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

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

Sunday, September 14, 2008

AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE IKE

I HAVE GOT A GREAT AMERICAN TO VOTE FOR IN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY IN STEAD OF OBAMA OR MCCAIN.

HIS NAME IS DAVID JON SPONHEIM. HE HAS A BLOGTV SITE CALLED AMERICASTHIRDPARTY.
http://www.blogtv.com/People/AmericasThirdParty

I WAS IN HIS SITE LAST NIGHT AND ASKED HIM SOME QUESTONS.

I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT WOULD HE DIVIDE JERUSALEM. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT, AND SAID HE WOULD GET OUT OF THE PEACE PROCESS ALTOGETHER. THIS IS THE MAN AMERICA NEEDS AS THEIR PRESIDENT, HE WOULD LET THE EUROPEAN UNION CONTROL THE PEACE PROCESS.

HE ALSO SAID HE WOULD WORK CLOSELY WITH NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION TO PROTECT AMERICA.

I SAID TO HIM I BELIEVE THE NEXT WARS WILL BE FOUGHT OVER WATER INSTEAD OF OIL, HE AGREES TOTALLY, HE WOULD HAVE FRESH WATER PIPELINES FROM THE SINAI TO THE GAZA STRIP. AND ALL OVER AMERICA.

HES INTO OTHER ENERGY SOURSES THEN OIL ALSO. I ALSO SAID IF HE WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT HE SHOULD FIRE EVERY MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT AND BRING IN CONSERVATIVES INSTEAD. AND ABOUT THE JUDGES I SAID HE SHOULD CAN ALL THE LIBERAL JUDGES AND PUT CONSERVATIVES IN. HE SAID THAT AMERICA DOES HAVE TOO MANY LIBERAL JUDGES MAKING BAD LAWS AGAINST THE PEOPLE.

AMERICA I PUT MY SUPPORT FOR DAVID JON SPONHEIM OF THE AmericasThirdParty AND I WOULD SUGGEST USE DO TO FOR ISRAEL AND AMERICAS SAKE.

HES ON BLOGTV EVERY NIGHT NOW TILL THE ELECTIONS, GO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS HE GETS TO THE MEAT OF HIS ANSWERS UNLIKE THE 2 CURRENT CANDIDATES. HERES HIS SITE TO GO TO, WE (AMERICA)NEEDS DAVID AS PRESIDENT OF THE USA. GOVERNMENT.
http://www.blogtv.com/People/AmericasThirdParty

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.

Weakened Ike moves on after battering Gulf coast By Chris Baltimore
SEPT 14,08 10:45 AM UPDATE

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Rescuers made their way through piles of debris and water-filled streets in Texas seaside towns on Sunday after Hurricane Ike flooded hundreds of miles of U.S. coastline, cut power to millions and pummeled the oil hub of Houston.

A weakened Ike pushed northward after slamming into the Texas coast as a giant Category 2 hurricane on Saturday, leaving extensive devastation in its wake.

Officials have barely begun to assess the damage, which early estimates put in the billions of dollars. There were no confirmed reports of deaths from the hurricane.

Ike, which idled a quarter of U.S. crude oil production and refining capacity, swamped the island city of Galveston and hammered Houston, the fourth most populous U.S. city.The sea wall protecting the coastal barrier island of Galveston, where Ike crashed ashore, was piled high with the detritus of wrecked buildings, boats and other debris.Wreckage and floodwaters have hampered rescuers attempt to search all 32 miles of Galveston, where about 10,000 people ignored a mandatory evacuation order.

Heavy rains falling across Houston on Sunday threatened more flooding, which could impede search and rescue efforts.In Houston, 50 miles inland, Ike shattered the windows of skyscrapers, showering streets with glass and debris, tore apart bus shelters and ripped metal sheets off buildings.Officials on Sunday extended a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for Houston, citing lack of electricity and downed power lines. Some 30 people have been arrested for looting, police said.This hurricane has caused devastation across areas of Texas and Louisiana, David Paulison, administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Saturday.According to an early computer-model estimate of damage by the insurance industry, Ike could lead to $8 billion to $18 billion in claims. Federal and state officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, are set to tour storm-damaged areas on Sunday.

U.S. President George W. Bush will visit Texas to view the devastation on Tuesday.

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About 2 million people evacuated before Ike made landfall early on Saturday. Officials urged residents to stay away for now, but many have returned to survey the damage despite widespread power outages and gasoline shortages.About 4.5 million people could face weeks of power outages.David Smith, mayor of Friendswood in Galveston County, urged residents not to come back to stay until electricity was restored. Resources are stretched. There's no power.Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday noted very heavy damage to the power grid.In Beaumont, Texas, authorities said damage was so extensive that it could be more than a month before power is restored. The storm weakened to a tropical depression early on Sunday as it moved across western Arkansas, heading north on a path expected to bring heavy rains over an area stretching as far as Canada. The vital Houston Ship Channel was not hit as hard as expected by a storm surge that could have swamped refineries. Ike triggered the biggest disruption to U.S. energy supplies in at least three years and sent gasoline prices higher at the pumps. Oil traders will have a chance to react during an electronic trading session on Sunday. Ike was bigger than Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, but its impact was not as devastating. Chertoff said at least 940 people had been rescued, but he had no confirmation of any storm-related deaths.

(Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor, Eileen O'Grady, Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols in Texas; Carey Gillam in Kansas City; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Millions without power in Texas after Hurricane Ike
Anna Driver Chris Baltimore And Anna Driver SEPT 13,08 10:15 UPDATE

CNN HOUSTON (Reuters) – Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas and Louisiana coast on Saturday with ferocious winds and a wall of water that flooded hundreds of miles, cut power to millions and caused billions of dollars in damage.But relieved officials and residents said Ike may not have caused the catastrophe they had feared in the densely populated region.The storm, which idled about a quarter of U.S. crude oil production and fuel refining capacity, swamped the island city of Galveston and paralyzed Houston, the country's fourth-largest city, shattering skyscraper windows and showering streets with debris.There were unconfirmed reports of a few deaths from Ike, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. He cited significant surges -- high seas pushed ashore by hurricanes -- and damage in Texas and Louisiana.

But Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel were not hit as hard as expected. Emergency officials had predicted a 20-foot (six-meter) storm surge that could have caused far greater damage and swamped refineries.Fortunately the worst case scenario that was spoken about, that was projected in some areas, did not occur, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a briefing in Austin. But he said there had been very heavy damage to the power grid. About 4.5 million people could face weeks of power outages.Ike came ashore at Galveston as a strong Category 2 storm early on Saturday with heavy rains and sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), the National Hurricane Center said.

It had weakened to a tropical storm by mid-afternoon as it barreled northward on a path expected to bring heavy rains across a swath of the country stretching to Canada.The storm flooded Galveston, sending waves over a 17-foot (5-metre) sea wall built to protect the city after a 1900 hurricane killed at least 8,000 people.More than half the city's 60,000 residents fled before the storm. There were no reports yet of any deaths among those who stayed behind.It was not clear how bad the damage was in Galveston, but the first aerial pictures showed homes surrounded by sea water.

FRANTIC RESCUE CALLS

In Bridge City, a small community along the upper Texas coast, frantic calls for rescue overwhelmed emergency workers.We just received one call from a guy in his attic and the water is rising and he can't get out, said Orange County spokeswoman Jill Frillou. There were a lot of people that did not leave and just did not expect water to come that high.Chertoff refused to say whether he expected the death toll to rise. If someone stayed in an area predicted to be largely flooded, they put their lives at risk, he said.Ike triggered the biggest disruption to U.S. energy supplies in at least three years and sent gasoline prices higher at the pumps.Oil refineries along the western shore of Galveston Bay and Port Arthur may have been spared the worst of the flooding, said Brad Penisson, a spokesman for the joint operations of southeast Texas emergency management agencies.At NASA's Johnson Space Center, there was no major flooding but a portion of the Mission Control Center roof was damaged. All systems supporting the International Space Station continue to function normally, the agency said. Ike could lead to $8 billion to $18 billion in insurance claims, according to an early insurance industry computer-modeled estimate of damage. Ike was the biggest storm to hit a U.S. city since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Houston is home to 2.2 million people and a metropolitan area of 5.6 million residents. Unlike much of the United States, it has a booming economy thanks to demand for energy. Officials there could hardly conceal their relief although most of the city lacked power and clean water. It's been miraculous in many ways, said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. The truth of the matter is, we have survived.But authorities were cautious about early confidence over the limited damage, especially after the Katrina experience, when levees broke under the floodwaters long after the storm. President George W. Bush, who was strongly criticized for the slow federal response to Katrina, declared a major disaster in his native Texas and in Louisiana, and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in the storm area. Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said 17 buildings had collapsed on Galveston Island, the downtown was flooded and the causeway linking the island to the mainland had buckled. Ike also flooded coastal communities and forced rescuers out to save stranded residents in parts of Louisiana. (Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor in League City; Eileen O'Grady, Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols in Houston and Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Richard Cowan and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Jessica Rinaldi in Galveston, and Lilla Zuill and Richard Valdmanis in New York; Writing by Patricia Zengerle; editing by Mary Milliken and Chris Wilson)

By air, boat and truck, search on for Ike victims By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and PAULINE ARRILLAGA, Associated Press Writers SEPT 13,08 7:20 PM UPDATE

HOUSTON - Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks set out across the flood-stricken Texas coast Saturday in a monumental effort to reach tens of thousands of people who stubbornly ignored warnings of certain death and tried to ride out Hurricane Ike. The storm roared ashore hours before daybreak with 110 mph winds and towering waves, smashing houses, flooding thousands of homes, blowing out windows in Houston's skyscrapers, and cutting off power to more than 3 million people, perhaps for weeks.By evening, it appeared that Ike was not the single calamitous stroke that forecasters had feared. But the full extent of the damage — or even a rough sense of how many people may have perished — was still unclear, in part because many roads were impassable.Some authorities feared that this could instead become a slow-motion disaster, with thousands of victims trapped in their homes, waiting for days to be rescued.We will be doing this probably for the next week or more. We hope it doesn't turn into a recovery, said Sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Marlow in Orange County, where more than 300 people had to be rescued from flooded homes. He said that was only a drop in the bucket compared with the number still stranded.By some estimates, more than 140,000 of the 1 million or so people who had been ordered to evacuate the coast as Ike drew near may have tried to tough it out. Many of them evidently realized the mistake too late, and pleaded with authorities in vain to save them overnight.Ronnie Sharp, 65, and his terrier-mix Princess, had to be rescued from his trailer in Orange County when water reached his knees. I was getting too many snakes in the house, otherwise I would have stayed, Sharp said. He said he lost everything in the flood but his medicine and some cigarettes.After the storm had passed, National Guardsmen, members of the Coast Guard, FEMA representatives and state and local law enforcement authorities mobilized for what Gov. Rick Perry pronounced the largest search-and-rescue operation in the history of the state of Texas.Some emergency officials were angry and frustrated that so many people ignored the warnings.

When you stay behind in the face of a warning, not only do you jeopardize yourself, you put the first responders at risk as well, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. Now we're going to see this play out.Steve LeBlanc, Galveston's city manager, said: There was a mandatory evacuation, and people didn't leave, and that is very frustrating because now we are having to deal with everybody who did not heed the order. This is why we do it, and they had enough time to get out.Because Ike was so huge — some 500 miles across, making it nearly as big as Texas itself — hurricane winds pounded the coast for hours before and after the storm's center came ashore. Ike soon weakened to a tropical storm as it made its way inland, but continued to pound the state with 60 mph winds and rain.Officials were encouraged to learn that the storm surge topped out at only 15 feet — far lower than the catastrophic 20-to-25 foot wall of water forecasters had feared.Preliminary industry estimates put the damage at at least $8 billion.Damage to the nation's biggest complex of refineries and petrochemical plants appeared to be slight, but gasoline prices shot up for fear that the supply would be interrupted by power outages and the time necessary to restart a refinery. In some parts of the country, gas prices surged briefly to $5 a gallon.As the day wore on, hundreds of people were rescued from their flooded-out homes, in many cases by emergency crews that had to make their way through high water and streets blocked by peeled-away roofs, wayward yachts and uprooted trees.But the day was already half over before the winds died down enough for authorities to begin the rescue, and the search was almost certain to be suspended before dark because of the dangers posed by downed power lines and flooded roads. A portion of hard-hit Galveston had yet to be examined.The storm, which killed more than 80 in the Caribbean before reaching the U.S., was blamed for at least two lives in Texas. A woman was killed in her sleep when a tree fell on her home near Pinehurst. A 19-year-old man slipped off a jetty near Corpus Christi and was apparently washed away. Louisiana officials said a 16-year-old boy drowned Saturday after falling out of a fishing boat in Ike-flooded Bayou Dularge. Lisa Lee spent hours on the roof of her Bridge City home with her husband, John, her 16-year-old brother, William Robinson, and their two dogs. They dove into 8-foot floodwaters and swam to safety after a sheriff's deputy arrived in a truck and drove as close to their home as he could. Their dogs paddled to safety behind them.

It was like a dream, said William Robinson, while his sister shivered in a blanket at a shelter set up at a Baptist church in Orange. A convoy of search-and-rescue teams from Texas and California drove into Galveston — where the storm came ashore at 3:10 a.m. EDT — after bulldozers cleared away mountains of debris. Interstate 45, the only road onto the island, was littered with large overturned yachts, dead pelicans and twisted debris from homes and docks. Homes and other buildings in Galveston and homes burned unattended during the height of Ike's fury; 17 collapsed because crews couldn't get to them to douse the flames. There was no water or electricity on the island, and the main hospital, the University of Texas Medical Branch, flew critically ill patients to other medical center. Sedonia Owen, 75, and her son, Lindy McKissick, stayed to shoo off looters. She was armed with a shotgun, watching floodwaters recede from her front porch. My neighbors told me, You've got my permission. Anybody who goes into my house, you can shoot them, Owen said.

President Bush declared a major disaster in his home state of Texas and ordered immediate federal aid. In downtown Houston, shattered glass rained down on the streets below the JPMorgan Chase Tower, the state's tallest building at 75 stories. Trees were uprooted in the streets, road signs mangled by wind. I think we're like at ground zero, said Mauricio Diaz, 36, as he walked along Texas Avenue across the street from the Chase building. Metal blinds from the tower dotted the street, along with red seat cushions, pieces of a wood desk and office documents marked highly confidential.Southwest Louisiana was spared a direct hit, but Ike's surge of water penetrated some 30 miles inland, flooding thousands of homes, breaching levees and soaking areas still recovering from Labor Day's Hurricane Gustav. Officials said the flooding was worse than it was during 2005's Hurricane Rita, which hit the Louisiana-Texas line. But there was good news: A stranded freighter with 22 men aboard made it through the storm safely, and a tugboat was on the way to save them. And an evacuee from Calhoun County gave birth to a girl in the restroom of a shelter with the aid of an expert in geriatric psychiatry who delivered his first baby in two decades.

In Surfside Beach, retired carpenter and former Marine Ray Wilkinson became something of a celebrity for a day: He was the lone resident in the town of 805 to defy the order to leave. Authorities found him Saturday morning, drunk. I consider myself to be stupid, Wilkinson, 67, said through a thick, tobacco-stained beard. I'm just tired of running from these things. If it's going to get you, it's going to get you.He added: I didn't say I had all my marbles, OK? Pauline Arrillaga reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Juan A. Lozano in Galveston, Jay Root in Austin, Michael Kunzelman in Orange, Brian Skoloff in West Palm Beach, Fla., April Castro, Mark Williams and Andre Coe in College Station, and Allen G. Breed in Surfside Beach contributed to this report.

Ike Now a Tropical Storm But Still Potent Tim Ballisty SEPT 13,08 7:20 PM UPDATE

Hurricane Ike Ike made landfall at 2:10 a.m. CDT at Galveston, Texas, with maximum sustained winds near 110 miles per hour. Its minimum pressure was 951.6 millibars, reported by the barometer at the Galveston Pleasure Pier when the center passed overhead. As of 4 p.m. CDT, Ike was located 105 miles SW of Texarkana, Arkansas, with maximum sustained winds at 45 mph. It was downgraded to a tropical storm at 2 p.m. It is heading north at 18 mph with a turn to the north-northeast expected later today. Ike was a hurricane for 9 days and 21 hours. View the weather.com. You can follow along with the latest news and stats concerning Hurricane Ike weather.com.

Typhoon slams into Taiwan, at least two missing SEPT 14,08

TAIPEI (AFP) - A powerful typhoon pounded Taiwan on Sunday with fierce winds and torrential rains, leaving at least two people missing and 17 others injured, officials said. Traffic was severely disrupted as Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall in northeastern Ilan county early Sunday, packing winds of up to 173 kilometres (107 miles) per hour, the Central Weather Bureau said.TV reports said two small cars carrying an unknown number of people had been washed away by a river after a bridge collapsed in central Taiwan.Hundreds of domestic and international flights have been cancelled on the island, and around 500 passengers were stranded in Kinmen airport, a Taiwan-controlled offshore island near the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen.

Traffic on 20 highways was interrupted by landslides caused by heavy rains, which have accumulated to up to 1,000 millimetres (40 inches) in some remote mountainous areas over the weekend.Power and telephone services were also disrupted to nearly 100,000 households as trees were uprooted by the strong winds.Some 250 residents in northern mountain villages were evacuated to safety, said the National Fire Agency which coordinates Taiwan's rescue missions.The typhoon lost momentum after making landfall but weather forecasters warned residents that heavy rain would continue.The typhoon kept losing force over the past three hours, said a weather bureau official. It packed gusts of 119 kilometres (71.4 miles) per hour, down from 124 kilometres recorded earlier in the day.However, people must not relax their vigilance as the typhoon is expected to spark more rains in the day to come, he said.A worker was washed away by flash floods while fixing a power system in the central Nantou county. A 69-year-old farmer was reported missing in the central Changhua county when visiting his paddy field, the National Fire Agency said.Seventeen people were injured, including two hit by debris, while four were hurt when their bus crashed in southern Taiwan, it said.At 1000 GMT, the centre of the typhoon was 40 kilometres west of the northern city of Keelung. With a radius of 250 kilometres, Typhoon Sinlaku was moving northeast towards Japan.On the southeastern coast of mainland China, more than 170,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying coastal regions in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.Sinlaku evoked painful memories of Typhoon Nari, which hit Taiwan in September 2001, leaving 94 people dead and causing severe flooding.Two tropical storms pounded the island in July, leaving at least 22 people dead and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to agriculture.

Typhoon hits Taiwan, causing landslides Sat Sep 13, 5:25 AM ET

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A typhoon pounded Taiwan on Saturday, bringing torrential rains and triggering landslides in the central and northern part of the island, the national fire agency said. One person was reported injured. At 3 a.m. EDT, typhoon Sinlaku was 90 km (55 miles) east of Ilan on the northeast coast, packing winds of up to 209 kph (130 mph), the island's Central Weather Bureau and local media reported.Schools and offices in the capital, Taipei, were ordered closed on Saturday. Surrounding areas have faced strong weather warnings since late Friday.

Television images showed heavy seas and pouring rain in a coastal part of Hualien, where some trees had been uprooted. Most flights at the island's airports have also been cancelled.Up to now, we just know one person was injured and we also see some landslides but repair works are under way, an official at the agency told Reuters.

The category 3 storm was expected to blanket the island before moving on towards Japan, possibly gathering strength, the Central News Agency and the forecasting website Tropical Storm Risk (www.tropicalstormrisk.com) said.The Xinhua news agency, meanwhile, said Sinlaku was expected to make landfall in eastern China on Sunday morning, battering the coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang.Taiwan government officials advised people staying away from schools and workplaces to avoid flying debris. The weather bureau said people should stay away from beaches and mudslide-prone mountains.Sinlaku will be the fourth typhoon to hit Taiwan this year. On July 18, typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 20 people and caused extensive flooding, landslides and crop damage in the south and central part of the island.Across the Taiwan Strait, heavy rains were forecast in northeastern Fujian and central and eastern parts of Zhejiang over the next two days. In parts of Zhejiang the rain could be torrential, Xinhua said.Typhoons regularly reach China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan from August until the end of the year, gathering strength from the warm waters of the Pacific or the South China Sea before weakening over land.
(Reporting by Ralph Jennings and Baker Li; editing by Matthew Jones and Roger Crabb)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU U.S. to guarantee Palestinian state Letter meant to bind Israel, PA, next administration in Washington September 11, 2008 11:40 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – The U.S. is planning to issue a letter guaranteeing the country will back agreements reached during current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state before President Bush leaves office in January, WND has learned.The move is intended to ensure any agreements reached by the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority, and spelled out in a joint document, will be recognized by the next U.S. administration and binding for Israel and the PA.The information comes as Jacob Walles, the U.S. consul-general, stated in an interview with a major Palestinian newspaper yesterday that Israel and the PA agreed to negotiate Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley area leading to the Dead Sea.In response to the report, the State Department issued a statement claiming the U.S. government has not taken a position on the borders of a future Palestinian state and denying Jerusalem is being discussed.But Israeli and Palestinian sources intimately familiar with the current talks tell WND Jerusalem is being negotiated, with Palestinian officials claiming the talks are in advance stages.The sources also said the U.S. recently floated a plan to divide Jerusalem.According to informed Israeli and Palestinian sources, officials from the State Department this year presented both negotiating sides with several proposals for consideration regarding the future status of Jerusalem. It was unclear whether the U.S. proposals were accepted.One U.S. plan for Jerusalem obtained by WND was divided into timed phases and, among other things, called for Israel eventually to consider forfeiting parts of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.

According to the first stage of the U.S. proposal, Israel initially would give the PA some municipal and security sovereignty over key Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. The PA would be allowed to open some official institutions in Jerusalem, could elect a mayor for the Palestinian side of the city and would deploy some kind of so-called basic security force to maintain law and order. The specifics of the force were not detailed in the plan.The initial stage also calls for the PA to operate Jerusalem municipal institutions, such as offices to oversee trash collection and maintenance of roads.After five years, if both sides keep specific commitments called for in a larger principal agreement, according to the U.S. plan, the PA would be given full sovereignty over agreed-upon eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods and discussions would be held regarding an arrangement for the Temple Mount. The plan doesn't specify which parts of the Temple Mount could be forfeited to the Palestinians or whether an international force may be involved.The PA also could deploy official security forces in Jerusalem separate from a non-defined basic force after the five-year period and also could open major governmental institutions, such as a president's office, and offices for the finance and foreign ministries.The U.S. plan leaves Israel and the PA to negotiate which Jerusalem neighborhoods would become Palestinian.According to top diplomatic sources, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who visited the region last month, pressed Israel to sign a document by the end of the year that would include Jerusalem by offering the Palestinians a state in Israel's capital city as well as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The Israeli team rather would conclude an agreement on paper by the end of the year that would give the Palestinians a state in the West Bank, Gaza and some Israeli territory, leaving conclusions on Jerusalem for a later date, the informed diplomatic sources told WND.The sources said the Palestinian team has been pushing to conclude a deal by January on all core issues, including Jerusalem, and has been petitioning the U.S. to pressure Israel into signing an agreement on paper that offers the Palestinians eastern Jerusalem.Rice, the sources said, has asked Israeli leaders to bend to what the U.S. refers to as a compromise position, concluding an Israeli-Palestinian agreement by the end of the year that guarantees sections of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. But Israel would not be required to withdraw from Jerusalem for a period of one to five years.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Mass U.S. student protest against Palestinian state Organizers frustrated with Jewish groups failing to mount any opposition September 11, 2008 8:40 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – A grassroots coalition of U.S. Jewish students is planning a nationwide protest next week against the Israeli government's ongoing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority – talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state, at least on paper, before President Bush leaves office in January.The demonstration, scheduled for Sept. 18, also opposes what organizers state is the failure of mainstream American Jewish groups, including Orthodox-oriented organizations, to mount any opposition to the Israeli government's negotiations and its purported willingness to forfeit strategic territory.The religious Jewish establishment will not speak out about the planned division of the land of Israel. They are remaining silent just as they did three years ago, before the Gaza retreat, Yosef Rabin, director of the United Jewish Student Council, told WND.Rabin's group has sent flyers to U.S. Jewish schools calling for students to protest on the 18th, starting 10 minutes before the first class, comprising the first lesson of the day.The suggested format of the protest includes reading of Psalms and other prayers for Israel. Demonstrators are urged to invite the local media and bring cameras and video recorders to later post the protests on YouTube.Rabin said so far students and parents in Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Ohio have signed onto the protest and are working to organize students from their schools.Israel has been negotiating with the PA in line with talks initiated at last November's U.S.-backed Annapolis summit.Media reports say Israel is willing to cede the majority of the strategic West Bank to the Palestinians and that the Jewish state is negotiating Jerusalem.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied Jerusalem is up for negotiation. But Israeli and Palestinian sources intimately familiar with the current talks tell WND Jerusalem is being negotiated, with Palestinian officials claiming the talks are in advance stages.

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.(TRADE 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).

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Brussels in frightening grab for personal information .Civil liberties and privacy are being eroded at a breathtaking rate by European Union governments, according to a report. By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor 1:13AM BST 11 Sep 2008

Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch criticised the EU's post-9/11 security strategy as a frightening grab for every aspect of individual information.The 60-page report - published on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington - said that the EU now saw data privacy and judicial scrutiny of police surveillance tactics as obstacles to efficient law enforcement co-operation, rather than rights to be safeguarded.The report, The Shape Of Things To Come, described a so-called EU Future Group preparing a new five-year security strategy as shadowy.

It said that plans to co-operate with the US on extremely controversial techniques and technologies of surveillance and enhanced co-operation.The group is accused of trying to harness a digital tsunami to aid law enforcement.The Statewatch report quotes an EU Council of Ministers document on justice and security which declared: Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record.This will generate a wealth of information for public security organisations, and create huge opportunities for more effective and productive public security efforts.The report responds: The implications of this statement are breath-taking. Across the EU, governments have, or are, adopting national laws for the mandatory retention of everyone's communications data - all forms of communication (phone calls, faxes, mobile calls including locations) which will be extended to keeping a record of all internet usage from 2009 - even though few are aware this is happening.This allows law enforcement and security agencies to get access to all traffic data - in the UK access is already automated.The report goes on: When traffic data including internet usage is combined with other data held by the state or gathered from non-state sources (tax, employment, bank details, credit card usage, biometrics, criminal record, health record, use of e-government services, travel history etc) a frightening detailed picture of each individual's everyday life and habits can be accessed at the click of a button.

The report adds: The harnessing of the digital tsunami by public security organisations means that expected behaviour can be assessed by machines on the basis of which directions are given to state officials on the spot.Statewatch says that, ever since 9/11, Washington has got its way on security policy to the detriment of privacy and protection data about EU citizens.Statewatch director Tony Bunyan said: EU standards have been by-passed or undermined and the USA has steadfastly refused to offer Europeans the equivalent level of privacy protection to US citizens.On plans for the EU and Washington to now develop even closer co-operation across the entire justice and security policy area, he said: It is hard to think of a greater danger to our privacy and civil liberties.He called for a meaningful debate about the direction of EU justice and security policy, but warned: "There is now only a slim chance that the political elites in the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, national governments, the law enforcement agencies and the multinationals will change course - they have already invested too much to allow a meaningful public debate to take place.Mr Bunyan said: The national and European states require unfettered powers to access and gather masses of personal data on the everyday life of everyone in order so that we can all be safe and secure from perceived threats.But how are we to be safe from the state itself, from its uses and abuses of the data they hold on us?

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

WILL GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS SPELL END OF DOLLAR
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Ike may push gas prices close to $4 By JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS, AP Business Writers SEPT 13,08

HOUSTON - Hurricane Ike created a wave of price spikes at gas stations across the country Saturday. Fears that the massive storm would cut off supply lent to wide disparities in prices state by state, and even block by block.Ike, coming two weeks after Hurricane Gustav, struck the Texas coast, a region thick with oil refineries that produce millions of gallons of gasoline for the country.The storm shut down 14 Texas refineries with a total capacity of 3.8 million barrels of crude a day.Gas prices soared as high as $4.99 in Knoxville, Tenn., sparking a run on gasoline stations.One of our local gasoline chains called a local TV station Thursday, sometime during the day and said, We're running out of gas. We're going up 80 cents a gallon, said Sharon Cawood, an account executive. It caused a major scare in Knoxville.By the time it hit 6 o'clock news and 11 o'clock news it was like snow was falling and milk and bread were flying off the shelves. There were lines at the gas station.The average cost for a gallon of gas nationwide could head back toward all-time highs of $4-per-gallon, reached over the summer when oil prices neared $150 a barrel.In the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, gasoline jumped from $3.55 early in the week to $3.79. Gasoline at Chicago-area stations was closing in on $4.50.Geoff Sundstrom, AAA's fuel price analyst in Orlando, Fla., said Ike has disrupted supply at the wholesale level in the Gulf Coast, where prices struck $4.85 a gallon Friday.

A number of state's were taking action to prevent price gouging.

There were 186 gouging complaints in Florida by Saturday, according to the Attorney General's Office. There were reports of gas as high as $5.50 a gallon in Tallahassee, said spokeswoman Sandi Copes.Refineries may remain shut-in for days, even if there was no serious wind damage or flooding, as workers must go though extensive procedures to restart the massive complexes.The reality is, we're facing a temporary shortage in wholesale gasoline, Sundstrom said.Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and high wind. Thousands of homes and government buildings are flooded, roads are washed out, and power outages were at 2.6 million customers from Houston into Louisiana.Ike was about twice the size of Hurricane Gustav, which rammed into the Louisiana shore two weeks ago. The last refinery shut down by Gustav restarted Thursday.The storm surge was less severe than what had been predicted. Wilson Shaffer, chief of the National Weather Service's evaluation division, said Saturday morning that the highest surge so far was seen at Sabine Pass in Texas, at about 13.5 feet, according to tidal gauges.

Forecasters had predicted a surge of up to 25 feet, which would have been the highest in recorded history in Texas, above 1961's Hurricane Carla, a storm that brought a 22-foot wall of water, with some 15 feet rushing inland up shipping channels. The Sabine Pipe Line, a crucial natural gas conduit, has been shut down, according to the CME Group, parent of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The CME made a finding of force Majeure for all remaining delivery obligations for September natural gas contracts. Refineries along the upper Texas Gulf Coast account for about one-fifth of the nation's refining capacity. Exxon Mobil's refinery in Baytown, outside Houston, is the nation's largest. Valero's refineries at Houston, Texas City and Port Arthur remain shut down, and all three have lost power. The company said it was unable to provide a damage assessment. Valero's other Gulf Coast refineries remain in operation at planned rates. The U.S. Minerals Management Service said there were two confirmed reports of drilling rigs adrift in the central Gulf of Mexico. Spokeswoman Eileen Angelico said Saturday the unidentified rigs are about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. She said her agency, industry experts and the Coast Guard are monitoring the paths of the rigs. Regional director Lars Herbst said the rigs have been relatively stationary for several hours. He says they expect tugs to approach to secure the rigs when sea conditions allow. Retail prices for gas may not reach as high as wholesale, with anti-gouging laws in some stakes kicking into effect, Sundstrom said.

In other instances, gas stations have long-term price contracts with oil companies. There could be instances where gas stations on the same street have big disparities in price because of the price they paid for fuel, he said. You may find stations that are out of gasoline, not because it's not available, but because they don't want to pay the price, he said. At a Sunoco station in Arlington, Va., Friday night, gas was selling for $3.55 a gallon while a BP station a block away had gas for $3.75 a gallon. Sundstrom said the increase in prices may be for just a short time. Prices also spiked after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Shell said supplies at Shell stations and terminals is adequate throughout Texas, and that extra tanker trucks have been called in from other areas to make sure motorists have adequate supplies after the storm. Ben Brockwell, director of data, pricing and information services for the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J., said prices could climb sharply in the Gulf Coast region — 50 cents a gallon perhaps — if wholesale prices remain at inflated levels for a sustained period. That question still needs to be resolved, he said. This is panic-buying in advance of a storm that we don't know what's going to do.With the storm still pounding southeast Texas, oil refiners were expected to get an idea of any damage they may have sustained later Saturday. CenterPoint Energy, the main utility in Houston, reported 1.3 million outages Saturday. There were 219,000 customers without power in Louisiana. Entergy reported more than 60,000 customer outages remaining from Gustav in plus an additional 129,360 customers without power due to Ike for a total of 189,946. Approximately 29,000 additional customers are reported without power across other Louisiana utilities and cooperatives. These numbers are expected to climb. Royal Dutch Shell said it would fly over its facilities in the Gulf Saturday or Sunday to assess damage, particularly at its 39,000-ton Auger platform because of its proximity to Ike. The Auger platform is 3,280 feet above the sea floor, and is one of five such platforms for Shell in the deep Gulf waters. Auger was designed to simultaneously withstand hurricane force waves of 71 feet and winds of 140 mph. Exxon Mobil said it had been unable to access damages because of the storm. Mark Williams reported from Bryan, Texas. Associated Press writer Brian Skoloff in West Palm Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Wild elephants kill six people in Nepal: police Sat Sep 13, 10:23 AM

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) - At least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by wild elephants in the last two days, police said Saturday.Five people were trampled to death overnight while one was killed on Friday morning in the villages of Saptari and neighbouring Siraha districts, police officer Bhoj Narayan Shrestha told AFP.Police said three wild elephants entered the villages from the jungles bordering India and attacked people as they slept.We believe the elephants come inside Nepal from (neighbouring) India. They disappear inside the jungle during the day and come to attack villagers at night, Shrestha said.The officer said a team of police had been mobilised to chase away the elephants, which are protected as an endangered species under Nepali law.Shrinking forests and encroachment on elephant territory has forced the animals to stray into human settlements looking for food, often resulting in attacks, experts say.

Palin says war with Russia could be NATO option
VALENTINA POP 12.09.2008 @ 09:29 CET

US Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has backed Georgia's NATO membership in a television interview, while leaving open the option of war with Russia if it were to attack a NATO ally.In an interview with ABC News, Ms Palin was asked whether the United States would have to go to war with Russia if it invaded Georgia, and the country was part of NATO, Ms Palin said: Perhaps so.Republican vice-presidential candiate Sarah Palin has outlined her hawkish views on Russia and the Caucasus (Photo: Republican National Convention and Reflections Photography)I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally - if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help, she explained in her first television interview since becoming Republican John McCain's running mate two weeks ago.Ms Palin, currently governor of Alaska, said she supported NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia - a move Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin strongly opposes. It was America's responsibility to be vigilant against a larger power invading smaller democracies, she said, while stressing: We will not repeat a Cold War.

NATO-Georgia Commission on Monday

Georgia is currently a NATO partner, but was not granted a Membership Action Plan (MAP) - as official membership candidate status is termed - at this year's NATO summit in Bucharest. However, following the Russian invasion, NATO decided on 19 August to establish a new NATO-Georgia Commission, which will inaugurate its work in Tbilisi on Monday with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and ambassadors from the 26 Alliance's member states. We won't supply arms to the Georgians, but we will help them develop their own military potential," NATO spokesperson James Appathurai said, Gazeta Wyborcza reports, adding that the ambassadors will fly there using a Polish government plane.

Russian threats against Europe

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday (11 September) in Sochi that tensions between Russia and the EU may well worsen if the planned US missile defense shield is deployed in Poland, threatening yet once more to point Russian missiles at European targets. On the same day, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met his Polish counterpart in Warsaw, saying that Poland is not a threat to Russia, but we can't ignore the fact it's an integral part of the US strategic system.Mr Putin fiercely defended Russia's invasion of Georgia, accusing the West of anti-Russian hysteria and saying that if this military operation had not been carried out, it would have been like Russia getting a bloody nose and hanging its head down.Russia wanted a constructive relationship with the European Union, but only if the new realities were taken into account, he said.Mr Putin accused the Bush administration of not doing anything about stopping the conflict, a feeling he got when speaking to the US president at the Olympic Games in China and which prompted him to send tanks into Georgia.In Beijing, he had already raised the question of Russia recognising Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent territories with the Chinese government, and told them Russia did not expect Chinese support, which suggests Moscow was already planning to recognise the two enclaves, the BBC reports. Putin also made clear that Russia could easily have occupied the Georgian capital and toppled its president, Mikhail Saakashvili, despite earlier claims of the Russian army being close to the Georgian capital as an exaggeration in the Western media. Our forces were 15 kilometres from Tbilisi. It would have taken four hours to capture Tbilisi. We didn't have that goal, he said.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Israel releases terrorist ... terrorist threatens U.S.American embassy and citizens are not secure.September 13, 2008 6:25 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

Samir Kuntar

JERUSALEM – A convicted child-killing terrorist recently freed by Israel in a controversial prisoner exchange deal yesterday issued a threat against the U.S.If there will be an Israeli attack against Lebanon in the future, American citizens and the American embassy in Lebanon will not be secure, said Samir Kuntar, who led a protest yesterday outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut.Kuntar was release in July along with four other Lebanese convicts in a deal with the Hezbollah terror group that saw the remains of two Israeli soldiers returned to Israel. He was serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison for murdering three Israelis, including smashing to death a 4-year-old girl with the butt of his rifle.In Lebanon, Kuntar now chairs the Lebanese Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, which is an organization that petitions for the international community to normalize relations with Cuba.

Kuntar organized a protest outside the U.S. embassy to petition for the release of Cuban prisoners being held in American prisons. There, he also called for solidarity with Venezuela and applauded the anti-American stances of Cuba and Venezuela.

Kuntar's rally attracted only a handful of protestors. It was covered by local media outlets.His threats against the U.S. embassy in Beirut may have particular resonance for some since it was the site of a massive Islamist suicide bombing in 1983 that killed over 60 people, mostly embassy staff members and U.S. Marines and sailors. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time.On April 22, 1979, Kuntar led a group of four terrorists who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat. The four murdered a policeman who discovered them when they first entered Israeli territory.The terrorists then raided an Israeli border town, breaking into an apartment and taking hostage 28-year-old Danny Haran along with his 4-year-old daughter, Einat. The mother, Smadar Haran, was able to hide in a crawl space above the bedroom with her 2-year-old daughter, Yael, and a neighbor.Smadar accidentally smothered her daughter to death while trying to mute her cries. Kuntar shot Danny Haran to death and then beat to death Haran's daughter with his rifle.Over the years, Kuntar became a hero in Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories. His freedom was one of Hezbollah's declared goals when the group raided Israel's border in 2006, nabbing the bodies of two Israeli soldiers and prompting the Jewish state's war that year in Lebanon.

TORAH PRTION FROM SEPT 14 - 20, 2008

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 14, 2008 6PM TO 20,2008

Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy KI SAVO

DEUTORONOMY 26:01 - 29:08
Chapter 26
Verse 1: When it happens that you come to the land that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you as territory, and you inherit it and settle it;
Verse 2: You are to take of the first of all the fruits of the soil that you bring from your land, that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you, and place [it] in a basket; and go to the place that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses to house His presence there.
Verse 3: You are to come to the kohein who will be [of service] during those days and you will say to him, I ascertain today to Ad-noy, your G-d, that I have arrived in the land that Ad-noy swore to our forefathers to give us.
Verse 4: The kohein shall then take the basket from your hand, and he will place it before the altar of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 5: And you shall then proclaim and say before Ad-noy, your G-d, The Aramite destroyed my forefather, then he descended to Egypt and sojourned there with a tiny community; and there he became a great people, powerful and numerous.
Verse 6: The Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and they imposed hard labor upon us.
Verse 7: We prayed to Ad-noy, G-d of our forefathers, and Ad-noy accepted our prayer, and perceived our oppression, and our labor, and the pressure upon us.
Verse 8: And Ad-noy took us out of Egypt with a powerful hand and with an extended arm, and with great display, and with signs, and with wonders.
Verse 9: And He brought us to this place, and He gave us this land, a land flowing milk and honey.
Verse 10: And now, see! I have brought the first of the fruits of the soil that You have given me Ad-noy. And you shall then place it before Ad-noy, your G-d, and you will prostrate yourself in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 11: You shall rejoice with all the good that Ad-noy, your G-d, gave you and your household; you, the levi, and the proselyte in your midst.

Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 12: When you finish tithing all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe; and you have given to the Levi, to the proselyte, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your portals to their satisfaction;
Verse 13: You shall declare before Ad-noy, your G-d, I have divested my estate of sacred material, and I have also presented it to the Levi and also to the proselyte, the orphan, and the widow, totally according to Your command that You commanded me; I did not transgress any of Your commandments nor did I forget.
Verse 14: I did not eat of it when grieving, nor did I devour it when ritually defiled, nor did I make use of it for the dead; I have heeded the voice of Ad-noy, my G-d; I have fulfilled everything that You commanded me.
Verse 15: View, from Your sacred residence, from the heavens, and bless Your people, Yisroel and the soil which You have given us, as You swore to our forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 16: This very day, Ad-noy, your G-d, commands you to perform these statutes and the laws; you shall observe and perform them wholeheartedly and with your whole being.
Verse 17: Ad-noy, you have distinguised today to be a G-d for you and to go in His ways and to guard His statutes and His commandments and His laws, and to obey Him.
Verse 18: And Ad-noy has distinguished you today to be for Him a treasured people as He said to you, and to guard all His commandments.
Verse 19: And to place you superior to all the nations whom He made, for praise and for renown and for glory, and so that you may be a people sanctified to Ad-noy, your G-d, as He said.

Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)
Chapter 27
Verse 1: Moshe and the elders of Yisroel commanded the people the following, Keep all of the commandment that I am commanding you today.
Verse 2: When the day comes that you cross the Yardein to the land that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you, erect large stones and coat them with whitewash.
Verse 3: You are to write on them all statements of this Torah upon your crossing; in order that you come to the land that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you, a land flowing milk and honey, as promised by Ad-noy, G-d of your forefathers, to you.
Verse 4: As soon as you have crossed the Yardein, set up these stones that I am commanding you today, on Mount Eival, and coat them with whitewash.
Verse 5: Build there an altar to Ad-noy, your G-d; an altar of stones; do not lift iron upon them.
Verse 6: [Of] whole stones are you to build the altar of Ad-noy, your G-d; and you are to bring upon it burnt-offerings to Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 7: You are to slaughter peace-offerings and eat [them] there; and you are to rejoice in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 8: You are to write on the stones all the statements of this Torah, explained properly
Verse 9: Moshe and the kohanim-Levi'im addressed all of Yisroel, to say, Take heed and accept, Yisroel! [On] this day you have become a people to Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 10: You are to obey Ad-noy, your G-d, and perform His commandments and His statutes that I am commanding you today.

Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 11: Moshe commanded the people on that day, to say,
Verse 12: The following will stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim, upon your crossing the Yardein: Shimon and Levi and Yehudah, and Yisachar and Yoseif and Binyomin.
Verse 13: And the following will stand for the curse at Mount Eival: Reuvein, Gad and Asher, and Zevulun, Don and Naftoli.
Verse 14: The Levi'im are to respond and say to every man of Yisroel aloud:
Verse 15: 'Cursed is the man who makes a statue or a molten image, Ad-noy's abomination, the handiwork of a craftsman, and places [it] in a secret [place];' the entire people will respond and say, Amein.
Verse 16: Cursed is whoever reviles his father or his mother, and the entire people will say, Amein. 17.Cursed is whoever casts aside the boundary of his fellow; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 18: Cursed is whoever misleads the blind about the way; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 19: Cursed is whoever distorts justice for a convert, orphan, or widow; and entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 20: Cursed is whoever has intercourse with his father's wife, because he exposed the corner of his father['s garment]; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 21: Cursed is whoever has intercourse with any animal; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 22: Cursed is whoever has intercourse with his sister, daughter of his father or daughter of his mother; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 23: Cursed is whoever has intercourse with his father's-in-law wife; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 24: Cursed is whoever strikes his fellow in secret; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 25: Cursed is whoever accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person; and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 26: Cursed is whoever does not uphold the statements of this Torah to perform them; and the entire people will say, Amein.

Chapter 28
Verse 1: When you hearken and obey Ad-noy, your G-d, to be sure to perform all of His commandments that I am commanding you today; Ad-noy, your G-d, will place you superior to all the nations of the earth.
Verse 2: All these blessings will come upon you and will reach you, when you obey Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 3: Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field.
Verse 4: Blessed is the fruit of your belly, and the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your animals, the issue of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats.
Verse 5: Blessed will be your [fruit] basket and your solid foods.
Verse 6: You will be blessed at your arrival, and blessed at your departure.

Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 7: Ad-noy will set your enemies who rise against you smitten before you; by one road will they approach you, but by seven roads they will flee from you.
Verse 8: Ad-noy will order upon you the blessing in your storehouses and in all your commerce; and He will bless you in the land that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you.
Verse 9: Ad-noy will establish you for Himself as a holy people as He swore to you; when you will guard the commandments of Ad-noy, your G-d, and will go in His ways.
Verse 10: And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Ad-noy's Name and they will fear you.
Verse 11: Ad-noy will give you surplus as benefit in the fruit of your belly, and the offspring of your animals, and the produce of your soil; upon the land that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers to give you.
Verse 12: Ad-noy will open for you His good storehouse, the sky, to give you your land's rain on time and to bless all your endeavors; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
Verse 13: Ad-noy will place you at the head, not at the tail; and you will be solely on top, you will not be on the bottom; when you heed the commandments of Ad-noy, your G-d, that I am commanding you today to guard and to perform.
Verse 14: And you do not deviate from all the statements that I am commanding you today to the right or to the left, to follow other gods to serve them.
Verse 15: Should you not obey Ad-noy, your G-d, to guard to perform all His commandments and His statutes that I am commanding you today; then all these curses will come upon you and will reach you.
Verse 16: Cursed are you in the city and cursed are you in the field.
Verse 17: Cursed is your [fruit] basket and cursed are your solid foods.
Verse 18: Cursed is the fruit of your belly and the produce of your soil, the calves of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats.
Verse 19: Cursed are you upon your arrival and cursed are you upon your departure.
Verse 20: Ad-noy will visit upon you ruin, panic, and frustration in all the endeavors you undertake, until you are destroyed and until you are swiftly removed because of the wickedness of your deeds [in] that you forsook Me.
Verse 21: Ad-noy will attach the plague to you until He exterminates you from upon the land that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 22: Ad-noy will smite you with blistering and with searing temperature, and with raging fever, and with charchur, and with the sword, and with wind-blight, and with yellowing; and they will chase you until your annihilation.
Verse 23: And the heavens above your head will be like copper and the earth that is beneath you, iron.
Verse 24: Ad-noy will make the rain of your land into dust and soil; from the sky will it come down upon you until you are destroyed.
Verse 25: Ad-noy will set you smitten before your enemies. By one road will you go out toward them and by seven roads will you flee before them; and you will be a cause of shuddering for all the kingdoms of the earth.
Verse 26: Your corpse will be food for every bird of the sky and for the animals of the earth; with no one to scare [them].
Verse 27: Ad-noy will plague you with Egyptian boils and with hemorroids and with running and dry boils; from which you will be unable to be healed.
Verse 28: Ad-noy will plague you with insanity and with blindness, and with utter confusion.
Verse 29: You will grope at midday the way a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not succeed your ways; you will be only the victim of wrangling and robbed all the days with no savior.
Verse 30: A woman will you marry and another man will lie with her; a house will you build and will not live in it; a vineyard will you plant and will not redeem it[s fruit].
Verse 31: Your ox [will be] butchered before your eyes, and you will not eat of it; your ass [will be] robbed in your presence and will not return to you; your flocks [will be] given to your enemies, and you have no savior.
Verse 32: Your sons and your daughters [will be] given to another people while your eyes watch and pine for them all day, and your are powerless.
Verse 33: The fruit of your soil and all your toil will be eaten by a people that you do not know; and you will be solely oppressed and crushed all the time.
Verse 34: And you will become insane from the sights that you see.
Verse 35: Ad-noy will plague you with bad boils on the knees and on the legs from which you will be unable to be healed; from the sole of your foot till your skull.
Verse 36: Ad-noy will lead you and your king, whom you will set upon yourself, to a nation that neither you nor your parents knew; and there you will serve other powers, [of] wood and stone.
Verse 37: You will become an [object of] stupefaction, be cited as an example and become the subject of gossip among all the peoples to whom Ad-noy will lead you.
Verse 38: Much seed will you take out to the fields, and little will you gather because the locust will demolish it.
Verse 39: Vineyards will you plant and labor in, but wine will you not drink nor will you store because worms will consume it.
Verse 40: Olives will you have within your entire boundary, but oil will you not annoint because your olives will be discarded.
Verse 41: Sons and daughters will you bear, but you will not have them because they will go into captivity.
Verse 42: All your trees and the fruit of your soil the cicada will impoverish.
Verse 43: The non-Jew among you will rise above you higher and higher, while you descend lower and lower.
Verse 44: He will lend to you but you will not lend to him; he will be at the head, and you will be at the tail.
Verse 45: All these curses will come upon you and will chase you and reach you until you are destroyed; for you have not obeyed Ad-noy, your G-d, to guard His commandments and His statutes that He commanded you.
Verse 46: They will happen to you as a sign and a wonder, and to your descendants forever.
Verse 47: Since you did not serve Ad-noy, your G-d, with joy and goodheartedness, in total affluence.
Verse 48: You will serve your enemies whom Ad-noy sends against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and lacking everything; and he will set an iron yoke upon your neck until he destroys you.
Verse 49: Ad-noy will raise upon you a nation from afar from the end of the earth, as the eagle soars, a nation whose language you will not hear.
Verse 50: A hard-faced nation that will not show favor to the old, and will not pity the young.
Verse 51: They will consume the offspring of your animals, and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed; that will not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the calves of your cattle, or the flocks of your sheep and goats until they have you removed.
Verse 52: They will make you suffer in all your cities until mastering your ramparts and fortified walls upon which you rely throughout your land; they will make you suffer in all your cities throughout your land that Ad-noy, your G-d, has given you.
Verse 53: You will eat the flesh of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters that Ad-noy, your G-d, gave you; in the siege and in the distress that your enemy will distress you.
Verse 54: The delicate among you and the fastidious, [even] he will look askance at his brother and at the wife of his bosom and at the rest of his sons whom he will leave over.
Verse 55: From giving to any of them of the flesh of his sons that he is eating for [fear of] not leaving everything for himself; in siege and in distress that your enemy will distress you in all your cities.
Verse 56: The soft female among you and the indulged one the sole of whose foot never experienced standing on the ground out of indulgence and out of softness; her eye will begrudge the husband of her bosom, and her son and daughter.
Verse 57: And her infant who emerges from between her legs, and her children whom she bears, when she eats them for lack of everything, secretly; in siege and in distress that your enemy will distress you in your cities.
Verse 58: If you will not guard to perform all the statements of this Torah that are written in this book to fear the respected and awesome Name, of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 59: Ad-noy will strike you with prodigous blows and blows on your offspring, blows, great and dependable and illnesses harmful and dependable.
Verse 60: He will bring back for you all the Egyptian diseases which you dreaded and they will cling to you.
Verse 61: Also every illness and every plague that is not written in the book of this Torah, will Ad-noy raise up against you until you are destroyed.
Verse 62: You will remain numerically few instead of your having been like the stars in the sky, multitudinous; for you have not obeyed Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 63: It will happen that as Ad-noy rejoiced over you to benefit you and to multiply you, so will Ad-noy bring joy to others over you to remove you and to destroy you; and you will be uprooted from upon the land that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 64: Ad-noy will disperse you among all the peoples from the end of the earth to the end of the earth; and you shall serve there other gods which neither you nor your ancestors knew, wood and stone.
Verse 65: And among those nations you will not be tranquil and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; and Ad-noy will give you there a fearful heart and pining eyes and disillusioned spirit.
Verse 66: Your life will dangle before you, and you will be in fear night and day, and will have no faith in your living.
Verse 67: In the morning you will say, Would that it were evening, and in the evening you will say, Would that it were morning, from the fear in your heart that you will fear and from the sights of your eyes that you will see.
Verse 68: Ad-noy will send you back to Egypt on ships, along the route that I told you, You are not to see it again, and there you will attempt to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves and as maidservants but no one will buy.
Verse 69: These are the statements of the covenant that Ad-noy commanded Moshe to ratify with Bnei Yisroel in the land of Moav, beside the covenant that he had made with them at Choreiv.

Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Chapter 29
Verse 1: Moshe called to all of Yisroel and said to them, You have seen everything that Ad-noy did as you watched, in the land of Egypt, to Pharoah and to all his attendants and to his entire land.
Verse 2: The great miracles that you witnessed, those great signs and wonders.
Verse 3: Yet Ad-noy did not grant you a knowledgeable mind and eyes to see, and ears to hear until this day.
Verse 4: I have led you forty years in the wilderness, your garments have not worn out on you and your shoes have not worn out on your feet.
Verse 5: Bread have you not eaten, neither fresh nor aged wine have you drunk, in order that you know that I, Ad-noy, am your G-d.

Maftir
Verse 6: Then when you came to this place, Sichon, king of Cheshbon, came out--- and Og, king of Boshon--- toward us to wage war and we smote them.
Verse 7: And we took the their land and gave it as territory to the Reuvenites and to the Gaddites, and to half the tribe of the Menashians.
Verse 8: You are to guard the tenets of this covenant and fulfill them, in order that you succeed in everything that you do.

PROPHETS PORTION

ISAIAH 60:1-22
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 13:1-23
1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

LUKE 21:1-4
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

ACTS 28:17-31
17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

ROMANS 11:1-15
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Saturday, September 13, 2008

3 DEAD - 4 MILLION WITHOUT POWER SO FAR

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FIFTH ANGEL: TO DOCTOR DOCTORIAN

Then I saw the last angel flying over North and South America - all the way from the North Pole down to Argentina. From the east of the U.S.A. to California. I saw in his hand a bowl. The angel said he would pour out over these countries the judgments that were in the bowl. Then I heard the angel say, No justice anymore. No righteousness. No holiness. Idolatry. Materialism. Drunkenness. Bondage of sin. Shedding of innocent blood - millions of babies being killed before they are born. Families are broken. An adulterous generation. Sodom and Gomorrah is here. The days of Noah are here. False preachers. False prophets. Refusing of my love. Many of them have the imitation of religion, but denying the real power.

When I heard all that, I begged the angel, Can you not wait for a little while? Don't pour it. Give a chance for repentance. The angel said, Many times God has spared and has spoken, but they have not listened. His patience has come to an end. Beware, the time has come. They have loved money and pleasure more than they have loved Me. As the angel began to pour from the bowl in his hand, I saw tremendous icebergs melting. When that happened I saw floods all over Canada and North America -all the rivers flood; destruction everywhere. I heard the world market collapsing with mighty earthquakes, and New York skyscrapers were tumbling - millions dying.

I saw ships in the ocean sinking. I heard explosions all over the north country. I saw the angel pouring over Mexico and two oceans joining together- the Atlantic and the Pacific. A great part of north Brazil covered with water, the Amazon River turning into a great sea. Forests destroyed and flooded. Major cities in Brazil destroyed; earthquakes in many places. As the angel poured, great destruction took place in Chile and Argentina as never before. The whole world was shaking. Then I heard the angel say, This will happen in a very short time. I said, Can't you postpone? Don't pour these things out all over the globe. And suddenly I saw the five angels standing around the globe lifting up their hands and their wings towards heaven and saying, All glory to the Lord of heaven and earth. Now the time has come and He will glorify His Son. The earth shall be burned and destroyed. All things shall pass away. The new Heaven and New Earth shall come. God shall destroy the works of the devil forever. I shall show My power - how I will protect My children in the midst of all this destruction.

ISAIAH 13:6-7 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)

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

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.

AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND 4 MILLION WITHOUT POWER AS IKE SWAMPED TEXAS WITH 10-20 FOOT WAVES, FIERCE WIND AND RAIN. AND THE STORM IS NOT OVER YET AS OF 9:30 AM.

WELL I'D SAY GODS WORDS ARE COMING TO PASS BIGTIME. GAS EVEN WENT UP 50-60 CENTS A GALLON IN SOME PLACES OVER NIGHT.

Nearly 3M people without power as Ike hits Sat Sep 13, 4:05 AM ET 9:30 AM UPDATE

HOUSTON - Nearly 3 million people are without power in the Houston area as Hurricane Ike slams the Texas coast. It will likely be a while before electricity returns. CenterPoint Energy says it could take weeks before all the power in the nation's fourth-largest city was restored.Utility spokesman Floyd LeBlanc said 1.3 million customers — or about 2.9 million people — had lost power by the time the storm made landfall at Galveston early Saturday. Work crews were coming in Monday to restore power, and priority will be given to hospitals, fire and police departments and water and sewage treatment plants.The city's last direct hit from a hurricane came from Alicia in 1983, when 750,000 CenterPoint customers lost power. It took 16 days to restore all service.

Hurricane Ike slams Texas coast with major floods By JUAN A. LOZANO and CHRIS DUNCAN, Associated Press Writers SEPT 13 AM 9:30 AM UPDATE.

GALVESTON, Texas - Massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded orders to evacuate made futile calls for rescue. It remained unclear before daybreak how many people may have perished as the worst of Ike was passing over the Houston-Galveston area. But even before the storm had passed and daylight had arrived, damage was already considered extensive. Thousands of homes and government buildings had flooded, roads were washed out, 2.9 million people lost power and several fires burned unabated as crews could not reach them. But the biggest fear was that tens of thousands of people had defied orders to flee and would need to be rescued from submerged homes and neighborhoods.The unfortunate truth is we're going to have to go in ... and put our people in the tough situation to save people who did not choose wisely. We'll probably do the largest search and rescue operation that's ever been conducted in the state of Texas, said Andrew Barlow, spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry.Several fires were burning untended across Houston and 911 operators received about 1,250 calls in 24 hours, said Frank Michel, spokesman for Houston Mayor Bill White.Streets around the city's theater district became rushing streams and shards of glass fell from the sparkling skyscrapers that define the skyline of America's fourth-largest city. Winds were estimated to be 20-30 mph faster at the top of the steel and glass towers than at ground level.

The stubborn storm remained a Category 2 hurricane with winds topping 100 mph, but started moving away from Houston on Saturday morning. It was about 15 miles east-northeast of Houston Intercontinental Airport at 7 a.m. EDT and was expected to turn toward Arkansas later in the day.The eye of the storm powered ashore at 3:10 a.m. EDT at Galveston with 110 mph winds, just shy of a Category 3 storm. Because Ike was so huge — nearly as big as Texas itself — hurricane winds pounded the coast for hours before landfall and would continue through much of the morning, with the worst winds and rain after the center came ashore, forecasters said.For us, it was a 10, Galveston Fire Chief Mike Varela said when asked to compare Ike to earlier hurricanes like 2005's Rita. Varela said firefighters responded to about 60 rescue calls before suspending operations around 8 p.m. Friday.More than 1.3 million customers — or 2.9 million people — had lost power, and suppliers warned it could be weeks before all the service was restored. The only parts of Houston with power were downtown and the massive medical center section.Though 1 million people fled coastal communities near where the storm made landfall, authorities in four counties alone said roughly 140,000 ignored mandatory evacuation orders. Other counties were unable to provide numbers but officials were concerned many had stayed behind.We don't know what we are going to find, Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said. We hope we will find the people who are left here alive and well.As the front of the storm moved into Galveston, fire crews rescued nearly 300 people who changed their minds and fled at the last minute. Six feet of water had collected in the Galveston County Courthouse in the island's downtown, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was flooded, according to local storm reports on the National Weather Service's Web site.Even before Ike made landfall, Coast Guard helicopters had rescued 103 people in the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston Island, some from roofs and others from cars, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Ayla Stevens.Some 30 miles inland, storm surge pushing up through Galveston Bay was sending water into a neighborhood near Johnson Space Center where White, the Houston mayor, had made rounds earlier with a bullhorn trying to compel people to leave. Nearby, the popular Kemah Boardwalk at the mouth of Galveston Bay, ringed by million-dollar homes, was submerged, state officials said.Thousands of homes could be damaged, a spokesman for the mayor said, but it was too dangerous to go out to assess the neighborhood at the height of the storm.Across Houston's downtown, car alarms screeched and light poles swayed like small trees.The restaurant Brennan's of Houston, a downtown institution for more than four decades, was destroyed by flames when firefighters were thwarted by high winds. Fire officials said a restaurant worker and his young daughter were taken to a hospital in critical condition with burns over 70 percent of their bodies.

On the far east side of Houston, 34-year-old Claudia Macias was awake with her newborn and trying not to think about the trees swaying outside her doors or the wind vibrating through her windows. I don't know who's going to sleep here tonight, maybe the baby, she said. Before it came ashore, the storm was 600 miles across. Because of the hurricane's size, the state's shallow coastal waters and its largely unprotected coastline, forecasters said the biggest threat would be flooding and storm surge, with Ike expected to hurl a wall of water two stories high — 20 to 25 feet — at the coast. But there was some good news: a stranded freighter with 22 men aboard made it through the brunt of the storm safely, and a tugboat was on the way to save them. And an evacuee from Calhoun County gave birth to a baby girl in the restroom of a shelter with the aid of an expert in geriatric psychiatry who delivered his first baby in two decades. It's kind of like riding a bike, Dr. Mark Burns told the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung after he helped Ku Paw welcome her fourth child. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said more than 5.5 million prepackaged meals were being sent to the region, along with more than 230 generators and 5.6 million liters of water. At least 3,500 FEMA officials were stationed in Texas and Louisiana. If Ike is as bad as feared, the storm could travel up Galveston Bay and send a surge up the Houston Ship Channel and into the port of Houston. The port is the nation's second-busiest, and is an economically vital complex of docks, pipelines, depots and warehouses that receives automobiles, consumer products, industrial equipment and other cargo from around the world and ships out vast amounts of petrochemicals and agricultural products. The storm also could force water up the seven bayous that thread through Houston, swamping neighborhoods so flood-prone that they get inundated during ordinary rainstorms. The oil and gas industry was closely watching Ike because it was headed straight for the nation's biggest complex of refineries and petrochemical plants. Wholesale gasoline prices jumped to around $4.85 a gallon for fear of shortages. Ike is the first major hurricane to hit a U.S. metropolitan area since Katrina devastated New Orleans three years ago. For Houston, it would be the first major hurricane since Alicia in August 1983 came ashore on Galveston Island, killing 21 people and causing $2 billion in damage. Houston has since then seen a population explosion, so many of the residents now in the storm's path have never experienced the full wrath of a hurricane. On its way through the Gulf toward Texas, Ike spawned thunderstorms, shut down schools and knocked out power throughout southern Louisiana on Friday. An estimated 1,200 people were in state shelters in Monroe and Shreveport, and another 220 in medical needs shelters. In southeastern Louisiana near Houma, Ike breached levees, and flooded more than 1,800 homes. More than 160 people had to be rescued from sites of severe flooding, and Gov. Bobby Jindal said he expected those numbers to grow. In some extreme instances, residents of low-lying communities where waters continued to rise continued to refuse National Guard assistance to flee their homes, authorities said.

No deaths were officially reported, but crews expected to resume searching at daybreak near Corpus Christi for a man believed swept out to sea as Ike closed in.
Juan A. Lozano reported from Galveston. Chris Duncan reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Jim Vertuno and Jay Root in Austin, Eileen Sullivan in Washington, Schuyler Dixon and Paul Weber in Dallas, John Porretto, Monica Rhor and Pauline Arrillaga in Houston, Michael Kunzelman in Lake Charles, La., Brian Skoloff in West Palm Beach, Fla., April Castro and Andre Coe in College Station, and Allen G. Breed and video journalist Rich Matthews in Surfside Beach also contributed.

Hurricane Ike punishing Texas coast By Chris Baltimore and Anna Driver
SEPT 13,08 9:30 AM UPDATE.

HOUSTON, Sept 13 - (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike barreled into the densely populated Texas coast near Houston early on Saturday, bringing with it a wall of water and ferocious winds and rain that flooded large areas along the Gulf of Mexico and paralyzed the fourth-largest U.S. city. Ike, which has idled more than a fifth of U.S. oil production, came ashore at the barrier island city of Galveston as a strong Category 2 storm at 2:10 a.m. CDT (3:10 a.m. EDT) with 110 mph winds, the National Hurricane Center said.Ike barreled through the Gulf of Mexico for days and covered a vast area extending hundreds of miles (km) when it slammed into the Texas coast. It is the biggest storm to hit a U.S. city since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.The hurricane drove a wall of water over Galveston and submerged a 17-foot sea wall built to protect the city after a 1900 hurricane killed at least 8,000people. More than half of its 60,000 residents had fled and emergency operations were suspended through the storm.About 50 miles inland, Ike lashed downtown Houston's glass-covered skyscrapers, blowing out windows and sending debris flying through water-clogged city streets.The storm was downgraded to a Category 1 on the hurricane intensity scale at 8 a.m. CMT (9 a.m. EDT) carrying top sustained winds near 90 mph and moving north, but officials said it was too soon to assess the damage.Texas officials were waiting for a break in the weather to deploy a search and rescue operation.

We expected a major storm and our expectations unfortunately came true, said Mark Miner, a spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The weather needs to clear up a little bit to see just what the devastation was.The hurricane has shut down 17 oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the heart of the U.S. oil sector where 22 percent of fuel supplies are processed. Energy experts said it would take at least a week for the refineries to get back to normal.Houston was dark Saturday morning except for downtown and the Texas Medical Center, which are fed by underground power sources, Floyd LeBlanc of CenterPoint Energy said in an e-mail. Nearly all 2 million customers, or 4.5 million people, in the Houston-Galveston area were without power, he said.This is a huge storm that is causing a lot of damage, not only in Texas, but also in parts of Louisiana, U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday.He said the government would monitor gas prices to prevent extraordinary price increases because of Ike.(Additional reporting by Eileen O'Grady, Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols and Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Writing by Mary Milliken; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Bush: Hurricane Ike is huge storm By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
SEPT 13,08 9:30 AM UPDATE.

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Saturday that Hurricane Ike was a huge storm that had caused extensive damage in Texas and parts of Louisiana. The storm has yet to pass and I know there are people concerned about their lives, Bush said in remarks from the South Lawn of the White House after he participated in video conference with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and David Paulison, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Some people didn't evacuate when asked, Bush said about the tens of thousands of people who may have to be rescued. I've been briefed on the rescue teams there in the area. They're prepared to move as soon as weather conditions permit. Obviously, people on the ground there are sensitive to helping people and are fully prepared to do so.Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and high wind. Thousands of homes and government buildings are flooded, roads are washed out, nearly 3 million people lost power and several fires burned unabated.Though roughly 1 million people fled coastal communities, authorities in four counties alone said roughly 140,000 ignored mandatory evacuation orders and stayed behind. Other counties were unable to provide numbers but officials said they were concerned that many decided to brave deadly conditions rather than flee.Bush said that the government has suspended Environmental Protection Agency waivers on some reformulated gasoline to make it easier for foreign imports to reach the U.S. market.In the meantime, the Department of Energy and state authorities will be monitoring a gasoline crisis so consumers are not being gouged, Bush said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush says Hurricane Ike is a huge storm that has caused a lot of damage in Texas and parts of Louisiana.Bush said Saturday morning at the White House that he just had a video conference with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and disaster relief agency chief David Paulison. He says Chertoff will go to Texas when weather permits to help coordinate state, local and federal recovery efforts.The president noted that some people did not evacuate ahead of the storm even when authorities recommended it. He says rescue teams are prepared to get started once conditions are better.Bush also says officials are keeping tabs on a gasoline crisis so consumers are not gouged at the pump.

Bush lifts restrictions on imported fuel due to Ike SEPT 13,08

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush announced on Saturday restrictions on imported gasoline had been suspended in response to Hurricane Ike which had forced companies to abandon oil refineries off the coast of Texas. Last night we suspended EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) waivers on certain reformulated gasoline, which will make it easier for imports from abroad to make it into our markets, Bush told reporters outside the White House as the powerful hurricane caused flooding on the Texas coast.

SoCal train wreck death toll rises to 17 By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer SEPT 13,08

LOS ANGELES - Emergency crews found more victims early Saturday, boosting the death toll to 17, as they delicately picked apart the mangled wreckage of a commuter train that collided head-on with a freight train on the same track. More victims were feared trapped in the wrecked Metrolink commuter train. About 135 people were injured.The impact rammed the Metrolink engine backward into a passenger car, which rested on its side with the engine still inside it early Saturday, and accordioned the freight train cars. Two other Metrolink cars remained upright. Crews had to put out a fire under part of the train.It was the deadliest U.S. passenger train accident in 15 years,During the night, the teams used hydraulic jacks to keep the passenger car from falling over and other specialized rescue equipment to gently tear apart the metal.Fire Capt. Steve Ruda said the goal was to eliminate every piece of metal and gradually work down into the passenger spaces, but by midnight crews were just getting through the top deck of the double-decker train.There's human beings in there and it's going to be painstaking to get them out, Ruda said. They'll have to surgically remove them.His firefighters had never seen such carnage, he said. The crews would have to work carefully to document the incident for investigators and so relatives could identify bodies, Ruda said.Officials say there were 222 people on the Metrolink train and four Union Pacific employees aboard the freight train.The cause of the collision had not been determined.This is the worst accident I've ever seen, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. Clearly the injuries are going to mount and so are the fatalities.

Asked how the two trains ended up on the same track, Steven Kulm, a spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration: We are nowhere near having any information on that.Kulm said the federal investigation will be headed by the National Transportation Safety Board, while his agency will conduct a review of whether any federal rail safety regulations were violated.Union Pacific spokeswoman Zoe Richmond said it is common in California for freight and commuter trains to be on one track.

You see it a lot in California where commuter trains share tracks with freight trains," Richmond said, adding she couldn't speculate about the cause of the crash.

Dr. Marc Eckstein, medical director for the city Fire Department, said 135 people were taken to hospitals — about 85 of them in serious or critical condition.In the initial hours after the disaster, firefighters treated the injured at three triage areas near the wreck, and helicopters flew in and out of a nearby landing area on evacuation flights. Dazed and injured passengers sat on the ground and wandered about.Leslie Burnstein saw the crash from her home and heard screams of agony as she ran through a haze of smoke toward the wreckage. She pulled victims out one by one.

It was horrendous, said Burnstein, a psychologist. Blood was everywhere. ... I heard people yelling, screaming in pain, begging for help.Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said the Metrolink train left Union Station in downtown Los Angeles and was headed northwest to Moorpark in Ventura County. The trains collided at about 4:30 p.m. in the Chatsworth area of the San Fernando Valley, near a 500-foot-long tunnel underneath Stoney Point Park. On the north side of the tunnel, there is a siding, a length of track where one train can wait for another to pass, Tyrrell said. I do not know what caused the wreck, said Tyrrell who broke down crying and was shaking. Obviously two trains are not supposed to be on the same track at the same time.Until Friday, the worst disaster in Metrolink's history occurred on Jan. 26, 2005, in suburban Glendale when a man parked a gasoline-soaked SUV on railroad tracks. A Metrolink train struck the SUV and derailed, striking another Metrolink train traveling the other way, killing 11 people and injuring about 180 others. Juan Alvarez was convicted this year of murder for causing the crash. That was the worst U.S. rail tragedy since March 15, 1999, when an Amtrak train hit a truck and derailed near Bourbonnais, Ill., killing 11 people and injuring more than 100. The Sunset Limited was involved in the worst accident in Amtrak's 28-year history. On Sept. 22, 1993, 42 passengers and five crew members died when the train plunged off a trestle into a bayou near Mobile, Ala. The trestle had been damaged minutes earlier by a towboat. Associated Press writers Greg Risling, Denise Petski, Josh Dickey, James Beltran, John Rogers and Michael R. Blood contributed to this report.

Russians troops pack up, leave western Georgia By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer SEPT 13,08

TBILISI, Georgia - Hundreds of Russian forces packed up and withdrew from positions Saturday in western Georgia, and a Georgian official said Russia had met a deadline for a partial pullout a month after the war between the two former Soviet republics.

Russian soldiers and armored vehicles rolled out of six checkpoints and temporary bases in the Black Sea port of Poti and other areas nearby, Georgian Security Council chief Alexander Lomaia said.They have fulfilled the commitment to withdraw from the area by Sept. 15 under an agreement European Union leaders reached with Russia last week, Lomaia told The Associated Press.But he stressed that Georgia — like the West — demands a full Russian withdrawal to pre-conflict positions, in accordance with a cease-fire deal brokered by the European Union a month ago.Adding to tension, Georgian authorities said a Georgian policeman at a post near Abkhazia was killed Saturday by gunfire that came from the direction of a position where Abkhazian and Russian forces have been based.Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko confirmed the pullback in western Georgia.Right now the withdrawal of our peacekeeping forces is happening from these posts, Nesterenko said in televised comments.Lomaia said some 1,200 Russian servicemen still remain at 19 checkpoints and other positions, 12 outside South Ossetia and seven outside Abkhazia. Russia said it would pull them out by Oct. 11 as long as 200 European Union observers are deployed to strips of territory surrounding the two separatist regions by Oct. 1.

Russia is pushing to keep Western monitors outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia themselves, saying the EU observers' job is to protect the regions against Georgian aggression. The United States and EU, however, want to ensure security amid high ethnic tensions following the war.The presence of Russian troops deep in undisputed Georgian territory more than a month after the fighting ended has deeply angered Georgians and been an enormous sore point between Russia and the West.Russia's military campaign in Georgia and its subsequent recognition of Georgia's separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent nations has plunged its relations with the United States and Europe into their worst crisis since the Cold War.An Associated Press television crew saw Russian soldiers pack military trucks before dawn Saturday with blankets and other supplies at a post by a road leading to Abkhazia province. Among the items taken down — the Russian tricolor flag.Four trucks stood packed and ready to leave the post in the village of Pirveli Maisi, along with an armored personnel carrier. A Russian column about the same size rolled past on a road leading to Abkhazia.Russian forces left the two posts they had maintained for weeks on the outskirts of Poti, one by a bridge on a main road leading into the city and one a few kilometers (miles) from Georgia's main port and devastated naval base, Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili said.Russian forces have withdrawn completely from Poti, he said.

A third Russian post established more recently by the port of Poti had also been vacated, Lomaia said. He said some 250 soldiers and 20 armored vehicles pulled out of their positions and headed toward Abkhazia.Near the de facto border with Abkhazia, an Associated Press photographer saw several small columns of Russian armor crossing a bridge leading toward the breakaway region and military trucks heading across another bridge at a separate location.The brazen presence in Poti has been particularly galling for Georgia because it is hundreds of kilometers (miles) from South Ossetia, where the war broke out and where most of the fighting occurred.

In Vienna, confidential OSCE documents seen by The Associated Press revealed that Russian forces and their separatist militia allies were deliberately keeping OSCE monitors — who are separate from the planned EU mission — out of South Ossetia, where large numbers of Georgian homes have been looted and burned down. Russia has also said the EU observers will not be welcome inside South Ossetia and Abkhazia, only in the strips of land surrounding them. The EU and Georgia want the observers to have access to the separatist regions themselves. Western governments also say Moscow's plans to maintain 7,600 troops in Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the long term violates a provision in the cease-fire calling for both sides to return to positions held before the conflict erupted. Georgian troops tried to retake South Ossetia by force on Aug. 7, but were quickly repelled by Russian tanks, troops and warplanes. The Russian military then drove deep into Georgia, occupying large swaths of territory before an initial withdrawal in late August. The five-day war killed hundreds of people and drove nearly 200,000 people from their homes.