ISRAEL BATTLE SIMULATOR BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

DAN 2:20-22,28,31-45
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.(90 FOOT STATUE HIGH AND 9 FEET WIDE)
32 This image's head was of fine gold,(BABYLONIAN EMPIRE) his breast and his arms of silver,(MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE) his belly and his thighs of brass,(GREECE EMPIRE)
33 His legs of iron,(ROMAN EMPIRE) his feet part of iron and part of clay.(REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IN OUR DAY)
34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands,(JESUS RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER) which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.(JESUS' KINGDOM)
36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

THE JESUS HATERS SHOULD BE OUT IN FULL GEAR ABOUT THIS STATUE OF HIM.BY MY CALCULATIONS WHICH ARE NOT GOOD.I FIGURE THIS JESUS STATE IS 108 FEET HIGH PLUS THE STAND ANOTHER 50 METERS OR 164 FEET FOR A TOTAL OF 83 METERS OR 272 FEET HIGH.THE JESUS STATUE IS 18 FEET HIGHER THAN THE 90 FEET WORLD EMPIRES STATUE IN DANIEL 2.

08/ 3/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Controversial Georgian sculptor prepares Europe’s tallest statue of Jesus

Zurab Tsereteli

Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli is preparing an 83-metre tall bronze statue of Jesus

Mauro Pianta Turin He is certainly no minimalist. His extravagant work has always sparked controversy. From the statue of Vladimir Putin dressed in a judo outfit to the giant statue of Peter the Great and the Tear Drop Memorial dedicated to the September 11 attacks: Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli is as famous as he is controversial. Missionary news agency AsiaNews has reported that the “Lenin Prize” and “Hero of Socialist Labour” winner is currently working on a statue of Jesus which once finished, could be the tallest one in Europe.The bronze sculpture was cast in St. Petersburg and is 33 metres high, the same number of years Christ lived n Earth. This, coupled with the 50 metre-high pedestal, makes the statue a record 83 metres tall. Tsereteli said the sculpture would exceed the Statue of Christ in Lisbon – currently considered the tallest in Europe - by five metres.Once complete, the statue’s “home” should be Georgia but the sculptor trusts a space will be found for it in Russia.“Under the administration of the previous mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, Tsereteli filled the city with his sculptures, occasionally giving rise to protests from the capital's intelligentsia who criticizes his lack of taste for anything sober. Among the works created for Moscow, the 16 doors of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the six crosses on the golden domes and the dome itself, which has become a symbol of the religious revival of the post-Soviet Russia,” AsiaNews reports. Now he has a new challenge ahead of him: a 83-metre tall statue of Jesus.

29 July, 21:11

Tsereteli casts Europe's highest statue of Christ in bronze

Photo: RIA Novosti

Prominent sculptor Zurab Tsereteli has cast a statue of Jesus Christ which, when set up, may become the highest statue of Christ in Europe.

It was cast in St. Petersburg and is 33 meters high - as many meters as the years Christ lived on Earth, and its pedestal is another 50 meters high, which, overall, makes it 83 meters tall, the sculptor said.He also said that the sculpture will be five meters taller than the statue of Christ in Lisbon, believed to be the highest in Europe.Tsereteli said he had been offered to place the monument on a Caucasus summit in Georgia. "But I hope it will find a place in Russia. I have no doubts," Tsereteli said.Tsereteli is president of the Russian Academy of Arts and is a prominent sculptor. His monuments can be seen in many countries.Voice of Russia, IF

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC) 

Soldiers: New Battlefield Simulator Better Than the Real Thing

The “Nevo Firing Range,” a new simulator that has been adopted by the Israel Navy, provides a better training experience, say soldiers.-By David Lev-First Publish: 8/5/2013, 4:09 PM-israelnationalnews

Nevo Simulator-IDF Spokesperson

The “Nevo Firing Range,” a new simulator that has been adopted by the Israel Navy, will allow soldiers and sailors to conduct very accurate close and long range firing using the latest weapons in the IDF's arsenal – without wasting a bullet, missile, or laser beam. The Nevo is the latest in top-flight military simulators, using the latest in graphics technology and processing, allowing soldiers to truly feel as if they are practicing in the field.A top Israeli Navy official testified that the system was much better than “real” field training.“The simulator saves us tens of thousands of shekels per soldier annually,” the official said. “Besides the cost of ammunition, each field practice requires a major logistical effort, including transporting troops, rescue vehicles, and equipment. The simulator allows us to dispense with all of this.”Can a simulator replace field practice? The Navy says it can; soldiers enter into the simulator and are faced with a variety of threats and missions, just like they would be in the field. Soldiers who have used the system say that it is very realistic, and that the training they received was just as effective as they would have received with actual field training, if not more so.“In field practice we have to follow a lot of safety rules, which many soldiers feel do not allow for a true battlefield experience,” said one soldier who has used the system. “With the simulator, you feel and can act and react as if you are truly facing the enemy, without having to worry about friendly-fire safety considerations.”The Navy is the first IDF corps to get to use the system, but other divisions plan to use it as well.

Australian ex-deputy PM slams ‘Jewish lobby’ over Pius criticism

Tim Fischer’s assertions, published in new book, is ‘standard anti-Semitic fare,’ says head of Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office

By Raphael Ahren August 5, 2013, 2:32 pm 4-the times of israel

A former deputy prime minister of Australia attacked the “Jewish lobby” for what he considers unfair treatment of pope Pius XII, prompting Jewish groups to accuse him of anti-Semitism.In an interview with Australian media, Tim Fischer suggested that a “Jewish lobby” controlled by Israel silences attempts to defend the wartime pope’s record. This lobby needed “momentum and profile” and had become “increasingly shrill” in its criticism of the pope, he said.“The American Jewish lobby is run by hardliners who get their daily feed from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and will cut no slack in terms of Israel’s policies in the West Bank,” Fischer wrote in a new book about his term as ambassador to the Holy See, which ended last year.

Jewish groups often criticize Pius XII for his behavior during the Holocaust, lamenting that he did not vocally oppose the Nazis.But Fischer, who served as Australia’s deputy prime minister from 1996 until 1999, contended that Pius did save thousands of Jews in Italy but “gets zero credit,” according to a report in Fairfax Media, an Australian media company.“In fact, according to Mr. Fischer, Pius instructed Catholics to help Jews, hiding hundreds in convents, monasteries and the Vatican. The Nazis rounded up 1,002 of Rome’s 8,000 Jews in 1943 and sent them to Auschwitz, but the other 7,000 were saved,” the Australian media conglomerate reported.In “Holy See, Unholy Me: 1000 Days in Rome,” which hit bookstands last week in Melbourne, Fischer identified Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev “as a key figure” regarding the Jewish lobby’s media power, according to Fairfax. The Jews’ prowess in manipulating public opinion beats that of the Vatican, Fischer reportedly said, adding that their tactics “are about representing a cause and maintaining influence and power.”Regev, who was born and raised in Melbourne before he immigrated to Israel, said he had no comment about Fischer’s allegations.“This is very standard anti-Semitic fare,” said Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office. “This is one of the classic fundamentals of anti-Semitic propaganda: the notion of Jews controlling the world, either through financial markets or the media, or both. People conjure up a specter of nefarious international conspiracy run by Jews.”Zuroff opined that Fischer was using the accusations as a way to drum up sales.Fischer told Fairfax he expected to be criticized for his comments, “but hoped fair-minded people would read the book.”

In the book, Fischer wrote that “Jewish lobby’s” influence in sullying the name of the Vatican bubbled to the surface when an Israeli diplomat ostensibly defended Pope Pius’s wartime record but later partially retracted his statement after a huge backlash from Jewish organizations.In 2011, Israeli ambassador to the Holy See Mordechai Levy said that “it would be a mistake to say that the Catholic Church, the Vatican and the pope himself opposed actions to save the Jews. To the contrary, the opposite is true.”The comments were conceived to be surprisingly warm, since Israel and Jewish groups had hitherto accused Pius of not having used his prominent position to forcefully protest the Nazi extermination of the Jews.“For any ambassador to make such specious comments is morally wrong. For the Israeli envoy to do so is particularly hurtful to Holocaust survivors who suffered grievously because of Pius’s silence,” said Elan Steinberg, the vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants. Other Jewish organizations made similar comments, prompting Levy to quickly issue a clarification.“Given the fact that this context is still under the subject of ongoing and future research, passing my personal historical judgment on it was premature,” the diplomat stated.Fischer told Fairfax that he thought Levy was forced into a “humiliating backdown.”“Further, the moment any suggestion is made to consider Pius XII for beatification and sainthood, they hit out at close to full power and use all media avenues to stamp it out,” he said.

Pope Pius XII (photo credit: (Wikipedia commons/Ambrosius007)

Officially, Israel identifies with criticism over Pius’s alleged silence yet calls for more work to be done to better assess the historical facts. “It is the known position of many among Jewish communities and in Israel that Pius remained silent when a strong moral voice needed to be raised,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. “His historical role, however, must be determined by historians who need free and full access to relevant archives [in the Vatican].”Last year, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, based on new research, changed the wording on one of its panels to soften its criticism of Pius. It used to state that the pope “did not intervene” when the Nazis deported Jews from Rome to Auschwitz. Now it says that he “did not publicly protest.” The text further says that Pius “abstained from signing the Allied declaration condemning the extermination of the Jews” in 1942.The new text notes that critics consider the pontiff’s lack of public protest a “moral failure,” while defenders emphasize that his neutrality “prevented harsher measures against the Vatican and the Church’s institutions throughout Europe, thus enabling a considerable number of secret rescue activities to take place at different levels of the Church.”The panel at the museum now ends with this sentence: “Until all relevant material is available to scholars, this topic will remain open to further inquiry.”

Fischer, a 67-year-old Vietnam War veteran, is no stranger to controversy surrounding Israel.In 1997, when he was deputy prime minister, he withdrew an invitation to Australia he had previously extended to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, because then-prime minister John Howard felt such a visit was “inappropriate.” At the time, the Palestinian representative in Australia said pressure from local Jewish groups was behind the cancellation, although senior community officials said they had nothing to do with it.

In 2006, Fischer stated unequivocally that an Israeli bombing of the USS Liberty during the Six Day War was “a deliberate attack by the Israeli air force.” Both Washington and Jerusalem investigated the incident and concluded that the attack, which killed 34 crew members, was an accident, although some survivors claim it was deliberate.“By resurrecting this long discredited calumny, the only thing Fischer proves is his own deep-seated bias against Israel,” Ted Lapkin, the director of policy analysis at the Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, responded at the time to Fischer’s assertion.

Shalom: Netanyahu Offered, PA Rejected Yesha Building Freeze

The PA's price for renewing peace talks with Israel was the release of terrorists from Israeli prisons, Minister Silvan Shalom said-By David Lev-First Publish: 8/4/2013, 8:57 PM-israelnationalnews

Silvan Shalom-Flash 90

The Palestinian Authority's price for renewing peace talks with Israel was the release of terrorists from Israeli prisons – and only that, said government minister Silvan Shalom. Instead, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was prepared to offer them a building freeze in Judea and Samaria – but the PA rejected that offer, Shalom said in an interview on Voice of Israel public radio Sunday.The building freeze would have encompassed towns that are located outside the so-called “settlement blocs,” such as those in the Binyamin region – among them a number of towns, such as Beit El, that were included in the list of national priority areas issued by the government Sunday. Israel, said Shalom, had no choice but to comply with the demand to release terrorists, because of the heavy American pressure to restart the talks.Observers said that the fact that the PA rejected Israel's offer for a building freeze did not mean that there would not actually be a freeze. “We know that the PA accepts any Israeli offer as a fait accompli, even if they themselves reject those offers,” said one source. “It's a fact that the PA has demanded the concessions made by Israel in previous negotiations as a starting point for new ones, even if they themselves rejected those concessions.There's no reason to believe that this situation is any different,” said the source. “That they put some of these towns on a 'national priority list' for housing is fine, but if no building is approved and there is in effect a 'silent freeze,' it's just adding insult to injury to say that these places now have 'priority' over others.”

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

EGYPT

ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

US and EU states shut down embassies amid terror alert

Today @ 09:25

By EUOBSERVER

The US, Germany, Britain and France closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday after the Americans Friday issued a worldwide travel alert saying al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Damascus suburbs report chemical attack by regime

Residents of Duma and Adra tell of sulfurous smell, asphyxiation; say symptoms point toward sarin gas

By Elhanan Miller August 5, 2013, 4:43 pm 0-the times of israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/damascus-suburbs-report-chemical-attack-by-regime/ (VIDEOS)(2) 

Syrian activists have accused the Assad regime of using a potentially lethal gas against two Damascus suburbs on Monday morning, injuring at least 30 civilians, Arab media reported.Sirens went off in the towns of Duma and Adra, northwest of the capital Damascus, as dawn broke on Monday. Residents reported a sharp smell, which they identified as sarin nerve gas. Footage emerging from the towns and disseminated on social media displayed residents exhibiting symptoms of asphyxiation while others covered their faces with improvised face masks or washed themselves with water.“During the time of prayer we smelled something resembling sulfur and were certain we were being bombarded with chemical weapons,” one Adra resident told the Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya. “We rushed to wear masks after stopping the prayer.”

“The sky turned red and we could not drive, forcing ambulances to rescue us,” he added.A team of some 10 UN chemical experts was expected to arrive in Syria within days to investigate the use of chemical weapons in three separate instances, including during fighting between rebels and government forces near Aleppo in March.US President Barack Obama has defined the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime a “red line,” and in June decided to arm rebel forces after obtaining conclusive evidence that the regime had indeed used the internationally banned weapons.On Monday, the Facebook page of Duma’s media department was advising residents on how to produce protective masks from household materials, as residents reported government mortar shelling on the town. 

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(ATOMIC BOMS)

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

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

08/ 5/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Turkson joins peace events commemorating atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Cardinal Turkson

The Cardinal is in Japan to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and pray for peace. The Bishops there want all 47 nuclear power plants closed, and they want to protect the Constitution’s Article 9 that outlaws war

Gerard O'Connell Rome
Cardinal Peter Turkson is in Japan this week to participate in a “Ten Days for Peace” event organized by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Japan on the 68th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs by the USA on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The event is a follow up to the Appeal for Peace made by Pope John Paul II when he visited the country in 1981. Responding to that appeal the Japanese Bishops Conference decided to organize an annual event for peace in each diocese, to commemorate those terrible moments in history and promote peace. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (population 350,000) on 6 August 1945. It directly killed some 80,000 people, (the total of dead and injured reached 90-140,000 by the year’s end) while 69% of the city’s buildings were completely destroyed.The second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki (population 263,000) on August 9. It killed some 74,000 people and injured another 75,000. The purpose of this year’s peace event is “to pray for the victims of atomic bombs, to reaffirm the foolishness of wars, to become peacemakers”, according to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace headed by Cardinal Turkson.  The event lasts from 5-15 August, and covers not only the anniversaries of both bombings but also that of Japan’s surrender on August 15.The Cardinal will preach at mass at the Cathedral in Hiroshima on August 5. The day after he will join Buddhist, Shinto and Protestant religious leaders for the memorial day commemoration of the Hiroshima bombing, and speak on the need to collaborate together to promote and build peace in the world.On August 7, he will speak at a dinner in Nagasaki organized by its Inter-religious Dialogue for World Peace and, Next day, he will participate in an Inter-religious memorial ceremony at the city’s Ground-Zero Park, and pray for the victims of the bombing and for those still suffering from the radioactivity then.  Cardinal Turkson will celebrate mass in Nagasaki’s cathedral on August 9, and pray for the victims of the bombing there and for peace in the world.When on June 23 Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada, the President of the Japanese Catholic Bishops Conference announced the ‘Ten Days for Peace’ event, he recalled that this was also the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s famous encyclical on peace - Pacem in Terris (“Peace on Earth). ( www.cbcj.catholic.jp/eng/edoc/130623.htm )

He highlighted the relevance of that encyclical for Japan today, and identified a new threat to peace in the movement now under way in Japan to lower the voting requirement for changing the Constitution. If this were to be approved, he said, it would open the door to the abolition of Article 9 of the Constitution which outlaws war as a way to resolve international disputes.“Because of Article 9, Japan has never killed anyone in war, and no Japanese has been killed in war.  It is our crucial responsibility to protect and make the most of Article 9”, he stated Sr Cecilia Haruko Ishikawa aci, Director of the Department for Social Concerns of the Bishops' Conference, is a key person in the coordination of the ‘Ten Days for Peace’ event.  When I asked her whether the Japanese Bishops are making a link between the 1945 atomic bombing and the Fukishama Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster of March 2011, she confirmed this saying, “To have nuclear plants is to gain the plutonium that could make nuclear weapons”.She recalled how “after that disaster the Bishops Conference of Japan published a message on 8 November 2011 to all of Japan saying that we should abolish all 47 nuclear plants”.( www.cbcj.catholic.jp/eng/edoc/111108.htm).

Sr Cecilia also emphasized the importance of the ‘Ten Days for Peace’ and other such events. “Many people come for the official ceremony of anniversary of Atomic Bomb, both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each diocese has its own events. Many Catholics come for Mass and other activities organized by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Dioceses. It is a really good chance for the people to reflect about the Peace, not only in Japan but also for whole the world”, she said. The followers of other religions “pray and have events” at this time too, and Cardinal Turkson will participate in some of these inter-religious events at Kyoto, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she stated.

08/ 3/2013  VATICAN INSIDER

A dying atom bomb victim’s last wish: Communion

The pain of the victims' bereaved relatives

Fr. Arrupe, the current Superior General of the Jesuits, tells the story of the young Nakamura San. Cardinal Turkson will soon be in Japan to commemorate the victims of the atomic bomb

domenico agasso JR turin Her final wish before she succumbed to a death caused the atomic bomb was to receive Communion. The greatness of Christianity prevailed, even in the midst of the disasters and tragedies caused by the nuclear nightmare. Despite her disfigured body, courtesy of the effects of the atomic explosion, Japanese student Nakamura San used her last, dwindling strengths to make one final resolute request to Fr. Pedro Arrupe (Bilbao, 1907 – Rome, 1991), the Jesuit’s future Superior General, who was a missionary in Hiroshima (Japan) at the time.
 
Fr. Arrupe told the story of Nakamura San. It was the morning of 6 August 1945: “I saw the first atomic bomb in history hit the city at exactly 8:15 am… I was in my office at the time, with another priest. We saw the huge ball of fire, I jumped to my feet and ran to the window and at that moment we heard an explosion. It wasn’t a huge detonation, but something completely different; I remember it as a huge mooing sound… We looked at the city. Hiroshima wasn’t there any more. It had turned into a compact brazier…” So the Jesuit missionaries in Hiroshima had to become doctors, nurses and surgeons. They had to witness terrible wounds, bodies that were consumed by the heat and monstrous and horrible disfigurements. They had hundreds of dramatic experiences.
 
One of these was the story of a Catholic girl. “University student Nakamura San, from my parish of Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima the day the bomb was dropped. She sent for me. I found her inside a shack. No one wanted to come with me, they just pointed out where it was. Before catching sight of it, I smelt the nauseating smell of destroyed flesh. Nakamura San was lying on the ground with her arms and legs spread out and her hands and feet were horribly swollen. All you could see was skin and bone showing through her burnt flesh. She remained in this condition for fifteen days. Nakamura San opened her eyes, recognised me and told me something I will never forget: 'Arrupe shimpusama, Goseitai, o motte irasshaimashita ka?' This is the transcription of what she said to me in speaking. The question she asked was: “Fr. Arrupe, could you give communion to me?”
 
The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, will also pray for Nakamura San, as he did for all the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, in an upcoming visit to Japan for a five day meeting of reflection, prayer, to promote peace and commemorate the victims of the atomic bombs. Cardinal Turkson’s trip is part of the Japanese Episcopal Conference’s Ten Days of Peace initiative (from 6 to 15 August). On Monday the prelate will be in Hiroshima to preside a Holy Mass for peace in the city’s cathedral. On Tuesday he will attend an interreligious meeting, where he will give a speech on mutual cooperation in building worldwide peace.

On Wednesday he will visit Nagasaki, where he has been invited to a lunch organised by the International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue; at a commemorative interreligious ceremony at the city’s Ground Zero Park on Thursday, the cardinal will say a prayer for the victims of the bombings. Finally, on Friday 9 August, the President of the Vatican dicastery will preside over a mass for world peace.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

16 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-08-05 10:46:20 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)

1. 3.2 56km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-08-05 07:54:00 UTC-04:00 56.5 km
2. 4.4 69km S of Minas de Marcona, Peru 2013-08-05 07:24:05 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
3. 2.8 14km SE of Stallion Springs, California 2013-08-05 05:58:42 UTC-04:00 7.0 km
4. 4.6 32km W of Kigorobya, Uganda 2013-08-05 03:33:59 UTC-04:00 30.8 km
5. 4.3 112km NE of Iquique, Chile 2013-08-05 03:29:39 UTC-04:00 97.9 km
6. 3.0 8km NE of Utuado, Puerto Rico 2013-08-05 03:21:27 UTC-04:00 129.0 km
7. 4.5 59km NW of Carahue, Chile 2013-08-05 02:46:07 UTC-04:00 19.4 km
8. 4.8 237km SE of Sarangani, Philippines 2013-08-05 02:15:47 UTC-04:00 43.5 km
9. 5.4 60km W of Iquique, Chile 2013-08-05 01:40:56 UTC-04:00 17.6 km
10. 4.7 Owen Fracture Zone region 2013-08-05 00:28:06 UTC-04:00 9.9 km
11. 4.4 155km ENE of Dili, East Timor 2013-08-04 21:46:08 UTC-04:00 43.5 km
12. 4.7 75km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2013-08-04 15:16:52 UTC-04:00 124.9 km
13. 4.6 78km SSE of Kuril'sk, Russia 2013-08-04 13:10:02 UTC-04:00 60.9 km
14. 5.8 196km ESE of Dolinsk, Russia 2013-08-04 11:56:34 UTC-04:00 367.4 km
15. 2.5 51km S of Lone Pine, California 2013-08-04 11:46:22 UTC-04:00 0.5 km
16. 4.3 50km S of La Libertad, El Salvador 2013-08-04 11:43:03 UTC-04:00 81.0 km