I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
DANIEL 7:23-25 23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS) 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
BRUSSELS - Fifteen former high-ranking
EU officials and politicians have urged the Union not to bow to Israeli
and US requests to alter new rules on settler funding.They said in a letter, sent on Monday
(16 September) to EU foreign ministries and to EU foreign relations
chief Catherine Ashton, that Israel's claims the rules will harm peace
talks are not true.They noted that Palestinians resumed the talks, in part, because the EU rules gave them confidence."Their strict application serves to re-iterate that the EU does not
recognise and will not support settlements and other illegal facts on
the ground … which threaten to make a negotiated solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible," the letter says."A delay or suspension of the guidelines ... would undermine the
negotiations by alienating the Palestinians and by reinforcing Israel’s
intransigence," it notes."It would [also] damage the EU’s credibility and erode its vital foundations as a law-based community," it adds.Signatories include four former EU foreign relations chiefs: Javier
Solana, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Hans van den Broek and Frans Andriessen.They also include Miguel Moratinos, a former Spanish foreign minister and EU special envoy on the peace process.Former Dutch and Irish leaders, Andreas Van Agt and John Bruton,
former French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, and former Portuguese
foreign minister, Teresa Patricio Gouveia, signed up as well.The EU in July published guidelines which force Israeli institutions
and firms to sign contracts pledging not to use EU money to fund
activity on Palestinian land.Israel has given up trying to get the rules deleted.But it says it will not join EU projects, such as the Horizon 2020
science scheme, unless the Union drafts agreements which do not force it
to acknowledge EU-and-UN-recognised borders.Talks on Horizon 2020 in Brussels last week ended without agreement.
But the European Commission said the two sides identified "options"
which might make it easier for Israel to swallow its new funding regime.This article was altered at 12.20pm Brussels time on 16 September after three more signatories joined the original 12 names
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE) 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Indonesian volcano erupts forcing 6,000 to flee
.
4 hours ago-sept 16,13-yahoonews
Nearly six thousand people have fled their homes on
Indonesia's Sumatra island after a huge volcanic eruption at the
weekend, officials said, as the volcano belched out more smoke Monday.Mount
Sinabung in the Karo district of North Sumatra province erupted before
dawn on Sunday, spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto nearby villages."The
number of evacuees has risen to 5,956 people," said national disaster
agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, adding they were mostly from six
villages in a three-kilometre (1.9-mile) zone around the volcano.The
head of the North Sumatra disaster agency, Asren Nasution, said they
had taken shelter in churches, mosques and government offices.An
AFP journalist at the scene said that some men who had fled ventured
back to their villages to feed livestock but later returned to
evacuation shelters.Hendra
Gunawan, a volcanologist at a local monitoring post, said the volcano
was still spewing columns of smoke Monday but the activity was lower
than the previous day.The volcano was dormant for nearly 100 years before erupting in August and September 2010, forcing about 12,000 people to flee.
Indonesia
has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines
known as the "Ring of Fire" between the Pacific and Indian oceans.Last
month five people were killed and hundreds evacuated when a volcano on a
tiny island in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted.The country's
most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350
people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS) 26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING GENESIS 7:6-12 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Clearing weather offers relief in flood-hit Colorado
Keith Coffman
45 minutes ago-sept 16,13-yahoonews
DENVER (Reuters) - Drier weather
after historic floods triggered by seven straight days of rain held out
hope for relief in Colorado, where hundreds of people were still
stranded or displaced on Monday.At least five people were
confirmed dead in the floods that hit an area nearly the size of
Delaware, wiping out roads and bridges and destroying about 1,500 homes,
according to Colorado Office of Emergency Management officials.Micki Trost, a spokeswoman for the emergency office, said the death toll
may still rise, but the number of people unaccounted for had dropped
below 1,000 on Monday because of ongoing search-and-rescue efforts.Teams of rescue workers were fanning across flood-hit portions of the state."They'll take advantage of the weather today and help out everyone they
can," Trost said. "We hope that those weather forecasts stay in our
favor."The weather began to clear overnight, and only a light
drizzle and patchy fog were left to hamper helicopter rescue missions
early on Monday, according to Byron Louis of the National Weather
Service office in Boulder.The air rescue operations are the
biggest in the United States since Hurricane Katrina devastated New
Orleans in 2005, National Guard officials said.Louis said some areas had been drenched by as much as 16 inches of rain in just three days, the average for an entire year."I've been in this office for 30-plus years, and I've never seen this type of rain, never," he said.
President Barack Obama declared the area a major disaster over the
weekend, freeing up federal funds and resources to aid state and local
governments.U.S. Army and National Guard troops have rescued
1,750 people cut off by washed-out roads in the mountain canyons of
Boulder and Larimer counties, Army spokesman Major Earl Brown said in a
statement.State officials would be unable to assess the overall
damage until rescue efforts were complete and the floodwaters receded,
said Trost, the Colorado Office of Emergency Management spokeswoman.(Editing by Tom Brown, Greg McCune and Lisa Von Ahn)
A powerful typhoon lashed Japan with torrential rain Monday,
leaving two dead as it damaged homes and flooded parts of the country's
popular tourist destination of Kyoto, where 260,000 people were ordered
sent to shelters.Typhoon Man-yi, packing wind speeds of 162 kilometres per hour Monday
night, was centred off the northern coast and heading to the northern
main island of Hokkaido, dumping more heavy rain.Trains in Tokyo and its vicinity were largely suspended and hundreds
of flights were grounded. At Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine, a janitor was
hit by a fallen tree and seriously injured. Most transportation resumed
in the area by Monday evening.Powerful
typhoon Man-yi was bearing down on Japan and went past Tokyo on Monday,
leaving one dead and dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and
flooding parts of the country's popular tourist destination of Kyoto,
where hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate to
shelters. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) (Shizuo Kambayashi/The
Associated Press)
Dozens of people were injured. Police and disaster management
officials said the body of a 72-year-old woman was dug out of the debris
of her home, which was smashed by a mudslide the night before in Shiga
prefecture, east of Kyoto. A 77-year-old woman was found dead in a
mudslide in Fukui prefecture.
The Meteorological Agency said the storm dumped an "unprecedented"
amount of rainfall in Kyoto and two neighbouring prefectures it passed
overnight, dumping as much as eight centimetres per hour. It lifted a
"special warning" for the area Monday but urged residents to stay alert.In Kyoto, where the city's major Katsura River flooded, some 260,000
people in the prefectural capital alone were told to evacuate. Hundreds
of thousands of others were also ordered to evacuate across Japan.Tourists in Kyoto were taken to safety on boats towed by rescue
workers on a flooded riverside street near the normally scenic
Arashiyama area.Water gushed into a nearby hotel, flooding the lobby and the kitchen, where it knocked down a big refrigerator.
Swallowing the town
"The water in the lobby was up to the waist. I just didn't know what
to do when I saw that," hotel manager Makoto Hasegawa told public
broadcaster NHK as he rinsed the hotel entrance with fresh water.
In the nearby town of Fukuchiyama, an aerial view showed a vast area
of muddy water swallowing the town, with houses, fields or other
structures half-submerged. The town's entire population of more than
81,000 was ordered to evacuate.The government set up an emergency task force to assess damage and
support rescue efforts, said Prime Minister's Office official Hikariko
Ono. Kyoto and Shiga prefecture asked the Defence Ministry to mobilize
relief teams.More than 100 people were injured across the country by Monday
evening, NHK said, citing its own tally. A man was missing after he went
to check fish traps in a river in Fukushima prefecture. A 41-year-old
woman and her daughter, a fifth-grader, were missing in Mie, central
Japan, apparently swept away by a swollen river.
Precautions at nuclear plant
Thousands of homes were flooded across Japan, according to NHK, and
about 80,000 houses in the region were without electricity earlier
Monday.As a preventive step, workers at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear power plant, about 250 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, were
pumping away rainwater that was pooling around hundreds of storage tanks
containing radioactive water.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the rainwater was being
released to the ocean and was believed to be untainted. TEPCO said it
was pumping away the water to reduce the risk of flooding and potential
tank leaks mixing with rainwater, then seeping into the soil or flowing
into the sea.The government's Nuclear Regulation Authority, however, said the
pumping and release of the rainwater into the ocean was possibly "an
event" subject to reporting under nuclear safety rules. TEPCO said the
radioactivity in the released water was within allowed discharge limits,
but duty regulators at the plant were checking.Recent acknowledgements by officials that contaminated water is leaking from the plant have triggered safety concerns.
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
POISONED WATERS
HOSEA 4:1-3 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3 2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. 3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9 6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. 9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
REVELATION 8:8-11 8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7 3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result) 4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Radiation fears push pancakes off the Korean holiday menu
By Ju-min Park-sept 16,13-yahoonews
SEOUL (Reuters) - Lee Gui-ja, a South
Korean housewife, will not be preparing traditional pollack pancakes for
Thanksgiving celebrations this week due to worries the fish may be
contaminated by radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear
reactor.Japan has sought to reassure the international community
that the facility is under control but South Korea has banned fishery
imports from the affected region.Even though the vast majority
of frozen pollack comes to South Korea from Russian waters, sales of
fish have plunged before South Koreans mark the main annual holiday this
week.Japanese officials have been lobbying - without success - to have the ban lifted."I watched the news and will not put frozen pollack pancakes on the
table this year, although they have always been there," Lee said at a
fish market in central Seoul. "Maybe I will prepare mung bean or beef
pancakes instead."Pancakes are one of the dishes traditionally
placed on the table to honor ancestors and then shared by the family
once the ritual is complete."Sales are more than 60 percent down
and stocks are all piled up," said Park Sun-young, who sells frozen
pollack. "We keep telling people that these are not Japanese fish but
people don't believe it."Kim Heon-tae, an official at the Korea
Overseas Fisheries Association, told Reuters that 98 percent of imported
frozen pollack comes from Russian waters.Even so, Hansung
Enterprise, a South Korean fisheries company, said sales of frozen
pollack fell 42.5 percent between January and August from a year
earlier."This is the toughest time I have ever seen," said Park
as she sliced pollack that no one appeared to want. Park runs her
parents' shop, which has been in business for 20 years.Scientists have played down the risk of contamination, to no avail."Frozen pollack comes from different waters so we don't have to worry
about it at all," said Kune Suh, a nuclear engineering professor at
Seoul National University. "But public sentiment has already swung."(Additional reporting by Michelle Kim; Editing by David Chance and John O'Callaghan)
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8 8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
32 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-09-16 11:33:05 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)13 earthquakes in map area
3.732km WNW of Alamo, Nevada 2013-09-16 10:12:31 UTC-04:005.5 km
2.5106km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-09-16 07:09:07 UTC-04:0016.0 km
3.244km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-09-16 01:52:24 UTC-04:00105.0 km
3.072km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-09-16 01:13:20 UTC-04:0042.0 km
2.971km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-09-16 00:13:20 UTC-04:0022.0 km
2.516km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2013-09-15 19:37:15 UTC-04:0068.0 km
4.311km SSE of Joba Arriba, Dominican Republic 2013-09-15 18:55:48 UTC-04:0023.3 km
3.382km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2013-09-15 17:17:10 UTC-04:0038.0 km
2.966km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-09-15 14:57:06 UTC-04:0043.0 km
2.561km N of Joshua Tree, California 2013-09-15 14:38:30 UTC-04:000.1 km
2.617km N of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming 2013-09-15 13:07:25 UTC-04:001.6 km
3.054km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2013-09-15 12:43:19 UTC-04:0054.0 km
3.610km N of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming 2013-09-15 11:53:02 UTC-04:0010.5 km
09/14/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Married priests: Ratzinger makes an exception
Benedict XVI
It was Benedict XVI who opened up the possibility for
Anglo-Catholic Ordinariates to admit married men to the priesthood in
the future
Andrea Torniellivatican cityThe issue of “married priests” comes to the fore
regularly in the media and is often mixed in with topics that have no
bearing on this, such as the ordination of women priests. The subject
comes up in light of some petition presented by a group of priests or
when some important prelate slightly softens their position in an
interview.
The latest such case was when the newly appointed
Vatican Secretary of State, Archbishop Pietro Parolin - who still has a
few days to go before he gives up his role as Apostolic Nuncio to
Venezuela – answered a question put to him by El Universal
newspaper by stating: priestly celibacy “is not part of Church dogma and
the issue is open to discussion because it is an ecclesiastical
tradition” but “one cannot simply say that it belongs to the past.”“These issues do not define faith and are open to
discussion, reflection and examination. Modifications can be made, but
these must always favour unity and God’s will… God speaks to us in many
different ways. We need to pay attention to this voice which points us
towards causes and solutions, for example the clergy shortage. These
kinds of criteria (God’s will, the history of the Church) as well as the
idea of adapting the Church’s positions to modern times need to be
taken into consideration when taking decisions.”The new Secretary of State’s statements
echo what was decided at the Third Lateran Council of 1179. Fr. Filippo
Di Giacomo recalls that during this Council which took place eight
hundred years ago, the Church established that ecclesiastical celibacy
is not by nature divine but canonical. It is a tradition of the Latin
Church and as such is modifiable. “In sum, the Third Lateran Council
left the so-called “apostolic discipline”, decreed by the first seven
ecumenical councils of the undivided Church, in tact. These ecumenical
councils are the only ones recognised by both the Catholic and the
Orthodox Church. This “apostolic discipline” states that the presbyteral
ordination of married men is allowed (if they are celibate at the
moment of their priestly ordination. Even Orthodox priests can no longer
marry after they are ordained, not even if they become widowed) but
that only celibate men can be ordained priests in the Latin Church.Here it is worth pointing out that Eastern
Churches – meaning the Orthodox Churches and those in communion with
Rome – have never considered the question of allowing priests to marry
either. They have only ever discussed the possibility of admitting
already married men to the priesthood (but never to the episcopacy),
hindering men who have already been ordained from marrying. There are
married priests in the Catholic Church. The Eastern Catholic Churches
have some married priests among their clergy. When John Paul II visited
Kiev in 2001 for example, he was greeted in front of a parish by an
Eastern Rite Catholic priest who was accompanied by his wife and
children.The picture’s different in the Latin Church. Until
2009 there had been some exceptional cases in which married Anglican
priests or bishops asking to enter into communion with Rome were
re-ordained priests according to the Catholic Rite. But recent Popes and
the Synods have always stressed celibacy for the Latin clergy. it may
not be dogma but it is a principle and there are deep reasons for it.
These reasons are not only of a practical and administrative nature.
This is why the Church has always discarded the idea of solving the
problem of the clergy shortage by allowing the ordination of viri probati, that is, married men of proven faith who are qualified to administer the sacraments in clergyless communities.In his discussion with Rabbi Abraham Skorka in the book “On Heaven and Earth”,
the then cardinal Bergoglio said this is a subject which is debated in
Western Catholicism upon the request of certain organisations. Some pragmatists say we are losing Manpower. Bergoglio
said that if Western Catholicism decided to reconsider the celibacy
question, it would – in his opinion – be for cultural reasons (as in the
Eastern Churches), it would not be a universal option.“For the moment, I am in favour of maintaining
celibacy, with all its pros and cons, because we have ten centuries of
good experiences rather than failures. What happens is that the scandals
have an immediate impact. Tradition has weight and validity. Catholic
ministers chose celibacy little by little. Up until 1100, some chose it
and some did not. After, the East followed the tradition of non-celibacy
as personal choice, while the West went the opposite way. It is a
matter of discipline, not of faith. It can change. Personally, it never
crossed my mind to marry,” Bergoglio says in the book.In November 2009, Benedict XVI opened a new window
of possibility, although it was limited to Anglican communities which
had decided to enter into communion with the Catholic Church. He did so
without changing the traditional position expressed by his predecessors
and the Synods of Bishops. Ratzinger established the Anglo-Catholic
Ordinariates with the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus.
In paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the Constitution, after a bit which
emphasises the celibacy rule for the future, Ratzinger wrote that the
Ordinary “may also petition the Roman Pontiff … for the admission of
married men to the order of presbyter on a case by case basis, according
to objective criteria approved by the Holy See.”The complementary norms attached to the Apostolic
Constitution and prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith with the Pope’s approval, reiterate that “in consideration of
Anglican ecclesial tradition and practice, the Ordinary may present to
the Holy Father a request for the admission of married men to the
presbyterate in the Ordinariate, after a process of discernment based on
objective criteria and the needs of the Ordinariate.” This clearly
leaves open the possibility for the admission of married men in the
future too. This exception is made in light of the needs of the
Anglo-Catholic Ordinariate.Ratzinger’s Anglicanorum Coetibus was the
first and most authoritative opening to the possibility of admitting
married men in a Latin Church Rite, put down in writing in an Apostolic
Constitution. This was the first official document of its kind prepared
for a Latin community, since the days of the Council of Trent. And there
was something else that was new about it. The personal Anglo-Catholic
ordinaries the document mentions can be married priests and are equated
to bishops (in reality they are not but they can use bishops’ insignia).
As such they are full members of their respective Episcopal
Conferences.
09/16/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
The Holy See in the time of the Commissions of Inquiry
The Cortile della Pigna (pine cone courtyard) in the Vatican City
Life in the Vatican at a time of internal inquiries
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
Abbas: Meet Our Conditions, Then We Can Have Peace
PA
Chairman tells university graduates in Jericho: Unless all our demands
are met, there will not be a peace agreement with Israel.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 9/16/2013, 5:44 AM-IsraelNationalNews
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas-Flash 90
Israel’s
“peace partner”, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has once
again outright rejected an Israeli demand to ensure a peace agreement
that does not harm its security.In a speech
on Sunday to graduates of a university in Jericho, Abbas also clarified
that unless all of the PA’s demands are met, there will not be a peace
agreement with Israel.Abbas told the graduates that the eastern border of the State of Palestine along the Dead Sea
and the Jordan Valley will be with Jordan, thus essentially rejecting
an Israeli demand for a special security arrangement in the Jordan
Valley, that would allow IDF soldiers to remain in the region after the establishment of a Palestinian state.In the past, Abbas indicated his willingness to allow an international UN presence in a future Palestinian state, but stressed that not a single Israeli – civilian or soldier - will be allowed in “Palestine”.Abbas also
told the students that the current negotiations between Israel and the
PA are intended to reach a two-state solution based on the borders that
existed before June 4, 1967, end “the occupation”, bring about the
realization of the independence of the State of Palestine whose capital
is Jerusalem, and bring a settlement to all final status issues,
including releasing PA Arab terrorists from Israeli jails.“Unless all the demands and rights of our people are realized" there will not be an arrangement, he stressed.The speech in
Jericho is the latest example of Abbas saying one thing when he speaks
in English to Western officials or to Israelis, then turning around and
telling his own people the opposite in Arabic.
Most recently, members of the Israeli leftist party Meretz who met with Abbas
claimed that the PA Chairman had reassured them that if a peace
agreement is reached with Israel, it would bring an end to his people’s
demands of the Jewish state. He also assured the Meretz members that the
PA would give up its demand for the “right of return”, which would see
millions of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 and their descendants flood
Israel.However, several days later an official statement
from Abbas’s Fatah party made it clear that "the main goal of the
negotiations with Israel is to establish an independent Palestinian
state within the [pre-]1967 borders with its capital Al-Quds (Jerusalem
-ed.), and the return of refugees in accordance with resolutions by
international legitimate institutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.”For years, the PA has demanded a state based on the borders that
existed before the 1967 Six Day War. Israel refuses, as these borders,
which were termed “Auschwitz borders” by the late former Foreign
Minister Abba Eban, are indefensible and would guarantee its
destruction.Abbas agreed to resume negotiations with Israel in July after being pressured to do so by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.Kerry asked both sides to keep the details
of the negotiations secret in order to give the process a chance to
work and, while Israeli officials have remain tight-lipped about the
talks, PA officials have made several leaks to the press.In the most recent leak, a PA official said that during the negotiations, Israel agreed to a wholesale deportation
of thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria and the transfer of their
property to PA Arabs. However, the PA official who reported on that
Israeli offer added that the PA side had rejected it as not going far
enough. In an earlier leak to the press, the PA's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, told an Arabic radio station that the US has guaranteed the PA all of its key preconditions in advance of negotiations.At the same time, PA officials have publicly stated that achieving peace with Israel was impossible, blaming the Jewish state and its “occupation” of Judea and Samaria for this.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant
from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house
of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto
Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on
the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men
of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus,
and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I COMMENTED ON.THAT RUSSIA-SYRIA AND THE ARAB-MUSLIMS WOULD TRY TO FORCE THIS BAN ON ISRAEL
Israel worried it may be forced to join chemical weapons ban
With deal to disarm Syria of WMDs underway, some policymakers concerned US, Russia may pressure Jerusalem to ratify arms treaty
The deal to strip Assad of his
chemical weapons stockpile has some policymakers in Jerusalem concerned
that Israel may be forced to sign an international chemical weapons ban
treaty, something it has been unwilling to do until now.The Chemical Weapons Convention,
an international arms control pact which bans the production and
amassing of chemical weapons materiel, is ratified by 183 states. Only
Israel and Myanmar have signed the treaty but not ratified it into law.Israel refused to ratify the treaty on the
claim that “there is no significance to being part of an agreement like
this while a neighboring country like Syria possesses a vast stockpile
of chemical weapons,” Channel 10 reported Sunday night.“Israel cannot allow itself to be the one that
everyone thinks doesn’t have chemical weapons,” retired brigadier
general Yitzhak Ben-Israel, head of Tel Aviv University’s Security
Studies department, told the station.Neither Syria nor Egypt signed the CWC, and
both have active chemical weapons programs. South Sudan, North Korea and
Angola are the remaining non-signatory states.According to a Channel 10 report, Israel is concerned that now that the US and Russia on Saturday reached a deal which aims to destroy Syria’s chemical stockpile by the middle of next year, the two world powers may force Israel to ratify the treaty. As a party to the CWC, Israel would be forced
to permit international inspectors access to its most sensitive security
facilities, including the Dimona nuclear reactor and the Nes Ziona
Biological Institute. According to a CIA document published in Foreign
Policy magazine, US spy satellites in 1982 uncovered “a probable CW
(chemical weapons) nerve agent production facility and a storage
facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert.”Since Israel has not ratified the treaty, it isn’t presently subjected to such inspections.
The Foreign Ministry last week stated that
Israel wouldn’t ratify the CWC so long as other states in the region
with chemical weapons refuse to recognize Israel and threaten to destroy
it, Haaretz reported.
Despite this, should Syria be disarmed of its
WMDs, officials in Israel’s defense establishment are confident that
Israel can safely become a signatory to the treaty without compromising
national security, the Channel 10 report said.At a joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked him for his efforts to purge Syria
of chemical weapons and linked the agreement with Syria to the ongoing
campaign to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear program.“We have been closely following – and support –
your ongoing efforts to rid Syria of its chemical weapons,” Netanyahu
said. “The Syrian regime must be stripped of all its chemical weapons,
and that would make our entire region a lot safer.“The world needs to ensure that radical
regimes don’t have weapons of mass destruction because as we’ve learned
once again in Syria, if rogue regimes have weapons of mass destruction,
they will use them. The determination the international community shows
regarding Syria will have a direct impact on the Syrian regime’s patron,
Iran. Iran must understand the consequences of its continual defiance
of the international community, by its pursuit toward nuclear weapons…
if diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible
military threat.”Netanyahu earlier Sunday expressed cautious optimism about the deal, stressing that the proof of its effectiveness would be in deeds, not words.Officials in Jerusalem said late Saturday
Israel would of course be delighted to see the Assad regime stripped of
chemical weapons, but that it was wary of the unfolding diplomatic
framework and concerned that Assad was bent on buying time and won’t
adhere to the timeline.
BRUSSELS - EU countries have offered to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons as part of a Russia-US deal.Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US secretary of state John
Kerry agreed the plan on Saturday (14 September) in Geneva after three
days of talks.It says Syria must in one week disclose details of its chemical
arsenal to the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW), an intergovernmental body created in 1997 and based in The
Hague.It must give OPCW staff full access to it facilities.OPCW personnel are to destroy "production and mixing/filling equipment" by November.
They are to destroy all remaining "weapons material and equipment" in the first half of 2014.If Syria does not comply, if it uses chemical weapons or if it tries
to sneak them to allies in Lebanon and Iran, then Russia and the US
"concur" that "the UN Security Council should impose measures under
chapter VII of the UN charter," or, in other words, should authorise use
of military force.Syria itself on Saturday ratified the OCPW charter.It also welcomed the deal. "It's a victory for Syria achieved thanks
to our Russian friends," its reconciliation minister, Ali Haidar, told
Russian news agency Ria Novosti.But Syrian rebel leaders rejected it. "We cannot accept this
initiative … We will continue to fight until the fall of the regime,"
Free Syrian Army chief Selim Idriss told press in Istanbul.For his part, Kerry said in Geneva: "I have no doubt that the
combination of the threat of force and the willingness to pursue
diplomacy helped to bring us to this moment."
Lavrov warned Syrian rebels "not to create threats to [OPCW] international personnel."Leading EU countries France, Germany and the UK, as well as China and Iran, have endorsed the agreement.
Chancellor Angela Merkel told an election rally in Germany on Sunday it creates hope for a political solution to the civil war.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, while visiting China, said:
"Only a few days ago, Syria was denying having chemical weapons and
having used them. From now on we are in a new phase."
British foreign minister William Hague noted in London: "This is a significant step forward."EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton added in a statement: "A
number of EU member states have the technical knowledge necessary to
assist in securing sites, and in dismantling and destroying certain
chemical agents … the EU stands ready to offer further support to the
OPCW in carrying out its important and urgent tasks."
Syrian rebels are not the only ones unhappy with developments, however.Two US senators from the opposition Republican Party, John McCain and
Lindsey Graham, predict Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will use the
chemical deal to muzzle international critics while he continues to
massacre civilians.They said it is "the start of a diplomatic blind alley, and the Obama
administration is being led into it by Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir
Putin," referring to US President Barack Obama and Russian head of state
Vladimir Putin.
With Kerry due in Jerusalem for talks with Israeli leaders on Sunday,
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt noted that Israel is also suspected
of having chemical weapons."After Syria deal, with implementation to be watched carefully,
Israel should ratify and Egypt sign and ratify Chemical Weapons
Convention," he tweeted.
Kerry in Geneva also explained how the deal came about.The initiative took off after Kerry, at a press conference in London
last Monday, said, in an off-the-cuff remark, that al-Assad could avoid
military strikes by handing over "every single bit of his chemical
weapons to the international community in the next week."
He noted in Switzerland on Saturday that he had discussed the idea
with Lavrov by phone in the run-up to the G20 summit in St Petersburg
before the London press event.He said Obama and Putin also talked about it in St Petersburg and that "the rest is history."In EU circles, the Polish foreign ministry is putting it about that its minister, Radek Sikorski, came up with the plan.An EU diplomat told EUobserver it originated in a meeting of eight
Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers in Visby, Sweden, on 4 September,
however.The diplomat said the eight countries discussed Syria after requests for Ashton to convene an EU-level debate fell on deaf ears.
Assad’s biological weapons absent from US-Russia deal
Syrian regime has two bases producing anthrax and other devastating agents, Israel’s Channel 10 reports
Syrian President Bashar Assad
has two biological weapons bases, developing anthrax and other
devastating biological agents, and yet the US-Russia deal aimed at
stripping his regime of chemical weapons makes no provisions for his
biological weapons capability, Israeli TV reported Sunday night.There is “not a word” about biological weapons in the agreement that US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday, Channel 10 news said.Assad has two biological weapons bases, one of
them subterranean and a second in a coastal location, producing anthrax
and other agents, the report saidIn an unclassified report in April, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assessed that Syria could be capable of producing limited biological weapons.“Based on the duration of Syria’s longstanding
biological warfare (BW) program, we judge that some elements of the
program may have advanced beyond the research and development stage and
may be capable of limited agent production,” Clapper wrote. “Syria is
not known to have successfully weaponized biological agents in an
effective delivery system, but it possesses conventional and chemical
weapon systems that could be modified for biological agent delivery.”A 2008 report on Syrian WMDs,
by Anthony Cordesman of the US Center for Strategic and International
Studies, went further, citing Israeli sources. According to Israel,
Cordesman wrote, “Syria weaponized botulinum and ricin toxins in the
early 1990s, and probably anthrax.”
He noted “reports of one underground facility and one near the coast,” cited a “possible production capability for anthrax and botulism, and possibly other agents,” and mentioned “limited indications [Syria] may be developing or testing biological variations on ZAB-incendiary bombs and PTAB-500 cluster bombs and Scud warheads.”The Cordesman report noted that “using advanced agents – such as the most lethal forms of anthrax – can have the effectiveness of small theater nuclear weapons. It is difficult to design adequate missile warheads to disseminate such agents, but this is not beyond Syrian capabilities – particularly since much of the technology needed to make effective cluster munitions and bomblets for VX gas can be adapted to the delivery of biological weapons.“The design of biological bombs and missile warheads with the lethality of small nuclear weapons may now be within Syrian capabilities, as is the design of UAV, helicopter, cruise missile, or aircraft-borne systems
to deliver the agent slowly over a long line of flight and taking
maximum advantage of wind and weather conditions,” he wrote.On Friday, Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) wrote
to President Barack Obama to warn that “omitting Assad’s bioweapons from
any agreement would represent a gaping hole in the plan.” Such
weaponry, in the hands of Assad or his allies, wrote Cornyn, “represent a
direct security threat” to the US and its allies. If Hezbollah and
other terror groups got hold of this materiel, he warned, “this would be
a direct threat to the United States and our allies, particularly
Israel.”
France doesn’t rule out ‘military option’ in Syria
French president says that without a credible threat of force, ‘there will be no pressure’
PARIS — French President
Francois Hollande hasn’t ruled out the “military option” against Syria,
as US Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Paris for talks Monday on
how to rid Syria of its chemical weapons stockpile.In a televised address Sunday night, Hollande said: “The military option must remain; otherwise there will be no pressure.”France, which has been at the forefront of
international diplomacy on Syria, firmly backs the rebels and has
strategic and historic interests in the region. It urged military action
after a chemical attack on August 21 that Paris and Washington blame on
Bashar Assad’s government.The diplomatic breakthrough, which has been
seen to avert the threat of US military action against Syria, came
Saturday after American and Russian diplomats in Geneva agreed on a plan
for Syria’s chemical weapons. France wasn’t present.Hollande, Kerry, French Foreign Minister
Laurent Fabius and British Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet in
Paris Monday to agree on a draft UN resolution that would set out how
Syria can secure and destroy its stockpile.But Hollande said there needs to be sanctions to coerce the Syrian regime into sticking to turning over its chemical weapons.“It is necessary to include the threat of
sanctions if the agreement and the aims of the Security Council
resolution aren’t carried out,” he said.“The next step, it has to be finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis,” he added.Speaking from Beijing on Sunday, Fabius said
questions over the deal remained, including what measures should be
taken if the Syrian government fails to adhere to it.After being first drafted in Paris, the UN
resolution will then travel to Moscow to be validated by Russian
President Vladimir Putin.Russia and China have consistently blocked resolutions at the UN Security Council aimed at sanctioning Assad’s regime.More than 100,000 people have been killed in the 2½-year-long Syrian conflict.
Chemical weapons inspectors submit report on Syria
Secretary general to brief Security Council in closed session on Monday, then General Assembly later in the day
UNITED NATIONS — The UN said its
chief chemical weapons inspector has turned over his team’s report on
last month’s alleged poison gas attack in Syria to Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon.UN
spokesman Martin Nesirky said the report was transmitted Sunday and the
secretary-general will brief a closed session of the UN Security
Council on its contents Monday morning. He will also brief the
193-member General Assembly later that day.The inspection team led by Swedish expert Ake
Sellstrom was mandated to report on whether chemical weapons were used
in the Aug. 21 attack in the Damascus suburbs and, if so, which chemical
agents were used — not on who was responsible.The secretary-general said Friday that he
believes there will be “an overwhelming report” that chemical weapons
were used in the attack.
20 trucks with Syrian chemical equipment said sent to Iraq
Unconfirmed report in Lebanese newspaper echoes claims by Syrian rebels that Assad is hiding his WMD stocks to evade inspectors
Twenty trucks laden with
equipment used in the manufacture of chemical weapons were driven across
the border from Syria into Iraq on Thursday and Friday, the Lebanese
newspaper Al-Mustaqbal reported on Sunday.The
trucks were “heavily protected” by security forces, and were not
inspected by border guards, the paper reported, adding that its sources
confirmed the illicit cargo.There was no confirmation of the report in
Al-Mustaqbal, a newspaper associated with groups opposed to the regime
of President Bashar Assad.
Sunday’s report came amid ongoing claims by
the leader of the Free Syrian Army, Salim Idriss, that Assad was busy
hiding his chemical weapons so that, when UN inspectors arrive to record
and ultimately oversee the destruction of his stockpiles, a sizable
amount of his WMD stocks will not be affected.In interviews over the weekend, Idriss
insisted his group had accurate information that Assad was sending some
chemical weapons to Lebanon and Iraq, and more to “dozens of sites”
across Syria to torpedo any attempt at international inspection and
destruction of the stockpiles, as mandated by Saturday’s US-Russia
agreement.
A CNN report
on Thursday also quoted Idriss claiming that the Syrian government had
begun moving its chemical weapons stockpiles to Lebanon and Iraq.Baghdad rejected Idriss’s claim, and Israeli
officials who spoke to the news outlet said they had no indication that
Assad had moved the WMDs to Lebanon or Iraq.
The Wall Street Journal
last week also cited “American and Middle Eastern officials” as saying
that the Syrian military unit running Assad’s chemical weapons program
was scattering the regime’s stockpiles to as many as 50 sites across the
country to confound American efforts to track them.“The movements of chemical weapons by Syria’s
elite Unit 450 could complicate any US bombing campaign in Syria over
its alleged chemical attacks,” the paper wrote, citing officials. “It
also raises questions about implementation of a Russian proposal that
calls for the regime to surrender control of its stockpile.”According to US officials, American and
Israeli officials are confident that they can still identify the
locations of Assad’s chemical weapons sites, “but with less confidence
than six months ago,” the paper wrote.Another Syrian rebel leader said last Friday
that the Assad regime has transferred chemical weapons to the Lebanese
Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah.According to a report in Saudi Arabia’s al-Watan newspaper, Syrian National Coalition member Kamal al-Labwani
said the rebels obtained documents and testimony from a defector from
one of the Syrian government’s chemical weapons research centers that
indicate Assad transferred roughly one metric ton of VX nerve gas to its
ally, Hezbollah.Al-Labwani told al-Watan that he forwarded
documentary proof of his claim to the US Embassy in Jordan and British
intelligence in Doha. The al-Watan report could not be independently
confirmed.Israel has repeatedly vowed to prevent
Hezbollah’s acquisition of sophisticated weaponry, including chemical
weapons. In January, Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike near a
chemical weapons facility outside Damascus. US officials said the
Israelis struck the military research center and a convoy next to it,
which was carrying anti-aircraft weapons destined for the Islamic
militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.Western intelligence estimates that the Assad regime possesses roughly 1,000 metric tons of chemical and biological weapons.
Assad says US must stop military threats, and Israel must sign WMD treaties
Syrian
president, announcing plans to submit data on his chemical weapons a
month after signing int’l convention, issues demands of his own
By Times of Israel staff and APSeptember 12, 2013, 5:24 pmUpdated: September 12, 2013, 10:51 pm24-The Times of Israel
MOSCOW — Syria’s President
Bashar Assad on Thursday demanded that Israel ratify international
treaties on non-proliferation of nonconventional weapons, and that the
US promise not to attack his regime, as he set conditions for a
negotiated resolution of the crisis over his chemical weapon.Assad
said he would submit data on his country’s chemical weapons stockpile a
month after signing an international convention banning the arms,
adding that it was Russia, and not the US, that was making a negotiated
solution possible. His comments were believed to mark Assad’s first
formal acknowledgement that he has chemical weapons.
Calling a month wait the “standard process,”
Assad said his country would abide by agreements, but said that such a
process is “two-sided” and indicated it would only work if the US halts
its threats of military action against Syria, if Washington does not arm
Syrian rebels, and if Israel also ratifies weapons ban conventions.“When we see that the United States really
wants stability in our region, and will stop threatening and striving to
attack, and will stop providing weapons to the terrorists, then we will
consider that we can carry out these necessary processes to the end,”
he said.Speaking to Russia’s state-run Rossiya-24 TV, he added that any war against Syria would destroy the whole region.“If we want stability in the Middle East, all
the countries in the region should stick to [international]
agreements,” he said. “And Israel is the first state that should do so,
since Israel possessed nuclear, chemical, biological and all other kinds
of weapons of mass destruction.”A United Nations spokesperson told al-Jazeera
Thursday evening that the UN had received a document from Syria
initiating the process of Syria declaring its chemical weapons
stockpile.Assad told the news channel that his
government had agreed to surrender its chemical weapons in response to
Russia’s initiative and not because of the US threat of attack.“Syria is transferring chemical weapons under international control because of Russia,” Assad said.Assad added that “the US threats hadn’t influenced” his government’s decision.“The most important role belongs to the
Russian government, because we do not trust the United States and have
no contact. Russia is the only government that can carry this out right
now,” he said.Russia on Monday proposed that Syria place its
chemical weapons under international control and eventually dismantle
them in order to avert a US strike, and Syria quickly accepted the
proposal.US Secretary of State John Kerry and his
Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov were set to sit down together to
discuss details of the plan in Geneva later Thursday.Speaking to his Cabinet Thursday, US President
Barack Obama said he hoped the two could work out a deal with a
“concrete result.”“I know that [Kerry] is going to be working
very hard over the next several days to see what the possibilities are
there,” he said.
4-ROSH-HASHANA WAS JUST OVER.SEPT 4-6 6PM (2 DAYS)(ISRAEL NEW YEAR) 5-YOM KIPPUR IS ON SEPT 13TH 6PM (1 DAY) 6-SUKKOT IS ON SEPT 18-25,13 6PM (WEEK LONG) 7-SHEMINI ATZERET IS ON SEPT 25,13 6PM (1 DAY) 8-HANUKKAH IS ON NOV 27,13 6PM (1 WEEK)
NOTE: All holidays begin at sundown on the evening
before the date given.
1. Feast of Lots.
2. Feast of Unleavened Bread.
3. Hebrew Pentecost; or Feast of Weeks,
or of Harvest, or of First Fruits.
4. Jewish New Year.
5. Day of Atonement.
6. Feast of Tabernacles, or of the
Ingathering.
7. Assembly of the Eighth Day.
8. Festival of Lights.
Length of Jewish holidays:
Orthodox and Conservative:
In Israel: Purim: 1 day. Passover: 7 days;
first and last are holy. Shavuot: 1 day. Rosh Hashanah: 2 days. Yom
Kippur: 1 day. Sukkot: 7 days; first is holy. Shemini Atzeret: 1 day.
Hanukkah: 8 days.
Outside Israel: Purim: 1 day. Passover: 8
days; first 2 and last 2 are holy. Shavuot: 2 days. Rosh Hashanah: 2
days. Yom Kippur: 1 day. Sukkot: 7 days; first 2 are holy. Shemini
Atzeret: 2 days (2nd called Simchat Torah). Hanukkah: 8 days.
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS) 26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING GENESIS 7:6-12 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Manuel churned very near
to Mexico's southwest Pacific shoreline Sunday as thousands on the
country's Gulf rim sought shelter from approaching Hurricane Ingrid amid
the threat of heavy rains, dangerous flash floods and mudslides along
both coasts.Manuel and Ingrid appeared set to wallop Mexico with a
one-two punch and mar several planned observances of the country's
Sept. 15 and 16 Independence Day celebrations.The U.S. National
Hurricane Center in Miami said Ingrid, the second hurricane of the
Atlantic storm season, could reach the Mexican mainland early Monday
after gathering strength over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It
was packing top sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph) as it slowly crawled
toward land with little change in strength in hours.Manuel,
sustaining maximum winds of 70 mph (120 kph), was about 75 miles (120
kilometers) from the Pacific coast near the Mexican port city of Lazaro
Cardenas early Sunday. Forecasters said that storm was moving toward
imminent landfall over the coming hours.The Mexican government
late Saturday issued a hurricane warning for the country's Pacific Coast
from Lazaro Cardenas to Manzanillo. The storm was expected to rapidly
weaken once it began heading into the Mexican interior through the
afternoon.
Forecasters warned, meanwhile, that both storms presented dangers.Manuel
was expected to dump 10 to 15 inches of rain over parts of the Mexican
states of Oaxaca and Guerrero with maximums of 25 inches possible in
some isolated areas. Authorities said those rains would present an
especially dangerous threat in mountains, where flash floods and
mudslides were possible.Hurricane Ingrid also was expected to
dump very heavy rains. It was centered Sunday about 150 miles (240 km)
east of Tampico, Mexico, and moving northwest at 7 mph (11 km). A
hurricane warning from Ingrid was in effect from Cabo Rojo to La Pesca.
In
Tamaulipas state to the north, where Ingrid is expected to make
landfall, the government said in a statement that Independence Day
festivities were cancelled in the cities of Tampico, Madero and
Altamira. The Sept. 15 and 16 celebrations commemorate Mexico's battle
of independence from Spain.Officials in the Gulf state of
Veracruz began evacuating coastal residents Friday night, and civil
protection authorities said that more than 5,300 people had been moved
to safer ground. Of those, about 3,500 people were being housed in
official shelters with the rest staying with family and friends. There
were no immediate reports of injuries blamed on the storm.
More
than 1,000 homes in Veracruz state have been affected by the storm to
varying degrees, and 20 highways and 12 bridges have suffered damages,
according to the state's civil protection authority.A bridge
collapsed near the northern Veracruz city of Misantla on Friday, cutting
off the area from the state capital. Thirteen people died when a
landslide buried their homes in heavy rains spawned by Tropical
Depression Fernand on Monday.State officials imposed an orange alert, the highest possible, in parts of southern Veracruz.
Colorado floods leave hundreds unaccounted for
2 hours ago-sept 15,13-yahoonews
More than 500 stranded victims of major flooding in Colorado
braced for a new round of heavy rain Sunday that is threatening to
impede rescue efforts.Officials noted that many of those
unaccounted for may simply not be able to telephone loved ones because
of flood damage to many cell phone towers.New flash floods were
expected to inundate the area, which thousands were forced to evacuate. A
flash flood watch was in effect through the evening for the entire
Denver metro area, as well as the northern Front Range Foothills and
mountains.On Saturday, large hail the size of peas or even
marbles pummelled parts of the city of Aurora, according to local
weather reports. A series of thunderstorms also struck the area.Raging
floodwaters in the city of Boulder, already confirmed to have killed at
least four people, apparently claimed the life of a fifth on Saturday
-- a 60-year-old woman swept away in the torrent.The Larimer
County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter that the woman was "missing
presumed dead," after floodwaters destroyed her house, and officials
warned that the toll would likely climb further."There might be
further loss of life," Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle told reporters.
"It's certainly a high probability... We're hoping to reach everyone as
soon as possible."
But some additional help was on the way, with
President Barack Obama declaring a major disaster in Colorado and
ordering federal aid to support state and local efforts."Assistance
can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost
loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help
individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the
disaster," the White House said.
And the Wyoming National Guard
was helping the evacuation effort after Governor Matt Mead activated
five UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and 20 crew members, the state's
military department said.In the disaster zone, helicopters
circled above submerged houses in a search for survivors in the western
US state, with hundreds still missing.The storms separated some
families. A worried Robert Egloff told The Denver Post he has spent the
past two days driving from shelter to shelter searching for his parents,
both veterans.
"All I know is it's another bus without my parents
on it," he said after watching friends and family greet evacuees who
stepped off buses.
About
350 people were unaccounted for in Larimer County alone, from where
about 475 people were evacuated, according to the sheriff's office.In
neighboring Boulder County, 231 people were unaccounted for, according
to CNN, though authorities cautioned that the numbers were fluctuating."It
is no doubt an epic event," Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway told
The Denver Post. "It is a once in 500 years or 1,000 years situation."Search and rescue teams are being deployed to assess the situation and contact stranded residents.The US National Guard provided seven helicopters to help get people out of danger.Some
1,200 residents were pulled out of the Pinewood Springs area by the
National Guard and Fort Carson personnel, state authorities said on
Twitter.But many others are still awaiting rescue, which authorities said could take days for some.Impassable
roads forced authorities to use a helicopter to evacuate 200 residents
from Jamestown, northwest of Boulder, according to news reports.Residents' furry friends were also stranded by the torrential rains."Our
victims' advocates told me tonight there were almost as many pets as
people getting off the evacuation helicopters today," the Larimer County
Sheriff's Office tweeted.Officials said there were widespread
power outages as streets became raging rivers after the state received
months' worth of rain in just a few days.Rain began pelting the
state earlier this week, in Boulder, which saw 7.2 inches (18.3
centimeters) of precipitation in about 15 hours beginning Wednesday
night, with more downpours likely over the weekend.Pictures from
helicopter cameras showed heavy rain had reduced the towns of Jamestown,
Lyons and Longmont to little more than islands, with ready-to-eat meals
being dropped to stranded, anxious residents below.
