HEZBOLLAH CLAIMS DIVINE VICTORY OVER ISRAEL

1-Another small quake hits Lake County. 2-Weakened Gordon aims for Spain, Portugal. 3-Dozens die, hundreds missing in South Asia storms. 4-UN troop numbers reach 5,000 in Lebanon. 5-At U.N., Chavez calls Bush the devil. 6-Israel Targets Alleged Iranian Funding of Palestinian Terror. 7-Hezbollah preparing to celebrate divine victory over Israel.

EARTHQUAKES

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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Posted on Wed, Sep. 20, 2006
Another small quake hits Lake County, goes unnoticed by residents
Associated Press

PAINESVILLE, Ohio - Northeast Ohio has recorded another in a flurry of light earthquakes, but this time there were no reports of people feeling it, officials said.A 2.2-magnitude earthquake hit about two miles northeast of Painesville in Lake County Thursday morning, said Mike Hansen, the director of the Ohio Seismic Network. It was in the same area of the Lake Erie shoreline that has had 16 low-intensity earthquakes since November, he said.Researchers who measure the quakes with 25 remote sensors don't know what's causing the rash of small earthquakes, Hansen said. It's possible they've always occurred but there was no measuring equipment to detect them.

Before the latest earthquake, it had been a month since one had hit, Hansen said.The biggest of the recent earthquakes was recorded June 20 and measured 3.8. By comparison, the deadly quake that hit the Northridge area of Los Angeles in 1994 was a 6.7 magnitude.Lake County's quakes result from a fault, or crack, that is under pressure, one of a number of faults in Ohio, most of them under the sedimentary bedrock. The fault is under pressure from the East Coast, pushing westward, Hansen said.Lima in northwest Ohio was hit by small earthquakes in May and August, but Hansen said they were not related to the northeast Ohio quakes.ON THE NET:Ohio Seismic Network: http://www.ohiodnr.com/ohioseis
Information from: The News-Herald, http://www.news-herald.com/jrc-html/index/index_p33.html

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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.

Sept. 20, 2006, 10:35AM
Weakened Gordon aims for Spain, Portugal
© 2006 The Associated Press

MIAMI / Tropical Storm Gordon, downgraded from a hurricane Wednesday, approached portions of Spain and Portugal as it moved rapidly away from the sparsely populated Azores Islands.Gordon was expected to join another weather system before it neared the Iberian peninsula later Wednesday or Thursday, said forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. It would be similar to the strong winter storms normal in those areas in Europe.The Galicia region in northwest Spain has been placed on red alert the highest level and 11 other regions of Spain as far east as Madrid and south to Andalusia were put on lower levels of warning, said Angel Rivera, a spokesman for Spain's National Weather Institute.Galicia was scorched by forest fires last month, so crews set up barriers on coastal areas to keep ash from flowing into the Atlantic and damaging the region's lucrative fishing and seafood industry.

At 11 a.m. EDT, Gordon had top sustained winds of 60 mph, down from 75 mph earlier in the day. Hurricanes have winds of at least 74 mph. The storm was moving east near 33 mph and its center was about 625 miles west of Portugal's coast.In the Azores as a hurricane, Gordon moved between the islands of Sao Miguel and Santa Maria. The eye didn't make landfall and sustained wind of 56 mph was recorded on land, said Mark Willis, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center.Authorities in Portugal's islands said they received no reports of major damage or injury and hurricane warnings were discontinued in the sparsely populated chain.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Helene moved northeast in the open Atlantic and was expected to remain well east of Bermuda, forecasters said. It had top sustained winds of 105 mph.At 11 a.m., it was centered about 670 miles southeast of Bermuda and moving toward the northwest near 12 mph. A gradual turn to the north was expected, forecasters said.The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30. September is traditionally one of the busiest months of the season.

Dozens die, hundreds missing in South Asia storms
20 Sep 2006 11:24:33 GMT,Source: Reuters

HYDERABAD, India/DHAKA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Storms caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal have killed more than 40 people in eastern India and Bangladesh and left hundreds of fishermen missing at sea, officials said on Wednesday.Thousands of people have been left homeless.Most of the deaths came in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where heavy rains and strong winds caused flash floods. More than 31 people have been killed since Monday night, most from drowning and house collapses.In West Bengal state in India's east, at least 12 people were killed after a storm hit on Tuesday night. Hundreds of trawlers were reported missing and authorities said more 15,000 people had been left homeless.

Some people died in their sleep when their houses were hit by the storm,West Bengal government official Santanu Basu said.In Bangladesh, three fishermen drowned and more than 100 were unaccounted for and feared dead after they were caught in rough seas and strong winds on Tuesday night.A naval vessel with 40 crew ran aground at an island off Mongla port during the storm. The crew were rescued on Wednesday by a navy helicopter and three coastguard vessels.But the coast guard said it was waiting for the sea to calm before launching major rescue operations for the missing fishermen.Fishing groups said they feared bad news.

As per estimates available from returning fishing crew, we suspect more than 100 fishermen may have drowned,said Abdus Sobhan, president of the fishing boat owners association in the coastal town of Barisal, 225 km (130 miles) from Dhaka.
(Reporting by Manas Bannerjee in MALDA, S. Radha Kumar in HYDERABAD and Anis Ahmed in DHAKA)

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 troop numbers reach 5,000 in Lebanon
(AFP),20 September 2006

NAQURA, Lebanon - The number of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon has climbed to 5,000, meeting a condition set by Israel to withdraw from its northern neighbor, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday.Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz confirmed the last soldiers would leave southern Lebanon by Friday, ending a two-month occupation launched during Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas.We have reached the 5,000 troops. The first phase of the UNIFIL deployment is now completed,said Alexander Ivanko, spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, which aims to build up a contingent of 15,000 soldiers.The pre-war number of about 2,000 UNIFIL troops, he told AFP, had now been boosted by three new battalions from France, Italy and Spain, although it would still take weeks for all the new land-based troops to be deployed in the south.

Troops from other countries, notably Indonesia, would follow in October and November, he said, warning that the operation was posing a logistical nightmare for UNIFIL.Israeli forces have remained in south Lebanon for more than a month after an August 14 ceasefire came into effect ending the deadly 34-day war between the Jewish state and Shia guerrillas of Hezbollah.Israeli troops have gradually redeployed south of the volatile border as the French-led UNIFIL forces and the Lebanese army assume control in southern Lebanon the latter for the first time in four decades.The French battalion in UNIFIL on Wednesday deployed another 10 Leclerc battle tanks in south Lebanon, completing its consignment of 13 of the tanks appearing for the first time in UN colours.

The high-tech Leclerc has been deployed abroad only once before, as part of French forces operating under NATO in Kosovo in 1999-2002.The reinforced French battalion now numbers 900 soldiers, who landed at Beirut port last week. Their contribution to UNIFIL is to rise to a total of 2,000 men.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, 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,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Sept. 20, 2006, 11:44AM
At U.N., Chavez calls Bush the devil
By KIM GAMEL Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS / Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling President Bush the devil.The impassioned speech by the leftist leader came a day after Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparred over Tehran's disputed nuclear program but managed to avoid a personal encounter.The devil came here yesterday,Chavez said, referring to Bush's address on Tuesday and making the sign of the cross. He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.Chavez, who has joined Iran in opposing U.S. influence, accused Washington of domination, exploitation and pillage of peoples of the world.

We appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our head, he said.

He also said the U.N. doesn't work in its current system and is antidemocratic.He called for reform, saying the U.S. government's immoral veto had allowed recent Israeli bombings of Lebanon to continue unabated for more than a month.Chavez spoke on the second day of the annual ministerial meetings, which were overshadowed by an ambitious agenda of sideline talks.The Mideast peace process also was in the spotlight, with ministers from the Quartet that drafted the stalled road map the U.S., the U.N., the European Union and Russia planning to meet. The Security Council also was scheduled to hold a ministerial meeting Thursday that Arab leaders hope will help revive the Mideast peace process.

Bush tried to advance his campaign for democracy in the Middle East during his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, saying extremists were trying to justify their violence by falsely claiming the U.S. is waging war on Islam. He singled out Iran and Syria as sponsors of terrorism.Bush also pointed to Tehran's rejection of a Security Council demand to stop enriching uranium by Aug. 31 or face the possibility of sanctions. But he addressed his remarks to the Iranian people in a clear insult to the government.

The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons, the U.S. leader said.Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions, he said. Despite what the regime tells you, we have no objection to Iran's pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program.

He said he hoped to see the day when you can live in freedom, and America and Iran can be good friends and close partners in the cause of peace.Ahmadinejad took the podium hours later, denouncing U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon and accusing Washington of abusing its power in the Security Council to punish others while protecting its own interests and allies.The hard-line leader insisted that his nation's nuclear activities are transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog. He also reiterated his nation's commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad proposed a debate with Bush at the General Assembly's ministerial meeting after the White House dismissed a previous TV debate proposal as a diversion from serious concerns over Iran's nuclear program.

But even though the two leaders spoke from the same podium, they skipped each other's addresses and managed to avoid direct contact during the ministerial meeting.Also on Wednesday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that terrorism is rebounding in his country and said efforts to build democracy there had suffered setbacks over the past year as violence increased, especially in the volatile south.We have seen terrorism rebounding as terrorists have infiltrated our borders to step up their murderous campaign against our people,he told the General Assembly.He said the situation was so bad it had contributed to a rise in polio from four cases in 2005 to 27 this year because health workers were unable to reach the region.But he said the problem had to be fought beyond Afghanistan's borders as well as within.We must look beyond Afghanistan to the sources of terrorism,he said.We must destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan.He also expressed concern about the increased incidents of Islamophobia in the West,saying it does not bode well for the cause of building understanding and cooperation across civilizations.

The crisis in the ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur also was on the agenda Wednesday, with the African Union's Peace and Security Council meeting to discuss breaking the deadlock over a plan to replace an AU force with U.N. peacekeepers.The Sudanese president said his country won't allow the United Nations to take control of peacekeepers in Darfur under any circumstance, claiming that rights groups have exaggerated the crisis there in a bid for more cash.But Omar al-Bashir did say that the African Union, which now runs the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, should be allowed to augment its forces with more logistics, advisers and other support.We want the African Union to remain in Darfur until peace is re-established in Sudan,al-Bashir said at a news conference. Those comments suggest that the African Union will not face any resistance in renewing the peacekeeping force's mandate, which expires Sept. 30.AP Writer Ian James contributed to this story.

Israel Targets Alleged Iranian Funding of Palestinian Terror
By Robert Berger ,Jerusalem,20 September 2006(VOA)

An Israeli sweep in the West Bank has targeted alleged funding for Palestinian terrorism. Israel is accusing Iran of trying to increase its influence in the cash strapped Palestinian territories. Palestinians sit in front of damaged currency exchange office raided by Israeli army in Ramallah, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006 Israeli troops raided the homes and offices of 14 Palestinian money changers in four West Bank towns, confiscating nearly $1.5 million. The army said the money came mostly from Iran and was earmarked for terrorism. It said the cash traveled through Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah offices in Syria and Lebanon. Palestinian militant groups were allegedly using the money to produce explosives belts, rockets and car bombs. Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says Israel wants to make sure.That that money won't come back to haunt us all in suicide bombings,he said.

Israel says Iran has been increasingly supporting terrorism in the Palestinian territories since the election of the Islamic militant group Hamas in January. Hamas, which seeks Israel's destruction, has sought alternative funding because it is broke in the wake of international sanctions. No one wants to deal with this Hamas regime, which is of course very extreme and refuses to renounce terrorism,Regev said.But while money may be reaching militants, most ordinary Palestinians are in financial straits. Hamas has been unable to pay the salaries of 165,000 government employees for six months and Israel fears a humanitarian crisis. Regev says it's a dilemma.

And I think the challenge that we have now is to create a mechanism whereby there is direct support for the Palestinian people and, at the same time, that that mechanism will bypass the Hamas government, he said.While Palestinians initially blamed Israel and the United States for the economic crisis, their anger is now directed toward the Hamas government. Civil servants and school teachers have been on strike for three weeks, demanding their salaries.

Middle East News
Hezbollah preparing to celebrate divine victory over Israel
Sep 20, 2006, 16:13 GMT

Beirut - The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah continued Wednesday preparations to celebrate what they described as 'divine victory' over against Israel. Although it was unclear whether Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah would attend, preparations for the massive rally on Friday were under way amid very tight security. Nasrallah is regarded by Israel as a top enemy. Nasrallah announced the rally earlier this week in a televised speech. Hezbollah press officer Hussein Rahal said the rally was being prepared in an open site inside Beirut's southern suburbs.

Nasrallah has not been seen in public since hostilities broke out after Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12. But the Hezbollah chief has made several appearances in interviews on Arab satellite television channels. We are preparing for the big day, the celebration for the big victory against the American and Zionist plots in Lebanon,said Alia Zeineddine, a Hezbollah follower.

Pictures of Nasrallah were erected all over Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah hotbed, with posters proclaiming a 'divine victory' covered the roads leading to Beirut international airport. The celebration was going ahead in a district that suffered massive damage from daily Israeli raids. Hezbollah says around 15,000 apartment buildings were destroyed. It offered 12,000 dollars for each each damaged apartment to enable the people to rent a house for one year and buy furniture.

Hezbollah and Israeli troops engaged in fierce fighting for 33 days until a UN-brokered ceasefire was implemented on August 14. More than 1,000 Lebanese, mostly civilians, were killed and 3,000 wounded. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur