EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

HURRICANE - QUAKES

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR WILL BE A KING.

Time for Israel to appoint a king, scholar says
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=17448

Renowned Israeli biblical scholar and historian David Solomon last week said that conditions in Israel today are ripe for replacing democracy with theocratic monarchy and appointing a king.Speaking to Israel National Radio, Solomon said that the leadership and religious crises currently facing Israel mirror those during the time of the Prophet Samuel.Millennia ago, the people of Israel turned to Samuel to help them replace their form of government with a monarchy in order to alleviate the nation's problems.Just as then, many Israelis today might view a theocratic monarchy as a viable answer to Israel's disastrous absence of genuine political and spiritual and religious leadership, said Solomon.

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.

Paloma becomes Category 4 storm, heads toward Cuba By TRENT JACOBS, Associated Press Writer Saturday Nov. 8, 2008.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – Paloma became an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane on Saturday and was threatening to strike hurricane-ravaged Cuba, after knocking out power across much of Grand Cayman Island.The National Hurricane Center in Miami predicted Paloma will make landfall in Cuba as a major hurricane late Saturday or early Sunday with maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph (178 kph).

Cayman Brac, to the east of Grand Cayman, was still experiencing hurricane force winds that blew roofs off some buildings, although there were no reports of casualties, said Donovan Ebanks, chairman of the Hazard Management Committee.Cleva Jackson, a hotel owner on Grand Cayman, said she was still trying to get in touch with relatives in Cayman Brac who sought refuge in an emergency shelter where the roof partially collapsed.The roof had caved in and everyone was trying to find shelter in the kitchen, but I haven't heard anything from them, she said. We just can't get through.The late-season storm downed trees and flooded some low lying areas on Gran Cayman, but residents appeared to ride out the storm unscathed. Businesses reopened Saturday morning, and authorities were restoring power and water service.We have no reports of any injuries or casualties. Our indications are that there has been minimal if any damage on Grand Cayman, Ebanks said.Martin Richter, manager of a 100-year-old beachfront restaurant, said he was nonetheless relieved he spent most of Friday boarding up the business.We actually got very lucky on this one, he said. We've lived through a lot of storms, so we know what to do when they come. But this one looked a lot worse than it was.Paloma had top sustained winds near 140 mph (225 kph) Saturday morning. It was expected to bring total rainfall accumulations of 5 to 10 inches (12 to 25 centimeters) over the Cayman Islands as well as central and eastern Cuba.In an essay published Saturday in state media, former Cuban President Fidel Castro said Paloma would surely damage roads and new crops planted after hurricanes Gustav and Ike hit in late August and early September. Those two storms caused an estimated $9.4 billion in damage and destroyed nearly a third of Cuba's crops, causing widespread shortages of fresh produce.

Official Cuban newspaper Granma, recalling past late-season hurricanes such as a 1932storm that killed about 3,000 people, said Paloma poses a potential danger for the island.Havana's communist government activated the early stages of its highly organized civil defense system. In central and eastern Cuba, people were advised to stay tuned to state media for news of Paloma's progress and be ready to evacuate.

The center of Paloma was about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northeast of Grand Cayman and 130 miles (210 kilometers) southwest of Camaguey, Cuba. It was moving northeast near 9 mph (14 kilometers).The hurricane center said Paloma could bring battering waves and a life-threatening storm surge of up to 23 feet (7 meters) to parts of Cuba.Forecasters expect Paloma to weaken into a tropical storm after striking the island and then steer south of Florida into the Bahamas.

Power crews battle aftermath of Dakota blizzard By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer – Sat Nov 8, 10:19 am ET

BISMARCK, N.D. – Crews fought mud and water Friday as they tried to restore power after a fierce storm spread a wintry mix across the Dakotas, while authorities worked to remove snow-stranded vehicles that littered an interstate highway hours after their occupants were rescued.Blizzard warnings subsided, but thousands of customers in rural areas remained without power after freezing rain and high winds.

The Nodak Rural Electric Cooperative said it was trying to restore power to about 4,500 rural customers. Nodak President George Berg said that some areas got about 5 inches of rain, and that the freezing rain and winds toppled power lines and poles along a 40-mile path in five counties.Our biggest obstacle is not the snow, but all the mud and water, Berg said. One crew in northern Nelson County had to use a motorboat to reach a downed power pole submerged in water, he said.North Dakota's deer hunting season opened Friday, and Steele County Sheriff Wayne Beckman worried some hunters could mistake power crews for deer. Hunters and farmers should also be cautious of downed power lines, he said.It's dangerous out there; those fully charged lines could come down and, zappo, he said.Major North Dakota roads reopened Friday after blizzard conditions in the central and western parts of the state, but officials warned they were still icy and snow-covered.In South Dakota, the Highway Patrol worked through the night to rescue people stranded in their vehicles on snow-clogged highways in the western part of the state. About 300 people had been helped by Friday morning, authorities told reporters.A 180-mile stretch of Interstate 90, from central South Dakota to near the Wyoming line, was closed much of Friday while authorities removed stranded vehicles. Officials said I-90 would reopen Friday evening.Murdo was so full of stranded travelers Friday evening that some were staying at the city auditorium, including Mark Vandersnick. He was on his way home after taking his wife to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where she remained to get treatment for leukemia.I need to get back to Rapid City to see my kids, ages 9, 13 and 15, Vandersnick said.

Tom Dravland, secretary of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, said he doubted all the stranded trucks, cars, campers and other vehicles could be removed from the western sections of Interstate 90 by Friday's end.He said authorities hear from one truck driver who has been stranded east of Newell since Wednesday night. He has food and water and is doing well.He's just wondering when we're going to get there, Dravland said. It's slow going.There are no reports of anyone missing in the blizzard, and no fatalities have been reported.The storm dropped at least 45 inches of snow near Deadwood, S.D., in the Black Hills. In southwestern South Dakota, 20-foot snowdrifts were reported on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In both Dakotas, dozens of schools, agencies, businesses and attractions, including Mount Rushmore National Memorial, had to close.The storm also disrupted travel and electrical service for a time in Nebraska. About 4,500 customers were without power at the height of the storm, but most lights were back on by Friday morning, said Mark Becker, a spokesman for Nebraska Public Power District.More than a foot of snow fell near the small town of Voltaire, in north-central North Dakota. The rural home of retirees Ursula and Donald Wunderlich was surrounded by 50-foot-tall spruce and pine trees heavy with snow and ice. Those branches are loaded with snow, Ursula Wunderlich said, and if they break, they could really cause some whoop-de-do around here.Associated Press writers Chet Brokaw in Pierre, S.D., Dennis Gale in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Nelson Lampe in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.

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.

Large earthquake strikes off Indonesia: seismologists Fri Nov 7, 12:55 pm ET

JAKARTA (AFP) – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in waters off Indonesia's eastern Maluku Province early Saturday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no reports of damage.The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) at 1:04 am (1604 GMT Friday), the US Geological Survey said, 293 kilometres from Saumlaki, Tanimbar Islands.An official at the Indonesian Geophysics and Meteorological Agency confirmed there had been no reports of damage and the quake had not been felt anywhere.The agency measured the quake at 6.2 on the Richter scale, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a warning.The same area was hit by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake a week ago, but again there were no reports of damage or a tsunami warning.Indonesia was the nation worst hit by the earthquake-triggered Asian tsunami in December 2004, which killed 168,000 people in the country's Aceh province.The Indonesian archipelago sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where continental plates meet causing seismic and volcanic activity.

Quake strikes off Vanuatu Fri Nov 7, 5:33 am ET

SYDNEY (AFP) – A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck off the south Pacific island of Vanuatu on Friday, but there was no immediate tsunami warning or reports of casualties, seismologists said.The quake struck at 6:19 pm (0719 GMT), 320kilometres (195 miles) north of the capital Port Vila, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake was registered at a depth of 35 kilometres.Two aftershocks with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.3 struck roughly the same spot in the next half-hour.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii did not issue a tsunami alert for the region.
Vanuatu sits on the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.

Palin strikes back at critics
Dan Joling - Associated Press Writer - 11/8/2008 9:05:00 AM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin denounced anonymous criticisms leveled at her by former John McCain aides as lies, including allegations that Republican lawyers were traveling to Alaska to reclaim her high-priced wardrobe and that she didn't know Africa was a continent.(see video clip)Those accounts are not true, the former Republican vice presidential candidate said in her first public comments on the matter since the election Tuesday.Palin returned Friday to her Anchorage governor's office and said she had no immediate plans to build on her newfound national name-recognition and popularity with the Republican base for a possible 2012 presidential run.Instead, Palin said, she wanted only to get back to the governor's desk to advance a proposed pipeline tapping Alaska's vast North Slope natural gas reserves and to prepare Alaska's proposed 2010 budget.As for the vice presidential campaign, Palin denounced criticism from unidentified McCain campaign aides as cowardly. She said she found it frustrating trying to respond to false allegations when she didn't know who was making them.It's ridiculous, she told reporters. You guys report based on anonymous sources, so it's hard to have a defense.One report said she and her family went on a shopping spree, spending more than the $150,000 in clothing that the Republican National Committee had earlier reported.

The RNC purchased clothes, Palin said.Those are the RNC's clothes. They're not my clothes. I never forced anybody to buy anything. I never asked for anything more than maybe a Diet Dr Pepper once in a while.The RNC will inventory clothing it purchased for her to account for dollars spent, she said. She scoffed at reports that the RNC was sending lawyers to take back clothes from her home.It's not happening. Nobody's told me that they're coming to my house to look through closets, to look through anything. The belly of the plane that had clothes in it, and those clothes being packed up and sent back by staffers, perhaps that's what they're talking about, but these aren't attorneys.She said she wasn't angry at the continued coverage of her clothing, but mostly disappointed.This is Barack Obama's time right now, and this is an historic moment in our nation and this can be a shining moment for America and our history, and look what we're talking about. Again, we're talking about my shoes and belts and skirts. It's ridiculous.She also denied a report that she didn't know Africa was a continent, not a country, and that she didn't know the members of the North American Free Trade Agreement _ the United States, Canada and Mexico. She remembered discussing both Africa and Obama's stance on NAFTA with people preparing her for her debate, she said. Anything reported as a gaffe was taken out of context, she said.That's cruel. It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news. It's not fair and it's not right.Asked if she felt muzzled by her limited time with reporters during the campaign, Palin said the media is a cornerstone of democracy and an important part of the checks and balances on government.Heaven forbid that a candidate or an elected official shy way from speaking to the media, she said. So it was a little bit of a frustration that I didn't get to call more of those shots, and I guess that was sort of the rogue criticism was, She wants to talk to more of the media than perhaps some in the campaign wanted me to.Palin backed off from calling for the resignation of fellow Alaskan Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history. Stevens leads Democrat Mark Begich by about 3,500 votes with more than 50,000 to be counted.A Washington jury convicted Stevens on Oct. 27 of seven felony counts of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts, mostly renovations on his home. Stevens is appealing the verdict.The Alaska voters have spoken and me not being a dictator won't be telling anyone what to do, she said.Fellow senators have indicated they could boot Stevens.That's their baby, Palin said. They'll have to figure out what to do there.Palin said she was not interested in running for the job if it comes open.Not planning on that. Nope, she 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

WEBSTER TARPLY ON OBAMA - VIDEO 2 9 minutes
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2008/11/06-11-2008-men-behind-obama-posted-by.html#links

ECONOMY: G20 in New North-South Battle Written by Mario Osa
Saturday, 08 November 2008 17:15

SÃO PAULO, Nov 8 (IPS) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for a pact between governments to create a new global financial architecture, while stressing the need to open up the global financial bodies controlled by the industrialised world to emerging economies.In his opening speech to the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank presidents Saturday in Sao Paulo, Brazil's economic capital, President Lula described as irresponsible the disorder that has marked global finances in the past few years and is now threatening the real economy with a generalised recession, the loss of millions of jobs and a rise in poverty.

The Group of Seven richest nations (G7), where the crisis originatedàis no longer sufficient to govern the world's economic affairs, said Lula, who called for a new, more open and inclusive governance for the world's financial system.We are all paying for this adventure undertaken by speculators who made excessive profits, investing money that they didn't have, and turning the world into a gigantic casino, Lula complained.He also criticised the ”blind belief in the market's self-regulation capacity, pointing out that many of those who condemned state intervention in the economy are now turning to the state for help.Lula's address bolstered demands for greater participation in decision-making in institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the emerging economies that make up the Group of 20 (G20), along with the members of the G7 and the European Union, represented as a bloc.The IMF itself has recognised that the emerging countries currently account for 75 percent of the world's economic growth, Lula underscored.Furthermore, the current financial crisis has revealed weakness in risk management, regulation and supervision in the financial sectors of some advanced economies, said a joint statement released by the finance ministers of the leading emerging markets --
Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) -- after their first formal meeting, held on Friday ahead of the two-day G20 gathering.We call for the reform of multilateral institutions in order that they reflect the structural changes in the world economy and the increasingly central role that emerging markets now play, says the eight-point statement.BRIC, which has begun to act as a group, announced that it would hold another gathering of its ministers on the eve of the annual IMF and World Bank meetings in April.

Lula listed six principles that he said should govern the called-for institutional reforms. The first, representativeness and legitimacy, requires greater participation in decision-making by emerging and developing countries.The other five are collective action, given that the costs are shared; good governance in domestic markets, with greater regulation, supervision and risk evaluation; the responsibility of each country to avoid transferring risks and costs to others; transparency; and prevention.In the short term, developed countries and the IMF must come up with measures to restore liquidity in the international markets, said Lula, who rejected unilateral actions and added that Brazil believes countries must avoid the temptation of resorting to financial and trade protectionism as a mechanism to overcome the crisis.He also urged the quick completion of the Doha Round of World Trade Organisation multilateral trade negotiations, which he said were no longer an opportunity, but a need, because increased trade is an antidote to the crisis.The G20, whose action has so far been limited to the gathering of finance ministers and monetary authorities, is thus taking shape as a new scenario for North-South disputes, given the clear need for the creation of new regulatory bodies and concerted action with respect to the crisis, and for the overhaul of institutions whose credibility has been seriously undermined by the financial meltdown.The São Paulo meeting is drawing up proposals to be discussed at the Nov. 15 anti-crisis summit called in Washington by outgoing President George W. Bush, which will bring together the presidents and prime ministers of the G20 countries. Spanish Prime Minster José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who was initially excluded, has also been invited.Brazil and other emerging countries want the G7 to be replaced by the G20, where they represent a majority, with Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey.The group would represent a new power bloc unlikely to be accepted by the rich countries, especially the United States, which is in an uncertain position however, with a lame duck president who will be succeeded by Democratic President-elect Barack Obama in January.A Dutch proposal to transform the IMF into a new financial stabilisation body with broad global oversight powers, shows that the industrialised North has also put forward proposals for change, albeit of a more moderate nature.Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mántega said an expansion of the G7 by means of the incorporation of emerging countries, to a G13 or G14, could be discussed. He added, however, that the emerging economies will insist on real power in the IMF, and want the wealthy nations to be stripped of their veto power.

Referring to his discussions with his counterparts from the other BRIC nations, he said.we have come to the conclusion that there must be a reformulation, a reorganisation of the world financial system.

EU leaders: World has 100 days to fix system
By AOIFE WHITE, Associated Press Writer Friday, November 7, 2008

(11-07) 10:19 PST BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)European Union leaders backed a 100-day deadline for world's leading economies to decide urgent global finance reforms, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.Sarkozy, who chaired a special meeting of EU nations, said the financial crisis and economic downturn required a quick deal on an overhaul at a Nov. 15 summit in Washington bringing together leaders of the world's 20 largest industrialized nations and emerging economies.We are in an economic crisis. We have to take this into account, Sarkozy said. We have to react and we have no time to lose.I'm not going to take part in a summit where there is just talk for talk's sake, Sarkozy told reporters after talks between the heads of the EU's 27 nations. We want to change the rules of the game in the financial world.

The EU is calling for a second global summit next spring to flesh out changes to the way the world economy is governed. They want to see far more supervision of big financial companies and are urging governments to jointly monitor them.They want to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street excesses that caused havoc in markets worldwide —and are bringing emerging economies China, India and Brazil on board for talks on shaping a new world economic order.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the Washington talks should be a decisive moment for the world economy.A text agreed by EU leaders says they want an early warning system that would watch for financial bubbles and prevent world imbalances — such as the swelling U.S. trade deficit.They also suggest making the International Monetary Fund the world's financial watchdog, giving it more power to curb financial crises, with more money to aid countries in trouble.The Europeans also want to close loopholes that allow some financial institutions to evade regulation, and ensure supervision for all major financial players, including ratings agencies or funds carrying high amounts of debt.The leaders in a declaration called for greater transparency in markets that would no longer omit vast swathes of financial activity from auditable, certifiable accounts. It also said excessive risk-taking must be overhauled, a reference to the sale of high-risk debt securities and executive pay that may reward risk-taking.

EU leaders will call on the Nov. 15 summit to agree immediately on five principles: submit ratings agencies to more surveillance; align accounting standards; close loopholes; set banking codes of conduct to reduce excessive risk-taking; and ask the International Monetary Fund to suggest ways of calming the turmoil.Brown also said more oversight of the world's 30 largest financial group can be set up very quickly. He wants regulators to talk regularly with counterparts in other nations about banks that operate across the world.To date, European governments alone have committed some 2 trillion euros ($2.6 trillion) in cash injections, bank deposit guarantees, interbank loan coverage and partial or full nationalization to prop up consumer and business confidence.The damage done worldwide is fueling a search for a new Bretton Woods — a reference to the July, 1944 conference in New Hampshire that shaped the international financial system for decades.In Washington, there is little desire in the waning days of the Bush administration for a major overhaul of financial regulations.But the United States and European nations are no longer the only players. China and Brazil and India are jumping at the chance to join a major international effort.G-20 finance officials nations will meet this weekend in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to prepare next week's summit. This may pave the way for emerging economies to play a larger role in global finance talks. France is suggesting bring them on board as members of the exclusive world club of G-8 industrialized nations which regularly meets to discuss the global economy.Associated Press writers Robert Wielaard, Tobias Schmidt, Raf Casert, Constant Brand and Paul Ames in Brussels, Alan Clendenning in Sao Paulo and David Stringer in London contributed to this report.

Russia says seeks reduced IMF role at G20 summitReuters, Friday November 7 2008 By Gleb Bryanski

MOSCOW, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Russia will push for a diminished role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the summit of G20 industrial and developing economies in Washington next week, a senior Kremlin official said on Friday.We are ready for a serious dialogue about it (the IMF role). We believe an overhaul of functions of the IMF as well as other international institutions is necessary, Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin's top economic adviser, told a news conference.
Russia, which reaped the benefits of record high oil prices in recent years and accumulated the world's third largest gold and forex reserves, wants to change the existing global economic order and have more say in decisions.Dvorkovich said the IMF could continue to play a role in what he described as an anti-crisis early warning system performing analytical functions but said Russia lacked clear understanding of the IMF's role as the lender of last resort.

The IMF should work as a bank, not as a project finance institution. It should not act as a manager in countries it lends to. It should put forward financial conditions on loans, not political ones, Dvorkovich said.He said Russia wanted to create new global as well as regional institutions, which in future may take over the lender's role but in the next few months there was no immediate alternative to the IMF.This year falling oil prices have hit Russia's resource- based economy but the government has pledged more than $200 billion to support it. It says plans to diversify, float the rouble and liberalise trade are still on track.

GRUDGE

Dvorkovich said any country willing to participate in global financial management should be allowed to play a role in new institutions, in contrast with the IMF, which Russia views as dominated by the U.S. and other G7 nations.Russia's other proposals for G20 summit include more powers for global financial institutions, new global risk management system, more advanced information disclosure, harmonisation of accounting rules and capitalisation of financial institutions.Russia bears a longstanding grudge against the IMF, which provided advice for many ill-fated market reforms in the 1990s and decided against bailing Russia out in the wake of the 1998 financial meltdown.Russia's relations with the West soured following a war with Georgia in August over a rebel province and many U.S. and European politicians have called for barring Russia from international groups.Russia, the world's tenth largest economy, formally joined the G7 group of industrialised nations in 1997, forming the G8, but was always kept at arms length in discussions on economy and currencies.

POTENTIAL

At the last G7 finance ministers' meeting in Washington Russia's Alexei Kudrin was invited to join his counterparts at the dinner but was absent alongside President George W. Bush during his televised address on anti-crisis measures.Dvorkovich said Russia was still satisfied with the G8 format, suggesting it may not join a push for the group's immediate enlargement to include China, India and Brazil.The G8 has not exhausted its potential on a variety of issues yet, Dvorkovich said, adding that Russia instead wanted to devote up to 50 percent of G8 summits to discussions with other countries.Dvorkovich said Russia also hoped to resume talks on a new partnership agreement with the European Union but the nature of such agreement would depend on the progress in the ongoing accession talks for the World Trade Organisation.(Editing by Michael Roddy)

Venezuela, Russia to Form Joint Bank With $4 Billion in Capital
By Steven Bodzin and Jose Orozco

Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela and Russia agreed to form a $4 billion joint bank to pay for development projects, along with 14 other agreements between the oil-exporting countries. Officials from OAO Gazprombank and state energy company Petroleos de Venezuela SA signed a memorandum of understanding between the two countries yesterday in Caracas, in a ceremony on state television attended by President Hugo Chavez and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. Venezuela, the biggest oil producer in South America, is seeking new funding sources as bonds and bank loans become more difficult to arrange amid a lack of buyers for emerging market debt. The country formed a $12 billion development fund largely with Chinese loans that are being repaid in oil. Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez will go to Russia this week to discuss the bank, Chavez said. It will primarily finance economic development in Venezuela, Elias Jaua, the South American country's minister of land and agriculture, said yesterday in an interview. Rodriguez will look into making it possible to engage in trade using bolivars and rubles rather than dollars or euros, Chavez said. We are also studying using the ruble as the reference for the international reserves, he said. United Co. Rusal is continuing efforts to open an alumina mill in Venzuela, Chavez said. The country will find a way to provide the 4 gigawatts of electricity that the plant needs, Chavez said, possibly by building electric plants that burn coke, a carbon-rich byproduct of oil refining.

Double Output

Rodolfo Sanz, Venezuela's minister of basic industries and mining, said the Rusal mill would process 1.4 million tons a year, double Venezuela's current output. Corp. Venezolana de Guayana, Venezuela's state commodities company, will form a venture with Russian partners to mill gold and copper out of ore and to explore new deposits, Chavez said. Vladimir Agapov, whose Rusoro Mining Ltd. owns Venezuelan gold mines, said at the event he and CVG plans to build five kaolin processing plants to make the clay into one of Venezuela's biggest exports. He didn't comment on a Nov. 6 report that Sanz had said Rusoro would become a partner in the country's biggest gold mine. To contact the reporter on this story: Steven Bodzin in Caracas at sbodzin@bloomberg.net.

A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE
We want to continue this week in our study regarding the new birth.

Victory

The second effect of the born again experience is victory. First John 5:4, 5 states, For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world. but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? Notice carefully that victory is accomplished through Christ-not self. Multitudes strive to overcome sin and temptation, but the flesh has no power to win the battle. The overcomer is ... he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God . ...Christ in you... (Colossians 1:27) makes the difference. He promotes the desire for victory and provides the strength.

Paul knew this well. After describing the duel of the two natures-the old received at birth and new received at conversion-he cries, ...if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify [put to death] the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Romans 8:13.14). Then, having allowed God's Spirit to equip him for life's battle, he victoriously said as death approached, I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day... (2 Timothy 4:7).The new nature, controlled by the Spirit, makes believers ...more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:37). What do they conquer? First John 2:15-17 answers the question. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. It is obvious, then, that they overcome the world or worldliness consisting of: A) the lust of the flesh, B) the lust of the eyes, and C) the pride of life. Let's consider these three items individually.The lust of the flesh concerns itself with the cravings of one's bodily appetites. This includes illicit sex, drinking, drug addiction, smoking, or any other vice that the flesh practices. I am not preaching perfection. Christians can slip and fall, but that is vastly different from becoming enslaved to fleshly lusts.The problem is not one's possession of an old nature, but the old nature's possession of a person. The latter means that one has not been born again, for regeneration endows one with a divine nature (see 2 Peter 1:4), which immediately begins an onslaught against the old corrupt flesh. When one never experiences victory, it becomes obvious that the new nature is missing, for the new birth is not a new label on a defiled product but the implantation of the divine nature which changes one instantaneously.

That's why 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares, ...if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Enslavement to sin points to an empty profession-just lip service-and leads one into helplessness for the ages of eternity, for ... the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (1 John 2:17).Where do you stand? Are you a daily overcomer through the power of the indwelling Spirit? Or are you a slave to lust? Remember, if there is no desire for victory, no quest for victory, no evidence of victory, there will be no victory celebration in heaven.

Next, we discover that this new nature helps one to have victory over the cravings of the mind through the eye gate. Lust, via the eyes, is one of the greatest promoters of immorality today. This is why pornography and abominable sex movies are destroying lives, homes, and nations. Millions presently have ...eyes full of adultery...that cannot cease from sin (2 Peter 2:14). They mentally undress every woman they see and vice-versa. They purchase the latest sex magazines, hide them among their possessions, and secretly read them. They gaze at nude pictures and commit mental adultery with naked paper dolls.Jesus said in Matthew 5:28, ... whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. This is what's wrong with Hollywood productions. This is why much of television's degrading influence should be opposed and stopped. Americans are becoming sex maniacs because of the manifold means created to produce excitation and lust. It is even affecting church members by the tens of thousands. Scores are walking the aisles in crusades to give up the sin which has plagued them-lustful eyes. How much farther will it go? Once I saw a four-foot picture of a naked woman hanging in a deacon's garage. I asked, Brother, aren't you a Christian and a deacon? He meekly answered, Yes. I pointed to his picture and said, What's that? He said, Art. I said, Art who? This actually happened! Though it appears humorous now, it won't be funny later.A day is coming when all lust-controlled sinners shall be eternally separated from God. First John 2:17 declares, ... the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Is it any wonder that Romans 13:14 states, ...put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. And 1 Peter 2:11 warns, ...abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Someone cries, That's easier said than done. Not if one depends upon the indwelling Spirit rather than self! Galatians 5:16 proves it. Walk in the Spirit, and [you] shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.Another area over which one may enjoy victory is one's ego. This has to do with haughty, arrogant boasting over one's accomplishments and gains. How often one hears church members egotistically saying, We are now a three car family, or We are considering the purchase of our $500,000 dream home, or We have investments in stocks, bonds, and banks and are sitting pretty, financially.

Jesus said, ...out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and ... by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned (Matthew 12:34 and 37). Small wonder that James 4:4 warns, ...know ye not that the friendship of the world [composed of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life] is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the ENEMY [Yes, the ENEMY] of God. Therefore, Paul pleads in Romans 12:2, ...be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind .... The ways of the world lead to doom and death. About-face for Christ!

Love

The third and final proof has to do with love. First John 4:7,8 states, Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.May I repeat that? Are you listening? The statement is so important that one's eternal existence in heaven or hell depends on it. Hear it again. He that loveth not knoweth not God... (1 John 4:8).First John 3:14 declares, We know [not hope, guess or think-but know] that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. The next verse says, Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and (you) know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him (verse 15). Think of it! This is astonishing. Hatred becomes murder in God's eyes, and no murderer (hater of others) has eternal life abiding in him.A life of hate classifies one as a child of the devil, for God says in 1 John 3:10: In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. Imagine! Folks who fight, fuss, bicker, backbite, gossip, slander, malign, and criticize others are children of the devil! One cannot live a life of hate when God abides within, for God is love. Love is the evidence of one's born again experience. So,... if we love one another, God dwelleth in us... (1 John 4:12). That's why Jesus said in John 13:34, By this shall all men know that [you] are my disciples, [because] you have LOVE one for another.Sad, is it not, that hate-mongers who honestly believe that bigotry, prejudice, and malice are acceptable standards for church members fill the ranks of religion. What a shock they'll experience at the judgment day! Then they'll know God meant what He said in James 1:26, If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Then they'll suffer judgment for the seven sins God hates. Perhaps these should be called the Seven Deadly Sins. They are, a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and [please get the final one] HE THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG THE BRETHREN (Proverbs 6:16-19 emphasis mine). Then when it is eternally too late, they will discover that the unrighteous, including railers, do not inherit the kingdom of God (see 1 Corinthians 6:9).

Webster's Dictionary defines railers as individuals who revile or scold in harsh, insolent, or abusive language. God help us! Our ranks are full of members who carry on in this manner. Through their obnoxious, hateful insolence, churches are split and souls lost. Sinner, repent, change your mind and ways before it is too late! You need a born again experience! When this occurs, God's nature of love will become a part of you and His love will rule your heart.

Summary

We have concluded in this study that holiness, victory, and love prove one's salvation experience to be genuine. Where do you stand? Examine yourself to see whether or not you are in the faith (see 2 Corinthians 13:5). If the evidence is against you, settle the issue with God immediately. Eternity forever and forever and forever-is a long time to be lost!

FROM THE HEART OF DR. REXELLA VAN IMPE
LET THE DOVES SPEAK

We want to continue this week and look at the last five of the Beatitudes:Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6).

I believe this Beatitude refers to our having a desire to see justice around us, in our own country and around the world. Those who are blessed by God, foreseeing the needs of others, do things to help just because it is the right thing to do. They speak up for the poor and needy and for people in other lands who have not had the opportunity to live in freedom. Are we concerned enough about righteousness and holiness to be driven by these holy characteristics as urgently as our bodies respond to hunger and thirst? This verse also makes me a bit introspective. I read it and ask, How can I be righteous? How can I be right as I walk in this world?" I must die to self and selfishness and allow Christ to live His life in and through me! The apostle Paul said, the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20).I believe that you and I can claim this blessing only when we truly hunger and thirst after holiness and doing what is right. Then what happens? We shall be filled...with righteousness and with His glory.Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy(Matthew 5:7).

Mercy and righteousness are inextricably linked together. If we truly want righteousness, we get involved, we extend help to the needy, we assist, and we forgive those who have sinned against us. If it is within our power, we must show this kind of mercy to those we encounter. Can we not share the mercy that we ourselves have received? The writer of Lamentations cried, It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness (3:22-23).What a blessing to have the promise of God’s mercy as we show tenderness to others. What a joy to realize that goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life (Psalm 23:6).Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God(Matthew 5:8).

Everything that we have seen and experienced so far is by faith. None of us has ever had the joy of really looking at God. We have seen His handiwork, we have witnessed His love for us by sending His Son, and we have seen the attributes in Christ that He wants us to have. But we have never seen Him.One day we will-if our hearts are pure. That is His promise.To me, that will be the best thing about heaven. I’m not the most excited about seeing the golden streets and magnificent surroundings. And as much as I love and miss my wonderful mom and dad who are there (and I do want to see them with all of my heart), the first one I want to see in heaven is the Lord, my Savior and my God!How, then, can my heart be pure? My pretenses and masks must go because purity of heart cannot be falsified-it must be genuine and sincere. My entire being cries out, Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me (Psalm 51:10).This Beatitude, to my mind, is a foundation stone. It gets down to the crux of everything, doesn’t it? If you don’t have a pure heart, where is the authenticity to want to do the right thing? Without a pure heart, how can you be merciful? Indeed, without a pure heart, I cannot see Him. And oh, more than anything in this world, I want to look upon His face!

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God (Matthew 5:9).The Bible teaches that we are to live peaceably with all men (see Romans 12:18). The Lord doesn’t want us to harbor hate, animosity, or intolerance. There will be no place in heaven for racists or exclusionary creeds. Humbly and gently, we are to seek solutions and to disarm hostility. The Bible says, A soft answer turneth away wrath (Proverbs 15:1). I believe that we should seek to be the kind of person who-at home, at church, at work, or wherever we go-can simply enter a room and change the atmosphere.Another way we can bring peace is to help bring order out of chaos. Where there is clutter and confusion, simply stepping in to help organize and restore order reduces stress and tension. And we can have the courage to do this by calling upon the wisdom and guidance of the Holy Spirit.The Word of God says that everywhere Jesus went He did good and destroyed the works of the devil-which produced peace (see Acts 10:38; 1 John 3:8). And Jesus said that if we believe on Him, the works He did we can do also, and even greater (see John 14:12). So as we go out and do what Jesus did, we will make peace, because He was, and is, the prince of peace, the greatest peacemaker the world has ever, or will ever know.If you give this a try, don’t be surprised if people start calling you a child of God. After all, that is the Lord’s promise!

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake:for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they
the prophets which were before you (Matthew 5:10-12).

The idea of persecution being a blessing seems very strange, especially for believers in America. We have never experienced most of the things that missionaries and other Christians around the world have been forced to endure for the sake of the gospel. Yet Jesus said that we would have tribulation and suffering in this world. And for such monumental sacrifices, He said there would be great rewards and crowns.

I had great admiration for one of the girls in my home church. She married a minister and they went to South America as missionaries. The team with whom they were working was attacked by primitive warriors from the Auca Indian tribe, and my friend’s husband was one of the men who was killed.The incident attracted international news coverage, and I vividly recall seeing a television interview with the father of the martyred young man. He was asked, If you could have kept your son from going to South America and being killed as a missionary, would you have done so?
I’ll never forget his answer. He shook his head and said, Would I rob my son of the martyr’s crown? Of course that father felt grief for his son’s death, but he expressed no bitterness or regret. He genuinely believed that his son would be blessed with a great reward in heaven because of the persecution he endured for the Lord (Revelation 2:10).I truly believe all those who lose loved ones in God’s work receive a special measure of divine comfort. I believe God might well speak to their hearts saying, I understand how you feel-I sent My Son into the world, and they crucified Him also.The psalmist declared, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning (Psalm 30:5).

My challenge to you

I encourage you to underscore Matthew 5:3-11 in your Bible and read those few verses often. Life itself is in that short passage. Let the Holy Spirit impress each phrase of the Beatitudes on your heart and stamp them indelibly in your mind.Remember, this kind of living is possible! Jesus would not have spoken these truths if they were not accessible for all of us! I believe that when you and I hide these words within our hearts and then open our mouths to speak, the Holy Spirit will give us the words that we should say. And when these utterances come forth from our mouths...
...the voices of the doves will be heard!

EPICENTER REACTS TO OBAMA VICTORY By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., November 5, 2008) -- Congratulations to Sen. Obama. His victory last night was an historic moment, further evidence of how far Americans have come in moving beyond the racial divisions of the past. This is good, and should not be underestimated. It is now our solemn responsibility to pray faithfully and consistently for him, his wife, his family, and his advisor. We must pray for their safety, their wisdom, and their discernment. This is the right thing to do and honors the Lord. As the Apostle Paul teaches so clearly in I Timothy 2:1, I urge that entreaties, prayers and petitions and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.We must also pray faithfully for the safety of our nation, for the peace of Jerusalem, and for the advancement of freedom and security throughout the world, and particularly in the Middle East. I am very concerned about what the next year to 18 months may hold. Vice President-elect Biden warned us that the world will test this young new president. We must therefore pray for peace while we prepare for war. I'm paying particular attention this morning to how people in the epicenter are reacting to Sen. Obama's victory. Leaders in Iran are thrilled since the likelihood of decisive U.S. action to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program has just dropped dramatically. Leaders in Iraq, by contrast, are trying not to be worried given that the likelihood of rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces has just increased dramatically.

Palestinians seem to be thrilled, since they seem Obama as pro-Palestinian and open to dividing Jerusalem and pressuring the Israelis to make further concessions of land for peace. Many Israelis feel quite unsettled this morning, concerned that they will be all alone in the Middle East as the U.S. begins to pack up and go home from Iraq. They are also concerned that Obama and his team do not appear to fully understand or appreciate the seriousness of the threat of Radical Islam. Sen. Obama told us during the campaign that Iran was a tiny country that did not pose much of a threat. Israelis are not convinced he will stand with them in a nuclear showdown with Tehran. A senior political strategist in Israel emailed me last night with this thought: "The State of Israel is now facing the most unfriendly American administration ever….Israel's will to live will be tested in ways that will not e pretty. Many of Obama's foreign policy team and Middle East advisors see Israel as the obstacle to peace. And we can not count on Jewish supporters of Obama to have any standing in setting policy in this administration. A new poll released yesterday also caught my attention: 46% of Israelis would have voted for McCain, while only 34% would have voted for Obama. That tells us something about the concern from Eilat to Haifa and from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem about losing a great friend of Israel and the Jewish people in President Bush to someone who has not indicated convincing support for Israel in the past. I know many of you are very worried about the direction of our country. I certainly understand this sentiment, but as I wrote yesterday, let us not lose heart. The Lord knew who would win. He allowed it to happen. He has a plan. He has a purpose. And now He is calling us to serve Him faithfully - to do whatever He tells us to do, to go wherever He tells us to go, to say whatever He tells us to say. Now is the time to draw close to Christ, to advance His kingdom, and prepare for His return. He is, after all, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Now is certainly no time to forget, or to be discouraged.

Shalom Stan, NOV 8,08

About 20 miles from my old apartment in Jerusalem, a HUGE discovery was made. The archaeological find is the earliest-known Hebrew text, dating to the time of King David, about 3,000 years ago. The text which is written on a piece of pottery contains five lines divided by black lines, kind of like lined paper that we use today in school, or on a pad of paper.Hebrew University’s Professor Yosef Garfinkel says that the Hebrew Text written on pottery was found during excavations of a fortress from the 10th century BCE (3000 years ago). Carbon dating of this text along with pottery analysis dates it to the time of King David. This is the EARLIEST text that we have because it is 1000 years earlier than the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls, housed in Jerusalem are the earliest-known copies of the Bible that we have, with some of them dating to 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists are only beginning to decipher the text from the time of King David, and the initial interpretation indicates that it forms the root words for judge,slave, and king. The university researchers state that the text was written by a trained scribe. Please consider giving a gift to Bibles For Israel, Stan, so that our researchers like this scribe can do our work in creating the Messianic Prophecy Bible. Click Here Now

It is truly exciting to have our Bibles For Israel Ministry here in the Land of Israel where discoveries proving that the TEXT of Bible that we have today is accurate. Such findings are taking place all of the time, as there are hundreds of archaeological digs going on simultaneously in Israel. Along with the earliest text found, there were also more than 100 jar handles with distinct impressions possibly indicating a link to royal vessels, the university researchers said at a news conference. Such a large find in the small area where the dig was uncovered is unprecedented. The area is near where the battle between David and Goliath took place. Just like the researchers who are deciphering these ancient texts of the Bible, we here at the ministry of Bibles For Israel, and doing research to prove to the world and especially to the Jewish people that the prophecies that are considered Messianic are speaking about Yeshua! With your help Stan, we can bring the biggest discovery Yeshua in the Tanakh (Old Testament) to Israel, Jewish people everywhere, and to world. Click here to make a difference today! Many blessings to you as together we worship the King of Kings!

The CARMEL ALERT Nov 7th 2008 A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.

David's Comment: The 2008 US Elections - A Window on the Rise of the Anti-Christ
Revelation 13:14-18 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (NKJ)

The US elections are over ( thank goodness ) and Barak Obama is the clear winner. So CHANGE is definately coming to America and the rest of the world will be affected also. The people of America were given the choice and they voted for, and got the man they wanted to be their leader.

Please don't get me wrong - I am not in any way suggesting that Barak Obama is the Anti-Christ even though he does have some key Anti-Christ attributes. For instance .........
* He is an eloquent persuasive speaker and his body language is appealing to the eye
* He seemed to have a hypnotic power over the people that reached a level that could be construed as worship
* He even appealed to non-Americans all over the world - Europe, Africa, Asia
* He had the secular news media on his side right from the outset - He pretends to be a Christian while standing for many things that oppose the Word of God - YHVH & Allah are the same, Abortion, the division of Jerusalem, gay rights ....etc
* He appeals to those who are the enemies of God - many radical Muslim groups were in favour of him

Quote from this weeks Olive Tree Ministries report: Two years ago came a charismatic man named Barack Obama who was engulfed in a cult-like atmosphere. Some actually called him the messiah. Shrines were built to him. A Web site said, Obama is god. There has been a messianic fervor, adoration and a worship-like atmosphere surrounding him. At some rallies people fainted at the sight of him. Young children recorded on YouTube sang songs to him stating he would change the world. The intrigue with this man is global. Newsweek magazine had a headline recently titled, The World Hopes for its First President. Imagine, a world president! Newsweek states, In country after country, polls show a record-high fascination with the outcome of the U.S. elections. end quote.Barack Obama is NOT the Anti-Christ as he does not qualify in some key points, however his election is an incredibly clear picture of how easy it will be for the real anti-Christ to delude the general population into thinking He is the Messiah. When the real Anti-Christ does show up on the world scene, he will have that same hypnotic appeal that will cause the great majority of people to be deluded into worshipping him as the Messiah. I believe this US election has been a preparation for the Anti-Christ to arise and be accepted by the Bible -ignorant multitudes.And consider this - the deluded secular population already dislikes Bible believing Christians now. Imagine how it will be for Christians when the Anti-Christ does arrive on the scene, we will have to stand against him and warn the world that he is not the Messiah but the false Messiah. Think of how they will react ! That is when we will see real persecution by the state and by the people. Not a pleasant thought, but that is what lies ahead.

So why did Obama win ? Why did the Lord not answer the prayer of multitudes of Christians ? I do not like anything about Obama and until last week I was very upset by the prospect of him being the president because of a number of reasons.
* His Muslim background
* His association with Rev Wright, Loius Farakan, Wllilam Ayers and other anti Israel / anti America individuals
* His very liberal attitude to what God calls SIN
* His two faced position concerning Israel
* I dont like it when Satan seems to get the victory

So I, along with every other God fearing Christian was actively opposed to an Obama victory and hoped that the birth certificate scandal would torpedo his chances. However as I was watching him deliver one of his speeches, I felt the Holy Spirit impress upon me what I wrote above about Obama being a perfect picture of the rise of the Anti-Christ, AND that maybe the Lord wanted to use Obama to fulfill His plans and purposes. For instance ...............

* To remove Israel's dependancy on the USA
* To bring His judgement on America
* To advance the coming of the lawless one
* To advance the climax of the clash of the kingdoms which, after the Great Tribulation is over, will see the Kingdom of God reigning on the Earth ( from Jerusalem )

Whether I am right or wrong in all of the above, one thing is for sure - America has made her choice and much of the Western world is rejoicing with the USA and looking forward to to Obama presidency. I will not be surprised if, like in the 7 year reign of the Anti-Christ, it all turns horribly bad along the way. But then it will be too late - no turning back the clocks on this one. Texas Bumper Sticker! I'll keep my freedom, my guns, and my money, You can keep THE CHANGE'
Lets pray the Barak Obama will have a revelation of the Gospel and that He will make Yeshua his Messiah and Saviour & the same for his wife Michelle.I think the greatest lesson to be learnt for those who pray and intercede is to pray with the mind of the Lord, in sync with what HE is doing, not against it. We need to lay down what we want to see happen in this world, to allow God to do what He has already declared in His Word. Yes prayer changes things, but we cant change what is written in the word. We need to have a far more prophetic perspective than we currently have. Thats why we need to study the books of the Prophets and keep our eyes on Israel. Israel is the key to knowing where we are in God's plan; Israel is the key to revival; Israel is the key to the return of Yeshua; Israel is the key to your blessings;

ISRAEL IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING

The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to th Jewish people by the God of Israel Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough 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.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.

DAMAGES CAUSED BY NUCLEAR TESTING
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/Peace/E/pNuclear3_3.html

More than 20 killed in Russian nuclear sub accident: spokesman
Sat Nov 8, 6:39 PM

MOSCOW (AFP) - More than 20 people were killed and another 20 injured when a fire extinguishing system was inadvertently activated aboard a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, the Russian navy said Sunday.During sea trials of a nuclear-powered submarine of the Pacific Fleet the firefighting system went off unsanctioned, killing over 20 people, including servicemen and workers, said Captain Igor Dygalo, the navy's spokesman.Dygalo told AFP that President Dmitry Medvedev was being kept informed about the situation by Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and had already ordered a full and meticulous investigation of the incident.The incident recalled the 2000 Kursk disaster, when 118 crewmen died when their nuclear submarine sank after an onboard explosion in the Barents Sea.The Kremlin was harshly criticised at home and abroad for its sluggish and secretive response to the Kursk disaster, but seemed to be moving quickly to avoid a repetition this time.Dygalo said Medvedev had also ordered the defence ministry to provide all possible aid and support to the victims' families.The accident did not apparently affect the submarine's nuclear reactor. The submarine is not damaged, its reactor works as normal, and background radiation levels are normal, Dygalo stated.The submarine was carrying out sea trials when the accident occurred and the stricken vessel was ordered to put in to a port on Russia's far east coast temporarily, he added.The spokesman did not say exactly where the incident occurred or specify which port the submarine would return to.Twenty-one people with varying degrees of injuries were evacuated from the submarine, Dygalo said.A total of 208 people were aboard the submarine when the accident happened, but of those only 81 were servicemen while the others were naval technicians and specialists.Fire suppression systems on submarines are relatively sophisticated and may rely on chemical liquids. It was unclear however how the accidental activation of the system on the Russian sub resulted in the deaths and injuries.The submarine, accompanied by the destroyer Admiral Tributs and a rescue ship, the Sayani, was steaming towards a Russian Pacific Ocean port for temporary basing, Dygalo said.Since the Kursk disaster in August 2000, Russia has seen a string of accidents and mishaps with its naval submarines.

Nine sailors died aboard a K-159 submarine when it sank in the Barents Sea in August 2003 while being towed to port for decommissioning. Only one of the seamen on board was rescued alive.In 2005, a mini-submarine of the Pacific Fleet got snared in a fishing net, leaving the crew trapped underwater with dwindling oxygen supplies.A British rescue team using a high-tech mini-submarine managed to extract the Russian vessel and there was no loss of life.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK)

REVELATION 18:10
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.

AMERICA WILL BURN
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Then he showed me the state of New York. He said,
This is New York.This is Sodom and Gomorrah!In one day it will burn.Then he took me back home to the rock where we had begun. All of this I have shown you - IN ONE DAY IT WILL BURN! This country will burn!

The LORD said, I want to save the Church, but the churches have forsaken me.Duduman said, How did they forsake you? He said, The people praise themselves. The honor that the people are supposed to give Jesus Christ, they take upon themselves.In the churches there are divorces. There is adultery in the churches.There arehomosexuals in the churches. There is abortion in the churches and all other sins that are possible.Because of the sin, I have left some of the churches.You must yell in a loud voice that they must put an end to their sinning.They must turn toward the Lord, and live a clean life.I said, How will America burn? America is the most powerful country in this world.Why did you bring us here to burn? Why didn't you at least let us die where ALL the Dudumans have died?

He said, Remember this, Dumitru.The Russian spies have discovered where the nuclear warehouses are in America.When the Americans will think that it is peace and safety - from the middle of the country, some of the people will start fighting against the government. The government will be busy with internal problems.Then from the ocean, from Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, He told me two other countries, but I didn't remember what they were.They will bomb the nuclear warehouses. When they explode, America will burn!I asked, What will you do with the Church of the Lord?

How will you save the ones that will turn toward you? He said, Tell them this: how I saved the 3 young ones from the furnace of fire,and how I saved Daniel in the lions’ den, is the same way I will save them.I have blessed this country because of the Jewish people who are in this country.I have 7 million Jews in this country, but they do not want to recognize the Lord.They didn't want to thank God for the blessings they received in this country.Israel doesn't want to recognize Jesus Christ. They put their faith in the Jewish people in America. But, when America burns, the Lord will raise China, Japan and other nations to go against the Russians. They will beat the Russians and push them all the way to the gates of Paris.Over there they will make a treaty, and appoint the Russians as their leaders.
They will then unite against Israel. When Israel realizes she does not have the strength of America behind her, she will be frightened.That's when she will turn to the Messiah for deliverance.That's when the Messiah will come. Then, the Church will meet Jesus in the air,and He will bring them back with Him to the Mount of Olives.
At that time the battle of Armageddon will be fought.

I said, If you are truly the angel of the Lord, and everything you have told me is true, then all you have said must be written in the Bible.He said, Tell everyone to read from Jeremiah 51:8-15,Revelation chapter 18, and Zechariah chapter 14,where Christ fights against those who possess the earth.After His victory, there will be one flock and one shepherd.There will be no need for light. The Lamb of God will be the Light.There will be no sickness, no tears, and no deaths.There will only be eternal joy and God will be the Ruler.There will be only one language. Only one song. And no need for a translator! As a sign that I have spoken to you,tomorrow before you wake I will send someone to bring you a bed,and at noon I will send you a car and a bucket of honey.After which, I will send someone to pay your rent.Then the angel left. The next day someone brought Dumitru a bed,and at noon a car arrived with the bucket of honey.His rent was also paid, as God had promised him.

Obama to visit nuclear, biological weapons destruction facilities in former Soviet Union Tuesday, August 23, 2005F FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington Contact: Robert Gibbs or Tommy Vietor, (202) 228-5511 Illinois Contact: Julian Green, (312) 886-3506 Date: August 23, 2005

Obama to visit nuclear, biological weapons destruction facilities in former Soviet Union Schedule for Obama, Lugar Trip to Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and England

WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, August 24th, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) will begin a trip to visit nuclear and biological weapons destruction sites in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN). They will also meet with top political and military officials in each of these countries. The trip includes a strop in England and a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.In 1991, Senator Lugar (R-IN) and former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) authored the Nunn-Lugar Act, which established the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. This program has provided U.S. funding and expertise to help the former Soviet Union safeguard and dismantle its enormous stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, related materials, and delivery systems. Since the law was passed, the program has deactivated or destroyed: 6,760 nuclear warheads; 587 ICBMs; 483 ICBM silos; 32 ICBM mobile missile launchers; 150 bombers; 789 nuclear air-to-surface missiles; 436 submarine missile launchers; 549 submarine launched missiles; 28 nuclear submarines; and 194 nuclear test tunnels. Obama and Lugar will be reviewing the status of current CTR programs as well as looking for opportunities to expand the scope and reach of this highly effective program.

News Analysis Russia Aims to Be High on Obama’s Agenda
By HELENE COOPER Published: November 7, 2008

WASHINGTON — To the extent that he focused on Russia at all, Barack Obama’s attention was concentrated primarily on the need to keep Soviet nuclear weapons stockpiles out of the hands of terrorists. But now, President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia has thrown down a gauntlet intended to demonstrate to the American president-elect that the post-cold war era may not be so post after all.On Wednesday, while leaders around the world were falling over themselves to hail Mr. Obama’s election, Mr. Medvedev delivered a harsh welcome-to-the-new-cold-war speech in Moscow. He never mentioned Mr. Obama by name, but Mr. Medvedev said he would deploy short-range missiles near Poland capable of striking NATO territory if the United States pressed ahead with plans to build a missile defense shield in Europe, something that Mr. Obama has said he supports.Mr. Medvedev put Mr. Obama on notice on the Georgia crisis as well, vowing that we shall not retreat in the Caucasus.Even his one-paragraph congratulatory telegram to Mr. Obama was brusque. I hope for a constructive dialogue with you, based on trust and consideration of each other’s interests, Mr. Medvedev wrote.It was a giant, Hey, welcome to the game, said George Friedman, chief executive at Stratfor, a geopolitical risk analysis company. While Obama would like to deal sequentially with Iraq, Afghanistan and, when he gets to it, the Russians, the Russians themselves want to be a burning issue at the top of his list.

Mr. Obama, for his part, has yet to respond to the Russian chest-thumping, and he probably will not do so until after his inauguration, his advisers said. We only have one president at a time, Mr. Obama said during a news conference on Friday, responding to a question about whether he would soon meet with foes of the United States. I want to make sure that we are sending the world one message.Since winning the election, the Obama team has taken pains not to say anything publicly that could signal Mr. Obama’s thinking on the many major foreign policy issues lined up before him.

The reasons are twofold.

Many of those advisers are privately hoping for positions in his administration, and they do not want to jeopardize their chances by talking freely with reporters. More significantly, Mr. Obama himself is still making the transition from campaign oratory — and in the case of Russia, very strong campaign oratory — to the more nuanced approach that many advisers say will be necessary for him to navigate what are bound to be contentious relationships.But some of his comments during the campaign may already have boxed him in. When Russia invaded Georgia in August, Mr. Obama’s initial response, drafted just before he left for vacation in Hawaii, was nuanced, urging both nations to exercise restraint. His statement was similar to the State Department’s initial, equally nuanced response, which also did not immediately blame Russia.The Republicans’ presumptive nominee, Senator John McCain, responded with a hard-line approach, saying that Russia had crossed an internationally recognized border into the sovereign territory of Georgia and should unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces.When the McCain camp criticized Mr. Obama’s response as too measured, Mr. Obama hardened his position. His next statement accused Russia of encroaching on Georgia’s sovereignty. The next day, he said that Russia bore responsibility for the escalation.By the time of the presidential debates in the fall, Mr. Obama had moved even closer to Mr. McCain on Russia and Georgia, voicing support for Georgia’s entry into NATO, a line in the sand that Russia had dared the West to cross. Stephen Sestanovich, who was President Clinton’s ambassador at large for the former Soviet Union from 1997 to 2001, said that Mr. Obama’s election may have caused some disquiet in Russia. This is a leadership that is not super-comfortable with grass-roots politics, Mr. Sestanovich, a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations who advised the Obama campaign, said of the Russians. I had a Russian friend e-mail me right afterwards, a short e-mail, and one of the one-word sentences used was envy. So that’s how a real democracy works.Mr. Obama has options to distance himself from his hawkish remarks on Russia during the campaign, foreign policy experts said. For one thing, while he can continue to support the idea of Georgia becoming part of NATO, the reality is that for now the Europeans will not go along.

Beyond that, Mr. Obama could try to strike more benign agreements that Russians might find soothing, like pushing again for Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization and working with Moscow toward a way out of the missile defense morass. One possibility would be to offer to delay deployment of a missile shield in Poland until an Iranian nuclear threat — which Washington says is its reason for existing — has actually materialized, instead of doing so immediately.The Bush administration might even lend a hand; it offered several new proposals to the Russians on Friday, including an offer for Russian military officials to inspect the new installations planned in Poland and the Czech Republic for the new missile defense system.What Mr. Obama will not be able to do, foreign policy experts said, is cede the former Soviet republics and satellites in Eastern Europe back into the orbit of what the Russians like to call their near abroad. It is a full plate, and all a long way from Mr. Obama’s first dip into Russia policy, when he joined the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and traveled to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan on a 2005 summer tour with Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, the Republican foreign policy statesman.At the Council of Foreign Relations later, the men described their trip, during which they hiked through nuclear weapons storage sites, picked through piles of mortar rounds and land mines, and toured missile elimination facilities.Mr. Obama deferred to Mr. Lugar often, according to people who attended the session; it was clear, they said, who was the old foreign policy hand, and who was the junior senator. Shortly after, Mr. Obama joined Mr. Lugar in introducing legislation designed to keep stockpiles of weapons in the former Soviet Union from getting into the hands of terrorists.Mr. Obama’s focus on loose nukes, foreign policy experts say, seems almost quaint today.

White House very concerned about transition attack
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15368.html

White House press secretary Dana Perino warned Thursday that the administration is very concerned about the threat of a terror attack during the transition or the early weeks of the Obama administration.That is something that we're very concerned about, Perino said. We've seen that in other countries — Spain, obviously, had that terrible bombing.Perino said that we know that Al Qaeda and others try to test a new administration, echoing Vice President-elect Joe Biden, who caught flack for a similar statement on the campaign trail.Perino added that the Bush administration is determined to make sure that we overlap in terms of our understanding and capabilities so that ... when we hand the baton over to the Obama team, that they have that full range of capabilities and also all the knowledge that they need to help continue to keep us safe.I don't know of anything specific, she added, but we do know that this is just a heightened period of concern.

SINS OF PEOPLE

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

MORE SIN SIGNS

EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

WHAT I SEEN ON TV THE GAYS HAD A STIROFOAM CROSS, PUT IT ON THE GROUND AND 5 OR 6 GAYS STOMPED ALL OVER THE CROSS. WE CAN SEE THE GAYS ARE NOT TAKING THIS MARRIAGE REFUSAL TO WELL.

QUEERLY BELOVED WorldNetDaily Same-sex marriage rowdies single out Mormons
Protesters riot at temple, vow further action against Latter-day Saints
November 08, 2008 12:40 am Eastern 2008 WorldNetDaily

Police arrested two people, and photographs from the scene show angry crowds and violent confrontations in front of the Los Angeles Mormon temple yesterday as part of continued protests over the passage of California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage.As WND reported, since the ballot measure was approved by voters earlier this week, supporters of same-sex marriage have made profane and violent threats against Christians and churches.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, however, has become a focused target of anger after the church's leadership urged members to support the Yes on 8 campaign and opponents of the measure, according to the Los Angeles Times, estimate LDS members gave over $20 million to pass the ballot initiative.Lorri L. Jean, chief executive officer of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, was at yesterday's massive demonstration, which swarmed the Mormon temple with an angry mob of an estimated 2,000 protesters.It is a travesty that the Mormon church bought this election and used a campaign of lies and deception to manipulate voters in the great state of California, Jean told the crowd, according to KTTV-TV in Los Angeles. Today we will send a message to (LDS) President Monson that we will not tolerate being stripped of our equal rights in the name of religious bigotry.Jeff Flint, strategist for Yes on 8, however, told the Times, I am appalled at the level of Mormon-bashing that went on during the Proposition 8 campaign and continues to this day.

The Times reported dozens of the protesters screaming Bigots! and Shame on you! through the temple's closed gates. The newspaper's website shows dozens of photographs of protesters scaling the fences around the temple, waving signs and being restrained by police during some isolated, violent confrontations.As protests go, this one is remarkably long, Los Angeles Police Department Lt. John Romero told KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, four hours after the marches began. When we talk about anti-war or immigration rights, (it) typically (lasts) one hour, two hours top.The LDS church has been a lightning rod for anger after its role in passing Proposition 8. Last month, protesters parked an SUV painted with hate messages in front of a Mormon family of seven's home. WND reported a television commercial in which Mormon missionaries were depicted barging into a lesbian couple's home, explaining their mission to take away your rights.David Loder, a business manager and member of the Mormon church, told the Times his Yes on 8 yard sign was vandalized and he heard about the protest on the radio.As a member of the LDS church we have known [and still do] the feeling of being ridiculed and mistreated because of our faith, he said.Still, Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign, which produced the Home Invasion commercial, told the Times he does not believe his group was bashing Mormons.This is not about religion, said Jacobs. This is about a church that put itself in the middle of politics.Jean, whose Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center organized the rally outside the temple, now says she plans to continue protesting the Mormon church's involvement.During the rally she announced plans for a new website to raise funds for advocating same-sex marriage in California. For every $5 donated, Jean said, her organization will send a postcard to LDS President Thomas S. Monson condemning the reprehensible role the Church of Latter-day Saints leadership played in denying all Californians equal rights under the law.LDS officials yesterday issued a statement asking for a spirit of mutual respect and civility.The church acknowledges that such an emotionally charged issue concerning the most personal and cherished aspects of life – family and marriage – stirs fervent and deep feelings, church spokeswoman Kim Farah wrote in an e-mail to the Times. No one on either side of the question should be vilified, harassed or subject to erroneous information.

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