AMERICA UNPREPARED FOR NUKE ATTACK

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Small earthquake rattles Montana. 3-Flooding, tornadoes unleashed on Midwest. 4-U.S. farmers face soggy and cold corn crop. 5-Europe faces global warming double whammy, but can cope: UN experts. 6-Cashless society by 2012, says Visa chief. 7-A-Zahar Reiterates Hamas Goal: World Domination. 8-Pastor with 666 tattoo claims to be divine. 9-Abbas Warns Israel, Accept 2002 Arab Peace Plan or Face War. 10-David's Comment:Passing Over into the New Year. 11-America unprepared for likely nuke attack.

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 = Sat Mar 31 12:00 AM EDT

MAR 30,07
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
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MAP 4.8 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
MAP 4.5 WESTERN TURKEY
MAP 5.1 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 2.8 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.7 WESTERN TURKEY
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MAP 5.7 FIJI REGION
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MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
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MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
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MAP 5.4 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
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MAP 5.0 VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
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MAR 29,07
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MAP 4.8 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
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MAP 2.7 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
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MAP 4.8 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KORYAKIA, RUSSIA
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Small earthquake rattles Montana Fri Mar 30, 12:17 AM ET

DILLON, Mont. - A small earthquake that rattled southwestern Montana caused no damage but could be felt about 90 miles away. The magnitude-3.7 earthquake, which struck late Wednesday, was an aftershock of a 5.6-magnitude quake that hit the same area in July 2005, said Tom Satterly, who manages the University of Montana-Western's environmental sciences department.It's the biggest (aftershock) we've seen in quite a while, Stickney said.It was centered about 15 miles northeast of Dillon and could be felt as far as Helena, said Mike Stickney, director of earthquake studies for the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology.About 5,000 aftershocks have been recorded from the 2005 quake, which cracked walls and damaged bridges, Stickney said. The region averages about five aftershocks a day, most too small to be felt.

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.

Flooding, tornadoes unleashed on Midwest By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 30, 12:16 PM ET

OKLAHOMA CITY - The violent storm system blamed for four deaths in three states flooded parts of North Texas as it moved eastward, stranding drivers in high water and forcing dozens of elderly people to evacuate an assisted living center. Many smaller roads in the area were still closed Friday morning.It fell hard and fast, said Corsicana police Sgt. Jimmie Hensley. We had a lot of street flooding, intersections flooded. We had to rescue several people from their cars.Businesses in the town flooded as up to 7 inches of rain fell in the area. About 60 elderly residents from an assisted living center were taken to a church on higher ground for safety, said Eric Meyers, Navarro County Emergency Management coordinator.The spring storm unleashed more than 65 tornadoes in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska on Wednesday and Thursday, the National Weather Service said. A twister Thursday afternoon in Oklahoma City injured at least five people — two of them critically.

Joyce Eells, who lives in far northwestern Oklahoma City, said the tornado took off most of the roof of her home, but she counted herself lucky that nobody was home when the storm hit.All the important things are OK. My husband and family are OK. That's the important stuff, Eells said. My husband's words when he saw the damage were: I don't think we'll be staying here for a while.

A 7-year-old Oklahoma girl was also treated at a hospital for cuts Thursday, and two people were injured when a van was thrown from the Kilpatrick Turnpike into a concrete culvert by the storms, said Oklahoma City Deputy Fire Chief Tony Young.On Wednesday, the storm system was blamed for four deaths in Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas.Vance and Barbra Woodbury were killed when a twister blew apart their home near the Oklahoma Panhandle community of Elmwood. In the Texas Panhandle, Monte Ford, 53, was thrown from his trailer after high winds rolled it near an oilfield.

In the hard hit town of Holly, Colo., Rosemary Rosales, 28, died after a tornado as wide as two football fields flung her from her home into a nearby tree.

Her 3-year-old daughter and husband were among seven people hospitalized.All they heard was this big ugly noise, and they didn't have no time to run, said Victoria Rosales, a relative.In Holly on Friday, residents shoveled debris and sawed up fallen trees while utility crews replaced power and telephone poles. A Red Cross truck circulated through the town, offering coffee to the workers.The same storm system dumped mountains of snow on Wyoming, causing highway pileups and closing large portions of three interstates. Roads there were still largely inaccessible Friday. Up to 70 inches of snow fell in the Wind River Mountains area since Wednesday.About 600 homes in the Buffalo, Wyo., area were without heat and electricity Friday morning, down from about 2,200 across north-central Wyoming on Wednesday.Associated Press writer Colleen Slevin in Colorado contributed to this report.

U.S. farmers face soggy and cold corn crop weather By Sam Nelson
Fri Mar 30, 12:49 PM ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farmers in the U.S. Corn Belt, who intend to plant the biggest cord crop in 63 years, will face soggy or cold planting weather over at least the next week, a private forecaster said on Friday.

DTN Meteorlogix weather service forecaster Joel Burgio said wet and warm weather would blanket the Midwest from Friday through Tuesday, then cold and drier conditions would prevail through the end of the week.The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday American farmers intended to plant nearly 90.5 million acres of corn this year, the most since 1944.Soaring demand for corn from the ethanol industry has boosted corn prices to decade highs this year, prompting farmers to plant corn in lieu of soybeans this crop season.The crop needs to be seeded from roughly early April through mid-May to capture optimal production potential.It all comes down to weather, and it starts from now through the growing season, said Shawn McCambridge, analyst for Prudential Financial.

Now we start to see whether we can plant this much corn on a timely basis.

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures plunged their 20-cent trading limit on Friday because the government's forecast for this year's corn acreage was well above an average of analysts' estimates.

Analysts at a press conference following the release of USDA's forecast also said that weather will have the final say in the 2007 corn and soybean planting and production derby.We definitely need good yields and timely plantings. The weather issue is important and right now it looks a little shaky, with wet and cool expected for next week, said Jerry Gidel, analyst for North America Risk Management Inc. Burgio also wasn't optimistic about a big improvement in planting weather anytime soon.The way the pattern has been behaving, when it does warm up, it will be wet again, so planting may be slow. But with today's equipment they can get a lot planted in a short period of time, Burgio said.U.S. farmers are capable of planting the acreage and the next 45 days are critical. Corn yield per acre and production is closely related to timely plantings, said Brian Basting, commodity research analyst for Advance Trading.It's going to be an exciting time the next few months, Basting said.(Additional reporting by Julie Ingwersen)

Europe faces global warming double whammy, but can cope: UN experts by Marlowe Hood MAR 30,07

PARIS (AFP) - Global warming will hit Europe hard but unevenly this century, causing drought, reduced harvests and deadly heatwaves in the south but inflicting more floods and severe winter storms farther north, UN experts say in a report to be unveiled next week. In Alpine regions, reduced snow cover imperils a multi-billion-dollar ski industry while rising temperatures could wipe out up to 60 percent of plant and animal species, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns.The continent has already had a foretaste of its likely future: this winter was the warmest on record in many European countries, as have been 11 of the past 12 years.The report, which deals with the impacts of global warming, is the second in a three-volume review of the evidence for climate change, the first since 2001.A final draft of the 1,400-page document obtained by AFP says that even if dramatic measures are taken to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that drive warming, temperatures worldwide will continue to climb for decades to come, unleashing unwelcome changes across the planet.

And if nothing at all is done to mitigate climate change, the impact in some regions could be catastrophic by century's end.By 2080, the report says, it is likely that 1.1 to 3.2 billion people worldwide will experience water scarcity, 200 to 600 million will suffer from hunger, and each year, an additional two to seven million people will be victims of coastal flooding.The human toll will be heaviest, experts say, in Africa and Asia, where hundreds of millions in low-lying mega-river deltas are threatened by rising sea levels, and tens of millions more by the spread of infectious disease.As for Europe, some regions will likewise be severely challenged but overall the continent is somewhat less vulnerable -- and better able to adapt -- than poorer counterparts.In the short term, if global temperatures rise no more than 2 C (3.6 F) compared to 1990 levels -- the maximum rise set by European Union (EU) policymakers -- northern European countries may even enjoy higher crop yields, milder winters and expanding forests.

But as the 21st century unfolds, those benefits are very likely to be swamped by the negative impact of warming.Under almost any scenario, a swathe of Mediterranean countries including Spain, France, Italy and Greece faces a panoply of problems.They include more frequent heatwaves of the kind that in 2003 killed tens of thousands of elderly people; damage to the tourism industry increased forest fires; and a fall of up to a third in fresh water availability, depending again on temperature rise.

Wintertime floods are likely to increase in Europe's maritime regions, while snowmelt-related floods and flashfloods will hit central Europe.

Europe has the resources to protect human life from the brunt of global warming onslaught, but its biodiversity will be badly affected.A large percentage of the European flora is likely to become vulnerable, endangered, or committed to extinction by the end of this century, says the draft.In the first volume of its report, issued in February, the IPCC predicted world temperatures would rise by 1.8 C to 4.0 C (3.2-7.2 F) by 2100, depending on how much greenhouse gas is emitted into the atmosphere. A third volume, issued at the end of April, will look at ways of reducing those emissions.

In the Brussels meeting, the second volume will be issued on Friday after delegates hammer out a summary for policy makers, distilling in a couple of dozen pages their most important findings.

Some participants complain that the summary, as currently written, does not adequately highlight the fact that those least able to adapt -- poor people -- will be the hardest hit. We in the northern hemisphere can adapt to heatwaves, but that is a very selfish notion, commented French scientist and IPCC executive committee member Jean Jouzel. The draft summary concludes that global warming is unequivocal, that human activity is the main driver, and that changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems on every continent.Across the planet, 20 to 30 percent of animal and plant species face extinction if temperatures rise 1.5 C to 2.5 C (2.7 F to 4.5 F). Increases greater than 4 C (7.2 F) above 1990-2000 levels would lead to major increases in vulnerability that would exceed the adaptive capacity of many systems, the report says.

Cashless society by 2012, says Visa chief
By Tim Webb 11 March 2007

Paying for goods with notes and coins could be consigned to history within five years, according to the chief executive of Visa Europe. Peter Ayliffe said that, by 2012, using credit and debit cards should be cheaper and more convenient than cash.Some retailers could soon start surcharging customers if they choose to buy products with cash, because of the greater cost of processing these payments, he warned.Visa Europe briefed the British Retail Consortium last month on newcontactless cards that can be waved in front of a scanner to make small payments.

However, the consortium dismissed this vision and claimed that card processing fees, which regulators are investigating, are still too high.One member of the consurtium said that the estimated interchange fee charged to retailers amounts to some 4p for each transaction.Nick Mourant, treasurer at Tesco, said: There is a duopoly between Mastercard and Visa in the UK. Their setting of fees is anti-competitive.

A-Zahar Reiterates Hamas Goal: World Domination
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz 9 Nisan 5767, March 28, '07

(IsraelNN.com) Addressing a mass rally in memory of the founder of the Hamas terrorist organization, Ahmed Yassin, senior Hamas leader and former Palestinian Authority official Mahmoud A-Zahar reiterated a fundamental position espoused by Hamas and other Islamist groups worldwide: struggle for the complete obliteration of Israel and the worldwide rule of Islam.

According to an alert released by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which monitors and translates Palestinian Authority media, the main elements of A-Zahar's speech were printed in the PA's Al-Ayyam newspaper on March 25, 2007. A-Zahar emphasized that the Islamic Movement's [Hamas's] position concerning the problem of the liberation of Palestine is clear and known, Al-Ayyam reported. A-Zahar is quoted as saying:

We have two important foundations: one is Koranic and the other is prophetic. The Koranic: the divine promise made in the Al-Israa Sura [Chapter 17] is that we will liberate the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we will enter it as we have entered it the first time' [paraphrasing Sura 17 (The Night Journey), verse 7]. And the prophetic foundation is the message of the prophet Muhammad, that Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world. Our position is the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine. This is the final and strategic solution for us.

There is a Koranic message for us, that we will enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the entrance to the mosque means the entrance into all of Palestine. This is the message, no one can deny it. Anyone who denies it must check his faith and his Islam.A-Zahar's statements, as promulgated in the PA media, are restatements of views expressed in the foundational covenant of Hamas, the PA government's ruling faction. Regarding Israel, the 1988 Hamas Covenant preamble says, Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. While Article 28 of the Covenant widens the threat: .Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Muslim people. May the cowards never sleep.

The Hamas position on the existence of a sovereign Jewish entity in the Middle East is identical to its position on any lands once conquered by Muslims. As Article 11 of the organization's covenant says: [Hamas] believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. ...[And] the same goes for any land the Muslims have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations till the Day of Judgment.Functionally, Hamas also sees itself as part of a global movement for Islamic domination. As Article 2 declares, [Hamas] is one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization.... More fundamentally, Article 5 says, [Hamas's] place is anywhere that there are Muslims who embrace Islam as their way of life everywhere on the globe. This being so, it extends to the depth of the earth and reaches out to the heaven.Echoing his co-religionists in the PA, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Raad Salah, declared in September of 2006 that a new Caliphate will soon arise with its capital in Jerusalem.

HERES THE STORY I WAS TRYIN TO FIND WHEN I SEEN IT ON CNN ABOUT THE CULT LEADER WHO THINKS HES JESUS AND HIS FOLLOWERS GET MARKED WITH 666 ON THEIR HANDS. LIKE I SAID BEFORE THIS IS A FORUNNER TO THE EU DICTATOR THAT DEMANDS ALL RECIEVE THIS MARK (CHIP IMPLANT I BELIEVE) IN THE FUTURE OR DIE.

THIS GUY HERE IS OUT TO LUNCH BIGTIME, BUT IT IS PROPHESIED TO HAPPEN BEFORE THE DICTATOR COMES ON THE SCENE.

Pastor with 666 tattoo claims to be divine
POSTED: 2:08 p.m. EST, February 19, 2007 By John Zarrella and Patrick Oppmann CNN

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The minister has the number 666 tattooed on his arm.But Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is not your typical minister. De Jesus, or Daddy as his thousands of followers call him, does not merely pray to God: He says he is God.The spirit that is in me is the same spirit that was in Jesus of Nazareth, de Jesus says.De Jesus' claims of divinity have angered Christian leaders, who say he is a fake. Religious experts say he may be something much more dangerous, a cult leader who really believes he is God. (Watch followers get 666 tattoos for their leader )

He's in their heads, he's inside the heads of those people, says Prof. Daniel Alvarez, a religion expert at Florida International University who has debated some of de Jesus' followers. De Jesus speaks with a kind of conviction that makes me consider him more like David Koresh or Jim Jones.Is de Jesus really a cult leader like David Koresh, who died with more than 70 of his Branch Davidian followers in a fiery end to a standoff with federal authorities, or Jim Jones, the founder of the Peoples Temple who committed mass suicide with 900 followers in 1978?

Prophets spoke to me

De Jesus and his believers say their church -- Creciendo en Gracia, Spanish for Growing in grace -- is misunderstood. Followers of the movement say they have proof that their minister is divine and that their church will one day soon be a major faith in the world.But even de Jesus concedes that he is an unlikely leader of a church that claims thousands of members in more than 30 countries.De Jesus, 61, grew up poor in Puerto Rico. He says he served stints in prison there for petty theft and says he was a heroin addict.De Jesus says he learned he was Jesus reincarnate when he was visited in a dream by angels.The prophets, they spoke about me. It took me time to learn that, but I am what they were expecting, what they have been expecting for 2,000 years, de Jesus says.The church that he began building 20 years ago in Miami resembles no other:Followers have protested Christian churches in Miami and Latin America, disrupting services and smashing crosses and statues of Jesus.De Jesus preaches there is no devil and no sin. His followers, he says, literally can do no wrong in God's eyes.The church calls itself the Government of God on Earth and uses a seal similar to the United States.

Doing God's work with a Lexus and Rolex

If Creciendo en Gracia is an atypical religious group, de Jesus also does not fit the mold of the average church leader. De Jesus flouts traditional vows of poverty. He says he has a church-paid salary of $136,000 but lives more lavishly than that. During an interview, he showed off a diamond-encrusted Rolex to a CNN crew and said he has three just like them. He travels in armored Lexuses and BMWs, he says, for his safety. All are gifts from his devoted followers.

And what about the tattoo of 666 on his arm?

Although it's a number usually associated with Satan, not the son of God, de Jesus says that 666 and the Antichrist are, like him, misunderstood.The Antichrist is not the devil, de Jesus tells his congregation; he's the being who replaces Jesus on Earth.Antichrist is the best person in the world, he says. Antichrist means don't put your eyes on Jesus because Jesus of Nazareth wasn't a Christian. Antichrist means do not put your eyes on Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Put it on Jesus after the cross. And de Jesus says that means him.

So far, de Jesus says that his flock hasn't been scared off by his claims of being the Antichrist. In a show of the sway he holds over the group, 30 members of his congregation Tuesday went to a tattoo parlor to have 666 also permanently etched onto their skin.He may wield influence over them, but his followers say don't expect them to go the way of people who believed in David Koresh and Jim Jones. Just by finding de Jesus, they say, they have achieved their purpose.If somebody tells us drink some Kool-Aid and we'll go to heaven, that's not true. We are already in heavenly places, follower Martita Roca told CNN after having 666 tattooed onto her ankle.

Abbas Warns Israel, Accept 2002 Arab Peace Plan or Face War
by Hana Levi Julian (INN) MAR 30,07

Israel would be well advised to team up with the Palestinian Authority under the 2002 Arab peace plan, says PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and well advised to raise its alert status if it does not.

Abbas accused Israel of seeking to avoid the realization of peace by insisting on changes to the plan authored five years ago by Saudi Arabian King Abdullah. The plan calls for Israel to withdraw from all the lands recovered during the 1967 Six Day War, including Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and half of Jerusalem. It also calls for Israel to allow millions of Arab descendants of those who fled the country during the 1948 War of Independence to be allowed to immigrate to Israel. The Jewish State has rejected this clause absolutely. It's not a secret that anti-U.S. feeling within Fatah is increasing, and Abbas is ignoring this.

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the Arab League Summit in Riyadh on Thursday, Abbas called for a negotiated settlement that will be sponsored by the international community and within the framework of an international peace conference in the region.

He warned, however, that if Israel did not accept the Arab peace plan, The entire region will be under renewed threats of war [and] explosions, as well as regional and international confrontations, as a result of the absence of a solution or the impossibility of implementing one.Abbas accompanied his threat with a statement reiterating the sincerity of the Palestinian will in extending the hand of peace to the Israeli people we should not waste more chances in the history of this long and painful cause.Fatah Complains Abbas Has Become Condis Office Boy.A caricature on PA websites Thursday showed a Jew with his back turned on Abbas, whose head is covered with doves, symbolizing peace.

Abbas is losing support within his own faction by appearing to be allied with the Bush administration, according to a report in TIME magazine. The report quoted a PA Central Committee member as saying, It's not a secret that anti-U.S. feeling within Fatah is increasing, and Abbas is ignoring this.

Abbas had not been tough enough when presenting PA demands to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the region this week, complained the source. Abbas doesn't respect us. He is too busy bowing to American demands. He's become Condi's office boy.On the other hand, noted TIME, Abbas also did not pass on to Secretary Rice information that Hamas may quit the unity government and resume attacks against Israel.

Abbas Talks Peace, His Fatah Faction Fires Rockets

Abbass Fatah faction includes the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group as well as the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which Abbas chairs. The former vowed Thursday to continue its Kassam rocket attacks against Israeli communities in the western Negev. Abu Ahmed, commander of the northern Gaza division of Al Aksa told WorldNet Daily that if the Israel Defense Forces continue anti-terrorist operations, You can count on a [long] string of suicide bombings and rocket attacks.

Al Aksa claimed to have teamed up with the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in firing a total of seven Kassam rockets at Israeli communities in the western Negev on Wednesday. Some damage was caused in Sderot and two rockets landed just south of the port city of Ashkelon but no injuries were reported. Arab terrorists launched at least four more Kassams toward Ashkelon on Thursday. No damage or injuries were reported.

David's Comment: Passing Over into the New Year MAR 30,07

Exodus 12:2 - 3 This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. (NKJ)

The above verse begins the Lord's instructions to Israel on how they should remember and celebrate the Passover - their deliverance from slavery under the tyrannical regime of Pharaoh. It is really the event that marks the beginning of the nation of Israel and thus YHVH tells them that this is the beginning of their calendar year. The timing of all of the other festivals of the Lord, is calculated from the first day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. As I have written previously, we believe that everyone, Jew and Gentile, who love and worship the God of Israel, ought to do their best to live their lives according to His calendar, not on the calendar of the world system, which is under the jurisdiction of the Devil, who according to the Bible, is currently the god of this world. Some people may see it as a burdensome thing to learn about and celebrate God's feasts, but it doesn't have to be.

Celebrating the Biblical feasts can be great fun, and a wonderful time of fellowship and literal feasting. All of the Biblical feasts are a shadow of what it will be like when the Kingdom is finally established on the Earth and they all point to the Messiah - Yeshua. There is so much to learn about the nature and character of God, and the feasts contain a lot of imagery which helps us to learn. The annual Biblical feast cycle is also a shadow of the timing of God's prophetic plan to restore Israel, to establish His Kingdom in Jerusalem and to send His Son back to be the King of His glorious eternal Kingdom. What better time to begin to explore the Lord's annual Feast cycle than at the first feast of the year.It may be too late for you to organise a Passover Seder meal this coming Monday, but if you do make sure you obtain a Messianic Seder instruction manual. I may be able to help locate one you if you need. Very simply, Passover is a shadow of the salvation found only in Yeshua, the Lamb of God. It was the blood of the lambs on the doorposts of the Hebrews dwellings that saved the Hebrew firstborn inside from the Angel of Death. Ultimately this led to the liberation of the Hebrews from slavery under Pharaoh to freedom in the Promised Land.And it is the blood of Lamb Yeshua that saves any person from slavery to sin and brings them into the eternal promised land.

Perhaps the most ironic thing about the Passover celebration is that the Jewish people have sat at their Passover Seder tables for the last 2000 years,have and yet not seen the incredible imagery of the Seder elements that so clearly show that the Messiah has already been.

The 3 sheets of unleavened bread or Matzah,are striped, bruised and pierced. ( see Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our trans-gressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. ) These three sheets are called the Unity and must surely represent Father, Son & Holy Sprirt. The middle sheet is broken in half, wrapped in a cloth & hidden for the children to find. It is called the Afikomen. Even today the rabbis say that the Afikomen represents the long awaited Messiah. The word Afikomen is a Greek word, the only Greek word in the Passover ceremony. Amazingly, Afikomen means I have arrived !

And the Afikomen can only be discovered by the children - remember that Yeshua said that if we want to come to God we must come as little children.It is customary to set an extra place at the Passover table for Elijah, who must precede the arrival of Messiah. As the popular song says, these are the days of Elijah. Lets pray from now until Passover that this year the spirit of Elijah will be present at every Passover Seder causing the veil of blindess to be lifted and that multitudes of Jews will see Yeshua as Messiah as they look upon the stripes, bruises and piercings on the Matzah and as they wrap the Afikomen in the cloth, they will realise that the Messiah has indeed already arrived.The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Do not be silent, but share this to your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for thatbreakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF. Shabbat Shalom .. . David & Josie

America unprepared for likely nuke attack. Public awareness campaign is only hope, says 3-year University of Georgia study March 30, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - By Joseph Farah - WorldNetDaily.com

New York City

WASHINGTON – The most extensive study of the effects of nuclear detonations in four major U.S. cities paints a grim picture of millions of deaths, overwhelmed hospitals and loss of command-and-control capability by government. But the three-year study by researchers at the Center for Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia says a concerted effort to teach civilians what to do in the event of a nuclear attack is the best – perhaps only – thing that could save an untold number of lives that will otherwise be needlessly lost. If a nuclear detonation were to occur in a downtown area, the picture would be bleak there, said Cham Dallas, director of the program and professor in the college of pharmacy. But in urban areas farther from the detonation, there actually is quite a bit that we can do. In certain areas, it may be possible to turn the death rate from 90 percent in some burn populations to probably 20 or 30 percent – and those are very big differences – simply by being prepared well in advance.

While America was once prepared for nuclear war with civil defense shelters stocked with food and supplies and educational programs on how to react to a detonation, the report says the threat of a nuclear attack within the U.S. has grown significantly in recent years.

The likelihood of a nuclear attack in an American city is steadily increasing, and the consequences will be overwhelming, said Dallas. So we need to substantially increase our preparation.The study looked at the impact of nuclear detonations of two sizes in New York, Washington, Chicago and Atlanta. Both 20-kiloton and 550-kiloton blasts were modeled in what the authors claim is the most advanced and detailed simulation published in open scientific literature.

International Journal of Health Geographics

The entire report, which also takes into account prevailing weather patterns and block-level population data from the U.S. Census Bureau, is published in the March issue of the International Journal of Health Geographics. In the study's worst-case scenario, one 550-kiloton detonation in New York City was shown to result in a fallout plume extending the length of Long Island, resulting in the deaths of 5
million. A similar weapon detonated in the nation's capital would destroy hospitals in Washington, but its fallout cloud would also incapacitate hospitals as far away as Baltimore, a city 40 miles from the District of Columbia. Even a relatively small 20-kiloton blast in a downtown area would result in almost unimaginable devastation – leaving debris tens of feet thick in streets with buildings 10 stories or higher. Roughly half the population in those areas would be killed, mainly from collapsed buildings.

Most of those surviving the initial blast would be exposed to a fatal dose of radiation. The larger bomb would create additional and substantial casualties from burns. Mass fires would consume cities, reaching out nearly four miles in all directions from the detonation site. The hospital system has about 1,500 burn beds in the whole country, and of these maybe 80 to 90 percent are full at any given time, said William Bell, senior research scientist and a faculty member of the college of public health. There's no way of treating the burn victims from a nuclear attack with the existing medical system.The report points out hospitals, trauma centers and other medical assets are likely to be in the fatality plume, rendering them essentially inoperable in the crisis.Among the consequences of this outcome would be the probable loss of command-and-control, mass casualties that will have to be treated in an unorganized response by hospitals on the periphery, as well as other expected chaotic outcomes from inadequate administration in a crisis, says the report. Vigorous, creative and accelerated training and coordination among the federal agencies tasked for WMD response, military resources, academic institutions and local responders will be critical for large-scale WMD events involving mass casualties.Bell said a 20-kiloton nuclear weapon could be manufactured by terrorists and countries such as North Korea and Iran. The larger warhead is commonly found in the nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union and is likely to be stolen by terrorists. The report confirms other findings that America is extremely vulnerable to a nuclear attack and unprepared to
deal with its aftermath.

In a July 31, 2005, confidential memo to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon analyst John Brinkerhoff concluded: The United States is unprepared to mitigate the consequences of a nuclear attack. We were unable to find any group of office with a coherent approach to this very important aspect of homeland security.In other words, after having spent more than $300 billion to protect the homeland in the last five years, America is no closer to a civil defense strategy for a nuclear strike by terrorists.

This is a bad situation, wrote Brinkerhoff. The threat of a nuclear attack is real, and action is needed now to learn how to deal with one.

Bits and pieces of a plan are in place, as Brinkerhoff suggests. For instance, the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is geared up to use real-time weather data, within minutes of a bombing, to create a computer model charting the likely path of a radioactive cloud. There's just one problem. There is no communications system in place designed to reach the people most in need of the information. The government's own National Planning Scenario projects even a small, improvised 10-kiloton nuclear bomb would likely kill hundreds of thousands in a medium-sized city. The carnage was estimated at 204,600 dead in Washington, D.C. – with another 90,800 injured or sickened. Another 24,580 would likely die of thyroid cancer later because the simple compound potassium iodide, which can prevent it, was not made available to civilians in advance of the disaster.

President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the 9/11 commission have all concluded a nuclear terrorist attack is not only the nation's No. 1 nightmare but also something of an inevitability at some time in the future. The University of Georgia study calls for a public awareness campaign to teach civilians what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. Even simple measures, the researchers point out, can save many lives. For instance, since radioactive clouds move downwind, a person can determine which way the wind is blowing and flee in a perpendicular direction to the wind. Even on foot, people can move one to five miles can be the difference between life and death. On the other hand, though, people in areas upwind from the detonation site are better off staying put.

Dallas is scheduled to address the United Nations for the second time in as many years where he will discuss options for repairing the crumbling sarcophagus surrounding the reactor that triggered the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. He will also talk about the consequences of a nuclear attack and what nations can do about it. We want to try to encourage people to pay attention to this, because it's not all the end of the world, said Dallas. There are actually steps that one can take to save lives. But we're running out of time.The Center for Mass Destruction Defense is funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is dedicated to reducing casualties and social disruption from weapons of mass destruction and natural disasters.