MINISTRIES RAKED OVER THE COALS

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.

Dutch, British flood fears ease after surge passes By Niclas Mika Fri Nov 9, 7:48 AM ET

HEADLAND NEAR ROZENBURG, Netherlands (Reuters) - The Netherlands and Britain closed sea defense barriers, airlifted hundreds of North Sea oil rig workers and evacuated thousands of people as wind-driven storm swells coincided with high tides. The Dutch coast and the east of England were hit in the early hours of Friday, but no major flooding was reported and North Sea oil production was starting up again.The surge did not breach the storm barrier near Rotterdam, although Europe's biggest port, which is a major transit point for oil and other commodities, was expected to stay shut to shipping until the evening despite the tides receding.About 60 ships will be affected as result of the barrier, built in the 1990s, being closed for the first time.
The oil and gas workers were airlifted from North Sea platforms after forecasters predicted 20-metre (66 foot) waves in the open sea and strong winds. At least nine platforms producing several hundred thousands barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) were shut down.

StatoilHydro, the biggest operator in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, said on Friday that production had been hit less than feared and fields were restarting.In the Netherlands, some sea defenses were being reopened while in Britain police said flood defenses had been breached in Great Yarmouth in eastern England, but there was no danger to homes. A few surfers in wet suits tried to catch a wave as the sun rose.

NO LONGER HIGH TIDE

Further surges were expected south along the coast towards Kent, in the south east, and London, but they would not coincide with high tide. The Thames barrier protecting the capital was closed on Thursday.Dutch officials reported minimal flooding after water levels peaked at 3.16 meters above mean sea level on the south coast. Floods in 1953, that killed over 2,000 people, peaked at 3.85 meters in the Netherlands and 3.28 meters in Britain.Dutch forecasters predicted continuing storms along the coast with wind gusts of more than 100 km per hour (62 mph).A spokesman for Britain's Environment Agency said Friday's tides peaked at 2.75 meters above normal compared with fears they would reach 3 meters.
You can say that you're through the worst of it, but vigilance is the word. It is still wild and windy out there, a he said. The difference between now and 1958 is we've got far improved flood defense systems and warning systems in place.British police in Norfolk said people in 7,500 homes in the Great Yarmouth area had been advised to leave and more than 200 elderly residents were evacuated from care homes.Hundreds of families moved into school buildings where local authorities said they had room for 3,500 people. Highways and railways to Great Yarmouth were closed.(Additional reporting by Harro ten Wolde, Catherine Hornby in Amsterdam; Tim Castle and Peter Graff in London; Editing by Matthew Jones)

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
November 9, 2007
Dear Friend of Israel,

On November 9-10, 1938, Jews in Germany endured two nights of terror. It was Kristallnacht the night of broken glass. With the encouragement of the German government, Nazis and their supporters attacked Jews and destroyed synagogues and Jewish-owned homes and businesses. German Jews had suffered under oppressive laws for years. But Kristallnacht was a turning point the beginning in earnest of the Holocaust that ultimately led to the slaughter of millions of European Jews.The Holocaust was a uniquely horrible chapter in human history. But, as we mark this somber anniversary of Kristallnacht, it is important to note that the hatred of Jews that ultimately resulted in the Holocaust is not a thing of the past. I long for the time when I can say that Jews were no longer in danger simply for being Jews. But, sadly, that time is not now. Across the globe, there appears to be a rise in violence against Jews, hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and vandalism against Jewish property. Here are just a few of the most recent incidents:

Last week, in what officials described as arson, a Jewish school in Kiev, Ukraine, burned to the ground. The vandals who perpetrated this act had earlier hurled a rock through the window of the school with a note attached that read Death to Jews.In a recent radio address, Alexander Lukashenko, president of the former Soviet republic of Belarus, complained that Jewish residents of the city of Bobruisk turned the city into a pig sty. Twelve years earlier, he spoke admiringly of the Nazi regime that ruled Germany during World War II, saying that the country attained its peak under Hitler.In Wellington, New Zealand, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated for the third time in as many years. Vandals painted anti-Semitic slogans such as Hitler RIP and Terror state Israel burn across gravestones. The Jewish community in suburban Melbourne, Australia, is on alert after two attacks by baseball bat-wielding thugs against Jewish teenagers. While vacationing in Greece last month, a young man from Tel Aviv was beaten by a group of youngsters shouting anti-Semitic slurs.

The incidents above and there have been many more like them in recent months show why those of us who love Israel and are committed to supporting the Jewish people must always be vigilant. What has been called the longest and deepest hatred of human history is not just a historic relic. Tragically, it is alive and well around the globe.Rescuing Jewish people from anti-Semitic oppression is one of the urgent goals of The Fellowship’s On Wings of Eagles program. Since its launch, The Fellowship and its caring partners have helped tens of thousands of Jews return to Israel, the land given to them by God, where they are free to live and openly practice their faith as Jews. On Wings of Eagles also helps them become established as full, productive citizens in Israel.
I thank God for the you and the caring friends of The Fellowship who pray and provide support to help rescue those suffering from the cruel injustice of anti-Semitism through On Wings of Eagles. May you be blessed, as you have blessed His children.

With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International fellowship of Christians and Jews.

France, Spain and Italy back European Union blue card

09 Nov 2007 bbj.huThe European Commission’s recent proposal for a blue card to attract highly skilled talent from outside the European Union has garnered some unlikely supporters.France, Italy and Spain, the southern EU states most affected by illegal immigration, are backing the plan. We need to have integrated (EU) policies, not only in fighting illegal immigration but also ... to channel in an orderly fashion immigrants who come to work on the EU territory, said Spanish Secretary of State for Migration, Maria Consuelo Rumi Ibanez.France’s ambassador to the EU also praised the blue card as a move forward in attracting highly skilled migrants to the 27-member bloc. Italy also supports the plan. However, Austria kept the proposal at arms length, with Interior Minister Gunter Platter stating that his nation should exercise due caution not to produce unwished for further migratory flows. He said that each EU nations should be responsible in determining the amount of immigration into their countries and that preference should be given to EU workers. Finland Immigration Minister Astrid Thors wondered how a scheme could work which - as one of its main features - allows a highly skilled migrant to move from one EU nation to another, when each EU state wants to control the amount of migration over its borders. Franco Frattini of the European Commission stated that highly skilled migrants only accounted for 0.9% of the EU labor force, compared with 9.9% in Australia and 3.5% in the United States.

The blue card, inspired by the US green card, would require a qualified highly skilled migrant to have a job offer for at least one year, a salary three times the local minimum wage, and health insurance. It would be valid for an renewable period of two years. After two years, a blue card holder could move to another EU state. (workpermit.com)

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

None dare call it conspiracy
By Hal Lindsey - November 9, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern

Crude oil prices hit an all-time high this week, closing above $98 a barrel for the first time in history. According to the AAA, many drivers in my home state of California are already paying more than $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gas. And in one town south of Big Sur, unleaded gas topped $5 a gallon. The U.S. dollar is at an all-time low, even when compared against the hapless Canadian loonie. Five years ago, a loonie was worth 60 cents. Today, it's worth $1.12 and climbing. Yesterday, WorldNetDaily reported that the Chinese are considering abandoning the U.S. dollar as their national reserve currency. WND quoted Craig Smith's assessment of the consequences of such a move by Beijing on our economy: If that were to happen, all bets are off, and we will be in a depression that makes 1929 look like child's play, or we will experience Weimar Republic inflation as the dollar makes extreme moves toward devaluations.

On Tuesday, the U.S. national debt topped $9 trillion for the first time in history, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's daily accounting of the national debt. Nine trillion dollars! The number is so staggeringly high that it exceeds our ability to comprehend it in monetary units. Million, billion, trillion – in financial terms, for most of us, it means a lot of money, really a lot of money, but that is about as specific a picture as most ordinary people can grasp. Let's put all these illions into perspective. A million seconds is roughly 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is approximately 32 years. We understand dollars. And we understand time. So it would take 12 days to pay back a million dollars at a dollar a second. But if you started right now, you'd pay back a BILLION dollars, at a dollar a second, in the year 2039. A trillion seconds is roughly 32 thousand years. At a dollar a second, you'd pay back a TRILLION dollars in the year 34007. The U.S. debt stands at $9 trillion. If my calculator is working, then at a dollar a second, the U.S. could be debt- free in the year 290007. The point of that little exercise was two-fold. The first was to clarify the sheer volume of the debt; the second was to demonstrate the possibility that anybody in government really believes we can ever pay it off. Each U.S. citizen's share of the national debt works out, according to the National Debt clock, to $29,947.50. That means the average American family of five owes, collectively, $149,737.50.

It also means that unless the average American family of five has a net worth of at least $149,737,50 in assets excluding liabilities (they don't), America is already bankrupt. Over the past few years, there has been growing public concern about the emerging Security and Prosperity Partnership plan that some say is really a deceptive roadmap to a coming North American Union and a new, unified currency tentatively called the amero.The feds steadfastly deny such a plan exists, even as it opens the borders to Mexican truck traffic, widens the I-35 corridor from Mexico to Canada and, counterintuitively, refuses to tighten the borders with either Mexico or Canada, despite both logic and widespread public demand. All of these things have brought me to believe that powerful forces outside of our government – like the shadowy international Money Trust members of the Bilderberg Group – made a decision to force the formation of the North American Union along with the amero. There decisions have been instituted in the past via the Trilateral Commission, which is the dba for the nefarious Conference on Foreign Relations. Destroying the American dollar could force the crisis that would force the creation of the North American Union. To quote the title of a book of the 1960s era, None Dare Call It Conspiracy.Ordinary Americans may not fully grasp just how dire the true economic picture is, but you can bet our leaders do. Yet from the White House to the Federal Reserve, nobody seems particularly eager to address the issue, preferring instead to talk about the budget, as if the budget WERE the debt, rather than merely a measure of our ability to keep up with our payments on the debt. It is almost as if they already have a Plan B in reserve, ready and waiting to be triumphantly introduced – just in the nick of time. I wonder what it might be?

SATAN CAN ONLY TRY TO DESTROY MINISTRIES BY COMING AGAINST THEIR PROSPERITY. THE WORLD DOES NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RICH SKINFLINTS OF THE WORLD, BUT PROSPER IN A MINISTRY AND YOUR DOOMED. THE BIBLE SAYS THE WEALTH OF THE SINNER IS BUILT UP FOR THE CHRISTIANS SO DON"T WORRY THE TABLES WILL BE TURNED IN THESE LAST DAYS.

Senate Panel Probes 6 Top Televangelists
Sen. Charles Grassley Asks Ministries To Turn Over Financial Records Within One Month Nov. 6, 2007

Senator Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked six televangelist ministries to provide, by Dec. 6th, financial statements and records for an investigation into possible impropriety. (AP)(CBS) This story was written and reported by Laura Strickler of the CBS News Investigative Unit. CBS News has learned Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating six prominent televangelist ministries for possible financial misconduct. Letters were sent Monday to the ministries demanding that financial statements and records be turned over to the committee by December 6th. According to Grassley's office, the Iowa Republican is trying to determine whether or not these ministries are improperly using their tax-exempt status as churches to shield lavish lifestyles. The six ministries identified as being under investigation by the committee are led by: Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn. Three of the six - Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar - also sit on the Board of Regents for the Oral Roberts University.

A spokesperson for Joyce Meyer Ministries provided CBS News with an IRS letter to the ministry dated October 10, 2007, that stated: We determined that you continue to qualify as an organization exempt from Federal income tax. The letter could not be independently verified in time for this story. The ministry also pointed to audited financial statements for the last three years that are posted on the organization's Web site. In a statement, Benny Hinn's spokesperson, Ronn Torossian, said the ministry is in the process of determining the best course of action in response to the Senate investigation. World Healing Center Church complies with the laws that govern church and non-profit organizations and will continue to do so, Torossian wrote. Eddie Long's New Birth Ministries says he has received the request for information from the U.S. Senate and plans to fully comply. New Birth Ministries has several safeguards put in place to ensure all transactions are in compliance with laws applicable to churches.In a statement to CBS News, Creflo Dollar called his ministry an open book and said he would comply with any valid request from Grassley. But he noted that the inquiry raised questions that could affect the privacy of every community church in America.Paula White is also expressing concern about precedents that could be set by turning over the requested information. We take our financial responsibilities to our partners very seriously and to the best of our knowledge we comply with all tax laws. Our audited financial statements appear on our website, said White, in a statement. However, we are concerned about the possible precedent and ramifications of this request. We will be reviewing the request and its implications in detail over the coming weeks as we prepare our response.Because they have tax status as churches, the ministries do not have to file IRS 990 forms like other non-profit organizations - leaving much financial information largely behind closed doors.

The letters sent Monday were the culmination of a long investigation fueled in part by complaints from Ole Anthony, a crusader against religious fraud who operates the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, which describes itself as a watchdog monitoring religious media, fraud and abuse. We've been working with them for two years, Anthony told CBS News. We have furnished them with enough information to fill a small Volkswagen.Anthony said after twenty years of working with media organizations to expose televangelists, he saw little reform. He says that's why he turned to another tactic, going straight to Grassley. He is confident that Grassley's inquiry will be different, What we hope is that this will lead to reform in religious nonprofits.The structure of many televangelist organizations - in which the leadership is often concentrated in one person or one family - has itself been the target of criticism. Churches like these are ruled as a dictatorship, says Rod Pitzer, who directs research at Ministry Watch in North Carolina, which provides advice for donors to Christian organizations. Pitzer welcomes the Senate committee investigation. Ministries lacking accountability, he says, give a black eye to churches and Christians who are trying to do things in the right manner.By Laura Strickler © MMVII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

REVELATION 17:1-2
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)

IM NOT IMPRESED WITH THIS STORY TONY BLAIR WILL BE CONVERTING TO CATHLCISM OUCH.

Tony Blair will covert to Catholic faith within weeks
08.11.07

Tony Blair is preparing to convert to Roman Catholicism within weeks, it emerged last night. The news prompted demands from followers of the faith for the former prime minister to renounce his previous support for abortion. Mr Blair's long-expected switch to the faith of his wife and four children is expected to come at a Mass in the private chapel of Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O'Connor, the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales. The Catholic newspaper The Tablet says the service of conversion will take place this month. Mr Blair has regularly attended Catholic services in recent years, both with his family and alone. He has also visited Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II.

The Tablet said Mr Blair has received instruction from two priests, RAF chaplain John Walsh and Father Mark O'Toole, the cardinal's secretary. A candidate for reception into the Catholic Church is usually received by their parish priest. The cardinal's involvement, as Archbishop of Westminster, would suggest Mr Blair's process of conversion began while he was in Downing Street. Mr Blair's spokesman did not deny the report, saying: This is the same old speculation, but a friend said it was not without substance. News of the imminent move drew calls from leading Catholics for Mr Blair to renounce his backing in Parliament for abortion up to 24 weeks. Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, who converted to Catholicism over her opposition to women priests in the Church of England, said: I hope we will get a public statement repudiating his votes on abortion. Indeed, the Church will require it. The Church requires that we say at the point of reception that everything the Church teaches is revealed truth. There's no hedging.

Mr Blair has taken a very public stand on the matter of abortion, and the Church stand being very publicly different, we are entitled to know what he now thinks. Without that, it cannot possibly be a serious move.As premier, Mr Blair clashed frequently with Catholic leaders over his liberal attitudes to gay rights and other issues.

• Roman Polanski is to make the film version of The Ghost, a novel about a disgraced former premier which author Robert Harris admits was inspired by Mr Blair. Mr Harris was once a trusted friend of Mr Blair, but they fell out over the invasion of Iraq.

Mideast religious leaders say they vital to peace
Wed Nov 7, 2007

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - In an unusual joint appearance, senior Israeli and Palestinian religious leaders said on Wednesday they were not a roadblock to peace in the Middle East but a vital part of the process.Dressed in traditional religious garb, the chief rabbis of Israel sat alongside Muslim leaders and Christian patriarchs and said they had agreed on steps to help resolve the conflict.It is our responsibility to find the right way to live together in peace rather than to fight and kill one another, the leaders, who make up the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, said in a joint statement.The leaders said they had agreed that each religious community should respect other faiths' holy sites. They said they wanted to set up a hot line of rapid communication among the groups to deal with issues of protection and access to holy sites to avoid clashes.They also said they wanted to demonstrate through their relations that differences could be addressed through dialogue, not violence.This opportunity and this interfaith dialogue can really much help in moving the peace process forward, said Salah Zuhayka, assistant secretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs.

While they had not reached any agreement on the status of Jerusalem, the council agreed to seek a common vision for this city which all of us regard as holy.The statement was issued during a gathering of the council in Washington, where they were also meeting with U.S. lawmakers.Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, said the united front should help in the quest for peace.This gathering here today is really proof that it is important for political leaders to recognize and to take comfort in the fact that the religious leaders are on their side in working for peace, McCarrick told a news conference.The meeting of religious leaders comes weeks before a Middle East conference with Israelis and Palestinians was expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland.We are not a problem. We are part of the solution, said Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Catholic Church's leader in the Holy Land.We are here to say no political solution can work without the religious dimension. To ignore it is a guarantee that it will fail, said Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee, who spoke on behalf of the chief rabbis of Israel.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Rabbis slam Jerusalem share plan
09/11/2007 By Mordechai Beck Jerusalem

The prospect of Israel returning parts of Jerusalem to Arab control has sparked widespread dismay in the Orthodox world. Israel’s Deputy Premier, Haim Ramon, recently suggested that the ceding of all-Arab neighbourhoods in the city to the Palestinian Authority could be on the agenda of the forthcoming Annapolis peace talks. But Orthodox rabbis have been lining up to condemn the very thought of compromise over the city, whose sanctity to the Jewish people they consider of such transcendent value that it brooks no argument.Around 100 strictly Orthodox rabbis recited special prayers in the Old City’s Ramban synagogue last month in order to rescind what the influential Charedi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv bewailed as the dreadful decree. Pikuach Nefesh, a rabbinic organisation claiming 1,200 members in Israel and abroad, has also bid them to speak out against Ramon’s proposals. Rabbi Yakov Yosef, of Jerusalem, urging others to join a call for the minister to resign, accused him of attempting to steal from the people of Israel the remnants of our Holy Temple.Rabbi Yosef Gorelitsky, who chairs Pikuach Nefesh, also weighed in: In addition to the desecration of the Temple Mount, [Ramon’s] plan will lead directly –– Heaven forfend –– to the spilling of Jewish blood throughout the land. Does anyone have any doubt that every centimetre handed over to the Palestinians will become the base for yet more terror?

Rabbi David Druckman, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Motskin, near Haifa, hoped the government will wake up and change the direction of the horrendous path upon which it is marching, and take a firm stand regarding the borders of the Holy Land; this is the only way to receive God’s promised blessing of peace.Eli Yishai, head of Shas, the Sephardi Orthodox party, and a member of Israel’s ruling coalition, was adamant that Jerusalem is not for negotiation… He who begins by relinquishing Shu’afat, and Anata [Arab neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem] will end up with a foreign rule over Rehavia [a particularly plush district in West Jerusalem].
Rabbi Daniel Sperber, a British-born professor at Bar Ilan University, and a resident of the Old City, emphasised the consequences of previous concessions by Israeli governments. The Oslo Accords of 1993 led to the second intifada, and the withdrawal from Gush Katif has encouraged the endless rocket attacks from Gaza, he argued: Why would a withdrawal from part of Jerusalem be any different?

Protests have also come from beyond Israel. The leaders of America’s mainstream Orthodox organisation, the Orthodox Union, told Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a letter that they were mandated to undertake all efforts that are necessary to secure and maintain Yerushalayim as the eternal and undivided capital of the State of Israel.One of the few Orthodox rabbis who could be said to support Mr Ramon’s suggestions is fellow MK Rabbi Michael Melchior (Labour-Meimad), a former Minister for Diaspora Affairs. But even he has reservations about the Deputy Prime Minister’s plans for the Old City and the Temple Mount.His proposals mostly repeat those accepted by the government in 2001, Rabbi Melchior said. These divide East Jerusalem between Israel and the PA, and place the holy sites under the aegis of the appropriate religious authority, with no national flags in sight. I see no reason why not to continue to accept this now. Obviously there has to be a creative solution for the Old City, a special type of jurisprudence to govern it.But other rabbis strike a more ominous note. Rabbi Shimon Naftalis, a Lubavitcher, who professes little faith in politicians, says: They say one thing today, and another tomorrow. They talk and talk but in the end they give everything away. This is even more true of Likud. Ramon in Kadima is basically a Likudnik. I’m very pessimistic. The Satmarer Rebbe [the late Rabbi Yoel Teitenbaum] predicted that the secular Zionist state would fall apart in this manner. I think the Arabs have already won and it’s only a question of time before the state disappears.

LUKE 19:37-40
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

2,000 year old tunnel discovered in Jerusalem
Dennis Rodriquez - 11/7/07 Section:

Technology is taking the world into the future at warp speed and yet the past will not be left behind. Recently, the Associated Press reported that archaeologists, under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, discovered a tunnel while looking for ancient Jerusalem's main road. In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Nadav Shragai quoted archaeologists Roni Reich and Eli Shukrun as confirming that this was the tunnel that Flavius Josephus, eyewitness to the city's siege, occupation, and destruction, had recorded as a place of refuge for the Jewish people.After three years of fierce and courageous resistance, the city of Jerusalem fell to the Roman armies, who in turn leveled the city to its foundations. This included tearing down the center of Jewish life, the Temple.In the Bible, Jesus had prophesied that this destruction would take place approximately 40 years prior to its occurrence.

The year was 70 A.D. and the Romans enslaved or slaughtered many of the Jewish inhabitants. Some escaped into a water drainage tunnel under the city's main road where they hid before fleeing through the city's southern gate.Pottery shards and coins, dating from the Second Temple period, which coincided with the period of the city's destruction, were found in the tunnel.The 70 meter section that was unearthed is located between the Temple Mount and the Pool of Siloam. It is believed that the tunnel connects to another major tunnel in the Western wall area and reaches down to the Kidron River. The tunnel passes through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and the western part of the City of David.Important simply on its existence, the tunnel attests to the intelligence, ingenuity, and long-standing presence of the Jewish people in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem in particular.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Israel gets US aid for anti-missile system Thu Nov 8, 10:24 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The United States has given Israel 155 million dollars to develop an advanced missile interception system, Defence Minister Ehud Barak's office said in a statement on Thursday. The money, which Congress approved on Wednesday, will help advance the development of a multi-layered anti-missile system that Barak presented to his US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington last month, the statement said.The system, dubbed David's Sling, is intended to counter projectiles ranging from rudimentary rockets of the sort frequently used by Gaza militants to long-range missiles like those in the arsenal of Israel's arch foe Iran.Israel has already successfully tested and deployed its Arrow anti-missile system, jointly developed with the United States, which is said to be able to deflect most missile strikes against the Jewish state.Widely seen as the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel considers Iran its chief enemy after repeated statements from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.

PA Document Demands 6-Month Max on Final Status Talks

(IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian Authority is demanding a ceiling of six months on final status talks to take place following the Middle East summit to be held in Annapolis.According to PA sources quoted by Haaretz, a document prepared recently by the PA insists that the guarantee be written into the joint statement with Israel to be signed at the summit.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice already informed PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) that America will veto the demand.

DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)

Post-enlargement stress
Nov 8th 2007 From The Economist print edition
Support for European Union expansion is under new threat
Illustration by Peter Schrank

EVEN by the standards of Brussels, where rhetoric and reality lead separate lives, this week has been jarring. The highlight, on November 6th, was the unveiling by the European Commission of its annual reports on the countries next in line for European Union membership. Over the years, the commission has tried to make the accession process as technocratic as possible, in the hope that procedural momentum can carry it over political potholes. As usual, this year's reports had a deadpan tone, mixing nicely understated criticism (in Croatia, the concept of conflict of interest is little understood) with slightly alarming praise (complaints about torture in Turkey are down, Albania has a handy new law aimed at instigators of blood feuds).An accompanying strategy paper was more stirring, reminding national governments why it is important to keep the door open. EU expansion has made Europe more democratic and stable, reunited a once-divided continent and injected competitiveness into a block only patchily prepared for globalisation. But then came the jarring moment, as breaking news intruded.

Even as enlargement bosses were making the case for offering EU citizenship to millions of Turks, as well as Croats and other Balkan inhabitants in the medium to long term, other officials were dealing with events in Italy, where the government has passed a decree to permit the expulsion of EU immigrants deemed a threat to public order. Commission officials confirmed that an EU citizen's freedom to travel can be trumped in this way, as long as expulsions do not target whole ethnic groups or nationalities. Even that proviso looked threadbare when grim-faced Italian police, backed by bulldozers, swept through shanty towns full of Romanians. Giuliano Amato, Italy's interior minister, said that the EU's rules on free movement were inadequate in the face of the arrival of 500,000 Romanians.Enlargement already conjures up scary images for many: factories being moved east in search of low-cost labour, cheap workers (Polish plumbers) moving west, gripes about new members being too pro-American and too quick to provoke Russia. If it comes to be associated with uncontrolled migration, that will have serious consequences.In a 2006 opinion poll, for example, British voters narrowly backed the entry of Turkey by 42-39%, even though this prospect gives others the vapours (81% of Austrians were against, said the same poll). British ministers have long led the camp making the strategic case for Turkey's admission (often in vain, as many in Brussels assume that British enthusiasm is just a ploy to widen the club to the point of irrelevance, following the principle that one can also kill a cat with cream). Yet even in Britain the ground may be shifting, as the press fills with shrill stories about new migrants from central and eastern Europe. For years, Neil O'Brien, director of a Eurosceptic campaign outfit, Open Europe, has asked British focus groups what the words European Union bring to mind. In the past, the reply has usually been red tape and gravy trains. But his most recent focus group offered a new word: immigration.

One does not, in any case, have to be an opponent of enlargement to feel uneasy about the countries now waiting in line. Turkey and the remaining Balkan candidates are hard cases: that is why they are still in the queue. The easy bits of the ex-communist world—fast-growing countries run by former dissidents or suave businessmen, their capitals filled with gems of Hanseatic or Habsburg architecture—joined the club in 2004. There is also a belief that, to quote a diplomat, Romania and Bulgaria came in too soon, and have been sliding away from reforms ever since. Admittedly, there have been problems absorbing new countries in the past—Greece and Portugal, for instance. But the process is more demanding now that the EU does so much. In the old days, new members were pressed to catch up economically and open their markets in exchange for dollops of aid. Now they must aim for membership of the single currency (Slovenia already uses the euro) and the border-free Schengen area (set to expand next month). The police and courts in all EU members are under closer scrutiny, thanks to the push for mutual recognition of each others' court judgments, and such new wheezes as the Europe-wide arrest warrant.

The grand bargain

The strategy for Turkey and the Balkans has so far meant avoiding two bad options: either letting new countries in too soon, or pushing entry so far off that they give up on reforms and turn their backs on Europe. This strategy has been pursued by means of a grand bargain: the EU gets to impose tough, painful conditions for entry, in return for being believed when it says that eventual membership is the destination. Alas, too many national governments have been muddling both messages.Thus France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said that Turkey should never join the EU, and indeed hinted that any further enlargement is by no means inevitable (although a committee on French constitutional reform chaired by a former prime minister, Edouard Balladur, recently recommended scrapping a provision dreamt up by Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, to put any EU enlargement after Croatia to French voters). On the other hand, there have also been mixed messages about the entry conditions. Croatia is not really ready to join, says one official (organised crime remains a big concern). But it will probably get the nod by 2010 or so, thanks to its friends in the Habsburg club of countries formerly in the Austro-Hungarian empire.The EU gets into its worst pickles when the gap between rhetoric and reality becomes too wide. Over enlargement, that moment may be near. The grand bargain with applicants is wobbling, and the pact of trust with EU citizens is in bad shape. Political leaders need to give this closer attention. Or it will not only be Brussels that is jarred by breaking news.