ISRAEL ALMOST OUT OF LEBANON

1-Quake shakes southern Andes; no injuries. 2-At least 40 dead, 1,000 homeless in Nigerian dam tragedy. 3-Tropical Storm Xangsane batters Vietnam. 4-Storm warning issued for Newfoundland. 5-Two Signs Shall I Give You (KIM CLEMENT). 6-Iran lashes out at new U.S. sanctions bill. 7-Israel almost gone from south Lebanon.

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.

Quake shakes southern Andes; no injuries Sat Sep 30, 9:20 PM ET

LIMA, Peru - A moderate earthquake rattled parts of Peru's southern Andes Saturday, but there were immediate no reports of injures or damage. The magnitude-5.5 quake struck at 11:26 a.m. in the highland department of Arequipa, some 360 miles south of the capital of Lima, Peru's Geophysics Institute said. The U.S. Geological Survey calculated the tremor's magnitude at 5.7.

Orlando Macedo, head of the Geophysics Institute in Arequipa, told state news agency Andina that the quake may have been caused by a collision of the Nazca and South American plates.

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.

At least 40 dead, 1,000 homeless in Nigerian dam tragedy Sun Oct 1, 3:25 PM ET

KANO (AFP) - At least 40 people were killed and 1,000 displaced when a dam collapsed near Gusau, capital of northern Nigerian Zamfara State due to torrential rains.Government spokesman Ibrahim Birnin-Magaji said disaster struck Sunday on the outskirts of Gusau in the early hours of Saturday, sweeping away hundreds of houses and drowning at least 40 people.There was an unprecedented torrential downpour in Gusau which started Friday night through Saturday as a result of which the dam burst and swept away no less than 500 houses, killing at least 40 people,he said.It was the heaviest downpour recorded here which was accompanied by strong wind. The flood has caused colossal damage. It is a kind of tsunami to us, he said. Rescuers were continuing to recover more bodies.

Apart from the lives lost and the houses destroyed, the flood has inundated a large swathe of farmland that are almost due for harvest and killed hundreds of livestock,Birnin Magaji said.He said those displaced by the flood were accommodated in a secondary school while a headcount of the affected households was going on to ascertain the exact number of casualties.The figure of the dead is not conclusive because a headcount of affected households has commenced and when the headcount is completed we will have a final figure of those killed in the flood,Birnin-Magaji said.The spokesman said the bridge linking Gusau with the northern part of the state also collapsed as a result of the flood.Governor Ahmed Sani who visited the scene on Saturday requested the assistance of the central government to help the disaster victims.

Tropical Storm Xangsane batters Vietnam By DINH TRAN TRUNG HAU, Associated Press Writer Sun Oct 1, 2:42 PM ET

DANANG, Vietnam - Tropical Storm Xangsane barreled across central Vietnam on Sunday, leaving at least six people dead, hundreds injured and tens of thousands of homes damaged, officials said. Heavy rains are expected to continue for several days and could unleash floods and landslides across the region, national weather center director Bui Minh Tang said.The storm, which killed at least 76 people and left about 69 missing in the Philippines last week, hit Vietnam's coastal city of Danang Sunday morning and caused widespread blackouts, officials said.Xangsane, downgraded from a typhoon just before it hit Vietnam, killed at least four people in Danang, a city of 770,000 people, said local disaster official Huynh Van Thang. At least 5,500 homes were destroyed or damaged in the city.

About 435 people were injured in Danang, said Trinh Luong Tran, director of the city's public health department.In neighboring Quang Nam province, a woman was killed by falling debris, said deputy provincial governor Nguyen Ngoc Quang. Another 61,000 people, including nearly 500 foreign tourists from hotels in the ancient town of Hoi An, were evacuated.In Quang Tri province, one person was killed by lightning, officials said.More than 14,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and 43 people were injured in Thua Thien Hue province, said provincial disaster official Phan Thanh Hung.In Danang, many houses had their tin roofs blown off, and tin sheets could be seen hanging over trees and electricity cables.National carrier Vietnam Airlines said it canceled 48 domestic flights Sunday, and train service was interrupted, stranding thousands.In the Philippines, nearly 40,000 people fled their homes in Manila and in 15 northern and central provinces. Damage to infrastructure, crops and livestock topped $7.2 million and the figure was likely to rise as more reports come in, the civil defense office said.

Monday, October 2, 2006 · Last updated 5:21 a.m. PT
Storm warning issued for Newfoundland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI -- Hurricane Isaac raced over the north Atlantic on Monday toward Newfoundland, where the Canadian Meteorological Service upgraded a tropical storm watch to a tropical storm warning.The warning said 45 mph wind and higher gusts could be expected Monday afternoon and evening on the Avalon Peninsula. A tropical storm watch was issued for the Burin Peninsula and Bonavista Peninsula. Warnings mean tropical storm conditions, with sustained wind of at least 39 mph, are expected; watches mean they are possible.At 8 a.m. EDT, Isaac had top sustained winds near 75 mph, just over the 74 mph threshold for a hurricane. It was expected to weaken slightly before reaching the Canada coast.

Issac, the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season, was centered about 370 miles south-southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland, and was moving north-northeast at about 35 mph. Isaac's center was expected to pass over or near southeastern Newfoundland later Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.Newfoundland was hit with 100 mph wind gusts from the remnants of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 14.Isaac's wind and rain will be comparable to a typical winter storm, said Chris Landsea, a meteorologist at the hurricane center in Miami. It's too soon to tell how much of an impact the storm will have, senior hurricane specialist Richard Pasch said.The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30.

Two Signs Shall I Give You (KIM CLEMENT)

And God said, A sign shall be this--two signs shall I give you: one shall be the death of a leader who shall rapidly deteriorate in Korea.For God said, I will take both North and South, and make it one. Kim, your days are numbered,says the Lord. I'm speaking of the Prime Minister of North Korea.God said, Enough is enough. I want a sound to come, and God said, I will do it.But the other shall be the stepping down of a Prime Minister of the Lion of the Nation of Great Britain. For when he does this, says the Lord, it shall be a sign, not because he stepped down; a sign that something shall advance, something shall advance out of Great Britain.Something shall advance,says the Spirit of God, from the United States. And I will take them, and I will make them to be one sound and one voice, a very unusual revival, a very unusual breakthrough shall take place, says the Lord. And there shall be an acceleration on the oil crisis and suddenly, there shall be an acceleration and discoveries shall be made one after the other.

And God said, Your energy crisis shall slowly come to an end, for I am going to bring prosperity upon the Body of Christ and upon those who have waited, and said, God, I want You to lay upon me that blessing that You promised through Daniel, that blessing that You promised through Joseph, the blessing that You promised through Isaiah, and the blessing that You promised through the prophets of old.I'm standing at this day where the Kingdom of God is about to advance upon the earth.

Jerusalem, I Am Watching Over You

Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, I stand and I watch over you. And they say, There is no peace in Jerusalem.But God said, I have placed something very powerful and something very spontaneous there that shall reach the ends of the earth.God said, This is no small thing, and I will not be mocked by man as if to say I cannot use the soil of Zion and I cannot use the soil of Jerusalem, and I cannot move in the Middle East. Watch Me place the sound of Christ right in the middle of Israel, and right through them I shall bring forth a great evangelism,says the Lord. The Lion is about to arise, and God says, you hear what I say to you tonight, that this massive move of evangelism shall reach into your children and your grandchildren. God said, There is coming upon the earth an acceleration of deliverance, an acceleration of evangelism, and acceleration of the working of miracles. For God said, The gift that is going to come to the fore, is the working of miracles. God said, What you could not acquire shall be acquired easily. What you struggled to do, shall be done quickly and rapidly and easily,says the Lord. Let Me tell you, I have not watched man in vain, I have looked at their hearts, and now there shall be an acceleration.

I will bring gold from Edom. I will bring oil from Edom. I will bring it from the ungodly and the unrighteous, says the Lord. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, I am watching over you, and from there many shall see, but also,God says, in many other portions of the earth, and the satellites shall glow, and they shall sing my praises, says the Lord. Listen to Me, a move of the Spirit is about to take place that will do something to every family in the earth,says the Lord. Get ready, I'm raising up the prophets and the prophetic voices throughout the earth. Rejoice, oh people of God. This is your day of acceleration!

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)

Iran lashes out at new U.S. sanctions bill
www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-01 18:53:0

TEHRAN, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) Iran on Sunday lashed out at a new U.S. bill of sanctions on entities or countries that provide goods or services for Iran's weapons programs, local Fars News Agency reported.Warning Washington against taking any further steps on its present path,Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that the U.S. sanctions bill indicated that Washington was still following the same approach towards Tehran and was not inclined towards revising its policies. He made the remarks at an open session of the Iranian parliament on Sunday.The top lawmaker said that the measure proved that U.S. officials had not yet taken a good lesson from the present conditions dominating the world. Such sanctions are more detrimental to the United States than Iran,said Adel, adding that his country was well familiar with and used to experiencing sanctions.

U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday signed into law a new sanctions bill called Iran Freedom Support Act after the U.S. Senate passed it earlier Saturday.The Iran Freedom Support Act would sanction any entity that contributes to Iran's capability of acquiring chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.The legislation formalizes existing economic sanctions against Iran that have been in effect since 1979 and says that the United States shall not reach agreements with governments that are assisting Iran's nuclear program or transferring weapons or missiles to Iran.The U.S. sanctions against Iran have remained since the takeover of the U.S. embassy by Iranian radicals in 1979.

Moreover, Washington has been seeking to impose sanctions on Iran through the UN Security Council on the grounds that Iran develops a nuclear weapon program under the cover of a civilian program. Iran, however, has denied the charge, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Enditem

Israel almost gone from south Lebanon By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 2, 4:39 AM ET

MARWAHEEN, Lebanon -Israel's troops kept hold of a Lebanese border village and its aircraft prowled the Lebanese skies Monday, prompting the Beirut government and Hezbollah to dismiss the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon as incomplete. The U.N. described Israel's pullout from nearly all of south Lebanon on Sunday as significant progress, but both the Lebanese government and Hezbollah demanded a halt to what they labeled Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace, sea and land.Senior Hezbollah official Sheik Hassan Ezzeddine warned the Islamic militant group would resume attacks against Israel if it breached the U.N. cease-fire, which went into effect Aug. 14.The enemy must bear the consequences of its continued air, sea and land violations in Lebanon," said Ezzeddine, the group's top political official in south Lebanon.

The Israeli army withdrew from the entire south except for the village of Ghajar, said a statement by the commander the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL.What is required is a complete and comprehensive Israeli withdrawal and a halt to Israeli attacks on Lebanon,Information Minister Ghazi Aridi told The Associated Press. "So far, there is no final solution. Israel's pullout today is incomplete.The pre-dawn pullout clears the way for the full deployment of UNIFIL's 15,000 soldiers who will police the border with an equal number of Lebanese army troops. Israel's nearly three-month troop incursion into Lebanon began after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three others in a July 12 cross-border raid.Israel has been gradually withdrawing troops since the cease-fire took effect, from a peak of 30,000 during the fighting. The Israeli naval blockade of Lebanon ended more than three weeks ago.

U.N. Force spokesman Alexander Ivanko, speaking on Lebanon's privately owned Christian TV station LBC, said a deal on Ghajar was expected next week. He did not elaborate.But there were no scenes of jubilation Sunday similar to those that greeted the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon in 2000 after an 18-year occupation.In the border village of Marwaheen, the most visible of the 10 vacated positions, the Israelis had held a hilltop position before pulling out early Sunday.The villagers went about their business in what is perhaps a reflection of the weariness felt by many in south Lebanon after decades of almost continuous fighting with Israel.It also could be attributed to the uncertainty over the future.You can never know whether they will be back again, cautioned Mohammed Musseileh, a 67-year-old farmer from Marwaheen, referring to the Israelis.

Israeli military officials said the last soldiers returned to Israel ahead of the onset of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, at sundown Sunday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines.An armored column creaked across the border at the Israeli border community of Moshav Avivim, leaving tread marks in the soil and sending a large cloud of dust into the air.Israeli spokeswoman Miri Eisin said Israel was now waiting for Lebanon to do its part under the truce.Israel wants Lebanon to keep Hezbollah out of the south and disarm it, but Beirut has indicated it would not actively seek Hezbollah's weapons. The militant group said it would disarm only when a strong central government was in place. UNIFIL has said the question of disarming Hezbollah was best left for the Lebanese to tackle, but it would support the Lebanese army if it takes on the task.

Both the U.N. and the Lebanese government consider Israeli overflights as violations of the cease-fire, but the Israeli officials said Sunday there were no plans to stop them. Ivanko, the UNIFIL spokesman, said the issue of the overflights was raised several times with the Israeli side, which has been asked to halt them. Another source of tension in Lebanon is the disputed Israeli-held Chebaa Farms area near the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria. Resolution 1701 had directed the U.N. secretary-general to come up with a proposal to delineate the borders in the area within a now-elapsed 30 days. After Israel abandoned its hilltop position in Marwaheen Sunday, some villagers saw a chance to make a little money. A group of men in a pickup truck grabbed some discarded tires. Another villager arrived, and later carried home a roll of electrical cables.

Ghanian peacekeepers in a white U.N. armored personnel carrier photographed the site. Two Lebanese military intelligence officers in plainclothes also surveyed the area before Hezbollah officials arrived in two vehicles, one of which was an ambulance marked as gift from the Iranian Embassy in Beirut. They blocked the narrow road leading up to the former Israeli position, preventing reporters and villagers from reaching the spot. Associated Press writers Matti Friedman in Moshav Zarit, Israel, and Hussein Dakroub in Beirut, Lebanon, contributed to this report.