HAMAS MIGHT GIVE UP GAZA

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.

No tsunami warning after quake near Indonesia's Sumatra Tue Oct 9, 9:14 PM ET

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwestern Sumatra on Wednesday morning, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.The agency did not issue a tsunami warning following the quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.2.

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.

Lekima's Vietnam death toll rises to 86 Wed Oct 10, 7:56 PM ET

HANOI, Vietnam - The death toll from Vietnam's Typhoon Lekima rose to 86 as rescue workers rushed to get aid to thousands of people still stuck in flooded areas, officials said Wednesday. Eleven more bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Nghe An, and one more body was discovered in Son La province. Nine people were still missing and feared dead.The flood waters that inundated central Vietnam continued receding Wednesday, but large sections of Nghe An and neighboring Thanh Hoa province remained unreachable by car.The waters are receding, but very slowly, said Do Minh Chinh a disaster official in Thanh Hoa province, where 15 people died.

The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official said from Ninh Binh.The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 200,000 acres of crops, Lowry said.Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was $131 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.

Mixed Atlantic hurricane season puzzles experts By Michael Christie Wed Oct 10, 4:38 PM ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - Judge the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season by the 13 storms so far, and it looks like a relatively busy year. But look at the number of days a hurricane has swirled in the Atlantic, or use other measures of a storm season's ferocity, and 2007 has been surprisingly benign. Hurricane experts had predicted the season to be above-average because of warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures, the continuance of a decades-long natural period of increased storm activity, and the development of La Nina weather conditions in the Pacific.Many tropical waves, often a precursor of a tropical storm, developed in the Atlantic over the busiest weeks of the season between September and early October, and eight named tropical storms formed in September -- matching a record for the month.But apart from maximum-strength Hurricane Felix, which slammed into Central America on September 4, most were exceedingly brief or weak, meaning September only registered 3.5 days with a hurricane.One noted hurricane forecasting team at Colorado State University had predicted 20 hurricane days that month.

This year's storms caused relatively little damage and casualties especially compared to the havoc inflicted in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Wilma pummeled the Mexican resort of Cancun and Florida, and Rita hit the Texas-Louisiana border area.
The main reason for the low number of hurricane days this year has been high vertical wind shear -- the difference in windspeeds at different altitudes -- which tears storms apart while they try to form, hurricane experts said.Scientists are puzzled. A periodic cooling in sea temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific, known as La Nina, is supposed to reduce shear over the Atlantic.
It's like everything else with hurricanes; every now and then the scientists just have to scratch their heads, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground Web site.

END OF SEASON SURPRISE?

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday the La Nina phenomenon had definitely kicked in and would be weak to moderate this winter.That could make the end of the six-month hurricane season, which began on June 1, a little busier than one might otherwise expect because a normal increase in late-season wind shear might be suppressed by La Nina, experts said.
Gerry Bell of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, which issues the U.S. government's hurricane season forecasts and had called for between 13 and 16 named storms this year, said there was no anomaly in the total number of storms.We've had 13 named storms, so that's certainly above normal, Bell said. Where we've been a bit low is on the hurricanes.There have officially only been four hurricanes this season but many experts expect Tropical Storm Karen to be upgraded to a hurricane in a post-season analysis, pushing the number to five. The long-term average is for 10 to 11 named storms and six hurricanes per season.Bell said that in addition to the shear, this year had seen a lot of northwesterly flow in the upper atmosphere that had brought dry air over the tropical Atlantic where many storms form. Storms don't like dry air as they need moisture to grow.But the season isn't over, Bell cautioned.

But James Elsner, a Florida State University professor of geography who analyzes hurricane forecasting, said: We are getting to the end. If something doesn't happen in the next two weeks it's basically over.I think what we have to question is why there was so much enthusiasm for this season (in terms of the activity predicted),he said.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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

PREMEDITATED MERGER
Ex-Mexican prez: Amero on the way
Vicente Fox confirms long-term deal worked out with President BushOctober 9, 2007 1:15 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox last night on CNN
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a plan conceived with President Bush to create a new regional currency in the Americas, in an interview last night on CNN's Larry King Live.It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.

Long term, very long term, he said. What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish. King, evidently startled by Fox's revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, It's going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?
Well, that would be long, long term, Fox repeated. Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela. Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came, Fox commented. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.

Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself. I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement, Fox said. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.Fox's reply to the CNN viewer was captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com. CNN posted video of the interview but did not include the segment with questions from viewers. Last week, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years. Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet. WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the Gold Mandela as a single African continental currency by 2010.

The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies. In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled The End of National Currency, CFR economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is a temporary currency. Steil concluded countries should abandon monetary nationalism, moving to adopt regional currencies, on the road to a global one world currency.WND previously reported Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said the amero is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.A video clip of the CNBC interview in November with Jeffries is now available at YouTube.com. WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.

Barroso worried commission could take a hit in new EU treaty 09.10.2007 - 17:52 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso is worried that his institution will be sidelined under the new EU treaty which potentially introduces a new power hierarchy into the European Union.In a frank interview with Belgian newspaper de Standaard, Mr Barroso admits that he is eyeing the new treaty with some concern as it risks seeing member states circumvent both the commission and European Parliament and take decisions among themselves.If the new treaty is ratified, which I strongly hope, we will have to make sure that its changes are not abused to reduce the de facto power of the European institutions.Member states are currently putting the final touches on the EU treaty which is hoped will be in force by 2009.Amongst its most noticeable changes is the introduction of a possible five-year term president of the EU council - the 27 member states' decision making body - and an EU foreign minister.

Depending on the personalities of the people who occupy the posts, they have the potential to thoroughly shake-up the way the union currently runs its day-to-day business. The treaty also sets the stage for a power struggle between the commission president, council president and foreign minister who all to a certain extent represent the bloc towards the outside world. With Mr Barroso eyeing a second term as commission president from 2009, he could be in the thick of the changes.He suggests that the new longterm council president, which replaces the current system of rotation between countries every six months, could lead to a new circuit being created outside the Commission and the Parliament. The danger exists that the governments will handle problems among themselves, without taking into account the European institutions, said the Portuguese politician.Some member states do not accept that there is an European interest, which is different from a compromise between member states. I constantly explain to the British that the common market, in which they are the champions, is impossible without strong European institutions, such as the Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court [of Justice].

At the moment, the commission's main duty is as guardian of the EU treaty. It keeps an eye on member states to see if they are upholding law, referring to the court if it suspects they are in breach of it. Its other main duty is to propose EU law, the sole institution that may do so. More generally it acts as broker between countries and should represent a European view point.

Rice pushes 3 Latin America trade pacts By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Tue Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Congress to pass three Latin American free trade agreements, saying defeat of the deals would be a tremendous blow to America's standing in the region. Rice said Tuesday that such a defeat would be a serious setback for the leaders of Peru, Panama and Colombia and their efforts to strengthen democracy in their countries.It would send a signal loud and clear across the region that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its promises, she said in a speech at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.Rice's speech was part of a concerted administration effort to jump-start its stalled trade agenda in the face of rising unhappiness as America's trade deficits have soared to record highs.

In the past two weeks, key House and Senate panels have approved a deal with Peru, putting it on track to be the first free trade deal passed by Congress since Democrats took control of the House and Senate at the beginning of the year.The deal with Peru and a separate free trade agreement with Panama are given good chances of passage by Congress this year, but approval of an agreement with Colombia is seen as less likely because of concerns about human rights there.The administration also has a free trade agreement pending before Congress with South Korea but that agreement is also given less of a chance of winning approval this year because of unhappiness with Korea's barriers to U.S. auto and beef shipments.Rice said increased economic ties with the United States would help support the spreading movement toward democracy and free markets in Latin America.The exceptions to this rule may be noisy but they are heading in the opposite direction of the hemisphere, Rice said, not naming any particular country, although she later said that the United States was preparing for a transition to a democratic government in Cuba.

ISRAELI GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., October 9, 2007) -- As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace summit approaches next month, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is actually suggesting his government is now open to the previously unthinkable prospect of dividing their capital city of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it be the right deal today for the Palestinians, the Western world and the international community to recognize (Israel's) annexation of...(Jewish) neighborhoods as part of Jerusalem, and for us to quit the Arab neighborhoods? Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio.
Reuters reported that Ramon made the comments as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators opened talks at a secret location in Israel over a joint document they hoped to present at a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood. A spokesman for Olmert later called speculation that the government would divide Jerusalem baseless and untrue, but Ramon's comments were public and on-the-record which is what is fueling the enormous concern and speculation.

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu quickly and strongly denounced the government's talk of giving up control of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) as well as East Jerusalem as dangerous and destabilizing, especially in light of the rising Hamas and Iranian threats to the Jewish State...."The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon created an Iranian outpost -= from which Israel is being attacked -- in the North, and the unilateral pullout from Gaza created a second Iranian base in Gaza, Hamastan,Netanyahu said on the floor of the Knesset. And now the government is planning a third withdrawal -- from Judea and Samaria -- that will lead to a third Iranian outpost....Giving Hamas half of Jerusalem will make the rest of Jerusalem unlivable. Giving up Judea and Samaria will transfer the areas controlling the coastal plain into the hands of Hamas, leading to Kassams…on Tel Aviv....according to the government's plans, Israel will pull back to the 67 borders. Obviously, this is the plan and any attempts to disguise it are futile. We are facing an exact replica of the government's plan at the Camp David summit in 2000....This is no way to make peace.Netanyahu is right. This would be a stunning and misguided move, and one that would further divide the Israeli public at a time unity is desperately needed. A recent poll found 63% of Israelis are opposed to dividing the Holy City. Even Olmert's cabinet is sharply divided on the issue.

The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, said Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former chief of staff and a member of the Prime Minister's own Kadima party. Now is the time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), not carve it up and serve it to the radical Islamic jihadists now in charge of the Palestinian Authority.

JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:

* Please keep praying for our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, especially those who live in Gaza. Pray that the would be strong and courageous and especially bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies, as Jesus commanded us to do. Remember that earlier this summer, radical Islamic jihadists blew up the Bible book store in Gaza, run by the Palestinian Bible Society. There is a concerted effort to intimidate and silence evangelical believers in the West Bank and Gaza. Let us, therefore, not cease to pray.

* Here are excerpts from an email I received yesterday from a dear friend who works closely with our brothers and sisters in Gaza: Rami was targeted because of his heart for lost Muslims and was told that he was being watched. Rami was one of the most gifted of the young leaders at the Bible Society. Saturday night he finished his work and then locked the doors of the Bible Society. One young woman from Gaza put it this way: He locked the doors and headed home. His earthly home was about 15 minutes away, but instead he was taken to his Heavenly home. Rami was kidnapped and finally killed Saturday night. He was stabbed repeatedly and then shot. The Islamic terrorists threw his body from a car at 2 AM on Sunday morning. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility yet and Pastor Hanna says the details are still sketchy. One thing is clear, this dear brother would not be intimidated by threats, harassment, persecution, and even death. He stayed strong until the end and will be given a martyrs crown in Heaven. His funeral was today. He is with Jesus right now. Pastor Jack Sara in Jerusalem says that this is the first Palestinian martyr that they know of. The believers in Gaza have been experiencing all out persecution since Hamas took over the Strip. It looks like Islamic Sharia law is just around the corner in Gaza. Please pray for his sweet wife Pauline. Obviously, she is devastated. Pastor Hanna and the believers in Gaza have rallied together and are at her side. This is difficult since the Christian community in Gaza is laying low because of continual threats....Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2:10. Rami has now received his eternal crown.

* An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a dictator and scuffling with hard-line students at Tehran University, reports the New York Times. Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of death to the dictator and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. Please pray for the pro-democracy forces to gain strength in Iran and for regime change that will remove Ahmadinejad and his allies from power.

* Pray, too, for the rapidly growing Christian awakening in Iran. In 1979, there were only 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity in all of Iran. Today, there are more than 1 million. What's more, Persian evangelical leaders tell me that an estimated 10,000 new house churches are expected to be formed in Iran over the next twelve months.

* We are in talks with several wonderful organizations in Israel and the surrounding region on ways to help them expand their humanitarian relief efforts. This is all part of OPERATION EPICENTER, our three-year initiative to get more than $120 million worth of aid into the Mideast to care for the poor and needy and to pre-position supplies ahead of coming wars. Please pray that these talks go well and that the Lord would provide the financial and human resources we need to bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. Thanks so much.

Hamas seeks Fatah talks, hints at giving up Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Wed Oct 10, 6:51 PM ET

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Wednesday it would hold reconciliation talks with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hinted it might be ready to cede control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in June. Abbas, who is pursuing a peace deal with Israel, has ruled out dialogue with Islamist Hamas unless it submits anew to his authority and gives up Gaza. Israel and the West want Hamas shunned until it accepts coexistence with the Jewish state.There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals, said Ismail Haniyeh, who was Hamas prime minister in the former government that Abbas declared void.Our administration in Gaza is temporary, Haniyeh said in an urgent bulletin posted on a pro-Hamas Web site. He said the talks would be held after Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan and falls on Friday or Saturday.

Foreign sanctions and an Israeli blockade have driven Gaza ever deeper into poverty and isolation, and put pressure on Hamas to find a breakthrough without compromising its doctrines.An official involved in Hamas-Fatah mediation but affiliated with neither group confirmed there would be a meeting as early as next week, and said Cairo was the likely venue.But a senior Abbas aide, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, denied talks had been set and accused Hamas, which has been vying with Fatah for Palestinian support since the factions fought a brief civil war in June, of trying to mislead the public.We have not heard about such a dialogue, Abdel-Rahman, who is also a Fatah spokesman, told Reuters. Hamas, he said, wanted to create a false positive atmosphere in Gaza so they can say they are the advocates of dialogue and Fatah rejects it.Abbas has made a precondition of factional talks that Hamas relinquishes the Fatah-linked security compound its forces overran. A senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said such a gesture could come only as a result of dialogue being under way.Israel, whose prime minister, Ehud Olmert, will attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood with Abbas next month, opposes reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.

ABBAS OUTLINES PALESTINE VISION

Israel believes that Hamas should be kept out of the game as it is a consistent detriment to any chance for progress between Israel and the Palestinians, Olmert spokesman David Baker said in Jerusalem.Haniyeh's statement came hours after Abbas, apparently staking out a position ahead of the November conference, said a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza must cover the same amount of land as Israel seized there 40 years ago.Abbas also raised the possibility of amending the pre-1967 lines as long as Palestinians ended up controlling territory equal to what Israeli forces captured in a war that year.All Israeli governments since the 1967 conflict have ruled out a complete pullback to pre-war boundaries, citing security concerns and the Jewish state's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians want the eastern part of the holy city, which Israel annexed, as capital of their future state.

The U.S. government has backed the idea of a small territorial exchange between Israel and a future Palestine so that Palestinians would be compensated for Jewish settlement blocs that would remain under Israeli control in any peace deal.Negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem and millions of Palestinian refugees broke down in 2001 amid surging violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Dan Williams in Jerusalem)