1-Historic storm hits Ontario. 2-350,000 without power in Buffalo area. 3-The Weather Channel (Record Low Temperatures). 4-Iranian Minister Calls for Improved Ties with PA. 5-Rescued Torah Scrolls to Star in Jerusalem Holiday Celebrations. 6-UN poised for sanctions on North Korea. 7-New $100 mln fund to fight killer diseases in Myanmar. 8-Ban Named Next U.N. Secretary-General.
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.
Historic storm hits Ontario
Pre-winter blast wallops Niagara Peninsula, cottage country
Oct. 13, 2006. 11:18 AM,CANADIAN PRESS
The Fort Erie and Welland areas of southwestern Ontario are digging out from as much as 30 centimetres of snow following a powerful pre-winter storm.
The region may receive up to 15 more centimetres before a let-up to what Environment Canada terms significant snowfalls of historic proportions. The snow and strong winds of up to 90 kilometres an hour have caused snow-laden branches to snap onto power lines, causing power outages from Port Colborne to Fort Erie, and forcing part of the Queen Elizabeth Way to be shut down The storm that dumped snow on the Fort Erie-Welland areas also walloped Buffalo and western New York state.
Snowsqualls coming off Lake Huron also left parts of Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula, Parry Sound and other cottage country areas covered in snow.
Another 10 centimetres of snow might fall this morning before it changes to showers. Northern Ontario also received an early introduction to winter, with an additional five centimetres expected today in some areas, including Kenora, Fort Frances, Dryden and Red Lake. In Huntsville, Ontario Provincial Police have closed down southbound Highway 11, south of Stephenson Rd. 4 after a vehicle went into the ditch, killing one person inside at about 5 a.m., Const. Julia McCuaig said.
The road conditions up there were very poor at the time. It was sever weather conditions ... Roads were icy, she said. Apparently in Bracebridge, it’s clear. It’s just when you go just north of that, you hit the severe weather conditions.The man, whose identity is being without until police can notify his next of kin, was alone in the vehicle at the time. No one else was injured.More of those same conditions and zero visibility has closed down Fort Erie-bound Queen Elizabeth Way at Netherby Rd. in Niagara Falls where the weather has knocked out power in part of the region, McCuaig said.We have to be sure to be careful out there today that’s the main thought.
Yesterday, winter weather may have claimed its first victim of the season in the province when a 27-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision south of London.Langton resident Jaclyn Szalkai was driving south on Concession Rd. 2 in Norfolk County, near the north shores of Lake Erie, when the collision occurred just after 2 p.m.
Szalkai lost control of her van, crossed the centre line and collided head-on with a Dodge pick-up truck driven by a 22-year-old Langton man, OPP said.A snow (or) slush covered road is being considered a contributing factor in this collision,OPP said.Szalkai was pronounced dead at nearby Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital. The driver of the other vehicle sustained non life-threatening injuries and has been released from hospital, police said.With files from Tamara Cherry
350,000 without power in Buffalo area
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Up to 60 centimetres of snow from an extraordinary fall storm closed roads, cut power to some 350,000 customers and left this city paralyzed as officials banned driving in the region today.
The snow, delivered in a fury of thunder and lightning, blanketed Buffalo and surrounding areas last night and early today. A 168-kilometre stretch of the New York State Thruway from Exit 46 at Rochester to Exit 59 at Dunkirk, southwest of Buffalo, was closed this morning because of heavy lake-effect snow. Food and water was being delivered by snowmobile to stranded motorists on the highway. Normally busy downtown streets were empty as residents tried to push their cars from snowbanks and shovel out the wet, heavy snow.
Trees and hedges that had yet to lose their leaves crumpled into heartbreaking heaps. Unharvested apples and pumpkins were buried and schoolchildren who began the week with the Columbus Day holiday ended it with a snow day.The season’s first snowfall in western New York left more than 350,000 customers without electricity. Gov. George Pataki was expected to declare a state of emergency for the four hard-hit counties. As of 8:30 a.m. today, 45 to 60 centimetres of snow had fallen in the general Buffalo area, said Tom Paone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The snowfall had moved north over Niagara Falls and at least for the immediate Buffalo area, the worst is over. Yesterday, 21 centimetres of heavy snowfall set the record for the snowiest October day in Buffalo in the 137-year history of the weather service. The record lasted for all of one day as 30 centimetres of snow fell early today. The previous record of 6 inches was set Oct. 31, 1917.
Tom Niziol, also a meteorologist with the weather service, said the northern half of Erie County and southern Niagara and Orleans Counties were among the hardest hit areas.The Buffalo Police Department received more than 3,000 calls late yesterday and about two-thirds were related to the weather, Lt. James Watkins said. Unnecessary driving was banned in Buffalo, its largest suburb, Amherst, as well as the suburbs of Blasdell, Orchard Park and Hamburg. Thruway spokeswoman Sarah Kampf said she did not know when the highway would be cleared. She also did not know how many motorists were stranded on the Thruway. We have a condition where 80 percent of the roads are impassable,said Lt. Stephen McGonagle of the Amherst Police Department.
Dozens of schools were closed and states of emergency were declared in the City of Tonawanda, and towns of Cheektowaga, Elma, Lancaster, Akron and Depew.The airport closed for less than two hours late yesterday and then closed again during the night. Crews were working to clear runways this morning and flights were expected to resume at noon, an airport official said.
Associated Press
The Weather Channel (Record Low Temperatures)
29 minutes ago
A rare early October snowstorm left parts of the Great Lakes and Midwest blanketed with 2 feet of snow Friday, October 13. The system brought snow, high winds and gusts, and cold temperatures to the region beginning on Wednesday, October 11. By Friday, many cities saw snow records broken.
Buffalo -- Most snow for October; earliest lake-effect snow warning
Detroit -- Earliest measurable snow, breaking a 98-year record.
Chicago -- Earliest measurable snow
Flint, Mi. -- Earliest measurable snow
Grand Rapids, Mi. -- Most snow so early in the season
Some low temperature records also were broken. Friday, October 13:
Greenville, Miss. -- 35 degrees
Topeka, Kan. -- 26 degrees
Glasgow, Mont. -- 18 degrees
Vichy-Rolla, Mo. -- 26 degrees
St. Joseph, Mo. -- 24 degrees
Jackson, Kent. -- 29 degrees
Thursday, October 12:
Antigo, Wisc. -- 19 degrees
Rhinelander, Wisc. -- 20 degrees
Marshfield, Wisc. -- 21 degrees
Wausau, Wisc. -- 23 degrees
Chadron, Neb. -- 20 degrees (tie)
Rapid City, S.D. -- 18 degrees (tie)
Jackson, Kent. -- 31 degrees
Beckley, W.V. -- 27 degrees
Jackson, Tenn. -- 33 degrees
Crossville, Tenn. -- 31 degrees
Miles City, Mont. -- 19 degrees
The early snow and cold even prompted Major League Baseball to move the third game of the American League Champsionship Series between the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A's from night start to afternoon start.
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)
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.
Iranian Minister Calls for Improved Ties with PA
16:30 Oct 12, '06 / 20 Tishrei 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Iranian Interior Minister Mustafa Pur-Mahmadi said his country must officially strengthen its ties with the PA (Palestinian Authority). In a Tehran news conference with PA Interior Minister Sa'id Si'am, Mahmadi stated, Iran sees providing assistance to the PA in a number of spheres as its role, and there is a large aspiration to support the Palestinian nation and its freedom.
Rescued Torah Scrolls to Star in Jerusalem Holiday Celebrations
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
Torah scrolls rescued from Ethiopia will be featured in Jerusalem celebrations this weekend and one of them will then be returned to the dwindling Yemenite community in Ethiopia. The Simchat Torah (Rejoicing of the Law) holiday begins Friday evening, and features particularly festive prayer services including dancing, singing and rejoicing in the study of the Torah. On Saturday night, traditional Hakafot Shniyot will be held continuing the celebration of the Torah, as if to say, We don't want to end the spiritual highs of the holiday season just yet. Jews outside of Israel celebrate Simchat Torah as a full-fledged holiday on Saturday night and Sunday as well.Hakafot Shniyot will be commemorated in cities and towns all over Israel. In Jerusalem, celebrants will dance with two Torah scrolls that were brought to Israel on Thursday in a daring Jewish Agency mission.
The fascinating story of the scrolls came to a head earlier this week, when the Jewish Agency received a call for help from NACOEJ, the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry.
The Torahs had been housed in the city of Gundar, in a compound that served in the past as an Aliyah center. The center was ultimately closed, with NACOEJ prevented from accessing it, and on Tuesday night of this week it came officially under the auspices of other groups including a Jews for Jesus organization. Various legal entanglements necessitated the removal of the Torah scrolls before midnight, or else have them possibly lost forever. With the help of the police in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, the Jewish Agency managed to extricate them just four hours before the deadline.
Permanent residence for one of the Torah scrolls will be in an Ethiopian synagogue damaged by Katyusha missiles during the summer war, in a Jewish Agency absorption center in Kiryat Yam. The Torah was originally donated by an American philanthropist.
The other Torah scroll will actually be returned to Addis Ababa after the holiday, to the tiny Yemenite Jewish Community there that originally loaned it to the Addis Ababa compound synagogue 100 years ago. The Yemenite Jews in Ethiopia hailed from Aden, and were a community of merchants that traveled with their Torah scroll from place to place, finally ending up in Addis Ababa early in the 20th century. The community currently numbers only five families, and when Taleb Kanzan, its head, heard with great emotion that the scroll was in Israel, he asked that it be returned only after the Simchat Torah holiday. We have other Torah scrolls, he said, and it will be a great privilege for us to use a Torah that was used for Hakafot in Jerusalem.
Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski noted that the rescue of two Torah scrolls on the eve of Simchat Torah symbolizes the Biblical verse, The Torah will come forth from Zion, which is widely recited and sung on this holiday.In other holiday news, hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch families will be guests in Hevron, the City of the Patriarchs, this holiday weekend. Lubavitch families from all over Israel will spend the Simchat Torah, beginning Friday evening, in Hevron. They will lodge in the Jewish Community's guest house, and will commemorate the traditional Hakafot (dancing around, and with, the Torah scrolls) in the Machpelah Cave. Their presence will give strength to the beleaguered but strong community, residents say.Thousands more people will arrive in Hevron on Saturday night for the Hakafot Shniyot.
UN poised for sanctions on North Korea
Financial Times ,By Mark Turner at the United Nations
Updated: 12 minutes ago
The UN Security Council was on Friday night on the brink of agreeing to sanctions on North Korea after its claim of a nuclear test last Monday, with both the US and China giving some ground ahead of a vote scheduledfor Saturday.The North Koreans tested on October 9, [and] I expect a vote by the 14th, said John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN. That is a sign of the determination of the Council to move quickly. There may be some additional changes to the text, but we do have unanimous agreement we will follow that schedule.A new draft was based on the UN's tough Chapter 7 enforcement provisions, but specified that the measures taken would not involve military force. That decision was meant to allay Chinese and Russian concerns that broader Chapter 7 powers could be later invoked to justify an armed response.The draft also calls on all countries to take co-operative action to prevent the traffic of nuclear, chemical and biological weapon materials, including through inspection of cargo to and from the DPRK [North Korea], asnecessary.
Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, is to visit Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing next week. Chris Hill, assistant secretary of state and chief negotiator at the stalled talks with North Korea, told reporters that Ms Rice's aim was to ensure the UN resolution had teeth and will function properly.The sanctions in the resolution, plus additional measures, would be painful and costly to North Korea, Mr Hill said, describing the regime as a terrible scar on the [Korean] peninsula.The emphasis on co-operation was designed to meet Chinese and Russian concerns that interdictions at sea could spark confrontation. The resolution specifically gives states the right and, indeed, the obligation to help in inspections that's a substantial step forward,said Mr Bolton. He saw the move as a codification of the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative.
I expect most inspections would take place in port. That is the most desirable, he said. But there are circumstances in which ships could be boarded at sea.Land and air cargo would also be subject to inspection.China, however, said it could not support PSI.
Wang Guangya, China's UN ambassador, said of PSI, Politically, China will not do it. I believe that the exercises under PSI will easily lead, whether it is intentional or not, to escalations of provocations.Other measures include a ban on conventional heavy weapons such as battle tanks, large calibre artillery, combat aircraft and missile systems, as well as an embargo on luxury goods.
The resolution obliges countries to freeze funds that could be used to develop North Korean missiles and weapons of mass destruction, and imposes a travel ban on individuals to be designated by a Security Council committee.Alexander Alexeyev, the Russian deputy foreign minister, discussed with North Korea a return to six-party talks. At the basis of the consultations which took place was a desire to find a way out of the existing crisis situation, he was quoted as saying in Pyongyang.Vitaly Churkin, Russia's UN ambassador, said of the Security Council negotiations: I think we are on the right track. We are not there yet. He added that he was somewhat disappointed and upset by the stereotyping of Russia as an obstructive force in the talks.
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).
New $100 mln fund to fight killer diseases in Myanmar
13 Oct 2006 11:28:09 GMT,Source: Reuters, By Aung Hla Tun
YANGON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A new $100 million fund to fight three killer diseases in army-ruled Myanmar should be operational early next year under the supervision of a U.N.-appointed manager, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.The 3-Diseases Fund is a five-year programme that aims to plug the gap left by the abrupt departure of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last year, citing restrictions on their activities.Health Minister Kyaw Myint signed an agreement with the United Nations Office for Project Services on Thursday that paves the way for the appointment of a U.N. project manager and setting up of an office to manage the fund.
The Global Fund basically finished in August and the sense is that the 3D Fund will probably become operational early next year, Charles Petrie, U.N. country coordinator for Myanmar, told Reuters.He said bridge funding was in place to keep programmes running until the new fund began operation.Myanmar's 55 million people suffer some of the highest rates of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis in Asia, overwhelming the crumbling health care system.Ruled by the military since 1962, Yangon receives far less Western foreign aid than its regional neighbours due to its poor human rights record and suppression of political opponents.
SAME CURBS
Pro-democracy activists have questioned whether the new fund can work effectively under the same restrictions that forced the Global Fund to withdraw.The junta announced new rules on foreign aid in February, including travel permits and official escorts for field trips and tighter rules on transporting supplies and materials.Funds must be deposited in a state-run bank and withdrawn in dollar-denominated foreign exchange certificates (FECs), raising the potential for abuse, activists say.Petrie said guidelines for the 3D Fund were still being worked out.The government has assured us that this is a programme to which they attach high importance.
Clearly, if in the future there are problems, one should expect a reaction from the donors,he said.The new fund backed by Australia, Britain and other European governments is expected to work with U.N. agencies, international NGOs, charities and local health authorities.Aid workers have said projects backed by the fund could include promoting condom use to prevent HIV infection, expanded TB testing and drug treatments.Malaria is the biggest killer of children under five in Myanmar, formerly Burma, claiming 3,000 lives each year and drug-resistant strains are spreading beyond Myanmar's borders.Tuberculosis causes more than 12,000 deaths a year but more worrying is the rapid growth of drug-resistant TB blamed on poor medical services
and sub-standard drugs.
An estimated 360,000 people are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and despite expanded prevention and care in recent years, UNAIDS says much more needs to be done. AlertNet news
Dr Samuel Doctorian from the Angel.
SECOND ANGEL:
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those [inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.
I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.
I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God. I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said, This is the final judgment.
My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
Well Ban might be named new President of the Lukewarm UN, but for how long till it folds.
Ban Named Next U.N. Secretary-General
By EDITH M. LEDERER,The Associated Press
Friday, October 13, 2006; 4:39 PM
UNITED NATIONS The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as the next U.N. secretary-general.
Ban, 62, will become the eighth secretary-general in the U.N.'s 60-year history on Jan. 1 when Annan's second five-year term expires. He was one of seven candidates vying to be the U.N. chief and topped all four informal polls in the U.N. Security Council.Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General shakes hand with Ban Ki-moon, Foreign Minister of South Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York, Wednesday, October 11, 2006. Ban Ki-moon is the favorite for next Secretary-General. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda) (Osamu Honda - AP)
Hundreds of diplomats and U.N. staff in the chamber broke into loud applause when assembly president Sheikha Haya
She then banged the gavel and said, It is so decided.Ban will oversee an organization with 92,000 peacekeepers around the world and a $5 billion annual budget. The U.N.'s reputation has been tarnished by corruption scandals and its outdated practices need reform to meet the challenges of the 21st century.Annan hailed Ban as a future secretary-general who is exceptionally attuned to the sensitivities of countries and constituencies in every continent and said he would be a man with a truly global mind at the helm of the world's only universal organization.
Annan recalled that the first U.N. secretary-general, Trygvie Lie, told his successor, Dag Hammarskjold, You are about to take over the most impossible job on Earth.While that may be true, Annan said, I would say: This is also the best possible job on Earth.
He said he had only one piece of advice for his successor when he takes over try to make full use of the unparalleled resource you will find in the staff of the organization. Their commitment is the U.N.'s greatest asset.U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Ban is the right person to lead the United Nations at this decisive movement in its history, particularly as the U.N. struggles to fulfill the terms
of the reform agenda that world leaders agreed to last fall.
The Staff Union, representing over 5,000 staff at U.N. headquarters, welcomed Ban's appointment, saying in a statement it provides a fresh start for the organization.The union, which has had rocky relations with Annan, said it looked forward to working closely with Ban and his management team on U.N. reform.By tradition, the post of secretary-general rotates among the regions of the world
and most countries agreed that this time it was Asia's turn. The last Asian secretary-general was Burma's U Thant, who served from 1961-71.Ban has been South Korea's foreign minister for more than 2 1/2 years and served as national security adviser to two presidents jobs that focused on relations with North Korea which he has said will be a top priority in his new job. During a nearly 40-year diplomatic career, he was posted in India, Austria, Washington and at the United Nations.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
DO YOUNG PEOPLE WANT CHIP IMPLANTS
1-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 2-Quake hits central Chilean region, no injuries. 3-Volcano erupts on Papua New Guinea island. 4-Over 40 fires burning in Victoria. 5-PM accuses Liberals on Israel. 6-No greater legacy for America than a Palestinian state. 7-Experts warn of an accidental atomic war. 8-EU Parliament calls for free trade agreement with Mercosur. 9-DO YOUNG PEOPLE WANT MICROCHIP PAYMENT IMPLANTS? NOT REALLY.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 12, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Over the years, I've shared with you stories of the many people who have been a part of the prophetic return to Israel through our On Wings of Eagles program. Many of these stories are deeply touching, some are very personal, and others are intensely dramatic.
But few are as unique as that of the lost tribe of Bnei Menashe.
The Bnei Menashe are descendants of the tribe of Menashe, one of the ten lost tribes exiled from the land of Israel some 2,700 years ago. They wandered through the Far East, finally settling in a remote area of northeast India along the border with Myanmar and Bangladesh. Miraculously, despite the extended passage of time and their isolation, they in recent years have returned to their Jewish roots - and with this has come a profound longing to return to their ancient homeland, Israel.
A few years ago, I visited the Bnei Menashe in India at the request of the Israeli government to help determine whether their claims to Jewish heritage were legitimate. I will never forget what I saw. Here were people observing the laws and rituals of biblical Judaism in a part of the world where they have been cut off from other Jews and where Jewish culture is entirely foreign.
I was deeply moved by this experience. Upon my return to Israel I told officials that I believed the Bnei Menashe were indeed Jews who shared the deep longing that all Jews feel for their biblical homeland. I also resolved then and there that The Fellowship would do whatever it could to help the Bnei Menashe realize their dream prophesized years ago in Scripture.
Until now, only about a thousand Bnei Menashe have had the opportunity to return to Israel. Nearly seven thousand remain in India, unable to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) because of poverty and local governmental restrictions. Today, however, I'm happy to say the path has finally been cleared for another part of this lost tribe to come home. Their return and resettlement will be funded in part by contributions to our On Wings of Eagles program, and I will gratefully accompany, on your behalf, a planeload of 218 émigrés to Israel next month.
In the coming weeks and months, you will be hearing much more of this extraordinary story that is still unfolding. I'll share with you my impressions of this historic effort, as well as some personal stories of the Bnei Menashe who are coming home On Wings of Eagles. In the meantime, please join me in prayers for the safe return to Israel of the members of this lost tribe who long to return to their biblical homeland.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
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.
Quake hits central Chilean region, no injuries Thu Oct 12, 3:34 PM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Thursday, but only minor damage and no injuries were reported, local authorities and the U.S. Geological Survey said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake took place in the Coquimbo region, 157 miles north of the capital Santiago, at a depth of 28 miles at 14:05 p.m. local time (1805 GMT).Chilean officials, who said they had recorded a 6.5-magnitude quake, said no serious damage or injuries had been reported in the area. The plaster on some houses had suffered cracks and some light damage had been caused to road surfaces.It's a moderate quake, that didn't end up causing any damage,Carmen Fernandez, director of the South American country's National Emergencies Office, told local radio.It lasted quite a long time and in some areas it caused a certain amount of alarm,she added.The tremor could be felt in the capital of Santiago where some tall buildings shook.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Volcano erupts on Papua New Guinea island Thu Oct 12, 6:15 PM ET
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A volcanic eruption on the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain on Saturday caused panicked residents to flee homes and sent ash plumes 18 kilometres into the air. Mount Tavurvur on the outskirts of the former provincial capital Rabaul erupted around 8.45 a.m. (2245 GMT Friday) with a blast which shattered windows up to 12 kilometres (8 miles) from the caldera.
It was quite scary, but it's quiter now and has quietened considerably through the day,Rabaul Volcanological Observatory chief surveyor Steve Saunders told Reuters.
In 1994, a large eruption on Mt Tavurvur and the nearby Vulcan peak destroyed much of Rabaul, covering the airport and much of the town with ash, and forcing the construction of a new capital, Kokopo, 20 kilometres away.PNG's Mining Department said in a volcano bulletin that ash was falling on Kokopo, causing power and phone cuts.
Saunders said magma had been welling up inside the 688 meter (2,200 foot) peak since 2005 and contained large amounts of gas, which accounted for the explosive force of the eruption.Today looks like the activity it has been building up to, so it should fall off now, he said.Saunders said vulcanologists expected the peak to quieten quickly, but the volcano was still surrounded by gas and dust, making it hard to assess damage amid rumors lava had flowed from a previously unknown vent. There were no reports of death or injuries.Rabaul Chamber of Commerce President and hotelier Bruce Alexander told Australian Associated Press that around 2,000 people or 90 percent of the local population had fled the town as Mt Tavurvur erupted.All flights into Tokua airport across the harbor from Rabaul had been canceled due to ash falls.Papua New Guinea lies on the Pacific Ocean ring of fire, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.
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.
Over 40 fires burning in Victoria
By Melissa Iaria .October 12, 2006
MORE than 40 fires are still blazing across Victoria, with fire crews struggling to get 16 of them under control.Severe fires are burning in Gippsland in the state's east, the only part of the state to escape a fire ban today.The biggest is in remote bush 12km north-west of Erica that has scorched 400ha and is still raging out of control.Department of Sustainability (DSE) state duty officer Mark Woodman said conditions were easing but crews were not expecting to have it contained tonight.They're building control lines so they're actively working around it, he said.At Yallourn North, about 250 firefighters are attempting to control a fire that has already scorched about 120 hectares and come within 100m of properties.
A CFA spokesman said the fire was still causing concern and it was hoped that easing winds tonight would reduce its ferocity.
Another blaze that has crews concerned is at an open cut mine in Morwell, where 44 fire crews are struggling in the heat to control it.It's obviously quite difficult to fight because there's an enormous amount of smoke and visibility is poor, the spokesman said.Three smaller fires are continuing out of control in Gippsland.In the Mallee, DSE crews are tackling a 300 hectare blaze that has spread for several kilometres.It started from a fire we had about three weeks ago because it's so dry,state duty officer Mark Woodman said.It's slowed down now and we're hoping to build control lines around the northern edge overnight.Closer to Melbourne, the CFA has controlled a blaze at King Lake West, containing it to about 10 hectares.About 150 firefighters were at the fire but the deployment is expected to scale down as the night continues.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Yeah Our Prime Minister sticks up for precious Israel again, hes right Lukewarm Liberals, Democrats are against GOD and Israel.
PM accuses Liberals on Israel
Ignatieff, Rae hit back at Harper but Dion wants Ignatieff
to clarify his position Oct. 12, 2006. 08:27 PM.CANADIAN PRESS
Most of the candidates vying for the leadership of the Liberal party are anti-Israel, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday, as controversy swirled over comments by front-runner Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff’s statement that Israel had perpetrated a war crime with its attack on Lebanon typified that sentiment, Harper said. This is consistent with the anti-Israeli position that has been taken by virtually all of the candidates for the Liberal leadership,he said. I don’t think it’s helpful or useful. Ignatieff, who calls himself a lifelong friend of Israel, hit back at Harper. It is disgraceful that the prime minister is playing crass politics with the issue of the Middle East, Ignatieff said in a statement.Frankly, it is beneath him and his office to do so.
In late July, Israeli war jets killed as many as 28 civilians in a strike aimed at Hezbollah guerrillas, who had been raining rockets on Israel from Lebanon. On Sunday, Ignatieff who had previously said the deaths wouldn’t cost him any sleep, sparked controversy during an appearance on a French-language television program when he revisited the event. What happened in Qana was a war crime, Ignatieff told Radio-Canada. I should have said that. That’s clear.
Speaking at a law-and-order announcement in Toronto, Harper called the war-crime accusation a serious charge and made it clear he didn’t share the view. None of the seven leadership candidates rushed to Ignatieff’s defence but they saved their strongest criticism for Harper, accusing him of polarizing the country.Bob Rae, a strong contender, called Harper’s shameful comments a classically thoughtless, deeply divisive thing to say. It’s the politics of the big smear,said Rae. I don’t know why he would say such a thing. Gerard Kennedy said the Liberal party is in an awkward place, trying to respond to momentous events in the Middle East without a permanent leader, which has led to some incautious remarks.
But he said it’s too cute by half and somewhat irresponsible for Harper to play petty partisan games with such a divisive issue.
Ken Dryden echoed those remarks, saying Harper’s comment is completely wrong. All that is, is creating divides and Mr. Harper has shown himself to be a great divider,he said in an interview. That’s his instinct, that’s his approach. Lone Atlantic contender Scott Brison said Harper is intentionally and maliciously misrepresenting the Liberal party’s position on Israel. He noted in an interview that it was a Liberal government that listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and that the party has always defended Israel’s right to exist and defend itself. Stephane Dion said Harper’s comments were not very prime ministerial.
I think it’s an insult, not only for me and the other candidates but for the millions of Canadians who believe like us that to be a good friend of Israel this summer was to request a ceasefire right away, Dion said in an interview. Dion said Ignatieff should produce evidence that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in Qana or withdraw his accusation that the attack constitutes a war crime.
In a statement Thursday, B’nai Brith Canada called for the Liberal party to disassociate itself from Ignatieff’s remarks. It also called on other leadership candidates to denounce publicly Ignatieff’s statement. We have written to all Liberal leadership contenders asking them to place truth above politics and to come forward to denounce Ignatieff’s remarks,said Frank Dimant, B’nai Brith Canada’s executive vice president.
The callous playing of the Middle East card in order to secure votes has only succeeded in stirring up tensions here at home.On Wednesday, Ignatieff’s Toronto campaign co-chair, MP Susan Kadis, publicly renounced her support for him over his views. Earlier in the campaign, Toronto MP Jim Karygiannis resigned as Joe Volpe’s manager for Volpe’s unwavering defence of Israel.
On Thursday, Volpe criticized Ignatieff’s views as not representative of Liberal policy. I strongly disagree with his opinion on Israel’s self-defence measures in a conflict that was started by a Hezbollah attack launched from Lebanese territory, said Volpe. Another candidate, Gerard Kennedy was forced to distance himself after one of his supporters accused Israel of engaging in state terrorism.
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)
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.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
No greater legacy for America than a Palestinian state: Rice Thu Oct 12, 11:31 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that there could be no greater legacy for America than to help create a Palestinian state. OCT 11, 2006 .
Addressing the inaugural gala of the American Task Force on Palestine, a Palestinian American charity group, Rice pledged her personal commitment to efforts to end the months-long stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.I know the commitment of the people in this room and of the American Task Force on Palestine that one day indeed there will be a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel,she said.I can only tell you that I, too, have a personal commitment to that goal because I believe that there could be no greater legacy for America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long, who have been humiliated too long, who have not reached their potential for too long, she said.
Rice made her sixth visit as secretary of state to Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier this month but failed to achieve a breakthrough in the peacemaking stalemate.The process has been frozen since the radical Islamic movement Hamas, which refuses to accept Israel's right to exist and is listed as a terrorist organisation by Europe and the US, won legislative elections in January and gained control of the Palestinian government.Israel, the European Union and the US responded by cutting off all aid to the Hamas-led goverment, causing an unprecedented financial crisis in the Palestinian territories.Washington has since sought to boost the position of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the moderate leader of the secular Fatah party who was elected to office before Hamas gained control of the territories' parliament.
Abbas has vowed to create a new Palestinian government that would honor international demands to recognise Israel's right to exist, renounce violence and abide by past peace agreements.But Hamas has rejected overtures from Abbas to create a power-sharing government under those conditions.Rice voiced her full support for Abbas' initiative in urging Hamas to put the interests of the Palestinian people ahead of their own rejectionist agenda.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
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.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Experts warn of an accidental atomic war
Nuclear missile modified for conventional attack on Iran could set off alarm in Russia Eric Rosenberg, Hearst Newspapers
Washington -- A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday. Russian military officers might misconstrue a submarine-launched conventional D5 intercontinental ballistic missile and conclude that Russia is under nuclear attack, said Ted Postol, a physicist and professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pavel Podvig, a physicist and weapons specialist at Stanford. Any launch of a long-range nonnuclear armed sea or land ballistic missile will cause an automated alert of the Russian early warning system,Postol told reporters.
The triggering of an alert wouldn't necessarily precipitate a retaliatory hail of Russian nuclear missiles, Postol said. Nevertheless, he said, there can be no doubt that such an alert will greatly increase the chances of a nuclear accident involving strategic nuclear forces. Podvig said launching conventional versions of a missile from a submarine that normally carries nuclear ICBMs expands the possibility for a misunderstanding so widely that it is hard to contemplate. Mixing conventional and nuclear D5s on a U.S. Trident submarine would be very dangerous, Podvig said, because the Russians have no way of discriminating between the two types of missiles once they are launched. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the project would increase the danger of accidental nuclear war.
The media and expert circles are already discussing plans to use intercontinental ballistic missiles to carry nonnuclear warheads, he said in May. The launch of such a missile could ... provoke a full-scale counterattack using strategic nuclear forces. Accidental nuclear war is not so far-fetched. In 1995, Russia initially interpreted the launch of a Norwegian scientific rocket as the onset of a U.S. nuclear attack. Then-President Boris Yeltsin activated his nuclear briefcase in the first stages of preparation to launch a retaliatory strike before the mistake was discovered. The United States and Russia have acknowledged the possibility that Russia's equipment might mistakenly conclude the United States was attacking with nuclear missiles. In 1998, the two countries agreed to set up a joint radar center in Moscow operated by U.S. and Russian forces to supplement Russia's aging equipment and reduce the threat of accidental war. But the center has yet to open.
A major technical problem exacerbates the risk of using the D5 as a conventional weapon: the decaying state of Russia's nuclear forces. Russia's nuclear missiles are tethered to early warning radars that have been in decline since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. And Russia, unlike the United States, lacks sufficient satellites to supplement the radars and confirm whether missile launches are truly under way or are false alarms. The scenario that worries Postol, Podvig and other weapons experts is what might happen if the United States and North Korea come to blows and a conventional D5 is launched against a target there from a submerged Trident submarine. Depending on the sub's location, the flying time to Russia could be under 15 minutes so the Russians would have little time to confirm the trajectory using decaying equipment before deciding to launch a nuclear strike on the United States.
The D5 missile project involves the removal of nuclear warheads from as many as two dozen D5 ICBMs that are carried aboard the U.S. fleet of 12 Ohio-class Trident submarines. The Pentagon has the project on an accelerated schedule, with the goal of fielding the weapons alongside their nuclear variants in two years. Each Trident submarine carries 24 D5 missiles, and the plan calls for using two of those as conventional weapons in each sub. The rocket fired by a submerged submarine would barrel up through the ocean powered by its three-stage engine and rapidly ascend through the atmosphere at speeds up to 20,000 feet per second into outer space. The warhead compartment of the missile would then plummet back to earth, guided to its target within about 50 feet by sophisticated sensors. Defense officials believe it would gain enough speed and force to penetrate underground command bunkers.
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).
Mercosur
Thursday, 12 October
EU Parliament calls for free trade agreement with Mercosur
An overwhelming majority in the European Parliament approved Thursday a report calling on the EU to reach as soon as possible a free trade agreement with Mercosur, currently blocked by the World Trade Organization Doha round talks. In full session the report from Euro MP Daniel Varela was supported by 489 votes with 75 against and seven abstentions, highlighting that the trade agreement with Mercosur is a priority strategic objective for the EU. The vote comes when both blocks were preparing to resume talks which were originally scheduled for next week but has now been delayed until November. According to the report from the Conservative MP from Spain, the no agreement with Mercosur is costing the EU 3.7 billion Euros annually in non traded goods, and an estimated five billion US dollars if the gradual liberalization of goods and services markets was effective.
Having access to a market of 230 million people following on the steps of other free trade agreements such as those successfully signed by the EU with Mexico or Chile, is crucial for the European corporations and reciprocally for those of the other countries, explains Varela’s report. When and if the EU and Mercosur finally reach a free trade agreement it would become the world’s largest market with 700 million people. But talks which begun in 1999 and should have concluded in 2004, remain stalled. Both sides re-launched discussions in September 2005, but any bilateral agreement seems to be conditioned to the results of the also stalled WTO Doha round talks. However both the EU and Mercosur are looking for options and a window of opportunity, parallel to the current Doha round, seems feasible and a meeting next week in Rio do Janeiro is currently under consideration, revealed the EU spokesperson Peter Powers.
EVIL INVENTIONS ARE PREDICTED IN THE BIBLE.
ROMANS 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
DO YOUNG PEOPLE WANT MICROCHIP PAYMENT IMPLANTS? NOT REALLY.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The sky is falling! Or is it?
A breathless report in yesterday's UK Daily Mail proclaimed that young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin. While this headline is certainly explosive (it got the attention of the Drudge report), it is also utterly preposterous. If you read the article, you will quickly discover that young people do NOT want to pay with a chip in the skin. Indeed, 92% of them said they did not. Picking up a survey in which virtually all respondents say they would NOT do something and reporting it as a ringing endorsement is misleading journalism, plain and simple. The Daily Mail should be ashamed.
But assuming there was some real news here, how significant is it that 8% of teens said they'd get a payment chip? Just for kicks, I looked around the net at other studies of UK teens. Let's compare a few statistics. While 8% of teens say they would consider a payment chip implant, another survey shows that 20% of teens are experiencing psychological problems at any given time, and nearly a third of college students have contemplated suicide at some point in their lives. Contemplating suicide would seem far more dramatic than considering a chip implant, yet we don't read stories proclaiming that UK youth are lining up in droves to kill themselves.
What's more, a third of UK teens reported vandalizing property within the last year, a quarter reporterd shoplifting, forty percent had binged on alcohol, and half reported committing at least one criminal act. [Source] In other words, teens (as we know) are still trying to figure out the basic rules of social behavior and self-control, and are likely to harm themselves in the process.Given these other eye-opening statistics, the amazing part of the chipping study is that more teens didn't agree, even on paper (where there's no reality check in the form of a massive hypodermic needle), to get a chip implant. What all this boils down to is that, statistically speaking, teens prefer suicide over chip implants. The headline should instead read, I'd sooner kill myself than get chipped.
Katherine Albrecht
Consumer Privacy Correspondent
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 12, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
Over the years, I've shared with you stories of the many people who have been a part of the prophetic return to Israel through our On Wings of Eagles program. Many of these stories are deeply touching, some are very personal, and others are intensely dramatic.
But few are as unique as that of the lost tribe of Bnei Menashe.
The Bnei Menashe are descendants of the tribe of Menashe, one of the ten lost tribes exiled from the land of Israel some 2,700 years ago. They wandered through the Far East, finally settling in a remote area of northeast India along the border with Myanmar and Bangladesh. Miraculously, despite the extended passage of time and their isolation, they in recent years have returned to their Jewish roots - and with this has come a profound longing to return to their ancient homeland, Israel.
A few years ago, I visited the Bnei Menashe in India at the request of the Israeli government to help determine whether their claims to Jewish heritage were legitimate. I will never forget what I saw. Here were people observing the laws and rituals of biblical Judaism in a part of the world where they have been cut off from other Jews and where Jewish culture is entirely foreign.
I was deeply moved by this experience. Upon my return to Israel I told officials that I believed the Bnei Menashe were indeed Jews who shared the deep longing that all Jews feel for their biblical homeland. I also resolved then and there that The Fellowship would do whatever it could to help the Bnei Menashe realize their dream prophesized years ago in Scripture.
Until now, only about a thousand Bnei Menashe have had the opportunity to return to Israel. Nearly seven thousand remain in India, unable to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) because of poverty and local governmental restrictions. Today, however, I'm happy to say the path has finally been cleared for another part of this lost tribe to come home. Their return and resettlement will be funded in part by contributions to our On Wings of Eagles program, and I will gratefully accompany, on your behalf, a planeload of 218 émigrés to Israel next month.
In the coming weeks and months, you will be hearing much more of this extraordinary story that is still unfolding. I'll share with you my impressions of this historic effort, as well as some personal stories of the Bnei Menashe who are coming home On Wings of Eagles. In the meantime, please join me in prayers for the safe return to Israel of the members of this lost tribe who long to return to their biblical homeland.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
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.
Quake hits central Chilean region, no injuries Thu Oct 12, 3:34 PM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Thursday, but only minor damage and no injuries were reported, local authorities and the U.S. Geological Survey said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake took place in the Coquimbo region, 157 miles north of the capital Santiago, at a depth of 28 miles at 14:05 p.m. local time (1805 GMT).Chilean officials, who said they had recorded a 6.5-magnitude quake, said no serious damage or injuries had been reported in the area. The plaster on some houses had suffered cracks and some light damage had been caused to road surfaces.It's a moderate quake, that didn't end up causing any damage,Carmen Fernandez, director of the South American country's National Emergencies Office, told local radio.It lasted quite a long time and in some areas it caused a certain amount of alarm,she added.The tremor could be felt in the capital of Santiago where some tall buildings shook.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Volcano erupts on Papua New Guinea island Thu Oct 12, 6:15 PM ET
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A volcanic eruption on the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain on Saturday caused panicked residents to flee homes and sent ash plumes 18 kilometres into the air. Mount Tavurvur on the outskirts of the former provincial capital Rabaul erupted around 8.45 a.m. (2245 GMT Friday) with a blast which shattered windows up to 12 kilometres (8 miles) from the caldera.
It was quite scary, but it's quiter now and has quietened considerably through the day,Rabaul Volcanological Observatory chief surveyor Steve Saunders told Reuters.
In 1994, a large eruption on Mt Tavurvur and the nearby Vulcan peak destroyed much of Rabaul, covering the airport and much of the town with ash, and forcing the construction of a new capital, Kokopo, 20 kilometres away.PNG's Mining Department said in a volcano bulletin that ash was falling on Kokopo, causing power and phone cuts.
Saunders said magma had been welling up inside the 688 meter (2,200 foot) peak since 2005 and contained large amounts of gas, which accounted for the explosive force of the eruption.Today looks like the activity it has been building up to, so it should fall off now, he said.Saunders said vulcanologists expected the peak to quieten quickly, but the volcano was still surrounded by gas and dust, making it hard to assess damage amid rumors lava had flowed from a previously unknown vent. There were no reports of death or injuries.Rabaul Chamber of Commerce President and hotelier Bruce Alexander told Australian Associated Press that around 2,000 people or 90 percent of the local population had fled the town as Mt Tavurvur erupted.All flights into Tokua airport across the harbor from Rabaul had been canceled due to ash falls.Papua New Guinea lies on the Pacific Ocean ring of fire, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.
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.
Over 40 fires burning in Victoria
By Melissa Iaria .October 12, 2006
MORE than 40 fires are still blazing across Victoria, with fire crews struggling to get 16 of them under control.Severe fires are burning in Gippsland in the state's east, the only part of the state to escape a fire ban today.The biggest is in remote bush 12km north-west of Erica that has scorched 400ha and is still raging out of control.Department of Sustainability (DSE) state duty officer Mark Woodman said conditions were easing but crews were not expecting to have it contained tonight.They're building control lines so they're actively working around it, he said.At Yallourn North, about 250 firefighters are attempting to control a fire that has already scorched about 120 hectares and come within 100m of properties.
A CFA spokesman said the fire was still causing concern and it was hoped that easing winds tonight would reduce its ferocity.
Another blaze that has crews concerned is at an open cut mine in Morwell, where 44 fire crews are struggling in the heat to control it.It's obviously quite difficult to fight because there's an enormous amount of smoke and visibility is poor, the spokesman said.Three smaller fires are continuing out of control in Gippsland.In the Mallee, DSE crews are tackling a 300 hectare blaze that has spread for several kilometres.It started from a fire we had about three weeks ago because it's so dry,state duty officer Mark Woodman said.It's slowed down now and we're hoping to build control lines around the northern edge overnight.Closer to Melbourne, the CFA has controlled a blaze at King Lake West, containing it to about 10 hectares.About 150 firefighters were at the fire but the deployment is expected to scale down as the night continues.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Yeah Our Prime Minister sticks up for precious Israel again, hes right Lukewarm Liberals, Democrats are against GOD and Israel.
PM accuses Liberals on Israel
Ignatieff, Rae hit back at Harper but Dion wants Ignatieff
to clarify his position Oct. 12, 2006. 08:27 PM.CANADIAN PRESS
Most of the candidates vying for the leadership of the Liberal party are anti-Israel, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday, as controversy swirled over comments by front-runner Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff’s statement that Israel had perpetrated a war crime with its attack on Lebanon typified that sentiment, Harper said. This is consistent with the anti-Israeli position that has been taken by virtually all of the candidates for the Liberal leadership,he said. I don’t think it’s helpful or useful. Ignatieff, who calls himself a lifelong friend of Israel, hit back at Harper. It is disgraceful that the prime minister is playing crass politics with the issue of the Middle East, Ignatieff said in a statement.Frankly, it is beneath him and his office to do so.
In late July, Israeli war jets killed as many as 28 civilians in a strike aimed at Hezbollah guerrillas, who had been raining rockets on Israel from Lebanon. On Sunday, Ignatieff who had previously said the deaths wouldn’t cost him any sleep, sparked controversy during an appearance on a French-language television program when he revisited the event. What happened in Qana was a war crime, Ignatieff told Radio-Canada. I should have said that. That’s clear.
Speaking at a law-and-order announcement in Toronto, Harper called the war-crime accusation a serious charge and made it clear he didn’t share the view. None of the seven leadership candidates rushed to Ignatieff’s defence but they saved their strongest criticism for Harper, accusing him of polarizing the country.Bob Rae, a strong contender, called Harper’s shameful comments a classically thoughtless, deeply divisive thing to say. It’s the politics of the big smear,said Rae. I don’t know why he would say such a thing. Gerard Kennedy said the Liberal party is in an awkward place, trying to respond to momentous events in the Middle East without a permanent leader, which has led to some incautious remarks.
But he said it’s too cute by half and somewhat irresponsible for Harper to play petty partisan games with such a divisive issue.
Ken Dryden echoed those remarks, saying Harper’s comment is completely wrong. All that is, is creating divides and Mr. Harper has shown himself to be a great divider,he said in an interview. That’s his instinct, that’s his approach. Lone Atlantic contender Scott Brison said Harper is intentionally and maliciously misrepresenting the Liberal party’s position on Israel. He noted in an interview that it was a Liberal government that listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and that the party has always defended Israel’s right to exist and defend itself. Stephane Dion said Harper’s comments were not very prime ministerial.
I think it’s an insult, not only for me and the other candidates but for the millions of Canadians who believe like us that to be a good friend of Israel this summer was to request a ceasefire right away, Dion said in an interview. Dion said Ignatieff should produce evidence that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in Qana or withdraw his accusation that the attack constitutes a war crime.
In a statement Thursday, B’nai Brith Canada called for the Liberal party to disassociate itself from Ignatieff’s remarks. It also called on other leadership candidates to denounce publicly Ignatieff’s statement. We have written to all Liberal leadership contenders asking them to place truth above politics and to come forward to denounce Ignatieff’s remarks,said Frank Dimant, B’nai Brith Canada’s executive vice president.
The callous playing of the Middle East card in order to secure votes has only succeeded in stirring up tensions here at home.On Wednesday, Ignatieff’s Toronto campaign co-chair, MP Susan Kadis, publicly renounced her support for him over his views. Earlier in the campaign, Toronto MP Jim Karygiannis resigned as Joe Volpe’s manager for Volpe’s unwavering defence of Israel.
On Thursday, Volpe criticized Ignatieff’s views as not representative of Liberal policy. I strongly disagree with his opinion on Israel’s self-defence measures in a conflict that was started by a Hezbollah attack launched from Lebanese territory, said Volpe. Another candidate, Gerard Kennedy was forced to distance himself after one of his supporters accused Israel of engaging in state terrorism.
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)
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.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
No greater legacy for America than a Palestinian state: Rice Thu Oct 12, 11:31 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that there could be no greater legacy for America than to help create a Palestinian state. OCT 11, 2006 .
Addressing the inaugural gala of the American Task Force on Palestine, a Palestinian American charity group, Rice pledged her personal commitment to efforts to end the months-long stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.I know the commitment of the people in this room and of the American Task Force on Palestine that one day indeed there will be a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel,she said.I can only tell you that I, too, have a personal commitment to that goal because I believe that there could be no greater legacy for America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long, who have been humiliated too long, who have not reached their potential for too long, she said.
Rice made her sixth visit as secretary of state to Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier this month but failed to achieve a breakthrough in the peacemaking stalemate.The process has been frozen since the radical Islamic movement Hamas, which refuses to accept Israel's right to exist and is listed as a terrorist organisation by Europe and the US, won legislative elections in January and gained control of the Palestinian government.Israel, the European Union and the US responded by cutting off all aid to the Hamas-led goverment, causing an unprecedented financial crisis in the Palestinian territories.Washington has since sought to boost the position of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the moderate leader of the secular Fatah party who was elected to office before Hamas gained control of the territories' parliament.
Abbas has vowed to create a new Palestinian government that would honor international demands to recognise Israel's right to exist, renounce violence and abide by past peace agreements.But Hamas has rejected overtures from Abbas to create a power-sharing government under those conditions.Rice voiced her full support for Abbas' initiative in urging Hamas to put the interests of the Palestinian people ahead of their own rejectionist agenda.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
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.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Experts warn of an accidental atomic war
Nuclear missile modified for conventional attack on Iran could set off alarm in Russia Eric Rosenberg, Hearst Newspapers
Washington -- A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday. Russian military officers might misconstrue a submarine-launched conventional D5 intercontinental ballistic missile and conclude that Russia is under nuclear attack, said Ted Postol, a physicist and professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pavel Podvig, a physicist and weapons specialist at Stanford. Any launch of a long-range nonnuclear armed sea or land ballistic missile will cause an automated alert of the Russian early warning system,Postol told reporters.
The triggering of an alert wouldn't necessarily precipitate a retaliatory hail of Russian nuclear missiles, Postol said. Nevertheless, he said, there can be no doubt that such an alert will greatly increase the chances of a nuclear accident involving strategic nuclear forces. Podvig said launching conventional versions of a missile from a submarine that normally carries nuclear ICBMs expands the possibility for a misunderstanding so widely that it is hard to contemplate. Mixing conventional and nuclear D5s on a U.S. Trident submarine would be very dangerous, Podvig said, because the Russians have no way of discriminating between the two types of missiles once they are launched. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the project would increase the danger of accidental nuclear war.
The media and expert circles are already discussing plans to use intercontinental ballistic missiles to carry nonnuclear warheads, he said in May. The launch of such a missile could ... provoke a full-scale counterattack using strategic nuclear forces. Accidental nuclear war is not so far-fetched. In 1995, Russia initially interpreted the launch of a Norwegian scientific rocket as the onset of a U.S. nuclear attack. Then-President Boris Yeltsin activated his nuclear briefcase in the first stages of preparation to launch a retaliatory strike before the mistake was discovered. The United States and Russia have acknowledged the possibility that Russia's equipment might mistakenly conclude the United States was attacking with nuclear missiles. In 1998, the two countries agreed to set up a joint radar center in Moscow operated by U.S. and Russian forces to supplement Russia's aging equipment and reduce the threat of accidental war. But the center has yet to open.
A major technical problem exacerbates the risk of using the D5 as a conventional weapon: the decaying state of Russia's nuclear forces. Russia's nuclear missiles are tethered to early warning radars that have been in decline since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. And Russia, unlike the United States, lacks sufficient satellites to supplement the radars and confirm whether missile launches are truly under way or are false alarms. The scenario that worries Postol, Podvig and other weapons experts is what might happen if the United States and North Korea come to blows and a conventional D5 is launched against a target there from a submerged Trident submarine. Depending on the sub's location, the flying time to Russia could be under 15 minutes so the Russians would have little time to confirm the trajectory using decaying equipment before deciding to launch a nuclear strike on the United States.
The D5 missile project involves the removal of nuclear warheads from as many as two dozen D5 ICBMs that are carried aboard the U.S. fleet of 12 Ohio-class Trident submarines. The Pentagon has the project on an accelerated schedule, with the goal of fielding the weapons alongside their nuclear variants in two years. Each Trident submarine carries 24 D5 missiles, and the plan calls for using two of those as conventional weapons in each sub. The rocket fired by a submerged submarine would barrel up through the ocean powered by its three-stage engine and rapidly ascend through the atmosphere at speeds up to 20,000 feet per second into outer space. The warhead compartment of the missile would then plummet back to earth, guided to its target within about 50 feet by sophisticated sensors. Defense officials believe it would gain enough speed and force to penetrate underground command bunkers.
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).
Mercosur
Thursday, 12 October
EU Parliament calls for free trade agreement with Mercosur
An overwhelming majority in the European Parliament approved Thursday a report calling on the EU to reach as soon as possible a free trade agreement with Mercosur, currently blocked by the World Trade Organization Doha round talks. In full session the report from Euro MP Daniel Varela was supported by 489 votes with 75 against and seven abstentions, highlighting that the trade agreement with Mercosur is a priority strategic objective for the EU. The vote comes when both blocks were preparing to resume talks which were originally scheduled for next week but has now been delayed until November. According to the report from the Conservative MP from Spain, the no agreement with Mercosur is costing the EU 3.7 billion Euros annually in non traded goods, and an estimated five billion US dollars if the gradual liberalization of goods and services markets was effective.
Having access to a market of 230 million people following on the steps of other free trade agreements such as those successfully signed by the EU with Mexico or Chile, is crucial for the European corporations and reciprocally for those of the other countries, explains Varela’s report. When and if the EU and Mercosur finally reach a free trade agreement it would become the world’s largest market with 700 million people. But talks which begun in 1999 and should have concluded in 2004, remain stalled. Both sides re-launched discussions in September 2005, but any bilateral agreement seems to be conditioned to the results of the also stalled WTO Doha round talks. However both the EU and Mercosur are looking for options and a window of opportunity, parallel to the current Doha round, seems feasible and a meeting next week in Rio do Janeiro is currently under consideration, revealed the EU spokesperson Peter Powers.
EVIL INVENTIONS ARE PREDICTED IN THE BIBLE.
ROMANS 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
DO YOUNG PEOPLE WANT MICROCHIP PAYMENT IMPLANTS? NOT REALLY.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The sky is falling! Or is it?
A breathless report in yesterday's UK Daily Mail proclaimed that young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin. While this headline is certainly explosive (it got the attention of the Drudge report), it is also utterly preposterous. If you read the article, you will quickly discover that young people do NOT want to pay with a chip in the skin. Indeed, 92% of them said they did not. Picking up a survey in which virtually all respondents say they would NOT do something and reporting it as a ringing endorsement is misleading journalism, plain and simple. The Daily Mail should be ashamed.
But assuming there was some real news here, how significant is it that 8% of teens said they'd get a payment chip? Just for kicks, I looked around the net at other studies of UK teens. Let's compare a few statistics. While 8% of teens say they would consider a payment chip implant, another survey shows that 20% of teens are experiencing psychological problems at any given time, and nearly a third of college students have contemplated suicide at some point in their lives. Contemplating suicide would seem far more dramatic than considering a chip implant, yet we don't read stories proclaiming that UK youth are lining up in droves to kill themselves.
What's more, a third of UK teens reported vandalizing property within the last year, a quarter reporterd shoplifting, forty percent had binged on alcohol, and half reported committing at least one criminal act. [Source] In other words, teens (as we know) are still trying to figure out the basic rules of social behavior and self-control, and are likely to harm themselves in the process.Given these other eye-opening statistics, the amazing part of the chipping study is that more teens didn't agree, even on paper (where there's no reality check in the form of a massive hypodermic needle), to get a chip implant. What all this boils down to is that, statistically speaking, teens prefer suicide over chip implants. The headline should instead read, I'd sooner kill myself than get chipped.
Katherine Albrecht
Consumer Privacy Correspondent
Thursday, October 12, 2006
NORTH KOREAS NUCLEAR TIMELINE
1-QUAKE HITS JAPAN. 2-Tropical depression may form in Caribbean Thursday. 3-Pagasa expects 11 more typhoons to hit RP. 4-Thai floods to cause havoc until end of October. 5-A timeline on nuclear weapons development in North Korea. 6-Top EU diplomat says UN should act on North Korea. 7-Germany Seeks to Revive EU Constitution by 2009, Merkel Says. 8-EU aid to PA expands to $816 million. 9-U.N. Security Council agrees on need for sanctions against Iran.
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.
12 October 2006
QUAKE HITS JAPAN
Dailyrecord.co.uk
AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook Japan, 150 miles from Tokyo yesterday morning. Officials said it was unconnected to North Korea's nuclear test.
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.
Tropical depression may form in Caribbean Thursday Thu Oct 12, 7:32 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A low-pressure system in the northeastern Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical depression over the next day or so, the National Hurricane Center said in an outlook issued Thursday.The system, moving northwestward at about 10 to 15 miles per hour, could cause some flooding and mudslides over mountainous terrain. It was located about 50 miles south of Nevis and St. Kitts.The weather models split on what the system will do over the next several days.A couple of the models projected the storm would turn west across the Caribbean, remaining south of the Greater Antilles, and heading toward Nicaragua and Honduras.
Other models showed the storm continuing northwest toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.The Greater Antilles include Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico.If the system ultimately strengthens into a tropical storm, packing maximum wind speeds of 39 to 73 mph, the NHC would name it Joyce.
Pagasa expects 11 more typhoons to hit RP
by A. Lumaque
Roxas City (5 October) At least nine of the fourteen typhoons which hit the country as of October 1 this year were registered for the period July to September based on the records of the local Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa).The Philippines is a country prone to natural calamities and it is for this reason that the government is set to institutionalize a nationwide disaster preparedness network to deal with various calamities that visit the country every year.The month of July during the quarter has the most number of typhoons which include Esther, Florita, Glenda, and Henry. Other tropical storms listed in the registry of PAGASA for the period are Inday, Juan, Katring, Luis, and Milenyo.Completing the 14 typhoons in the record are Neneng, Agaton, Basyang, Caloy, and Doming.
PAGASA Weather Forecaster Harry Dolfo said that typhoons Caloy and Doming affected the province of Capiz when it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on May 9 and June 24, respectively.Dolfo said that 11 more typhoons expected to enter the PAR are Ompong, Paeng, Queenie, Reming, Seniang, Tomas, Usman, Venus, Waldo, Yayang, and Zeny.A list of auxiliary names is already in place if more than 25 typhoons will cross the country for 2006, added Dolfo.Meanwhile, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has directed the NDCC to work closely with the LGUs in expanding appropriate disaster response drills and creating rescue teams in all the landslide and flashflood-prone barangays in the country, and with the Department of Education bringing more schools into the loop of preparedness.
The President is encouraged by the success of the national earthquake drills and wants the same level of community readiness in the case of landslides and flashfloods spawned by typhoons and heavy rains.Government programs and actions preventing the degradation of the environment and the removal of potential public hazards during disasters like billboards will back up this disaster preparedness network. (PIA)
Thai floods to cause havoc until end of October Wed Oct 11, 10:16 AM ET
BANGKOK (AFP) Severe flooding has already killed 39 people in Thailand and will continue to wreak havoc until the end of October as heavy rains were expected.The current low pressure will continue to influence the weather and that will cause heavy rains to continue until the end of this month,Smith Dharmasaroj, the chairman of the National Disaster Warning Center, told AFP.
Flooding caused by heavy rain in the wake of Typhoon Xangsane has killed 39 people since late August and affected up to two million people in 46 provinces, mostly in central and northern Thailand.Some 17 provinces, including Bangkok, were still flooded Wednesday. But floodwater had subsided in 29 other provinces.The capital saw some of its worst flooding this year late Tuesday, with major roads turned into rivers and other, dry streets gridlocked as people tried to avoid rising waters.
The Royal Irrigation Department said that the country's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej had allowed flood waters to be diverted onto his private land in Ayutthaya province in a bid to spare Bangkok.Ayutthaya has also been badly hit, but following the king's initiative, villagers there agreed to allow the authorities to divert water onto their farmland to reduce the flood danger posed to Bangkok.The move has remarkably reduced a large volume of overflow to the capital,said the Royal Irrigation Department's director general, Samart Chokanapitak.One Ayutthaya resident said he did not mind the province shouldering overflow water if it helped Bangkok. But he said that farmers must be paid compensation if they suffered as a result.
The whole province has been devastated by the floods,said 43-year-old Apichet Sathapornamornvuth.The devastation to farmland had pushed up vegetable prices, mainly in flood-hit areas, according to the Ministry of Commerce.Prices of some vegetables and fruit have risen after the flood destroyed farmland but the increase was not significant and there is no shortage so far,said Siriphol Yodmuangcharoen, the director general of the Internal Trade Department.In neighboring Myanmar, at least 10 people were killed and three are missing as the worst floods in recent memory swept through the area around the central city of Mandalay.
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).
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)
Series of developments beginning in 1993
Updated: 1:04 a.m. ET Oct 9, 2006
A timeline on nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
1993: North Korea shocks world by saying it will quit the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, later suspends its withdrawal.
1994: North Korea, United States sign agreement in Geneva, the North pledges to freeze, eventually dismantle, nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.
Sept. 17, 1999: President Clinton agrees to first major easing of economic sanctions against North Korea since the Korean War’s end in 1953.
July 2000: North Korea threatens to restart nuclear program if Washington does not compensate for loss of electricity due to delays in building nuclear power plants.
July 2001: U.S. State Department reports North Korea is developing a long-range missile.
December 2001: President Bush warns Iraq and North Korea will be held accountable if they develop weapons of mass destruction.
Jan. 29, 2002: Bush labels North Korea, Iran and Iraq an axis of evil.
Oct. 4, 2002: North Korea tells visiting U.S. delegation it has a second covert nuclear weapons program, Washington says.
Nov. 11, 2002: U.S. and key Asian allies Japan, South Korea halt oil supplies to the North promised in 1994 deal.
Jan. 10, 2003: North Korea says it will withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
April 24, 2003: North Korea says it has nuclear weapons and may test, export or use them depending on U.S. actions, Washington says.
Aug. 27-29, 2003: North Korea joins first round of six-nation nuclear talks in Beijing, which include China, the U.S. Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Feb. 25-28, 2004: Second round of six-nation talks.
June 23-26, 2004: Third round of six-nation talks.
Feb. 10, 2005: North Korea announces it has nuclear weapons.
July 26, 2005: Fourth round of six-nation talks begins, ends in recess after 13 days with no agreement.
Sept. 13, 2005: Talks resume.
Sept. 15, 2005: U.S. blacklists a Macau-based bank for alleged involvement in North Korea’s illicit activity such as money laundering and counterfeiting, leads the bank to freeze North Korean assets.
Sept. 19, 2005: North Korea pledges to dismantle nuclear programs in exchange for pledges of energy assistance; U.S. pledges not to invade and to respect North’s sovereignty in an agreement ending talks.
Nov. 9-11, 2005: Fifth round of six-nation talks.
Jan. 3, 2006: North Korea says it won’t return to talks unless the U.S. lifts financial restrictions imposed for its alleged currency counterfeiting and other illegal activities.
July 5: North Korea launches seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a long-range Taepodong-2, drawing international condemnation and later a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning it.
Sept. 26: North Korea rejects further talks on its nuclear program, claims Washington wants to rule the world.
Oct. 3: North Korea says it will conduct a nuclear test in the face of what it claimed was “the U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war.”
Oct. 9: North Korea says it has conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
Top EU diplomat says UN should act on North Korea
11.10.2006 - 17:57 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS /EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana has urged UN action following North Korea's controversial nuclear tests earlier this week, saying it could unleash a global arms race.It is an act which we condemn and protest against most vigorously, Mr Solana told the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday (11 October), following Monday's nuclear test in North Korea near the border with China.He said that the nuclear test is a threat to the region and constitutes a hostile act to security and stability to the whole world, adding it could lead to further consequences in accelerating the arms race around the world.The EU currently has five members France, the UK, Denmark, Greece and Slovakia in the UN security council which is seeking an agreement on what action should be taken against Pyongyang.
Mr Solana said reactions from the Asian region and from the UN veto powers had been responsible, adding that even China has made constructive comments on a resolution on North Korea and supports it.The security council has to act, Mr Solana stressed, explaining that the international community would get confused if there were no consequences in terms of sanctions like there might be against Iran for its refusal to give up its nuclear enrichment.
MEPs seek room for talks
It is no coincidence that the North Koreans test their weapons just after the South Korean foreign minister is elected secretary general of the United Nations,said German socialist MEP Martin Schulz.We have to try to read between the lines of this dictator's actions. We have to see where there is scope for talks,he stressed.We must be firm in our principles, Hungarian liberal MEP Istvan Szent-Ivany said however.
With such irresponsible acts, they put at risk international support and cooperation without which the political and social structure of their country will inevitably collapse.But the international human rights group, Human Rights Watch,
has urged the international community not to suspend emergency food aid to North Korea as part of sanctions against the country.
It must distinguish between the North Korean government and ordinary citizens, said Sophie Richardson from the group. Further restraints on food aid will only make ordinary North Koreans suffer more.She explained that up to one third of North Korea's population has been dependent on foreign food aid since the mid-1990s.EU foreign affairs commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner echoeing the remarks said the test bombing must be met with a smart response, to hit the government but not the people.I would like to maintain the humanitarian assistance,she said, explaining that the European Union has donated €345 million in aid since 1995.
Fresh threats from Pyongyang
Meanwhile, the world's new ninth nuclear state has threatened more nuclear tests and said that additional sanctions imposed on it would be considered an act of war.
In Pyongyang, the second in command, Kim Yong-nam, said whether or not North Korea
conducted more tests depended on Washington.The issue of future nuclear tests is linked to US policy toward our country,Kyodo news agency quoted Mr Yong-nam as saying, according to press reports.If the United States continues to take a hostile attitude and apply pressure on us in various forms, we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that,he added.A draft resolution put forward by the US on Tuesday (10 October) proposed a range of sanctions against North Korea, including a halt to trading in material that could be used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, an end to financial transactions which could be used to support nuclear proliferation, cargo inspections and a ban on the import of luxury goods.
Germany Seeks to Revive EU Constitution by 2009, Merkel Says
By Rainer Buergin
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) The German government will seek to revive the European Union's constitution and have it in place before the next European parliamentary elections in 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Germany assumes the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on Jan. 1, and naturally the constitutional treaty will be on the agenda, Merkel said today after a meeting of the German Cabinet attended by European Commission President Jose Barroso. We need a constitutional treaty and we need it before the next European election due in mid-2009. That's why we set ourselves a timeframe, Merkel said. The German presidency should have the goal of facilitating agreement on a roadmap, a timeframe, a way to proceed, and I want us to be very ambitious in engaging this goal. German efforts to revive the constitution may ease concerns about further European political integration raised after the rejection of the EU constitution last year in referendums held by France and the Netherlands, two of the bloc's founding members. The votes weakened the euro and left the EU with a decision- making system that Barroso says will make further expansion impossible after Bulgaria and Romania join in 2007, bringing the bloc to 27 countries. Failure to revive the project may weaken bonds within a region that's set to stretch to the Black Sea and Syria's border.
Reflection
A period of reflection on the stalled project will end with Germany's presidency. The process of drawing up a new rulebook will last at least until 2009, EU leaders have said. Of course, the constitution won't be signed by all states at the end of our six-month presidency, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview with today's Bild Zeitung. But I'm optimistic that we'll have a clear schedule on which we can continue our efforts for the EU constitution. There are great expectations regarding Germany's presidency,Barroso told the press conference today. I think it is not fair to put all the weight, all the burden of responsibility on the shoulders of Germany. Merkel's EU chairmanship will coincide with the election of a successor to French President Jacques Chirac, allowing a new French government to decide whether to try again for ratification or work with the rest of the EU to shape a new treaty.To contact the reporter on this story: Rainer Buergin at rbuergin1@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: October 11, 2006 08:02 EDT
EU aid to PA expands to $816 million
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 11, 2006
The European Union said Wednesday it was giving $816 million in aid to benefit 160,000 Palestinian families this year, expanding the funding program that bypasses the Hamas-led government. European experts agreed to boost the international aid program overseen by the World Bank to cover 60,000 more families in the Palestinian territories from the 100,000 families now receiving help under the program, EU spokeswoman Emma Udwin said. The fund offers a $339 monthly allowance to poorer Palestinian families, pensioners and civic workers, whose paychecks disappeared when international donors halted direct aid payments after the militant Hamas group won Palestinian elections.
We are talking about quite a large amount of money, Udwin said. "Despite direct aid to the Palestinian Authority having been suspended .... the EU's contribution remains high, higher than in an average year. The experts also backed a decision by top international donors to extend the funding program until the end of the year, she said. The European Commission has given $414 million this year to the program, above its average yearly aid of $314 million for the Palestinians. The rest of the program funds were coming from some of the 25 EU member countries, the United States and others. The Commission said last month it had started to pay social allowances to 40,000 Palestinian families, coming on top of spending for 11,500 health workers who are no longer paid and pensioners. Regular welfare payments and aid to the Palestinian Authority stopped in February, as international donors demanded the Hamas-led government renounce violence and recognize Israel. The special funding program was set up in June to direct funds to three key areas support for health services, utilities and social allowances while bypassing the Hamas-led government's coffers.
The Quartet group of Mideast peacemakers the United States, the EU, Russia and the United Nations agreed last month to expand the scope of the program. The program has delivered more than 2 million liters (500,000 gallons) of fuel to supply power for hospitals and water in the Gaza Strip.
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)
JOEL 2:20,30
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.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
U.N. Security Council agrees on need for sanctions against Iran
RELATED STORIESVIENNA, Austria (AP) The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Tuesday to start working on U.N. sanctions against Iran next week but failed to bridge differences on how harsh the penalties should be, diplomats and officials said.They told The Associated Press that while the U.S. called for broad sanctions to punish Iran's defiance in pursuing its nuclear program, Russian and Chinese representatives at a top-level Vienna meeting favored less severe measures.The diplomats and government officials demanded anonymity in exchange for discussing the confidential meeting of the five Security Council countries and Germany the six powers whose repeated attempts to entice Iran to enter negotiations finally broke down last week over Tehran's refusal to give up uranium enrichment.
Reflecting the importance of the meeting, Russia, Britain, France and Germany sent top negotiators directly answerable to their foreign ministers, while the U.S. and China were represented by their chief representatives to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns participated via video hookup.One of the diplomats, who had been briefed on the substance of the meeting, said that while Burns had urged broad sanctions such as a total ban on missile and nuclear technology sales the Russians and Chinese backed prohibitions of selected items as a first step.As well, he said, the Chinese and Russian envoys called for renewed negotiations with the Iranians in parallel to working on sanctions to punish Tehran for defying a Security Council demand that it freeze enrichment, a possible pathway to nuclear arms.
Burns acknowledged the request but did not say whether the Americans favored a renewed attempt to engage Iran in negotiations following repeated failures to coax it into agreeing to stop its enrichment activities, he said.The differences reflected continued divisions over how harshly to penalize the Islamic republic for ignoring a Security Council deadline to stop all enrichment activities by the end of August. Russia and China, which have strategic and economic interests in Iran, have recently swung behind the Americans and Europeans in agreeing to the need for sanctions but have publicly opposed attempts to make them too severe.
All agree for the need for sanctions but there are problems with how harsh they should be,said one of the diplomats, whose country is accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA.He said the meeting did not discuss North Korea and its claim to have tested a nuclear bomb, but all participants agreed juggling two nuclear crises complicated international nonproliferation efforts.
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.
12 October 2006
QUAKE HITS JAPAN
Dailyrecord.co.uk
AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook Japan, 150 miles from Tokyo yesterday morning. Officials said it was unconnected to North Korea's nuclear test.
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.
Tropical depression may form in Caribbean Thursday Thu Oct 12, 7:32 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A low-pressure system in the northeastern Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical depression over the next day or so, the National Hurricane Center said in an outlook issued Thursday.The system, moving northwestward at about 10 to 15 miles per hour, could cause some flooding and mudslides over mountainous terrain. It was located about 50 miles south of Nevis and St. Kitts.The weather models split on what the system will do over the next several days.A couple of the models projected the storm would turn west across the Caribbean, remaining south of the Greater Antilles, and heading toward Nicaragua and Honduras.
Other models showed the storm continuing northwest toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.The Greater Antilles include Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico.If the system ultimately strengthens into a tropical storm, packing maximum wind speeds of 39 to 73 mph, the NHC would name it Joyce.
Pagasa expects 11 more typhoons to hit RP
by A. Lumaque
Roxas City (5 October) At least nine of the fourteen typhoons which hit the country as of October 1 this year were registered for the period July to September based on the records of the local Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa).The Philippines is a country prone to natural calamities and it is for this reason that the government is set to institutionalize a nationwide disaster preparedness network to deal with various calamities that visit the country every year.The month of July during the quarter has the most number of typhoons which include Esther, Florita, Glenda, and Henry. Other tropical storms listed in the registry of PAGASA for the period are Inday, Juan, Katring, Luis, and Milenyo.Completing the 14 typhoons in the record are Neneng, Agaton, Basyang, Caloy, and Doming.
PAGASA Weather Forecaster Harry Dolfo said that typhoons Caloy and Doming affected the province of Capiz when it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on May 9 and June 24, respectively.Dolfo said that 11 more typhoons expected to enter the PAR are Ompong, Paeng, Queenie, Reming, Seniang, Tomas, Usman, Venus, Waldo, Yayang, and Zeny.A list of auxiliary names is already in place if more than 25 typhoons will cross the country for 2006, added Dolfo.Meanwhile, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has directed the NDCC to work closely with the LGUs in expanding appropriate disaster response drills and creating rescue teams in all the landslide and flashflood-prone barangays in the country, and with the Department of Education bringing more schools into the loop of preparedness.
The President is encouraged by the success of the national earthquake drills and wants the same level of community readiness in the case of landslides and flashfloods spawned by typhoons and heavy rains.Government programs and actions preventing the degradation of the environment and the removal of potential public hazards during disasters like billboards will back up this disaster preparedness network. (PIA)
Thai floods to cause havoc until end of October Wed Oct 11, 10:16 AM ET
BANGKOK (AFP) Severe flooding has already killed 39 people in Thailand and will continue to wreak havoc until the end of October as heavy rains were expected.The current low pressure will continue to influence the weather and that will cause heavy rains to continue until the end of this month,Smith Dharmasaroj, the chairman of the National Disaster Warning Center, told AFP.
Flooding caused by heavy rain in the wake of Typhoon Xangsane has killed 39 people since late August and affected up to two million people in 46 provinces, mostly in central and northern Thailand.Some 17 provinces, including Bangkok, were still flooded Wednesday. But floodwater had subsided in 29 other provinces.The capital saw some of its worst flooding this year late Tuesday, with major roads turned into rivers and other, dry streets gridlocked as people tried to avoid rising waters.
The Royal Irrigation Department said that the country's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej had allowed flood waters to be diverted onto his private land in Ayutthaya province in a bid to spare Bangkok.Ayutthaya has also been badly hit, but following the king's initiative, villagers there agreed to allow the authorities to divert water onto their farmland to reduce the flood danger posed to Bangkok.The move has remarkably reduced a large volume of overflow to the capital,said the Royal Irrigation Department's director general, Samart Chokanapitak.One Ayutthaya resident said he did not mind the province shouldering overflow water if it helped Bangkok. But he said that farmers must be paid compensation if they suffered as a result.
The whole province has been devastated by the floods,said 43-year-old Apichet Sathapornamornvuth.The devastation to farmland had pushed up vegetable prices, mainly in flood-hit areas, according to the Ministry of Commerce.Prices of some vegetables and fruit have risen after the flood destroyed farmland but the increase was not significant and there is no shortage so far,said Siriphol Yodmuangcharoen, the director general of the Internal Trade Department.In neighboring Myanmar, at least 10 people were killed and three are missing as the worst floods in recent memory swept through the area around the central city of Mandalay.
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).
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)
Series of developments beginning in 1993
Updated: 1:04 a.m. ET Oct 9, 2006
A timeline on nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
1993: North Korea shocks world by saying it will quit the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, later suspends its withdrawal.
1994: North Korea, United States sign agreement in Geneva, the North pledges to freeze, eventually dismantle, nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.
Sept. 17, 1999: President Clinton agrees to first major easing of economic sanctions against North Korea since the Korean War’s end in 1953.
July 2000: North Korea threatens to restart nuclear program if Washington does not compensate for loss of electricity due to delays in building nuclear power plants.
July 2001: U.S. State Department reports North Korea is developing a long-range missile.
December 2001: President Bush warns Iraq and North Korea will be held accountable if they develop weapons of mass destruction.
Jan. 29, 2002: Bush labels North Korea, Iran and Iraq an axis of evil.
Oct. 4, 2002: North Korea tells visiting U.S. delegation it has a second covert nuclear weapons program, Washington says.
Nov. 11, 2002: U.S. and key Asian allies Japan, South Korea halt oil supplies to the North promised in 1994 deal.
Jan. 10, 2003: North Korea says it will withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
April 24, 2003: North Korea says it has nuclear weapons and may test, export or use them depending on U.S. actions, Washington says.
Aug. 27-29, 2003: North Korea joins first round of six-nation nuclear talks in Beijing, which include China, the U.S. Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Feb. 25-28, 2004: Second round of six-nation talks.
June 23-26, 2004: Third round of six-nation talks.
Feb. 10, 2005: North Korea announces it has nuclear weapons.
July 26, 2005: Fourth round of six-nation talks begins, ends in recess after 13 days with no agreement.
Sept. 13, 2005: Talks resume.
Sept. 15, 2005: U.S. blacklists a Macau-based bank for alleged involvement in North Korea’s illicit activity such as money laundering and counterfeiting, leads the bank to freeze North Korean assets.
Sept. 19, 2005: North Korea pledges to dismantle nuclear programs in exchange for pledges of energy assistance; U.S. pledges not to invade and to respect North’s sovereignty in an agreement ending talks.
Nov. 9-11, 2005: Fifth round of six-nation talks.
Jan. 3, 2006: North Korea says it won’t return to talks unless the U.S. lifts financial restrictions imposed for its alleged currency counterfeiting and other illegal activities.
July 5: North Korea launches seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a long-range Taepodong-2, drawing international condemnation and later a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning it.
Sept. 26: North Korea rejects further talks on its nuclear program, claims Washington wants to rule the world.
Oct. 3: North Korea says it will conduct a nuclear test in the face of what it claimed was “the U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war.”
Oct. 9: North Korea says it has conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
Top EU diplomat says UN should act on North Korea
11.10.2006 - 17:57 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS /EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana has urged UN action following North Korea's controversial nuclear tests earlier this week, saying it could unleash a global arms race.It is an act which we condemn and protest against most vigorously, Mr Solana told the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday (11 October), following Monday's nuclear test in North Korea near the border with China.He said that the nuclear test is a threat to the region and constitutes a hostile act to security and stability to the whole world, adding it could lead to further consequences in accelerating the arms race around the world.The EU currently has five members France, the UK, Denmark, Greece and Slovakia in the UN security council which is seeking an agreement on what action should be taken against Pyongyang.
Mr Solana said reactions from the Asian region and from the UN veto powers had been responsible, adding that even China has made constructive comments on a resolution on North Korea and supports it.The security council has to act, Mr Solana stressed, explaining that the international community would get confused if there were no consequences in terms of sanctions like there might be against Iran for its refusal to give up its nuclear enrichment.
MEPs seek room for talks
It is no coincidence that the North Koreans test their weapons just after the South Korean foreign minister is elected secretary general of the United Nations,said German socialist MEP Martin Schulz.We have to try to read between the lines of this dictator's actions. We have to see where there is scope for talks,he stressed.We must be firm in our principles, Hungarian liberal MEP Istvan Szent-Ivany said however.
With such irresponsible acts, they put at risk international support and cooperation without which the political and social structure of their country will inevitably collapse.But the international human rights group, Human Rights Watch,
has urged the international community not to suspend emergency food aid to North Korea as part of sanctions against the country.
It must distinguish between the North Korean government and ordinary citizens, said Sophie Richardson from the group. Further restraints on food aid will only make ordinary North Koreans suffer more.She explained that up to one third of North Korea's population has been dependent on foreign food aid since the mid-1990s.EU foreign affairs commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner echoeing the remarks said the test bombing must be met with a smart response, to hit the government but not the people.I would like to maintain the humanitarian assistance,she said, explaining that the European Union has donated €345 million in aid since 1995.
Fresh threats from Pyongyang
Meanwhile, the world's new ninth nuclear state has threatened more nuclear tests and said that additional sanctions imposed on it would be considered an act of war.
In Pyongyang, the second in command, Kim Yong-nam, said whether or not North Korea
conducted more tests depended on Washington.The issue of future nuclear tests is linked to US policy toward our country,Kyodo news agency quoted Mr Yong-nam as saying, according to press reports.If the United States continues to take a hostile attitude and apply pressure on us in various forms, we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that,he added.A draft resolution put forward by the US on Tuesday (10 October) proposed a range of sanctions against North Korea, including a halt to trading in material that could be used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, an end to financial transactions which could be used to support nuclear proliferation, cargo inspections and a ban on the import of luxury goods.
Germany Seeks to Revive EU Constitution by 2009, Merkel Says
By Rainer Buergin
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) The German government will seek to revive the European Union's constitution and have it in place before the next European parliamentary elections in 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Germany assumes the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on Jan. 1, and naturally the constitutional treaty will be on the agenda, Merkel said today after a meeting of the German Cabinet attended by European Commission President Jose Barroso. We need a constitutional treaty and we need it before the next European election due in mid-2009. That's why we set ourselves a timeframe, Merkel said. The German presidency should have the goal of facilitating agreement on a roadmap, a timeframe, a way to proceed, and I want us to be very ambitious in engaging this goal. German efforts to revive the constitution may ease concerns about further European political integration raised after the rejection of the EU constitution last year in referendums held by France and the Netherlands, two of the bloc's founding members. The votes weakened the euro and left the EU with a decision- making system that Barroso says will make further expansion impossible after Bulgaria and Romania join in 2007, bringing the bloc to 27 countries. Failure to revive the project may weaken bonds within a region that's set to stretch to the Black Sea and Syria's border.
Reflection
A period of reflection on the stalled project will end with Germany's presidency. The process of drawing up a new rulebook will last at least until 2009, EU leaders have said. Of course, the constitution won't be signed by all states at the end of our six-month presidency, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview with today's Bild Zeitung. But I'm optimistic that we'll have a clear schedule on which we can continue our efforts for the EU constitution. There are great expectations regarding Germany's presidency,Barroso told the press conference today. I think it is not fair to put all the weight, all the burden of responsibility on the shoulders of Germany. Merkel's EU chairmanship will coincide with the election of a successor to French President Jacques Chirac, allowing a new French government to decide whether to try again for ratification or work with the rest of the EU to shape a new treaty.To contact the reporter on this story: Rainer Buergin at rbuergin1@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: October 11, 2006 08:02 EDT
EU aid to PA expands to $816 million
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 11, 2006
The European Union said Wednesday it was giving $816 million in aid to benefit 160,000 Palestinian families this year, expanding the funding program that bypasses the Hamas-led government. European experts agreed to boost the international aid program overseen by the World Bank to cover 60,000 more families in the Palestinian territories from the 100,000 families now receiving help under the program, EU spokeswoman Emma Udwin said. The fund offers a $339 monthly allowance to poorer Palestinian families, pensioners and civic workers, whose paychecks disappeared when international donors halted direct aid payments after the militant Hamas group won Palestinian elections.
We are talking about quite a large amount of money, Udwin said. "Despite direct aid to the Palestinian Authority having been suspended .... the EU's contribution remains high, higher than in an average year. The experts also backed a decision by top international donors to extend the funding program until the end of the year, she said. The European Commission has given $414 million this year to the program, above its average yearly aid of $314 million for the Palestinians. The rest of the program funds were coming from some of the 25 EU member countries, the United States and others. The Commission said last month it had started to pay social allowances to 40,000 Palestinian families, coming on top of spending for 11,500 health workers who are no longer paid and pensioners. Regular welfare payments and aid to the Palestinian Authority stopped in February, as international donors demanded the Hamas-led government renounce violence and recognize Israel. The special funding program was set up in June to direct funds to three key areas support for health services, utilities and social allowances while bypassing the Hamas-led government's coffers.
The Quartet group of Mideast peacemakers the United States, the EU, Russia and the United Nations agreed last month to expand the scope of the program. The program has delivered more than 2 million liters (500,000 gallons) of fuel to supply power for hospitals and water in the Gaza Strip.
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)
JOEL 2:20,30
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.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
U.N. Security Council agrees on need for sanctions against Iran
RELATED STORIESVIENNA, Austria (AP) The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Tuesday to start working on U.N. sanctions against Iran next week but failed to bridge differences on how harsh the penalties should be, diplomats and officials said.They told The Associated Press that while the U.S. called for broad sanctions to punish Iran's defiance in pursuing its nuclear program, Russian and Chinese representatives at a top-level Vienna meeting favored less severe measures.The diplomats and government officials demanded anonymity in exchange for discussing the confidential meeting of the five Security Council countries and Germany the six powers whose repeated attempts to entice Iran to enter negotiations finally broke down last week over Tehran's refusal to give up uranium enrichment.
Reflecting the importance of the meeting, Russia, Britain, France and Germany sent top negotiators directly answerable to their foreign ministers, while the U.S. and China were represented by their chief representatives to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns participated via video hookup.One of the diplomats, who had been briefed on the substance of the meeting, said that while Burns had urged broad sanctions such as a total ban on missile and nuclear technology sales the Russians and Chinese backed prohibitions of selected items as a first step.As well, he said, the Chinese and Russian envoys called for renewed negotiations with the Iranians in parallel to working on sanctions to punish Tehran for defying a Security Council demand that it freeze enrichment, a possible pathway to nuclear arms.
Burns acknowledged the request but did not say whether the Americans favored a renewed attempt to engage Iran in negotiations following repeated failures to coax it into agreeing to stop its enrichment activities, he said.The differences reflected continued divisions over how harshly to penalize the Islamic republic for ignoring a Security Council deadline to stop all enrichment activities by the end of August. Russia and China, which have strategic and economic interests in Iran, have recently swung behind the Americans and Europeans in agreeing to the need for sanctions but have publicly opposed attempts to make them too severe.
All agree for the need for sanctions but there are problems with how harsh they should be,said one of the diplomats, whose country is accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA.He said the meeting did not discuss North Korea and its claim to have tested a nuclear bomb, but all participants agreed juggling two nuclear crises complicated international nonproliferation efforts.
IS HELL REAL YOU DECIDE
IS HELL REAL OR NOT? YOU DECIDE?????????
HADES was the place where the souls and the spirits of all humans went until the cross. Sheol (OLD TESTAMENT) and Hades (NEW TESTAMENT) are one and the same.
In Sheol or Hades there were two compartments, one for the wicked (Hell) and the other for the righteous (Paradise)...one for suffering (Hell) and the other for comfort (Paradise)
LUKE 16:22-23
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom:(Paradise,Comfort) the rich man also died, and was buried;(Hell,Suffering)
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Well these verses don't say reincarnation or purgatory, 2 false teachings, These verses tell me as soon as you die, you instantly go to Heaven or Hell, no Pergatory or coming back to life as something else. Jesus even said to be absent from the Body is to be with the Lord (instant, no waiting anywhere).
2 Corinthians 5:8
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Our body is created by God in three parts,Like God the Father, Son,and Holy Spirit. One God but three separate offices. Our Body is Flesh (body), Soul (Emotions, Characteristics) and Spirit (what never dies,lives on forever). When we die our bodies go to the Grave,but our Soul and Spirit goes instantly to God (Heaven) or if not saved without God (Hell).
Only at the Rapture, do we get our new Bodies like Jesus', When our Body (which is in the grave, for the dead of course),Soul and Spirit will be reunited to each other again. And the the people living (never died),our Body,Soul and Spirit,are changed instantly to be like Jesus' at the Rapture. The Body,Soul and Spirit of the lost are not united for 1,007 years till the reign of Christ for 1,000 years on Earth, plus the 7 year tribulation as the Rapture occurs 7 years before Christ rules for the 1,000 years on Earth, then at the end of the thousand yr reign, The great White throne judgement of the Lost occurs, when all the Lost since the creation of Adam, are brought before Jesus. This is when the losts Body,Soul and Spirit are United for the final judgement and thrown into the Lake of Fire forever with a never dieing body,Torment forever and ever.(various degrees). Also this is when Satan,Death and Hell are also thrown into the Lake of fire also.
2 Corinthians 5:10
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.(THE INVESTIGATION AT THE RAPTURE FOR CHRISTIANS,AND FOR LOST THE FINAL GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT)
1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 (FOR CHRISTIANS)
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
REVELATION 20:5-6,11-15 (FOR THE LOST)
5 But the rest of the dead (LOST) lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead,(LOST) small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death (GRAVE,BODY) and hell (WERE THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING IN TORMENT,THEIR SOULS AND SPIRITS) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
NOW TO THE CONDITIONS IN HELL!!!!? FROM LUKE 16:22-31 A BREAK DOWN
Luke 16:19-31 KJV
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
First we see that Angels accompany Christians in death to Heaven. The lost go directly to Hell, no comforter. Then the lost have eyes because he opens them and seen Abraham afar off, He even recognized Abraham who died maybe 100s of years before him.
He recognized Lazarus, so we have a Soul and Spirit that is recogizable. We have a face thats recogizable because he seen Abraham with Lazarus. So we can still think and choose what to say and do. He felt pain because he new he was in torment.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
You can't cry unless you have eyes that can cry. He talked, so our Soul and Spirit can talk. He has a memory, he knew what a dipped finger in water can do. He has a face because he recognized Lazurus and Abraham. He has a Mouth to speak and a tongue thats burning. He feels pain from the burning fire.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
He has ears, he hears Abraham talking. The two speak to each other.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
He remembers his family members and Father.
So either in Heaven or Hell after death we have a recognizable face, with a mouth, tongue, ears, we can feel pain, we have our memories and emotions. So our Soul and Spirit is exactly as we are here on Earth. The only thing different is the Spirit and Soul never dies, it goes on forever. Our flesh dies, but the Soul and Spirit goes on forever and ever.
Then at the Rapture for the Christians and the Great white throne Judgement for the lost, the Bodies are reunited with the soul and Spirit to either live forever with Christ for the saved or live in the Lake of fire forever for the lost as the Gehenna scriptures below tell us. the worm (body) never dies.
HADES,SHEOL SCRIPTURES (HELL, THE LOCAL PRISON,THE WAITING CELL AFTER DEATH OF THE SOUL,SPIRIT)
MATTHEW 11:23
23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
MATTHEW 16:18
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
LUKE 10:15
15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
LUKE 16:22-23
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
ACTS 2:27,31
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
REVELATION 1:18
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
REVELATION 6:8
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: 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, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
GEHENNA SCRIPTURES (THE HELL FIRE,THE FINAL SENTENCE,THE PENITENTIARY,THE FINAL JUDGEMENT FOREVER OF BODY,SOUL AND SPIRIT)
MATTHEW 5:22,29-30
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.(THE BODY,SOUL AND SPIRIT)
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
MATTHEW 10:28
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.(BODY,SOUL AND SPIRIT)
MATTHEW 18:9
9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.(IF YOU GOT EYES,YOU HAVE A FACE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE ALSO)
MATTHEW 23:15,33
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
MARK 9:43-47
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not,(A BODY THAT NEVER DIES) and the fire is not quenched.(FOREVER IN FIRE)
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
REVELATION 20:13-14 (GEHENNA BECOMES OPERATIVE)
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death (GRAVE,BODY) and hell (WERE THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING IN TORMENT,THEIR SOULS AND SPIRITS) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
HADES was the place where the souls and the spirits of all humans went until the cross. Sheol (OLD TESTAMENT) and Hades (NEW TESTAMENT) are one and the same.
In Sheol or Hades there were two compartments, one for the wicked (Hell) and the other for the righteous (Paradise)...one for suffering (Hell) and the other for comfort (Paradise)
LUKE 16:22-23
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom:(Paradise,Comfort) the rich man also died, and was buried;(Hell,Suffering)
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Well these verses don't say reincarnation or purgatory, 2 false teachings, These verses tell me as soon as you die, you instantly go to Heaven or Hell, no Pergatory or coming back to life as something else. Jesus even said to be absent from the Body is to be with the Lord (instant, no waiting anywhere).
2 Corinthians 5:8
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Our body is created by God in three parts,Like God the Father, Son,and Holy Spirit. One God but three separate offices. Our Body is Flesh (body), Soul (Emotions, Characteristics) and Spirit (what never dies,lives on forever). When we die our bodies go to the Grave,but our Soul and Spirit goes instantly to God (Heaven) or if not saved without God (Hell).
Only at the Rapture, do we get our new Bodies like Jesus', When our Body (which is in the grave, for the dead of course),Soul and Spirit will be reunited to each other again. And the the people living (never died),our Body,Soul and Spirit,are changed instantly to be like Jesus' at the Rapture. The Body,Soul and Spirit of the lost are not united for 1,007 years till the reign of Christ for 1,000 years on Earth, plus the 7 year tribulation as the Rapture occurs 7 years before Christ rules for the 1,000 years on Earth, then at the end of the thousand yr reign, The great White throne judgement of the Lost occurs, when all the Lost since the creation of Adam, are brought before Jesus. This is when the losts Body,Soul and Spirit are United for the final judgement and thrown into the Lake of Fire forever with a never dieing body,Torment forever and ever.(various degrees). Also this is when Satan,Death and Hell are also thrown into the Lake of fire also.
2 Corinthians 5:10
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.(THE INVESTIGATION AT THE RAPTURE FOR CHRISTIANS,AND FOR LOST THE FINAL GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT)
1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 (FOR CHRISTIANS)
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
REVELATION 20:5-6,11-15 (FOR THE LOST)
5 But the rest of the dead (LOST) lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead,(LOST) small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death (GRAVE,BODY) and hell (WERE THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING IN TORMENT,THEIR SOULS AND SPIRITS) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
NOW TO THE CONDITIONS IN HELL!!!!? FROM LUKE 16:22-31 A BREAK DOWN
Luke 16:19-31 KJV
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
First we see that Angels accompany Christians in death to Heaven. The lost go directly to Hell, no comforter. Then the lost have eyes because he opens them and seen Abraham afar off, He even recognized Abraham who died maybe 100s of years before him.
He recognized Lazarus, so we have a Soul and Spirit that is recogizable. We have a face thats recogizable because he seen Abraham with Lazarus. So we can still think and choose what to say and do. He felt pain because he new he was in torment.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
You can't cry unless you have eyes that can cry. He talked, so our Soul and Spirit can talk. He has a memory, he knew what a dipped finger in water can do. He has a face because he recognized Lazurus and Abraham. He has a Mouth to speak and a tongue thats burning. He feels pain from the burning fire.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
He has ears, he hears Abraham talking. The two speak to each other.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
He remembers his family members and Father.
So either in Heaven or Hell after death we have a recognizable face, with a mouth, tongue, ears, we can feel pain, we have our memories and emotions. So our Soul and Spirit is exactly as we are here on Earth. The only thing different is the Spirit and Soul never dies, it goes on forever. Our flesh dies, but the Soul and Spirit goes on forever and ever.
Then at the Rapture for the Christians and the Great white throne Judgement for the lost, the Bodies are reunited with the soul and Spirit to either live forever with Christ for the saved or live in the Lake of fire forever for the lost as the Gehenna scriptures below tell us. the worm (body) never dies.
HADES,SHEOL SCRIPTURES (HELL, THE LOCAL PRISON,THE WAITING CELL AFTER DEATH OF THE SOUL,SPIRIT)
MATTHEW 11:23
23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
MATTHEW 16:18
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
LUKE 10:15
15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
LUKE 16:22-23
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
ACTS 2:27,31
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
REVELATION 1:18
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
REVELATION 6:8
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: 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, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
GEHENNA SCRIPTURES (THE HELL FIRE,THE FINAL SENTENCE,THE PENITENTIARY,THE FINAL JUDGEMENT FOREVER OF BODY,SOUL AND SPIRIT)
MATTHEW 5:22,29-30
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.(THE BODY,SOUL AND SPIRIT)
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
MATTHEW 10:28
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.(BODY,SOUL AND SPIRIT)
MATTHEW 18:9
9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.(IF YOU GOT EYES,YOU HAVE A FACE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE ALSO)
MATTHEW 23:15,33
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
MARK 9:43-47
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not,(A BODY THAT NEVER DIES) and the fire is not quenched.(FOREVER IN FIRE)
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
REVELATION 20:13-14 (GEHENNA BECOMES OPERATIVE)
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death (GRAVE,BODY) and hell (WERE THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING IN TORMENT,THEIR SOULS AND SPIRITS) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
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