APOCALYPSE BUSH ON DOWN

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Five quakes hit off Solomon Islands. 3-Two quakes rock northern Japan. 4-Eastern snow and new western storm. 5-B’ezrat HaShem, With the help of G–d. 6-Jews hope unity springs from Israel trip. 7-Abbas presses U.S. to soften stance on unity deal. 8-Rice finds huge gaps between Israel, Palestinians. 9-Over 90 percent of Mali women circumcised says report. 10-Solar flares might knock out cell phones. 11-Talk of Apocalypse reaches from US President down.

2 Corrections I have to make on my site now. The first correction was on my story about Zechariah 13 were 2/3rds of people get killed in Israel. Well this can not be 2/3RDS of all Israelis that die in Armageddon like I said, This has to be 2/3RDS of the nations that come against Israel at the time of Armageddon. Because the Bible says the Israelis will be protected for 3 1/2 years so there is no way two-Thirds of all Israelis will be destroyed in WW3. Some will die, yes but not no 2/3RDS for sure, so I oppologize to Israelis and all who read that on my site.

And the 2ND correction is on February 12th when I put a story about Polluted waters in India on my site. I thought it was about polluted water but it was about the Hindu or buddist religion. I never read the story till today and realized it was not a Christian story for my Site, So to whoever thought I was promoting Indian Cultism I was not. Its only by the Blood of Jesus were saved by grace not by going in and Worshipping water like in that story. So I oppologize to whoever who thought I was promoting a false Religion, Sorry, and i will now be reading all the stories before I put them on my site so I am not decieved by the headline.

In both these cases I took the stories off the site that pertain to them.

If I put stories on that people have bad thoughts about E-mail me and let me know about it at: stan120032000@yahoo.ca

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.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Sun Feb 18 12:01 AM EDT

FEB 18,07
MAP 2.5 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA

FEB 17,07
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.2 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.5 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 5.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 4.6 OFF THE COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 5.6 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 3.9 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.9 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 4.9 SOUTH OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.8 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.1 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 6.0 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION

FEB 16,07
MAP 4.6 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.0 NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.2 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.1 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

Five quakes hit off Solomon Islands Sat Feb 17, 9:42 AM ET

HONIARA (AFP)Five moderate earthquakes have struck off the Solomon Islands, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The first quake, measuring 5.6, hit at 06:43 pm (0743 GMT) Saturday off thenorthwest tip of the main island in the Solomon Sea, the US Geological Survey said.

It struck 116 kilometres (72 miles) southwest of the town of Chirovanga at a depth of 50 kilometres.The second struck four minutes later in the same area with a magnitude of 5.3 at a depth of 60 kilometres, according to the USGS.A third 5.0-magnitude tremblor hit nine minutes later also in the same location at a depth of 59 kilometres.

Less than two hours later in the same area, another struck, 49 kilometres deep and measuring 5.1 while the fifth hit at 11:43 pm measuring 5.5.A tsunami warning has not been issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.The Pacific nation, 2,575 kilometres east of Australia, has just fewer than 500,000 people living on dozens of islands.It is part of the Pacific ring of fire, and frequently experiences volcanic and seismic activity.

Two quakes rock northern Japan Fri Feb 16, 11:27 PM ET

TOKYO (AFP) - Two earthquakes, measuring 6.6 and 4.9 on the Richter scale, have rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido within a space of 19 minutes, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The Japan Meteorological Agency ruled out fears of tsunami tidal waves resulting from the quakes which occurred at 9:03 and 9:22 am (0003 and 0022 GMT).There may be some minimal change in the sea level but there is no fear of damage, the agency said in a statement following the first quake which was bigger in magnitude.The epicenters of the two quakes were located close to each other, at a point some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off Cape Erimo on the island's southern tip.The focuses of the tremors were both 50 kilometers below the surface of the sea, the agency said.

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.

Eastern snow and new western storm M. Ressler, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Sat Feb 17, 12:38 PM ET

As the clipper storm heads eastward, snow continues to fall from parts of the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys into the central and southern Appalachians. Snow advisories remain in effect as 1 to 3 inches of snow make for messy travel. In the mountains of West Virginia and North Carolina, snow accumulations could reach 6 inches in spots so heavy snow warnings and winter storm warnings have been issued through Sunday. East of the Appalachians, any snow will be of the flurry variety. The clipper is also causing gusty northwest winds in the southern half of the Plains and the Mississippi River Valley. Some gusts are in the 20-to-40-mph range. These gusty winds will shift toward the Eastern Seaboard Sunday. The winds will cause blowing and drifting snow, especially in the Appalachians. The lake-effect snows continue across eastern Upper Michigan and across Upstate New York east of Lake Ontario. Areas east of Marquette, Michigan, could pick up an additional foot of snow by late Sunday. East of Lake Ontario, Watertown, New York, received 6 inches of snow in a matter of hours Saturday morning. Winds across Lake Ontario will shift from southwest to northwest over the next 12 to 18 hours causing the snow band to shift from Watertown southward to Oswego and even Syracuse. As the band moves south through the Tug Hill later today and overnight, some additional accumulations may approach 12 inches. The lake effect should shut off by Monday as high pressure moves over the area and then milder air begins to move into the Great Lakes. In the West, an offshore flow has brought locally strong winds to the mountains around Los Angeles and San Diego. Some of the passes and canyons have experienced gusts between 40 and 65 mph. These winds are quite warm. Los Angeles may come close to its record high of 89 degrees this afternoon. A new storm will move into the Pacific Northwest tonight and Sunday. Rainfall amounts will be on the moderate side ranging from between .25 and .5 inches in the valleys of western Washington and western Oregon to between .75 and 1.5 inches in the coastal range and lower windward flanks of the Cascades. Snow levels will range from 3500 feet in the northern Cascades to 4500 feet in the Siskiyou falling to between 2000 and 3500 feet Sunday. The higher elevations of the Washington Cascades could pick up an additional foot of snow by late Sunday.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one
week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

B’ezrat HaShem, With the help of G–d FEB 17,07

Dear Friends,

We are so glad to send you our 2006/2007 Winter Edition magazine. You will find here a lot of information about the activities of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement and the progress of her work for the rebuilding of the Temple of G-d on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem and to renew the worship on the Holy Temple Mount where G-d chose to dwell among His people Israel and all mankind, His creation. We feel and know the time is short and despite the very critical situation in Israel and all the world the day that the House of G-d will again stand on Mount Moriah is behind the door. So much depends on what we shall do to make this great day a reality in our lifetime. G-d is ready and we can hear His calling to His people Israel on the mountains and valleys of Jerusalem not to wait more but to move, to build His house and to become a biblical nation with a biblical mission: To be a holy nation, a kingdom of priests and a light to the nations (Exodus 19: 5-6).

The Temple Mount Faithful Movement answered this call of G-d from the first moment that we heard it 40 years ago when the G-d of Israel led His Israeli soldiers to liberate His Holy Temple Mount and to immediately rebuild His Temple. For forty years the Temple Mount Faithful Movement has acted, struggled and fought in Jerusalem, and all over Israel and the world to educate everyone about the urgent need to answer this call of G-d in the life of our generation as He is expecting from us to do so. We swore not to rest day and night until the Holy Hill of G-d is purified from foreign Arab Islamic pagan presence and the godly end-time vision of Isaiah is fulfilled in our lifetime. This is the right time for this prophesy to be fulfilled:

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall decide for many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. (Isaiah 2: 1-5)

Dear friends, we are living in a great time in the history of Israel and all mankind. All the prophets of Israel prophesied with a deep desire about this time and our generation was chosen by G-d to be the generation of the fulfillment and redemption. We should not fear from the critical events in Israel and all over the world. We should just trust G-d and His promises. Those who do so will have the
privilege to be a part of this godly vision. The prophets of Israel taught us that those critical events and the others still to come will be a sign for the complete redemption soon to come in the near future. Together we shall continue our great godly campaign and soon we shall experience this great day. We are looking forward to hearing from you and your response to this magazine which was prepared for you with great efforts and expenses. We shall so much appreciate your help which will allow us to continue our holy work. Thank you so much for standing with the Faithful Movement for such a long time and with a great devotion. We could not even imagine how we could do this work without your devoted standing. Those who would also like to receive this magazine in its regular (printed) format are asked to e-mail or write and give us your mailing address and we shall be more than glad to send it to you.

May the G-d of Israel bless you and shine His love upon you.

Your friend and brother in Jerusalem,
Gershon Salomon
Chairman, Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement

Jews hope unity springs from Israel trip
Saturday, February 17, 2007 By JOHN CHADWICK - STAFF WRITER Northjersey.com

More than 300 North Jersey Jews are heading to Israel today on a special one-week trip that organizers say will help foster unity among the diverse Jewish community.Members of all three major branches of Judaism Reform, Conservative and Orthodox are participating, as well as unaffiliated Jews. About one-third of the travelers have never visited Israel.The challenge we've always faced is, What do Jews in Kinnelon have in common with people who belong to a synagogue in Fort Lee? said Miriam Allenson, spokeswoman for the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Northern New Jersey, which organized and is subsidizing the trip. Yet, we are all one community, and we see this as a community builder.The trip, the first major one for the organization since the conflict in Lebanon last summer, is also a show of solidarity with Israel.

Participants will see the usual tourist sites museums, archeological sites and the Western Wall but also will meet with military and government officials.

And they can choose from several optional itineraries, including a trip to the border Israel shares with the Gaza Strip and Egypt and a crash course in the issues that led to Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza and the dismantling of Jewish settlements.Participants paid $2,250 for the trip. The federation kicked in several hundred thousand dollars to cover expenses.Sandy Herrick, a Ho-Ho-Kus man who is co-chairman for the trip, said the federation sees the expense as an investment in the community's future.One of the best ways to get people involved is to foster a love of Israel, Herrick said. If people at the end of the week are moved by Israel, moved by federation, and they want to get involved in some way, I personally would be very happy.The journey will also serve as a final chapter in the life of the Elmwood Park Jewish Center. The Conservative synagogue, which is planning to close its doors and merge with a Fair Lawn congregation, is donating one of its Torah scrolls to an Israeli naval base. With the chief rabbi for the Israeli Defense Forces on hand, the Torah will be carried into the base and formally turned over to the military.We wanted to do something that would perpetuate our name, said Muriel Weinreb, the synagogue president, who will be making her first visit to Israel.

We've been around for 50 years.E-mail: chadwick@northjersey.com

Abbas presses U.S. to soften stance on unity deal
Saturday February 17, 08:35 PM By Wafa Amr

RAMALLAH, President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Washington on Saturday to soften objections to his Palestinian unity government with Hamas, telling a top envoy he had cut the best deal he could, aides said. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will arrive later on Saturday to try to lay the groundwork for a three-way summit on Monday with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In preparatory meetings in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas told the American envoy, Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, to give the unity government a chance, Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said. We told him that this agreement was the best we could get. We cannot change it. You either take it or leave it, said another Palestinian official who took part in the meetings but declined to be identified. A threatened American and Israeli boycott of the power-sharing government between Abbas's Fatah and Hamas Islamists has overshadowed Monday's summit, set to take place in Jerusalem. Initially billed as a chance to discuss establishing a Palestinian state, Israeli officials said the talks would focus instead largely on disagreements over the unity deal.

After a surprise trip to Iraq, Rice will meet Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem on Saturday night. She will hold separate talks with Abbas and Olmert on Sunday. Rice said Washington would wait to see how the unity government takes shape before deciding on U.S. policy. Earlier this week, however, senior Palestinian officials and Western diplomats said Washington had warned Abbas it would shun the new government, including non-Hamas ministers, if it does not recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept interim peace deals as called for by the Quartet of Middle East mediators. Abu Rdainah said on Saturday: The American position has not been crystalised.

A QUIET CHANNEL

Senior Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said the goal of the three-way summit was to launch a quiet channel, as President Abbas has requested, to explore how to get to our objective of a Palestinian state.

We want to define the objective and to define the way to get there.Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said on Friday he hoped to form the unity government with Abbas's Fatah faction within three weeks, but its future looked bleak because of opposition from the United States and Israel. Rice acknowledged prospects for Monday's summit were more complicated due to the planned Hamas-Fatah coalition. The unity agreement, signed by Abbas after talks with Hamas leaders in Mecca, makes no explicit commitment to recognise Israel or renounce violence. A letter from Abbas reappointing Haniyeh as prime minister contains a vague call to Hamas to abide by Palestinian and Arab resolutions that include recognition of Israel, and to respect past agreements and international law. The United States has struggled to maintain a united front within the Quartet, which also includes the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. Even if some Arab and European countries resume aid, Western diplomats said the impact would be limited. Without U.S. support, regional and international banks will be reluctant to resume transfers to the Palestinian government, Palestinian bank executives said. Israeli government sources said the Jewish state will likewise refuse to hand over any additional Palestinian tax revenues to Abbas. (Reuters) Westbank.

Rice finds huge gaps between Israel, Palestinians by David Millikin
Sat Feb 17, 3:47 PM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Israel vowing to press ahead with a risky summit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders embroiled in a bitter feud over the presence of Islamist radicals in a soon-to-be-formed Palestinian government. Rice, arriving from an unannounced visit to Iraq, went straight into talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at a Jerusalem hotel
before planned separate meetings Sunday with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the moderate, US-backed Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas.The highlight of Rice's mission was to be her first three-way meeting with Abbas and Olmert on Monday. She has billed that as the kick-off of a long-awaited US initiative to revive negotiations on a peace deal and the creation of a Palestinian state.

But the Rice plan has been overshadowed by controversy over a power-sharing deal reached last week between Abbas' Fatah party and the radical Islamist group Hamas, which the US and Israel consider a terrorist group.

Speaking alongside Rice, Livni insisted Israel will not deal with the new government until its Hamas members recognise the Jewish state's right to exist, renounce violence and accept past peace agreements.Those principles are supported by Washington and its Western partners but have so far been consistently rejected by Hamas.These requirements are not obstacles for peace but they are the basic conditions and foundations for any kind of vision of a two-state solution, Livni said.I think that the moderates in the Palestinian side need to understand that a path towards a Palestinian state needs to go though renunciation of violence and terrorism and not by compromising with terror, Livni said.

Abbas, who Rice and President George W. Bush have long hailed as the key partner for peace in the Arab-Israeli standoff, insists the power-sharing understanding meets the international conditions.Earlier Saturday, Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said we will say to the Americans and to the Israelis that they must give a chance to this government.The world must work with this agreement, Abu Rudeina added, speaking after a meeting between Abbas and Rice's top Middle East aide, Assistant Secretary David Welch.While Israeli media reported that Bush backed the hardline Israeli stance in a telephone conversation with Olmert on Friday, Rice declined to publicly take sides.

She insisted that the three conditions remain the foundational principles for a two-state solution and in fact for the formation of a leadership that can lead to that two-state solution.But she added that Washington will await the formation of a (Palestinian) government before making any decisions about it, she said as Livni watched on.If one waited for the perfect time to come to the Middle East, you
would never get on an airplane, she said.

The West and Israel have refused critical financial aid to the Palestinian government since Hamas took control of the administration after unexpectedly trouncing Fatah in legislative elections a year ago.Abbas was elected separately and has significant executive powers under the Palestinian constitution.The aid embargo has exacerbated an economic crisis in the Palestinian areas and fueled tensions that erupted into deadly violence between Fatah and Hamas supporters in recent weeks. Abbas says the understandings reached with Hamas meet the West's principles by stating that the new government will respect Arab and international agreements and past accords signed with Israel by the Fatah-led PLO steps that imply recognition of Israel according to this view. Regardless of the outcome of her meetings here, Rice could come under pressure to ease the boycott from Washington's partners in the so-called Quartet of mediators who first laid down the principles the European Union, United Nations and Russia. Rice is due to meet her counterparts from the other three powers on Wednesday in Berlin.

Over 90 percent of Mali women circumcised says report
By IANS - Saturday February 17, 04:49 PM

Luanda (Mali), Feb 17 (Prensa Latina) Over 90 percent of women in Mali in the age group of 15-49 years are circumcised by witch doctors in utter unhygienic condition, a World Bank report has revealed.

Over 12 million women worldwide have been subjected to genital mutilation by quacks who have little surgical skill, equipment or awareness of the dangers of such practices making the women vulnerable to infections, haemorrhage, pre-natal and post-natal complications and psychological disorders, the report said. Many women ultimately die from complications, the report added.Awareness campaigners say the fight against the evil has a long way to go but the scenario does offer encouraging signs in that people have now started recognising the uselessness and danger of the practice, Aissata Diakite, director of one organisation in Mali engaged in the awareness drive, said.Various African governments have stepped up their campaign against female circumcision vigorously, he said.

Solar flares might knock out cell phones
Activity building to crescendo some scientists say could be cataclysmic
Posted: February 17, 2007

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Solar flares

Solar flare activity is expected to build for the next three years to a crescendo that some scientists say could be cataclysmic, causing a telecommunication blackout that would down mobile phones and navigational systems. The solar flares are expected to be at its maximum intensity by the year 2010, Markus Aschwanden, a solar physicist at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, told the Hindu News. These solar flares and Coronoal Mass Ejections from the sun have the ability to travel all the way to the earth and create a black-out of cellular phone services and navigational systems like the GPS. Solar flares and CMEs occur when magnetic energy built up in the Sun's atmosphere is suddenly released. The flares carrying high amount of energy, travel at high speeds and reach the Earth in a matter of hours.

If a solar flare or a CME collides with the Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm, Aschwanden said, adding large geomagnetic storms have caused electrical power outages and damaged communication satellites. A few years back, these solar flares destroyed the satellite Galaxy 4.That outage in 1998 resulted in widespread loss of pager service and numerous other communication problems.

Talk of Apocalypse reaches from US President down
Thomas Horn February 16, 2007
NEW BOOK SAYS TIME HAS RUN OUT! Apocalypse Soon: The Beginning of the End

Hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and the threat of a deadly flu pandemic: Are global events unfolding something bigger?

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; the sea and the waves roaring (Like 21:25).Several years of epic events have witnessed a growing number of the world's population wondering if something prophetic is transpiring.First came 9/11 and the beginning of the war on terror.

Then a tsunami in Asia killed approximately 250,000 people. Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and an earthquake In South Asia followed, which claimed tens of thousands more lives. 2006 witnessed leaders of countries referencing terms like Apocalypse and Armageddon to describe the uneasy times. 2007 has started out with record snowfalls in parts of the US, the national weather service is predicting even more blizzards, and experts warn that a deadly avian flu virus could pass over to the human population at any time in a full-blown pandemic, potentially bringing global markets to their knees.It's enough to make anybody wonder what in the world is going on.For many folk, these are the signs of the End Times.

Over at RaptureReady.com, a popular website that serves as a kind of Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, the Rapture Index is hovering at 160, a rating meant to indicate when loyal Christians will disappear from earth just before the beginning of the Great Tribulation. The website keeps tally of a wide variety of world events based on reflection to Bible prophecy, and anything above a score of 145 means Fasten your seatbelt for departure. The website's owner, Terry James, has a new book called The Rapture Dialogues that is endorsed by Dr. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series of books. Rapture Dialogues envisions an imminent great deception in which aliens deceive the world following the Rapture of the Church. A sequel to the book is planned for later this year.Another book due out this month purports to explain current global events as the fulfillment of ancient prophecy. Published by Anomalos Publishing, Apocalypse Soon: The Beginning of the End documents recent history in light of the books of Revelation, Ezekiel, and Daniel, and concludes that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have started their destructive ride. The book is already the subject of two made for television documentaries.

So close is the correlation between recent events and end times prophecy, that even President George W. Bush was asked last year following a speech on the War on Terror whether he believed the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism were signs of the Apocalypse. Bush said he hadn't thought of it that way, but author Bob Woodward noted in his book Bush at War, that just three days after 9/11, the president during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance at the National Cathedral in Washington seemed to act as if he had found himself within a fantastic cosmic scheme, declaring that the nation’s responsibility to history was already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil (1).

By taking up the language of good vs. evil, Woodward said, the president was casting his vision and that of the country in the grand vision of God’s master plan (2).

According to Woodward, the prophetic context for war in the very land associated with future Armageddon (and against Saddam Hussein, no less, the man who claimed to be the reincarnated Nebuchadnezzar) held for Bush the Manichean language necessary to play out a divine mission while earning him admiration from certain supporters who saw the reconstruction efforts of Babylon under Saddam Hussein -- followed by the War on Terror -- as signs pointing to the Apocalypse.Biblical scholar Bruce Lincoln’s examination of a speech delivered by Bush to the nation on October 7, 2001, announcing the U.S. attack on Afghanistan (3) produced redundant references from Apocalyptic books of the Bible concerning the End Times. Lincoln's research seemed to support Woodward's claims, that the president's word craft was a strategy of double coding to secretly appeal to people who saw Bush as a devout Christian standing up to the enemies of God in an unfolding event in the Middle East, which they believed was foretold in the books of Revelation, Isaiah, et al.

Of course George W. was not the first American president to use language associated with end times prophecy. Who can forget Ronald Reagan’s view of the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire and his feeling that war in the Middle East might draw Gog into nuclear war and fulfill biblical prophecy. In his 1984 debate with Walter Mondale, Reagan admitted, No one knows whether those prophecies mean that Armageddon is a thousand years away or the day after tomorrow.Democrats too have been known to employ language that could be seen as coded to appeal to the beliefs of devout persons or patriots.

When Rep. Nancy Pelosi on January 4, 2007 assumed her roll as speaker of the House at the opening of the 110th Congress, she stated that the founding fathers were so confident in the America they were advancing, they put on the seal, the great seal of the United States, novus ordo seclorum a new order for the centuries.The new speaker did not go into detail as to why the phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum was important dialectic during the momentous changeover of the control of congress. Nor did she explain why Novus Ordo Seclorum exists beneath the unfinished pyramid and the All Seeing Eye in the Great Seal of the United States. Her reference may have been a simple coincidence, but the origins of the motto Novus Ordo Seclorum and the use of it in this historic speech was interesting in light of possible prophetic events happening around the world.

The term Novus Ordo Seclorum (A New Order of the Ages) was adapted by Charles Thomson in 1782 when he was designing the Great Seal of the United States. According to the official record, Thomson created the phrase from inspiration he found in a line in Virgil’s Eclogue IV: Magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo [Virgil's Eclogue IV (line 5)], the interpretation of the original Latin being, and the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew.

Ironically, Christians since the middle ages have held that the Cumaean Sibyl of Virgil’s Ecologue IV prophesied the birth of Jesus Christ and that it was this arrival of the Savior that gave rise to the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew, or New Order of the Ages. Virgil himself was believed to be a prophet in this regard, and that is why Dante Alighieri selected him as his guide through the underworld in The Divine Comedy. The Cumaean Sibyl is also prominently featured alongside the Old Testament prophets in Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel. Some say this fact played a role in Thomson’s inspiration for Novus Ordo Seclorum taken from Virgil’s Ecologue IV. Yet upon reading Virgil’s text, the divine son that comes of the Sibyl’s prophecy is a savior unknown to Biblical theology. He is to be spawned of a new breed of men sent down from heaven who receive the life of gods, and see Heroes with gods commingling. According to the Sibyl’s prediction, this messiah would be the son of Jupiter and come when the Roman god Saturn returned to reign over the earth in a new golden age (the Novus Ordo Seclorum), when Apollo rises again through mystical life power given to him from the gods.

From the beginning of the poem we read (4):Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung Has come and gone, and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign, With a new breed of men sent down from heaven. Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, Befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own Apollo reigns. …He shall receive the life of gods, and see Heroes with gods commingling, and himself Be seen of them, and with his father's worth Reign o'er a world…Assume thy greatness, for the time draws nigh, Dear child of gods, great progeny of Jove!

See how it totters- the world's orbed might, Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound, All, see, enraptured of the coming time! Ah! might such length of days to me be given, And breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds, Nor Thracian Orpheus should out-sing me then, Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope, And Linus fair Apollo. Nay, though Pan, With Arcady for judge, my claim contest, With Arcady for judge great Pan himself Should own him foiled, and from the field retire. Begin to greet thy mother with a smile, O baby-boy! ten months of weariness For thee she bore: O baby-boy, begin! For him, on whom his parents have not smiled, Gods deem not worthy of their board or bed.

Therefore according to the Sibyl, the New Order of the Ages occurs when a special son is born on earth, a new messiah who comes of a new breed of men sent down from heaven when heroes and gods are blended together. This sounds eerily similar to what the Watchers did during the creation of Nephilim; to what scientists are doing this century through the creation of transgenic human-animal chimeras, and to what the Bible actually describes as the Antichrist being the son of perdition(2 Th 2:3, Apoleia, from which we make Apollyon, the demon destroyer). Note the similarity of the names Apollo and Apollyon.Patrick Heron believes the pagan Sibyl may actually have pointed to a false Christ who appears during the end times Apocalypse, and that the Novus Ordo Seclorum prophecy of a coming special son who leads mankind to a New World Order could be fulfilled anytime.

According to scripture, Heron says, the near future will produce a man of superior intelligence, wit, charm, and diplomacy who will emerge on the world scene as a savior. He will seemingly possess transcendent wisdom that enables him to solve problems and to offer solutions to many of today’s most perplexing issues. One of his most important accomplishments at the very outset will be to broker a peace treaty between the Jews and Palestinians. He will also lead the charge in rebuilding the long awaited Jewish Temple. This is especially interesting given that, just this month, an Israeli archaeologist and Hebrew professor claims to have pinpointed the exact location of the original Jewish Temple, a potentially important step toward the fulfillment of the Temple reconstruction prophecy.

According to some, this Antichrist will appear at first to be a man of distinguished character, but will ultimately become a king of fierce countenance (Dan. 8:23). With imperious decree he will facilitate a one-world government, a universal religion, and global socialism.

Those who refuse his New World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or destroyed, until at last he exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God (2 Thess. 2:4).When asked why he believes prophetic signs at this point in history could be pointing to the Antichrist and the end of times, Patrick Heron says, I believe God is warning people, giving them one last chance to believe before the judgments of God, as revealed in the Book of Revelation, begin to fall on earth. Grizzly Adams Productions, a well known producer of family-friendly television shows who has created original programming for Discovery, PAX, NBC, CBS, the Learning Channel and other networks, found the insights presented in Heron's new book, Apocalypse Soon: The Beginning of the End engaging enough that in 2006 they acquired the worldwide television and DVD rights to the work. Their first documentary based on the book was titled, End Times: How Close Are We and was broadcast nationwide during sweeps weeks in 2006.

The show connected with viewers, and the DVD has become the all-time bestseller at such places as WorldNetDaily.com.

A second documentary based on the book Apocalypse and the End Times aired in October and has done equally well.Throughout human history, cultures from the Hopi Indians to biblical prophets have shared stories about the end of the world, notes David W. Balsiger, a producer on the Apocalypse and the End Times special. We sought to examine these legends and look to modern scientific findings to get to the truth behind current events and these ancient stories.Even the mainstream press picked up the Apocalypse theme in 2006. CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Times, BBC and others ran feature stories on the US presence in the Middle East, focusing on the possibility that it signaled the End Times Armageddon spoken of in scripture. CNN devoted several entire news segments with Paula Zahn concerning the possibility that the biblical Apocalypse might actually be here. More recently, however, language of the Apocalypse was raised again when the Doomsday Clock was pushed forward at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by two minutes, marking 11:55 before midnight, five minutes before the figurative end of civilization.Like Judaism and Christianity, Shiite Islam also gives credence to an end times event involving the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam. Devout believers in Iran assume the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam will occur when he emerges from a well at the Jamkaran mosque. Iran's president, Ahmadinejad gave $17 million of government funds to support the shrine and has said that the mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the coming of the Twelfth Imam. Some believe Iran is on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons and that Ahmadinejad has little inhibition about using them to start Armageddon. President Bush has reaffirmed his commitment to keeping Iran from possessing nuclear weapons, and he has not ruled out using force to accomplish this goal. Students of prophecy see this as potentially more than saber rattling between the two countries. They believe it could trigger the final Apocalypse.

As for Dr. Heron, he begins in Apocalypse Soon by focusing on scientific evidence showing a sharp increase in bizarre weather patterns including a 500 percent increase in tornadoes last year, record-setting earthquake activity, the threat of a worldwide bird flu pandemic, growing famine, disease, and the exponentially higher risk of all-out nuclear war involving lands identified in the Bible as central to End Times prophecies.

In the middle of his book, he analyzes this data and determines that it aligns perfectly with the ancient prophecies, which he believes points to the imminent appearing of the great man of sin, the Antichrist.Finally, Heron concludes with America and Europe in prophecy. He looks at the famous dream of the ancient king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, who saw what many believe to be the final global kingdom a revived Roman Empire. But a careful examination of the prophecies relating to this future government specifically state that it will be a global confederacy, Heron says. It is not confined to one geographic area. It will be a club of ten members ruled by ten kings who will serve the interests of the Antichrist. I have no doubt that Europe and the USA will play prominent roles in these future alignments.

(1) President's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Office of the Press Secretary, September 14, 2001 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010914-2.html

(2) Bob Woodward, Bush at War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 67

3. Bruce Lincoln, Holy Terrors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp 30-32

4. Translation by John Dryden, as published by Georgetown University,
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/gendersextexts/texts/eclog4.html