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)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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
US envoy says Trump understands why Israel needs to hold West Bank-David Friedman tells AIPAC a future administration won’t cotton to the risks for Israel of giving up security control of the territory-By Eric Cortellessa and TOI staff-MAR 28,19
WASHINGTON — US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman warned American Jews on Tuesday that a future administration won’t understand Israel’s need to maintain security control over the West Bank, suggesting that US President Donald Trump won’t force Israel to relinquish the territory that Palestinians envision as their own in a future state.The Trump White House will continue to pursue a Middle East peace accord, Friedman told a crowd of 18,000 at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual confab, because the president’s successor won’t be sensitive to Israel’s security challenges.Such an administration, he said, won’t recognize “the existential risk to Israel if Judea and Samaria are overcome by terrorists,” using the biblical terms for the West Bank. He emphasized Hamas’s seizure of the Gaza Strip after Israel’s withdrawal in 2005.What’s more, he added, it won’t internalize that “in the Middle East peace comes through strength, not just through words on a paper.”While he didn’t explicitly refer to a Democratic alternative to Trump, Friedman said that a future administration could be “potentially willing to penalize Israel for having the audacity to survive in a dangerous neighborhood.”“We will continue to work with the Israeli government, with the Palestinians, with other regional players,” he said, acknowledging that there will be “some turbulence along the way.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main election rival Benny Gantz are committed to maintaining overall Israeli security control in the West Bank — positions that rule out fully independent Palestinian statehood.Friedman, a former Trump attorney who has a history of financially supporting West Bank settlements before assuming his diplomatic post, celebrated the president’s recognizing the Golan Heights as sovereign Israel on Monday, with Netanyahu by his side at the White House.“For two generations, Israelis of all political stripes proclaimed: ‘The nation is with the Golan,’ which can never be severed from the State of Israel,” Friedman said Tuesday. “Without the high ground of the Golan, Israel is exposed to extraordinary risks from treacherous enemies. This will never happen on President Trump’s watch.”In remarks after the White House event on Monday, Netanyahu said the US recognition underlines “one important principle in international relations: When you start wars of aggression, and lose territory, don’t come back and claim it later. It belongs to us.” In further comments on his journey back to Israel Tuesday, the prime minister appeared to hint at possible future West Bank annexation, saying: “Everyone says it is impossible to hold an occupied territory, and behold — it is possible if it is ours in a defensive war.”In his AIPAC address, the US ambassador also addressed the firing of a rocket by Hamas terrorists into central Israel, injuring at least seven Israelis.That rocket, Friedman said, was not aimed at Orthodox, Reform, or conservative Jews, it was not aimed progressives or conservatives, Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews. “That rocket was designed just to kill Jews,” he said, in an attempt to urge Jewish unity. “We can learn much from that rocket. It cared not a whit about the differences among Jews. Let’s put our differences aside in favor of our common goals, now and always.”Friedman endured a tumultuous confirmation battle in 2017, as left-wing American Jewish leaders excoriated his past writings, in which he said the liberal Jewish group J Street was “worse than kapos” — Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps — and lambasted liberal Jewry for advocating policies that, he said, would put the Jewish state at risk.In his confirmation hearing, he apologized. “These were hurtful words,” Friedman said, “and I deeply regret them.”
Syrians protest US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights-Demonstrations against Trump’s move held in cities throughout Syria, minister calls for ‘a strong response’ during Damascus rally-By AFP and TOI staff-MAR 28,19
DAMASCUS, Syria — Demonstrations spread across Syria on Tuesday denouncing Washington’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in a show of unity in the war-torn country, state media said.US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the strategic border area captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israel applied Israeli law to the area in 1981 in a move not recognized by the international community.Trump’s move immediately drew criticism from the Syrian government, which described it as a “blatant attack” on the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.On Tuesday, demonstrators took to the streets across Syria to protest Washington’s decision.They staged rallies in Damascus, the government strongholds of Latakia and Tartous, the northern city of Aleppo, the central city of Homs, Deir Ezzor in the east and the southern cities of Daraa and Quneitra, state news agency SANA said.Syrians also protested in the Kurdish-majority northeastern cities of Qamishli and Hassakeh, it said.Demonstrators carried portraits of President Bashar Assad and raised the Syrian and Palestinian flags, in photos carried by SANA.“The blatant US bias toward Israel will not change the Syrian identity of the Golan,” Information Minister Imad Sara told state television during a rally in Damascus.“There needs to be a strong response,” not just condemnations, he said. “We want action on the ground.”In Aleppo, hundreds gathered in the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square.“We are here to condemn Trump’s Golan decision,” said Mohammad Shaaban, a protester.“The Golan is Arab and Syrian whether they like it or not,” he said.In Damascus, the lawyers’ syndicate gathered at the justice palace to decry the move, pro-regime television showed.“America is now the primary enemy of the Arabs,” a syndicate representative read from a statement.The lawyers’ syndicate in Hama paused court sessions for one hour in protest over the US decision, SANA said.Trump’s Golan decision spurred condemnation from several regional states, including Turkey, Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.It also drew criticism from the Syrian regime’s ally Russia, which warned of a “new wave” of tensions in the Middle East.The UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss the Golan on Wednesday during a meeting on renewing the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force deployed between Israel and Syria in the Golan, known as UNDOF.
Defense Ministry rebukes Israeli spy tech company for unlawful exports-Ability Computer and Software Industries, Ability Security Systems have licenses suspended after hearing; most details in case under gag order-By TOI staff-MAR 28,19
The Defense Ministry on Tuesday suspended the licenses of two subsidiaries of Israel tech company Ability for violating defense export laws. A gag order was placed on most of the details surrounding the investigation.The two companies — Ability Computer and Software Industries, and Ability Security Systems — were suspected of marketing and exporting listening and positioning systems without licenses against the law, the ministry said.Representatives of the companies were summoned to a hearing by the Defense Ministry Tuesday, following an investigation.The decision to suspend the licenses, which the companies say “provide intelligence technologies to government agencies and the military,” was an unusual move by the ministry.At the end of the proceedings, Ability Security Systems was suspended from the Defense Export Registry, along with its marketing, export and encryption licenses. Ability Computer and Software Industries also had licenses suspended.Israel’s defense exports are regulated according to a 2007 law that requires defense contractors to consider what and where Israeli weapons will be used for. The law is designed to prevent companies from knowingly selling weapons to countries that intend to use them to commit atrocities.While the contractors are legally required to take potential human rights violations into consideration under the law, this requirement can be overruled out of diplomatic or security concerns.Currently, Israeli law only prevents the sale of weapons to countries that are under an official embargo from the UN Security Council. However, such embargoes rarely happen, generally because of vetoes by China and Russia.Israel has been accused of selling weapons and military services to human rights violators around the world for decades, including to apartheid South Africa, Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and in recent years to South Sudan, despite a near-universal arms embargo over the bloody civil war there.Israeli company NSO is currently facing lawsuits alleging it sold spyware to governments with questionable human rights records. Channel 12 news reported last month that NSO hired controversial private investigation firm Black Cube to investigate those involved with the case. The NSO Group denied the claim.Recently, Israel has also been accused of supplying Myanmar with “advanced weapons” during the country’s ethnic cleansing campaign against its Rohingya Muslims. The Foreign Ministry admitted last year that Israel had sold weapons to Myanmar in the past, but said that it had frozen all contracts earlier in 2017.In 2018, controversial Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte told President Reuven Rivlin that his country would only buy weapons from Israel due to its lack of restrictions. He has said in the past that he sees Israel as an alternative supplier of weapons after the US and other countries refused to sell him arms over human rights violations.The recent warming of ties between Israel and Chad was reportedly conditioned on Jerusalem’s willingness to sell arms to the African country, which critics say is guilty of human rights violations.Israel has also come under criticism for its cooperation with Azerbaijan, another country accused of human rights violations, despite it being one of the few majority-Muslim countries with which the Jewish state enjoys an openly positive relationship.Azerbaijan is seen as an important ally given that it shares a border with Israel’s nemesis, Iran. Last year, the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev, revealed Azerbaijan had purchased some $5 billion worth of weapons and defense systems from Israel.In February, top officials in the Israeli drone manufacturer Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. were suspended over suspicions the company tested one of its “suicide drones” against the Armenian military on behalf of Azerbaijan in 2017.
U.S. House fails to override Trump veto of resolution to end border wall emergency-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Susan Cornwell-March 28, 2019
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Donald Trump's first veto, leaving in place the "national emergency" he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded.Democrats who control the House did not attract enough Republican support to reach the two-thirds majority vote needed to overturn Trump's veto. Just 14 Republicans joined 234 Democrats in voting to override, one more Republican than had bucked Trump in a previous House vote on the border wall emergency. One Democrat and two Republicans did not vote.With the 248-181 tally, Trump is now likely to continue scouring federal accounts for money he wants redirected to building a border wall, his signature issue.However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed lawmakers would keep trying to block Trump's move through the regular congressional process of appropriating funds, as well as reviewing his declaration of emergency again six months from now.The battle over Trump's emergency declaration also shifts to the courts, with various legal challenges already underway. A coalition of 16 states sued in February to block Trump's move.Trump declared the national emergency on Feb. 15 in an attempt to bypass Congress and move taxpayer funds for the wall away from other uses already approved by the legislature. Bipartisan majorities of both the House and Senate rejected his move, voting to terminate the emergency before the president vetoed their resolution on March 15.Democrats argued the Republican president had overstepped his authority by going around Congress, because the legislature has the power to control spending under the U.S. Constitution."We take an oath to the Constitution, not to the president of the United States," Pelosi said on the House floor.But Republicans insisted Trump had acted legally under a 1976 law known as the National Emergencies Act, under which previous presidents had declared dozens of emergencies."The president has the authority to act. The president is using the authority Congress has given him," said Republican Representative Sam Graves.Trump's position on Tuesday was possibly strengthened by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion after a 22-month investigation that the Republican president's campaign team did not collude with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Moscow has denied meddling.That political victory for Trump may make it more challenging for Republicans to defy the president on a range of issues, including his border emergency.“Even though the two issues clearly aren’t related, it increases the president’s strength and popularity and puts him in a stronger position,” Republican Representative Tom Cole said before the vote.After the vote, Pelosi said Congress would keep working through the appropriations process to "terminate this dangerous action" by the president.Indeed, earlier Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee sought to deny the Pentagon the authority to reprogram funds for the wall, an action that could potentially set up another courtroom battle.The Pentagon had announced Monday that it was shifting $1 billion from military construction projects to build part of the wall. But Democratic Representative Adam Smith, the Armed Services Committee's chairman, said Tuesday the panel did not approve the proposed use of Pentagon funds.BYPASSING CONGRESS-For two years, Congress has refused to meet Trump's demands for funding the wall he promised in his 2016 election campaign, although it appropriated some funds for border fencing and other barriers.Trump has made clamping down on illegal immigration a cornerstone of his presidency, and it promises to be central to his 2020 bid for re-election.His drive for billions of dollars to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall - one that he initially promised Mexico would pay for - has placed a wedge between him and Congress, including some Republicans who are uncomfortable talking about a wall.Many in Congress say effective border security requires a range of law enforcement tools, and Democrats dispute Trump's claim there is a crisis at the border.(Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Additional reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Peter Cooney, Bill Trott and Jonathan Oatis)
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
ISAIAH 66:15-16
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 4 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
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,(2 BILLION) 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).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
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.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
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.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
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.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Democrats, Muslim lawmaker decry opening prayer as divisive-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-MARK SCOLFORO-TOI-March 28, 2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The first female Muslim member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives said Tuesday she was offended by a colleague's decision to open a voting session with a prayer a day earlier that "at the name of Jesus every knee will bow."Democratic Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell of Philadelphia said she felt the remarks by Rep. Stephanie Borowicz shortly before Johnson-Harrell took the oath of office on Monday used her religion against her."I thought that for the most part, the entire invocation was offensive," Johnson-Harrell told reporters, noting that her own religion respects Jesus. "But to use Jesus as a weapon is not OK."Borowicz, a Republican and associate pastor's wife who was elected to represent a rural central Pennsylvania district in November, also thanked President Donald Trump during the Monday invocation for standing behind Israel.Johnson-Harrell said she respects everyone's right to praise the president, but "we cannot weaponize what's going on with Israel and Palestine."Prayer should not be among the things that Republicans and Democrats fight about, she said."It was directly a political statement, and I think we need to be very, very clear that everybody in this House matters, whether they're Christian, Muslim or Jew, and that we cannot use these issues to tear each other down," Johnson-Harrell said. "And not only that, it was made during my swearing in."Johnson-Harrell won a special election earlier this month to fill a seat vacated by the resignation of Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, who had been re-elected in November after being convicted of bribery.Her swearing-in drew 55 guests, a majority of them Muslim. A Muslim prayer was said from the House dais during the ceremony.Borowicz defended her remarks Monday, saying, "I pray every day. I prayed." She did not immediately return a message seeking a response to Johnson-Harrell's comments Tuesday."At the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord," Borowicz said on Monday.Her floor remarks drew a rebuke from Democratic Leader Frank Dermody of Allegheny County, who called Borowicz's invocation "beneath the dignity of this House" and asked that a group be set up to review the procedure.Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday he was "horrified" by Borowicz's invocation and apologized to Johnson-Harrell on behalf of all Pennsylvanians."I was horrified. I grew up in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn on the basis of freedom of conscience. I have a strong spiritual sense. This is not a reflection of the religion I grew up in," said Wolf, a Methodist.Another Muslim lawmaker, Rep. Jason Dawkins, D-Philadelphia, opened the session on Tuesday by reading from the Quran. His invocation was followed by applause.House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, who controls the daily invocation process, lost a federal court decision last summer that halted his policy of preventing nonbelievers from making the invocations. Turzai is appealing that ruling , and currently has the invocations performed by state representatives themselves.After Borowicz's comments on Monday, Turzai read for House members the guidance that has previously been provided to religious professionals about keeping remarks respectful of all religious beliefs and refraining from commenting on extraneous matters.___Associated Press writer Marc Levy contributed.
Roadblocks removed, schools to reopen as calm returns to Gaza border-Authorities resume running trains through south, begin removing restrictions as informal ceasefire following day of fighting appears to hold-By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross-MAR 28,19
The Gaza border area slowly returned to normal on Tuesday, a day after a sharp spike in violence between Gaza and Israel that led local councils to close schools, roads and train routes throughout southern Israel.Defense officials said Tuesday afternoon they believed the danger of an escalation in violence had passed for the time being, with Israel and Hamas reportedly reaching an informal ceasefire.The Israel Defense Forces began removing road blocks and other obstacles around the Gaza Strip that prevented civilians from approaching the area, including access roads to some border villages like Kibbutz Nahal Oz.The army also said schools would reopen after consultations with local officials, and all other restrictions lifted.Officials earlier ordered train traffic to resume, opening stations over the course of the afternoon.The first train in the area left Ashkelon for Beersheba at 4:10 p.m., and another left Beersheba for Ra’anana at 5:20 p.m.The return to normal came after a day of relative calm following a night in which over 60 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip and the IDF struck dozens of targets in the Palestinian territory.After firing around 30 rockets and mortar shells at Israel Monday evening, the Hamas terror group said it had accepted an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement with Israel that entered into effect at 10 p.m. But terrorists in the Strip continued to attack southern Israel into the night, with the army saying another 30 projectiles were launched between 10 p.m. and 3:15 a.m.Israel carried out heavy bombardments in Gaza, striking several targets across the Strip, including the office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israel could step up the attacks as an Israeli official denied it had agreed to a ceasefire.The IDF had shuttered schools across the south on Tuesday in response to the fighting, and put other rules in place to limit large gatherings.Train routes throughout the south were also canceled over fear that stations and tracks could be struck in a rocket barrage.Businesses were allowed to operate as usual so long as there was easy access to bomb shelters nearby. Farmers were also permitted to return to their fields if they coordinated their work with the local military brigade.No Israelis were injured in the rocket attacks, though a home in the southern town of Sderot sustained a direct hit by a rocket that did not explode.The round of fighting began with a rocket that slammed into a home in the town of Mishmeret northeast of Tel Aviv, leveling a home and injuring seven people.The rocket strike, which was attributed to Hamas, represented a significant increase in the level of violence from the coastal enclave, following weeks of heightened tensions and border clashes, as well as recent skirmishes in an Israeli jail between Hamas security prisoners and prison guards.There are fears in Israel that violence will ramp up this week, with Hamas hoping to draw hundreds of thousands of rioters to the fence at the weekend to mark a year since the start of the so-called March of Return protests, which began March 30, 2018.Additional Iron Dome air defense batteries have been deployed throughout the country and two additional brigades were dispatched to the Gaza region.The army also called up approximately 1,000 reservists for air defense and other select units.Raphael Ahren, Adam Rasgon and Jacob Magid contributed to this report.
Without mentioning Omar, Pelosi at AIPAC decries ‘myth of dual loyalty’-Support for Israel remains ‘relentlessly bipartisan,’ says House speaker, a day after Pence tells confab Democratic Party ‘co-opted’ by anti-Semites-By Eric Cortellessa-TOI-MAR 28,19
WASHINGTON — Without mentioning freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar by name, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the elephant in the room Tuesday morning.Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s 2019 Policy Conference, the Democratic leader argued that support for Israel remained “relentlessly bipartisan” as she implicitly rebuked Omar for her controversial comments last month that pro-Israel activists pushed lawmakers to show “allegiance” to Israel.“In our democratic societies we should welcome legitimate debate on how best to honor our values and to advance our priorities without questioning loyalty or patriotism,” Pelosi told the crowd of more than 18,000.She cited a House resolution that Democratic leaders shepherded several weeks ago to condemn anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in response to the firestorm sparked by Omar’s comments.The motion was criticized by Republicans, who called it a “watered down” version that did not call out Omar directly and that steered away from a narrow focus on anti-Semitism.Pelosi on Tuesday attempted to challenge that notion by reading directly from the resolution’s passage that castigated anti-Semitic invective.“This month the whole house came together to condemn the anti-Semitic myth of dual loyalty and all forms of bigotry with a resolution that ‘rejects the perpetuation of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the United States and around the world, including the pernicious myth of dual loyalty and foreign allegiance, especially in the context of support for the United States-Israel alliance,'” she said.Elsewhere in her speech, Pelosi insisted that there was still support for Israel on both sides of the aisle. On Monday, US Vice President Mike Pence told the same crowd precisely the opposite, claiming the Democratic Party had been “co-opted” by anti-Semites.“Support for Israel remains ironclad and bipartisan… relentlessly bipartisan,” Pelosi said. “We will never allow anyone to make Israel a wedge issue.”The California representative did not mention Pence or US President Donald Trump — who recently called Democrats “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish” — in her speech.She listed all the pro-Israel Jewish Democrats who have leadership positions in the House, including Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, and Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey.“Assistance to Israel is vital and it’s not going anywhere,” Pelosi said, “because if you care about America’s security, you must care about Israel’s security.”
Federal judge ends North Carolina ban on abortions after 20 weeks-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-March 28, 2019
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal court struck down North Carolina's decades-old ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying any "week- or event-specific" abortion ban is unconstitutional.The law, which took effect in 1973, only allowed an abortion after 20 weeks in the case of a medical emergency. Abortion-rights groups sued in 2016 after the health exception was further narrowed.U.S. District Judge William Osteen in Greensboro overturned the ban on Monday, allowing an abortion to take place at any point before the fetus is viable, or able to potentially live outside the womb, as determined by a doctor.His order will take effect in 60 days, allowing the state to appeal, should it decide to do so, or to propose alternative abortion legislation.Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, Osteen wrote "a state is never allowed to prohibit any swath of pre-viability abortions outright, no matter how strenuously it may believe that such a ban is in the best interests of its citizens or how minimal it may find the burden to women seeking an abortion."Laura Brewer, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina attorney general's office, said her office was reviewing the decision.The groups that brought the lawsuit - the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood - welcomed the decision."This ban is unconstitutional and ignores the unique circumstances, challenges, and potential complications pregnant women face," Genevieve Scott, a staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement on Tuesday. "Politicians taking medical options off the table for women at any stage of pregnancy is irrational and dangerous."The ruling appeared to thwart a bill brought by Republican lawmakers in North Carolina earlier this year that would have banned abortions after 13 weeks.Several Republican-controlled states have attempted to pass new abortion restrictions. In a law enacted earlier this month, Mississippi banned a woman from obtaining an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected.Some conservatives hope these laws will end up being used to challenge Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's 1973 landmark ruling that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Austrian far-rightist probed for ties to New Zealand shooter-Right-wing populist Martin Sellner received large donation possibly linked to Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant-By Frank Jordans-TOI-MAR 28,19
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s leader called Tuesday for authorities to “ruthlessly” investigate possible ties between an Austrian nationalist group and the alleged Christchurch mosque gunman, after it emerged that a prominent far-right activist in the Alpine nation had received a donation in the suspected shooter’s name.Martin Sellner, head of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, said on social media that police searched his apartment Monday and seized electronic devices after he received a “disproportionately high donation” from a person named Tarrant — the same surname as the suspected Christchurch shooter.Christoph Poelzl, spokesman for Austria’s Interior Ministry, confirmed Tuesday that the country’s BVT domestic intelligence agency searched Sellner’s apartment in Vienna at the request of prosecutors in the city of Graz.“Any connection between the Christchurch attacker and members of the Identitarians in Austria needs to be comprehensively and ruthlessly investigated,” Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted, adding that he had spoken to Justice Minister Josef Moser about the issue.“It is important that the independent justice system can use all necessary means and resources to conduct its investigation together with the security services and expose these networks,” he said. “There needs to be total clarity about all extremist activities.”Hansjoerg Bacher, a spokesman for Graz prosecutors, said prosecutors had stumbled across the donation as part of an existing probe against Sellner into possible financial offenses.“The purpose of the investigation is to examine links between Mr. Sellner and the Christchurch attacker,” Bacher told The Associated Press.He declined to confirm when the donation took place, but said it was much higher than other contributions made to Sellner or his Identitarian Movement.“Most donations were in the area of two-to-three figures, whereas this donation was in the low four-figure area,” Bacher told The AP.“This made it stand out, and the events in New Zealand put a face to this donation.”He said the investigation against Sellner is based on Austrian anti-terror laws.“We need to determine whether there is a connection and if so, whether it’s criminally significant,” said Bacher.Sellner denied having anything to do with the March 15 massacre, in which 50 Muslims were killed in the southern New Zealand city.Australian Brenton Tarrant was arrested within an hour of the mosque shootings and has been charged with murder.“I had nothing to do with the attack,” Sellner said in a video statement posted on YouTube, adding that he would donate the money to a charitable organization.He suggested the reason for the donation might have been to provoke repressive measures against “patriots.”Austrian authorities said last week that the Christchurch shooter visited Austria, but declined to confirm when or whether he met with any far-right activists during his trip.Some of Tarrant’s anti-Muslim views are echoed by the Identitarian Movement. The group is close to sections of the nationalist Freedom Party, which is part of the country’s coalition government.Austria’s vice chancellor, who leads the Freedom Party, echoed Kurz’s call for a comprehensive probe into possible Austrian ties to the Christchurch gunman.“All suspicions of extremism are acted upon, whether they are right, left or religiously motivated,” Heinz-Christian Strache said on Twitter. “Fanaticism has no place in our society.”
Gaza groups said to pledge not to escalate as long as IDF halts raids-Weekly protest scheduled for Tuesday at border between Israel and the Strip canceled; schools and businesses reopen in Gaza City-By Adam Rasgon-TOI-MAR 28,19
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip told Egyptian intelligence officials that they would not escalate tensions with Israel as long as Israeli security forces halt their air raids on the coastal enclave, Qatar-based news outlet Al-Jazeera reported Tuesday morning, citing a Palestinian source.The report came after residents in southern Israel and Gaza woke to a tense but relatively quiet morning, following a night in which terror groups in the Strip launched approximately 60 rockets at the Jewish state and the IDF struck dozens of Gazan targets.Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum announced late Monday night that Egypt had succeeded in brokering a ceasefire between the terror groups and Israel. However, the two sides continued to exchange fire until the early hours of Tuesday.Tensions between Israel and the terror groups ramped up Monday morning after a rocket fired from Gaza hit Mishmeret, a village in the center of the country, injuring seven including two infants.Israel blamed the rocket attack on Hamas, which did not issue a statement confirming or denying responsibility for the attack.Meanwhile, committees responsible for organizing protests on the border between Israel and Gaza announced on Tuesday that a weekly demonstration in northern Gaza on the beach near border separating the Jewish state and the coastal enclave was canceled “because of the security situation the Strip is going through in the wake of Israel’s ongoing escalation.”For the past six months, Palestinians have participated in almost weekly protests, which have included violence, at the border. The protesters have called for Israel to lift restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of Gaza.Israel maintains that its limitations on movement aim to prevent Hamas and other terror groups from transferring weapons to Gaza.A resident of Gaza City said that markets and businesses were open Tuesday morning.“People are back on the streets, but there is concern that tensions will escalate later today,” the resident, who works at a tile factory in Gaza, said by phone, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “We are waiting to see what happens.”Israeli politicians on Tuesday pushed back against Hamas’s claim that a ceasefire was concluded.Israel did not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, and is ready to continue its airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, a senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage to Washington said Tuesday afternoon, minutes before the delegation’s plane landed in Tel Aviv.
Senior official says no ceasefire with Hamas, as troops remain on Gaza border-While shaky truce appears to hold, security precautions in effect across south after massive exchange of fire between IDF and Hamas after Gaza rocket smashed home in central Israel-By Raphael Ahren and Judah Ari Gross-TOI-MAR 28,19
Israel did not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, and is ready to continue its airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, a senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage to Washington said Tuesday, minutes before the delegation’s plane landed in Tel Aviv.“There was no ceasefire,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Netanyahu was in constant contact with the IDF chief of staff and other security officials throughout the 12-hour flight back to Israel, the official added.Israeli troops and tanks along the Gaza border remained at the ready on Tuesday afternoon, hours after an unofficial ceasefire went into effect following the latest bout of warfare between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas terror group in the coastal enclave.“We had many targets in Gaza. These were the hardest blows Hamas has suffered since Operation Protective Edge,” the senior official said, referring to the 2014 war with the terrorist group in Gaza.“We hit office buildings and other infrastructure. We sent a strong message,” the official went on. “The images were reminiscent of the end of Protective Edge.“And we’re prepared to do even more. We will see what happens,” the official added.Asked by The Times of Israel if Israel has adopted a “quiet will be met by quiet” formula, the official demurred. “I am not saying anything. We will see what happens.”Netanyahu’s plane returned to Israel from the US at around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and Netanyahu immediately made his way to the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv for additional security consultations with IDF chief Aviv Kohavi and other top defense officials.At this stage, Netanyahu has not convened the security cabinet, but will merely “assess the information,” the senior official said.Though the truce, which was announced by Hamas but not formally acknowledged by Israeli officials, appeared to be holding, the Israel Defense Forces was preparing for the possibility of renewed violence in the Gaza Strip.The latest round of violence was kindled when, just after dawn on Monday, a rocket from the southern Gaza Strip that Israel says was fired by Hamas struck a home in the town of Mishmeret, northeast of Tel Aviv, leveling the building. Two of the people inside were moderately wounded and five others, including two small children, were lightly injured.It was the farthest-reaching rocket strike from the Strip since the 2014 war.Shortly after the attack, the military sent two additional brigades to the Gaza region and called up approximately 1,000 reservists for air defense and other select units. Meanwhile, additional Iron Dome air defense batteries were deployed throughout the country.The rocket strike, which Israeli officials attributed to Hamas, represented a significant increase in the level of violence from the coastal enclave, following weeks of heightened tensions and border clashes, as well as recent skirmishes in an Israeli jail between Hamas security prisoners and prison guards.After a tense 12 hours of deliberations on the Israeli side and failed attempts by the Egyptian military to preemptively broker a ceasefire, the Israeli Air Force launched a large-scale retaliatory bombing campaign, destroying dozens of targets, including the offices of Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City.At least three Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli strikes, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.In response, shortly before 8:30 p.m., terrorists in the coastal enclave began launching mortar shells and rockets at southern Israel, triggering air raid sirens throughout the region and sending tens of thousands of Israelis scrambling for bomb shelters.From Monday night and into Tuesday morning, approximately 60 projectiles were fired at Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.The barrages caused no injuries, but a number of projectiles struck homes in the town of Sderot in southern Israel, causing damage. Most of the rockets and mortar shells landed in open fields. Several others were intercepted by the IDF’s Iron Dome missile defense system, the army said.The last of the rockets were fired at 3:15 a.m., despite Hamas officials saying earlier that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire that would go into effect at 10 p.m.On Tuesday morning, the Israeli military called for a number of precautionary safety measures in southern Israel: schools in the area were closed, though some informal education was permitted so long as it took place in fortified buildings; businesses were only allowed to open if workers had easy access to bomb shelters; and some government services were not made available in light of the threat of renewed violence.Throughout the morning, residents of the Israeli town of Sderot found fragments of rockets from the night before.Departing the US for Israel around 2 a.m. (Israel time), Netanyahu — who, with elections looming, has come under strong criticism from the opposition and coalition over his Gaza policies — threatened a land invasion.“We will deal with these issues,” he said. “We gave a very powerful response. Hamas needs to know that we won’t hesitate to go in [to Gaza] and take any required steps.”There are fears in Israel that violence will ramp up this week, with Hamas hoping to draw hundreds of thousands of rioters to the fence this weekend to mark a year of so-called March of Return protests, which began March 30, 2018.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
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.
Death toll from Indonesia floods, mudslides rises to 89-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-March 19, 2019
JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from flash floods and mudslides triggered by torrential downpours in Indonesia's easternmost province has risen to 89, with dozens of others missing, officials said Tuesday.Floodwaters and landslides destroyed roads and bridges in several areas of Papua province's Jayapura district early Sunday, hampering rescue efforts.National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the worst-hit area from the flooding was Sentani subdistrict, where tons of mud, rocks and trees from a landslide on a mountain rolled down to a river that burst its banks, sweeping away residents.He said 89 bodies had been pulled from the mud and wreckage of crumpled homes by Tuesday. Another 159 people were injured, including 84 who were hospitalized, many with broken bones and head wounds.The number of dead is expected to rise as rescue workers comb through affected areas.More than 1,600 rescuers, including soldiers and police, faced difficulties on Tuesday in clearing huge piles of debris due to shortages of heavy equipment, said Papua military spokesman Col. Muhammad Aidi."We face difficulties removing debris and the bodies under rubble as we don't have enough excavators," Aidi said, adding that rescuers were searching for 74 people reportedly missing and feared dead.Nugroho said about 7,000 residents were displaced from their homes, with more than 400 houses and other buildings damaged and thousands of others submerged.Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and floods that kill dozens each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
After devastating floods, U.S. Midwest farms need more than 'paper towels' to recover-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Andrew Hay-March 28, 2019
(Reuters) - Missouri farmer Richard Oswald needs a lot of help to recover from flooding that left his home and farm looking like a manmade island in an inland sea.Relief groups are giving tetanus shots and handing out free meals and cleaning supplies near his farm in the Langdon-Rock Port area, about 100 miles (161 km) northwest of Kansas City. But what Oswald really needs is money.Hit by the worst flooding in living memory, he and thousands of other farmers along the Missouri River will each require hundreds of thousands of dollars in disaster funds or loans to start over."The typical response on flood relief is groups like the Red Cross show up with paper towels and rubber gloves and scrub buckets," said Oswald, 69, who does not expect to be able to get to his home or land for weeks. "The biggest thing farmers need is cash, or ways to access funds."'BOUNCE BACK'-Slammed by a trade war and low commodity prices, Midwest family farms have been in the red and in decline for the last five years. The number of U.S farms fell by 100,000 between 2010 and 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.Thousands more will now go under without emergency financial support for flooding, pummeling heartland economies almost entirely dependent on agriculture, farmers and aid groups said.It is a call federal and state agencies, as well as non-governmental and faith-based relief groups are answering.President Donald Trump has approved disaster declarations for Nebraska and Iowa, making federal disaster funding available in flood-hit areas. Missouri Governor Mike Parson declared a state of emergency, paving the way for similar actions in his state."I know we aim for bringing everything back up to where it was," said Rosalynn Days-Austin, a USDA emergency coordinator helping direct Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) efforts in flood-affected areas. "Sometimes that’s not always possible, for a variety of reasons, but the goal is definitely to help them bounce back from their loss."CASH PREFERRED-Relief groups like Farm Aid are tending to the immediate needs of farmers, distributing tens of thousands of dollars in "emergency grants" - $500 gifts from cash donations that help families pay for things like groceries. After that, the group and its partners advise farming families on how to access federal disaster funds they hope are coming soon."What we’re hearing, because of the snowpack and rain and the wet ground, is that farmers are going to be dealing with this throughout the spring. So we're in it for the long haul," said Jennifer Fahy, a spokeswoman for the group established by country singer and activist Willie Nelson.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is coordinating a long-term response to get displaced families housed, navigate the red tape of insurance companies and federal agencies and tend to the mental health needs of people who have suffered extreme trauma, said Bishop Brian Maas."We have national partners and coalitions within the state," said Maas, who is asking people to hold off donating more material goods, for now. "There will be stresses because we’ve not done anything of this magnitude."Now we have mountains of cleaning supplies and so forth that can't be used," Maas said, appealing to people to get back in touch in a month to see how they can donate then. "Cash is the most flexible way to respond."'FEMA IS WORTHLESS'-Another immediate need is feed for livestock.Relief organization Farm Rescue is collecting donations of hay in the Dakotas and trucking it to farmers whose cattle are starving after their feed stands were submerged in floodwater."I don’t know of anything this widespread that has ever affected so many people in our service area," said Dan Erdmann, a spokesman for the group which helps family farms get through crises ranging from natural disasters to medical emergencies.Farm workers, some of them undocumented and legal migrants, have been hit hard. Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska is looking at housing assistance for displaced people who previously paid around $300 a month rent and now face rents triple that due to a dearth in properties, said Stacy Martin, chief executive of the social services charity.While relief groups tend to urgent needs, farmers like Scott Olson say more federal relief money is needed at a time when low crop prices and high debt levels are limiting farmers’ access to credit. He is counting on a farm relief bill in Congress for extra disaster compensation after he successfully lobbied in Washington for similar funds following 2011 flooding."Flood insurance isn’t going to cover this worth a darn. FEMA is worthless," said Olson, who farms 3,000 acres near Tekamah, Nebraska and runs a farm equipment business. "They don’t have any money, nobody has any money."(Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Additional reporting by Tom Polansek in Chicago; editing by Bill Tarrant and Lisa Shumaker)
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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
US envoy says Trump understands why Israel needs to hold West Bank-David Friedman tells AIPAC a future administration won’t cotton to the risks for Israel of giving up security control of the territory-By Eric Cortellessa and TOI staff-MAR 28,19
WASHINGTON — US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman warned American Jews on Tuesday that a future administration won’t understand Israel’s need to maintain security control over the West Bank, suggesting that US President Donald Trump won’t force Israel to relinquish the territory that Palestinians envision as their own in a future state.The Trump White House will continue to pursue a Middle East peace accord, Friedman told a crowd of 18,000 at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual confab, because the president’s successor won’t be sensitive to Israel’s security challenges.Such an administration, he said, won’t recognize “the existential risk to Israel if Judea and Samaria are overcome by terrorists,” using the biblical terms for the West Bank. He emphasized Hamas’s seizure of the Gaza Strip after Israel’s withdrawal in 2005.What’s more, he added, it won’t internalize that “in the Middle East peace comes through strength, not just through words on a paper.”While he didn’t explicitly refer to a Democratic alternative to Trump, Friedman said that a future administration could be “potentially willing to penalize Israel for having the audacity to survive in a dangerous neighborhood.”“We will continue to work with the Israeli government, with the Palestinians, with other regional players,” he said, acknowledging that there will be “some turbulence along the way.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main election rival Benny Gantz are committed to maintaining overall Israeli security control in the West Bank — positions that rule out fully independent Palestinian statehood.Friedman, a former Trump attorney who has a history of financially supporting West Bank settlements before assuming his diplomatic post, celebrated the president’s recognizing the Golan Heights as sovereign Israel on Monday, with Netanyahu by his side at the White House.“For two generations, Israelis of all political stripes proclaimed: ‘The nation is with the Golan,’ which can never be severed from the State of Israel,” Friedman said Tuesday. “Without the high ground of the Golan, Israel is exposed to extraordinary risks from treacherous enemies. This will never happen on President Trump’s watch.”In remarks after the White House event on Monday, Netanyahu said the US recognition underlines “one important principle in international relations: When you start wars of aggression, and lose territory, don’t come back and claim it later. It belongs to us.” In further comments on his journey back to Israel Tuesday, the prime minister appeared to hint at possible future West Bank annexation, saying: “Everyone says it is impossible to hold an occupied territory, and behold — it is possible if it is ours in a defensive war.”In his AIPAC address, the US ambassador also addressed the firing of a rocket by Hamas terrorists into central Israel, injuring at least seven Israelis.That rocket, Friedman said, was not aimed at Orthodox, Reform, or conservative Jews, it was not aimed progressives or conservatives, Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews. “That rocket was designed just to kill Jews,” he said, in an attempt to urge Jewish unity. “We can learn much from that rocket. It cared not a whit about the differences among Jews. Let’s put our differences aside in favor of our common goals, now and always.”Friedman endured a tumultuous confirmation battle in 2017, as left-wing American Jewish leaders excoriated his past writings, in which he said the liberal Jewish group J Street was “worse than kapos” — Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps — and lambasted liberal Jewry for advocating policies that, he said, would put the Jewish state at risk.In his confirmation hearing, he apologized. “These were hurtful words,” Friedman said, “and I deeply regret them.”
Syrians protest US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights-Demonstrations against Trump’s move held in cities throughout Syria, minister calls for ‘a strong response’ during Damascus rally-By AFP and TOI staff-MAR 28,19
DAMASCUS, Syria — Demonstrations spread across Syria on Tuesday denouncing Washington’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in a show of unity in the war-torn country, state media said.US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the strategic border area captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israel applied Israeli law to the area in 1981 in a move not recognized by the international community.Trump’s move immediately drew criticism from the Syrian government, which described it as a “blatant attack” on the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.On Tuesday, demonstrators took to the streets across Syria to protest Washington’s decision.They staged rallies in Damascus, the government strongholds of Latakia and Tartous, the northern city of Aleppo, the central city of Homs, Deir Ezzor in the east and the southern cities of Daraa and Quneitra, state news agency SANA said.Syrians also protested in the Kurdish-majority northeastern cities of Qamishli and Hassakeh, it said.Demonstrators carried portraits of President Bashar Assad and raised the Syrian and Palestinian flags, in photos carried by SANA.“The blatant US bias toward Israel will not change the Syrian identity of the Golan,” Information Minister Imad Sara told state television during a rally in Damascus.“There needs to be a strong response,” not just condemnations, he said. “We want action on the ground.”In Aleppo, hundreds gathered in the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square.“We are here to condemn Trump’s Golan decision,” said Mohammad Shaaban, a protester.“The Golan is Arab and Syrian whether they like it or not,” he said.In Damascus, the lawyers’ syndicate gathered at the justice palace to decry the move, pro-regime television showed.“America is now the primary enemy of the Arabs,” a syndicate representative read from a statement.The lawyers’ syndicate in Hama paused court sessions for one hour in protest over the US decision, SANA said.Trump’s Golan decision spurred condemnation from several regional states, including Turkey, Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.It also drew criticism from the Syrian regime’s ally Russia, which warned of a “new wave” of tensions in the Middle East.The UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss the Golan on Wednesday during a meeting on renewing the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force deployed between Israel and Syria in the Golan, known as UNDOF.
Defense Ministry rebukes Israeli spy tech company for unlawful exports-Ability Computer and Software Industries, Ability Security Systems have licenses suspended after hearing; most details in case under gag order-By TOI staff-MAR 28,19
The Defense Ministry on Tuesday suspended the licenses of two subsidiaries of Israel tech company Ability for violating defense export laws. A gag order was placed on most of the details surrounding the investigation.The two companies — Ability Computer and Software Industries, and Ability Security Systems — were suspected of marketing and exporting listening and positioning systems without licenses against the law, the ministry said.Representatives of the companies were summoned to a hearing by the Defense Ministry Tuesday, following an investigation.The decision to suspend the licenses, which the companies say “provide intelligence technologies to government agencies and the military,” was an unusual move by the ministry.At the end of the proceedings, Ability Security Systems was suspended from the Defense Export Registry, along with its marketing, export and encryption licenses. Ability Computer and Software Industries also had licenses suspended.Israel’s defense exports are regulated according to a 2007 law that requires defense contractors to consider what and where Israeli weapons will be used for. The law is designed to prevent companies from knowingly selling weapons to countries that intend to use them to commit atrocities.While the contractors are legally required to take potential human rights violations into consideration under the law, this requirement can be overruled out of diplomatic or security concerns.Currently, Israeli law only prevents the sale of weapons to countries that are under an official embargo from the UN Security Council. However, such embargoes rarely happen, generally because of vetoes by China and Russia.Israel has been accused of selling weapons and military services to human rights violators around the world for decades, including to apartheid South Africa, Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and in recent years to South Sudan, despite a near-universal arms embargo over the bloody civil war there.Israeli company NSO is currently facing lawsuits alleging it sold spyware to governments with questionable human rights records. Channel 12 news reported last month that NSO hired controversial private investigation firm Black Cube to investigate those involved with the case. The NSO Group denied the claim.Recently, Israel has also been accused of supplying Myanmar with “advanced weapons” during the country’s ethnic cleansing campaign against its Rohingya Muslims. The Foreign Ministry admitted last year that Israel had sold weapons to Myanmar in the past, but said that it had frozen all contracts earlier in 2017.In 2018, controversial Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte told President Reuven Rivlin that his country would only buy weapons from Israel due to its lack of restrictions. He has said in the past that he sees Israel as an alternative supplier of weapons after the US and other countries refused to sell him arms over human rights violations.The recent warming of ties between Israel and Chad was reportedly conditioned on Jerusalem’s willingness to sell arms to the African country, which critics say is guilty of human rights violations.Israel has also come under criticism for its cooperation with Azerbaijan, another country accused of human rights violations, despite it being one of the few majority-Muslim countries with which the Jewish state enjoys an openly positive relationship.Azerbaijan is seen as an important ally given that it shares a border with Israel’s nemesis, Iran. Last year, the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev, revealed Azerbaijan had purchased some $5 billion worth of weapons and defense systems from Israel.In February, top officials in the Israeli drone manufacturer Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. were suspended over suspicions the company tested one of its “suicide drones” against the Armenian military on behalf of Azerbaijan in 2017.
U.S. House fails to override Trump veto of resolution to end border wall emergency-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Susan Cornwell-March 28, 2019
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Donald Trump's first veto, leaving in place the "national emergency" he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded.Democrats who control the House did not attract enough Republican support to reach the two-thirds majority vote needed to overturn Trump's veto. Just 14 Republicans joined 234 Democrats in voting to override, one more Republican than had bucked Trump in a previous House vote on the border wall emergency. One Democrat and two Republicans did not vote.With the 248-181 tally, Trump is now likely to continue scouring federal accounts for money he wants redirected to building a border wall, his signature issue.However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed lawmakers would keep trying to block Trump's move through the regular congressional process of appropriating funds, as well as reviewing his declaration of emergency again six months from now.The battle over Trump's emergency declaration also shifts to the courts, with various legal challenges already underway. A coalition of 16 states sued in February to block Trump's move.Trump declared the national emergency on Feb. 15 in an attempt to bypass Congress and move taxpayer funds for the wall away from other uses already approved by the legislature. Bipartisan majorities of both the House and Senate rejected his move, voting to terminate the emergency before the president vetoed their resolution on March 15.Democrats argued the Republican president had overstepped his authority by going around Congress, because the legislature has the power to control spending under the U.S. Constitution."We take an oath to the Constitution, not to the president of the United States," Pelosi said on the House floor.But Republicans insisted Trump had acted legally under a 1976 law known as the National Emergencies Act, under which previous presidents had declared dozens of emergencies."The president has the authority to act. The president is using the authority Congress has given him," said Republican Representative Sam Graves.Trump's position on Tuesday was possibly strengthened by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion after a 22-month investigation that the Republican president's campaign team did not collude with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Moscow has denied meddling.That political victory for Trump may make it more challenging for Republicans to defy the president on a range of issues, including his border emergency.“Even though the two issues clearly aren’t related, it increases the president’s strength and popularity and puts him in a stronger position,” Republican Representative Tom Cole said before the vote.After the vote, Pelosi said Congress would keep working through the appropriations process to "terminate this dangerous action" by the president.Indeed, earlier Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee sought to deny the Pentagon the authority to reprogram funds for the wall, an action that could potentially set up another courtroom battle.The Pentagon had announced Monday that it was shifting $1 billion from military construction projects to build part of the wall. But Democratic Representative Adam Smith, the Armed Services Committee's chairman, said Tuesday the panel did not approve the proposed use of Pentagon funds.BYPASSING CONGRESS-For two years, Congress has refused to meet Trump's demands for funding the wall he promised in his 2016 election campaign, although it appropriated some funds for border fencing and other barriers.Trump has made clamping down on illegal immigration a cornerstone of his presidency, and it promises to be central to his 2020 bid for re-election.His drive for billions of dollars to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall - one that he initially promised Mexico would pay for - has placed a wedge between him and Congress, including some Republicans who are uncomfortable talking about a wall.Many in Congress say effective border security requires a range of law enforcement tools, and Democrats dispute Trump's claim there is a crisis at the border.(Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Additional reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Peter Cooney, Bill Trott and Jonathan Oatis)
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
ISAIAH 66:15-16
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 4 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
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,(2 BILLION) 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).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
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.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
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.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
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.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Democrats, Muslim lawmaker decry opening prayer as divisive-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-MARK SCOLFORO-TOI-March 28, 2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The first female Muslim member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives said Tuesday she was offended by a colleague's decision to open a voting session with a prayer a day earlier that "at the name of Jesus every knee will bow."Democratic Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell of Philadelphia said she felt the remarks by Rep. Stephanie Borowicz shortly before Johnson-Harrell took the oath of office on Monday used her religion against her."I thought that for the most part, the entire invocation was offensive," Johnson-Harrell told reporters, noting that her own religion respects Jesus. "But to use Jesus as a weapon is not OK."Borowicz, a Republican and associate pastor's wife who was elected to represent a rural central Pennsylvania district in November, also thanked President Donald Trump during the Monday invocation for standing behind Israel.Johnson-Harrell said she respects everyone's right to praise the president, but "we cannot weaponize what's going on with Israel and Palestine."Prayer should not be among the things that Republicans and Democrats fight about, she said."It was directly a political statement, and I think we need to be very, very clear that everybody in this House matters, whether they're Christian, Muslim or Jew, and that we cannot use these issues to tear each other down," Johnson-Harrell said. "And not only that, it was made during my swearing in."Johnson-Harrell won a special election earlier this month to fill a seat vacated by the resignation of Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, who had been re-elected in November after being convicted of bribery.Her swearing-in drew 55 guests, a majority of them Muslim. A Muslim prayer was said from the House dais during the ceremony.Borowicz defended her remarks Monday, saying, "I pray every day. I prayed." She did not immediately return a message seeking a response to Johnson-Harrell's comments Tuesday."At the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord," Borowicz said on Monday.Her floor remarks drew a rebuke from Democratic Leader Frank Dermody of Allegheny County, who called Borowicz's invocation "beneath the dignity of this House" and asked that a group be set up to review the procedure.Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday he was "horrified" by Borowicz's invocation and apologized to Johnson-Harrell on behalf of all Pennsylvanians."I was horrified. I grew up in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn on the basis of freedom of conscience. I have a strong spiritual sense. This is not a reflection of the religion I grew up in," said Wolf, a Methodist.Another Muslim lawmaker, Rep. Jason Dawkins, D-Philadelphia, opened the session on Tuesday by reading from the Quran. His invocation was followed by applause.House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, who controls the daily invocation process, lost a federal court decision last summer that halted his policy of preventing nonbelievers from making the invocations. Turzai is appealing that ruling , and currently has the invocations performed by state representatives themselves.After Borowicz's comments on Monday, Turzai read for House members the guidance that has previously been provided to religious professionals about keeping remarks respectful of all religious beliefs and refraining from commenting on extraneous matters.___Associated Press writer Marc Levy contributed.
Roadblocks removed, schools to reopen as calm returns to Gaza border-Authorities resume running trains through south, begin removing restrictions as informal ceasefire following day of fighting appears to hold-By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross-MAR 28,19
The Gaza border area slowly returned to normal on Tuesday, a day after a sharp spike in violence between Gaza and Israel that led local councils to close schools, roads and train routes throughout southern Israel.Defense officials said Tuesday afternoon they believed the danger of an escalation in violence had passed for the time being, with Israel and Hamas reportedly reaching an informal ceasefire.The Israel Defense Forces began removing road blocks and other obstacles around the Gaza Strip that prevented civilians from approaching the area, including access roads to some border villages like Kibbutz Nahal Oz.The army also said schools would reopen after consultations with local officials, and all other restrictions lifted.Officials earlier ordered train traffic to resume, opening stations over the course of the afternoon.The first train in the area left Ashkelon for Beersheba at 4:10 p.m., and another left Beersheba for Ra’anana at 5:20 p.m.The return to normal came after a day of relative calm following a night in which over 60 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip and the IDF struck dozens of targets in the Palestinian territory.After firing around 30 rockets and mortar shells at Israel Monday evening, the Hamas terror group said it had accepted an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement with Israel that entered into effect at 10 p.m. But terrorists in the Strip continued to attack southern Israel into the night, with the army saying another 30 projectiles were launched between 10 p.m. and 3:15 a.m.Israel carried out heavy bombardments in Gaza, striking several targets across the Strip, including the office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israel could step up the attacks as an Israeli official denied it had agreed to a ceasefire.The IDF had shuttered schools across the south on Tuesday in response to the fighting, and put other rules in place to limit large gatherings.Train routes throughout the south were also canceled over fear that stations and tracks could be struck in a rocket barrage.Businesses were allowed to operate as usual so long as there was easy access to bomb shelters nearby. Farmers were also permitted to return to their fields if they coordinated their work with the local military brigade.No Israelis were injured in the rocket attacks, though a home in the southern town of Sderot sustained a direct hit by a rocket that did not explode.The round of fighting began with a rocket that slammed into a home in the town of Mishmeret northeast of Tel Aviv, leveling a home and injuring seven people.The rocket strike, which was attributed to Hamas, represented a significant increase in the level of violence from the coastal enclave, following weeks of heightened tensions and border clashes, as well as recent skirmishes in an Israeli jail between Hamas security prisoners and prison guards.There are fears in Israel that violence will ramp up this week, with Hamas hoping to draw hundreds of thousands of rioters to the fence at the weekend to mark a year since the start of the so-called March of Return protests, which began March 30, 2018.Additional Iron Dome air defense batteries have been deployed throughout the country and two additional brigades were dispatched to the Gaza region.The army also called up approximately 1,000 reservists for air defense and other select units.Raphael Ahren, Adam Rasgon and Jacob Magid contributed to this report.
Without mentioning Omar, Pelosi at AIPAC decries ‘myth of dual loyalty’-Support for Israel remains ‘relentlessly bipartisan,’ says House speaker, a day after Pence tells confab Democratic Party ‘co-opted’ by anti-Semites-By Eric Cortellessa-TOI-MAR 28,19
WASHINGTON — Without mentioning freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar by name, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the elephant in the room Tuesday morning.Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s 2019 Policy Conference, the Democratic leader argued that support for Israel remained “relentlessly bipartisan” as she implicitly rebuked Omar for her controversial comments last month that pro-Israel activists pushed lawmakers to show “allegiance” to Israel.“In our democratic societies we should welcome legitimate debate on how best to honor our values and to advance our priorities without questioning loyalty or patriotism,” Pelosi told the crowd of more than 18,000.She cited a House resolution that Democratic leaders shepherded several weeks ago to condemn anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in response to the firestorm sparked by Omar’s comments.The motion was criticized by Republicans, who called it a “watered down” version that did not call out Omar directly and that steered away from a narrow focus on anti-Semitism.Pelosi on Tuesday attempted to challenge that notion by reading directly from the resolution’s passage that castigated anti-Semitic invective.“This month the whole house came together to condemn the anti-Semitic myth of dual loyalty and all forms of bigotry with a resolution that ‘rejects the perpetuation of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the United States and around the world, including the pernicious myth of dual loyalty and foreign allegiance, especially in the context of support for the United States-Israel alliance,'” she said.Elsewhere in her speech, Pelosi insisted that there was still support for Israel on both sides of the aisle. On Monday, US Vice President Mike Pence told the same crowd precisely the opposite, claiming the Democratic Party had been “co-opted” by anti-Semites.“Support for Israel remains ironclad and bipartisan… relentlessly bipartisan,” Pelosi said. “We will never allow anyone to make Israel a wedge issue.”The California representative did not mention Pence or US President Donald Trump — who recently called Democrats “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish” — in her speech.She listed all the pro-Israel Jewish Democrats who have leadership positions in the House, including Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, and Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey.“Assistance to Israel is vital and it’s not going anywhere,” Pelosi said, “because if you care about America’s security, you must care about Israel’s security.”
Federal judge ends North Carolina ban on abortions after 20 weeks-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-March 28, 2019
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal court struck down North Carolina's decades-old ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying any "week- or event-specific" abortion ban is unconstitutional.The law, which took effect in 1973, only allowed an abortion after 20 weeks in the case of a medical emergency. Abortion-rights groups sued in 2016 after the health exception was further narrowed.U.S. District Judge William Osteen in Greensboro overturned the ban on Monday, allowing an abortion to take place at any point before the fetus is viable, or able to potentially live outside the womb, as determined by a doctor.His order will take effect in 60 days, allowing the state to appeal, should it decide to do so, or to propose alternative abortion legislation.Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, Osteen wrote "a state is never allowed to prohibit any swath of pre-viability abortions outright, no matter how strenuously it may believe that such a ban is in the best interests of its citizens or how minimal it may find the burden to women seeking an abortion."Laura Brewer, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina attorney general's office, said her office was reviewing the decision.The groups that brought the lawsuit - the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood - welcomed the decision."This ban is unconstitutional and ignores the unique circumstances, challenges, and potential complications pregnant women face," Genevieve Scott, a staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement on Tuesday. "Politicians taking medical options off the table for women at any stage of pregnancy is irrational and dangerous."The ruling appeared to thwart a bill brought by Republican lawmakers in North Carolina earlier this year that would have banned abortions after 13 weeks.Several Republican-controlled states have attempted to pass new abortion restrictions. In a law enacted earlier this month, Mississippi banned a woman from obtaining an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected.Some conservatives hope these laws will end up being used to challenge Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's 1973 landmark ruling that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Austrian far-rightist probed for ties to New Zealand shooter-Right-wing populist Martin Sellner received large donation possibly linked to Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant-By Frank Jordans-TOI-MAR 28,19
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s leader called Tuesday for authorities to “ruthlessly” investigate possible ties between an Austrian nationalist group and the alleged Christchurch mosque gunman, after it emerged that a prominent far-right activist in the Alpine nation had received a donation in the suspected shooter’s name.Martin Sellner, head of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, said on social media that police searched his apartment Monday and seized electronic devices after he received a “disproportionately high donation” from a person named Tarrant — the same surname as the suspected Christchurch shooter.Christoph Poelzl, spokesman for Austria’s Interior Ministry, confirmed Tuesday that the country’s BVT domestic intelligence agency searched Sellner’s apartment in Vienna at the request of prosecutors in the city of Graz.“Any connection between the Christchurch attacker and members of the Identitarians in Austria needs to be comprehensively and ruthlessly investigated,” Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted, adding that he had spoken to Justice Minister Josef Moser about the issue.“It is important that the independent justice system can use all necessary means and resources to conduct its investigation together with the security services and expose these networks,” he said. “There needs to be total clarity about all extremist activities.”Hansjoerg Bacher, a spokesman for Graz prosecutors, said prosecutors had stumbled across the donation as part of an existing probe against Sellner into possible financial offenses.“The purpose of the investigation is to examine links between Mr. Sellner and the Christchurch attacker,” Bacher told The Associated Press.He declined to confirm when the donation took place, but said it was much higher than other contributions made to Sellner or his Identitarian Movement.“Most donations were in the area of two-to-three figures, whereas this donation was in the low four-figure area,” Bacher told The AP.“This made it stand out, and the events in New Zealand put a face to this donation.”He said the investigation against Sellner is based on Austrian anti-terror laws.“We need to determine whether there is a connection and if so, whether it’s criminally significant,” said Bacher.Sellner denied having anything to do with the March 15 massacre, in which 50 Muslims were killed in the southern New Zealand city.Australian Brenton Tarrant was arrested within an hour of the mosque shootings and has been charged with murder.“I had nothing to do with the attack,” Sellner said in a video statement posted on YouTube, adding that he would donate the money to a charitable organization.He suggested the reason for the donation might have been to provoke repressive measures against “patriots.”Austrian authorities said last week that the Christchurch shooter visited Austria, but declined to confirm when or whether he met with any far-right activists during his trip.Some of Tarrant’s anti-Muslim views are echoed by the Identitarian Movement. The group is close to sections of the nationalist Freedom Party, which is part of the country’s coalition government.Austria’s vice chancellor, who leads the Freedom Party, echoed Kurz’s call for a comprehensive probe into possible Austrian ties to the Christchurch gunman.“All suspicions of extremism are acted upon, whether they are right, left or religiously motivated,” Heinz-Christian Strache said on Twitter. “Fanaticism has no place in our society.”
Gaza groups said to pledge not to escalate as long as IDF halts raids-Weekly protest scheduled for Tuesday at border between Israel and the Strip canceled; schools and businesses reopen in Gaza City-By Adam Rasgon-TOI-MAR 28,19
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip told Egyptian intelligence officials that they would not escalate tensions with Israel as long as Israeli security forces halt their air raids on the coastal enclave, Qatar-based news outlet Al-Jazeera reported Tuesday morning, citing a Palestinian source.The report came after residents in southern Israel and Gaza woke to a tense but relatively quiet morning, following a night in which terror groups in the Strip launched approximately 60 rockets at the Jewish state and the IDF struck dozens of Gazan targets.Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum announced late Monday night that Egypt had succeeded in brokering a ceasefire between the terror groups and Israel. However, the two sides continued to exchange fire until the early hours of Tuesday.Tensions between Israel and the terror groups ramped up Monday morning after a rocket fired from Gaza hit Mishmeret, a village in the center of the country, injuring seven including two infants.Israel blamed the rocket attack on Hamas, which did not issue a statement confirming or denying responsibility for the attack.Meanwhile, committees responsible for organizing protests on the border between Israel and Gaza announced on Tuesday that a weekly demonstration in northern Gaza on the beach near border separating the Jewish state and the coastal enclave was canceled “because of the security situation the Strip is going through in the wake of Israel’s ongoing escalation.”For the past six months, Palestinians have participated in almost weekly protests, which have included violence, at the border. The protesters have called for Israel to lift restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of Gaza.Israel maintains that its limitations on movement aim to prevent Hamas and other terror groups from transferring weapons to Gaza.A resident of Gaza City said that markets and businesses were open Tuesday morning.“People are back on the streets, but there is concern that tensions will escalate later today,” the resident, who works at a tile factory in Gaza, said by phone, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “We are waiting to see what happens.”Israeli politicians on Tuesday pushed back against Hamas’s claim that a ceasefire was concluded.Israel did not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, and is ready to continue its airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, a senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage to Washington said Tuesday afternoon, minutes before the delegation’s plane landed in Tel Aviv.
Senior official says no ceasefire with Hamas, as troops remain on Gaza border-While shaky truce appears to hold, security precautions in effect across south after massive exchange of fire between IDF and Hamas after Gaza rocket smashed home in central Israel-By Raphael Ahren and Judah Ari Gross-TOI-MAR 28,19
Israel did not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, and is ready to continue its airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, a senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage to Washington said Tuesday, minutes before the delegation’s plane landed in Tel Aviv.“There was no ceasefire,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Netanyahu was in constant contact with the IDF chief of staff and other security officials throughout the 12-hour flight back to Israel, the official added.Israeli troops and tanks along the Gaza border remained at the ready on Tuesday afternoon, hours after an unofficial ceasefire went into effect following the latest bout of warfare between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas terror group in the coastal enclave.“We had many targets in Gaza. These were the hardest blows Hamas has suffered since Operation Protective Edge,” the senior official said, referring to the 2014 war with the terrorist group in Gaza.“We hit office buildings and other infrastructure. We sent a strong message,” the official went on. “The images were reminiscent of the end of Protective Edge.“And we’re prepared to do even more. We will see what happens,” the official added.Asked by The Times of Israel if Israel has adopted a “quiet will be met by quiet” formula, the official demurred. “I am not saying anything. We will see what happens.”Netanyahu’s plane returned to Israel from the US at around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and Netanyahu immediately made his way to the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv for additional security consultations with IDF chief Aviv Kohavi and other top defense officials.At this stage, Netanyahu has not convened the security cabinet, but will merely “assess the information,” the senior official said.Though the truce, which was announced by Hamas but not formally acknowledged by Israeli officials, appeared to be holding, the Israel Defense Forces was preparing for the possibility of renewed violence in the Gaza Strip.The latest round of violence was kindled when, just after dawn on Monday, a rocket from the southern Gaza Strip that Israel says was fired by Hamas struck a home in the town of Mishmeret, northeast of Tel Aviv, leveling the building. Two of the people inside were moderately wounded and five others, including two small children, were lightly injured.It was the farthest-reaching rocket strike from the Strip since the 2014 war.Shortly after the attack, the military sent two additional brigades to the Gaza region and called up approximately 1,000 reservists for air defense and other select units. Meanwhile, additional Iron Dome air defense batteries were deployed throughout the country.The rocket strike, which Israeli officials attributed to Hamas, represented a significant increase in the level of violence from the coastal enclave, following weeks of heightened tensions and border clashes, as well as recent skirmishes in an Israeli jail between Hamas security prisoners and prison guards.After a tense 12 hours of deliberations on the Israeli side and failed attempts by the Egyptian military to preemptively broker a ceasefire, the Israeli Air Force launched a large-scale retaliatory bombing campaign, destroying dozens of targets, including the offices of Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City.At least three Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli strikes, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.In response, shortly before 8:30 p.m., terrorists in the coastal enclave began launching mortar shells and rockets at southern Israel, triggering air raid sirens throughout the region and sending tens of thousands of Israelis scrambling for bomb shelters.From Monday night and into Tuesday morning, approximately 60 projectiles were fired at Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.The barrages caused no injuries, but a number of projectiles struck homes in the town of Sderot in southern Israel, causing damage. Most of the rockets and mortar shells landed in open fields. Several others were intercepted by the IDF’s Iron Dome missile defense system, the army said.The last of the rockets were fired at 3:15 a.m., despite Hamas officials saying earlier that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire that would go into effect at 10 p.m.On Tuesday morning, the Israeli military called for a number of precautionary safety measures in southern Israel: schools in the area were closed, though some informal education was permitted so long as it took place in fortified buildings; businesses were only allowed to open if workers had easy access to bomb shelters; and some government services were not made available in light of the threat of renewed violence.Throughout the morning, residents of the Israeli town of Sderot found fragments of rockets from the night before.Departing the US for Israel around 2 a.m. (Israel time), Netanyahu — who, with elections looming, has come under strong criticism from the opposition and coalition over his Gaza policies — threatened a land invasion.“We will deal with these issues,” he said. “We gave a very powerful response. Hamas needs to know that we won’t hesitate to go in [to Gaza] and take any required steps.”There are fears in Israel that violence will ramp up this week, with Hamas hoping to draw hundreds of thousands of rioters to the fence this weekend to mark a year of so-called March of Return protests, which began March 30, 2018.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
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.
Death toll from Indonesia floods, mudslides rises to 89-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-March 19, 2019
JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from flash floods and mudslides triggered by torrential downpours in Indonesia's easternmost province has risen to 89, with dozens of others missing, officials said Tuesday.Floodwaters and landslides destroyed roads and bridges in several areas of Papua province's Jayapura district early Sunday, hampering rescue efforts.National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the worst-hit area from the flooding was Sentani subdistrict, where tons of mud, rocks and trees from a landslide on a mountain rolled down to a river that burst its banks, sweeping away residents.He said 89 bodies had been pulled from the mud and wreckage of crumpled homes by Tuesday. Another 159 people were injured, including 84 who were hospitalized, many with broken bones and head wounds.The number of dead is expected to rise as rescue workers comb through affected areas.More than 1,600 rescuers, including soldiers and police, faced difficulties on Tuesday in clearing huge piles of debris due to shortages of heavy equipment, said Papua military spokesman Col. Muhammad Aidi."We face difficulties removing debris and the bodies under rubble as we don't have enough excavators," Aidi said, adding that rescuers were searching for 74 people reportedly missing and feared dead.Nugroho said about 7,000 residents were displaced from their homes, with more than 400 houses and other buildings damaged and thousands of others submerged.Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and floods that kill dozens each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
After devastating floods, U.S. Midwest farms need more than 'paper towels' to recover-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Andrew Hay-March 28, 2019
(Reuters) - Missouri farmer Richard Oswald needs a lot of help to recover from flooding that left his home and farm looking like a manmade island in an inland sea.Relief groups are giving tetanus shots and handing out free meals and cleaning supplies near his farm in the Langdon-Rock Port area, about 100 miles (161 km) northwest of Kansas City. But what Oswald really needs is money.Hit by the worst flooding in living memory, he and thousands of other farmers along the Missouri River will each require hundreds of thousands of dollars in disaster funds or loans to start over."The typical response on flood relief is groups like the Red Cross show up with paper towels and rubber gloves and scrub buckets," said Oswald, 69, who does not expect to be able to get to his home or land for weeks. "The biggest thing farmers need is cash, or ways to access funds."'BOUNCE BACK'-Slammed by a trade war and low commodity prices, Midwest family farms have been in the red and in decline for the last five years. The number of U.S farms fell by 100,000 between 2010 and 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.Thousands more will now go under without emergency financial support for flooding, pummeling heartland economies almost entirely dependent on agriculture, farmers and aid groups said.It is a call federal and state agencies, as well as non-governmental and faith-based relief groups are answering.President Donald Trump has approved disaster declarations for Nebraska and Iowa, making federal disaster funding available in flood-hit areas. Missouri Governor Mike Parson declared a state of emergency, paving the way for similar actions in his state."I know we aim for bringing everything back up to where it was," said Rosalynn Days-Austin, a USDA emergency coordinator helping direct Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) efforts in flood-affected areas. "Sometimes that’s not always possible, for a variety of reasons, but the goal is definitely to help them bounce back from their loss."CASH PREFERRED-Relief groups like Farm Aid are tending to the immediate needs of farmers, distributing tens of thousands of dollars in "emergency grants" - $500 gifts from cash donations that help families pay for things like groceries. After that, the group and its partners advise farming families on how to access federal disaster funds they hope are coming soon."What we’re hearing, because of the snowpack and rain and the wet ground, is that farmers are going to be dealing with this throughout the spring. So we're in it for the long haul," said Jennifer Fahy, a spokeswoman for the group established by country singer and activist Willie Nelson.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is coordinating a long-term response to get displaced families housed, navigate the red tape of insurance companies and federal agencies and tend to the mental health needs of people who have suffered extreme trauma, said Bishop Brian Maas."We have national partners and coalitions within the state," said Maas, who is asking people to hold off donating more material goods, for now. "There will be stresses because we’ve not done anything of this magnitude."Now we have mountains of cleaning supplies and so forth that can't be used," Maas said, appealing to people to get back in touch in a month to see how they can donate then. "Cash is the most flexible way to respond."'FEMA IS WORTHLESS'-Another immediate need is feed for livestock.Relief organization Farm Rescue is collecting donations of hay in the Dakotas and trucking it to farmers whose cattle are starving after their feed stands were submerged in floodwater."I don’t know of anything this widespread that has ever affected so many people in our service area," said Dan Erdmann, a spokesman for the group which helps family farms get through crises ranging from natural disasters to medical emergencies.Farm workers, some of them undocumented and legal migrants, have been hit hard. Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska is looking at housing assistance for displaced people who previously paid around $300 a month rent and now face rents triple that due to a dearth in properties, said Stacy Martin, chief executive of the social services charity.While relief groups tend to urgent needs, farmers like Scott Olson say more federal relief money is needed at a time when low crop prices and high debt levels are limiting farmers’ access to credit. He is counting on a farm relief bill in Congress for extra disaster compensation after he successfully lobbied in Washington for similar funds following 2011 flooding."Flood insurance isn’t going to cover this worth a darn. FEMA is worthless," said Olson, who farms 3,000 acres near Tekamah, Nebraska and runs a farm equipment business. "They don’t have any money, nobody has any money."(Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Additional reporting by Tom Polansek in Chicago; editing by Bill Tarrant and Lisa Shumaker)
