10 TRIBES COME HOME TO ISRAEL

1-Cluster of earthquakes near Mt Cook. 2-Quake shakes up water table in Maine. 3-S.East Asian flood toll, damage rise after typhoon. 4-Borneo and Sumatra burn as forest fires rage. 5-Global trade goes more global. 6-Vatican-Muslim dialogue back to square one: cardinal. 7-Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites. 8-Rice Cites Concern for Palestinians, But Low Expectations Mark Visit. 9-Mahdi Followers Claim US Is Trying To Prevent His Return. 10-87 die from mosquito diseases in India. 11-Right On: A miracle of biblical proportions.

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.

Cluster of earthquakes near Mt Cook
Posted at 11:28am on 05 Oct 2006

A shallow cluster of earthquakes 30km north-west of Mt Cook this week has seismologists looking at what may be causing the activity.The biggest quake was on Monday, reaching 4.7 on the Richter scale; with successive earthquakes being smaller, but closer to the surface.GMS Science seismologist Todd Nicholson says it's unusual to have so much seismic activity around Mt Cook.Eight earthquakes were recorded on Monday, and one or two quakes each day since then.The deepest quake was 8km on Monday, with 5km depths recorded on the same day and on Wednesday.Copyright © 2006 Radio New Zealand

Quake shakes up water table in Maine Wed Oct 4, 1:42 PM ET

BAR HARBOR, Maine - Monday's earthquake lowered the water level by 3 1/2 feet at one location in a national park, an unusual event, but one that wasn't expected to hurt the water supply, officials said. By Wednesday, the water level was still falling but beginning to level off, said Gregory Stewart, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The drop in water level was observed at one of the agency's monitoring wells in Acadia National Park.Bar Harbor and some municipalities on Mount Desert Island near the epicenter of the quake have public water systems, but most residents in outlying areas rely on wells for drinking water. The Hancock County Emergency Management Agency said it had not received any reports of compromised wells.

The earthquake Monday evening registered a magnitude of 3.9 and followed quakes with magnitudes of 3.5 and 2.5 on Sept. 22 and 26.The latest earthquake caused rocks to fall onto Acadia National Park's Park Loop Road and burst some water pipes, but no injuries were reported.The Geological Survey said the drop in water level was more of an oddity than something for residents to worry about.We're not trying to create some kind of public scare. It's more of a public interest thing. It's a pretty dramatic change, Stewart said.

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.

S.East Asian flood toll, damage rise after typhoon Wed Oct 4, 12:30 AM ET

HANOI (Reuters) - Flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Xangsane have raised the death toll to more than 150 in the past week from the storm that hit Vietnam and the Philippines, officials said on Wednesday.

The typhoon's fierce winds and rain destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes when it slammed Vietnam's central coast on Sunday after bringing parts of the Philippines, including the capital Manila, to a standstill last week.Vietnamese officials said more than 50,000 houses were still submerged along a roughly 1,000 km (600-mile) area from northern Nghe An province to Gia Lai province in the south. Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper said the evacuation of 6,000 people started on Tuesday in Nghe An.

Vietnam's resort city of Danang, the country's fourth largest with 1 million people, was hardest-hit by the typhoon, both in terms of casualties and damage to homes, power supply and its seafood industry.The National Flood and Storm Control Committee said at least 42 people were killed in Vietnam by the storm or swept away by floods in its aftermath. Seven were missing and 502 injured.

Initial estimates of damage were around 9.98 trillion dong ($623 million), the government said.The committee warned residents across the storm-damaged region to be prepared for flash floods, landslides and flooding in the low-lying areas.

Officials in the Philippines said on Wednesday that the death toll had risen to 110 from 78 on Monday.At least 88 people were injured and a further 79 were still missing. Around 2.9 billion pesos ($58 million) worth of properties were damaged by Xangsane, which means elephant in the Lao language.The storm weakened after crossing into Vietnam and moved west across Laos and into Thailand.Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are killed and property and crops damaged each year by tropical storms in the two countries, which are separated by the South China Sea.(Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam in Hanoi and Carmel Crimmins in Manila)

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.

Borneo and Sumatra burn as forest fires rage
mongabay.com,October 4, 2006

Forest fires are again burning across Borneo and Sumatra according to satellite images released this week by NASA. The fires, set on a seasonal basis for land-clearing for agriculture, have blanked the region with smoke that has interrupted air travel and driven air quality to unhealthy levels. NASA notes that despite a governmental ban on open burning, seasonal fires continue to occur on the Indonesian islands each year, peaking in the dry season of late summer and early fall.

Smoke from agricultural and forest fires burning on Sumatra (left) and Borneo (right) in late September and early October 2006 blanketed a wide region with smoke that interrupted air and highway travel and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on October 1, 2006, shows places where MODIS detected actively burning fires marked in red. Smoke spreads in a gray-white pall to the north. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

In 1982-1983 more than 9.1 million acres (3.7 million ha) burned on the island of Borneo before monsoon rains arrived, while more than 2 million hectares of forest and scrub land burned during the 1997-1998 el Niño event, causing $9.3 billion in losses. The fires also produced wide-ranging and severe economic, political, social, health, and ecological damage to Indonesia and the neighboring Southeast Asian nations of Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and Thailand, already in the midst of an economic crisis.

Satellite analysis of the 1997-1998 fires revealed that 80 percent of the fires could be linked to plantations or logging concession holders. The haze from the 2005-2006 fires resulted in heated exchanges between Indonesian and Malaysian government officials. Malaysia and Singapore offered assistance in fighting Indonesian blazes, while simultaneously scolding the country for its lack of progress in controlling the wild fires. Indonesia in turn blamed Malaysian firms for rampant illegal logging in the country, which left its forests more susceptible to conflagrations.

Despite some protective measures, including an Indonesian proposal to implement the death penalty for illegal loggers and fire starters, such fires are only expected to worsen in the future as the region's forests face increasingly dry conditions due to climate change and degradation. Of special concern are the region's peatlands which, when burned, release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmoshpere and are extremely difficult to extinguish. Dr Susan Page, of the University of Leicester, estimates that Southeast Asian peat lands may contain up to 21 percent of the world’s land-based carbon. The 1997 fires released 2.67 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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.(TR 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).

Global trade goes more global
Khaleej Times 2006 ,By Prof. Tom Lambert FRSA

IT HAS become common practice for countries in all regions of the world to develop trading blocks. So we have the European Union, Asean in South East Asia and the North American Free Trade Agreement. In previous articles I have suggested that Mena is well placed to develop a massive domestic market as a springboard for more widespread global trade by the countries that have little international trade experience with guidance and support from the more knowledgeable nations.Not all such arrangements reach their full potential as quickly as is hoped. For example Asean is at times beset by problems emanating from unequal economic development. Similar problems will need to be overcome in Mena, which is why I believe that strong, experienced and effective leadership is necessary.

Other international trading blocks have limited initial membership. Mena may need to consider a similar approach. The point is, however, that whatever barriers may exist the potential can be exploited.

IBSA

Effective exploitation of local markets can be the pathway to enhanced prosperity through strategic global trade initiatives. India has, in recent years, offered a role model of success to her neighbours in many areas of international business. Many pundits believe that with a young and talented workforce India will overtake China and become the major hub of global trade and commerce in the region.India has a demographic advantage in having a younger population than her vast neighbour median age 24.9 years.

Combining this with an education system that is more attuned to international business and scientific needs is expected to provide a telling competitive edge. China will, of course continue to prosper, but many now expect India to become the dominant Asian trading nation.Two years ago the Indian government was instrumental in creating something of a new trade block model linking her with the continents of Africa and South America. IBSA is a trading group that brings together India, Brazil and South Africa, the three most successful countries in their regions, in a triumvirate of trade. The goals begin modestly by global standards with an initial trade target of $10 billion. The indications are that that target will be achieved and trade will develop along with increasing good will.

Brasilia

In September the heads of government met with business leaders from the three countries in Brasilia. They announced their intention of working together to develop mutually beneficial trade and technology exchanges that will, in due course, go beyond the three countries that are directly involved in the initial links.Brazil is the leading member of MERCOSUR, a trading block in which its partners are Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Its objective is to facilitate the free movement of goods, services, technology, capital and people between the member countries. South Africa has a similar role in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union. India has strong relationships with Asean and is a leading member of G-20; a grouping of countries from across the globe that has had considerable success in opposing the combined might of the EU and USA on occasion. All three countries have strategies in place to combat Aids and poverty. Each has still a long way to go. Increased trade will be a major factor in economic and social success.

Corporate governance

In his speech to captains of industry gathered in Brasilia Prime Minister Manmohan Singh indicated that the primary role of the trilateral relationship would be mutual trade, but beyond that establishing an IBSA mechanism for the exchange of information and experiences on regulatory issues could lead to a harmonisation of standards an important factor in international business governance.It is arguable that expanding trade will naturally extend to regulatory harmonisation. As part of the development of a level playing field, mutual understanding and trust harmonisation may emerge naturally. A model may lie in China's approach to trade
with Africa as I discussed in a previous article.If harmonisation comes from evolutionary rather than revolutionary forces it may well prove to be acceptable and robust.

Transport

Not surprisingly the distance between three continents has been a barrier to both trade and tourism. The three leaders agreed that their faith in the future of IBSA would need to drive a framework that would lead to improvements in transport linkages between the three countries. The potential is there and is waiting to be realised. The means has, to some degree, still to be found.

Energy

Economic development is energy dependent and, as nobody understands better than the oil-rich countries of the Mena region, oil stocks may be massive, but they are finite. The trilateral approach plans to bring together the areas of energy expertise of its three members.

Brazil is a world leader in the production of ethanol. South Africa has important experience in coal gasification and has an already well developed synthetic fuel industry. India has massive resources of coal and expertise in wind and solar energy that will be developed by the growing number of engineers that the country is producing. Mena has also great potential for renewable energy resources.

Make poverty history

In spite of their pre-eminence regionally, India, South Africa and Brazil still experience major problems of poverty and health at home. The three leaders have committed themselves to using the benefits of an increasingly prosperous IBSA to improve the lives of their people. Important as this is the intention is to go further and to work together to establish a clear pathway to economic development that will reach beyond their borders enriching the lives of other countries in their respective regions.

Mena

In a number of ways the Middle East North Africa region has parallels with the countries of IBSA and their neighbours. There are well-developed economies that are already global players. There is, overall, a relatively young workforce. There are important natural resources combined with considerable technical know how. Knowledge and experience exist that can be shared in an international learning community. There have been major initiatives in education in particular in the UAE and Qatar from which we can all learn.

Considerable financial resources exist to support human capital. At the same time there remain unrealised human potential and poverty in some parts of the region. Perhaps India, Brazil and South Africa can offer another model from which leadership in the region can take whatever is relevant to exploit the considerable advantages and promise that are so evident.

REVELATION 17:2
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(THE VATICAN THROUGH DIALOGUE)

Vatican-Muslim dialogue back to square one: cardinal By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor Wed Oct 4, 11:22 AM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - Vatican relations with the Islamic world must be restarted from square one because Muslims insist on misinterpreting Pope Benedict's recent comments on Islam, Germany's top Catholic cardinal said in an article on Wednesday.
Cardinal Karl Lehmann, head of the German Catholic Bishops Conference, accused Muslim critics of running a campaign against the Pope and said the Pontiff had nothing to apologize for.The blunt comments from Lehmann, whose rich and influential church has close ties to the German-born Pope, seem to have been sparked by an unusual call from the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for him to retract his words.The OIC call came a day after Benedict had received Muslim ambassadors to the Vatican and repeated his regrets for any misunderstanding of his September 12 speech in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor saying Islam was evil and violent.

These open or hidden threats have to stop,Lehmann said in the weekly newspaper of his Mainz diocese.

Obviously we have to start at square one because we're not talking here about important contents of a necessary dialogue, but about the fundamental requirements for one to succeed.There is freedom of religion and speech in our civilization. The Pope can also be criticized. But there are elementary rules that apply for factual and fair contacts with each other and with clear statements, he wrote.One cannot constantly repeat completely unfounded misunderstandings when the texts are so clear.The dispute over Benedict's use of a quote sharply critical of Islam has further strained Vatican ties with Muslims who already knew he has spoken in the past against Turkey's entry into the European Union because of that country's Islamic roots.

Benedict's repeated protest that he did not agree with the quote has not convinced Muslim critics, who say he has still not gone far enough to undo the damage they feel he has done.Some accuse him of undoing years of bridge-building by his predecessor. When John Paul was pope, there was no problem for Muslims, commented Cemal Usak, a Turkish Muslim activist. Pope Benedict may not like Islam but he has to respect Muslims.

A FULL-BLOWN CAMPAIGN

Lehmann noted that Benedict's speech in Regensburg during a visit to his native Bavaria evoked no critical reaction at first and journalists had no questions about it at a news conference the cardinal gave after the Pope left Munich on September 14.Only a few days later did a full-blown campaign from outside begin,he wrote, calling it astounding that critics should repeatedly say the Pope had insulted Islam and Muslims.Lehmann's article echoed a statement last week by the bishops he leads complaining some critics had tried to escalate the dispute with ever new charges, demands or even threats.The Catholic Church and many people in our country and around the world, who respect and defend the right of free speech, will not be bullied, the bishops' conference said after its meeting in Fulda last week.

The German bishops, an influential voice at the Vatican because of their church's financial power and theological depth, also repeated Benedict's frequent calls for Muslim countries to give their Christian minorities equal rights.Meeting shortly after a Berlin theater canceled a Mozart opera for fear it might prompt Muslim protests, the bishops also expressed concern about self-censorship over religion. We are concerned that fear of religiously motivated violence is spreading, not only in Germany, and leading to a direct or indirect limitation of free speech,they said.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
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)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
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.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites
By Francis Harris in Washington

China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by blinding their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.The hitherto unreported attacks have been kept secret by the Bush administration for fear that it would damage attempts to co-opt China in diplomatic offensives against North Korea and Iran.Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. In the end, the Pentagon's annual assessment of the growing Chinese military build-up barely mentioned the threat.After a contentious debate, the White House directed the Pentagon to limit its concern to one line, Defense News said.

The document said that China could blind American satellites with a ground-based laser firing a beam of light to prevent spy photography as they pass over China.According to senior American officials: China not only has the capability, but has exercised it.American satellites like the giant Keyhole craft have come under attack several times in recent years.Although the Chinese tests do not aim to destroy American satellites, the laser attacks could make them useless over Chinese territory.The American military has been so alarmed by the Chinese activity that it has begun test attacks against its own satellites to determine the severity of the
threat.Satellites are especially vulnerable to attack because they have predetermined orbits, allowing an enemy to know where they will appear.

The Chinese are very strategically minded and are extremely active in this arena. They really believe all the stuff written in the 1980s about the high frontier,said one senior former Pentagon official.There has been increasing alarm in parts of the American military establishment over China's growing military ambitions.Military experts have already noted that Chinese military expenditure is increasingly designed to challenge American military pre-eminence by investing in weaponry that can attack key systems such as aircraft carriers and satellites.At the same time, China is engaged in a large-scale espionage effort against American high-tech firms
working on projects such as the multibillion-pound DD(X) destroyer programme.Several spy rings have been cracked and the FBI is increasing the number of counter-intelligence staff tracking the Chinese effort.

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(MOSCOW) 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)

Rice Cites Concern for Palestinians, But Low Expectations Mark Visit
By Robin Wright,Washington Post Staff Writer,Thursday, October 5, 2006; Page A26

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged Wednesday to redouble U.S. efforts to alleviate the economic plight of Palestinians facing escalating tensions and the threat of a humanitarian crisis. But U.S. officials cautioned not to expect any significant breakthroughs as prospects for a renewed Arab-Israeli peace process seem further away than ever.At a joint news conference here with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, Rice said the Bush administration was very concerned about humanitarian conditions and the economic situation in the Palestinian territories.It is a great sadness, during this
time of Ramadan, that Palestinians, many of them, are deprived of basic needs,she said.Abbas, underscoring the dire state of the peace process, said talks with the Hamas movement on formation of a national unity government are dead and suggested he may dissolve the Palestinians' seven-month-old government.

The dialogue now does not exist,Abbas said. If Hamas continues to balk at forming a unity government, which would force it to recognize Israel's right to exist, Abbas said he was prepared to use his constitutional powers to resolve the political deadlock. All options are open,he said.The only option I reject is civil war,Abbas said, noting that clashes between Hamas and his Fatah party over the past week have been the deadliest since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994.On Wednesday, a Hamas official in the West Bank town of Qalqilya was assassinated by four masked gunmen who fled the scene. Asked about the killing and the recent violence, a senior Palestinian police official at the presidential compound in Ramallah called Hamas donkeys,reflecting the deep-rooted antipathy between the two largest Palestinian factions.

Rice, on her sixth trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories as secretary of state, has come with fewer prospects for major progress in the near future than on any previous visit. She is struggling just to revive an agreement to open border crossings between the Gaza Strip and the outside world, which she brokered in November after all-night negotiations.

The agreement gave Palestinians some control over their own border for the first time since the 1967 Middle East war. But according to Palestinian and U.S. sources, the border has been closed for all but about seven days since June 25, when Palestinian guerrillas captured an Israeli soldier. It reopened Wednesday and was scheduled to be open Thursday, U.S. and Arab sources said, coinciding with Rice's trip and Palestinian requests for relief during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

During their one-on-one discussions, Abbas gave Rice a lengthy document detailing the Palestinians' needs on cross-border movement and ways to push implementation of the 11-month-old accord, according to the Palestinian president's chief of staff, Rafiq Husseini.Rice is trying to win agreement from the Israelis to ensure that the pivotal Karni crossing between Gaza and Israel is open for Palestinian exports in time for the harvest, which begins in about three weeks, according to U.S. and Western sources.After she held talks over dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, the Israelis indicated willingness to open Karni in the near future but did not give a date. Rice is scheduled to hold talks Thursday morning with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz.Another Palestinian proposal on the table, backed by the United States and its allies, calls for almost doubling Abbas's presidential guard to about 6,000 members and widening the force's mandate for security purposes. A senior State Department official said the presidential guard has proved to be the Palestinians' most effective security force and is already deployed at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.

FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS

MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.

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 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Mahdi Followers Claim US Is Trying To Prevent His Return

The followers of Moqtada al-Sadr believe that the US invaded Iraq to prevent the return to Earth of their sect's messiah-like figure, the Mahdi, or 12th imam.Hojatoleslam al-Sadr claims that his militia is preparing for the day when the Mahdi, the last direct descendent of the revered Shia figure Ali, reappears. Shia believe that the Mahdi, who disappeared in 868, will bring justice to Earth.At a prayer service in the central Iraqi city of Kufa on September 15, the cleric told a crowd of thousands that the Americans were collecting a dossier on the Mahdi to prevent his return. Did you ever ask yourself about why all of this, the bloodshed and the prisons? Why are the brothers fighting each other for a political game planned by the Americans? This all happened because they (the Americans) are waiting for the Mahdi. This planning started ten years ago. They have a big file for Imam Mahdi and they just need his picture to complete it.

Hojatoleslam al-Sadr and his advisers are convinced that the Americans want to destroy Islam and stop the Mahdi. The Americans are trying to hijack Islamic movements. Whatever they did in Afghanistan and Iraq are all attempts to hijack the Mahdi's return.

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

87 die from mosquito diseases in India

New Delhi: Outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases in northern and southern India left ordinarily overburdened hospitals and clinics swamped with patients Wednesday, and officials said at least 87 people had succumbed to the infections.At New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India's premier state-run hospital, a makeshift ward was set up in a hallway to deal with hundreds of dengue fever patients, some of whom were forced to hold intravenous drip bags above their heads because of a lack of equipment.

The dengue outbreak began in late August, and the death toll in New Delhi and surrounding areas of northern India rose to 16 on Wednesday when a patient at the institute died.The situation was even worse in the southern state of Kerala, where 71 people have died in the past month from another mosquito-borne disease, a rare viral fever known as chikungunya, said the state's health minister P. K. Sreemathi.In the hardest-hit district of the state, Alappuzha, some 40,000 people were showing symptoms of the disease such as high fevers and severe joint pain – and thousands had been hospitalized, said the area's chief medical officer, K. Velayudhan.

Across the state, local authorities were overwhelmed by the outbreak, and Sreemathi said a World Health Organization team made up of experts from India's National Institutes of Communicable Diseases was to arrive Thursday.The expert heath team from WHO needs to make an on-the-spot assessment to tackle the situation,she told media from Alappuzha.The outbreaks of dengue in the north and chikungunya in the south come as the annual monsoon tapers off across much of the subcontinent, leaving behind countless small pools and puddles of dirty, stagnant water where infectious mosquitoes breed. Open sewers that are features of many Indian towns and cities provide even more breeding grounds.

ISRAEL ON EARTH DURING TRIBULATION 7 YR PEACE TREATY

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ROMANS 11:28
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

THE CHURCH ELECT IN HEAVEN DURING 7 YR TREATY (TRUE CHURCH THAT IS)

1 PETER 1:2
1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

REVELATION 7:1-17 (144,000 JEWISH RABBIS PREACH DURING 7 YR TREATY)
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

JPost.com ,Oct 4,06
Right On: A miracle of biblical proportions
By MICHAEL FREUND

In a few weeks' time, Sara Haunhar will at last fulfill a lifelong dream, one that she has been nurturing for over the past eight decades. Together with her daughter Miriam, and some 216 other members of the Bnei Menashe of northeastern India, the 84-year old widow will board a charter flight next month, and finally begin the long journey home to Zion. It is a voyage that began many centuries ago - 27, to be exact when the Assyrian empire invaded the Land of Israel and cast most of our people into the darkest recesses of the exile. It was the ancient equivalent of a Holocaust, a devastating blow in which the overwhelming majority of the world's Israelites ten out of twelve tribes! suddenly and mysteriously vanished. Many thought they were gone forever, as they marched off into the mists of history, with little or no apparent hope of return. But now, after so many years of wandering and dispersion, the descendants of these lost Jews are finally, triumphantly, coming back.

The significance of this should be readily apparent, even to the most hardened of cynics. After all, whoever heard of an ancient lost tribe returning to its ancestral homeland 2,700 years after their deportation? Without exaggerating, it seems fair to say that this is a miracle of Biblical proportions. Sara Haunhar certainly thinks so. Last year, in September 2005, she sat patiently before a rabbinical court, which had been dispatched to India by Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar to restore the Bnei Menashe to the Jewish people. Previously, in March 2005, the Chief Rabbi had ruled that the Bnei Menashe are descendants of the Jewish people, and he agreed to do what he could to help them to return. The rabbinical judges peppered Sara with questions about Jewish life and lore, gently probing her knowledge of Judaism and her commitment to formally rejoining the people of Israel.

ONE OF the rabbis who was there later described the ensuing scene with great emotion. Impressed by Sara's sincerity and dedication, the judges informed her that they were pleased to welcome her back into the fold of Israel. Naturally, Sara began to cry, with the flow of tears rolling down her furrowed cheeks moving all those present. When one of the judges leaned over and asked her if she was alright, Sara composed herself and told them, All of my life, I was afraid that I would die before I would merit to see God's Holy Land. But now that you have accepted me as a Jew, I know that I will soon be able to set foot on the land of my ancestors, the Land of Israel. Growing up, Sara had always lived an intensely Jewish life, along with the rest of the 7,000-strong Bnei Menashe community, which resides primarily in the northeastern Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur.

The Bnei Menashe observe the Sabbath, practice circumcision on the eighth day, keep the laws of Kashrut and scrupulously uphold the rules of family purity.

Thanks to the tolerance which epitomizes Indian society, the Bnei Menashe have been able to build dozens of synagogues across the country's northeast, where they turn three times a day in prayer towards Jerusalem, longing to be reunited with their friends and family already living in the Jewish state. In just the past decade, nearly 1,000 members of the community have made aliya. They are valuable and productive members of Israeli society, serving in the army, working hard and supporting their families, and raising adorable Jewish children. Indeed, this past summer, at the height of the war, a dozen young Bnei Menashe men were fighting on the frontlines in combat units in Lebanon and Gaza, defending the land of Israel and the Jewish people. One of them, St.-Sgt. Avi Hanshing, a 22-year old paratrooper, was injured during a clash with Hizbullah terrorists in southern Lebanon.

I had to fight to come to Israel, Hanshing said, recalling the inexplicable obstacles that Israel's government routinely puts in the way of Bnei Menashe aliya. Now, he added, I have to fight for the country. THE ARRIVAL next month of the immigrants from India will mark a welcome turning point for the community. For the first time, a large group of Bnei Menashe immigrants will arrive here together, proudly, as Jews, with their heads held high and their hopes bright for the future. As chairman of Shavei Israel, an organization that assists the Bnei Menashe, it is a day that I am looking forward to with a lot of very special anticipation.

For years, we have lobbied, struggled and pressed the Bnei Menashe's case, in an effort to persuade the Israeli government to open the door for these wonderful people. In June, we nearly had to petition Israel's Supreme Court to force certain government ministers to allow the aliya to take place, and it was only after we met with aides to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the final approval was actually forthcoming.

And so, I can not help but pray that this first batch of 218 immigrants next month will herald the arrival of many, many more in the years to come. This special event will take place thanks in no small measure to the friendship, backing and support of Jewish Agency Chairman Zeev Bielski, and Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who are teaming together with Shavei Israel to make this aliya a reality. Pooling their resources, the Agency and the Fellowship will fly the immigrants here and enable them to be housed in Israel's north, in the towns of Karmiel and Upper Nazareth, where they will receive added absorption benefits thanks to the generosity of Christians and Jews alike.

There is something extremely fitting about this, too, for as the prophet Isaiah foretold some 2,500 years ago, the nations of the world would play an active role in the return of the Jewish people to their land. In Isaiah 49:22, the Bible says: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the nations, and set up my standard to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

I have no doubt that the love, concern and practical help being provided by Israel's Jewish and Christian supporters worldwide is part and parcel of the fulfillment of this verse. And it sends goosebumps down my arms when I think about how the vision of Isaiah is literally coming to pass before our eyes. The aliya of the Bnei Menashe is a historic event. It is a timely and welcome example of just what Israel, and its wondrous rebirth, is truly all about: the ingathering of our exiles, not only from the four corners of the earth, but from our people's dark and often painful history, too. And it should serve as a potent reminder that despite all the problems and difficulties this country may face, we should not hesitate to join Sara Haunhar and her fellow Bnei Menashe in declaring, Thank God for the State of Israel.