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.
Hawaii reports strong quake, no tsunami alert Wed Oct 25, 9:58 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Hawaii on Sunday morning, with shaking and power outages felt as far as 150 miles away on the island of Oahu, but no tsunami warnings were in effect, agencies reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the area off Oahu's west coast was hit by a series of quakes, the strongest of which registered a magnitude of 6.3. The USGS considers an earthquake of that magnitude to be strong.There were no immediate reports of injuries, scattered reports of damage but power outages were widespread.There is no tsunami warning in place, said Victor Sardina, a geophysicist at the PacificTsunami Warning Center said.We had a power supply outage and we're running on power backup, Sardina said by telephone.
This whole area was shaken up. It was pretty strong shaking.
Seismologists warned of aftershocks through Monday.The Honolulu Advertiser reported on its Web site that Honolulu International Airport was closed, there were landslides in Hamakua and Kealakekua and major damage at Kona Hospital, the Honokaa Long-term Care Facility and the Royal Kona Resort.Stuart Koyanagi, another geophysicist at the tsunami warning center, said he knew the 6.3 magnitude earthquake, followed seven minutes later by a 5.8 magnitude temblor, would rattle nerves throughout the Hawaiian islands.
It was felt pretty sharply even on Oahu, Koyanagi said.If the center receives reports of an earthquake approaching magnitude 7, it may issue a local tsunami warning, Koyanagi said.
Small quakes reported near Old Faithful Tue Oct 24, 6:33 PM ET
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - A swarm of more than 70 small earthquakes shook the ground near Old Faithful geyser earlier this month.
The largest was a magnitude 2.4, barely enough to be felt. The swarm of 74 quakes lasted several hours Oct. 14, according to information released by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. The tight cluster of earthquakes was moderate compared with others in Yellowstone's past, including one in April 2004 in which more than 400 earthquakes were recorded over three days.It piques our curiosity, but it's not out of the range of normal behavior, Henry Heasler, Yellowstone's principal geologist, said of the Oct. 14 activities.Park officials said the earthquakes were more likely caused by the underground movement of hot water and gas, rather than the migration of magma.The largest swarm recorded in Yellowstone was in the fall of 1985 when about 1,800 earthquakes were registered, ranging in magnitude from 1 to 4.9. Around the same time, the huge Yellowstone caldera stopped slowly rising and began slowly falling.
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.
Hundreds evacuate ahead of Mexico storm By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer 29 minutes ago
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico - A weakening Tropical Storm Paul swirled just south of Mexico's Baja California peninsula Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of shantytown residents on a stretch of coastline famed for its golf courses and beaches.
The tropical storm, which weakened from a hurricane Tuesday, had top winds near 45 mph. The storm was expected to weaken further before hitting land Thursday near the resort of Mazatlan on Mexico's mainland Pacific coast.While the threat of damage from the storm had diminished, the National Hurricane Center in Miami warned it could dump up to 10 inches of rain, causing flash flooding and landslides.On Wednesday morning, Tropical Storm Paul was located 70 miles east of Cabo San Lucas and 180 miles west of Mazatlan. It was moving northeast at 14 mph.Paul's maximum sustained winds had reached 110 mph Monday, making it a Category 2 hurricane and the third hurricane to threaten Baja California this season.
The storm has killed one person and left another person missing.
A 23-year-old Mexican fisherman died Monday after he slipped off rocks into rough seas in the coastal community of Todos Santos, north of Los Cabos, said Baja California Sur civil defense director Jose Gajon.Off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, officials were searching for the body of an American who was swept away by the waves while he was walking along the beach with his wife and sister.Gilberto Guzman, manager of the SolMar Hotel, identified the missing tourist as John Skoor, 65, of Moses Lake, Wash. Guzman said an enormous wave swept Skoor and his sister out to sea late Monday. Hotel staff were able to save the sister.
San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas are popular with sports fishermen and celebrities and famous for world-class golf courses and beaches flanked by cactus-dotted deserts.On Tuesday, streets were flooded with ankle-deep water in Cabo San Lucas, where authorities closed schools and opened eight shelters. Later police drove through neighborhoods, calling on people to take refuge.City government spokesman Jorge Castaneda said there had been plans to evacuate at least 1,000 residents, most from shantytowns in areas at high risk for flooding, but in the end only about 100 went to shelters.Guadalupe Herrera preferred to stay in her wooden shack. If we leave our house alone, we will be robbed,she said.
Tourists were taking the wet weather in stride.
I'm used to this kind of thing. I spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy so it doesn't bother me, said Keith Howard, 55, of British Colombia, who was walking in cloudy San Jose del Cabo. I don't plan on going fishing though.Dave Snow, 47, and Shauna Grady, 39, of Boulder, Colo., walked the rain-soaked streets of San Jose del Cabo early Tuesday after Paul forced them to postpone their stay in Cabo Pulmo, an exposed stretch of coast to the north that is popular among divers.If it had stayed at hurricane level, it would have been scarier, Snow said.It seems pretty mellow now.In Cabo San Lucas, hotel guests played board games in lobbies or read in their rooms. Mexico's Pacific coast was struck by two hurricanes last month. Hurricane John battered Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes, while Hurricane Lane hit the resort town of Mazatlan, causing relatively minor damage.
Both Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons, which end Nov. 30, have been normal this year, said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, adding that the U.S. has been fortunate to not be hit by any of the five hurricanes in 2006. The Atlantic had a record season last year with devastating storms, including Hurricane Katrina, which slammed New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf coast.
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)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
We must unite to battle radical Islam
Etgar Lefkovits, THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 23, 2006
The Western world is facing an existential fight for survival against Islamic extremism, and both Christians and Jews need to unite against this common threat, a prominent American Evangelical Christian leader said this weekend.
No thinking person can refuse to see that Western civilization is in a fight for its survival against radical Islam, and that the future of what we know as Western civilization is at stake here, said Rev. Robert Stearns, executive director of the New York-based Eagles' Wings Ministry in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. Stearns, who has been a driving force in Israel's burgeoning relations with the Evangelical Christian world, said that the real threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism required that Christians and Jews unite in this struggle, irrespective of their differences on social issues.
This is not just an issue of religious Christians and right-wing Israelis, but should be of concern to anyone who values the democratic way of life, Stearns said. No matter how much some might not like this alliance, they have to set aside lesser issues because this is a question of survival, he added, in an indirect aside at critics of the close bond that has been formed between Bible-believing Christians and Jews. The alliance between Israel and the Evangelical Christian world has been given the cold shoulder by the predominantly liberal American Jewish leadership, whose outlook on social matters, such as abortion, the separation of church and state and school prayer, are 180 degrees to the left of the Christian Right in America. The Evangelical leader, who was the brainchild and founder of a program which brings dozens of Christian students to Israel for a month over the summer in what has been dubbed the Christian birthright said in the interview that the criticism of Israel among mainstream Christian denominations is a flagrant misreading of Scripture and the result of political pressures.
He asserted that many of the mainstream Protestant Churches who typically opposed Israel are those whose membership was significantly declining. His comments come two months after a public dispute between the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Evangelical Christian leaders in the Holy Land over their hard core support for the State of Israel after the Patriarch issued a proclamation which stated that the Evangelical Christians were leading the world to Armageddon. If there is worry about people leading the world to Armageddon, they really need to talk to the president of Iran, Stearns said. The recent remarks against Christian Zionists served to highlight the two opposing camps in the Christian world, and the deep divide between avid Christian supporters of Israel on the one hand, led by the Evangelicals, and Christian supporters of the Palestinians on the other, a schism which has only deepened over the last decade as the former's ties with Israel began to increase considerably. In the interview, Stearns, who was also behind the launching of an annual Day of Prayer marked by as many as 30 million Christians in 100,000 churches in over 100 nations around the world, revealed that he only got interested in Israel during a visit a decade and a half ago.
Stearns's fascination with Israel, which changed his whole theological worldview, was spurred by an impromptu visit to the Western Wall at the time, which he made at the invitation of a Toronto-born yeshiva student who managed a small Jerusalem bookstore which the American pastor frequented for English newspapers during his stay. The visit to the site turned out to be a theological and philosophical turning point for the young pastor from upstate New York, who had previously only been involved in local church activity, and whose only contact with the Holy Land before that had been through a Jerusalem-based Evangelical organization, the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.
I saw people praying to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and thought to myself: that is the God I pray to ,only they have been praying for thousands of years before my God came along, he said. I understood that the continuity of God's plan did not spring forth in a vacuum but came from a chosen people the Jews- and a consecrated place Israel,he added. Ending another of many visits to Israel this weekend, Stearns leaves the Holy Land with one main focus: to mobilize the global Evangelical Church on Israel's behalf, and to bring thousands of Christian students to Israel to solidify their faith-based support for the Jewish state.
Evangelist Rev. Graham blasts Islam, vows to rebuild churches in Sudan
The Rev. Franklin Graham, a Christian evangelist whose criticism of Islam has frequently outraged Muslims, said Islam teaches its followers to persecute others until they convert, with the aim being total domination. Graham's comments, reported in The News & Observer, came as the evangelist said he plans to rebuild hundreds of churches that have been destroyed by the Sudanese government and its allied militias. There's a war taking place against the church of Jesus Christ in Africa, Graham said, arguing that the battle pits Muslims against Christians in countries such as Ethiopia and Sudan. (AP)
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News
By SIMON WALTERS, Daily Mail Oct 2006
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years:
the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism. A leaked account of an impartiality summit called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror. It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC's diversity tsar, wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.
At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes multiculturalism, is anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims than Christians. One veteran BBC executive said:
There was widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness. Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that it is very hard to change it. In one of a series of discussions, executives were asked to rule on how they would react if the controversial comedian Sacha Baron Cohen known for his offensive characters Ali G and Borat was a guest on the programme Room 101.
On the show, celebrities are invited to throw their pet hates into a dustbin and it was imagined that Baron Cohen chose some kosher food, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Bible and the Koran.
Nearly everyone at the summit, including the show's actual producer and the BBC's head of drama, Alan Yentob, agreed they could all be thrown into the bin, except the Koran for fear of offending Muslims.In a debate on whether the BBC should interview Osama Bin Laden if he approached them, it was decided the Al Qaeda leader would be given a platform to explain his views. And the BBC's diversity tsar, Mary Fitzpatrick, said women newsreaders should be able to wear whatever they wanted while on TV, including veils. Ms Fitzpatrick spoke out after criticism was raised at the summit of TV newsreader Fiona Bruce, who recently wore on air a necklace with a cross.
The full account of the meeting shows how senior BBC figures queued up to lambast their employer. Political pundit Andrew Marr said: The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias.
Washington correspondent Justin Webb said that the BBC is so biased against America that deputy director general Mark Byford had secretly agreed to help him to correct, it in his reports. Webb added that the BBC treated America with scorn and derision and gave it no moral weight. Former BBC business editor Jeff Randall said he complained to a very senior news executive, about the BBC's pro-multicultural stance but was given the reply: The BBC is not neutral in multiculturalism: it believes in it and it promotes it.
Randall also told how he once wore Union Jack cufflinks to work but was rebuked with: You can't do that, that's like the National Front! Quoting a George Orwell observation, Randall said that the BBC was full of intellectuals who would rather steal from a poor box than stand to attention during God Save The King. There was another heated debate when the summit discussed whether the BBC was too sensitive about criticising black families for failing to take responsibility for their children.
Head of news Helen Boaden disclosed that a Radio 4 programme which blamed black youths at a young offenders, institution for bullying white inmates faced the axe until she stepped in. But Ms Fitzpatrick, who has said that the BBC should not use white reporters in non-white countries, argued it had a duty to contextualise why black youngsters behaved in such a way. Andrew Marr told The Mail on Sunday last night: The BBC must always try to reflect Britain, which is mostly a provincial, middle-of-the-road country. Britain is not a mirror image of the BBC or the people who work for it.
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Harper pledges continued support for Israel
By SHERI SHEFA Oct 26,2006
TORONTO - In his first formal address to the Jewish community since being elected prime minister, Stephen Harper reinforced his strong support for Israel and its right to defend itself.When it comes to dealing with a war between Israel and a terrorist organization, this country and this government cannot and will never be neutral,Harper told B’nai Brith Canada’s annual awards dinner last week, eliciting a standing ovation from more than 1,000 politicians, businesspeople and Jewish community leaders.
The Oct. 18 Award of Merit ceremony, held at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto, was organized to pay tribute to Walter Arbib and Surjit Babra, the president and CEO, respectively, of the SkyLink Group of Companies for their contributions to Canadian society.
After thanking Arbib, who is Jewish, and his partner Babra, who is Sikh, for their philanthropy and hard work, Harper took the opportunity to assure the Jewish community that even in the face of harsh criticism from the opposition for calling Israel’s response to Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers last July measured, his government will continue to support Israel’s fight against terror.
Harper refrained from labelling the Liberal party anti-Israel, which he did earlier this month in response to Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff’s comments that Israel’s strike on the Lebanese village of Qana during the conflict with Hezbollah was a war crime.Instead, the prime minister told the crowd that Israel can count on Canada’s steadfast support, encouragement and friendship,and he urged all Canadians to be guided by our values: freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law and the uncompromising opposition to terrorism.
The State of Israel, a democratic nation, was attacked by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization. In fact, a terrorist organization listed illegal in this country, Harper said, noting that Canada is fighting terrorists in Afghanistan and that police have arrested a group of alleged terrorist plotters in Toronto.I understand that with the news reports of the day, and the sound of battle, the images of
destruction and the suffering of innocents, it is sometimes difficult to see and keep the focus on what is truly at stake. But the fact is this: those who attacked Israel, and those who sponsored such attacks, don’t seek merely to gain some leverage, to alter some boundary or to right some wrong. They seek what they and those like them have always sought: the destruction of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people. Those who seek to destroy the Jews, who seek to destroy Israel, will for the same reason ultimately seek to destroy us all, and that, my friends, is why Canada’s new government has reacted with speed and spoken with clarity on recent events in the Middle East.
Harper dismissed claims that his stance on the Middle East is a departure from what some describe as Canada’s traditional role in foreign affairs.Some have claimed that this is charting a radical new course in foreign affairs. That is simply not accurate, he said.
Rather than charting a new course, we are restoring Canada to its traditional and true role, principled leadership in world affairs a Canada that knows where it stands, speaks up for what is right and invests in the tools of diplomacy, foreign aid, intelligence and military capability.The prime minister also referred to the need for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a peaceful agreement and establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel.I need to tell you that we must also seek a fair and just solution for the Palestinians, he said. Our government believes in a two-state solution in a secure, democratic and prosperous Israel living beside a viable, democratic and peaceful Palestinian state.
He said that other countries in the Middle East need to follow the lead of Egypt and Jordan, which took tremendous steps to make peace with Israel.They know the benefits to peace. We think the time is long overdue for others in the region to join them.Harper said he believes ordinary Palestinians want peace as much as Israelis do.Other than terrorists and extremists, or the fanatics, who wakes up each day and wishes that the public life in their community or their country will be an endless cycle of hate, violence, oppression and corruption? No one. But in the end, that is all that they will ever achieve and why we must be so ever vigilant against them. Harper said that despite Israel’s commitment to fighting terrorism and protecting Israeli citizens, Israel found itself in a war it never wanted to wage.
[The current Israeli government] wasn’t elected to wage war, but to pursue peace. And this is the great tragedy, because Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert and [former] prime minister [Ariel] Sharon before him sought a mandate to break the mould and find a new way forward, not to have the same battle yet again over the same ground. He said that both Olmert and Sharon have been willing to make painful compromises for peace. This is the sort of leadership, initiative and commitment that we need and that we have come to expect from the great State of Israel.After Harper’s speech, B’nai Brith executive vice-president Frank Dimant told him: Every Shabbat, every Saturday, we recite [a] prayer for you, Mr. Prime Minister. I believe that the Almighty has answered our prayers. He also presented Harper with a plaque that said the prime minister’s actions are in harmony with his personal integrity, as he fights without compromise, the challenges of our time.In an Oct. 19 statement responding to Harper’s speech, the Canadian Arab Federation said that the unconditional support for Israel expressed by the prime minister is a dangerous path for Canada’s foreign policy. It added that Harper is tarnishing Canada’s reputation and repudiating Canadian values by associating his government so closely with Israel.
Israel's Olmert Tries to Persuade Peretz to Accept Lieberman in
Coalition(VOA) Oct 25,2006
Reports say Prime,Minister Ehud Olmert offered Defense Minister Amir Peretz several incentives to remain in government during meeting Tuesday night.
Ehud Olmert Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to meet with Defense Minister Amir Peretz Wednesday to discuss the proposed appointment of an ultra-nationalist politician to the Cabinet.Mr. Olmert is trying to persuade Peretz to keep his leftist Labor Party in an expanded coalition that would include far-right leader Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home) party.Avigdor Lieberman The Labor Party is divided on whether to accept Lieberman as a coalition partner. Some Labor ministers say the party should object because of what they say are Lieberman's extreme anti-Arab views. But, other Labor ministers favor staying in the coalition to maintain political stability.Israeli media report that Mr. Olmert offered Peretz several incentives to remain in the government during a meeting Tuesday night. Peretz said later he would not announce a decision until after a meeting of Labor's central committee on Sunday.
Lieberman's party calls for annexing Israeli settlements in the West Bank and excluding Israeli Arabs towns from Israel's final borders.Labor objects to stripping Israeli Arabs of their citizenship.Under the coalition deal with Mr. Olmert, Lieberman would become a deputy prime minister in charge of monitoring strategic threats facing Israel. Lieberman says he would focus on Iran, which he calls the primary threat.The addition of Lieberman's party would expand the ruling coalition from 67 to 78 seats in the Israeli parliament. His party is mostly made up of Russian immigrants.Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
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 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) 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 A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) 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 (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, 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.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
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).
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 · Last updated 12:04 p.m. PT
Spain says Mideast road map stalled
By PAUL HAVEN,ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MADRID, Spain - A leading European voice on the Middle East said Tuesday that the road map for peace in the long-suffering region had fatally stalled, but Israeli and Palestinian officials were quick to brand his comments as overly pessimistic.Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told a parliamentary panel in Madrid that Europe has a historic opportunity to take the lead in pushing for a fresh approach to the conflict, and that negotiations should include Syria and take into account the Iranian nuclear dispute.Moratinos said Europe must lead the effort to push both sides back to the table, working in conjunction with the United States.
It is necessary that this diplomatic initiative be led by the European Union, not with small, gradual steps, but with a major initiative that has great scope,said Moratinos.Everyone agrees that sooner or later there will be a peace conference.He hinted it was too late to revive the U.S.-backed blueprint for peace known as the road map.I don't think the road map is the best path to get out of the stagnation. I don't think it is in condition now to resurrect the Middle East peace process, nor do I think small confidence-building measures can work,said Moratinos, a one-time EU envoy to the Middle East with wide connections in the region.Those comments succeeded in bringing Israeli and Palestinian officials together on at least one thing: Both sides rejected his take on the conflict and leapt to the defense of the Washington-backed peace blueprint, saying it still offered the best way forward.
I don't think we can term anything dead or alive. The road map is there, but if Miguel Moratinos will call for a mechanism to implement it, we will appreciate this, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, a confidant of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told The Associated Press. We don't need to reinvent the wheel, we just need there to be a mechanism to implement it. There will not be a solution without the road map.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev agreed.The way forward is through the road map which is the international community's consensus document on how to move forward in the Middle East peace process, he said, blaming the Palestinian side for not embracing the plan.In Washington, the State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the idea has been bouncing around. The U.S. focus right now, he said, is working with Abbas to build up security forces and with the Israeli government to keep open more crossings.
It would also help reassure the Israeli government regarding attacks on its territory emanating from Gaza, McCormack said.But most important, he said, is the Palestinian government must overcome its failure to meet the criteria for peacemaking set by the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia.He referred to demands Hamas renounce violence and accept Israel's right to exist. That's a condition for any sort of engagement with the international community,the U.S. official said.Britain's Foreign Office said London still believes the road map is the best way forward.
The road map, launched in 2003, envisioned a Palestinian state alongside Israel but stalled almost from the outset because neither side met the initial commitments. Relations between the Israelis and Palestinians soured further following the election of a Hamas-led Palestinian government earlier this year.
Hamas has refused to rescind its call for Israel's destruction.Moratinos has long offered to have Spain play a role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but has had little response from either side in recent years.Spain hosted a landmark Middle East peace conference in 1991, bringing together Israel and many of its Arab enemies for the first time. Those talks helped lay the foundation for the Oslo peace process, which resulted in the establishment of the Palestinian uthority.
The Spanish diplomat said that any talks should also involve Syria a longtime foe of Washington and that Iran's nuclear program would also need to be addressed at such a conference.The presence of Iran means new talks would have to be much more sophisticated than in the past, Moratinos said. He did not specify whether he felt Iran should be directly involved in the talks.
Moratinos has long offered to have Spain play a role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but has had little response from either side in recent years.Spain hosted a landmark Middle East peace conference in 1991, bringing together Israel and many of its Arab enemies for the first time. Those talks helped lay the foundation for the Oslo peace process, which resulted in the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.
Moratinos said Middle East peace will top the agenda at a meeting Friday and Saturday in the Spanish resort city of Alicante that will bring together foreign ministers from southern European and African countries bordering the Mediterranean.EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will visit Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, and meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next week. Solana is to assess efforts in trying to revive the peace process.
MK Gabbai: Israeli Sovereignty Eroding in Jerusalem´s Old City
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz(INN)
Following a tour led by Jewish residents of the Old City, MK Eli Gabbai said Tuesday that Israeli sovereignty in the heart of the capital is deteriorating.There is an ongoing undermining of Israeli sovereignty in large sections within the Old City of Jerusalem, according to Knesset Member Gabbai (National Union-National Religious Party). Gabbai, chairman of the legislature's Jerusalem Lobby, was given a walking tour of the Old City by Jewish residents of the Muslim Quarter. Gabbai said the tour revealed to him the weakness and the willful blindness of the municipality and of the police in enforcing the law in the ancient walled area of the city.
The chronic lawbreaking among the city's Arab residents, as cited by their Jewish neighbors, takes the form of illegal construction, large outdoor events held without a license, unauthorized sellers stands which are a security and safety danger to the public as well as the operation of mosque loudspeakers at unusual times and at high volume.
In contrast to its apparent inability to enforce the law against Arab residents of Jerusalem's Old City, MK Gabbai said, the police and municipality have instituted ever more regulations limiting the freedom of movement of many Jews in the city. For example, during the just-ended Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the 800 Jews living in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City were instructed by the Jerusalem police not to leave their homes without prior coordination during the evening hours.
This restriction was announced because of the large number of celebrants including many hostile ones returning from the Temple Mount each night of the month-long Muslim holiday.Furthermore, the Ministry of Education has forbidden any school trips, including those with armed escorts, from entering the Muslim Quarter despite the presence of its 800 Jews.
The Jewish residents of the quarter also complained to MK Gabbai about a lack of basic services, such as mail delivery, in their area of the Old City. For his part, Gabbai promised the Jewish residents of the Muslim Quarter that he would do all in his power to halt the dangerous erosion of Israeli sovereignty in the nation's capital.Gabbai can be emailed at
GO BIBI GO,I WANT YOU TO LEAD ISRAEL, ALL ISRAELIS VOTE FOR BIBI NEXT PRESIDENT.....WE NEED THAT 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT NOW.
The voice is the voice of Netanyahu
By Aluf Benn
Over the last few weeks, the Israeli government has changed dramatically, as manifested by Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman's entry into the coalition. But the dispute over the personality and outlook of the minister-to-be for strategic threats has concealed a more important and more interesting change: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has adopted the positions of Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Whoever doesn't believe this to be the case should read the speeches Olmert and Netanyahu gave in the Knesset when the government was sworn in about six months ago. At the time, Olmert spoke about setting the state's border and evacuating settlements in the West Bank as the lifeline of Zionism, and Netanyahu told him to concentrate on the Iranian threat instead of moving settlers from one hilltop to another.
Now Olmert is carrying out the Netanyahu policy, point by point. The prime minister is sending veiled threats to Iran, burying the convergence plan and allowing accelerated construction in settlements. His social-economic policy, too, was copied from Netanyahu. Who needs a social welfare minister? Let the poor get a job and stop making demands. Something similar happened to Ariel Sharon when he was stuck without an agenda after the 2003 elections and adopted the proposal of his rival, Amram Mitzna, for a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. But there is a difference. Mitzna left politics after he lost at the polls, while Netanyahu remains and is steering government policy from the opposition benches. The hands are the hands of Ehud, but the voice is the voice of Bibi.
So what happened? One can argue that the war in Lebanon and the events in Gaza opened Olmert's eyes and made him recognize that his understanding of the threats facing Israel was mistaken. Nonetheless, it appears that political constraints and the prime minister's personality structure were a greater influence. The strategic threat to Olmert's term of office is not Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his calls to eliminate the Zionist regime, but rather the potential desertion of 11 MKs from Kadima back to the Likud. Only such a move would translate Netanyahu's advantage in the polls to a change of government. In order to foil him, Olmert executed a double maneuver: He stole his rival's positions in order to rule out an ideological excuse on the part of the swing MKs in Kadima - and he split the right-wing camp by bringing Lieberman into the government. The emphasis on the Iranian threat had another function as well: to lock up Amir Peretz and prevent his Labor Party from fleeing the coalition. When the state faces existential danger, as Olmert put it, you don't evade responsibility for its fate.
Those who compared Olmert to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak over the last few months do not understand the prime minister. Olmert does not have their intellectual pretension. Perhaps in the depths of his fortified residence he reads books, listens to symphonies and solves mathematical equations. But the Olmert public persona speaks only about soccer, not Winston Churchill or Charles de Gaulle.
Olmert compensates for his inferiority by quoting from encyclopedias with cunning and with emotional intelligence.
He is a far better political operator than Barak or Netanyahu, and not only because of his astonishing success in surviving the war and acquiring Lieberman at a good price. Olmert is more disciplined than they are, and even during the abyss of his fall in the polls, he controlled himself and did not get dragged into giving radio interviews on morning programs a clear sign of political collapse.
Olmert's weak point is his sensitivity to challenges to his masculinity. Netanyahu understood this when he called him Smolmert (a combination of the premier's name and the Hebrew word for left) during the election campaign. Ever since then the prime minister has made an effort to prove his courage and show that he is the distaff of the left. This has led to Olmert's tendency to use force, to get embroiled in a war with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and into total chaos on the Palestinian front and, it appears, to relinquish the positions that he presented to the public when he was elected, and return to being a Likudnik.
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