in order to see whether there is something we can do to enhance our impact.

Iran's defiance

On Saturday, foreign policy chief Solana will update ministers on the Iranian nuclear issue, ahead of a key meeting he is set to hold with Teheran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Berlin next week. Mr Solana's fresh attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff comes despite Iran's failure to meet Thursday's UN Security Council deadline to suspend its uranium enrichment programme which international powers suspect is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. After next week's Solana-Larijani meeting, the permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, the UK, France, China and Russia - as well as Germany will discuss possible sanctions against Teheran in Berlin on Thursday, with US president George W. Bush threatening consequences to Iran's defiance.

During the Lappeenranta meeting, ministers will try and define a common EU position on the sanctions option, strongly pushed for by Washington but disliked in Moscow and Beijing.

Russia: Finnish pragmatism

On Saturday afternoon, EU-Russia relations are on the agenda in Lappeenraanta, which itself is very near the Russian border and has shop signs in Russian, petrol trains running in from St Petersburg and old World War II-period fortifications against a Soviet invasion. Presidency sources said discussions will focus on Russia's development in the medium and long term, with Helsinki promoting a pragmatic and co-operative line vis-a-vis Moscow.The Finns share a long border with Russia and believe they have a unique historical experience in dealing with Moscow having been neutral in the Cold War. But Helsinki understands that other EU members, such as the Baltic states, have other experiences with the Russians which make it perhaps more difficult for them to co-operate.

1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5,13
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Devil in the detail: Vatican exorcises Harry Potter
Email Print Normal font Large font Linda Morris Religious Affairs Writer
September 1, 2006

THE Vatican has never been a fan of Harry Potter, but its chief exorcist has gone one step further and condemned J. K. Rowling's fictional boy wizard as downright evil.Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil, says Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope's caster-out of demons.The books contained numerous positive references to the satanic art, falsely drawing a distinction between black and white magic, he told the Daily Mail in London. In the same interview, Father Amorth said he was convinced that Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were possessed by the devil.

Last year the Pope, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, described Harry Potter as a potentially corrupting influence.The Vatican's criticism comes as two Australian academics suggested a new generation of spiritual seekers was using popular fiction and medieval myth to reinsert magic and enchantment into their lives.Dr Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillip, editors of a collection of academic essays on popular spiritualities, said sacred religious texts were being superseded by medieval myths, comics and fantasy literature.J. R. R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series had all inspired interest in spiritual spin-offs.Pagans had borrowed from the Discworld series peopled by dwarfs, witches and fairies, while young men had shaped their living fantasies on comic book heroes and Star Wars narratives. Role-playing games of the 1990s such as Dungeons and Dragons spurred interest in acting out fictional characters and events.

The vampire subculture - bigger in the US than in Australia and splintering from the Goth movement of the 1970s - borrows more from Anne Rice's broody, immortal and powerful figure of Lestat in the Vampire Chronicles than Bram Stoker's figure of old. That subculture, Dr Hume said, consisted of vampire role players, but also people who believed they were vampires.Adam Possamai, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Western Sydney, said the two-in-one figure of Clark Kent and Superman was attractive because it mirrored conflicting impulses to conform or stand apart.Dr Hume said in the vampire subculture reality blurred with fiction.

Instead of making more attempts to fit in to society at large, many vampire fans exaggerate their difference.