EARTH UNRECOGNIZED BY 2050-WORLD SAYS

February 19, 2011 - Hour 1 JAN MARKELL OTM
Nonie Darwish was born and raised a Muslim in Egypt. She offers her perspective on Middle East turmoil, the evil of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia Law, the Obama administration's hand in promoting the Muslim brotherhood, his signal to them in his June, 2009 speech in Cairo, and the fact he has some Brotherhood reps as his advisers. She and others believe Obama knows the chaos he has allowed to be unleashed in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. Nonie is President of Former Muslims United and Arabs for Israel. Learn more at: www.arabsforisrael.com or www.formermuslimsunited.org
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February 19, 2011 - Hour 2 JAN MARKELL OTM
Calvin Beisner heads the Cornwall Alliance, and has a campaign, Resisting the Green Dragon. This effort calls Christians to take a look at the environmental movement including those headed by evangelicals. Environmentalism is encouraging a new religion, is targeting our youth, and has a global vision. Why are Christians going along with a one-world system by signing on to the false claims of the greens? One Christian outfit says that a true evangelical proselytizes the planet. Since redistributing the wealth is behind almost all environmental efforts, why are Christians selling out? Having said this, please be good stewards of Gods creation. Learn more at: www.resistingthegreendragon or www.cornwallalliance.org
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LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

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.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Sunday, February 20, 2011-If You Want Peace, Prepare for War
By Stan Goodenough Jerusalem Watchman

My soul has dwelt too long with one who hates peace. I am for peace; But when I speak, they are for war. (Psalm 120:6-7)How do we pray concerning the Israel-Egypt peace treaty? Do we pray for it to be protected, upheld and perpetuated? For the majority who wish to see Israel live in peace with her neighbors, this question would seem a no brainer.And yet, I cannot pray so readily for this.

Let me paint a picture:A friend has contracted cancer that, unless caught in its early stages, will grow progressively more threatening to his life. On learning of the disease, you urge him to have the tumor removed, but he prefers to continue living as normal a life as possible, taking basic medication to numb him to the pain, and even help him forget he was ill.The more time passes, the more perilous his condition becomes. He would carry on regardless, but a sudden turn of events forces him to reassess. While the attack on his body is set to intensify, he’s not ready to deal with it.You have the chance to remind him that, had he agreed to it at the start, he would have undergone a painful but relatively straightforward procedure while his body was strong enough to survive. The passage of time and progression of the cancer has weakened him. Although it is still possible to save his life, he must have the surgery now.Thing is, it’s no longer a small operation. What he requires at this point will be agonizing; the risks far higher. As his friend, you must choose whether to pressure him to go under the knife by telling him some unpleasant home truths, or allow him to continue in self-delusion as he drifts towards his date with doom.Everybody’s pleading with him to, for heaven’s sake, leave well enough alone! Anything is better than the alternative.

But do we really believe this?

Let’s take a closer look at what this Israel-Egypt peace treaty really is: how it was drawn up, what it cost Israel to sign, how it has played out, what its effects have been, and where its perpetuation will lead.The Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin, and the Egyptian military dictator, Anwar Sadat, signed the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, known as the Camp David Agreement, in 1978.In other words, it was signed between an elected representative of the Israeli people on the one side, and a military ruler representing no-one on the other.The details – or more accurately – the parties to the agreement – were hammered together by the American president, Jimmy Carter.As close advisor to Begin, the late Shmuel Katz, outlined in his book The Hollow Peace, (Dvir Publishing; Israel; 1981), Carter held a gun to Israel’s head and, wielding blackmail and deception, mercilessly pressured Begin into agreeing to the treaty terms – the tangible fruits of which were all in Egypt’s – and America’s – favor.Sadat, who had his forces launch the aggressive wars of 1967 and 1973 with the intent of obliterating the Jewish state, was rewarded for his belligerence by being given the Sinai Peninsula (which was not Egyptian sovereign territory before), and by being universally applauded as a courageous peacemaker.

By relinquishing the Sinai, Israel lost access to sources of oil that supplied upwards of 60 percent of its oil needs. It lost the ultra-modern military airfields it had built in the Sinai, and the billions of dollars it had to spend building substitute airfields in the Negev.Israel lost the strategic depth that protected it against another Egyptian onslaught. It lost the only way it had of ensuring Israeli ships retain free access to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea. It lost the Jewish communities it had established in the Sinai – the process of uprooting them leaving deep scars in the Israeli national conscious and deeply sowing seeds for civil disagreement and strife among Israel’s Jews.And in the agreement Israel forfeited the possibility of annexing Judea, Samaria and Gaza, instead binding itself to negotiate with the Palestinian Arabs to give them self-rule in those areas to which they – the Arabs – had no prior historical claim.The United States rewarded Egypt richly; over the ensuing years giving the country billions of dollars worth of modern and sophisticated weaponry, and training Egyptian soldiers and security forces. All the while Egypt’s army – twice as large as Israel’s – has been playing yearly war games in which it practices attacking and destroying the Jewish state.

Egypt, first under Sadat and then under Hosni Mubarak, lived up to nothing in return but a pledge not to launch attacks on Israel from Egyptian soil. That did not stop it from pursuing that other, political, war – delegitimizing the Jewish state and fomenting hatred of Israel at home and abroad.While Israeli leaders frequently visited Egypt for consultations with Mubarak and his officials, the Egyptian ruler absolutely refused to reciprocate. His solo trip to Jerusalem was for the funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.Israeli tourists flocked with their money to Egypt, but Egyptians basically never came to tour Israel. The Mubarak-controlled media in Egypt regularly vilified the Jewish state and its Jewish citizens, while Israel’s free media almost always related to their southern neighbor in terms of being a partner in peace.Meanwhile, included in the Carter-sanctioned agreement, with the American president’s full awareness and in fact collusion, was Egypt’s right to declare war on Israel if Israel should get into another conflict with any other Arab state.

As The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick told an audience in the Israeli capital last week, what has existed between Israel and Egypt for the last 32 years has been not a state of peace but a readily reversible ceasefire.Apart from badly compromising Israel’s security at the start, when it was formulated and signed, the agreement led Israel to further weaken itself as the years, then the decades, passed.Glick pointed out that Israel, lulled into sleepiness by the exciting peace agreement, long ago stopped training its forces for desert warfare. It also stopped collecting intelligence on the Egyptian military. All the while, Cairo was building up its war machine – with a billion dollars in aid from the United States every year. Egypt received massive military assistance from the United States. Those forces – which are trained by the US military – have been training for war against Israel for the last 32 years… The Egyptian army is twice the size of the IDF. Nearly a million Egyptian boys come of call-up age every year.Egypt is not just anti-Israel; it is one of the most antisemitic countries in the world, warned the Post reporter.It must be noted, Glick added, that the new military junta ruling Egypt, despite being under intense pressure from the United States to commit itself to honoring the Israel-Egypt treaty, was willing to go no further than make a general commitment to all its international treaties.

This should not be overlooked.So what do we have? Israel signed a treaty with an Egyptian strongman which, yes, helped keep the southern border quiet for 32 years, and enabled millions of Israeli tourists to visit the Sinai and enjoy its beautiful coastline. But it also led to Israel weakening itself strategically, relaxing its guard and effectively rendering itself less able to deal with a future Egyptian assault.Meanwhile the Egyptian side massively modernized its military while uninterruptedly fomenting hatred of the Jews and their state. Egypt used its credentials (influential Arab state with Western-backing) to keep itself in the center of the peace process. From Cairo, Hosni Mubarak edged ahead with his anti-Israel agenda, encouraging American administrations and Israeli leftists to work against Israel’s security interests.Many, mostly liberal, experts are decrying the scaremongers who believe that the Muslim Brotherhood will soon ascend to power in Egypt. The revolution there has been widely described as the birthing of democracy in the Arab world and therefore promising a better future for Israel-Egypt relations. But democracy and Islam are oil and water – they cannot be mixed, and Israel’s presence in the Arab’s Muslim midst can never be tolerated. It must be expunged.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while calling Israel-Egyptian peace a cornerstone of Mideast stability and hoping for the best has said that Israel must prepare for the worst in its relations with its southern neighbor. Leftist Israelis have torn strips off him for doing so, calling instead for an appeasing approach that would not risk heightening tensions between the two countries during this transition period.What is best for Israel? What should we pray for? The survival of a peace treaty that strengthens Egypt – whose political future is at best uncertain – and keeps Israel weak – making its future survival uncertain? Or do we pray for Israel to prepare for the possibility that Egypt will tear up the treaty and throw it away – even if Israel’s very act of preparation is used as a justification by Egypt to abrogate Camp David? Should we pray for God to help Israel prepare for what the Bible foretells and Middle East geo-political reality confirms is on the way – a war the Jewish people don’t want, but which will be unleashed against her? And if, as the IDF is bolstered in the south and Israel moves to make up its deficit in intelligence on Egypt, the Egyptian side reacts by scrapping the treaty, so be it?
Latin scholar Vegetius said: Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war).With the Israel-Egypt treaty, Israel has prepared for peace, but Egypt has has used it to gear up for war.

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.

Cabinet Rejects Sovereignty on Jewish Towns of Judea, Samaria
by Gil Ronen FEB 21,11

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation rejected Sunday a bill that would have placed the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria under Israeli sovereignty. The bill would have removed the threat of construction freezes and similar steps from the communities in Judea and Samaria, by taking them out of the jurisdiction of the Defense Ministry.The bill was sponsored by MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), Chairman of the National Union party. It was co-signed by all the other members of the NU, as well as 22 coalition MKs - including most of the Knesset's Likud faction. However, the Committee's rejection of the bill means that all coalition MKs are expected to vote against it when it comes up for a vote in the plenum Wednesday.The bill was first proposed four years ago by then-MK Rabbi Benny Elon, and was co-signed by numerous Likud MKs - including Binyamin Netanyahu; the Likud was in the Opposition at the time. The bill foundered, but it was re-submitted by MK Katz in the present Knesset and came up for a vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation one year ago. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Ketzaleh to postpone the vote for three months, and Ketzaleh agreed.Since then, the Committee - which is headed by Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman - has ignored requests by Ketzaleh to discuss the bill again. Minister Benny Begin, who has been the acting head of the committee lately, declared that an injustice has been done to the NU and that he would raise the bill for a vote in the committee posthaste.

The Committee voted unanimously against the bill. Besides Ne'eman and Begin, the Committee includes Ministers Gideon Saar, Yuli Edelstein, Gilad Erdan, Moshe Cachlon, Michael Eitan, Limor Livnat, Dan Meridor, Yossi Peled, Yisrael Katz, and Yuval Steinitz (all of the LIkud), Yitzchak Aharonovich, Sofa Landver, Orit Noked, Stas Misezhnikov, Meshulam Nahari, Daniel Hershkowitz, Yaakov Mergi and Shalom Simchon.Knesset Coalition Chairman MK Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) put pressure on Ketzaleh to withdraw the bill yet again, so as to save Likud embarrassment. However, Ketzaleh refused.On Wednesday, Ketzaleh said,the Nation of Israel will have to see with its own eyes who is loyal to the Land of Israel in talk and signatures but turns his back on it when the time comes for action - and who is truly loyal.It now turns out, he added, that those who accepted the shameful slogan two states for two peoples, and those who froze the communities of Judea and Samaria and wanted to freeze them a second time, were not acting in earnest when they themselves signed the bill.(Israel NationalNews.com)

G20 ministers fudge deal on imbalance indicators
By Louise Egan and Daniel Flynn – Sat Feb 19, 2:04 pm ET

PARIS (Reuters) – Finance ministers of the world's major economies reached a fudged accord on Saturday on how to measure imbalances in the global economy after China prevented the use of exchange rates and currency reserves as indicators.French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who chaired the Group of 20 talks, said the deal nevertheless represented a significant step toward better coordination of economic policies worldwide to help prevent another financial crisis.It wasn't simple. There were obviously divergent interests but we were able to reach a compromise on a text that seems to us to be both balanced and demanding in its implementation, she told a news conference.Ministers and central bank governors agreed on a list of indicators including public debt and fiscal deficits, private savings and borrowing, the trade balance and other components of balance of payments such as net investment flows.

But at Chinese insistence there was no mention of the real effective exchange rate or of foreign currency reserves.Reserves have been dropped, Lagarde acknowledged, adding that the deal included a mechanism to take account of exchange rates when assessing the overall balance of payments.The United States and other western countries accuse Beijing of keeping the yuan artificially undervalued to boost its exports, hence accumulating massive foreign currency reserves that they say distort the world economy.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner repeated after the talks that China's currency remains substantially undervalued and its real exchange rate had not moved much despite a slow appreciation since a reform last June.There is broad consensus that the major economies, not just Europe, Japan and the United States but also the large emerging economies, need to allow their exchange rates to adjust in response to market forces, he said.The world's number two economy, which overtook Japan this week, has resisted Western pressure to substantially revalue its currency to help rebalance global growth.China's trade surplus has shrunk of late, perhaps explaining why it prefers that measure.Western and Japanese officials said the indicators would in practice cover balance of payments and foreign reserves, even if those terms had been omitted to assuage Beijing. Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren left without speaking to reporters.We needed to be inventive about wording in the communique in consideration for a country that did not want to use the term current account balance... The statement lists components of the current account balance, Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters.

NO SPECIFIC GOALS

Lagarde said the indicators were not binding targets but would lead to the drafting of guidelines for coordinated economic policies to reduce distortions, and then to a mutual assessment process.Germany, Europe's biggest exporter, which has resisted U.S. efforts to set numerical targets for current account surpluses, said no specific goals would be set for certain indicators.The G20 ministers acknowledged that economic recovery was diverging between developed and developing economies, but they differed in their assessment of global inflation risks.The communique noted that while growth was subdued in most developed economies, with unemployment high, major emerging markets were roaring ahead, some with signs of overheating.European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said inflationary pressures coming from energy and commodities prices must be taken seriously, and the ECB was determined to avoid second-round effects on wages.

But Geithner said inflation risks in the United States were moderate. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the G20 presidency this year, urged ministers on Friday not to get bogged down by the indicators dispute and welcomed the fact that China had agreed to host a seminar on reforming the international monetary system in Shenzhen in late March.France has also run into opposition with its two other G20 priorities -- greater transparency and regulation of commodities prices and reform of the international monetary system.The G20 communique said ministers agreed to work on strengthening the international monetary system to help avoid disruptive fluctuations in capital flows and disorderly movements in exchange rates.

China and Brazil complain that hot money inflows risk destabilizing the economies of emerging countries, pointing the finger at the U.S. Federal Reserve's money printing via a $600 billion bond purchase program.With world shares at 30-month highs, investors seem content for the G20 to take its time, whereas at the height of the crisis two years ago markets were baying for policy action.(Additional reporting by Toni Vorobyova, Catherine Bremer, Francesca Landini, Julien Toyer, Gernot Heller, John Irish, Leigh Thomas, Rie Ishiguro; writing by Paul Taylor; editing by Mike Peacock)

21 Feb, 2011, 10.15AM IST,REUTERS Yuan hits record high as China fights inflation

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG: The yuan hit its highest trading level against the dollar on Monday after the People's Bank of China fixed the mid-point at a record high for a third day, a clear sign the government is willing to let the Chinese currency appreciate to help fight inflation. The PBOC announced on Friday a 50-basis-point RRR rise to a record 19.5 percent in its latest move to fight high consumer inflation, which rose to 4.9 percent in January against a year earlier from 4.6 percent in December. Traders have long predicted the yuan will appreciate 5 to 6 percent this year as the government is expected to use the currency as part of its strategy to contain price rises. There was no impact from the weekend meeting of finance ministers of the world's major economies, who reached a fudged accord on how to measure imbalances in the global economy after China prevented the use of exchange rates and currency reserves as indicators.Because of China's need to fight inflation, the trend for the yuan to appreciate steadily for the rest of this year is likely to continue at least in the first half of this year, said a trader at a European Bank in Shanghai.Spot yuan traded as high as 6.5658 against the dollar on Monday morning, up from Friday's close of 6.5732 and having now risen 3.97 percent since its depegging from the dollar in June 2010. It touched an intraday low of 6.5700.

NDFS STABLE Dollar/yuan offshore forwards rose slightly on Monday to imply less yuan appreciation after they had fallen sharply on Friday to factor in the PBOC bank reserve hike.Benchmark one-year dollar/yuan non-deliverable forwards were bid at 6.4120 at midday versus 6.4010 at Friday's close. Their implied yuan appreciation in a year's time fell to 2.48 percent from 2.65 percent.Actually the market is trading quite stable for the whole morning. The trading range is around 100 to 130 (pips), so there is not much volatility coming here. The market is doing some arbitrage flows business, said a trader at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong.The market is pricing in that, short term, there will be appreciation, but in longer tenors, there will not be aggressive appreciation.NDF-implied yuan appreciation has persistently lagged market expectations over the past couple of months as dealers said hedge funds, the main players in the forwards, cut back on exposure to Asian emerging markets in favour of dollar assets as the U.S. economy recovers.Before trade began, the People's Bank of China set the yuan's daily mid-point at a record high of 6.5705, up from Friday's fixing of 6.5781.The mid-point, from which the yuan can trade up or down a maximum 0.5 percent in a given day, is the tool the central bank uses to express the government's intentions for the currency.

On top of inflation, China has been under pressure from the United States to let the yuan appreciate in recent years, although the government has repeatedly said it will control the pace of yuan appreciation to suit its economic conditions.While Beijing is partly worried a rapid yuan rise will hit exports and employment in the world's most populous nation, it has nevertheless allowed the currency to appreciate by 26 percent against the dollar since the landmark revaluation in July 2005.

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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

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PA Places Arabs in the Heart of Jewish Hevron
by Elad Benari FEB 21,11

The Palestinian Authority, with financial assistance by the European Union, has begun to house Arabs in the heart Jewish community in Hevron near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website has learned.A security source revealed on Sunday that in the last year and a half, the Palestinian Authority, through a body named the council to rehabilitate the old city, has begun to house Arabs in areas of Hevron inhabited by Jews.These houses, previously uninhabited, have been filled with Arabs who were imported from west Hevron, Beit Kahel, and Halhoul, some of which were previously engaged in terror activity or have served time in Israeli prisons for criminal offenses, said the source and added: The Palestinian Authority's move is part of a clear strategy that no one denies: it is creating a separation between Kiryat Arba and Hevron.The source noted that The Palestinian Authority has understood that terrorist attacks will not stop the approximately 600,000 Jews who visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron each year, and has concluded that there is a need to house hundreds of families in the eastern Casbah in order to create separation.

Already in recent months, added the source, we have witnessed significant friction in the area between Arabs and the IDF and the Border Police as well as with the local Jewish residents and outside guests. Beyond the friction there have been several attacks of pedestrians on Shabbat, and some vehicles have been stoned at the crossing near the eastern Casbah.In summary, the source said that This situation brings the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is a heritage site, into a most serious security situation. Instead of having the tombs of our forefathers accessible to every Jew at any day and hour, coordination of the arrival of Jews in the Tomb of the Patriarchs will be required and the PA would thus succeed in keeping so many Jews away from the Cave of the Patriarchs.Kiryat Arba Mayor Malachi Levinger told Arutz Sheva in response: We will work with all government and security officials to immediately stop this, and we hope that we do not have to take steps ourselves to expedite the handling of the situation by law enforcement officials.Meanwhile, Noam Arnon, a spokesman for Hevron’s Jewish community, said that this is a dangerous precedent that illustrates the danger of building a neighborhood that would disconnect Kiryat Arba from the Cave of the Patriarchs. We will conduct a determined struggle, together with the Council of Kiryat Arba and Hevron, to prevent the development of this neighborhood that would constitute a danger to hundreds of thousands of Jews passing through the route connecting Kiryat Arba to Hevron.(Israel NationalNews.com)

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Reports: Gaddafi Losing Control of Libya
by Elad Benari FEB 21,11

As demonstrations in Libya intensified Sunday, it appeared that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is losing control of the country he has ruled for over 40 years.On Sunday evening it was reported that the anti-government protests had spread to the capital Tripoli, which until then had not been affected by them. Al-Jazeera reported heavy gunfire exchanges in the center of the Libyan capital between thousands of demonstrators who gathered in the streets and supporters of Gaddafi. Eyewitnesses also reported the use of tear gas against demonstrators.Also on Sunday, Shaikh Faraj al Zuway, leader of the Al-Zuwayya tribe in eastern Libya (a tribe which lives south of Benghazi), threatened during an interview with Al-Jazeera to cut oil exports to Western countries within 24 hours unless authorities stop what he called the oppression of protesters.Akram Al-Warfalli, a leading figure in the Al Warfalla tribe, one of Libya's biggest, told Al-Jazeera: We tell the brother (Gaddafi), well he's no longer a brother, we tell him to leave the country.

Earlier Sunday in the city of Benghazi, members of a Libyan army unit reportedly told residents of the city that they deserted, liberated the city from forces loyal to dictator Gaddafi and joined the public protest against Gaddafi's rule. According to local hospitals, soldiers arrived for treatment, following clashes with Gaddafi's personal security staff.The action came after at least 50 people were killed and 100 others were seriously wounded in afternoon and evening clashes. An emergency-room doctor said most of the dead had been shot.Witnesses in Benghazi claimed that only one brigade did not join the demonstrators. It was also reported that the protesters climbed on top of tanks and that many of them were armed with rifles and machine guns which they had looted from the deserted tanks.Meanwhile, Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, went on state television late Sunday night and addressed the country’s residents for the first time since the protests began.In his speech, Gaddafi warned that Libya was on the verge of civil war and said that the protests against his father's rule were a foreign plot. He also pledged a new constitution and new liberal laws, saying the north African country was at a crossroads.

Gaddafi’s son warned that any uprising would be ruthlessly suppressed. We will continue to fight until the last moment, until the last bullet is fired, he said, while admitting that the local police erred in its behavior towards the demonstrators, attributing this to the fact that the officers had never been properly trained in handling mass demonstrations.Gaddafi also dismissed reports by groups such as Human Rights Watch, which have placed the death toll from the protests at over 200. He claimed that only 84 people have died in the demonstrations.
Meanwhile, there were unconfirmed reports Sunday night that Muammar Gaddafi had fled the country to Venezuela. His son, however, dismissed those reports as well.My father is in Libya and is supported by his army, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel eyes Suez trip of Iran warships with worry
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press – Sun Feb 20, 3:09 pm ET

CAIRO – Iran's first attempt in decades to send warships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Europe's — and NATO's — southern flank could further destabilize the Middle East, a region already reeling from an unprecedented wave of anti-government rebellions.Egypt's new military rulers, who took power from ousted Hosni Mubarak a little more than a week ago, have granted two Iranian warships passage through the strategic waterway — something Israel has made clear it views as a provocation. Still, Egypt appeared to have no other choice because an international convention regulating shipping says the canal must be open to every vessel of commerce or of war.Iranian warships have not passed through the Suez Canal since 1979.The vessels bound for Syria are not expected to enter the canal before Tuesday or Wednesday, according to maritime sources in Egypt. On Sunday, the frigate Alvand and the supply ship Kharq were still near the southern entrance to the canal.

The canal linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean enables ships to avoid a lengthy sail around Africa. The Iranian ships are headed for a training mission in Syria, a close ally of Iran's hardline Islamic rulers and an arch foe of Israel. In Syria, officials at the Iranian embassy said it would mark the first time in years that Iranian warships dock in a Syrian port.Iran is suspected by the U.S. and Israel of gearing its nuclear program to develop weapons, something Tehran denies. Israel considers Iran an existential threat and is watching the warships' movements with growing alarm. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Sunday of trying to exploit recent instability in Egypt and told his Cabinet he views Iran's moves with gravity.The request by the Iranians to send the warships through Suez is a test of the foreign policy intentions of Egypt's new military rulers, the gatekeepers of the canal. Mubarak, an ally of Israel and the U.S. who ruled for nearly 30 years, was toppled Feb. 11 by a popular uprising and the country is now run by a military council. Mubarak was considered a bulwark in the region against Islamic extremism.

Iran wants to say to the world, to the U.S., Israel and other countries in the Mideast that it has reach not only in areas close to it but also farther away, including in the Mediterranean, said Ephraim Kam of the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel.He said Iran is also signaling to Israel that it is prepared to protect its allies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon on Israel's northern and southern flanks.A senior Iranian naval commander told an Iranian news agency already several days before the Jan. 25 start of the revolt in Egypt that Iran planned to dispatch warships to the Mediterranean, via the Suez Canal. The commander said candidly at the time that the mission was to gather intelligence on the region and train Navy cadets to protect Iranian cargo ships and oil tankers against attacks by Somali pirates.But Iran appears to have more far-reaching objectives, including asserting itself as a regional power and testing whether Egypt's new rulers will stick to Mubarak's pro-Western line, analysts said.Iran's influence has grown in recent years, with the political rise of its proxies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and its close alliance with Syria. At the same time, Israel lost the friendship of Turkey and the nature of its with post-Mubarak Egypt remains uncertain.

Egyptian-Iranian ties broke down after Tehran's Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty the same year. Later, the relationship improved slightly, with contacts currently channeled through interest sections in the two capitals.Iran's request last week to send warships through the Suez Canal came at a particularly difficult time for Egypt, with the transition government focused on pressing domestic issues, including restoring security after the uprising.
Iran now sees a window of opportunity to force the Egyptian government to make a stand and either tell Iranians something unpopular in Egypt (denying passage) or allow something that would be a diplomatic coup for Iran, and put the onus on Israel to make a defensive gesture, said Shashank Joshi, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London.Canal officials, citing an 1888 international convention regulating shipping, said Egypt had no choice but to permit passage to the Iranian vessels. The convention says the canal must be open to every vessel of commerce or of war.It was not immediately clear whether Iran had requested passage for its warships at any time since 1979, and if not, then why.Applying the same principle, Egypt has also permitted the passage of an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine, which according to foreign reports is capable of firing nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. In Brussels, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said Sunday that the decision on the Iranian vessels is up to the authorities of the Suez Canal. Diplomats at NATO said privately that the organization was in no position to object since it insists on right of free passage of naval vessels through international waters.Israel's options appear limited, since the perceived provocation may not be enough to warrant a strong Israeli complaint.Netanyahu did not say Sunday how Israel might respond, if at all.Avi Dichter, Israel's former internal security minister, said Israel should be more concerned about Iran's suspected nuclear weapons ambitions — denied by Tehran — than about two naval ships reaching the Mediterranean.Associated Press writers Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Matti Friedman in Jerusalem and Ben Hubbard in Cairo contributed reporting.

Egypt Denies Iranian Ships Passed Through Suez Canal
by Chana Ya'ar FEB 20,11

Egyptian officials at the Suez Canal have categorically denied an Iranian announcement on Al Aram TV Sunday morning that two of its warships had already passed through the canal.The ships are allegedly the Kharg, a 33,000-ton refueling and support vessel, and the Alvand, a 15,000-ton light patrol frigate. According to a statement issued last week by the Iranian navy, the Kharg carries a crew of 250 and three helicopters. The Alvand is armed with torpedoes and anti-ship missiles.The officials insisted that the ships are still expected to arrive at the southern entrance of the canal in the Gulf of Suez later Sunday. They are then slated to enter the Mediterranean by Monday morning on their way to the Syrian port of Latakia for a year of training.

Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters Sunday the government is taking a grave view of the Iranian move, which he said was aimed at exploiting the chaos created by the recent upheaval in which the 30-year regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was toppled.I think that today, we can see what an unstable region we live in, a region in which Iran tries to exploit the situation that has been created in order to expand its influence by passing warships through the Suez Canal. Israel views this Iranian move with utmost gravity, Netanyahu told ministers at the government's weekly Cabinet meeting.This would be the first time Egypt has allowed Iranian naval vessels into the Suez Canal since the 1979 Revolution, when diplomatic ties were broken between the two nations.Iran announced its plans a week ago to deploy warships from its 12th Flotilla to areas near Israel and to dock at a Syrian port for a year. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned at the time that such a move would be considered a serious provocation.Egyptian military officials who currently are in control of the country allegedly approved the request Friday after Iranian diplomats assured them the two vessels carried no nuclear or chemical materials, and no weapons, according to the state-run MENA news agency.Previously officials at the canal had denied any knowledge of the matter.With the move, Iran may have succeeded in establishing its political and naval presence in an area previously reached only through its proxies -- the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group and the Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorist organization. Iran, also closely allied with Syria, has recently tightened ties with Turkey as well.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Blizzard slams northern Midwest states
By David Bailey – Sun Feb 20, 6:53 pm ET

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A severe winter storm was driving across the upper Midwest on Sunday, dumping up to 15 inches of snow and causing white-out conditions in spots from the Dakotas through Minnesota and into Wisconsin.State officials warned against travel in most of South Dakota where roads were not already closed, most southern Minnesota roads were slick and snow-covered with limited driver visibility and airlines canceled hundreds of flights.The National Weather Service said travel will be very difficult at times due to ice and snow in southern Wisconsin, where a mass protest against changes to collective bargaining laws was expected to continue at the state capital in Madison.Forecasters expect up to four inches of snow in southern Wisconsin with some sleet and freezing rain leading to ice accumulations in some areas.The storm was expected to dump up to 15 inches of snow in Minnesota from Sunday to midday on Monday and nearly a foot of snow across central to northeast Wisconsin, the National Weather Service said. Earlier forecasts had aimed for snow accumulations of up to 18 inches in parts of Minnesota.

The National Weather Service on Sunday afternoon forecast 10 to 14 inches of snow for the Twin Cities overall by the time the storm ends on Monday, said Tony Zaleski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Minnesota.The biggest snow amounts have been basically across south central Minnesota, Zaleski said.Blizzard conditions were developing west and south of Minneapolis where up to 8 inches of snow were reported in New Ulm and Lester Prairie, the National Weather Service said.
South suburbs to Minneapolis and St. Paul had already reported snow falls of 5 to 7 inches on Sunday afternoon, Zaleski said.There is a lot of blowing snow out there, it's real tough to measure when you have the snow blowing at 20 to 30 miles per hour, Zaleski said.Most flights were canceled out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Sunday from the storm that brought high winds that reduced operations, airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said.Delta Air Lines canceled hundreds of flights at the airport Sunday and expects more flight cuts on Monday across its route system, particularly in the midwest and northeast United States, spokesman Anthony Black said.

Heavy snows in December and at other points already had pushed snowfall totals to more than 61 inches in the Twin Cities before the latest storm, making it the fifth snowiest on record, according to National Weather Service statistics.A 10-inch snowfall would make it the second snowiest winter behind only 1981-82 when 76.9 inches of snow were recorded.Blizzard conditions crossed much of South Dakota with more than a foot of snow and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour in a band from Pierre to Watertown, forecasters said.South Dakota closed Interstate 29 from Sioux Falls north to the North Dakota border on the eastern side of the state and closed a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 90 from Wall to Chamberlain on the south central part of the state.(Reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Tim Gaynor)

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Magnitude-6.2 quake shakes east Russia
– Sun Feb 20, 5:49 pm ET

NEW YORK – A magnitude-6.2 earthquake rattled the east coast of Russia near the Kamchatka Peninsula, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Sunday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no tsunami alert was issued.The quake struck at 9:43 a.m. at the epicenter (4:43 Eastern time, 2143 GMT Sunday), Which was some 4,140 miles (6,660 kilometers) east of Moscow, the USGS said, closer to Japan than the Russian capital.The center of the quake was about 5.8 miles (9.3 kilometers) deep, the agency reported.

Small earthquake shakes Alabama gulf coast
– Fri Feb 18, 10:06 pm ET

FORT MORGAN, Ala. – Federal officials say a minor earthquake has shaken southern Alabama, and people more than 200 miles away have reported feeling the temblor.The U.S. Geological Service says the 3.5-magnitude earthquake happened at 5:15 p.m. Friday. There were no immediate reports of damage.The epicenter was near the tip of the Fort Morgan Peninsula at the mouth of Mobile Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Mobile.Residents in the Pensacola area of the Florida panhandle also said they felt the earthquake, as did residents as far north as Birmingham, Ala.In 2008, a 3.1-magnitude earthquake hit the southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville, about 100 miles north of where Friday's quake struck.

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

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

REVELATION 9:14-16
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(WAVE 2 KILLS 2 BILLION WHEN CHINA,RUSSIA MARCH TO THE MIDEAST)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARY) and I heard the number of them.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3 BY 2019 AT THE LATEST I BELIEVE)

MY RESPONSE THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER WITH JERUSALEM AS THE WORLD CAPITAL.

Planet could be unrecognizable by 2050, experts say
– Sun Feb 20, 3:05 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an unrecognizable world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia, said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.To feed all those mouths, we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000, said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable if current trends continue, Clay said.

The swelling population will exacerbate problems, such as resource depletion, said John Casterline, director of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State University.But incomes are also expected to rise over the next 40 years -- tripling globally and quintupling in developing nations -- and add more strain to global food supplies.People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, the experts said.It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, experts told AFP.

More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet, Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.For 20 years, there's been very little investment in family planning, but there's a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices, said Bongaarts.We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning,said Casterline.

ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

REVELATION 12:3-4,7-9
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,(SATAN) having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,( 1/3 OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (MARY JESUS MOTHER) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(JESUS WAS JEWISH,THIS IS PERSECUSSION AGAINST ISRAEL).
7 And there was (SPACE) war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.(SPACE)
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.(SATAN/DEMONS CAST FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE EARTH IN THIS SPACE WAR)

REVELATION 20:2
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

U.S. Must Take Space Storm Threat Seriously, Experts Warn
Space.com – Sun Feb 20, 12:00 pm ET

WASHINGTON — Space weather could pose serious problems here on Earth in the coming years, the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Saturday (Feb. 19).A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power grids, and the country needs to work on being better prepared, said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lubchenco is also the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.This is not a matter of if, it's simply a matter of when and how big, Lubchenco said of the potential for a dangerous solar flare. We have every reason to expect we're going to be seeing more space weather in the coming years, and it behooves us to be smart and be prepared.

Ramping up

The space weather threat is becoming more dire as our sun ramps up toward its period of solar maximum, predicted for around 2013. Activity on the sun fluctuates on a roughly 11-year cycle, and our star has been relatively dormant for a while.That's clearly starting to change, though, as evidenced by a class X solar flare – the strongest kind – that erupted from the sun Feb. 14.I think the events of this week certainly underscore how important it is for us to be paying attention to space weather and to be prepared to respond to, and mitigate, potential impacts, Lubchenco said. As we enter into a period of enhanced solar activity it seems pretty clear that we are going to be looking at the possibility of not only more solar events but also the possibility of some very strong events.The Feb. 14 flare unleashed a wave of charged particles that streamed immediately toward Earth, as well as coronal mass ejections, or blobs of plasma, that took days to arrive here. When they did, they interacted with Earth's magnetic field to cause geomagnetic storms that wiped out radio communications in the Western Pacific Ocean and parts of Asia, and caused airlines to reroute some polar flights to avoid radio outages.

Next time could be worse

However, experts say we got off fairly lucky with this recent solar storm, and that future eruptions could cause worse damage, particularly to the sensitive transformers and capacitors in power grids. If some of these were harmed, there could be power outages for days, weeks, months, or even, in the case of severe damage, years, experts warned.It turned out that we were quite well protected this time, so not much happened, said European Space Agency scientist Juha-Pekka Luntama. In another case things might have been different.Space weather hasn't posed quite such a threat before, because during the last solar maximum, around 10 years ago, the world wasn't as dependent on satellite telecommunications, cell phones and global positioning system (GPS) – all technologies that could be disrupted by solar flares.Many things we take for granted today are so much more prone to the effects of space weather than was the case during the last maximum,Lubchenco said. The problem is likely to get even worse as the world could likely become more technologically dependent by the time the next solar maximum rolls around, and the next.

Slightly scary

Other experts agree that the risk must be addressed.It is slightly scary, and I think properly so, said John Beddington, the U.K. government's chief scientific adviser. We've got to be scared by these events otherwise we will not take them seriously.He and other European officials said the world needs greater international cooperation to meet the threat of dangerous space weather.There are few emergency scenarios today that require such close cooperation across the Atlantic as a geomagnetic storm, said Helena Lindberg, director general for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).We have an urgent need to start sharing expertise and connecting our systems for warning and for response, Lindberg said. This cooperation has to be put in place before a disaster hits.Despite the risk, though, some experts stressed that there's reason to be optimistic. There is work being done to improve our ability to forecast solar storms in advance, equip more satellites with radiation shielding and fortify power grids with resilient transformers and capacitors.Please don’t panic, said Stephan Lechner of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Please don't leave the room and tell everybody that space weather will kill us tomorrow.

Gen. Cartwright: Egypt-like protests will spread
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press – Fri Feb 18, 3:56 pm ET

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gen. James Cartwright told an economic club Friday that protests like the ones that brought down leaders in Egypt and Tunisia will continue to spread as long as authoritarian regimes don't meet the needs of their people.While we are urging restraint, this is going to happen. It is moving through Northern Africa, the Middle East at a pace that is just unheard of and each of those governments and each of those nations is watching it come, trying to figure out what's happening and how they might prevent it, Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Economic Club of Florida.There are ongoing protests in Yemen, Bahrain and Libya. Cartwright said the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt after just two weeks of protests probably surprised people most because it was considered one of the region's more stable nations.What you have in essence is a population from about 18- to 35-year-olds, educated and can't get a job and the wealth distribution in their country is all at the top and none of it is distributed down and they've basically come to the point where they're not going to tolerate it any more, Cartwright said. They are not satisfying the needs of their people, and if they don't, eventually the people will speak out.He said the United States was fortunate in Egypt's case because it has a good relationship with the country's military.

We knew our counterparts. We could talk to them. We could say, Exercise restraint. Protect your people first, then the regime,Cartwright said. And they did. I think the Egyptian army was probably the model of what you'd like to have happen based on educating each other, educating our military and their military together at the same schools. That makes a big difference.Cartwright said he likes to speak to groups around the country at least once a month so communities can learn from his experiences. The economic club has a featured speaker at each of its monthly meetings.Cartwright was asked several questions, including about the nation's relationship with Turkey and efforts to track down Osama bin Laden.Cartwright said al-Qaida has spread so far across the world that taking out bin Laden would have little effect on dismantling the terrorist movement.We can remove bin Laden, if we could find him, I'm not sure that it would change the character of al-Qaida or that it would terminate that movement, he said. It has moved globally. Our problem right now is not really with him, it's with all of the franchises that are out there.

Italy: Libya considering constitutional reforms
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press – Sun Feb 20, 2:55 pm ET

ROME – Libyan authorities are considering constitutional changes as they try to cope with a week of unrest by anti-government protesters demanding political and economic reforms, the Italian foreign ministry said Sunday.Italy has strong political and economic ties with Libya, which it occupied for 30 years until 1943, and has been watching the violent protests unfold there with a certain degree of alarm.In addition to its interests in Libya, Rome fears any relaxation of border controls could send thousands of African migrants to Italy, as was the case when border controls collapsed following the ouster of Tunisia's longtime president last month.

On Sunday, the foreign ministry said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini had been in close contact with Libyan authorities, and had told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the possibility of a reform of the constitution that could be taken up soon by the People's Congress.

No details were given.

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi came to power in 1969 in a military coup and has ruled the country without an elected parliament or constitution since then. According to U.S. diplomatic cables posted last month by WikiLeaks, Gadhafi has supported the adoption of a constitution by Libya's supreme legislative body, the General People's Congress, and as recently as 2008 draft copies were floating among members of a committee he had appointed.But the cables also spoke about resistance to a constitution by hard-liners who say it isn't necessary.Protesters have demanded Gadhafi's ouster, a constitution and other political and economic reforms. On Sunday, Libyan forces fired on mourners at a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry.The Italian foreign ministry statement said the Libyan interior minister had been mediating between government institutions and the opposition for a peaceful solution to the problems. The statement said Italy considered stability in the country to be crucially important for the region and Europe.

Frattini and Clinton agreed on the importance in this delicate phase, of offering signs of political solidarity with the countries in the region, of maintaining strong bilateral ties and coming up with joint responses by the U.S. and the EU to the crisis, the statement said.Italian oil giant Eni has invested heavily in the oil-and-gas rich country. Libya's central bank, meanwhile, has a 4 percent share in Italy's largest bank UniCredit, which last year won the first international license to operate in the North African country.Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has hosted Gadhafi lavishly on his frequent visits to Rome, said Saturday he was concerned about the situation but hadn't called Gadhafi himself because he didn't want to disturb him.Amid criticism from opposition that Italy had remained mumm on Gadhafi's crackdown, the foreign ministry late Sunday said it was following the situation closely and its embassy in Tripoli was in touch with Italians in the country with the aim of guaranteeing their utmost security.It issued a travel advisory Sunday strictly advising against any nonessential travel to Libya.Berlusconi and Gadhafi in 2008 signed a friendship treaty in which Italy agreed to pay Libya US$5 billion as compensation for its colonial occupation.The agreement calls for Libya to halt the massive flow of illegal African migrants sailing from Libya, and allows Italy to turn migrants back to Libya if intercepted at sea.

Pakistan intelligence considers US gunman was CIA
FEB 21,11

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – A Pakistani intelligence official said on Monday that an American official arrested last month for killing two men on motorcycles was working undercover for the CIA.It is beyond any shadow of a doubt that he was working for CIA, an official from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency told AFP on condition of anonymity.The official said the shooting in broad daylight at a busy junction on January 27 in the eastern city of Lahore and Pakistan's subsequent arrest of Raymond Davis had damaged relations with the Central Intelligence Agency.

He's on contract. He's not a regular CIA guy, but he's working for CIA. That's confirmed, the Pakistani official said.He was sort of working behind our backs. Normal CIA guys -- we know who they are. We interact with them regularly. We know they're CIA, but in this particular case we had no knowledge of him, the official added.

China tries to stamp out Jasmine Revolution By Anita Chang, Associated Press – FEB 21,11

BEIJING – Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force to squelch a mysterious online call for a Jasmine Revolution, with hundreds of onlookers but only a handful of people actively joining protests inspired by pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.Authorities detained activists Sunday, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some cell phone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities.Police took at least three people away in Beijing, one of whom tried to place white jasmine flowers on a planter while hundreds of people milled about the protest gathering spot, outside a McDonald's on the capital's busiest shopping street. In Shanghai, police led away three people near the planned protest spot after they scuffled in an apparent bid to grab the attention of passers-by.

Many activists said they didn't know who was behind the campaign and weren't sure what to make of the call to protest, which first circulated Saturday on the U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun.com.The unsigned notice called for a Jasmine Revolution — the name given to the Tunisian protest movement — and urged people "to take responsibility for the future. Participants were urged to shout, We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness — a slogan that highlights common complaints among Chinese.China's authoritarian government is ever alert for domestic discontent and has appeared unnerved by protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Libya. It has limited media reports about them, stressing the instability caused by the protests, and restricted Internet searches to keep Chinese uninformed about Middle Easterners' grievances against their autocratic rulers.Though there are many similarities between the complaints voiced by Middle East citizens and the everyday troubles of Chinese, Beijing's tight grip on the country's media, Internet and other communication forums poses difficulties for anyone trying to organize mass demonstrations.Police stepped up their presence near major public squares and canceled holidays for officers across 20 cities in response to the protest appeal, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy reported.

Extensive Internet filtering and monitoring meant that most Chinese were unlikely to know about the call to protest Sunday. Boxun.com is blocked, as are Twitter and Facebook, which were instrumental in Egypt's protest movement. Tech-savvy Chinese can circumvent controls, but few of the country's Internet users seek out politically subversive content.Anti-government gatherings in China are routinely stamped out by its pervasive security forces, which are well-funded and well-equipped. A pro-democracy movement in 1989 that directly challenged the Communist government was crushed by the military and hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed.
On Saturday, President Hu Jintao ordered national and provincial officials to solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society.One person sitting in the McDonald's after the brief protest in Beijing said he saw Sunday's gathering as a dry run.Lots of people in here are Twitter users and came to watch like me, said 42-year-old Hu Di. Actually this didn't have much organization, but it's a chance to meet each other. It's like preparing for the future.With foot traffic always heavy at the Wangfujing pedestrian mall, it was difficult to discern who showed up to protest, who came to watch and who was out shopping. Many wondered if there was a celebrity in the area because of the heavy police presence and dozens of foreign reporters and news cameras.

As the crowd swelled and police urged people to move on, 25-year-old Liu Xiaobai placed a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of the McDonald's and took some photos with his cell phone.I'm quite scared because they took away my phone. I just put down some white flowers, what's wrong with that? Liu said afterward. I'm just a normal citizen and I just want peace.Security agents tried to take away Liu, but he was swarmed by journalists and eventually was seen walking away with a friend.Two other people were taken away by police, including a shabbily dressed old man who was cursing and shouting, though it wasn't clear if he was there because of the online call to protest. In Shanghai, three young men were taken away from outside a Starbucks coffee shop in People's Square by police, who refused to answer reporters' questions about why they were detained. They trio had been shouting complaints about the government and that food prices are too high.A couple dozen older people were drawn to the commotion and started voicing their own complaints and saying they wanted democracy and the right to vote. One woman jumped up on a roadside cement block to shout, The government are all hooligans, then ran off, only to return a bit later and shout again at the police and others crowded in the area before once again scampering away.Security officials were relaxed toward the retirees and the crowd eventually drifted away.There were no reports of protests in other cities where people were urged to gather, such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu. Ahead of the planned protests, human rights groups estimated that anywhere from several dozen to more than 100 activists in cities across China were detained by police, confined to their homes or were missing. Families and friends reported the detention or harassment of several dissidents, and some activists said they were warned not to participate.

On Sunday, searches for jasmine were blocked on China's largest Twitter-like microblog, and status updates with the word on popular Chinese social networking site Renren.com were met with an error message and a warning to refrain from postings with political, sensitive ... or other inappropriate content.A text messaging service from China Mobile was unavailable in Beijing on Sunday due to an upgrade, according to a customer service operator for the leading service provider, who did not know how long the suspension would last. In the past, Chinese authorities have suspended text messaging in politically tense areas to prevent organizing.Boxun.com said its website was attacked Saturday after it posted the call to protest. A temporary site, on which users were reporting heavy police presence in several cities, was up and running Sunday. The site said in a statement it had no way of verifying the origins of the campaign.Associated Press writers Cara Anna and Charles Hutzler in Beijing and Elaine Kurtenbach in Shanghai contributed to this report.

THE NEW PREDICTER - BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA

KNOWLEGE AND WORLD TRAVEL INCREASED

DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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

BRUCES PROFILE
http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/brucebuenodemesquita.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_bueno_de_mesquita_predicts_iran_s_future.html

THIS OVIOUSLY WORKS BECAUSE THIS IS HOW GOOGLE,CIA,NSA AND GOVERNMENTS ARE PREDICTING OUR ACTIONS RIGHT NOW.AND BRUCE IS PROBABLY WORKING FOR GOOGLE.THEY USE THIS TO PREDICT WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT.THIS METHOD PROBABLY PREDICTED THE MUSLIMS COUNTRIES IN THE MIDEAST ARE RIPE FOR OVERTAKING.SO THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND GOOGLE GOT TOGETHER AND STARTED THE MIDEAST TURMOIL.AFTER ALL IT WAS GHONIM A GOOGLE WORKER THAT DID START THE PROTESTS.AND I HEARD THERE WAS ANOTHER GOOGLE GUY INVOLVED ALSO.AND ITS GOOGLE THE CIA,FBI,NSA,GOVERNMENT COMPANY THATS HEAVY INTO THIS.SO BRUCE IS RIGHT ON WITH THIS METHOD AND BUSH AND NOW OBAMA GRABBED BRUCE AND WAS PROBABLY WORKING WITH HIM UNDER COVER OF GOOGLE SO THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT HAVE TO ADMIT THEY WANT TO CONTROL ALL CITIZENS BY PREDICTING THEIR ACTIONS.THE SCOFFERS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE WRONG,BRUCE IS RIGHT.

I SEEN AN HOUR OF THE SHOW LAST NIGHT ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL.I NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE.BUT THE BIBLE DOES SAY KNOWLEDGE WILL BE INCREASED AND THE WORLD CONTROL SYSTEM WILL BE BASED ON A MATH NUMBER 666.SO BRUCE IS RIGHT ON BY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS-HOW THE WORLDS CITIZENS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY ONE MAN THROUGH A MATH SYSTEM HEADED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.

HISTORY CHANNEL-THE NOSTRADAMUS EFFECT
http://www.history.com/shows/nostradamus-effect/videos#antichrist-prophecies
http://www.history.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=253442

The New Nostradamus - Michael A.M. Lerner Ethan Hill
October 1, 2007 • 6:59 pm
http://www.good.is/post/the-new-nostradamus/

Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. Department of Defense certainly thinks so.

If you listen to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and a lot of people don't, he'll claim that mathematics can tell you the future. In fact, the professor says that a computer model he built and has perfected over the last 25 years can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict, provided the basic input is accurate. What's more, his predictions are alarmingly specific. His fans include at least one current presidential hopeful, a gaggle of Fortune 500 companies, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. Naturally, there is also no shortage of people less fond of his work. Some people think Bruce is the most brilliant foreign policy analyst there is,says one colleague.Others think he's a quack.Today, on a rare sunny summer day in San Francisco, Bueno de Mesquita appears to be neither. He's relaxing in his stately home, answering my questions with exceeding politesse. Sunlight streams through the tall windows, the melodic sound of a French horn echoing from somewhere upstairs; his daughter, a musician in a symphony orchestra, is practicing for an upcoming recital. It's all so complacent and genteel, which is exactly what Bueno de Mesquita isn't. As if on cue, a question sets him off. I found it to be offensive, he says about a colleague's critique of his work. This is absolutely, totally, and utterly false, he says about the attack of another.The criticism rankles him, because, to his mind, the proof is right there on the page. I've published a lot of forecasting papers over the years, he says. Papers that are about things that had not yet happened when the paper was published but would happen within some reasonable amount of time. There's a track record that I can point to. And indeed there is. Bueno de Mesquita has made a slew of uncannily accurate predictions-more than 2,000, on subjects ranging from the terrorist threat to America to the peace process in Northern Ireland-that would seem to prove him right.

The days of the digital watch are numbered, quipped Tom Stoppard. After spending a few hours with Bueno de Mesquita, you might come to believe that so is everything else. Numbered as in mathematics-more precisely, game theory, an esoteric branch of mathematics used to analyze interaction. Game theory is math for how people behave strategically, Bueno de Mesquita says.Bueno de Mesquita has big ideas, and he's more than happy to put his career on the line for them. Back in March 2004, when al-Qaeda bombed a Madrid train station, influencing the course of Spain's general election three days later, a lot of U.S. security folks were nervous. Worried that al-Qaeda might try something similar here in the run-up to the November, 2004, presidential elections, the Pentagon hired Bueno de Mesquita to run some data through his forecasting model to tell them what to expect. The results were unequivocal. I said there would be no homeland attack. I also indicated that bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would resurface around Thanksgiving, 2004, he says. Just after the elections in November that year, Zawahiri released a new videotape. Bueno de Mesquita was right on both counts. One of the things government needs most is advice that's not wishy-washy. I try to be as precise as I can.For the record, this man is not some lunatic soothsayer sequestered in a musty, forgotten basement office. He is the chairman of New York University's Department of Politics, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the author of many weighty academic tomes. He regularly consults with the CIA and the Department of Defense-most recently on such hot-button topics as Iran and North Korea-and has a new book coming out in the fall that he cowrote with his pal Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. His curriculum vitae, which details his various Ph.Ds, academic appointments, editorial-board memberships, writings, honors, awards, and grants, runs 17 small-font pages long.

He is wildly controversial, though. As one of the foremost scholars of game theory-or rational choice, as its political-science practitioners prefer to call it-Bueno de Mesquita is at the center of a raging hullabaloo that has taken over some of the most prestigious halls of learning in this country. Exclusive, highly complex mathematically, and messianic in its certainty of universal truths, rational-choice theory is not only changing the way political science is taught, but the way it's defined.To verify the accuracy of his model, the CIA set up a kind of forecasting face-off that pit predictions from his model against those of Langley's more traditional in-house intelligence analysts and area specialists. We tested Bueno de Mesquita's model on scores of issues that were conducted in real time-that is, the forecasts were made before the events actually happened, says Stanley Feder, a former high-level CIA analyst. We found the model to be accurate 90 percent of the time," he wrote. Another study evaluating Bueno de Mesquita's real-time forecasts of 21 policy decisions in the European community concluded that the probability that the predicted outcome was what indeed occurred was an astounding 97 percent. What's more, Bueno de Mesquita's forecasts were much more detailed than those of the more traditional analysts. The real issue is the specificity of the accuracy, says Feder.We found that DI (Directorate of National Intelligence) analyses, even when they were right, were vague compared to the model's forecasts. To use an archery metaphor, if you hit the target, that's great. But if you hit the bull's eye-that's amazing.

How does Bueno de Mesquita do this? With mathematics. You start with a set of assumptions, as you do with anything, but you do it in a formal, mathematical way, he says. You break them down as equations and work from there to see what follows logically from those assumptions. The assumptions he's talking about concern each actor's motives. You configure those motives into equations that are, essentially, statements of logic based on a predictive theory of how people with those motives will behave. From there, you start building your mathematical model. You determine whether the predictive theory holds true by plugging in data, which are numbers derived from scales of preferences that you ascribe to each actor based on the various choices they face.The Prisoner's Dilemma, a basic in game theory, explains it well: Two burglars are apprehended near the scene of a crime and are interrogated separately by the police. The police know these two goons did it, but they don't know how, so they offer each one a deal. If they both confess and cooperate, they'll both get a minor sentence of five years. If neither man confesses, they'll both only get one year (for having been caught with some of the stolen loot on them). But, and here's where it gets interesting, if one confesses and the other doesn't, the one who confesses walks out scot-free while the other will do 10 years. What will they do? Will they trust each other and do what's obviously in their best interest, which is not confess? Based on game theory's assumptions about human nature, the math derived from this dilemma tells you squarely that the two goons will turn each other in.Quote:

In the foreboding world view of rational choice, everyone is a raging dirtbag.

Which illustrates the next incontrovertible fact about game theory: In the foreboding world view of rational choice, everyone is a raging dirtbag. Bueno de Mesquita points to dictatorships to prove his point: If you liberate people from the constraint of having to satisfy other people in order to advance themselves, people don't do good things. When analyzing a problem in international relations, Bueno de Mesquita doesn't give a whit about the local culture, history, economy, or any of the other considerations that more traditional political scientists weigh. In fact, rational choicers like Bueno de Mesquita tend to view such traditional approaches with a condescension bordering on disdain. One is the study of politics as an expression of personal opinion as opposed to political science, he says dryly. His only concern is with what the political actors want, what they say they want (often two very different things), and how each of their various options will affect their career advancement. He feeds this data into his computer model and out pop the answers.Though controversial in the academic world, Bueno de Mesquita and his model have proven quite popular in the private sector. In addition to his teaching responsibilities and consulting for the government, he also runs a successful private business, Mesquita & Roundell, with offices in Rockefeller Center. Advising some of the top companies in the country, he earns a tidy sum: Mesquita & Roundell's minimum fee is $50,000 for a project that includes two issues. Most projects involve multiple issues. I'm not selling my wisdom, he says. I'm selling a tool that can help them get better results. That tool is the model.In the private sector, we deal with three areas: litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and regulation, he says. On average in litigation, we produce a settlement that is 40 percent better than what the attorneys think is the best that can be achieved.While Bueno de Mesquita's present client list is confidential, past clients include Union Carbide, which needed a little help in structuring its defense after its 1984 chemical-plant disaster in Bhopal, India, claimed the lives of an estimated 22,000 people; the giant accounting firm Arthur Andersen; and British Aerospace during its merger with GEC-Marconi.

But there are limits to what his company will do. For example, Bueno de Mesquita may already know, but he won't say who'll succeed George W. Bush in the White House.We have a corporate policy that we will not, on a commercial basis, use the model in campaigns,he says.We don't think it's appropriate to manipulate the democratic process. We won't take a client who wants to manipulate U.S. government policy, even if we agree with the manipulation. And we won't take a foreign client whose objectives are contrary to the objectives of the United States government.There's also the book he's written with Condoleezza Rice and two other authors, The Strategy of Campaigning, which comes out in the fall. Given the Bush administration's heavy ideological bent-which would seem to represent everything a rationalist like Bueno de Mesquita opposes-how does he justify putting his name on the same dust jacket as Rice's? Bueno de Mesquita repositions himself in his chair. The central question in this book is a question that Condi raised before she came to Washington, he says. (So is her name there just to sell books? We are making a concerted effort not to play up the fact that the Secretary of State is a co-author, he later adds.)Meanwhile, he has just launched and is the director of NYU's Alexander Hamilton Center. The mission for the center is the application of logic and evidence to solving fundamental policy problems. Not to a bipartisan solution, but to a nonpartisan solution. In his continuing work for the CIA and the Defense Department, one of his most recent assignments has been North Korea and its nuclear program. His analysis starts from the premise that what Kim Jong Il cares most about is his political survival. As Bueno de Mesquita sees it, the principal reason for his nuclear program is to deter the United States from taking him out, by raising the costs of doing so. The solution, then, lies in a mechanism that guarantees us that he not use these weapons and guarantees him that we not interfere with his political survival,he says.Quote:

They said my work was evil, offensive, that it should be suppressed. It was a very difficult time in my career.-Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Perhaps not coincidentally, the recent agreement that the United States reached with the government of Pyongyang closely resembles the one that Bueno de Mesquita's model suggested: Kim agrees to dismantle his existing nuclear weapons but not his existing nuclear capability. He puts it in mothballs with IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors on site 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And in exchange, we provide him with $1.2 billion a year, which we label foreign aid, of course. The foreign-aid figure published in the newspapers was $400 million, which concerns Bueno de Mesquita. I read that and I said, I hope that's not the deal because it's not enough money. He needs $1.2 billion, approximately, to sustain the loyalty of his cronies in the military and so forth. It's unpleasant, this is a nasty man, but we're stuck with it. The nice part of the deal is that it's self-enforcing. Each side has a reason to credibly commit to their part of the deal.Recently, he's applied his science to come up with some novel ideas on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In my view, it is a mistake to look for strategies that build mutual trust because it ain't going to happen. Neither side has any reason to trust the other, for good reason,he says. Land for peace is an inherently flawed concept because it has a fundamental commitment problem. If I give you land on your promise of peace in the future, after you have the land, as the Israelis well know, it is very costly to take it back if you renege. You have an incentive to say, You made a good step, it's a gesture in the right direction, but I thought you were giving me more than this. I can't give you peace just for this, it's not enough.Conversely, if we have peace for land-you disarm, put down your weapons, and get rid of the threats to me and I will then give you the land-the reverse is true: I have no commitment to follow through. Once you've laid down your weapons, you have no threat.Bueno de Mesquita's answer to this dilemma, which he discussed with the former Israeli prime minister and recently elected Labor leader Ehud Barak, is a formula that guarantees mutual incentives to cooperate. In a peaceful world, what do the Palestinians anticipate will be their main source of economic viability? Tourism. This is what their own documents say. And, of course, the Israelis make a lot of money from tourism, and that revenue is very easy to track. As a starting point requiring no trust, no mutual cooperation, I would suggest that all tourist revenue be [divided by] a fixed formula based on the current population of the region, which is roughly 40 percent Palestinian, 60 percent Israeli. The money would go automatically to each side. Now, when there is violence, tourists don't come. So the tourist revenue is automatically responsive to the level of violence on either side for both sides. You have an accounting firm that both sides agree to, you let the U.N. do it, whatever. It's completely self-enforcing, it requires no cooperation except the initial agreement by the Israelis that they are going to turn this part of the revenue over, on a fixed formula based on population, to some international agency, and that's that.

His first foray into forecasting controversy took place in 1984, when he published an article in PS, the flagship journal of the American Political Science Association, predicting who would succeed Iran's ruling Ayatollah Khomeini upon his death. He had developed a rudimentary forecasting model that was different from anything anyone had seen before in that it was not designed around one particular foreign-policy problem, but could be applied to any international conflict. It was the first attempt at a general mathematical model of international conflict,he says. His model predicted that upon Khomeini's death, an ayatollah named Hojatolislam Khamenei and an obscure junior cleric named Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would emerge to lead the country together. At the time, Rafsanjani was so little known that his name had yet to appear in the New York Times.Even more improbably, Khomeini had already designated his successor, and it was neither Ayatollah Khamenei nor Rafsanjani. Khomeini's stature among Iran's ruling clerics made it inconceivable that they would defy their leader's choice. At the APSA meeting subsequent to the article's publication, Bueno de Mesquita was roundly denounced as a quack by the Iran experts-a charlatan peddling voodoo mathematics. They said I was an idiot, basically. They said my work was evil, offensive, that it should be suppressed, he recalls. It was a very difficult time in my career. Five years later, when Khomeini died, lo and behold, Iran's fractious ruling clerics chose Ayatollah Khamenei and Hashemi Rafsanjani to jointly lead the country. At the next APSA meeting, the man who had been Bueno de Mesquita's most vocal detractor raised his hand and publicly apologized to him.

Bueno de Mesquita had arrived, and so, too, had rational-choice theory. Rational choicers began sprouting up in political-science departments around the country and, say their critics, strangling anyone and anything in their way. By 2000, according to one estimate, some 40 percent of all articles published in the prestigious American Political Science Review were rational-choice themed. Increasingly, graduate students in political science viewed a fluency in formal mathematic modeling as a prerequisite for career advancement. And the leaps in technology taking place only fueled rational choice's advance: faster, more powerful computers allowed rational choicers to build bigger, ever more complex models that could be applied to ever more complex situations. And, naturally enough, an intellectual counteroffensive was launched.It began in 1994 when two Yale political-science professors, Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, published their book, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, which disputed much of the scientific underpinnings that rational choice claimed for itself. In essence, the authors said that when rational choice was actually put to the practical test, much of it simply didn't work. This was followed by a 1999 (lightning speed in academia) article by Stephen M. Walt in the journal International Security called Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Walt, a political-science professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, conceded some value to formal modeling but ultimately likened rational choice to a cult of irrelevance that stifled creativity and had little practical value in actual policy formulation. Most vexing, Walt accused rational choicers of regarding nonrational choice theorists such as himself as methodological Luddites whose opposition rests largely on ignorance.Quote:

We found that [national intelligence] analyses, even when they were right, were vague compared to [Bueno de Mesquita's] forecasts. If you hit the target, that's great. But if you hit the bull's eye-that's amazing.-Stanley Feder, former CIA analyst

Since no one snaps a towel back harder than a scorned academic, Bueno de Mesquita and several of his rational-choice cohorts immediately mounted a blistering counter-counteroffensive, firing off a series of lengthy rebuttals to Walt's piece that deconstructed his criticism, questioned his facts, and cited what was in their view Walt's muddled logic as a prime example of why rational choice was so desperately needed in the field. In the piece that Steve Walt wrote, in which he acknowledged that logical consistency was important, he also argued that it was overrated, that it stifled creativity. To me this is a bizarre idea, says Bueno de Mesquita, because really what that statement means to me is, if you relax logical consistency, you can say whatever you feel like and therefore you are back to a world in which the study of politics is the expression of personal opinion instead of being political science. It's the art of politics or the articulation of beliefs, which is what dominates much of advising to government. It's rhetoric.The brouhaha culminated at a raucous APSA meeting in 2001 at San Francisco's Hilton Hotel with the open revolt of a group of major-league political scientists who, one by one, took to the podium to rail against rational choice and its encroaching methodological orthodoxy. Dubbed the Perestroika Movement by its anonymous founder (apparently, rational-choice folk are a powerful and vindictive lot), the dissident group vowed to take a stand against the domination of mathematical approaches to the discipline. There is a hegemonic threat out there, warned John J. Mearsheimer, a noted professor of international relations at the University of Chicago. This is about the mathematicization of political science, he said. I'm in favor of filling the zoo with all kinds of animals. But I'm concerned about them running us out of the business or making us marginal. Ultimately, the Perestroikans did win some concessions: a new editor of the APSR who vowed to make the flagship journal more hospitable to mathematics-free articles and a pledge from the APSA to open up its method of appointing officers. The APSA had become dominated by those practicing so-called rigorous analyses, says Walt. Now the pendulum has swung back a bit.

For Bueno de Mesquita, getting his methodology accepted by the policy-making establishment remains somewhat of an uphill slog. The most pointed criticism of rational choice has been that, unlike with more traditional political scientists, very little cross-pollination takes place between rational-choice academics and government policy-makers. Bueno de Mesquita says it's just a matter of time before that changes. Because people who are in a position to appoint people weren't trained in this way, they don't feel as comfortable as with people who were trained in what I would describe as a less rigorous form of study of politics. And, so, the folks who do more rigorous work typically don't get invited in, he says. Of course, the same was true of economics 40 years ago when nontechnical types like John Kenneth Galbraith dominated the field. Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman changed all that, and Bueno de Mesquita sees himself playing the same role for politics.Bueno de Mesquita remains unfazed, ever certain that rational choice will ultimately prevail. When I moved to Rochester in 1973, if you wanted to be trained in this kind of political science, you could go to Rochester, period, he says. Ten years later, you could go to Rochester, Caltech, and Washington University in St. Louis. If you asked me today, you could go to the places I just mentioned, and you could go to NYU, you could go to Stanford-there's a long list of places you could go. Except, of course, Harvard. But it will happen there, too. I'm on their syllabus.

Back to the Future-A sample of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's wilder-and most accurate-predictions

Forecasted the second Intifada and the death of the Mideast peace process, two years before it happened.

Defied Russia specialists by predicting who would succeed Brezhnev. "The model identified Andropov, who nobody at the time even considered a possibility," he says.

Predicted that Daniel Ortega and the Sandanistas would be voted out of office in Nicaragua, two years before it happened.

Four months before Tiananmen Square, said China's hardliners would crack down harshly on dissidents.

Predicted France's hair's-breadth passage of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty.

Predicted the exact implementation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement between Britain and the IRA.

Predicted China's reclaiming of Hong Kong and the exact manner the handover would take place, 12 years before it happened.

Parshah Vayakhel - Exodus 35:1-38:20

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 FEB 20 2011 6PM - FEB 26 6PM 2011

EXODUS 35:1 - 38:20
1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;
11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

EXODUS 36:1-38
1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

EXODUS 37:1-29
1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:
19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.
20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
21 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

EXODUS 38:1-20
1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

PROPHETS PORTION

1 KINGS 7:13-26,40-50
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

2 CORINTHIANS 9:1-15
1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

HEBREWS 9:1-14
1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

REVELATION 11:1-13
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.