JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
Final MH17 report due October 13: Dutch investigators-AFP-aug 27,15-yahoonews
The Hague (AFP) - The final report into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn eastern Ukraine last year will be released in October 13, Dutch investigators said on Thursday."The Dutch Safety Board (OVV) informed relatives and the accredited representatives to the investigation that the board will publish the final report on the investigation into flight MH17 on 13 October 2015," the board said in a statement."Prior to the official publication of the report, the relatives will be informed about the conclusions of the investigation during a closed information meeting," the OVV added.The passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine on July 17 last year, during heavy fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. All 298 people onboard -- mainly Dutch -- were killed.The Netherlands has been leading teams of international investigators to retrieve body parts, probe the cause of the incident and eventually prosecute those responsible.The OVV is charged with looking into the exact cause of the crash but will not identify those responsible.Ukraine and many in the West have accused the rebels of blowing the Boeing 777 out of the sky, saying they may have used a BUK missile supplied by Russia.Moscow and the rebels deny any responsibility and point the finger at Ukraine's military.A preliminary Dutch report released last September said the plane had been hit by numerous "high-energy objects".Dutch prosecutors leading the criminal probe, assisted by experts from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and the Ukraine, earlier this month announced they have found fragments "probably" from a Russian-made surface-to-air missile at the crash site.
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/day-4-indonesia-finds-crashed-plane.html
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Jewish settlers take over homes in Arab part of Jerusalem-Associated Press-aug 27,15-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ultra-nationalist Israelis have taken over a four-story building in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, raising fears of fresh violence in the tense area.A small group of activists from the Ateret Cohanim settler organization moved into the building on Thursday. It was the latest in a wave of settler advances since nationalist Jews began buying up properties in Palestinian neighborhoods two decades ago.The building is located in Silwan, a neighborhood that is home to several hundred Jewish residents and some 50,000 Palestinians. Israeli soldiers were guarding the latest wave of settlers.Ateret Cohanim says it legally purchased the properties. Palestinian residents say they have been unfairly evicted or illegally bullied into leaving.Past takeovers have led to clashes and violent Palestinian demonstrations.
China detains more suspects over deadly chemical disaster in Tianjin-Twenty-three people have now been detained in a broadening investigation of the port city's storage facility blasts, which killed more than 140.Christian Science Monitor By Robert Marquand-aug 27,15-yahoonews
China on Thursday accused 11 transport and customs officials and several municipal authorities in Tianjin of “dereliction of duty” and “abuse of power” over a chemical explosion on Aug. 12 that killed some 140 people in the northeastern city and sparked public outrage over corruption and negligence.The 11 join 12 people previously detained from the Ruihai International Logistics firm, including its board chairman, who ran the warehouse in the city where the chemicals were stored. State-run Xinhua news today described those facing investigation as "including Tianjin local transportation management authorities, work safety regulatory agencies, land resources authorities, Tianjin local customs office and a state-owned port company..."The explosion at the warehouse, which held more than 700 tons of hazardous substances, shook the booming northeastern port city, a half-hour north of Beijing by fast train. The storage facility was located near residential apartment buildings, and the blast – heavy enough to be recorded by earthquake sensors – turned the area into a moonscape. Between 450 and 700 people were injured or hospitalized.For many Chinese, the disaster was an example not only of official malfeasance but a lack of public oversight and accountability.President Xi Jinping vowed to conduct a full investigation, and The New York Times today reported that the new steps “made clear that the government’s investigation [is] now broadening to include public servants who were supposed to act as watchdogs.”China watchers note that the Tianjin episode comes amid a new policy in Beijing that aims to shut down parts of society that could act as public watchdogs. In the past year, Chinese officials have begun to target nongovernmental organizations, particularly civil society NGOs that have foreign funding. In July and early August, authorities arrested or detained more than 200 lawyers around China who describe themselves as willing to take human and civil rights and public interest cases.Many critics have pointed to the Tianjin explosion as the kind of public disaster that civil rights lawyers as well as NGOs focusing on local and community interests could battle or prevent.Chinese public interest blogger Xiao Shu writes in The New York Times that in 2015 so far, there have been 13 other chemical-related explosions in China, leaving 10 dead and 92 injured, most recently a widely publicized petrochemical fire that destroyed a factory in nearby Shandong Province. The Chinese media reported this week that two major shareholders in Rui Hai used their family ties to secure approval for storing dangerous materials at the Tianjin warehouse, in clear violation of regulations that prohibit the storage of hazardous chemicals within 3,200 feet of residences.One of the key characteristics of the Chinese system is that leaders grasp for unlimited power but are unwilling to take full responsibility for the social and political consequences. The government suppresses truth to deter independent thought and deflect awkward questions about accountability. Industrial accidents are the result.After more than a week of relative silence, Chinese state media have been reporting steadily on official actions taken in the Tianjin probe. Last week they reported that Ruihai International had let its license for chemical storage lapse between last October and late May of this year.Yesterday, as The Wall Street Journal notes, state media "reported that the head of China’s work safety agency, Yang Dongliang, was removed from his post, a week after he was placed under investigation and suspected of serious violations of discipline – a Communist Party euphemism for corruption. Mr. Yang had served as the deputy mayor of Tianjin for more than a decade until 2012."
What drove Vester Flanagan to murder his former colleagues on air?-The suspected gunman in Wednesday's slaying of two journalists had a long history with many news stations.-Christian Science Monitor By Kelsey Warner-aug 27,15-yahoonews
Vester Lee Flanagan II, the gunman responsible killing two journalists during a live broadcast of WDBJ-7’s “Mornin’” program in Moneta, Va., and later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, had a history with the Roanoke, Va., station.His colleagues at the station came to know him as an angry and difficult person to work with, station manager Jeff Marks said during a live broadcast."Vester was an unhappy man," Mr. Marks said, adding that he had to be escorted out of the building by police after he was terminated from the station in 2013."He did not take that well," he added.Other former colleagues echoed Marks’ sentiments.Mr. Flanagan "was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter and then things started getting a little strange with him," Don Shafer, the former news director of Florida's WTWC-TV, where Mr. Flanagan worked in the late 1990s, said Wednesday. He spoke in an interview broadcast by Mr. Shafer's current employer, San Diego 6 The CW.Shafer said his "bizarre behavior" prompted managers at the Florida station to fire Flanagan.Kimberly Moore Wilmoth, who worked with Flanagan at the Florida station, recalled him as "off-kilter" and someone who "never really made himself part of the team."Flanagan sued the Florida station over allegations of race discrimination in 2000. He claimed a producer had called him a "monkey" in 1999 and that other black employees had endured the same. The suit also included a complaint about an unnamed white supervisor at the station that had said black people were lazy because they did not take advantage of scholarships to attend college. Flanagan and station managers settled that suit out of court.Flanagan worked at several other stations around the country before and after his stint in Florida.In 1996 he worked as a freelance production assistant at KPIX, a San Francisco station. He worked as a general assignment reporter at WTOC-TV in Savannah from 1997 to 1999. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a reporter and anchor for WNCT-TV in Greenville, N.C.If his time in broadcast in Florida and Virginia had been troubled, colleagues and neighbors earlier in his life recall a different Flanagan. A former co-worker at the California station, Barbara Rodgers, remembered him only vaguely as "a young, eager kid out of journalism school," who "just wanted to be on TV and to do a good job."At the Georgia station, Flanagan was remembered as "tall, good looking and seemed to be really nice, personable and funny," said a former fellow reporter, Angela Williams-Gebhardt, who now lives in Ohio. The station's former news director, Michael Sullivan, said Flanagan was relatively inexperienced, but did a decent job, without any apparent problems.A native of Oakland, Calif., who graduated from nearby San Francisco State University, Flanagan was remembered by one childhood friend with fondness."I don't remember anything bad about him," said Sasha Dansky, a high school classmate, recalling Flanagan's frequent appearance at parties. "He was just a nice, affable guy."Virgil Barker, who lived on the same leafy street, said, "I know you want to hear that he was a monster, but he was the complete opposite.”Barker added, "He was very, very loving."The enduring images of Wednesday’s horror tell a different story. The rampage began with multiple shots that killed reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward on Wednesday morning. Vicki Gardner, a local Chamber of Commerce official who was being interviewed live, was wounded.Shortly after the violence, purposefully wrought in front of a live audience, Flanagan faxed a 23-page manifesto to ABC News in which he cited the racially motivated shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., this past June as a kind of inspiration, and reported racial discrimination for being black, and harassment and bullying for being gay, according to ABC News."I've been a human powder keg for a while...just waiting to go BOOM!!!" Flanagan wrote.Flanagan’s family offered condolences to the victims' loved ones in the following statement: It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we express our deepest condolenses to the families of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. We are also praying for the recovery of Vicki Gardner. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims' families and the WBDJ7 NEWS family. Words cannot express the hurt that we feel for the victtims. Our family is asking that the media respect our privacy.Authorities have not pinpointed a motive, but missives online, as well as the letter received at ABC, suggest Wednesday’s violence was racially motivated.Hours after the shooting, someone posted video of the shootings online, apparently from the shooter's perspective. The videos were posted to Twitter and Facebook accounts registered to Bryce Williams, the name Flanagan had used throughout his career in broadcast journalism. The videos have since been removed.Posts on the Twitter feed included accusations that one of the victims had made "racist comments" and said that a complaint had been filed with a government agency that enforces discrimination claims.Flanagan died Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, presumably sustained during a police pursuit after the shooting. Police apprehended him after he crashed his car and transported him to an area hospital, where he later died.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Rejecting Iran deal would isolate Washington: U.S. envoy to U.N.Reuters By Louis Charbonneau-aug 27,15-yahoonews
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rejecting the Iran nuclear deal would lead to diplomatic isolation for the United States and significantly undermine Washington's ability to achieve other foreign policy goals, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday.In an article published on the Politico website, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said diplomats from the 193 member states of the United Nations are tracking the heated U.S. congressional debate over the deal "like they tracked the World Cup soccer pairings last year.""From this vantage point, I believe that rejecting this deal would significantly weaken our ability to achieve our broader foreign policy goals – most of which in 2015 require us to mobilize broad international coalitions," Power wrote.The White House says it is focused on building enough support for the Iran deal to keep Congress from "spoiling" the agreement that was clinched between Iran, the United States and five major powers on July 14.While President Barack Obama appears to have enough support among lawmakers to prevent Congress from overriding a veto should he need to use it, it is clear that most in the Republican-dominated legislature oppose the agreement.Power said rejecting the agreement, which calls for lifting most sanctions against Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program that will be in place for at least 10 years, would hurt the United States more than its hurts Tehran."If the United States rejects this deal, we would instantly isolate ourselves from the countries that spent nearly two years working with American negotiators to hammer out its toughest provisions," she said."If we walk away, there is no diplomatic door number two," Power added. "No do over. No rewrite of the deal on the table. We would go from a situation in which Iran is isolated to one in which the United States is isolated."Rejecting the deal, she warned, would also likely undermine Washington's ability to use sanctions in other circumstances.Critics of the deal in Washington have accused the Obama administration of giving Iran too much in exchange for too little. The Obama administration, however, has said that support for continued sanctions was waning and this was the best agreement that could be obtained.Congress is expected to vote on the deal next month when its 60-day review period expires. U.S. and European officials say that if the deal goes through most sanctions on Iran could be lifted next spring.(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by James Dalgleish)
NATO chief: Too early to say if Georgia joins NATO-Associated Press By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI-aug 27,15-yahoonews
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on a visit Thursday to Georgia that it is too early to tell whether the former Soviet republic will be invited to take the final step toward NATO membership.NATO members voted in 2008 to accept Georgia as a member, but since then the South Caucasus nation has denied been entry into the Membership Action Plan, the last condition for membership.NATO says Georgia must strengthen its institutions, step up justice reforms and fully respect the rule of law before it is accepted into the action plan. Tbilisi, however, claims that NATO is dragging its heels because of the frozen conflict in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.Speaking at the opening of a joint NATO-Georgia training center, Stoltenberg said Georgia already has "the necessary tools to continue to move toward membership."Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said the training facility would "in no way be directed against any of the neighboring countries," an apparent attempt to assuage Russia's fears about a NATO presence close to its border. Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war over South Ossetia in 2008.Moscow reacted angrily to the ceremony in Georgia, saying that the NATO presence would tip the balance in the region."We consider this move as a continuation of the provocative policy of the alliance aimed at expanding its geopolitical influence," Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters in Moscow. "Placing this NATO military facility in Georgia will become a substantial destabilizing factor for security in the region."__Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report from Moscow.
Russia says NATO training center opening in Georgia provocative-Reuters-aug 27,15-yahoonews
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia considers the opening of a NATO training center in Georgia provocative, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.Russia believes that a further strengthening of ties between the Western military alliance and Tbilisi would destabilize the security situation in the region, Zakharova told a briefing.NATO said on Thursday that a new training center opened in Georgia would help the former Soviet republic to move closer to membership in the military alliance.(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Writing by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Alexander Winning)
Philippines seeks 'real-time' U.S. help in disputed South China Sea-Reuters-aug 27,15-yahoonews
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has sought help from the United States to monitor "real-time" developments in the South China Sea, providing surveillance and reconnaissance, a military spokesman said on Thursday, amid China's rapid expansion in the area.Colonel Restituto Padilla said the defense ministry had asked U.S. Pacific Command chief, Admiral Harry Harris, to provide air cover to a Philippine civilian ship that regularly delivers supplies to Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed waters."We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal," Padilla said.Harris was in Palawan on Thursday to see first-hand the situation in the area near where China has built artificial islands.China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims.Vice Admiral Alexander Lopez, commander of military forces in Palawan, told journalists the U.S. commander promised to help its oldest ally in the Asia-Pacific, but would also prevent conflict from erupting.(Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Nick Macfie)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
MERS virus kills 19 in week in Saudi-AFP-aug 27,15-yahoonews
Riyadh (AFP) - Deaths from the MERS coronavirus have surged in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, with 19 fatalities recorded in a week, according to health ministry statistics.A total of 502 people have died in the kingdom since the virus first appeared in 2012, according to updated figures posted on the ministry's website, including 19, all Saudis, since last Thursday.The number of MERS infections has also surged to 1,171 cases, the website said.A surge in infections forced health authorities to shut the emergency ward at a main hospital in Riyadh last week, after at least 46 people, including medical staff, contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.Saudi Arabia, preparing to host more than two million Muslims from all over the world next month for the annual hajj to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, is the country worst hit by the coronavirus.MERS is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus that appeared in Asia in 2003 and killed hundreds of people, mostly in China.Its symptoms can include fever, coughing and shortness of breath. There are no approved vaccines against MERS, which is believed to originate in camels.
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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
6 missing in Dominica as TS Erika unleashes landslides-Associated Press By CARLISLE JNO BAPTISTE and DANICA COTO-aug 27,15-yahoonews
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Tropical Storm Erika unleashed severe flooding across Dominica on Thursday, triggering landslides that destroyed at least 20 homes in the tiny eastern Caribbean island as authorities searched for six people reported missing.Nearly 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain fell on the mountainous country late Wednesday, followed by another 6 inches (15 centimeters) early Thursday, according to the weather service in the nearby island of Antigua."The situation is grim. It is dangerous," said Ian Pinard, Dominica's communications minister.Two people were reported missing in the capital, another three in the island's southeastern region and one in the eastern part of Dominica, said national disaster official Don Corriette.About 80 percent of the island was without electricity, and water supply was cut off, authorities said. The main airport was closed due to flooding, with water rushing over cars and at least one small plane, and the scaffolding of some buildings collapsed.The main river that cuts through the capital overflowed its banks and surging water crashed into the principal bridge that leads into Roseau, whose roads were littered with fallen trees and light poles. Some streets were turned into fast-flowing rivers.Acting Prime Minister Rayburn Blackmoore asked people to remain calm and stay indoors."Do not go sightseeing," he said. "The situation is very dangerous."Erika was centered about 125 miles (205 kilometers) west of Guadeloupe, and was moving west at 16 mph (26 kph) with maximum sustained of 50 mph (85 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.Erika was expected to move near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Thursday and be near or just north of the Dominican Republic on Friday as it heads toward South Florida early next week. The storm was not expected to gain strength in the next two days.Officials shuttered schools, government offices and businesses across the region and warned of flash flooding because of dry conditions caused by the worst drought to hit the Caribbean in recent years. Authorities warned power and water service might be temporarily cut off.Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the storm could bring badly needed rains to the parched U.S. territory."We're happy given the dry conditions, but it does highlight the need to be on alert," he said, adding that heavy downpours could lead to flash floods.Garcia activated the National Guard as a precaution and asked that everyone head home by noon on Thursday.The heaviest rains were expected to hit Puerto Rico's eastern region, with the storm expected to pass about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of the island overnight Thursday, said Odalys Martinez, with the National Weather Service in San Juan.The storm also was generating heavy wind in nearby Antigua, and people should prepare for more rain, said Philmore Mullin, director of Antigua and Barbuda's National Office of Disaster Services. He said in a phone interview that no damage or power outages had been reported.Dozens of flights were canceled in the region, and the U.S. Coast Guard closed all ports in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands said St. John would experience the heaviest winds at around 58 mph. (93 kph)-Meanwhile in the Pacific, Ignacio strengthened into a hurricane. The storm's maximum sustained winds increased Thursday morning to 90 mph (150 kph).Hurricane Ignacio was centered about 1,135 miles (1,825 kilometers) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, and was moving west-northwest near 13 mph (20 kph).Also in the Pacific, a new tropical storm formed Thursday morning. Tropical Storm Jimena had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph (75 kph) and was expected to strengthen to a hurricane Friday. Jimena was centered about 890 miles (1,430 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.___Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Smoke grounds resources and aircraft battling Washington wildfires-the guardian-Air quality rated as unhealthy as crews fight a 262-square mile blaze-Firefighters from Australia and New Zealand summoned to help-Associated Press in Spokane, Washington-Last modified on Thursday 27 August 2015 17.28 BST
Smoke from big wildfires burning east of the Cascade Range grounded helicopters and airplanes that have been battling the flames in Washington state.The dense smoke also was causing respiratory problems for people far from the fire lines. In Spokane County, which has nearly 500,000 residents, the air quality was rated as unhealthy.Crews battling a 262-square mile blaze near the town of Republic, south of the Canadian border, also were battling smoke as well as flames, fire spokesman Donnie Davis said.“Everybody up here is rubbing their eyes,” Davis said. “It’s brutal.”A wildfire about 70 miles south-west in Okanogan – the largest blaze ever recorded in the state – grew to nearly 438 square miles and heavy smoke also grounded air resources, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said.“We’re still socked in,” Isaacson said. “There’s maybe one mile of visibility.”On Thursday, governor Jay Inslee was scheduled to take an aerial tour of the wildfires and meet crews on the ground. So far, officials have counted 40 homes and 40 outbuildings destroyed by the blaze, Okanogan County sheriff Frank Rogers said. The fire is about 17% contained by more than 1,300 firefighters.Rogers said a forecast calling for highs in the 70s and rain in the next few days was good news.“It is looking better for us,” he said.Several western states are in the middle of a severe fire season with some 11,600 square miles scorched so far.“You can imagine how stretched thin everybody is,” said Dan Dallas, deputy incident commander of the Okanogan fire. “We’re all working without the resources that in a normal year – which I don’t think there is such a thing anymore – that we might have.”So many fires are burning in Washington state that officials summoned help from firefighters in Australia and New Zealand. They also got 200 US troops from a base in Tacoma in the first such use of active-duty soldiers in nine years.On Thursday, more than a dozen of the Australian firefighters were to begin working fighting the Okanogan-area blazes.The Oregon military department said soldiers also were ready to help battle a wildfire that has destroyed more than three dozen homes near John Day, about 150 miles east of Portland.Fires also were burning in California, Montana and Idaho.
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
31 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-08-27 16:53:58 UTCShowing event times using UTC31 earthquakes in map area
3.3 66km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 15:47:29 UTC 68.0 km
3.7 86km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 15:42:14 UTC 29.0 km
5.1 218km NW of Nuku`alofa, Tonga 2015-08-27 15:06:25 UTC 10.0 km
2.7 107km ENE of Circle, Alaska 2015-08-27 14:50:48 UTC 4.0 km
3.9 14km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-08-27 14:39:19 UTC 9.4 km
4.7 South of the Fiji Islands 2015-08-27 13:42:32 UTC 31.9 km
2.7 80km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 12:00:51 UTC 49.0 km
3.4 37km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2015-08-27 11:26:33 UTC 127.5 km
5.1 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-08-27 10:50:57 UTC 10.0 km
4.8 47km NNE of Kuqa, China 2015-08-27 10:16:30 UTC 26.7 km
3.0 4km SW of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-08-27 10:12:56 UTC 5.0 km
4.8 253km N of Fais, Micronesia 2015-08-27 08:54:23 UTC 42.1 km
2.7 1km N of The Geysers, California 2015-08-27 06:37:36 UTC 1.6 km
3.3 119km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-08-27 05:46:53 UTC 100.0 km
3.2 82km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 05:19:15 UTC 30.0 km
2.6 24km SE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 03:36:45 UTC 7.0 km
2.7 7km NNE of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-08-27 03:14:23 UTC 7.7 km
2.8 62km SE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 2015-08-27 03:05:21 UTC 44.9 km
3.1 63km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2015-08-27 02:07:34 UTC 95.1 km
2.5 31km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico 2015-08-27 01:22:13 UTC 17.0 km
4.9 South of the Fiji Islands 2015-08-27 01:13:47 UTC 367.9 km
2.9 5km NE of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-08-27 00:56:23 UTC 1.3 km
4.2 83km S of Ierapetra, Greece 2015-08-27 00:47:19 UTC 10.0 km
4.8 59km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece 2015-08-27 00:25:08 UTC 25.8 km
4.3 24km NNW of La Serena, Chile 2015-08-26 23:49:19 UTC 47.8 km
4.2 20km SE of Turkoglu, Turkey 2015-08-26 23:01:46 UTC 12.4 km
2.5 36km E of Cordova, Alaska 2015-08-26 22:36:51 UTC 23.2 km
4.9 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-08-26 22:00:01 UTC 10.0 km
5.2 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-08-26 21:56:37 UTC 10.0 km
4.6 227km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan 2015-08-26 21:31:51 UTC 464.6 km
3.0 44km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-08-26 19:13:41 UTC 112.2 km
Final MH17 report due October 13: Dutch investigators-AFP-aug 27,15-yahoonews
The Hague (AFP) - The final report into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn eastern Ukraine last year will be released in October 13, Dutch investigators said on Thursday."The Dutch Safety Board (OVV) informed relatives and the accredited representatives to the investigation that the board will publish the final report on the investigation into flight MH17 on 13 October 2015," the board said in a statement."Prior to the official publication of the report, the relatives will be informed about the conclusions of the investigation during a closed information meeting," the OVV added.The passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine on July 17 last year, during heavy fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. All 298 people onboard -- mainly Dutch -- were killed.The Netherlands has been leading teams of international investigators to retrieve body parts, probe the cause of the incident and eventually prosecute those responsible.The OVV is charged with looking into the exact cause of the crash but will not identify those responsible.Ukraine and many in the West have accused the rebels of blowing the Boeing 777 out of the sky, saying they may have used a BUK missile supplied by Russia.Moscow and the rebels deny any responsibility and point the finger at Ukraine's military.A preliminary Dutch report released last September said the plane had been hit by numerous "high-energy objects".Dutch prosecutors leading the criminal probe, assisted by experts from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and the Ukraine, earlier this month announced they have found fragments "probably" from a Russian-made surface-to-air missile at the crash site.
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/day-4-indonesia-finds-crashed-plane.html
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Jewish settlers take over homes in Arab part of Jerusalem-Associated Press-aug 27,15-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ultra-nationalist Israelis have taken over a four-story building in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, raising fears of fresh violence in the tense area.A small group of activists from the Ateret Cohanim settler organization moved into the building on Thursday. It was the latest in a wave of settler advances since nationalist Jews began buying up properties in Palestinian neighborhoods two decades ago.The building is located in Silwan, a neighborhood that is home to several hundred Jewish residents and some 50,000 Palestinians. Israeli soldiers were guarding the latest wave of settlers.Ateret Cohanim says it legally purchased the properties. Palestinian residents say they have been unfairly evicted or illegally bullied into leaving.Past takeovers have led to clashes and violent Palestinian demonstrations.
China detains more suspects over deadly chemical disaster in Tianjin-Twenty-three people have now been detained in a broadening investigation of the port city's storage facility blasts, which killed more than 140.Christian Science Monitor By Robert Marquand-aug 27,15-yahoonews
China on Thursday accused 11 transport and customs officials and several municipal authorities in Tianjin of “dereliction of duty” and “abuse of power” over a chemical explosion on Aug. 12 that killed some 140 people in the northeastern city and sparked public outrage over corruption and negligence.The 11 join 12 people previously detained from the Ruihai International Logistics firm, including its board chairman, who ran the warehouse in the city where the chemicals were stored. State-run Xinhua news today described those facing investigation as "including Tianjin local transportation management authorities, work safety regulatory agencies, land resources authorities, Tianjin local customs office and a state-owned port company..."The explosion at the warehouse, which held more than 700 tons of hazardous substances, shook the booming northeastern port city, a half-hour north of Beijing by fast train. The storage facility was located near residential apartment buildings, and the blast – heavy enough to be recorded by earthquake sensors – turned the area into a moonscape. Between 450 and 700 people were injured or hospitalized.For many Chinese, the disaster was an example not only of official malfeasance but a lack of public oversight and accountability.President Xi Jinping vowed to conduct a full investigation, and The New York Times today reported that the new steps “made clear that the government’s investigation [is] now broadening to include public servants who were supposed to act as watchdogs.”China watchers note that the Tianjin episode comes amid a new policy in Beijing that aims to shut down parts of society that could act as public watchdogs. In the past year, Chinese officials have begun to target nongovernmental organizations, particularly civil society NGOs that have foreign funding. In July and early August, authorities arrested or detained more than 200 lawyers around China who describe themselves as willing to take human and civil rights and public interest cases.Many critics have pointed to the Tianjin explosion as the kind of public disaster that civil rights lawyers as well as NGOs focusing on local and community interests could battle or prevent.Chinese public interest blogger Xiao Shu writes in The New York Times that in 2015 so far, there have been 13 other chemical-related explosions in China, leaving 10 dead and 92 injured, most recently a widely publicized petrochemical fire that destroyed a factory in nearby Shandong Province. The Chinese media reported this week that two major shareholders in Rui Hai used their family ties to secure approval for storing dangerous materials at the Tianjin warehouse, in clear violation of regulations that prohibit the storage of hazardous chemicals within 3,200 feet of residences.One of the key characteristics of the Chinese system is that leaders grasp for unlimited power but are unwilling to take full responsibility for the social and political consequences. The government suppresses truth to deter independent thought and deflect awkward questions about accountability. Industrial accidents are the result.After more than a week of relative silence, Chinese state media have been reporting steadily on official actions taken in the Tianjin probe. Last week they reported that Ruihai International had let its license for chemical storage lapse between last October and late May of this year.Yesterday, as The Wall Street Journal notes, state media "reported that the head of China’s work safety agency, Yang Dongliang, was removed from his post, a week after he was placed under investigation and suspected of serious violations of discipline – a Communist Party euphemism for corruption. Mr. Yang had served as the deputy mayor of Tianjin for more than a decade until 2012."
What drove Vester Flanagan to murder his former colleagues on air?-The suspected gunman in Wednesday's slaying of two journalists had a long history with many news stations.-Christian Science Monitor By Kelsey Warner-aug 27,15-yahoonews
Vester Lee Flanagan II, the gunman responsible killing two journalists during a live broadcast of WDBJ-7’s “Mornin’” program in Moneta, Va., and later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, had a history with the Roanoke, Va., station.His colleagues at the station came to know him as an angry and difficult person to work with, station manager Jeff Marks said during a live broadcast."Vester was an unhappy man," Mr. Marks said, adding that he had to be escorted out of the building by police after he was terminated from the station in 2013."He did not take that well," he added.Other former colleagues echoed Marks’ sentiments.Mr. Flanagan "was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter and then things started getting a little strange with him," Don Shafer, the former news director of Florida's WTWC-TV, where Mr. Flanagan worked in the late 1990s, said Wednesday. He spoke in an interview broadcast by Mr. Shafer's current employer, San Diego 6 The CW.Shafer said his "bizarre behavior" prompted managers at the Florida station to fire Flanagan.Kimberly Moore Wilmoth, who worked with Flanagan at the Florida station, recalled him as "off-kilter" and someone who "never really made himself part of the team."Flanagan sued the Florida station over allegations of race discrimination in 2000. He claimed a producer had called him a "monkey" in 1999 and that other black employees had endured the same. The suit also included a complaint about an unnamed white supervisor at the station that had said black people were lazy because they did not take advantage of scholarships to attend college. Flanagan and station managers settled that suit out of court.Flanagan worked at several other stations around the country before and after his stint in Florida.In 1996 he worked as a freelance production assistant at KPIX, a San Francisco station. He worked as a general assignment reporter at WTOC-TV in Savannah from 1997 to 1999. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a reporter and anchor for WNCT-TV in Greenville, N.C.If his time in broadcast in Florida and Virginia had been troubled, colleagues and neighbors earlier in his life recall a different Flanagan. A former co-worker at the California station, Barbara Rodgers, remembered him only vaguely as "a young, eager kid out of journalism school," who "just wanted to be on TV and to do a good job."At the Georgia station, Flanagan was remembered as "tall, good looking and seemed to be really nice, personable and funny," said a former fellow reporter, Angela Williams-Gebhardt, who now lives in Ohio. The station's former news director, Michael Sullivan, said Flanagan was relatively inexperienced, but did a decent job, without any apparent problems.A native of Oakland, Calif., who graduated from nearby San Francisco State University, Flanagan was remembered by one childhood friend with fondness."I don't remember anything bad about him," said Sasha Dansky, a high school classmate, recalling Flanagan's frequent appearance at parties. "He was just a nice, affable guy."Virgil Barker, who lived on the same leafy street, said, "I know you want to hear that he was a monster, but he was the complete opposite.”Barker added, "He was very, very loving."The enduring images of Wednesday’s horror tell a different story. The rampage began with multiple shots that killed reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward on Wednesday morning. Vicki Gardner, a local Chamber of Commerce official who was being interviewed live, was wounded.Shortly after the violence, purposefully wrought in front of a live audience, Flanagan faxed a 23-page manifesto to ABC News in which he cited the racially motivated shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., this past June as a kind of inspiration, and reported racial discrimination for being black, and harassment and bullying for being gay, according to ABC News."I've been a human powder keg for a while...just waiting to go BOOM!!!" Flanagan wrote.Flanagan’s family offered condolences to the victims' loved ones in the following statement: It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we express our deepest condolenses to the families of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. We are also praying for the recovery of Vicki Gardner. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims' families and the WBDJ7 NEWS family. Words cannot express the hurt that we feel for the victtims. Our family is asking that the media respect our privacy.Authorities have not pinpointed a motive, but missives online, as well as the letter received at ABC, suggest Wednesday’s violence was racially motivated.Hours after the shooting, someone posted video of the shootings online, apparently from the shooter's perspective. The videos were posted to Twitter and Facebook accounts registered to Bryce Williams, the name Flanagan had used throughout his career in broadcast journalism. The videos have since been removed.Posts on the Twitter feed included accusations that one of the victims had made "racist comments" and said that a complaint had been filed with a government agency that enforces discrimination claims.Flanagan died Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, presumably sustained during a police pursuit after the shooting. Police apprehended him after he crashed his car and transported him to an area hospital, where he later died.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Rejecting Iran deal would isolate Washington: U.S. envoy to U.N.Reuters By Louis Charbonneau-aug 27,15-yahoonews
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rejecting the Iran nuclear deal would lead to diplomatic isolation for the United States and significantly undermine Washington's ability to achieve other foreign policy goals, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday.In an article published on the Politico website, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said diplomats from the 193 member states of the United Nations are tracking the heated U.S. congressional debate over the deal "like they tracked the World Cup soccer pairings last year.""From this vantage point, I believe that rejecting this deal would significantly weaken our ability to achieve our broader foreign policy goals – most of which in 2015 require us to mobilize broad international coalitions," Power wrote.The White House says it is focused on building enough support for the Iran deal to keep Congress from "spoiling" the agreement that was clinched between Iran, the United States and five major powers on July 14.While President Barack Obama appears to have enough support among lawmakers to prevent Congress from overriding a veto should he need to use it, it is clear that most in the Republican-dominated legislature oppose the agreement.Power said rejecting the agreement, which calls for lifting most sanctions against Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program that will be in place for at least 10 years, would hurt the United States more than its hurts Tehran."If the United States rejects this deal, we would instantly isolate ourselves from the countries that spent nearly two years working with American negotiators to hammer out its toughest provisions," she said."If we walk away, there is no diplomatic door number two," Power added. "No do over. No rewrite of the deal on the table. We would go from a situation in which Iran is isolated to one in which the United States is isolated."Rejecting the deal, she warned, would also likely undermine Washington's ability to use sanctions in other circumstances.Critics of the deal in Washington have accused the Obama administration of giving Iran too much in exchange for too little. The Obama administration, however, has said that support for continued sanctions was waning and this was the best agreement that could be obtained.Congress is expected to vote on the deal next month when its 60-day review period expires. U.S. and European officials say that if the deal goes through most sanctions on Iran could be lifted next spring.(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by James Dalgleish)
NATO chief: Too early to say if Georgia joins NATO-Associated Press By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI-aug 27,15-yahoonews
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on a visit Thursday to Georgia that it is too early to tell whether the former Soviet republic will be invited to take the final step toward NATO membership.NATO members voted in 2008 to accept Georgia as a member, but since then the South Caucasus nation has denied been entry into the Membership Action Plan, the last condition for membership.NATO says Georgia must strengthen its institutions, step up justice reforms and fully respect the rule of law before it is accepted into the action plan. Tbilisi, however, claims that NATO is dragging its heels because of the frozen conflict in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.Speaking at the opening of a joint NATO-Georgia training center, Stoltenberg said Georgia already has "the necessary tools to continue to move toward membership."Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said the training facility would "in no way be directed against any of the neighboring countries," an apparent attempt to assuage Russia's fears about a NATO presence close to its border. Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war over South Ossetia in 2008.Moscow reacted angrily to the ceremony in Georgia, saying that the NATO presence would tip the balance in the region."We consider this move as a continuation of the provocative policy of the alliance aimed at expanding its geopolitical influence," Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters in Moscow. "Placing this NATO military facility in Georgia will become a substantial destabilizing factor for security in the region."__Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report from Moscow.
Russia says NATO training center opening in Georgia provocative-Reuters-aug 27,15-yahoonews
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia considers the opening of a NATO training center in Georgia provocative, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.Russia believes that a further strengthening of ties between the Western military alliance and Tbilisi would destabilize the security situation in the region, Zakharova told a briefing.NATO said on Thursday that a new training center opened in Georgia would help the former Soviet republic to move closer to membership in the military alliance.(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Writing by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Alexander Winning)
Philippines seeks 'real-time' U.S. help in disputed South China Sea-Reuters-aug 27,15-yahoonews
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has sought help from the United States to monitor "real-time" developments in the South China Sea, providing surveillance and reconnaissance, a military spokesman said on Thursday, amid China's rapid expansion in the area.Colonel Restituto Padilla said the defense ministry had asked U.S. Pacific Command chief, Admiral Harry Harris, to provide air cover to a Philippine civilian ship that regularly delivers supplies to Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed waters."We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal," Padilla said.Harris was in Palawan on Thursday to see first-hand the situation in the area near where China has built artificial islands.China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims.Vice Admiral Alexander Lopez, commander of military forces in Palawan, told journalists the U.S. commander promised to help its oldest ally in the Asia-Pacific, but would also prevent conflict from erupting.(Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Nick Macfie)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
MERS virus kills 19 in week in Saudi-AFP-aug 27,15-yahoonews
Riyadh (AFP) - Deaths from the MERS coronavirus have surged in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, with 19 fatalities recorded in a week, according to health ministry statistics.A total of 502 people have died in the kingdom since the virus first appeared in 2012, according to updated figures posted on the ministry's website, including 19, all Saudis, since last Thursday.The number of MERS infections has also surged to 1,171 cases, the website said.A surge in infections forced health authorities to shut the emergency ward at a main hospital in Riyadh last week, after at least 46 people, including medical staff, contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.Saudi Arabia, preparing to host more than two million Muslims from all over the world next month for the annual hajj to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, is the country worst hit by the coronavirus.MERS is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus that appeared in Asia in 2003 and killed hundreds of people, mostly in China.Its symptoms can include fever, coughing and shortness of breath. There are no approved vaccines against MERS, which is believed to originate in camels.
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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
6 missing in Dominica as TS Erika unleashes landslides-Associated Press By CARLISLE JNO BAPTISTE and DANICA COTO-aug 27,15-yahoonews
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Tropical Storm Erika unleashed severe flooding across Dominica on Thursday, triggering landslides that destroyed at least 20 homes in the tiny eastern Caribbean island as authorities searched for six people reported missing.Nearly 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain fell on the mountainous country late Wednesday, followed by another 6 inches (15 centimeters) early Thursday, according to the weather service in the nearby island of Antigua."The situation is grim. It is dangerous," said Ian Pinard, Dominica's communications minister.Two people were reported missing in the capital, another three in the island's southeastern region and one in the eastern part of Dominica, said national disaster official Don Corriette.About 80 percent of the island was without electricity, and water supply was cut off, authorities said. The main airport was closed due to flooding, with water rushing over cars and at least one small plane, and the scaffolding of some buildings collapsed.The main river that cuts through the capital overflowed its banks and surging water crashed into the principal bridge that leads into Roseau, whose roads were littered with fallen trees and light poles. Some streets were turned into fast-flowing rivers.Acting Prime Minister Rayburn Blackmoore asked people to remain calm and stay indoors."Do not go sightseeing," he said. "The situation is very dangerous."Erika was centered about 125 miles (205 kilometers) west of Guadeloupe, and was moving west at 16 mph (26 kph) with maximum sustained of 50 mph (85 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.Erika was expected to move near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Thursday and be near or just north of the Dominican Republic on Friday as it heads toward South Florida early next week. The storm was not expected to gain strength in the next two days.Officials shuttered schools, government offices and businesses across the region and warned of flash flooding because of dry conditions caused by the worst drought to hit the Caribbean in recent years. Authorities warned power and water service might be temporarily cut off.Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the storm could bring badly needed rains to the parched U.S. territory."We're happy given the dry conditions, but it does highlight the need to be on alert," he said, adding that heavy downpours could lead to flash floods.Garcia activated the National Guard as a precaution and asked that everyone head home by noon on Thursday.The heaviest rains were expected to hit Puerto Rico's eastern region, with the storm expected to pass about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of the island overnight Thursday, said Odalys Martinez, with the National Weather Service in San Juan.The storm also was generating heavy wind in nearby Antigua, and people should prepare for more rain, said Philmore Mullin, director of Antigua and Barbuda's National Office of Disaster Services. He said in a phone interview that no damage or power outages had been reported.Dozens of flights were canceled in the region, and the U.S. Coast Guard closed all ports in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands said St. John would experience the heaviest winds at around 58 mph. (93 kph)-Meanwhile in the Pacific, Ignacio strengthened into a hurricane. The storm's maximum sustained winds increased Thursday morning to 90 mph (150 kph).Hurricane Ignacio was centered about 1,135 miles (1,825 kilometers) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, and was moving west-northwest near 13 mph (20 kph).Also in the Pacific, a new tropical storm formed Thursday morning. Tropical Storm Jimena had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph (75 kph) and was expected to strengthen to a hurricane Friday. Jimena was centered about 890 miles (1,430 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.___Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Smoke grounds resources and aircraft battling Washington wildfires-the guardian-Air quality rated as unhealthy as crews fight a 262-square mile blaze-Firefighters from Australia and New Zealand summoned to help-Associated Press in Spokane, Washington-Last modified on Thursday 27 August 2015 17.28 BST
Smoke from big wildfires burning east of the Cascade Range grounded helicopters and airplanes that have been battling the flames in Washington state.The dense smoke also was causing respiratory problems for people far from the fire lines. In Spokane County, which has nearly 500,000 residents, the air quality was rated as unhealthy.Crews battling a 262-square mile blaze near the town of Republic, south of the Canadian border, also were battling smoke as well as flames, fire spokesman Donnie Davis said.“Everybody up here is rubbing their eyes,” Davis said. “It’s brutal.”A wildfire about 70 miles south-west in Okanogan – the largest blaze ever recorded in the state – grew to nearly 438 square miles and heavy smoke also grounded air resources, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said.“We’re still socked in,” Isaacson said. “There’s maybe one mile of visibility.”On Thursday, governor Jay Inslee was scheduled to take an aerial tour of the wildfires and meet crews on the ground. So far, officials have counted 40 homes and 40 outbuildings destroyed by the blaze, Okanogan County sheriff Frank Rogers said. The fire is about 17% contained by more than 1,300 firefighters.Rogers said a forecast calling for highs in the 70s and rain in the next few days was good news.“It is looking better for us,” he said.Several western states are in the middle of a severe fire season with some 11,600 square miles scorched so far.“You can imagine how stretched thin everybody is,” said Dan Dallas, deputy incident commander of the Okanogan fire. “We’re all working without the resources that in a normal year – which I don’t think there is such a thing anymore – that we might have.”So many fires are burning in Washington state that officials summoned help from firefighters in Australia and New Zealand. They also got 200 US troops from a base in Tacoma in the first such use of active-duty soldiers in nine years.On Thursday, more than a dozen of the Australian firefighters were to begin working fighting the Okanogan-area blazes.The Oregon military department said soldiers also were ready to help battle a wildfire that has destroyed more than three dozen homes near John Day, about 150 miles east of Portland.Fires also were burning in California, Montana and Idaho.
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
31 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-08-27 16:53:58 UTCShowing event times using UTC31 earthquakes in map area
3.3 66km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 15:47:29 UTC 68.0 km
3.7 86km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 15:42:14 UTC 29.0 km
5.1 218km NW of Nuku`alofa, Tonga 2015-08-27 15:06:25 UTC 10.0 km
2.7 107km ENE of Circle, Alaska 2015-08-27 14:50:48 UTC 4.0 km
3.9 14km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2015-08-27 14:39:19 UTC 9.4 km
4.7 South of the Fiji Islands 2015-08-27 13:42:32 UTC 31.9 km
2.7 80km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 12:00:51 UTC 49.0 km
3.4 37km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2015-08-27 11:26:33 UTC 127.5 km
5.1 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-08-27 10:50:57 UTC 10.0 km
4.8 47km NNE of Kuqa, China 2015-08-27 10:16:30 UTC 26.7 km
3.0 4km SW of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-08-27 10:12:56 UTC 5.0 km
4.8 253km N of Fais, Micronesia 2015-08-27 08:54:23 UTC 42.1 km
2.7 1km N of The Geysers, California 2015-08-27 06:37:36 UTC 1.6 km
3.3 119km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-08-27 05:46:53 UTC 100.0 km
3.2 82km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 05:19:15 UTC 30.0 km
2.6 24km SE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-08-27 03:36:45 UTC 7.0 km
2.7 7km NNE of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-08-27 03:14:23 UTC 7.7 km
2.8 62km SE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 2015-08-27 03:05:21 UTC 44.9 km
3.1 63km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2015-08-27 02:07:34 UTC 95.1 km
2.5 31km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico 2015-08-27 01:22:13 UTC 17.0 km
4.9 South of the Fiji Islands 2015-08-27 01:13:47 UTC 367.9 km
2.9 5km NE of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-08-27 00:56:23 UTC 1.3 km
4.2 83km S of Ierapetra, Greece 2015-08-27 00:47:19 UTC 10.0 km
4.8 59km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece 2015-08-27 00:25:08 UTC 25.8 km
4.3 24km NNW of La Serena, Chile 2015-08-26 23:49:19 UTC 47.8 km
4.2 20km SE of Turkoglu, Turkey 2015-08-26 23:01:46 UTC 12.4 km
2.5 36km E of Cordova, Alaska 2015-08-26 22:36:51 UTC 23.2 km
4.9 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-08-26 22:00:01 UTC 10.0 km
5.2 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-08-26 21:56:37 UTC 10.0 km
4.6 227km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan 2015-08-26 21:31:51 UTC 464.6 km
3.0 44km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-08-26 19:13:41 UTC 112.2 km
