THE EU WORLD CONTROL AND PEACE MAKERS OF FALSE PEACE OF THE WORLD.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43
2:31. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.
2:32. The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.
2:33. And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.
2:36. This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof before thee, O king.
2:37. Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:
2:38. And all places wherein the children of men, and the beasts of the field do dwell: he hath also given the birds of the air into thy hand, and hath put all things under thy power: thou, therefore, art the head of gold.
2:39. And after thee shall rise up another kingdom, inferior to thee, of silver: and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the world.
2:40. And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break, and destroy all these.
2:41. And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall take its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry clay.
2:42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay: the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
2:43. And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay.
Only 7 World Empires in History REV 17: 9-10
THE EUROPEAN UNION
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17
First From Daniel Chapter 2
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES
DANIEL 7:3-8,17,23-24
7:3. And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea.
7:4. The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her.
7:5. And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.
7:6. After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.
7:7. After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.
7:8. I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
7:17. These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out of the earth.
7:23. And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be greater than all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
7:24. And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings.
7:25. And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.(3 1/2 YRS)
Now From Daniel Chapter 7
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV 17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS. THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23, REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16
How the European Union Began!
THE EUROPEAN UNION DAN 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17,
1 BELGIUM 1957
2 NETHERLANDS 1957
3 LUXUMBOURG 1957
4 FRANCE 1957
5 ITALY 1957
6 GERMANY 1957
THESE 6 RADIFIED BY THE TREATY OF ROME (REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE) JAN 1,1958
7 IRELAND 1973
8 DENMARK 1973
9 BRITIAN 1973
10 GREECE 1981 MAGIC 10 TOES AND 10 HORNS DAN 7:23-24,REV 17:9,12
11 SPAIN 1986 DAN 7:24
12 PORTUGAL 1986
13 AUSTRIA 1995
AFTER IT REACHES 13, IT GOES TO WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16. THAN IT SOME HOW ENDS UP BACK AT 10 (WORLD REGIONS, I THINK) WHEN JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH TO RULE AND REIGN FROM JERUSLEM. DAN 2:44-45, 7:9-14,26-27.
AS OF OCT 9,07 THERE ARE 27 EU MEMBERS ON ITS WAY TO WORLD CONTROL.
THE EU DICTATOR
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.
REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Billionaire Plans Europe Version of Council on Foreign Relations By BRIAN SWINT - Bloomberg News - May 7, 2007
Billionaire investor George Soros plans to start a foreign-affairs research institute in Europe similar to the Council on Foreign Relations.Europe has to be interested in recreating what used to be called the West, based on the principles of international cooperation, Mr. Soros said yesterday at a conference in Oxford, England. Out of this idea came the idea of founding a European Council on Foreign Relations.Mr. Soros, who spent $27.5 million trying to defeat President Bush in the 2004 election, said America can't deal with global affairs on its own. If a leading Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama, wins the post in 2008, the U.S. may regain some of the high ground, he said.
Mr. Soros declined to say how much money he is spending on the project. It may start by the end of this year, he said.Our resources are similar to the United States, but we punch pathetically below our weight, Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European Studies at Oxford University who is helping Mr. Soros with the plans, said in an interview. The idea is to contribute a European voice. It's still in the making.
EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS FORMED OCT 9,07
The European Council on Foreign Relations was launched in October 2007 to promote a more integrated European foreign policy in support of shared European interests and values. With its unique structure, ECFR brings a genuinely pan-European perspective on Europe’s role in the world:
ECFR was founded by a council whose members include serving and former ministers and parliamentarians, business leaders, distinguished academics, journalists and public intellectuals. Their aim is to promote a new strategic culture at the heart of European foreign policy.
With offices in seven countries, ECFR’s in-house policy team brings together some of Europe’s most distinguished analysts and policy entrepreneurs to provide advice and proposals on the EU’s big global challenges.
ECFR’s pan-European advocacy and campaigns will work through the internet and the media to make the necessary connections between innovative thinking, policy-making and civic action.
ECFR is backed by the Soros Foundations Network, Sigrid Rausing, FRIDE (La Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior), the Communitas Foundation and Dr. Hannes Androsch. ECFR works in partnerships with other organisations but does not make grants to individuals or institutions.
Council
Among the fifty founding members of the European Council on Foreign Relations are former prime ministers, presidents, European commissioners, current and former parliamentarians and ministers, public intellectuals, business leaders, activists and cultural figures from the EU member states and candidate countries.
Urban Ahlin - Martti Ahtisaari - Giuliano Amato - Hannes Androsch - Marek Belka - Svetoslav Bojilov - Emma Bonino - Robert Cooper - Marta Dassu - Gijs de Vries - Jean-Luc Dehaene - Gianfranco Dell'Alba - Andrew Duff - Sarmite Elerte - Brian Eno - Joschka Fischer - Timothy Garton Ash - Bronislaw Geremek - Diego Hidalgo - Mary Kaldor - Gerald Knaus - Caio Koch-Weser - Rem Koolhaas - Ivan Krastev - Mart Laar - Mark Leonard - Adam Lury - Alain Minc - Christine Ockrent - Leoluca Orlando - Cem Özdemir - Simon Panek - Teresa Patricio Gouveia - Chris Patten - Diana Pinto - Andrew Puddephatt - Sigrid Rausing - Albert Rohan - Pierre Schori - Narcís Serra - Elif Shafak - Aleksander Smolar - George Soros - Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Helle Thorning Schmidt - Michiel Van Hulten - Mabel Van Oranje - Antonio Vitorino - Stephen Wall - Andre Wilkens
Urban Ahlin (Sweden) - Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; foreign policy spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party
Transformative power works and is changing the world. The prospect of EU membership is in itself a powerful tool for change, and together with such other instruments as diplomacy, trade and aid has it contributed to changing the world in substantial ways. But there is still much to be done to sharpen the EU foreign policy in different fields. How can the EU strengthen its policy regarding the eastern neighbourhood? How can Europe start to speak with one voice regarding foreign policy. A voice badly needed in the world.
Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) - UN Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo; President of the Crisis Management Initiative; former President
The European Council on Foreign Relations is essential in creating channels for open debate in Europe. ECFR promotes the need for Europe to become an important unified, courageous, innovative and coherent actor. I regard ECFR pivotal in promoting this vision in a globalising world.
Giuliano Amato (Italy) - Minister of Interior; former Prime Minister and vice president of the European Convention
Hannes Androsch (Austria) - Founder of AIC Androsch International Management Consulting
Marek Belka (Poland) - Executive Director of the UN Economic Commission for Europe; former Prime Minister
Europeans need more self-confidence and the mobilizing efforts of opinion-makers are one thing that should be obviously done. We should be proud of Europe but work hard for further progress.
Svetoslav Bojilov (Bulgaria) - Founder of the Communitas Foundation and President of Venture Equity Bulgaria Ltd.
The European Council on Foreign Relations is the most significant civil initiative until now for effective support of European integration in the area of common foreign politics of Europe. This initiative will help for a more coherent approach of the EU as a unitary actor on the international stage, while also integrating more and more states to its civilizational model of development. This in particular is one of the challenges which made me take part in the initiative.
Emma Bonino (Italy) - Minister for Europe and International Trade; former European Commissioner
A well-known English proverb says If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I think the opposite reading is also true, and that is the current situation with the European Union. Not only do we lack a strong Europe on the global scene, able to promote our interests and common values and contribute to a better world. We also risk taking a step backwards in the degree of integration we have achieved in common foreign policy. We risk ‘breaking’ it. I feel that the ECFR is well placed to help ‘fix’ – and even further – this level of integration. Through effective advocacy, and through good ideas. Does one really need any better reason to participate in this organisation?
Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) - Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Council of the EU General Secretariat
There is no reason for Europeans to think of competing with America's military supremacy. But it is a scandal that we do not challenge their dominance in foreign policy ideas and analysis. The pen is mightier than the sword: but only when it has got brains, energy and effort behind it.
Marta Dassù (Italy) - Diplomatic adviser to Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema; Director of the Aspen Institute Italia.
Encouraging the development of EU-wide debates and ideas has become crucial in the current European context – one in which deeply rooted national feelings and approaches daily coexist with Brussels-based decisionmaking processes as well as transnational movements. In particular, the network structure of the ECFR promises to bring together the best of both the US tradition of informed expert analysis and European diversity. There is plenty of space for an organization that has direct access to EU institution but also total intellectual autonomy and the willingness to really think ahead, beyond official taboos.
Gijs de Vries (The Netherlands) - Senior Fellow at the Clingendael Institute; former EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator
From conflict to climate change, from terrorism to trade, most global problems require stronger transatlantic cooperation. As America prepares to elect a new President, Europeans must prepare to re-engage Washington – and to be engaged as partners. The European Council on Foreign Relations can play a key role in preparing the new EU-US agenda.
Jean-Luc Dehaene (Belgium) - Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister and vice president of the European Convention
The new challenge for the European Union is to become a global actor and as such an actif contributor to the global governace. To achieve that EU:have toe speak with one voice. The European Council on Foreign Relations can contibute to formulate the European message.
Gianfranco Dell'Alba (Italy) - Chef de Cabinet for Minister Emma Bonino
We need to move beyond the ‘good old way’ of doing foreign policy. Europe deserves the contribution of all those who are willing to move towards the goal of a single voice for the EU in the global arena. National governments still matter a lot. Which is exactly why we need strong, committed and transparent advocacy in order to achieve a paradigm shift. The ECFR could be a wonderful stimulus in this respect, and gather together those like-minded Europeans who believe that the time for acting never comes twice.
Andrew Duff (United Kingdom) - Member of the European Parliament, ALDE
The European Union needs to know where it is going in the world. None of the institutions has yet demonstrated a great capacity to think and act strategically in the common interest of all Europe. The ECFR can fill this gap.
Sarmite Elerte (Latvia) - Editor-in-chief of Latvian daily newspaper Diena
Those of us who have spent years under authoritarian rule have a deeply personal appreciation for open society values. The ECFR conversation on Europe will build Europe`s strenght and self-confidence, and will ensure that European doors remain open to those who are committed to upholding open society values.
Brian Eno (United Kingdom) - musician and producer
Joschka Fischer (Germany) - Former Foreign Minister and vice-Chancellor
The European Union has been a powerful example for integration, prolonged peace, and prosperity in a complex international environment. The international system of the 21st Century needs a strong and united EU and ECFR will make an important contribution to this end.
Timothy Garton Ash (United Kingdom) - Professor of European Studies at Oxford University
The time has come for Europe to speak with one voice on key issues in our turbulent neighbourhood and an increasingly multi-polar world. The ECFR will help us to work out what we should say and how we can most effectively say it.
Bronislaw Geremek (Poland) - Member of the European Parliament, ALDE; former Foreign Minister
L'Europe a besoin d'une politique étrangère commune pour effacer le stéréotype négatif d'un géant économique et nain politique. Les réformes institutionnelles ne suffisent pas. Il faut un effort d'investissement intellectuel pour définir la stratégie internationale de l'Union Européenne: le ECFP, en puisant dans les institutions académiques et politiques, en s'adressant à la société civile, peut créer le climat nécessaire pour des débats ouverts et non-partisans sur les problèmes clefs concernant la place et le rôle de l'Europe dans le monde.
Diego Hidalgo (Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El Pais and President of FRIDE
If Europe with its values, wants to have any influence in the multipolar world of the XXIst century, it needs to speak with one voice. The EFCR is an essential initiative in this context; hence it had my strongest support since it was born as an idea.
Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom) - Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics
Gerald Knaus (Germany) - Founding director of the European Stability Initiative
There is a urgent need for a think tank to make the case for and analyse the potential of the EU as the world's most successful soft power; to encourage policy makers to continue to advance European values in the European neighborhood; and to make the case to European citizens that it is worth the effort.
Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice Chairman of the Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary.
I am extremely pleased to be a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. I am convinced this new initiative will make its mark as governments of the European Union follow ECFR's call for a more coherent and vigorous foreign policy based on common European interests and our shared values. My many years of experience in international fora be it through my work at the World Bank, in the German government or now at a leading global financial institution have taught me both the risk and opportunities stemming from globalization and its many facets. It is of utmost importance that Europe speaks with one voice on such critical issues as climate change, human rights or violent extremism that affect us all, today and for generations to come.
Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands) - architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria The promise of the European Council on Foreign Relations is the promise of a common European foreign policy based on visionary pragmatism. The 21st century could and should be the European century, an open society century.
Mart Laar (Estonia) - Former Prime Minister of Estonia
Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations
Europe needs to come of age. We need to stop complaining about what others are doing to the world, and start thinking for ourselves. We want a can-do foreign policy, where European power is put at the service of European values.
Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - Director of Menemsha Ltd; former advisor to Lord Browne
The ECFR will bring together all of Europe in order to construct an outward looking story that will shape critical individual and national decisions and so produce global consequences. I hope to build optimism, energy and excitement into this story.
Alain Minc (France) - Chairman of Le Monde; Head of consulting group AM Conseil
I believe strongly that Europe has no future without unification and I think that the driving force has presently to come from society and non governmental organizations. From that point of view the ECFR is an ambitious and clearly focused project.
Christine Ockrent (Belgium) - Editor-in-chief at France Télévision.
I strongly believe we Europeans as well as all those committed to the values of an open society need a stronger and more influential European foreign policy.
Leoluca Orlando (Italy) - MP; President of the Sicilian Renaissance Institute
Cem Özdemir (Germany) - Member of the European Parliament, Green Party
If the aim of the European Union is to shape the world according to its values and interests, then we have to start discussing foreign policy issues coherently. The ECFR provides a common European platform.
Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman of the People in Need Foundation
Teresa Patricio Gouveia (Portugal) - Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister
I believe there is the need both for awareness of Europe’s existing strengths and capabilities, and for Europe to make full use of them in responding to the demanding international challenges. To encourage public awareness and the commitment of member states to those objectives is a major purpose for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Chris Patten (United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University; Former EU Commissioner and Governor of Hong Kong
If the European Union wants to play a more active role on the world stage - as it should - it needs better and objective advice on the available options and the challenging choices ahead. I believe that is what the ECFR will deliver.
Diana Pinto (France) - Historian and author
The European Council on Foreign Relations is the vital forum where a truly European foreign policy based on shared values and needs can be built beyond the classical barter of national interests. I joined ECFR because it seeks to include civil society voices along with those of experts in thinking Europe's place in the world.
Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director of Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
Sigrid Rausing (United Kingdom) - Founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust
I have noted with increasing concern the European Union's failure to take a leading role in the fight against human rights abuses in the world. I believe that this failure of action is due to a lack of coordination, and not to any ill will, of EU members. I am, therefore, pleased to be a part of the effort of the Council to mobilise EU countries to work in concert and to employ the power of their numbers, to promote and respect human rights worldwide.
Albert Rohan (Austria) - Deputy to the UN Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo
In today's increasingly globalized and multipolar world Europe must assume its responsibilities and become a strong voice in international affairs. By developing and advocating concrete policy options the ECFR will be an important factor in shaping European policies based on common principles and values. After fourty years in diplomacy I want to contribute to this endevour.
Pierre Schori (Sweden) - Director General of FRIDE; and SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
Peace and progress, both on the national and global level, will only be achieved in this interdependent and turbulent world, when people and nations work together. The European Union is a historic project for world-wide democratic solidarity and economic growth but its potential is underutilised. Europe must do much better. My hope is that the ECFR will encourage citizens and governments to live up to their ideals and opportunities.
Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President
The European Union has become a successful experience of effective multilateralism and has redefined the conception of sovereignty. However, it needs a new impetus to continue progressing in this direction. ECFR is an excellent initiative which will contribute to the intellectual debate and will lead to political action in order to boost and export our success as a model for global governance
Elif Shafak (Turkey) - Writer
Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
ECFR should contribute to the integration of a European public space, to the reinforcement of the feeling of common external challenges and necessairy common answers.
George Soros (Hungary/US) - Chairman, Open Society Institute
The European Union embodies the principles of an open society and it ought to serve as a model and motive force for a global open society. The EU is used to taking its lead from the United States, reacting to its agenda, sometimes positively, sometimes negatively, but it basically accepted the world order as given. That has to change and it cannot be achieved by individual countries acting on their own.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France) - MP, Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; Former Finance Minister
Helle Thorning Schmidt (Denmark) - Leader of the Social Democratic Party
The European Council on Foreign Relations is a very interesting initiative, and I fully agree with the notion of the European Union as a motive force for a global open society. There is a definite need for a more pro-active European foreign policy, and I am convinced that the ECFR could play an important role in promoting this agenda.
Michiel Van Hulten (The Netherlands) - Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller, Brussels; Former MEP and chairman of the Dutch Labour Party
To older Europeans who experienced the Second World War the European Union stands for 50 years of peace, stability and prosperity. To younger generations it has yet to acquire a raison d’etre that goes beyond free movement and free markets. The European Council on Foreign Relations wants to help make the EU a credible and effective force for good not just within but also beyond the EU’s borders, and in doing so will help increase the legitimacy of the EU itself – especially among younger people concerned about issues such as global warming, disease, famine and civil war.
Mabel Van Oranje (The Netherlands) - International Advocacy Director, Open Society Institute
Europe’s weight in the world can no longer be taken for granted. Either we unite and have an impact on global problems such as terrorism, the climate crisis and AIDS. Or, the fate of our generation will be decided by others. The European Council on Foreign Relations will take a fresh approach to the issues that will shape our future.
Antonio Vitorino (Portugal) - Lawyer and former European Commissioner
There is an urgent need for creative action at EU level on foreign policy. This is a cristal clear request from European citizens. This is a key challenge for ECFR. I ' m confident we will meet this challenge together!
Sir Stephen Wall (United Kingdom) - Chairman of Hill and Knowlton (Public Affairs EMEA) and former Europe advisor to PM Tony Blair
Foreign policy is not going to be about foreign ministers debating remote subjects in remote places. Europe’s relations with the rest of the world will be set by the issues of poverty, energy, climate and trade. We all have to care about foreign policy as it is our lives that are on the line. ECFR is about turning individual concern into collective action.
Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Executive Director of the Open Society Institute in Brussels
The European Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, pan-European voice which will help the EU to emerge from its crisis of confidence as a revived, confident actor projecting its success story in the world.
Staff and Experts
Mark Leonard, Executive Director
Areas of expertise: European Foreign Policy, China, Transatlantic Relations, EU Institutions, Public Diplomacy and Nation branding, UK Foreign Policy
Languages: English, French, German
Hans Wolters, Deputy Director
Areas of expertise: European politics, especially European foreign policy, environmental policies, organisational development and people management
Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
François Godement, Senior Policy Fellow
Languages: French, English, Mandarin
Areas of expertise: Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs, issues of integration and conflicts.
Richard Gowan, Policy Fellow
Ulrike Guérot, Senior Policy Fellow, Head of Berlin Office
Areas of expertise: EU integration process; EU institutions; Franco-German relations; EU-US relations.
Languages: German, English, French.
Thomas Klau, Editorial Director, Head of Paris Office
Areas of expertise: EU integration and institutions; Franco-German relations; EU-US relations; the world economy.
Languages: French, German, English, some Italian and Dutch.
Daniel Korski, Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise: Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy; the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, International Development and Post-conflict Reconstruction, National Security, Military Restructuring, Security Sector Reform
Languages: Danish, English, Swedish, French, Serbo-Croat
Alba Lamberti, Advocacy
Languages: Italian, English, French.
Areas of expertise: EU institutional reform; Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy; Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy; Inclusive security.
Ognyan Minchev, Senior Policy Fellow, Head of Sofia Office
Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, English
Areas of expertise: Post-communist transition, regional security and developmental studies on Central, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Black Sea region, issues of corruption and organized crime, comparative democratization and institutional development.
Pierre Nöel, Policy Fellow
Languages: French, English
Areas of expertise: Oil and gas markets and industries; Interaction between international relations and energy market dynamics; Global and regional energy security; US, European and Chinese energy policies and politics.
Nicu Popescu, Policy Fellow
Languages: English, French, Russian and Romanian.
Areas of expertise: European Neighbourhood Policy, secessionist conflicts in the post-soviet space, EU relations with Russia, Moldova and the South Caucasus.
Zsofia Szilagyi, Communications and Media Relations
Languages: English, French, Hungarian
José-Ignacio Torreblanca, Senior Policy Fellow, Head of Madrid Office
Areas of Expertise: EU enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, EU institutional reforms, Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy
Languages: Spanish, English
Andrew Wilson, Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Ukraine, comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states, political technology.
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, some Belarusian. Conversational French
Anthony Dworkin, Senior Policy Fellow (from mid-November 2007)
John Fox, Senior Policy Fellow (from January 2008)
Nick Witney, Senior Policy Fellow (from January 2008)
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the European Council on Foreign Relations?
The European Council on Foreign Relations in a pan-European think-tank, research institute and advocacy group. ECFR has been set up to engage in European foreign policy research, and to promote a more integrated European foreign policy in support of shared European interests and values. With offices in seven European capital cities and by building partnerships and networks with leading European foreign policy institutes, ECFR brings a genuienly pan-European perspective to global issues.
2. Who is behind this initiative?
ECFR was launched in October 2007 by its 50 founding council members, all prominent Europeans from EU member states and candidate countries. Among the founding council members are serving and former heads of government, ministers and parliamentarians, business leaders, distinguished academics, journalists and public intellectuals. Together, they have drafted and endorsed the ECFR’s Statement of Principles for a coherent and vigorous European Union foreign policy.
ECFR is backed by the Soros Foundations Network, Sigrid Rausing, FRIDE (La Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior), the Communitas Foundation and Dr. Hannes Androsch. ECFR works in partnerships with other organisations but does not make grants to individuals or institutions.
3. What are you? Are you a think-tank or are you a mass-movement organization?
ECFR’s founding members are all prominent Europeans from EU member states and candidate countries ranging from from serving and former ministers and parliamentarians to business leaders, distinguished academics, journalists and public intellectuals. Their shared aim is to foster a new high level strategic culture at the service of European foreign policy. In addition, ECFR’s in-house policy team brings together a small group of Europe’s brightest and best foreign policy analysts. Good ideas are no use if there is no political buy-in for them and the ECFR’s pan-European campaigning and advocacy work will make the connections between innovative policy thinking, popular engagement and civic action.
4. How are the members of the council selected?
Membership is by invitation and for a limited period of time (5 years renewable). Members will be selected according to criteria that include balance, intellectual distinction, policy influence, and commitment to open society values. Membership is limited to citizens of EU member states and candidate countries.
Candidates for membership must be nominated in writing by one ECFR member and seconded by a minimum of two other individuals who do not need to be ECFR members. Nomination letters should address the following criteria: intellectual attainment and expertise ; experience, interest, and current involvement in European foreign policy; promise of future achievement; potential contributions to the ECFR’s objectives; desire and ability to participate in ECFR’s activities; standing among their peers.
5. Can I join?
Anyone who agrees to sign ECFR’s Statement of Principles can become an ECFR Associate Member. Associate Members get advance copies of publications, will be invited to take part in telephone briefings with leading foreign policy practitioners and will be consulted on the future direction of ECFR’s research agenda. through online polls.
ECFR’s website is fully interactive and designed with the objective of facilitating pan-European conversations on foreign policy among EU citizens. Our in-house policy team will produce policy briefings and reports available to all.
6. Why do you have seven offices across Europe?
We believe that if we are to meet the aspiration of being a genuinely pan-European initiative, the ECFR needs a physical presence in several EU member states. The current and planned office locations in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sofia and Warsaw give ECFR a physical presence in countries that between them account for more than 70 per cent of the current EU population.
7. Why no office in Brussels?
Building a pan-European presence from scratch is no small organisational task. We think we have been very ambitious in planning seven offices in our first year. In time it is possible that further offices may be opened. Brussels is the seat of the main EU institutions and while ECFR will initially be focussing its efforts in member state capitals, the Open Society Institute-Brussels will be a close partner, and will in certain instances have an ambassadorial role for ECFR. It should not be forgotten that high speed rail links connect both London and Paris with Brussels.
8. When you talk of “One Voice for Europe”, are you suggesting that the European Union should take France or Britain’s permanent seats on the UN Security Council?
No. ECFR’s membership, like the European population will have a range of views on this issue, but ECFR does not take a collective position. However we do believe that effective multilateralism requires that the EU work hard to build alliances behind its values and interests at institutions like the UN - both by co-ordinating European positions and persuading third countries to join us.
9. What is ‘open society’?
The concept of open society was first used by the French philosopher Henri Bergson in his book ‘The Two Sources of Morality and Religion’ published in 1932. The Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper refined the concept in his book ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’ published in 1944. Open societies are guided by universal human rights and seek to protect and promote the freedom of the individual. An open society can be endangered by abstract, universal or fundamentalist ideologies like communism, fascism which claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth. Because of the incompatibility between open societies and concepts of ultimate truths, it is never possible to set out a full definition of what an open society is, although it is possible to list practices which are incompatible with open society values, such as authoritarian rule, absence of laws or inconsistency in the application of law, oppression of political dissidents, discrimination against women and minorities, torture, detention without trial and censorship of the media.
10. What is your view of the new EU Reform Treaty?
ECFR’s membership does not take a collective view on the reform treaty. However, in relation to the EU’s external relations, the need for EU member states to ‘speak with one voice’ and back EU foreign policy with the full weight of the EU single market, aid budgets, diplomatic force and military requires a strengthened role for the EU High Representative and the creation of a ‘European External Action Service’. The EU’s current arrangements are too fragmented to be effective. At present the European Commission has about 3,500 staff working on external relations, over 120 overseas representations and a foreign policy budget that will soon rise to around €10 billion a year. However its operations are separate from those of the High Representative Javier Solana who has a total of about 500 staff (including the military staff), a budget of just €125 million and no more than a handful of overseas representations. The Reform Treaty would not only bring together the two sides of EU foreign policy by making the High Representative a vice president of the European Commisison, it would also give the member-states more leverage over how the European Commission uses its resources. The Reform Treaty contains many proposals that would help to bring about a more ‘coherent and vigorous’ EU foreign policy.
11. Do you support Turkish membership of the EU?
In signing the ECFR Statement of Principles, the founding members of the ECFR endorse the view that the EU should stand by its existing commitments to the three countries that are ‘official candidates’ for EU membership: Turkey, Croatia and Macedonia.
12. What kind of legal entity are you? Are you an NGO, or rather an academic institution?
ECFR is a project initiated by and legally part of:
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Monday, October 08, 2007
THANKSGIVING IN CANADA
WE GIVE THANKSGIVING TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD KING JESUS FOR ALL THE BLESSINGS HE HAS BLESSED US WITH. THE ONE GOD WITH 3 SEPARATE OFFICES - GOD THE FATHER, JESUS THE SON, THE HOLY SPIRIT THE COMFORTER AND POWER GIVER. THANK YOU GOD AND COME QUICKLY KING JESUS.
Notice the Bible uses the 6PM to 6PM NEXT DAY (THE ISRAELI CALENDAR, NOT THE 12PM TO 12PM OUR CALENDAR. WE SHOULD BE GOING BY THE ISRAELI EVENING - MORNING CALENDAR BY THE BIBLE.
GENESIS 1:1-5 King James Bible
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
JOHN 1:1,14 King James Bible
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS)and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made flesh,(JESUS)and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Verses About Thanksgiving
PSALMS 90:1-2 King James Bible
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
PSALMS 50:23 King James Bible
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
PSALMS 92:1 King James Bible
1 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
PSALMS 97:12 King James Bible
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
PSALMS 100:4 King James Bible
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
PSALMS 105:1-2 King James Bible
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
PHILIPPIANS 4:6 King James Bible
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Notice the Bible uses the 6PM to 6PM NEXT DAY (THE ISRAELI CALENDAR, NOT THE 12PM TO 12PM OUR CALENDAR. WE SHOULD BE GOING BY THE ISRAELI EVENING - MORNING CALENDAR BY THE BIBLE.
GENESIS 1:1-5 King James Bible
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
JOHN 1:1,14 King James Bible
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS)and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made flesh,(JESUS)and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Verses About Thanksgiving
PSALMS 90:1-2 King James Bible
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
PSALMS 50:23 King James Bible
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
PSALMS 92:1 King James Bible
1 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
PSALMS 97:12 King James Bible
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
PSALMS 100:4 King James Bible
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
PSALMS 105:1-2 King James Bible
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
PHILIPPIANS 4:6 King James Bible
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
China evacuates 1 million as storm hits Sun Oct 7, 8:40 AM ET
BEIJING - A powerful storm drenched China's southeast coast Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the mainland to evacuate more than 1 million people, the government said. In Vietnam, the bodies of more people killed in an earlier typhoon were recovered, bringing that country's toll to 55. Krosa, which earlier was a typhoon, roared into China's densely populated Zhejiang and Fujian provinces at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, the Zhejiang weather bureau reported on its Web site. There was no immediate word of injuries or damage.At 6 p.m., Krosa — the Cambodian word for crane — was a tropical storm. It had sustained winds of 66 mph, with gusts up to 89 mph at that time, according to the Zhejiang weather bureau's deputy director, who would give only his surname, Wang.More than 1 million people were evacuated from low-lying coastal areas, including more than 500,000 tourists who were at beach resorts for the National Day holiday week, the official Xinhua News Agency said.Krosa killed five people in Taiwan on Saturday as it knocked out power to 2 million homes and drenched the island, according to Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center.
Two men were killed in suburban Taipei when a landslide buried their house, the center said. A man died after falling from his balcony in Hsinchu and a woman was electrocuted after falling from her motorcycle in Tainan. The center said a man's body was recovered from a hostel that was hit by a landslide in Ilan and another man was missing.Early Sunday, China's coast guard rescued 27 sailors from a Hong Kong freighter that suffered mechanical failure after it was hit by Krosa off the port of Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Xinhua said.Schools were closed and airline flights canceled in Wenzhou, which lay in the storm's path, Xinhua said. The city ordered fishing boats, ferries and sightseeing boats to return to port.In Shanghai, where the Special Olympics is taking place, the city government canceled vacations for flood-control workers and was drafting plans to drain competition sites, the agency said.In Vietnam, the death toll from Typhoon Lekima — which hit the country's central coast late Wednesday — rose to 55, with another 16 people missing, officials said Sunday.Flooding and landslides triggered by Lekima, named after a local fruit, also damaged about 77,000 homes, the government said.Floods have also hindered our rescue efforts and thousands of people are hungry as water has wiped out their provisions, said Vo Trong Kien, an official in Thanh Hoa.On the Net:China Meteorological Administration (in Chinese): http://www.cma.gov.cn
Flooding from Vietnam typhoon kills 23 By TRAN VAN MINH, Associated Press Writer - Fri Oct 5, 11:31 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam - Floods and landslides triggered by a typhoon that struck Vietnam's central coast earlier this week have claimed 23 lives and left nine others missing, disaster officials said Saturday. Three more deaths reported in three northern provinces and confirmed reports of three people drowning in the central province of Quang Binh have raised the death toll to 23, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Dien said.Packing 80 mph winds, Typhoon Lekima made landfall late Wednesday in central Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces, also leaving nine people missing and injuring more than 100 others, according to disaster officials and the Department of Floods and Storms Control.Lekima, named after a local fruit, has damaged about 77,000 homes, the department said. It set the initial damage estimate at $41 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms which kill hundreds of people each year.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
WHETHER ITS A NATO ALLIANCE OF EUROPEAN NATIONS OR AN EU ARMY, IT WILL BE THE RUSSIA-CHINA ALLIACE AGAINST THE EU ARMY.
Defence pact to balance NATO
Vladimir Radyuhin OCT 7,07
MOSCOW: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russia-led defence pact of former Soviet states, have signed a defence cooperation pact dubbed a Russian-Chinese NATO.The SCO, which comprises Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and the CSTO, which groups Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belorussia, signed a memorandum of cooperation on Friday on the sidelines of a CSTO summit in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. China is the only member of the SCO, which does not participate in the CSTO.The memorandum, signed by the general secretaries of the SCO and the CSTO, provides for expanding cooperation between the two organisations in security, the fight against trans-national crime and illegal drug trafficking, SCO General Secretary Bulat Nurgaliyev said at the signing ceremony. Now the issues will be solved more efficiently.CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha expressed confidence that CSTO-CSO cooperation will be effective in very many dimensions. He denied the tie-up was an attempt to rival or counteract NATO.
The SCO-CSTO cooperation agreement was signed less than two months after the Shanghai pact focussed on security issues, holding the first major joint war games and signing a friendship treaty which offered security guarantees to member-states.A leading Russian business paper, RBK Daily, said the SCO-CSTO tie-up could signal the emergence of a major military-political bloc, a Russian-Chinese NATO that will challenge NATO, not only in Central Asia, but throughout the Eurasian continent.The CSTO leaders decided on Saturday to set up the alliance’s peace-keeping force, which according to Mr. Bordyuzha, would be ready to undertake U.N.-mandated peace missions anywhere in the world.
US for missile shield with Russia, Nato
Web posted at: 10/6/2007 3:33:8 - Source ::: AFP
WASHINGTON • The United States yesterday proposed a common network of missile defence systems with Russia and Nato to allay Moscow's concerns over a planned US missile defence system in central Europe. The answer is we and the Russians and Nato or the Nato-Russia Council work together to produce a common system or common network of systems which would benefit everyone's security and also address Russian security concerns, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said. If they are part of the system, they can be much more confident that it is not directed against them, he said, speaking ahead of talks next week between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates with their opposite numbers in Moscow. They will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defence Secretary Anatoly Serdyukov in the wake of stalled negotiations earlier this month between the two sides in Paris on US' planned missile defence system.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Anglican leader condemns Syria, Iran war talk
Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 5:46pm AEST
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has issued an angry rebuke to those in the United States who favour military action against Syria or Iran.When people talk about further destabilising of the region, when you read about some American political advisers speaking about action against Syria and Iran, I can only say that I regard that as criminal, ignorant and potentially murderous folly, he said.Dr Williams has just returned from a visit to Syria where he met hundreds of Christian Iraqi refugees.
Palestinians launch longer-range rocket into Israel OCT 7,07
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired a Katyusha rocket deep into southern Israel on Sunday, police said, showing an ability to extend the range of rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Gaza militants usually fire crude rockets that have a maximum range of about 9 km (5.5 miles) into Israel, but rarely go beyond 3 km (2 miles). The Grad-type Katyusha, originally Soviet-designed, landed some 11 km (6.5 miles) inside Israel.The Katyusha slammed into an open field, causing a brush fire but no injuries, a police spokesman said.Katyushas, widely used by Hezbollah guerrillas to strike Israel from Lebanon in a 2006 war, can reach a distance of 20 kilometres (12 miles).The Israeli military believes there are several dozen longer-range Katyushas in the hands of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, which was seized by Hamas Islamists in June.
No group claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said recently that Israel was considering a sweeping military operation in the Gaza Strip to counter almost daily rocket salvoes. Israel also has threatened to cut power it supplies to the territory unless the attacks ceased.
With a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference expected to be held next month, Israel has so far stuck to limited ground raids and air strikes against militants.Last year, Gaza militants launched a rocket that flew about 12 km (7 miles) and reached the centre of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, causing no injuries.
Turkey assures Syria on Israeli strike By Khaled Yacoub Oweis OCT 7,07
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Turkey assured the Damascus government on Sunday it would not let Israel use its airspace to strike Syria after an Israeli raid heightened tension in the Middle East.
Diplomats said at least four Israeli planes flew in attack formation along the Syrian-Turkish border before striking deep into Syria on Sept 6. Syria and Israel have given little information on the target.Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said after meeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.Babacan said he chose Syria as his first destination abroad since being named foreign minister in August to underline the importance of maintaining strong Turkish-Syrian ties. He is due to visit Israel next.
The minister, a member of the Islamist-rooted AK party, repeated Turkey's assertions that Ankara had no prior knowledge of the Israeli raid, which Assad said had targeted an unused building linked to the Syrian military.I hope that during my visit to Israel to be given answers and clarifications about this issue, Babacan said. The region is at a very dangerous and sensitive stage. We always urge all parties to reach solutions through dialogue and peaceful means.
CLOSER TIES
Turkey and Syria have built closer security and economic ties in recent years despite persisting water disputes and past Syrian support for Kurdish rebels.Ankara, a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also has good ties with Israel and allows Israeli planes to train on its territory, according to diplomats in Damascus.Israel confirmed this month that it had carried out an air strike on Syria. Syrian officials have not ruled out the possibility of another Israeli raid.Several U.S. officials have linked the raid to apparent Israeli suspicions of secret nuclear cooperation between Damascus and North Korea. Diplomats suggested the intended target may have involved missiles supplied by North Korea, playing down reports of a nuclear link.
The raid came after speculation that Syria and Israel could resume peace talks that collapsed in 2000 over the scope of an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, a plateau which Israel occupied in 1967.Syria has called for the Golan issue to be on the agenda of a peace conference in November sponsored by the United States. Babacan said the Golan must be part of any Middle East settlement.
Syria's participation is necessary to reach solutions. The peace process must proceed along all tracks, including the Syrian one, he said.Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said Damascus had not yet received an answer from Washington on the Golan issue.
They have not got back to us, Moualem said. Syria's participation in the conference depends in large part on its goals and references and whether the Golan will be on the table.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
President Bush Says US Not Gearing Up To Attack Iran
(RTTNews) - US President George Bush in a rare interview with an Arabic satellite news station refuted reports that the United States had any plans to attack Iran and said he remains committed to finding a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with Tehran.In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, the US president also reiterated his pledge to negotiate with the Islamic nation if it gives up its nuclear program.I have said that if they suspend their nuclear program, we will be at the table. But they have so far refused to do that, Bush said, according to a transcript of the interview the White House released on Friday.Bush rubbished reports that appeared in the Arab press that he has issued orders to senior US military officials to prepare for an attack on Iran at the end of January or in February.For comments and feedback: contact editorial@rttnews.com
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
West Papua Delegation Donates Gold For Holy Temple
by Ezra HaLevi OCT 7,07
(IsraelNN.com) On Wednesday, the last day of the Sukkot festival, a 34-person delegation from West Papua presented a large amount of gold to be used in the building of the Holy Temple.The delegation from West Papua presents the gold for the Holy Temple to Rabbi Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute.The delegation, including representatives of the nation’s government, explained that they study the Bible regularly and recently came upon a verse in Zecharia (6:16) reading And the distant ones will come and build the Temple of G-d. They discussed the passage among themselves and decided that their faith obligates them to fulfill the verse.West Papua, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, is rich in gold mines, so the delegation thought it natural to donate gold for the Holy Temple. The Holy Temple will be built in the place where the First and Second Temples once stood – on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
The group heard of the Temple Institute in Israel, which deals with advancing the building of the Temple, and on Hoshana Raba - the 7th day of Sukkot - the delegation arrived at the Institute's headquarters in Jerusalem’s Old City and presented the gold to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a founder of the institute, and Yehuda Glick, its director.The group presented a kilogram of gold and a large sum of money. They requested that the gold be used to construct vessels for the Temple and that the funds be used by the institute for any purpose it sees fit. The institute has a fund set aside for exclusive use for the actual construction of the temple, as well as funds for building the vessels and engaging in educational projects. Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute and Israel National Radio, said that, in view of the Halakhic problems that could be caused by specifically consecrating money and gold for the Holy Temple, an escrow account was opened, as was a safe deposit box for all donations; both have been explicitly set aside for use in building the Temple, and will remain untouched until then.
Rabbi Ariel said the episode was emotional as it constituted the fulfillment of the words of the prophets that nations will come from afar to help build the House of G-d in Jerusalem. There is no doubt that this is a sign that the rest of our prophets’ prophecies will soon be fulfilled as well.Delegation members said that although this is their first contribution for the Temple, it will certainly not be their last. They said that in Papua there are fine trees that they hope to one day bring aboard a ship to Israel in order to be used in the building of the Holy Temple, the rabbi said.The Temple Institute was established twenty years ago, and deals with research and education about the Holy Temple. The institute has published dozens of books and has prepared more than 70 of the gold, silver and copper vessels needed for Temple service.Just two weeks ago, the institute completed a large King David’s Lyre. Its craftsmen are working now on the golden headpiece worn by the high priest.Some of the vessels prepared by the institute for use in the Temple include the golden menorah (candelabrum), the show-bread table, the golden altar, Levite musical instruments and priestly clothes. The vessels are on display at the institute's headquarters on the Old City’s Misgav Ladach street.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
China evacuates 1 million as storm hits Sun Oct 7, 8:40 AM ET
BEIJING - A powerful storm drenched China's southeast coast Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the mainland to evacuate more than 1 million people, the government said. In Vietnam, the bodies of more people killed in an earlier typhoon were recovered, bringing that country's toll to 55. Krosa, which earlier was a typhoon, roared into China's densely populated Zhejiang and Fujian provinces at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, the Zhejiang weather bureau reported on its Web site. There was no immediate word of injuries or damage.At 6 p.m., Krosa — the Cambodian word for crane — was a tropical storm. It had sustained winds of 66 mph, with gusts up to 89 mph at that time, according to the Zhejiang weather bureau's deputy director, who would give only his surname, Wang.More than 1 million people were evacuated from low-lying coastal areas, including more than 500,000 tourists who were at beach resorts for the National Day holiday week, the official Xinhua News Agency said.Krosa killed five people in Taiwan on Saturday as it knocked out power to 2 million homes and drenched the island, according to Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center.
Two men were killed in suburban Taipei when a landslide buried their house, the center said. A man died after falling from his balcony in Hsinchu and a woman was electrocuted after falling from her motorcycle in Tainan. The center said a man's body was recovered from a hostel that was hit by a landslide in Ilan and another man was missing.Early Sunday, China's coast guard rescued 27 sailors from a Hong Kong freighter that suffered mechanical failure after it was hit by Krosa off the port of Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Xinhua said.Schools were closed and airline flights canceled in Wenzhou, which lay in the storm's path, Xinhua said. The city ordered fishing boats, ferries and sightseeing boats to return to port.In Shanghai, where the Special Olympics is taking place, the city government canceled vacations for flood-control workers and was drafting plans to drain competition sites, the agency said.In Vietnam, the death toll from Typhoon Lekima — which hit the country's central coast late Wednesday — rose to 55, with another 16 people missing, officials said Sunday.Flooding and landslides triggered by Lekima, named after a local fruit, also damaged about 77,000 homes, the government said.Floods have also hindered our rescue efforts and thousands of people are hungry as water has wiped out their provisions, said Vo Trong Kien, an official in Thanh Hoa.On the Net:China Meteorological Administration (in Chinese): http://www.cma.gov.cn
Flooding from Vietnam typhoon kills 23 By TRAN VAN MINH, Associated Press Writer - Fri Oct 5, 11:31 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam - Floods and landslides triggered by a typhoon that struck Vietnam's central coast earlier this week have claimed 23 lives and left nine others missing, disaster officials said Saturday. Three more deaths reported in three northern provinces and confirmed reports of three people drowning in the central province of Quang Binh have raised the death toll to 23, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Dien said.Packing 80 mph winds, Typhoon Lekima made landfall late Wednesday in central Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces, also leaving nine people missing and injuring more than 100 others, according to disaster officials and the Department of Floods and Storms Control.Lekima, named after a local fruit, has damaged about 77,000 homes, the department said. It set the initial damage estimate at $41 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms which kill hundreds of people each year.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
WHETHER ITS A NATO ALLIANCE OF EUROPEAN NATIONS OR AN EU ARMY, IT WILL BE THE RUSSIA-CHINA ALLIACE AGAINST THE EU ARMY.
Defence pact to balance NATO
Vladimir Radyuhin OCT 7,07
MOSCOW: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russia-led defence pact of former Soviet states, have signed a defence cooperation pact dubbed a Russian-Chinese NATO.The SCO, which comprises Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and the CSTO, which groups Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belorussia, signed a memorandum of cooperation on Friday on the sidelines of a CSTO summit in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. China is the only member of the SCO, which does not participate in the CSTO.The memorandum, signed by the general secretaries of the SCO and the CSTO, provides for expanding cooperation between the two organisations in security, the fight against trans-national crime and illegal drug trafficking, SCO General Secretary Bulat Nurgaliyev said at the signing ceremony. Now the issues will be solved more efficiently.CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha expressed confidence that CSTO-CSO cooperation will be effective in very many dimensions. He denied the tie-up was an attempt to rival or counteract NATO.
The SCO-CSTO cooperation agreement was signed less than two months after the Shanghai pact focussed on security issues, holding the first major joint war games and signing a friendship treaty which offered security guarantees to member-states.A leading Russian business paper, RBK Daily, said the SCO-CSTO tie-up could signal the emergence of a major military-political bloc, a Russian-Chinese NATO that will challenge NATO, not only in Central Asia, but throughout the Eurasian continent.The CSTO leaders decided on Saturday to set up the alliance’s peace-keeping force, which according to Mr. Bordyuzha, would be ready to undertake U.N.-mandated peace missions anywhere in the world.
US for missile shield with Russia, Nato
Web posted at: 10/6/2007 3:33:8 - Source ::: AFP
WASHINGTON • The United States yesterday proposed a common network of missile defence systems with Russia and Nato to allay Moscow's concerns over a planned US missile defence system in central Europe. The answer is we and the Russians and Nato or the Nato-Russia Council work together to produce a common system or common network of systems which would benefit everyone's security and also address Russian security concerns, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said. If they are part of the system, they can be much more confident that it is not directed against them, he said, speaking ahead of talks next week between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates with their opposite numbers in Moscow. They will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defence Secretary Anatoly Serdyukov in the wake of stalled negotiations earlier this month between the two sides in Paris on US' planned missile defence system.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Anglican leader condemns Syria, Iran war talk
Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 5:46pm AEST
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has issued an angry rebuke to those in the United States who favour military action against Syria or Iran.When people talk about further destabilising of the region, when you read about some American political advisers speaking about action against Syria and Iran, I can only say that I regard that as criminal, ignorant and potentially murderous folly, he said.Dr Williams has just returned from a visit to Syria where he met hundreds of Christian Iraqi refugees.
Palestinians launch longer-range rocket into Israel OCT 7,07
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired a Katyusha rocket deep into southern Israel on Sunday, police said, showing an ability to extend the range of rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Gaza militants usually fire crude rockets that have a maximum range of about 9 km (5.5 miles) into Israel, but rarely go beyond 3 km (2 miles). The Grad-type Katyusha, originally Soviet-designed, landed some 11 km (6.5 miles) inside Israel.The Katyusha slammed into an open field, causing a brush fire but no injuries, a police spokesman said.Katyushas, widely used by Hezbollah guerrillas to strike Israel from Lebanon in a 2006 war, can reach a distance of 20 kilometres (12 miles).The Israeli military believes there are several dozen longer-range Katyushas in the hands of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, which was seized by Hamas Islamists in June.
No group claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said recently that Israel was considering a sweeping military operation in the Gaza Strip to counter almost daily rocket salvoes. Israel also has threatened to cut power it supplies to the territory unless the attacks ceased.
With a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference expected to be held next month, Israel has so far stuck to limited ground raids and air strikes against militants.Last year, Gaza militants launched a rocket that flew about 12 km (7 miles) and reached the centre of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, causing no injuries.
Turkey assures Syria on Israeli strike By Khaled Yacoub Oweis OCT 7,07
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Turkey assured the Damascus government on Sunday it would not let Israel use its airspace to strike Syria after an Israeli raid heightened tension in the Middle East.
Diplomats said at least four Israeli planes flew in attack formation along the Syrian-Turkish border before striking deep into Syria on Sept 6. Syria and Israel have given little information on the target.Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said after meeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.Babacan said he chose Syria as his first destination abroad since being named foreign minister in August to underline the importance of maintaining strong Turkish-Syrian ties. He is due to visit Israel next.
The minister, a member of the Islamist-rooted AK party, repeated Turkey's assertions that Ankara had no prior knowledge of the Israeli raid, which Assad said had targeted an unused building linked to the Syrian military.I hope that during my visit to Israel to be given answers and clarifications about this issue, Babacan said. The region is at a very dangerous and sensitive stage. We always urge all parties to reach solutions through dialogue and peaceful means.
CLOSER TIES
Turkey and Syria have built closer security and economic ties in recent years despite persisting water disputes and past Syrian support for Kurdish rebels.Ankara, a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also has good ties with Israel and allows Israeli planes to train on its territory, according to diplomats in Damascus.Israel confirmed this month that it had carried out an air strike on Syria. Syrian officials have not ruled out the possibility of another Israeli raid.Several U.S. officials have linked the raid to apparent Israeli suspicions of secret nuclear cooperation between Damascus and North Korea. Diplomats suggested the intended target may have involved missiles supplied by North Korea, playing down reports of a nuclear link.
The raid came after speculation that Syria and Israel could resume peace talks that collapsed in 2000 over the scope of an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, a plateau which Israel occupied in 1967.Syria has called for the Golan issue to be on the agenda of a peace conference in November sponsored by the United States. Babacan said the Golan must be part of any Middle East settlement.
Syria's participation is necessary to reach solutions. The peace process must proceed along all tracks, including the Syrian one, he said.Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said Damascus had not yet received an answer from Washington on the Golan issue.
They have not got back to us, Moualem said. Syria's participation in the conference depends in large part on its goals and references and whether the Golan will be on the table.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
President Bush Says US Not Gearing Up To Attack Iran
(RTTNews) - US President George Bush in a rare interview with an Arabic satellite news station refuted reports that the United States had any plans to attack Iran and said he remains committed to finding a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with Tehran.In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, the US president also reiterated his pledge to negotiate with the Islamic nation if it gives up its nuclear program.I have said that if they suspend their nuclear program, we will be at the table. But they have so far refused to do that, Bush said, according to a transcript of the interview the White House released on Friday.Bush rubbished reports that appeared in the Arab press that he has issued orders to senior US military officials to prepare for an attack on Iran at the end of January or in February.For comments and feedback: contact editorial@rttnews.com
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
West Papua Delegation Donates Gold For Holy Temple
by Ezra HaLevi OCT 7,07
(IsraelNN.com) On Wednesday, the last day of the Sukkot festival, a 34-person delegation from West Papua presented a large amount of gold to be used in the building of the Holy Temple.The delegation from West Papua presents the gold for the Holy Temple to Rabbi Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute.The delegation, including representatives of the nation’s government, explained that they study the Bible regularly and recently came upon a verse in Zecharia (6:16) reading And the distant ones will come and build the Temple of G-d. They discussed the passage among themselves and decided that their faith obligates them to fulfill the verse.West Papua, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, is rich in gold mines, so the delegation thought it natural to donate gold for the Holy Temple. The Holy Temple will be built in the place where the First and Second Temples once stood – on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
The group heard of the Temple Institute in Israel, which deals with advancing the building of the Temple, and on Hoshana Raba - the 7th day of Sukkot - the delegation arrived at the Institute's headquarters in Jerusalem’s Old City and presented the gold to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a founder of the institute, and Yehuda Glick, its director.The group presented a kilogram of gold and a large sum of money. They requested that the gold be used to construct vessels for the Temple and that the funds be used by the institute for any purpose it sees fit. The institute has a fund set aside for exclusive use for the actual construction of the temple, as well as funds for building the vessels and engaging in educational projects. Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute and Israel National Radio, said that, in view of the Halakhic problems that could be caused by specifically consecrating money and gold for the Holy Temple, an escrow account was opened, as was a safe deposit box for all donations; both have been explicitly set aside for use in building the Temple, and will remain untouched until then.
Rabbi Ariel said the episode was emotional as it constituted the fulfillment of the words of the prophets that nations will come from afar to help build the House of G-d in Jerusalem. There is no doubt that this is a sign that the rest of our prophets’ prophecies will soon be fulfilled as well.Delegation members said that although this is their first contribution for the Temple, it will certainly not be their last. They said that in Papua there are fine trees that they hope to one day bring aboard a ship to Israel in order to be used in the building of the Holy Temple, the rabbi said.The Temple Institute was established twenty years ago, and deals with research and education about the Holy Temple. The institute has published dozens of books and has prepared more than 70 of the gold, silver and copper vessels needed for Temple service.Just two weeks ago, the institute completed a large King David’s Lyre. Its craftsmen are working now on the golden headpiece worn by the high priest.Some of the vessels prepared by the institute for use in the Temple include the golden menorah (candelabrum), the show-bread table, the golden altar, Levite musical instruments and priestly clothes. The vessels are on display at the institute's headquarters on the Old City’s Misgav Ladach street.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
ALL RELIGIONS PRAY TO SAME GOD - BUSH
EXODUS 20:3-17 THE 10 COMMANDMENTS GEORGE (VERSE 3)KJV
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
I DON"T WANT TO TELL GEORGE W THAT THERES THE ONE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL, THEN THERES VARIOUS OTHER GODS.
TESTING THE FAITH
Bush: All religions pray to same God - That's what I believe. I believe Islam is a great religion that preaches peace.
October 7, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
President George Bush has repeated his belief all religions, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God – an assertion that caused outrage among evangelical leaders when he said it in November 2003. Bush made the statement Friday in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.
Al Arabiya is Al Jazeerah's top competitor in the Mideast.
As the president and Nakouzi walked from the Oval Office to the Map Room in the White House residence, Nazouki asked, But I want to tell you – and I hope this doesn't bother you at all – that in the Islamic world they think that President Bush is an enemy of Islam – that he wants to destroy their religion, what they believe in. Is that in any way true, Mr. President? No, it's not, said Bush. I've heard that, and it just shows [sic] to show a couple of things: One, that the radicals have done a good job of propagandizing. In other words, they've spread the word that this really isn't peaceful people versus radical people or terrorists, this is really about the America not liking Islam. Well, first of all, I believe in an Almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That's what I believe. I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace. And I believe people who murder the innocent to achieve political objectives aren't religious people, whether they be a Christian who does that – we had a person blow up our – blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City who professed to be a Christian, but that's not a Christian act to kill innocent people. And I just simply don't subscribe to the idea that murdering innocent men, women and children – particularly Muslim men, women and children in the Middle East – is an act of somebody who is a religious person.
Friday's statement echoes one made by Bush in November 2003 during a joint press conference with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. A reporter noted Bush had frequently expressed the view that freedom is a gift from the Almighty, but questioned whether Bush believes Muslims worship the same Almighty as the president and other Christians do. I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person. I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the world, Bush replied. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same god, reported the London Telegraph.
Reaction from U.S. evangelical leaders was swift and strong.
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, was quoted in the Baptist Press as saying the president is simply mistaken.According to a Washington Post account, Land said in an interview: We should always remember that he is commander in chief, not theologian in chief. The Bible is clear on this: The one and true god is Jehovah, and his only begotten son is Jesus Christ.The Rev. Ted Haggard, then-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, also contradicted the president in a press statement. The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health, said Haggard. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities.In November 2006, Haggard was forced to resign from NAE following allegations of drug use and sex with a homosexual prostitute. Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate and president of American Values, said Bush's comment was not helpful to the president. Since everybody agrees he's not a theologian, he would be much better advised to punt when he gets that kind of question.
In Friday's interview with Al Arabiya, Bush emphasized his outreach to Muslims.
We are having an Iftaar dinner tonight – I say, we – it's my wife and I, Bush told Nakouzi. This is the seventh one in the seven years I've been the president. It gives me a chance to say Ramadan Mubarak. The reason I do this is I want people to understand about my country. In other words, I hope this message gets out of America. I want people to understand that one of the great freedoms in America is the right for people to worship any way they see fit. If you're a Muslim, an agnostic, a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, you're equally American. And the value – the most valuable thing I think about America is that – particularly if you're a religious person – you can be free to worship, and it's your choice to make. It's not the state's choice, and you shouldn't be intimidated after you've made your choice. And that's a right that I jealously guard. Secondly, I want American citizens to see me hosting an Iftaar dinner.That's a strong message for the Americans, said Nakouzi. Last year, WND reported criticism of Bush from Wafa Sultan, a native of Syria, who said the president was empowering terrorist leaders whose ultimate aim is for Islamic law to govern the world by proclaiming Islam a religion of peace.I believe he undermines our credibility by saying that, said Sultan. We came from Islam, and we know what kind of religion Islam is.
HERES YOUR PEACEFUL ISLAM IN ACTION GEORGE W. TAKE NOTE!
GLOBAL JIHAD
Again! 10 Christians slaughtered over alleged Muhammad cartoon
61 injured, 9 churches burned, hundreds displaced after rumored insult to Islam - October 5, 2007 - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Remains of burned Baptist church (Courtesy Compass Direct)
Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians, injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses – all because Muslim high school students claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the school’s mosque. The rampage occurred Sept. 28 in the town of Tudun Wada Dankadai, in Nigeria's northern state of Kano. According to Compass Direct News, which specializes in reporting on Christian persecution worldwide, there are 1,500 students at the high school, called Government College-Tudun Wada Dankadai, of which only 14 are Christians, and only seven of those actually live on campus. The Christian students at the school insist no one ever saw the alleged cartoon, and furthermore that no one in the tiny minority group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during Ramadan. How can we take such a risk when we know that we are a minority and cannot stand [against] them? Christian student Shehu Bawa told Compass. This is a lie created to have a reason to attack us.Eighteen-year-old student Iliya Adamu told Compass he was getting ready to go to class when a group of Muslim students stormed into his dorm and began to beat him.
I was surprised that they were beating me without telling what I did, Adamu said. I asked to know what was happening, and they claimed that one Christian student had gone to their mosque to draw a cartoon of Muhammad. In spite of my denying the act, they kept beating me.Seeing the Muslim mob beating a Christian classmate named Sule La’azaru, Adamu ran to the principal's office for refuge, soon to be joined by the remaining Christian students there, according to the report. Despite the attempts by the Muslim teachers to stop the rampage, Muslim students began throwing stones at the Christian students through the window of the principal's office, wounding student Ayuba Wada in the head. I was inside the office of our principal, with the others, when suddenly the Muslim students began throwing stones at us, Wada told Compass. It was through this way that my head was broken. I was bleeding, and no help came as the situation became more riotous.
Eventually, the rampaging Muslim students broke into the principal's office, but the principal's arrival saved Wada's life, while the other Christians holed up there managed to escape the mob. One of the Christian students, Shehu Bawa, told Compass his arrival on campus that morning was punctuated by shouts of Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) all over the school. In fact, he said, The Muslim students were now attacking every Christian student on sight. Four of us ran into the office of the vice principal, but when it was finally broken into by the Muslim students, we ran out and escaped.
What about the alleged cartoon of Muhammad, rumors of which instigated the attacks?
We suspect that either one of the Muslim students in the school did this to create an excuse for us to be attacked, or that a Muslim fanatic from the town might have done this to spark off a fight among Muslims and Christians, said Bawa. How could we have done this when Muslim students are always around the mosque day and night because of the Ramadan?
The rampage spreads far and wide
After attacking the few Christian students in their school, the rampaging Muslim students poured into the streets of Tudun Wada, joined now by other Muslims. For the next four hours, reports Compass, the growing mob burned down Christian churches, vandalized Christian property and murdered innocents. Among the churches burned were: St. Mary’s Catholic Church; St. George’s Anglican Church; Evangelical Church of West Africa; Assemblies of God Church; First Baptist Church; a Pentecostal church called the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church; an African independent church, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church; and two other Pentecostal churches, The Chosen Bible Church and Deeper Life Bible Church.
Children of murdered Christian (Courtesy Compass Direct)
The 10 Christians murdered included: Augustine Odoh and his younger brother Cosmos Odoh, both members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Another Catholic, Joseph Eze, was also killed. When Compass filed its initial report, the corpses of the three Catholics were lying at the City Hospital in Kano city. Seven other Christians murdered were buried in a common grave Wednesday, but government workers did not allow relatives or church leaders to identify the corpses. The dozens of injured are being treated at the Assumpta Clinic, Nomansland in Sabon Gari area of Kano city. According to Musa Ahmadu Haruna, the priest of St. George’s Anglican Church, Tudun Wada Dankadai, whose church was burned, no Christian student in the school could have drawn an image of Muhammad. None of these students is capable of drawing a cartoon on a mosque, he told Compass Direct. That is a frame-up to find a reason to attack us.Another pastor, Rabiu Danbawa of the Evangelical Church of West Africa, said that upon hearing of the waves of attacks on Christians, he moved toward the town's center to see for himself what was transpiring.
I stood as they set fire on our churches one by one, he told Compas Direct. There was nothing I could do, he said, adding, I did not know the fate of my wife and my children. When he went to the local police station for help, Danbawa found the police turning away Christians who had run there to escape the attack. We were told to leave, as our safety could not be guaranteed, he said, in tears, according to Compass Direct. Women and children all scampered to the bush, only to be attacked by the Muslims who had already hid themselves in the bush awaiting their Christian prey.It wasn't until several days later that Danbawa found his wife and children safe. Accoroding to reports from Compass, Danbawa and his family are now refugees in Dogon Kawo village, along with other Christian victims. None have food or shelter, he said. Even Christian policemen were not immune, with about 30 officers and their families being attacked and their homes looted and set on fire.
Last week's massacre comes in respose to a call in July by the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar III, to Muslims in northern Nigeria to rise against Christianity. Kano's state government has led the way in northern Nigeria for the implementation of sharia Islamic law.
Mark Lipdo, director of the Stefanos Foundation, which ministers to persecuted Christians in Nigeria, told Compass he's shocked that the Nigerian government has done nothing to help the injured and displaced. It is surprising that an overwhelming thing like this that has displaced thousands of Christians is not known to the Nigerian government, he said, noting that the government initially downplayed the mass rampage. The government must act to check such unprovoked attacks against Christians.And Haruna of St. George’s Anglican Church said, We are living under persecution in Kano state, and yet, we are being told that we are under a democratic government. Do Muslims really want us to co-exist together as a nation? I doubt so.As WND reported in May, Christians in Nigeria, who make up about half the population, fears the imposition of Islamic law throughout that nation. Indeed, as WND has reported, Muslim rioters in Nigeria in 2006 were incensed over cartoons of Muhammad published in Denmark, and more than 130 Christians in the Nigerian cities of Maiduguri and Onitsha were slaughtered. The reports documented six children burned to ashes in front of their father, according to Voice of the Martyrs. WND also has reported nearly 1,000 homes of Christians and many churches have been destroyed in these regions.
If you go around villages, you will see people missing one hand or one foot, explained Rev. Obiora Ike. Do you think that's the result of an illness? That is the result of sharia law.More than 10,000 Christians have been martyred in the region since the Islamic law was imposed in the region in 1999, and Voice of the Martyrs has helped surviving family members through its Families of Martyrs Fund with Care Packs, Village Outreach packs and words of encouragement to believers who stand for their faith amidst volatile, uncertain conditions.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
I DON"T WANT TO TELL GEORGE W THAT THERES THE ONE TRUE GOD OF ISRAEL, THEN THERES VARIOUS OTHER GODS.
TESTING THE FAITH
Bush: All religions pray to same God - That's what I believe. I believe Islam is a great religion that preaches peace.
October 7, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
President George Bush has repeated his belief all religions, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God – an assertion that caused outrage among evangelical leaders when he said it in November 2003. Bush made the statement Friday in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.
Al Arabiya is Al Jazeerah's top competitor in the Mideast.
As the president and Nakouzi walked from the Oval Office to the Map Room in the White House residence, Nazouki asked, But I want to tell you – and I hope this doesn't bother you at all – that in the Islamic world they think that President Bush is an enemy of Islam – that he wants to destroy their religion, what they believe in. Is that in any way true, Mr. President? No, it's not, said Bush. I've heard that, and it just shows [sic] to show a couple of things: One, that the radicals have done a good job of propagandizing. In other words, they've spread the word that this really isn't peaceful people versus radical people or terrorists, this is really about the America not liking Islam. Well, first of all, I believe in an Almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That's what I believe. I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace. And I believe people who murder the innocent to achieve political objectives aren't religious people, whether they be a Christian who does that – we had a person blow up our – blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City who professed to be a Christian, but that's not a Christian act to kill innocent people. And I just simply don't subscribe to the idea that murdering innocent men, women and children – particularly Muslim men, women and children in the Middle East – is an act of somebody who is a religious person.
Friday's statement echoes one made by Bush in November 2003 during a joint press conference with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. A reporter noted Bush had frequently expressed the view that freedom is a gift from the Almighty, but questioned whether Bush believes Muslims worship the same Almighty as the president and other Christians do. I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person. I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the world, Bush replied. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same god, reported the London Telegraph.
Reaction from U.S. evangelical leaders was swift and strong.
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, was quoted in the Baptist Press as saying the president is simply mistaken.According to a Washington Post account, Land said in an interview: We should always remember that he is commander in chief, not theologian in chief. The Bible is clear on this: The one and true god is Jehovah, and his only begotten son is Jesus Christ.The Rev. Ted Haggard, then-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, also contradicted the president in a press statement. The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health, said Haggard. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities.In November 2006, Haggard was forced to resign from NAE following allegations of drug use and sex with a homosexual prostitute. Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate and president of American Values, said Bush's comment was not helpful to the president. Since everybody agrees he's not a theologian, he would be much better advised to punt when he gets that kind of question.
In Friday's interview with Al Arabiya, Bush emphasized his outreach to Muslims.
We are having an Iftaar dinner tonight – I say, we – it's my wife and I, Bush told Nakouzi. This is the seventh one in the seven years I've been the president. It gives me a chance to say Ramadan Mubarak. The reason I do this is I want people to understand about my country. In other words, I hope this message gets out of America. I want people to understand that one of the great freedoms in America is the right for people to worship any way they see fit. If you're a Muslim, an agnostic, a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, you're equally American. And the value – the most valuable thing I think about America is that – particularly if you're a religious person – you can be free to worship, and it's your choice to make. It's not the state's choice, and you shouldn't be intimidated after you've made your choice. And that's a right that I jealously guard. Secondly, I want American citizens to see me hosting an Iftaar dinner.That's a strong message for the Americans, said Nakouzi. Last year, WND reported criticism of Bush from Wafa Sultan, a native of Syria, who said the president was empowering terrorist leaders whose ultimate aim is for Islamic law to govern the world by proclaiming Islam a religion of peace.I believe he undermines our credibility by saying that, said Sultan. We came from Islam, and we know what kind of religion Islam is.
HERES YOUR PEACEFUL ISLAM IN ACTION GEORGE W. TAKE NOTE!
GLOBAL JIHAD
Again! 10 Christians slaughtered over alleged Muhammad cartoon
61 injured, 9 churches burned, hundreds displaced after rumored insult to Islam - October 5, 2007 - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Remains of burned Baptist church (Courtesy Compass Direct)
Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians, injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses – all because Muslim high school students claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the school’s mosque. The rampage occurred Sept. 28 in the town of Tudun Wada Dankadai, in Nigeria's northern state of Kano. According to Compass Direct News, which specializes in reporting on Christian persecution worldwide, there are 1,500 students at the high school, called Government College-Tudun Wada Dankadai, of which only 14 are Christians, and only seven of those actually live on campus. The Christian students at the school insist no one ever saw the alleged cartoon, and furthermore that no one in the tiny minority group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during Ramadan. How can we take such a risk when we know that we are a minority and cannot stand [against] them? Christian student Shehu Bawa told Compass. This is a lie created to have a reason to attack us.Eighteen-year-old student Iliya Adamu told Compass he was getting ready to go to class when a group of Muslim students stormed into his dorm and began to beat him.
I was surprised that they were beating me without telling what I did, Adamu said. I asked to know what was happening, and they claimed that one Christian student had gone to their mosque to draw a cartoon of Muhammad. In spite of my denying the act, they kept beating me.Seeing the Muslim mob beating a Christian classmate named Sule La’azaru, Adamu ran to the principal's office for refuge, soon to be joined by the remaining Christian students there, according to the report. Despite the attempts by the Muslim teachers to stop the rampage, Muslim students began throwing stones at the Christian students through the window of the principal's office, wounding student Ayuba Wada in the head. I was inside the office of our principal, with the others, when suddenly the Muslim students began throwing stones at us, Wada told Compass. It was through this way that my head was broken. I was bleeding, and no help came as the situation became more riotous.
Eventually, the rampaging Muslim students broke into the principal's office, but the principal's arrival saved Wada's life, while the other Christians holed up there managed to escape the mob. One of the Christian students, Shehu Bawa, told Compass his arrival on campus that morning was punctuated by shouts of Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) all over the school. In fact, he said, The Muslim students were now attacking every Christian student on sight. Four of us ran into the office of the vice principal, but when it was finally broken into by the Muslim students, we ran out and escaped.
What about the alleged cartoon of Muhammad, rumors of which instigated the attacks?
We suspect that either one of the Muslim students in the school did this to create an excuse for us to be attacked, or that a Muslim fanatic from the town might have done this to spark off a fight among Muslims and Christians, said Bawa. How could we have done this when Muslim students are always around the mosque day and night because of the Ramadan?
The rampage spreads far and wide
After attacking the few Christian students in their school, the rampaging Muslim students poured into the streets of Tudun Wada, joined now by other Muslims. For the next four hours, reports Compass, the growing mob burned down Christian churches, vandalized Christian property and murdered innocents. Among the churches burned were: St. Mary’s Catholic Church; St. George’s Anglican Church; Evangelical Church of West Africa; Assemblies of God Church; First Baptist Church; a Pentecostal church called the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church; an African independent church, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church; and two other Pentecostal churches, The Chosen Bible Church and Deeper Life Bible Church.
Children of murdered Christian (Courtesy Compass Direct)
The 10 Christians murdered included: Augustine Odoh and his younger brother Cosmos Odoh, both members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Another Catholic, Joseph Eze, was also killed. When Compass filed its initial report, the corpses of the three Catholics were lying at the City Hospital in Kano city. Seven other Christians murdered were buried in a common grave Wednesday, but government workers did not allow relatives or church leaders to identify the corpses. The dozens of injured are being treated at the Assumpta Clinic, Nomansland in Sabon Gari area of Kano city. According to Musa Ahmadu Haruna, the priest of St. George’s Anglican Church, Tudun Wada Dankadai, whose church was burned, no Christian student in the school could have drawn an image of Muhammad. None of these students is capable of drawing a cartoon on a mosque, he told Compass Direct. That is a frame-up to find a reason to attack us.Another pastor, Rabiu Danbawa of the Evangelical Church of West Africa, said that upon hearing of the waves of attacks on Christians, he moved toward the town's center to see for himself what was transpiring.
I stood as they set fire on our churches one by one, he told Compas Direct. There was nothing I could do, he said, adding, I did not know the fate of my wife and my children. When he went to the local police station for help, Danbawa found the police turning away Christians who had run there to escape the attack. We were told to leave, as our safety could not be guaranteed, he said, in tears, according to Compass Direct. Women and children all scampered to the bush, only to be attacked by the Muslims who had already hid themselves in the bush awaiting their Christian prey.It wasn't until several days later that Danbawa found his wife and children safe. Accoroding to reports from Compass, Danbawa and his family are now refugees in Dogon Kawo village, along with other Christian victims. None have food or shelter, he said. Even Christian policemen were not immune, with about 30 officers and their families being attacked and their homes looted and set on fire.
Last week's massacre comes in respose to a call in July by the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar III, to Muslims in northern Nigeria to rise against Christianity. Kano's state government has led the way in northern Nigeria for the implementation of sharia Islamic law.
Mark Lipdo, director of the Stefanos Foundation, which ministers to persecuted Christians in Nigeria, told Compass he's shocked that the Nigerian government has done nothing to help the injured and displaced. It is surprising that an overwhelming thing like this that has displaced thousands of Christians is not known to the Nigerian government, he said, noting that the government initially downplayed the mass rampage. The government must act to check such unprovoked attacks against Christians.And Haruna of St. George’s Anglican Church said, We are living under persecution in Kano state, and yet, we are being told that we are under a democratic government. Do Muslims really want us to co-exist together as a nation? I doubt so.As WND reported in May, Christians in Nigeria, who make up about half the population, fears the imposition of Islamic law throughout that nation. Indeed, as WND has reported, Muslim rioters in Nigeria in 2006 were incensed over cartoons of Muhammad published in Denmark, and more than 130 Christians in the Nigerian cities of Maiduguri and Onitsha were slaughtered. The reports documented six children burned to ashes in front of their father, according to Voice of the Martyrs. WND also has reported nearly 1,000 homes of Christians and many churches have been destroyed in these regions.
If you go around villages, you will see people missing one hand or one foot, explained Rev. Obiora Ike. Do you think that's the result of an illness? That is the result of sharia law.More than 10,000 Christians have been martyred in the region since the Islamic law was imposed in the region in 1999, and Voice of the Martyrs has helped surviving family members through its Families of Martyrs Fund with Care Packs, Village Outreach packs and words of encouragement to believers who stand for their faith amidst volatile, uncertain conditions.
DOUBTS GREET CHRISTIANS IN ISRAEL
EU states to join border-free zone
Oct 4, 2007 8:40 AM
The European Union's border-free zone will be extended to nine additional member states on December 21, the bloc's Portuguese Presidency said.From that date, people travelling from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will be able to travel to the existing 15 states of the Schengen border-free zone without having to show their passports, a presidency spokeswoman said.They will open on December 21, she said. All the nine borders will be opened. The nine countries all joined the European Union in 2004.EU ministers will officially endorse the move next month, the spokeswoman said.
Thirteen EU countries, plus Norway and Iceland, are currently part of the border-free zone. Britain and Ireland have chosen not to be part of it.Cyprus, which also joined the EU in 2004, has asked for one year's delay. Romania and Bulgaria, which became EU members only this year, need to do more work to meet security criteria.
Spain, European Commission President express confidence in EU reform treaty October 02, 2007
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday expressed confidence in the reform treaty of the 25-nation bloc ahead of an Intergovernment Conference slated to be held later this month in Lisbon.Both said at their Madrid meeting that they were confident the Intergovernment Conference would swiftly approve a final text for the EU reform, at its Oct. 18-19 session.According to a statement by the Spanish Communications Ministry, the two reviewed the timetable for the EU reform, which still awaits ratification by all its member states.In 2005, French and Dutch voters rejected the EU constitution treaty in referendums, fearing their countries would lose too much power. The EU leaders agreed in June to abandon the idea and replace it with a less ambitious reform treaty.
Zapatero and Barroso also discussed the creation of a single market for energy and the development of a European Border Agency (Frontex).Earlier this month, the commission unveiled a proposal that would force European energy generators to give up their pipelines and transmission networks as a step toward uniting the continent's patchwork of gas and electric systems.Spain urges more money for Frontex aimed at intensifying patrolling in the Mediterranean to deter illegal migrants from north Africa.EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel said in April that he expected the number of African refugees in EU countries to drop this year below 30,000, a record level reached in 2006. Source: Xinhua
Jerusalem: Idea Raised of 2 Capitals
Thursday, Oct. 04, 2007 By AP/BARRY SCHWEID Article
(WASHINGTON) — Five former State Department and Pentagon officials are proposing Israeli and Palestinian capitals in Jerusalem and excluding Arab refugees from returning to Israel as part of an Middle East accord. In a six-page policy statement submitted to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they also suggested a series of peace conferences following the one she hopes to convene next month, probably in Annapolis, Md. The militant Hamas group, which controls Gaza and about one-third of Palestinian-held land, has not met U.S. terms for attending. Those conditions are recognizing Israel's right to exist and abandoning violence against the Jewish state. But the ex-officials suggested Hamas might be drawn to attend a second conference, which implicitly would accept the first one and Israel's existence. They called the role of Hamas the most difficult issue in peacemaking. Jerusalem's future and that of Palestinian refugees have snarled past U.S. peace efforts. Former President Clinton's mediation efforts between the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak envisioned sharing of Jerusalem.
Clinton ruled out requiring Israel to take in most Palestinians or their families who claimed to have been forced out of Israel during creation of the Jewish state in 1947-8. It will be very difficult, but not impossible, said Robert Pelletreau, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and ex-assistant secretary of state for the region. There is a little bit of momentum starting to build with talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a mediator, he said in a telephone interview. Along with announcement of the conference, he said, you have several things that can reinforce each other if they are framed properly.The refugee issue is the most difficult, he said. And Jerusalem is right up with it.Edward S. Walker, a former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, said Hamas was the most difficult issue. Unless Hamas changes its stripes there is no way to deal with them on the current situation, he said in an interview.
But, Walker added, a lot of things that appear to be impossible now might well become possible if there is hope that a true and real peace can be established.The policy paper was prepared by Israel Policy Forum, a nonpartisan American group that promotes sustained U.S. diplomacy to end the conflict between Israel and its neighbors. Next month's conference should reaffirm that the goal is two independent and sovereign states, with borders roughly along the lines that separated Israel from the Arabs before the 1967 Middle East war, the statement said. It also called for a just solution to refugee questions that recognizes the suffering and the plight of the Palestinian refugees. They would be permitted to move only to the new Palestinian state, with compensation from Israel, the Palestinian state and other nations.
Besides Pelletreau and Walker, the former U.S. diplomats included Thomas Pickering, an ex-undersecretary of state and ambassador to Israel and Jordan; Samuel Lewis, former ambassador to Israel; and Frederic C. Hof, Mideast official in the Pentagon. The report was written and coordinated primarily by Steven L. Spiegel, political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rice has been meeting with former U.S. negotiators and ex-American diplomats, and has not replied to the policy paper, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday.
Iran summons French envoy over nuclear remarks by Farhad Pouladi Wed Oct 3, 8:58 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday summoned a top French diplomat to protest at remarks by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner suggesting Tehran could be seeking the atomic bomb, state media reported.
French charge d'affaires Jean Graebling was summoned... to the foreign ministry to receive the protest and hear of the Islamic republic of Iran's dissatisfaction with France's recent positions and its negative tone, according to a ministry statement carried on state television's website.Since the election of President Nicolas Sarkozy, France has considerably toughened its position towards Iran, and called for new sanctions to oblige Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme.Kouchner -- who caused a stir last month by saying the world must prepare for war with Iran -- told Europe 1 radio on Tuesday that nothing is more dangerous than the situation in Iran.
The Iranians must stop enriching uranium, because what they are doing encourages the experts to think they are possibly moving towards the atomic bomb and not the civil nuclear power to which they have absolute right.It is absolutely vital to have peace, he said. I did not call for war, I called for peace.Iran noted that France's stance was despite Tehran last month agreeing a timetable with the International Atomic Energy Agency for it to answer outstanding questions about its nuclear activities.Tehran said it was also strongly protesting at France's push for another UN Security resolution and encouraging European nations to impose additional sanctions on Iran, according to the foreign ministry statement.OPEC member Iran vehemently rejects charges it is seeking a nuclear weapon, saying the atomic drive is aimed solely at generating electricity for a growing population.Major world powers have agreed to wait for November reports by IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana before deciding whether to push for a third round of sanctions against Tehran.The Security Council has already passed two resolutions imposing sanctions over Tehran's refusal to heed ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment, a process which creates nuclear fuel but can be diverted to make the core of an atomic bomb.
ElBaradei said in an interview with the Financial Times on Wednesday that Iran must provide key details on its programme by late November or its unwillingness to work with the international community will backfire.He said the two key issues that required clarification had to do with Iran's research capabilities and its nuclear weaponisation capacity.I've told the Iranians: This is your litmus test. You committed yourself to come clean. If you don't, nobody will be able to come to your support.Iran's foreign ministry had also lashed out at France's stance last month, saying Paris was mimicking hawkish US policy and was being more American than the White House itself.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that France's attitude could hurt its economic interests in the country, with major companies including oil giant Total as well as carmakers Renault and Peugeot doing business in Iran.
The Sarkozy presidency has said it wants European firms not to bid for new business in Iran and for financial institutions to scale back investments, in drive to pressure Iran parallel to UN sanctions moves.Total had agreed in 2006 a major deal to exploit phase 11 of Iran's giant South Pars gas field to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export but is still yet to execute the project. Iran has bluntly warned it will go ahead with Iranian firms alone if the deal is not swiftly implemented.
Iran-Syria sign billion dollar gas deal Thu Oct 4, 8:30 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Fellow US foes Iran and Syria have signed an agreement for Tehran to export a billion dollars worth of gas every year to its chief regional ally, Iranian state television reported on Thursday. Iranian caretaker Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari and Syrian counterpart Sufian Allaw signed the memorandum of understanding in Tehran that will see Iran exporting three billion cubic metres (105 billion cubic feet) of natural gas annually to Syria.The agreement is the latest sign of the expanding political and economic ties between the two allies, which are both accused by the United States of fomenting the violence in Iraq, allegations that both deny.With the signing of these agreements, experts will start work to define the transit cost and examine the other aspects of the contract, said Nozari.
State television said that the exports are set to start in 2009 and will be worth one billion dollars to Iran annually.Nozari said the gas would be supplied to Syria via its northern neighbour Turkey, which already receives Iranian gas through a pipeline linking the northern city of Tabriz and Ankara.Iran has the world's second largest gas reserves after Russia but until now has remained a relatively minor player in the global export market. It also faces huge consumption demands from its growing population at home.The Islamic republic supplies several billion cubic metres of gas to Turkey annually and has signed a preliminary deal with Ankara for exporting gas into Europe, a move bitterly criticised by the United States.Supplies to Turkey have on occasion been hit by wrangling about price and quality, the high demand in Iran as well as sporadic attacks on the pipeline blamed on Kurdish militants.The gas deal is the latest example of the expanding cooperation between Iran and Syria, one of the very few Arab nations to back Tehran during its 1980-1988 war with Iraq.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran's Vice President Parviz Davoudi had earlier this year unveiled a joint car factory outside Damascus to produce 10,000 units of the new Sham car every year.
The two ministers meanwhile also spoke about constructing an oil refinery with a refining capacity of 140,000 barrels a day in Syria in cooperation with Iran and its chief Latin American ally Venezuela.
Russian dissident: Country effectively controlled by new KGB Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com October 4, 2007
A Russian-born author and political activist says virtually every aspect of Russian life is controlled by what used to be known as the KGB.Yuri Felshtinski was born in the Soviet Union. However, he and fellow dissident Alexander Litvinenko managed to escape to the West -- Felshtinski to the United States and Litvinenko to Great Britain. During 2001 and 2002 they collaborated on a book that would eventually be published with the title, Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror.Felshtinski says at the time no one wanted to accept what the book purported, that the dreaded KGB under the new name Federal Security Bureau (FSB) effectively controlled the country. Basically everybody who holds a significant position in Russia now belonged to KGB during the previous period of their lives, he says. Between 70 and 80 percent of major political and government positions, both on the regional level and on central level, are taken by the FSB. So they do control the country.
He says that back in 2000-2001 people did not see it this way, indeed. Now he states that it has become obvious how the government and FSB control everything in Russia -- from the economy, to all political activity, to all major TV channels and all major newspapers.Felshtinski says he is convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the FSB were not happy with the revelations of the book, and were responsible for the radioactive poisoning that took the life of Litvinenko on November 1, 2006.
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Russia warns of arms war in space: report
Wed Oct 3, 2007 3:35pm EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military space commander vowed to retaliate with an arms race if any country started putting weapon systems into orbit, he said in remarks published on Wednesday.We need to have strong rules about space, to avoid its militarization and if any country will place a weapon in space, then our response will be the same, Space Forces Commander Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin told the newspaper Trud.Popovkin's remarks were the latest in a series of increasingly assertive statements from the Russian military, which is alarmed at what it sees as a growing hardware imbalance with the West.Stung by NATO expansion up to Russia's borders, President Vladimir Putin has given notice that Russia intends to pull out of a treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe.Tensions between Russia and Washington have deepened over U.S. plans to rekindle the stalled Star Wars program from the 1980s with a new generation of missile defense shields.
Popovkin said no country had the right to declare itself the master of space, so strike forces shouldn't be deployed there.He avoided naming names but his comments follow growing friction over space between Moscow, Washington and Beijing. Earlier this year China tested an anti-satellite missile and the U.S. has been developing weapons which can hit satellites.Russia has more than 60 military and dual-purpose satellites in orbit for communications and intelligence, Popovkin said.Russia's space forces have responsibility for military and dual-use spacecraft launch as well as helping defend the country from hostile intercontinental missile attacks.Although the forces were left blind in some areas after the break-up of the Soviet Union, they were now reorganized, Popovkin said.In 2009, we'll begin testing a new generation satellite. Already, Russia can detect any ballistic missile being launched from earth towards Russia, he said.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 5, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
I want to share with you today news about an exciting new initiative from The Fellowship. Journey to Zion is a unique, weekly half-hour television teaching program that began airing nationwide last weekend. It is my hope that this show will help Christians grow in their faith as they learn about the Jewish roots of Christianity, and strengthen Christian-Jewish relations by teaching Christians about Jewish history, traditions, and culture. If the overwhelmingly positive response we received from the first airing of the show is an accurate indication of results, we are well on our way to making a significant difference in the lives of people across the country.We’ve tried hard to make Journey to Zion an educational, engaging, and spiritually uplifting experience. In each show, I teach before a live studio audience on a subject related to Jewish faith and observance and the Jewish roots of Christianity. Journey to Zion also features segments filmed on location in Israel, audience question and answer sessions, and explorations of current and historic events related to Israel and the Jewish people. Most shows also include a live performance of traditional Jewish music!
I encourage you to visit our website to learn more about Journey to Zion. There, you can find a station running the show in your area, and even view episodes online following their network broadcast. Please visit today and don’t forget to spread the word about Journey to Zion by using the forward to a friend feature on the page.My friends, we are living in exciting times. Christians and Jews are coming together in a spirit of cooperation and understanding that I have not seen in my lifetime. At the same time, Christians are rediscovering the Jewish roots of their faith. Our new television program is part of this coming together of God’s people, and I hope you’ll be a part of it! Please join us every week as we Journey to Zion.
LOOK UNDER LINKS RIGHT AFTER 7 YR TREATY AT BEGGINING OF LINKS TO SEE.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
David's Comment: Shalom, Shalom Jerusalem
Psalm 122:7 Shalom Shalom Jerusalem, peace be to you
When Messiah comes to take us May His peace be found in you
OUT OF ZION MINISTRY
Josie and I spent 3 days in Jerusalem to savour the celebration of Succot or the Feast of Tabernacles. We arrived on Friday in the midst of an incredible traffic jam caused by the combination of the last few hours of shopping time before the Sabbath, thousands of visitors who had driven up to be in Jerusalem for Succot. and 80,000 mourners attending the funeral of a famous 96 year old rabbi. As we attempted to drive to our hotel in East Jerusalem (which is still mainly populated by Muslim Arabs) the chaos was added to by the fact that it was Ramadan. The driving was even more hair-raising than usual in Israel. Then there was the incident of the very large, freaked out police horse charging out of control along the footpath, posing a danger to the humans in its path. Just another day in the City of the King !
As the Sabbath came in later that afternoon, the city became much more quiet and still until Saturday evening, when multitudes of cars, buses and people hit the streets once again. As frustrating and annoying as the hectic pace of Jerusalem can be, there is something about this city, like no other city. On Sunday night we attended the ICEJ Feast of Tabernacles evening celebration. One of the performers was a famous Israeli tenor, Dudu Fisher. He is an orthodox Jew with a passion for the God of Israel and for the nation of Israel, and of course for Jerusalem. Near the climax of his inspiring performance he began to talk about Jerusalem. He said there is no city like it. Other famous cities have had one song written about them, or perhaps 2 songs, maybe a few have had even 3 songs. But Jerusalem has had hundreds if not thousands of songs written about her.
Jerusalem has also endured a 3000 year history of grief, death and destruction. The City where Yeshua laid down His life for you and me, has been destroyed and raised more than 20 times. Millions have died in her streets over the last 3000 years. And many more may yet meet their end there, as the whole world is about to come against this extremely controversial city in a desparate bid to bring peace to the Middle East. Politicians are tripped up over her and much of the focus of the world's media is on Jerusalem.
Most people in the world today probably wish that Jerusalem did not exist - it would make the world a more simple and much better place to live - or so they think. And much of the professing Church of Yeshua ha Machiach either dont give care about Jerusalem or think the same as the secular world. But last nite in the Jerusalem Convention Centre, I saw 7000 Christians with a different spirit. I saw 7000 people from almost every nation, worshipping the God of Israel and His Son, only 1 or 2 kms from where He is about to set up His Holy Throne, from where the Lion of the Tribe of Judah will rule and reign for 1000 years. I saw the joy, and I saw the tears, as many peoples emotions ran high, seeing their dream of being in the City of the King come to pass. For everyone there, it was a Heavenly moment.
As each year passes, more and more Christians are having a personal Holy Spirit inspired revelation of the relevance of the restoration of Israel in 1948, and the re-unification of Jerusalem in 1967. The 7000 at the ICEJ celebration this year are only a small representation of Christians from their respective nations. For each one at the Feast this year, there are probably hundreds or even thousands who would be there if they could afford the airfare. If you ask any of the 7000 what it was like to be in the City of the King, their face will light up and they will say things like I feel I am home or this is the most awesome experience of my life or something similar.
Every Bible believing Christian should feel the same as these 7000. An unbiased reading of the Word cannot but impart to the reader that Son of God, Yeshua the Messiah is returning to Jerusalem to set up His Father's eternal Kingdom there in the undivided capital city of Israel. And that fact should cause everyone who is looking forward t doo His return, as we are told to do in 2 Peter 3:12, to be a non-compromising Zionist and as much a lover of Jerusalem as the 7000 who are rejoicing in at the Feast of Tabernacles this week. How can we not love Israel, Jerusalem and the Jewish people - because YHVH and Yeshua do, and because our future and destiny is in that city, and with the Jewish people. When not rejoicing, every Christian should be praying for Israel, Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
Alas, that is far from the situation today. So many Christians simply aren't interested and many even oppose the Jewish right to call Jerusalem their capital city. Most of the Christians who dont have a revelation of the strategic relevance of Israel to the re-establishment of YHVH's Kingdom are missing out on the most exciting, faith inspiring events, since the resurrection of Yeshua. Please remember to pray for pastors, leaders and all others who need to have this blindness lifted from them, so that one day they will find themselves standing in the Holy City singing ....
Shalom Shalom Jerusalem, peace be to you
When Messiah comes to take us May His peace be found in you
PLEASE NOTE: Make sure your local church is participating in the international Day of Prayer on October 7th. The Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem is NOT a single location event but rather a worldwide celebration with local churches and individual believers remembering to pray for Jerusalem in their Sunday services. While there will be a Jerusalem Celebration carried live on GOD TV around the world, the real thrust of the initiative is on the local level.
Please be sure that your church is participating! Resources, posters and prayer cards for your local church are available at http://www.daytopray.com/
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
Doubts Greet Evangelical Christians in Israel
Morning Edition: October 4, 2007
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
This week, Israelis have a close and sometimes uncomfortable look at some of their most important backers. Thousands of evangelical Christians are visiting to show support for the Jewish state.
NPR's Linda Gradstein explains why some Israelis are concerned.
(Soundbite of music)
LINDA GRADSTEIN: Waving flags, singing and dancing, thousands of evangelical Christian pilgrims in colorful costumes thronged the streets of Jerusalem this week. They marched as part of the city's traditional parade for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Although Israel's chief rabbis ruled that Jews should not attend the events, most of those watching said they either hadn't heard of the ruling or didn't care. Wearing large Styrofoam cowboy hats and beaming with joy, Sandy and Greg Cassee from Amarillo, Texas said this was their first visit to Israel.
Ms. SANDY CASSEE (Tourist): It's been a spiritual journey. This has been a quest. And to meet God's chosen people, to see where it all happened in the Bible to be here, and to be here with them and to praise and worship with them. Awesome.
GRADSTEIN: The Cassees are among the growing number of devout Protestants, many of them Americans, who fervently support Israel. For many Israelis, more used to sharp criticism of their country because of its occupation of the West Bank, this support is welcome. It's also lucrative. Over the past 20 years, evangelical Christians have contributed billions of dollars to Israel. They have given money directly to many of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, building synagogues, schools and playgrounds there. This week's events included visits to the settlements. Leon Ferguson, an African-American from New York, wore a white skullcap and Jewish prayer shawl to the march, describing himself as a gentile with a Jewish heart. He was close to tears as he contemplated the possibility of an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Mr. LEON FERGUSON (Tourist): The true and living God wants his people to be in an undivided Israel, undivided Jerusalem, and there should be no more give-backs. Every time we give back the land of Israel, something happens in the United States. Katrina followed the give-back of the Gaza.
GRADSTEIN: The fervor of these evangelicals worries many Israelis. Mina Fenton, a Jerusalem city councilwoman from the National Religious Party, says missionary activity has increased in recent years. But she says she is even more disturbed by the theology of many of the evangelical Christians who are waiting for the second coming of Christ.
Ms. MINA FENTON (City Councilwoman, Jerusalem, Israel): Everything is linked with the belief in their messiah. And they want, ultimately, any one of them, when you speak more than 10 minutes - after the support - the economical support and the political support - they say what their aim is: The Jewish people have to convert.
GRADSTEIN: Spokesmen for the organizers of this week's march, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, say that while spreading the gospel is part of the evangelical Christian faith, it is clearly discouraged here.
Gershom Gorenberg, who has written a book on Christian fundamentalism called The End of Days, says that many evangelical Christians do want Jews to convert to Christianity.
Mr. GERSHOM GORENBERG (Author, The End of Days): That vision is one in which the Jews eventually disappear. And if you say that at the end of days in the perfected world there aren't going to be any Jews, then what you're saying is that right now you don't accept the legitimacy of Judaism.
GRADSTEIN: But for the Christian pilgrims visiting Israel, and for the Israelis who came to greet them, the Christian economic and political support now is more important than any vague theological future. Linda Gradstein, NPR News, Jerusalem. 2007 National Public Radio®.
Oct 4, 2007 8:40 AM
The European Union's border-free zone will be extended to nine additional member states on December 21, the bloc's Portuguese Presidency said.From that date, people travelling from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will be able to travel to the existing 15 states of the Schengen border-free zone without having to show their passports, a presidency spokeswoman said.They will open on December 21, she said. All the nine borders will be opened. The nine countries all joined the European Union in 2004.EU ministers will officially endorse the move next month, the spokeswoman said.
Thirteen EU countries, plus Norway and Iceland, are currently part of the border-free zone. Britain and Ireland have chosen not to be part of it.Cyprus, which also joined the EU in 2004, has asked for one year's delay. Romania and Bulgaria, which became EU members only this year, need to do more work to meet security criteria.
Spain, European Commission President express confidence in EU reform treaty October 02, 2007
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday expressed confidence in the reform treaty of the 25-nation bloc ahead of an Intergovernment Conference slated to be held later this month in Lisbon.Both said at their Madrid meeting that they were confident the Intergovernment Conference would swiftly approve a final text for the EU reform, at its Oct. 18-19 session.According to a statement by the Spanish Communications Ministry, the two reviewed the timetable for the EU reform, which still awaits ratification by all its member states.In 2005, French and Dutch voters rejected the EU constitution treaty in referendums, fearing their countries would lose too much power. The EU leaders agreed in June to abandon the idea and replace it with a less ambitious reform treaty.
Zapatero and Barroso also discussed the creation of a single market for energy and the development of a European Border Agency (Frontex).Earlier this month, the commission unveiled a proposal that would force European energy generators to give up their pipelines and transmission networks as a step toward uniting the continent's patchwork of gas and electric systems.Spain urges more money for Frontex aimed at intensifying patrolling in the Mediterranean to deter illegal migrants from north Africa.EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel said in April that he expected the number of African refugees in EU countries to drop this year below 30,000, a record level reached in 2006. Source: Xinhua
Jerusalem: Idea Raised of 2 Capitals
Thursday, Oct. 04, 2007 By AP/BARRY SCHWEID Article
(WASHINGTON) — Five former State Department and Pentagon officials are proposing Israeli and Palestinian capitals in Jerusalem and excluding Arab refugees from returning to Israel as part of an Middle East accord. In a six-page policy statement submitted to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they also suggested a series of peace conferences following the one she hopes to convene next month, probably in Annapolis, Md. The militant Hamas group, which controls Gaza and about one-third of Palestinian-held land, has not met U.S. terms for attending. Those conditions are recognizing Israel's right to exist and abandoning violence against the Jewish state. But the ex-officials suggested Hamas might be drawn to attend a second conference, which implicitly would accept the first one and Israel's existence. They called the role of Hamas the most difficult issue in peacemaking. Jerusalem's future and that of Palestinian refugees have snarled past U.S. peace efforts. Former President Clinton's mediation efforts between the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak envisioned sharing of Jerusalem.
Clinton ruled out requiring Israel to take in most Palestinians or their families who claimed to have been forced out of Israel during creation of the Jewish state in 1947-8. It will be very difficult, but not impossible, said Robert Pelletreau, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and ex-assistant secretary of state for the region. There is a little bit of momentum starting to build with talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a mediator, he said in a telephone interview. Along with announcement of the conference, he said, you have several things that can reinforce each other if they are framed properly.The refugee issue is the most difficult, he said. And Jerusalem is right up with it.Edward S. Walker, a former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, said Hamas was the most difficult issue. Unless Hamas changes its stripes there is no way to deal with them on the current situation, he said in an interview.
But, Walker added, a lot of things that appear to be impossible now might well become possible if there is hope that a true and real peace can be established.The policy paper was prepared by Israel Policy Forum, a nonpartisan American group that promotes sustained U.S. diplomacy to end the conflict between Israel and its neighbors. Next month's conference should reaffirm that the goal is two independent and sovereign states, with borders roughly along the lines that separated Israel from the Arabs before the 1967 Middle East war, the statement said. It also called for a just solution to refugee questions that recognizes the suffering and the plight of the Palestinian refugees. They would be permitted to move only to the new Palestinian state, with compensation from Israel, the Palestinian state and other nations.
Besides Pelletreau and Walker, the former U.S. diplomats included Thomas Pickering, an ex-undersecretary of state and ambassador to Israel and Jordan; Samuel Lewis, former ambassador to Israel; and Frederic C. Hof, Mideast official in the Pentagon. The report was written and coordinated primarily by Steven L. Spiegel, political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rice has been meeting with former U.S. negotiators and ex-American diplomats, and has not replied to the policy paper, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday.
Iran summons French envoy over nuclear remarks by Farhad Pouladi Wed Oct 3, 8:58 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday summoned a top French diplomat to protest at remarks by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner suggesting Tehran could be seeking the atomic bomb, state media reported.
French charge d'affaires Jean Graebling was summoned... to the foreign ministry to receive the protest and hear of the Islamic republic of Iran's dissatisfaction with France's recent positions and its negative tone, according to a ministry statement carried on state television's website.Since the election of President Nicolas Sarkozy, France has considerably toughened its position towards Iran, and called for new sanctions to oblige Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme.Kouchner -- who caused a stir last month by saying the world must prepare for war with Iran -- told Europe 1 radio on Tuesday that nothing is more dangerous than the situation in Iran.
The Iranians must stop enriching uranium, because what they are doing encourages the experts to think they are possibly moving towards the atomic bomb and not the civil nuclear power to which they have absolute right.It is absolutely vital to have peace, he said. I did not call for war, I called for peace.Iran noted that France's stance was despite Tehran last month agreeing a timetable with the International Atomic Energy Agency for it to answer outstanding questions about its nuclear activities.Tehran said it was also strongly protesting at France's push for another UN Security resolution and encouraging European nations to impose additional sanctions on Iran, according to the foreign ministry statement.OPEC member Iran vehemently rejects charges it is seeking a nuclear weapon, saying the atomic drive is aimed solely at generating electricity for a growing population.Major world powers have agreed to wait for November reports by IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana before deciding whether to push for a third round of sanctions against Tehran.The Security Council has already passed two resolutions imposing sanctions over Tehran's refusal to heed ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment, a process which creates nuclear fuel but can be diverted to make the core of an atomic bomb.
ElBaradei said in an interview with the Financial Times on Wednesday that Iran must provide key details on its programme by late November or its unwillingness to work with the international community will backfire.He said the two key issues that required clarification had to do with Iran's research capabilities and its nuclear weaponisation capacity.I've told the Iranians: This is your litmus test. You committed yourself to come clean. If you don't, nobody will be able to come to your support.Iran's foreign ministry had also lashed out at France's stance last month, saying Paris was mimicking hawkish US policy and was being more American than the White House itself.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that France's attitude could hurt its economic interests in the country, with major companies including oil giant Total as well as carmakers Renault and Peugeot doing business in Iran.
The Sarkozy presidency has said it wants European firms not to bid for new business in Iran and for financial institutions to scale back investments, in drive to pressure Iran parallel to UN sanctions moves.Total had agreed in 2006 a major deal to exploit phase 11 of Iran's giant South Pars gas field to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export but is still yet to execute the project. Iran has bluntly warned it will go ahead with Iranian firms alone if the deal is not swiftly implemented.
Iran-Syria sign billion dollar gas deal Thu Oct 4, 8:30 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Fellow US foes Iran and Syria have signed an agreement for Tehran to export a billion dollars worth of gas every year to its chief regional ally, Iranian state television reported on Thursday. Iranian caretaker Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari and Syrian counterpart Sufian Allaw signed the memorandum of understanding in Tehran that will see Iran exporting three billion cubic metres (105 billion cubic feet) of natural gas annually to Syria.The agreement is the latest sign of the expanding political and economic ties between the two allies, which are both accused by the United States of fomenting the violence in Iraq, allegations that both deny.With the signing of these agreements, experts will start work to define the transit cost and examine the other aspects of the contract, said Nozari.
State television said that the exports are set to start in 2009 and will be worth one billion dollars to Iran annually.Nozari said the gas would be supplied to Syria via its northern neighbour Turkey, which already receives Iranian gas through a pipeline linking the northern city of Tabriz and Ankara.Iran has the world's second largest gas reserves after Russia but until now has remained a relatively minor player in the global export market. It also faces huge consumption demands from its growing population at home.The Islamic republic supplies several billion cubic metres of gas to Turkey annually and has signed a preliminary deal with Ankara for exporting gas into Europe, a move bitterly criticised by the United States.Supplies to Turkey have on occasion been hit by wrangling about price and quality, the high demand in Iran as well as sporadic attacks on the pipeline blamed on Kurdish militants.The gas deal is the latest example of the expanding cooperation between Iran and Syria, one of the very few Arab nations to back Tehran during its 1980-1988 war with Iraq.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran's Vice President Parviz Davoudi had earlier this year unveiled a joint car factory outside Damascus to produce 10,000 units of the new Sham car every year.
The two ministers meanwhile also spoke about constructing an oil refinery with a refining capacity of 140,000 barrels a day in Syria in cooperation with Iran and its chief Latin American ally Venezuela.
Russian dissident: Country effectively controlled by new KGB Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com October 4, 2007
A Russian-born author and political activist says virtually every aspect of Russian life is controlled by what used to be known as the KGB.Yuri Felshtinski was born in the Soviet Union. However, he and fellow dissident Alexander Litvinenko managed to escape to the West -- Felshtinski to the United States and Litvinenko to Great Britain. During 2001 and 2002 they collaborated on a book that would eventually be published with the title, Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror.Felshtinski says at the time no one wanted to accept what the book purported, that the dreaded KGB under the new name Federal Security Bureau (FSB) effectively controlled the country. Basically everybody who holds a significant position in Russia now belonged to KGB during the previous period of their lives, he says. Between 70 and 80 percent of major political and government positions, both on the regional level and on central level, are taken by the FSB. So they do control the country.
He says that back in 2000-2001 people did not see it this way, indeed. Now he states that it has become obvious how the government and FSB control everything in Russia -- from the economy, to all political activity, to all major TV channels and all major newspapers.Felshtinski says he is convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the FSB were not happy with the revelations of the book, and were responsible for the radioactive poisoning that took the life of Litvinenko on November 1, 2006.
American Family News Network.
Russia warns of arms war in space: report
Wed Oct 3, 2007 3:35pm EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military space commander vowed to retaliate with an arms race if any country started putting weapon systems into orbit, he said in remarks published on Wednesday.We need to have strong rules about space, to avoid its militarization and if any country will place a weapon in space, then our response will be the same, Space Forces Commander Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin told the newspaper Trud.Popovkin's remarks were the latest in a series of increasingly assertive statements from the Russian military, which is alarmed at what it sees as a growing hardware imbalance with the West.Stung by NATO expansion up to Russia's borders, President Vladimir Putin has given notice that Russia intends to pull out of a treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe.Tensions between Russia and Washington have deepened over U.S. plans to rekindle the stalled Star Wars program from the 1980s with a new generation of missile defense shields.
Popovkin said no country had the right to declare itself the master of space, so strike forces shouldn't be deployed there.He avoided naming names but his comments follow growing friction over space between Moscow, Washington and Beijing. Earlier this year China tested an anti-satellite missile and the U.S. has been developing weapons which can hit satellites.Russia has more than 60 military and dual-purpose satellites in orbit for communications and intelligence, Popovkin said.Russia's space forces have responsibility for military and dual-use spacecraft launch as well as helping defend the country from hostile intercontinental missile attacks.Although the forces were left blind in some areas after the break-up of the Soviet Union, they were now reorganized, Popovkin said.In 2009, we'll begin testing a new generation satellite. Already, Russia can detect any ballistic missile being launched from earth towards Russia, he said.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
October 5, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
I want to share with you today news about an exciting new initiative from The Fellowship. Journey to Zion is a unique, weekly half-hour television teaching program that began airing nationwide last weekend. It is my hope that this show will help Christians grow in their faith as they learn about the Jewish roots of Christianity, and strengthen Christian-Jewish relations by teaching Christians about Jewish history, traditions, and culture. If the overwhelmingly positive response we received from the first airing of the show is an accurate indication of results, we are well on our way to making a significant difference in the lives of people across the country.We’ve tried hard to make Journey to Zion an educational, engaging, and spiritually uplifting experience. In each show, I teach before a live studio audience on a subject related to Jewish faith and observance and the Jewish roots of Christianity. Journey to Zion also features segments filmed on location in Israel, audience question and answer sessions, and explorations of current and historic events related to Israel and the Jewish people. Most shows also include a live performance of traditional Jewish music!
I encourage you to visit our website to learn more about Journey to Zion. There, you can find a station running the show in your area, and even view episodes online following their network broadcast. Please visit today and don’t forget to spread the word about Journey to Zion by using the forward to a friend feature on the page.My friends, we are living in exciting times. Christians and Jews are coming together in a spirit of cooperation and understanding that I have not seen in my lifetime. At the same time, Christians are rediscovering the Jewish roots of their faith. Our new television program is part of this coming together of God’s people, and I hope you’ll be a part of it! Please join us every week as we Journey to Zion.
LOOK UNDER LINKS RIGHT AFTER 7 YR TREATY AT BEGGINING OF LINKS TO SEE.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
David's Comment: Shalom, Shalom Jerusalem
Psalm 122:7 Shalom Shalom Jerusalem, peace be to you
When Messiah comes to take us May His peace be found in you
OUT OF ZION MINISTRY
Josie and I spent 3 days in Jerusalem to savour the celebration of Succot or the Feast of Tabernacles. We arrived on Friday in the midst of an incredible traffic jam caused by the combination of the last few hours of shopping time before the Sabbath, thousands of visitors who had driven up to be in Jerusalem for Succot. and 80,000 mourners attending the funeral of a famous 96 year old rabbi. As we attempted to drive to our hotel in East Jerusalem (which is still mainly populated by Muslim Arabs) the chaos was added to by the fact that it was Ramadan. The driving was even more hair-raising than usual in Israel. Then there was the incident of the very large, freaked out police horse charging out of control along the footpath, posing a danger to the humans in its path. Just another day in the City of the King !
As the Sabbath came in later that afternoon, the city became much more quiet and still until Saturday evening, when multitudes of cars, buses and people hit the streets once again. As frustrating and annoying as the hectic pace of Jerusalem can be, there is something about this city, like no other city. On Sunday night we attended the ICEJ Feast of Tabernacles evening celebration. One of the performers was a famous Israeli tenor, Dudu Fisher. He is an orthodox Jew with a passion for the God of Israel and for the nation of Israel, and of course for Jerusalem. Near the climax of his inspiring performance he began to talk about Jerusalem. He said there is no city like it. Other famous cities have had one song written about them, or perhaps 2 songs, maybe a few have had even 3 songs. But Jerusalem has had hundreds if not thousands of songs written about her.
Jerusalem has also endured a 3000 year history of grief, death and destruction. The City where Yeshua laid down His life for you and me, has been destroyed and raised more than 20 times. Millions have died in her streets over the last 3000 years. And many more may yet meet their end there, as the whole world is about to come against this extremely controversial city in a desparate bid to bring peace to the Middle East. Politicians are tripped up over her and much of the focus of the world's media is on Jerusalem.
Most people in the world today probably wish that Jerusalem did not exist - it would make the world a more simple and much better place to live - or so they think. And much of the professing Church of Yeshua ha Machiach either dont give care about Jerusalem or think the same as the secular world. But last nite in the Jerusalem Convention Centre, I saw 7000 Christians with a different spirit. I saw 7000 people from almost every nation, worshipping the God of Israel and His Son, only 1 or 2 kms from where He is about to set up His Holy Throne, from where the Lion of the Tribe of Judah will rule and reign for 1000 years. I saw the joy, and I saw the tears, as many peoples emotions ran high, seeing their dream of being in the City of the King come to pass. For everyone there, it was a Heavenly moment.
As each year passes, more and more Christians are having a personal Holy Spirit inspired revelation of the relevance of the restoration of Israel in 1948, and the re-unification of Jerusalem in 1967. The 7000 at the ICEJ celebration this year are only a small representation of Christians from their respective nations. For each one at the Feast this year, there are probably hundreds or even thousands who would be there if they could afford the airfare. If you ask any of the 7000 what it was like to be in the City of the King, their face will light up and they will say things like I feel I am home or this is the most awesome experience of my life or something similar.
Every Bible believing Christian should feel the same as these 7000. An unbiased reading of the Word cannot but impart to the reader that Son of God, Yeshua the Messiah is returning to Jerusalem to set up His Father's eternal Kingdom there in the undivided capital city of Israel. And that fact should cause everyone who is looking forward t doo His return, as we are told to do in 2 Peter 3:12, to be a non-compromising Zionist and as much a lover of Jerusalem as the 7000 who are rejoicing in at the Feast of Tabernacles this week. How can we not love Israel, Jerusalem and the Jewish people - because YHVH and Yeshua do, and because our future and destiny is in that city, and with the Jewish people. When not rejoicing, every Christian should be praying for Israel, Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
Alas, that is far from the situation today. So many Christians simply aren't interested and many even oppose the Jewish right to call Jerusalem their capital city. Most of the Christians who dont have a revelation of the strategic relevance of Israel to the re-establishment of YHVH's Kingdom are missing out on the most exciting, faith inspiring events, since the resurrection of Yeshua. Please remember to pray for pastors, leaders and all others who need to have this blindness lifted from them, so that one day they will find themselves standing in the Holy City singing ....
Shalom Shalom Jerusalem, peace be to you
When Messiah comes to take us May His peace be found in you
PLEASE NOTE: Make sure your local church is participating in the international Day of Prayer on October 7th. The Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem is NOT a single location event but rather a worldwide celebration with local churches and individual believers remembering to pray for Jerusalem in their Sunday services. While there will be a Jerusalem Celebration carried live on GOD TV around the world, the real thrust of the initiative is on the local level.
Please be sure that your church is participating! Resources, posters and prayer cards for your local church are available at http://www.daytopray.com/
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
Doubts Greet Evangelical Christians in Israel
Morning Edition: October 4, 2007
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
This week, Israelis have a close and sometimes uncomfortable look at some of their most important backers. Thousands of evangelical Christians are visiting to show support for the Jewish state.
NPR's Linda Gradstein explains why some Israelis are concerned.
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LINDA GRADSTEIN: Waving flags, singing and dancing, thousands of evangelical Christian pilgrims in colorful costumes thronged the streets of Jerusalem this week. They marched as part of the city's traditional parade for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Although Israel's chief rabbis ruled that Jews should not attend the events, most of those watching said they either hadn't heard of the ruling or didn't care. Wearing large Styrofoam cowboy hats and beaming with joy, Sandy and Greg Cassee from Amarillo, Texas said this was their first visit to Israel.
Ms. SANDY CASSEE (Tourist): It's been a spiritual journey. This has been a quest. And to meet God's chosen people, to see where it all happened in the Bible to be here, and to be here with them and to praise and worship with them. Awesome.
GRADSTEIN: The Cassees are among the growing number of devout Protestants, many of them Americans, who fervently support Israel. For many Israelis, more used to sharp criticism of their country because of its occupation of the West Bank, this support is welcome. It's also lucrative. Over the past 20 years, evangelical Christians have contributed billions of dollars to Israel. They have given money directly to many of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, building synagogues, schools and playgrounds there. This week's events included visits to the settlements. Leon Ferguson, an African-American from New York, wore a white skullcap and Jewish prayer shawl to the march, describing himself as a gentile with a Jewish heart. He was close to tears as he contemplated the possibility of an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Mr. LEON FERGUSON (Tourist): The true and living God wants his people to be in an undivided Israel, undivided Jerusalem, and there should be no more give-backs. Every time we give back the land of Israel, something happens in the United States. Katrina followed the give-back of the Gaza.
GRADSTEIN: The fervor of these evangelicals worries many Israelis. Mina Fenton, a Jerusalem city councilwoman from the National Religious Party, says missionary activity has increased in recent years. But she says she is even more disturbed by the theology of many of the evangelical Christians who are waiting for the second coming of Christ.
Ms. MINA FENTON (City Councilwoman, Jerusalem, Israel): Everything is linked with the belief in their messiah. And they want, ultimately, any one of them, when you speak more than 10 minutes - after the support - the economical support and the political support - they say what their aim is: The Jewish people have to convert.
GRADSTEIN: Spokesmen for the organizers of this week's march, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, say that while spreading the gospel is part of the evangelical Christian faith, it is clearly discouraged here.
Gershom Gorenberg, who has written a book on Christian fundamentalism called The End of Days, says that many evangelical Christians do want Jews to convert to Christianity.
Mr. GERSHOM GORENBERG (Author, The End of Days): That vision is one in which the Jews eventually disappear. And if you say that at the end of days in the perfected world there aren't going to be any Jews, then what you're saying is that right now you don't accept the legitimacy of Judaism.
GRADSTEIN: But for the Christian pilgrims visiting Israel, and for the Israelis who came to greet them, the Christian economic and political support now is more important than any vague theological future. Linda Gradstein, NPR News, Jerusalem. 2007 National Public Radio®.
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