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.
The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press APR 08,08
A developing storm system in the Central Plains was inching northeast early Tuesday, carrying a cold front across the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. High pressure was keeping the Northeast clear. Light to moderate rain was to continue in the Central Plains, spreading across the Southern Plains, mid-Mississippi and Ohio Valleys later in the day.Portions of the Upper Midwest can expect rain mixed with snow, and large hail was possible from central and northern Oklahoma northwestward into eastern Kansas and western Missouri.As Gulf moisture gradually increases across the Plains, strong to severe thunderstorms will begin to fire up along and ahead of the cold front from the Southern Plains into the lower Ohio Valley. The main threat will be large hail and damaging winds. A few tornadoes may also develop, especially from central Missouri to part of central and southern Illinois.
Farther east, the low pressure system off the mid-Atlantic coast was to continue to draw Atlantic moisture into the coastal region, triggering mostly light rain. Otherwise, high pressure will keep the Northeast mostly dry. A warming trend also will take hold through the rest of the week.Out West, unsettled and cool weather will continue from the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies over the next few days. Coastal rain and scattered snow showers will continue across the region. Another Pacific system will be approaching the coast, pushing through the Pacific Northwest and far northern California into Wednesday morning.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Monday ranged from a low of 7 degrees at Mobridge, S.D., to a high of 100 degrees at Laredo, Texas.On the Net:Weather Underground: http://www.wunderground.com
National Weather Service: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov
Intellicast: http://www.intellicast.com
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
Thousands flood Haitian streets in protests over high food prices; 1killed Mon Apr 7, 3:44 PM By Jonathan M. Katz, The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Protesters angered by high food prices flooded the streets of Haiti's capital Monday, forcing businesses and schools to close as unrest spread from the countryside.
Witnesses said at least one person was killed by hotel security guards during a protest in the southern city of Les Cayes, where at least three people were killed Friday in food riots and clashes with UN peacekeepers. Police said they were investigating.
Thousands of people marched mostly peacefully past the National Palace in Port-au-Prince. We're hungry, some called out. Others carried posters reading Down with the expensive life! Haitians are particularly affected by food prices that are rising worldwide. Eighty per cent of the population lives on less than US$2 a day. The cost of staples such as rice, beans, fruit and condensed milk has gone up 50 per cent in the past year, while the cost of pasta has doubled. Some can't take the hunger anymore, Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste told The Associated Press. As a priest, I encourage all government officials to do their best to find ways to solve the near-famine situation.The UN World Food Program made an urgent appeal for donations Monday to support its operations in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned last week that the food crisis could threaten Haiti's already fragile security.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran begins installing more centrifuges By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer APR 8,08
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday. The U.S. immediately criticized the announcement as an example of Iran's continued defiance of international demands that it suspend uranium enrichment, which can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or fissile material for a weapon.Today's announcement reflects the Iranian leadership's continuing violation of international obligations and refusal to address international concerns, said Gregory Schulte, the U.S. representative to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating at its underground nuclear facility in Natanz, and the U.N. has passed three sets of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. Tehran insists its nuclear program is focused on the peaceful production of energy, not the development of weapons as claimed by the U.S. and many of its allies.Iran has not only failed to suspend enrichment, but has chosen to ignore the will of the international community by announcing the installation of new centrifuges, said a spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office on condition of anonymity in line with policy.This is despite the fact that Iran's enrichment program has no apparent civilian purpose, and shows that Iran is making no effort to restore international confidence in its intentions, he said.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Iran's uranium enrichment effort is dangerous and continued sanctions may be necessary against Tehran.Ahmadinejad made Tuesday's announcement as he toured the Natanz facility in central Iran.The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz, state television reported.State television also quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that we have reached new achievements in Natanz that he would announce later Tuesday.The president's trip was scheduled to coincide with Iran's National Day of Nuclear Technology, marking the second anniversary of Iran's first enrichment of uranium.Ahmadinejad is widely expected to confirm for the first time Tuesday that Iran has installed hundreds of more sophisticated centrifuges that can enrich uranium faster.
The workhorse of Iran's enrichment program is the P-1 centrifuge, which is run in cascades of 164 machines. But Iranian officials confirmed in February that they had started using the IR-2 centrifuge that can churn out enriched uranium at more than double the rate.Diplomats in Vienna told The Associated Press on Thursday that Iran has assembled hundreds of advanced centrifuges at Natanz.
One diplomat said more than 300 of the centrifuges have been linked up in two separate units in Iran's underground enrichment plant and a third was being assembled. He said the machines apparently are more advanced than the thousands already running underground.But a senior diplomat said that while the new work appeared to include advanced centrifuges, they were not IR-2s.Both diplomats are linked to the IAEA and asked for anonymity because their information was confidential.A total of 3,000 centrifuges is the commonly accepted figure for a nuclear enrichment program that is past the experimental stage and can be used as a platform for a full industrial-scale program that could churn out enough enriched material for dozens of nuclear weapons. Iran says it plans to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment that ultimately will involve 54,000 centrifuges. Associated Press writers George Jahn in Vienna, Austria, and David Stringer in London contributed to this report.
Modern Russia more painful than doom
Louise Evans | April 08, 2008
AFTER living in a cave for five months, cut off from the outside world and without access to email or mobile phones, you'd expect to find more than the weather had changed when you emerged.When members of a Russian doomsday cult came out of a cave southeast of Moscow last week after melting snow caused part of their hillside hovel to collapse as they had waited since November for the world to end, here's what they found. Their hunk o'spunk Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was named Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year in December, is being replaced next month by a clone called Dmitry Medvedev, who was shoehorned into the Kremlin after a dodgy election. In light of further news updates about anti-Putin demonstrations in St Petersburg and Moscow in November, the assassination in December of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the February resignation of Fidel Castro as Cuba's president and the demise of Zimbabwe despot Robert Mugabe after 28 years, panic flashed through the doomsday group. Instead of thinking about the end of the world, they were worried about their immediate future.
Who was this Putin mini-me, who walks and talks just like their Ken-doll President and has even been known to answer to Pootie-Poot, George W. Bush's nickname for Russia's answer to gun-toting American hero Charlton Heston? Cave dwellers alarmed that their Pootie-Poot was kaput were calmed when advised that Medvedev would be the grip-and-grin man charged with marauding across the world and monstering democratically elected leaders, those pests who pop up and then disappear after just a few years. Meanwhile, Putin will stay on as prime minister and continue to run Russia, ensuring that foreign companies' assets are sequestered, investigative journalists and spies are killed and the courts support the ruling elite and their cronies. Doomsdayers have been assured Putin won't tighten his authoritarian rule on the country's 141 million population, providing no one mentions the words democracy, free media or Russian mafia. Cave dwellers were also stunned to discover that, in the free world, a black man whose middle name is Hussein is leading the race to the White House. When they asked whether it would be renamed the Black House if Barack Obama became the US president, they were advised by the official government-controlled news agency that Russia was pro-Hillary Clinton. Putin is convinced that once Bush is gone he can get Clinton to lower that defence shield, or at least pay lip service to his missile system.
Negotiators who talked the doomsdayers out of their cave also allayed fears that Putin wanted to start a new cold war with the West. But if global players did not accede to Putin's demands at the NATO summit, Putin might have used his old party trick and started a cold snap by turning off the natural gas and oil that Russia supplies to a quarter of Europe. Doomsdayers were advised to be cautious with loans and savings as the US economy was behaving like Britney Spears. It's overrated, out of control and teetering on the brink of collapse, forcing other world economies into rehab.
Catching up on celebrity gossip, doomsdayers learned that Britain has found a replacement for its long lost queen of hearts, princess Diana. Not Prince William's girlie Kate Middleton, but France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the new wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Like Diana, Carla is a gorgeous, long-legged fashion horse. The thought of all those frumpy equine English dames and paunchy dandruff-dusted dandies fawning over a non-aristocratic Italian model made the doomsdayers forget that the end of the world was not nigh. One of the few pleasures while living in that leaky cave was chain-smoking and drinking vodka. Who cares about lung cancer and liver failure if the world is about to end? So doomsdayers were disappointed to learn the worldwide trend to ban smoking in public places continued apace while they were holed up. Even nicotine-addicted ally China is falling in behind the self-righteous anti-cigarette West. There was further dismay when they learned their doomsday leader and self-declared prophet, Pyotr Kuznetsov, had been admitted to hospital with a self-inflicted open head wound. It appears Kuznetsov attempted suicide, not because he's a fraud or because the world isn't ending, but because when he checked his inbox after five months he had 2,358,694 emails. More than two million were from Russia and were flogging Viagra, fake luxury goods, Russian brides and money scams. Some things never change. evansl@theaustralian.com.au
Oil prices slip; gas in volatile trading By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer APR 8,08
VIENNA, Austria - Oil prices inched downward Tuesday after jumping by almost $3 a barrel in the previous session on concerns about falling gasoline supplies and expectations that U.S. interest rates will be cut again. Gasoline prices also fell, but remained volatile ahead of Wednesday report of U.S. oil, gas, diesel and heating oil stocks.Oil prices had climbed Monday as traders bet that future U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts will weaken the greenback. A weak dollar attracts investors to hard commodities such as oil, which are seen as a hedge against inflation. Also, a falling dollar makes oil cheaper to overseas investors.What we're seeing at the moment is still a very high interest in commodities, driven by non-fundamental issues such as a hedge against the falling U.S. dollar, said Mark Pervan, senior commodity strategist with the ANZ Bank in Melbourne.Light, sweet crude for May delivery slipped by 44 cents to $108.65 a barrel by noon in European electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.86 overnight to settle at $109.09 a barrel on the Nymex, the highest settlement for a front-month contract since March 18.
Still they remain within striking range of last month's trading record of $111.80 a barrel after a swoon that twice brought them briefly below $100. The rise is helped by a growing belief that gasoline supplies are falling as the summer driving season in the U.S. approaches.Last week, the Energy Information Administration said gasoline inventories fell more than expected during the week ended March 28. Also, gasoline demand rose for the first time since January, last week's EIA report showed, raising the prospect that supplies will fall further as Americans drive more during the spring and summer.We're now moving into the gasoline market, so falling gasoline stocks will certainly be supportive of oil prices, Pervan said.Analysts say refiners have cut back on gasoline production due to low profit margins. The rising price of crude means it costs refiners more to turn the raw product into motor fuel.Vienna's JBC Energy, in its daily newsletter said expectations were that newest snapshot of U.S. energy stocks to be released on Wednesday would show a further drawdown in gasoline supplies, with crude stocks swelling by 2.2 million barrels.The prospect that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will hold production steady this year also pushed oil prices higher Monday.In other Nymex trading Tuesday, May heating oil futures were essentially steady at $3.0872 a gallon (3.8 liters), while May gasoline prices lost more than 2 pennies to fetch $2.7595 a gallon.Natural gas futures dropped 2.6 cents to $9.765 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, May Brent crude fell by 54 cents to $106.60 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange after rising $2.24 overnight to settle at $107.14 a barrel.Associated Press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report from Singapore.
US stock futures dip on Alcoa, AMD news By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer APR 8,08
NEW YORK - Stocks were poised to open lower Tuesday, after downbeat corporate reports from aluminum company Alcoa Inc. and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. led off the first-quarter earnings season. Alcoa, the world's third-largest aluminum producer, said its first-quarter profit dropped by more than half due to higher costs and a weakening U.S. dollar. The per-share profit of 44 cents was below the average analyst estimate of 48 cents.Investors were also underwhelmed by news from the chip making sector.Sales at Advanced Micro Devices for the three months ended March 29 fell 15 percent from the same period a year ago, due to product delays and tough competition from Intel Corp. AMD's $1.5 billion sales figure was below the average analyst estimate of $1.61 billion, and the company said it plans to eliminate 10 percent of its work force.
Meanwhile, Novellus Systems Inc., another semiconductor maker, lowered its estimate of its first-quarter earnings to a range of 15 cents to 17 cents a share from its previous expectation of 21 cents to 24 cents.The dreary company reports Tuesday arrived ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting March 18, when it lowered interest rates by three-quarters of a point to 2.25 percent. Investors are also awaiting a National Association of Realtors report on pending home sales in February.Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 44, or 0.35 percent, to 12,558. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures declined 5.20, or 0.38 percent, to 1,367.00. Nasdaq 100 index futures decreased 8.00, or 0.43 percent, to 1,857.75.On Monday, the major indexes finished narrowly mixed ahead of earnings releases after the bell.Bond prices dipppercent from 3.53 percent late Wednesday.Light, sweet crude fell 40 cents to $108.69 a barrel in premarket electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Gold prices fell, while the dollar was mixed against other major currencies.Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.49 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 slid 0.90percent, Germany's DAX index lost 1.21 percent, and France's CAC-40 dropped 1.08 percent.On the Net:New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com.Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Local nuke war would cause world havoc Mon Apr 7, 11:06 PM ET
WASHINGTON - A regional nuclear war would not only be devastating to the countries involved, it would cause havoc worldwide for at least a decade, according to a new analysis. The massive fires resulting from even a limited conflict would blast enough soot into the atmosphere to create an ozone hole over heavily populated areas, researchers warned in a paper in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.A region of depleted ozone over the Antarctic, known as an ozone hole, has been a concern for years as it allows damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun to reach the Earth's surface. Some chemicals have been banned from use to help eliminate that hole.Unlike the Antarctic, a nuclear-induced ozone hole would affect much of the world, causing damage to plants and animals and adding to skin cancer, eye damage and other effects in millions of people, according to researchers led by Michael J. Mills of the University of Colorado.
Mills' team used complex computer programs to model what would happen in the atmosphere in the event of a war between India and Pakistan in which each detonated 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosives.They calculated that the blasts would send as much as five million metric tons of soot as high as 50 miles into the atmosphere.The soot and the heat from solar radiation would cause a series of chemical reactions that would break down the stratospheric ozone layer that protects Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, they said.We would see a dramatic drop in ozone levels that would persist for many years, Mills said in a statement. At mid-latitudes the ozone decrease would be up to 40 percent, which could have huge effects on human health and on terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.They calculated that a 40 percent ozone decrease would result in a 132 percent increase in light damage to plants and a 213 percent increase in DNA damage associated with skin cancer.The mid-latitudes are the regions between the tropics and the arctic and are home to the largest numbers of people.On the Net:PNAS: http://www.pnas.org
Moses was considered a prophet, but even he knew that a far greater prophet would come forth in God's perfect time. Moses wrote in the book of Deuteronomy.The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name,I Myself will call him to account.(Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19).
It was the role of Moses to establish the credentials of the Messiah. Even the Talmudic commentaries, written by Jewish rabbis and sages throughout the ages, declared that the Messiah must be the
greatest of prophets, and nearest in spirit to Moses.
Was Yeshua's life a parallel to Moses? Yes. In fact, no one else in history even came close. Scriptures show events parallel to both lives.Moses and Yeshua fulfilled their roles as prophet, priest,
lawgiver, teacher, and leader.Both spent their early years in Egypt, miraculously protected from those who wanted to kill them.
Moses' family did not initially accept his role as redeemer, nor did Yeshua's family, but later they would.
Both fasted for 40 days and faced spiritual crises on mountain tops.
Moses' brother Aaron, would become the High Priest for the young nation of Israel in the Wilderness. Yeshua's brother, James, would become the leader of the first Believers and Congregation/Church in
Jerusalem.Each was considered the wisest man in his day. Each confronted demonic powers and successfully subdued them.Moses sent 12 spies to explore Canaan. Yeshua sent 12 apostles to reach the world.Moses appointed 70 rulers over Israel. Yeshua anointed 70 disciples to teach the nations.
Moses parted the Red Sea with his outstretched arm.Yeshua calmed the Sea of Galilee.The list of similarities goes on and on. The point to all this is that while Passover began with Moses, it was fulfilled - in Yeshua the Passover Lamb.When a person is in Messiah,. . . he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Messiah and gave us the ministry of reconciliation(2 Cor. 5:17-18)
Moses writes in Leviticus 17:11 - For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's soul.May you and your loved ones have a blessed Passover season in Messiah Yeshua.
For He came just as foretold,lived among us, died for our sins,
and lives forever as proof that death has been overcome by the
blood of the Passover Lamb.
MESSIANIC BIBLE PROJECT. PROPHECY BIBLES FOR ISRAEL.
European Union members reach agreement on Galileo Navigation System news 07 April 2008
European Union members have reached agreement on the long delayed Galileo satellite project, according to a Bloomberg report which cites a statement issued by German transport minister Wolfgang Tiefensee. The agreement, according to the minister's statement, crosses the final hurdle for the EU, which can now start placing orders for the project by the end of the year.The project still needs to be cleared by the European Parliament in the next few weeks,according to the statement. Once cleared by the parliament, the European Space Agency will then start offering contracts to companies by the end of the year. As a system, Galileo is expected to begin operating by 2013. The accord on Galileo, which is meant to compete with the US Global Positioning System, represents a huge chance for the German aerospace industry, Tiefensee said in his statement, which was issued after meeting with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg. The $7 billion Galaileo project went under EU control after it was abandoned by a private-sector consortium as being unviable.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
EU pressuring countries to sign economic deals
April 07, 2008, 18:45
The European Union (EU) has been accused of trying to push Commonwealth countries into signing new trade agreements that will leave them worse off.The accusations have been made at the opening of a conference in Cape Town, where trade representatives of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are taking stock of the current Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) being negotiated with the EU Commission.ACP Secretary General John Kaputin says countries found themselves under pressure to agree to clauses they believed would harm their economic interests. These included giving EU investors access to service industries and government contracts, as well as greater protection to intellectual property rights.
The race towards the deadline of December 31, 2007 was fraught with panic, confusion and frustration. In the end only 35 out of 77 countries initialed interim or full EPAs. Many more may not have initialed, but were held captive by the possibility of trade disruption that would have followed if they had not initialed, says Kaputin.South Africa was among countries that did not sign an EPA agreement. Many delegates at the conference have agreed that it is now time for the EU to build bridges and try to put a fair deal back on track.
[Comment] It's time Europe joined the dots on migration
08.04.2008 - 09:17 CET | By Graham Watson
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - The forthcoming French Presidency of the EU has announced plans for an immigration pact to control illegal entry and make it harder for foreigners to live and work in Europe, bringing immigration back to the top of the political agenda once again.President Sarkozy outlined his plans after the Anglo-French summit in London, where he and Gordon Brown agreed to improve cooperation on a range of issues from tighter immigration controls to energy, security and defence. While the two sides will focus on tightening border controls at the French port of Calais, following a series of security lapses, long-term they plan a package of highly restrictive immigration measures which could practically seal off the EU to outsiders.This is par for the course for a President who campaigned to expel 25,000 illegal immigrants, and was later denounced by a coalition of Mayors and NGOs for making deportation the alpha and omega of migration policy and treating migrants like disposable objects. It is also a logical though deeply illiberal sequel to the tougher controls already introduced by the UK's Labour Government.
French ministers have also said they want a common definition of the right of asylum and have backed European Commission proposals that could see asylum seekers shared between EU states. British ministers probably secretly aspire to this too, though media mogul Rupert Murdoch's reaction dissuades them from saying so.Britain and France should be applauded for recognising the need for a European approach to migration in place of the 27 - often contradictory - immigration and asylum systems, yet their heavy handed approach may well prove counterproductive in the long-term.The fact of the matter is that the fight against illegal migration is the only area in which European Union member states have actively cooperated since it became a community competence in 1999, leaving legal migration and development policies up to national governments. This has resulted in some successes, notably improved police and judicial co-operation, an increasing number of readmission agreements with third countries, and the creation of the European Border Control Agency FRONTEX to help police land and sea routes into the EU.Yet by focussing our collective energy exclusively on policing borders and intercepting migrants, as Sarkozy and Brown suggest, Europe risks overlooking the need to address skills shortages, not to mention the factors that lead people to leave their countries in the first place.War, poverty and human rights abuses will ensure that the movement of people from poor and failing states to rich and stable ones continues to grow until properly funded policies to promote democracy and development are put in place.
The EU must recognise that unless its trade policies prevent the easy trade in armaments and allow developing country producers to sell their goods on our markets and so create wealth, jobs and opportunities at home, people from poor countries will continue to vote with their feet. Similarly, unless workers, through legal migration channels, can provide a steady flow of remittances of income to their home countries, investment capital for development in countries of origin will be insufficient to arrest brain drain and reverse the exodus.It is unsurprising that the tide of illegal migrants will keep flowing towards Europe while in EU capitals there is still resistance to sending necessary troops and equipment to some of the world's worst trouble-spots, from Darfur, to Chad and Afghanistan.Likewise, restrictive policies which aim to shut the gates of Fortress Europe on all comers tend to ignore the fact that the European economy, already reliant in large part on migrant labour, is set to lose 20 million workers in the next twenty years if we do not actively increase migration flows.Unlike Canada and Australia which long-ago developed sophisticated strategies to attract the skills their economies need to thrive, the European Union has so far failed to reap the benefits of a skilled and mobile international workforce.The lack of attractive legal migration options to Europe has ensured that 85% of the world's best brains go to America and Australia, put off by Europe's bureaucracy and inflexibility, while most migrants who actually reach our shores have few, if any, qualifications. Clearly the status quo is not working. That is why a coalition of MEPs from across the European Parliament's political spectrum have written a pamphlet calling, in no uncertain terms, for a radical rethink of the way Europe handles migration policy.We believe that putting the emphasis on illegal migration at the expense of a comprehensive, joined-up European Migration Policy fails both to address future demographic and economic challenges and tackle problems in their countries at their source.
Instead of the narrow-minded approach suggested at the Anglo-French Summit Europe we need to agree a far more ambitious package: one which combines the fight against illegal migration with the creation of legal migration channels and development and security policies that actively bolster third countries.Before our ambitions can be achieved, however, parliamentarians and the media alike must commit to engaging in the crucial step of changing public perceptions. For without public confidence and backing, an ambitious global migration policy for Europe is unlikely to see the light of day.The author is head of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament.
MIKE EVANS THE JERUSALEM PRAYER TEAM APR 8,08
Last week it was revealed that despite official denials, Israel is indeed engaged in negotiations with the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority to divide the Holy City. This has long been a key demand of the Palestinians, and the idea of dividing Israel's eternal capital has also been pushed by President Bush, the European Union and the United Nations.I will be in Israel this week and will be meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. I would like very much to inform him that the Jerusalem Prayer Team members are staying united against Jerusalem being divided. If we do not speak out right now, it may soon be too late to keep Jerusalem united and in the hands of Israel. But I believe this tragedy can be averted if we speak out right now. Add your vote and your voice today.
So far we have already received 148,000 names toward our 200,000 goal. You must understand that the key to Israel withstanding the pressure they are receiving from President Bush and the State Department is knowing that many Americans are on their side. They must know we will not turn our backs on them. They must know we will not sell out their capital for oil. They must know we will not abandon them to appease the terrorists. They can only know this if we tell them. I encourage you to forward this email to everyone on your personal mailing list. Urge your family members and friends to add their voices to this vital petition to keep Jerusalem secure and undivided. Sign the petition and cast your vote to preserve Jerusalem today.
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
BA cancels 34 more flights at Terminal 5
Mon Apr 7, 4:21 AM
LONDON (AFP) - British Airways said it had cancelled an additional 34 flights at Heathrow airport's new Terminal 5 on Monday because of the knock-on effects of snowy weather over the weekend.On Sunday, BA pulled 138 flights due to have flown in and out of London Heathrow because of heavy snowfall and persistent problems with the baggage system at the air hub's new multi-billion-pound terminal.A spokesman for BA, which has exclusive use of T5, said that Monday's cancellations were due to the lingering effects of recent freezing weather.This is not caused by the baggage system, this is simply because of the weather yesterday, the spokesman said.
There were a number of aircraft that were out of position which means that had a knock-on effect with the schedule today.Monday's cancellations accounted for 10 percent of the scheduled flights at T5, he added.A spokeswoman for BAA, which operates Heathrow airport, confirmed there were no further problems with T5's baggage system on Monday.Terminal 5 opened March 27 to much fanfare but has been plagued by severe logistical problems which have centred around the baggage handling system.The facility at Heathrow, one of the world's busiest airports, cost about 4.3 billion pounds to build.
BA cancels 126 flights over snow, Heathrow fiasco
Sun Apr 6, 3:31 PM
LONDON (AFP) - British Airways said it had cancelled 126 flights due to have flown to and from London Heathrow on Sunday because of heavy snowfall and persistent problems with the airport's new terminal.A BA spokeswoman said 114 flights had been cancelled because of snow and 12 owing to computer glitches at the recently opened Terminal 5.Heavy snowfall, which fell across many parts of Britain overnight and early Sunday, also forced BA to cancel 32 flights arriving and departing London Gatwick.Air traffic control has reduced the number of aircraft that can take off and land per hour, the BA spokeswoman said in a statement.A spokeswoman for BAA, the operator of Heathrow, said both of the airport's runways were briefly shut Sunday to de-ice tarmac.British Airways meanwhile blamed BAA for the cancellation of 12 flights owing to technical glitches.As a result of the continuing BAA baggage system failure in Terminal 5 we have had to cancel six shorthaul return flights (six in and six out) on Sunday, the airline said in a statement.
We are urging BAA to resolve these issues as soon as possible. British Airways had hoped to operate a full schedule on Saturday for the first time since the new terminal opened on March 27. Instead, it had to cancel 24 short-haul flights at the start of the weekend.The 4.3-billion-pound (8.7-billion-dollar, 5.6-billion-euro) terminal at one of the world's busiest airports opened with much fanfare but within hours had become a public relations disaster as the baggage handling system became overwhelmed.BA said last week that it expected the chaotic opening of T5 to cost it about 16 million pounds.
Hurricane price tags soaring on crowded U.S. coast
Sun Apr 6, 8:17 AM By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - The damage caused to U.S. coastal cities by hurricanes promises to rise into the stratosphere, raising concerns about a possible $500 billion storm and prompting calls for tougher building codes.Devastating hurricanes like 1992's Andrew and Katrina of 2005 have failed to put a dent in massive construction along the hurricane-vulnerable Atlantic and Gulf coasts, where millions of people face evacuation when a storm threatens.Katrina, which swamped New Orleans, was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, with damages of $80 billion.But a study published earlier this year found that a 1926 hurricane that struck Miami would have caused $157 billion in damage, adjusting for inflation and current building.The study suggested there could be a $500 billion hurricane by the 2020s.It's not that far fetched. The damages seem to be doubling every 10 years, said Max Mayfield, former director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center. As we continue to build at the coastline, the damage is going to continue to go up. There's no way around that.The higher prices tags are the inevitable result of U.S. migration to the coast, as well as rising real estate values, experts said at the U.S. National Hurricane Conference held this month in Orlando.
The population of coastal counties on the Atlantic and Gulf increased from 66.8 million in 1980 to 88.3 million in 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Miami Beach, with its miles of expensive oceanfront hotels and condos, is considered a prime target for a future costly mega-storm. The Galveston-Houston area of Texas, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., are all vulnerable.But New York City, with its billions of dollars in real estate, could be the site of the eventual $500 billion storm.The Long Island-New Jersey area could see a 30-foot storm surge in a big hurricane, representing one of the most alarming danger zones in the country.
NOT JUST PROPERTY, BUT LIVES
If you get the Long Island Express headed up there ... you take out all the subways, you take out the infrastructure. You're not just talking about an area impacted, you're talking about the financial center of the world. Yeah, it's possible, Florida emergency management chief Craig Fugate said.The rising danger is not only to property but to lives.The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 killed 372 people when the city's population was only 140,000. Now, more than 2.3 million live in the same area.I don't believe any place in the country is building highways with hurricane evacuations in mind, said Bill Read, the current National Hurricane Center director. If you keep pushing more and more cars onto them in a mass evacuation, the length of time it takes people to evacuate will increase.
Despite the huge damage toll of recent storms -- $26 billion for Andrew and $20 billion for Wilma in 2005 on top of Katrina's $80 billion, several vulnerable coastal states have no statewide building codes. Louisiana only enacted one after Katrina.You would think with Andrew and Katrina that would be enough to make something happen but it hasn't, Mayfield said.Miami-Dade County's post-Andrew building code, considered one of the nation's toughest, only requires construction to meet a Category 4 hurricane, one step below the maximum Category 5. Less than 10 percent of the county's buildings are new enough to have been built to that standard.With no hope of stopping people from moving to coastal areas, Fugate said a capitalistic model that stops subsidizing the risks of coastal living might be needed.That could involve raising insurance rates for coast dwellers, something that is in effect already happening, reducing subsidized national flood insurance, or even forcing developers to build fortified strongholds within their condo towers so a building's residents could be housed there, rather than evacuated, in a hurricane.You can build in these areas, but it's going to cost a lot more money, Fugate said. What we do now is create a system that doesn't address the risk, it minimizes it. We subsidize the risk.(Editing by Michael Christie and Todd Eastham)
Flooding kills 15, leaves thousands homeless in Brazil after weeks of rain Sun Apr 6, 12:14 AM By The Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Civil defence officials in Brazil say flooding from torrential rains in Brazil's normally arid northeast has killed 15 people and driven about 50,000 from their homes.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed an executive order releasing some $360 million to help flood victims. The 15 victims drowned in the state of Paraiba, where the Paraiba River overflowed its banks and the walls of a medium-size dam cracked. The Civil Defence Department had no further details on the deaths. Some 14,000residents in the state abandoned their homes to escape floodwaters. In nearby Piaui state, the floods drove about 19,000 people from their homes and destroyed corn and bean crops. About 30 cities and towns were isolated by washed-out roads. Some 15,000 more were displaced in Maranhao, Pernambuco and Ceara states, officials said.
Tornado hits central Arkansas, damaging buildings; flooding in Kentucky Fri Apr 4, 3:47 PM By Kelly P. Kissel, The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - At least two deaths are being blamed on a storm system stretching from Texas to New England. In central Arkansas, residents have been cleaning up in the wake of a tornado that damaged businesses and knocked out power to thousands of customers.
At least one person has been reported dead in a traffic accident.
Arkansas has been hit by deadly storms and near-record flooding in recent months. The governor says his state's been assaulted by Mother Nature.Kentucky is also coping with heavy rains Friday. Many roads are impassable and some evacuations are underway. Authorities say a two-year-old girl died after her mother drove into a flooded roadway. And in Mississippi, storms have downed trees and caused power outages in Vicksburg.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
Bread Price To Rise Four Percent after Passover APR 7,08
(IsraelNN.com) Consumers will have another reason to refrain from eating bread after the seven-day Passover holiday. Major bakeries announced Monday they will hike prices by four percent and are waiting for a response from the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry. The continuing higher prices of energy and of flour were cited as the reasons for the proposed increases.
The bakeries said the four percent hike does not cover all of their increased costs. However, continuing to eat matzo instead of returning to bread will not save any money because the price of the unleavened bread also has risen sharply.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The Fight for Jerusalem Begins by Hana Levi Julian APR 7,08
(IsraelNN.com) The Tourism Ministry will invest NIS 90 million (US $25 million) in tourism projects around the capital, announced Director General Shaul Tzemach on Monday.The Ministry of Tourism will continue to work to provide an answer for the shortage of hotel rooms in sought-after tourism and commercial areas, he said.
The ministry’s Investments Committee approved funding for 11 projects, including support for construction of new hotel rooms. Money also will be earmarked for hotels in Ashdod and in the Galilee.While the Tourism Ministry is working on beefing up facilities to accommodate the flood of tourists visiting the capital, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has quietly been working on ways to reduce the bottom line.Livni’s Bottom Line - Red Lines for Jerusalem.In her recent talks with Palestinian Authority negotiators, Livni has reportedly drawn the line only at three major points. The status of Jerusalem itself has not been discussed definitely. The discussions are apparently focusing on the issue of retaining control over holy sites, maintaining security and refusing to allow immigration to Jerusalem by Arabs who fled during the 1948 War and millions of other foreign Arabs who claim to be their descendants under what the Arab League refers to as the so-called Right of Return.
Livni shared with visiting evangelical Pastor John Hagee these red lines in her latest negotiating sessions with the Palestinian Authority during a rally held by Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (CUFI) organization celebrating Israel’s 60th birthday.The Christian pastor, who is vehemently opposed to dividing Jerusalem, said that turning part or all of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban.
Christian Dollars for Jerusalem
Hagee announced at the event, held in Jerusalem, that his group would donate some $6 million to various causes in Israel this year. He added that Israel must retain control over the city.The Christian pastor, who leads an 18,000-member church based in San Antonio, Texas, has become an increasingly influential force in Israel, as he has in Christian Zionist politics in the US.Hagee began with two small television licenses 28 years ago as a means of reaching out due to the state’s wide expanses. From there, the growth never stopped. Eventually he built a global media ministry that became an evangelical powerhouse telecast on eight major networks, 162 independent television stations and 51 radio stations worldwide, broadcasting in more than 190 countries, according to the CUFI website. He is also the author of 21 books, including one called, Jerusalem Countdown.Likud Party Chairman and Knesset Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu praised the group’s support for Israel during his speech at the event Sunday night, saying that Israel has no better friends than Christian Zionists. The friendship between evangelicals and Israel is a friendship of the heart, he said.
Reform Jews: Beware the Christian Zionists
American Reform Jewish leader Eric Yoffe told the annual conference of the movement’s leaders last Wednesday night that he personally cannot cooperate with Christian Zionists, however. What they mean by support of Israel and we mean by support of Israel are two very different things, Yoffe said in his speech in Cincinnati, Ohio.The Reform Jewish leader charged that aligning with Hagee and other Christian Zionists is harmful because the movement has a political agenda and does not express unconditional support for the Jewish State.The Reform movement objects to the pro-Israel evangelists’ rejection of the two-state solution, which would divide Israel and create a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Troopers probe Texas polygamist compound By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer APR 7,08
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Authorities who took 220 women and children from a polygamist compound weren't sure whether the teen girl whose phone call prompted the raid was among them. State troopers raided the 1,700-acre West Texas ranch on Friday to look for evidence that the teen, who called authorities a week ago, was married. They planned to continue interviews Monday with some of the women and children, who were transported to a historic San Angelo museum, said Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.So far, 18 children have been taken legally in state custody, Meisner said, who explained Friday that the children had either been harmed or were in imminent danger at the compound. She would not give details. The children remain with relatives, and no arrests had been made as of Sunday.Authorities planned to search Monday for more children and documents at the compound, which was built by jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Eldorado, about 45 miles south of San Angelo.They are looking for evidence the girl, who allegedly had a baby at 15, and 50-year-old Dale Barlow were married. Under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval.
Allison Palmer, the prosecutor working on the case, said other law enforcement agencies know where (Barlow) is and have talked to him, but our investigators have not.Barlow's probation officer, Bill Loader, told The Salt Lake Tribune that he was in Arizona. A call to Loader by The Associated Press was not returned Sunday.Barlow was sentenced to jail last year after pleading no contest to conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for three years while on probation.A search warrant for the raid instructed officers to look for marriage records or other evidence linking the teen to the man and the baby. The warrant authorized the seizure of computer drives, CDs, DVDs or photos.Meisner said the adults taken from the compound were cooperating with authorities, and that she didn't believe any were forced to leave the compound.Many members of the sect are related to one another and share similar names; investigators said in some case they have given different names at different times. Ages were also difficult to determine, Meisner said.Dozens of women and children, mostly girls, were seen boarding buses Sunday on their way to San Angelo. They wore long pastel dresses, and many carried bedding or infants.The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, headed by Jeffs after his father's death in 2002, broke away from the Mormon church after the latter disavowed polygamy more than a century ago.Eldorado, a dusty town surrounded by sheep ranches, has fewer than 2,000 people and is located nearly 200 miles northwest of San Antonio.
The compound sits down a narrow paved road and behind a hill that shields it almost entirely from view in town. Only the 80-foot-high, white temple can be seen on the horizon.Authorities kept onlookers miles away from the compound, which FLDS church members began building several years ago as authorities in Arizona and Utah began increasingly scrutinizing the group.The investigation prompted by the girl's call last week was the first in Texas involving the sect.Jeffs is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., where he awaits trial for four counts each of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. In November, he was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
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.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Israeli ministers tested in massive attack scenario Mon Apr 7, 4:55 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli ministers on Monday were to test their response to the scenario of simultaneous attacks from Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as part of a major home front defence drill. The five-day exercise, the largest in the country's history, is being staged against the backdrop of increased tension on the northern border, prompting the government to reassure Syria and Lebanon there was no hidden agenda behind the manoeuvres.The drill, which started on Sunday, simulates air and missile attacks on Israeli cities, and the use of non-conventional weapons by the attackers.As part of Monday's simulation members of the security cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, will have to make decisions after being told of widespread attacks and high numbers of casualties.Monday's exercise has Israel coming under simultaneous attack from Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the north and from Palestinian militants in Gaza to the south.
The government will also test coordination of vital services, including food distribution centres, hospitals and postal services.
Over the next few days emergency sirens will sound across the country and schoolchildren will practise entering shelters and protected areas in the event of chemical and biological attacks on Israel.The prime minister and his staff will also train to work from an underground bomb shelter at the premier's Jerusalem office, officials said.Dubbed Turning Point, the exercise follows widespread criticism of Israel's handling of the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.It also comes after local media last week reported heightened tensions along Israel's heavily guarded border with Syria and days after Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora put his armed forces on alert.On Sunday, Olmert sought to reassure Syria and Lebanon that Israel did not want the drill to worsen tensions along its northern border.
The goal of the exercise is to check the authorities' ability to carry out their duties in times of emergency and for preparing the home front for different scenarios, Olmert told a weekly cabinet meeting.There is nothing else hidden behind it. All the reports on tension in the north can be moderated and cooled down. We have no secret plans behind the exercises, he added.Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said the manoeuvres were primarily aimed at learning lessons from the Lebanon war, during which more than 4,000 rockets fired by the Hezbollah militia slammed into northern Israel.
The 34-day conflict ended under a UN-brokered ceasefire after more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed.An official inquiry into the war harshly criticised Israel's leadership for failing to protect civilians during the conflict.
Ben Eliezer: Strike by Iran Would Spell Its End
by Gil Ronen APR 7,08
(IsraelNN.com) National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Monday that an Iranian attack will lead to a harsh response by Israel, which will cause the destruction of the Iranian nation.Ben Eliezer visited the National Infrastructures Ministry war room as part of the national emergency response exercise and said: I expect that in the first strike Israel will be hit by hundreds of missiles. There will be no place in the country that will be outside the range of Syria's and Hizbullah's missiles and rockets.He told the war room staff: We, as a ministry, need to prepare for the possibility that missiles will hit Israel's strategic spots, for which our ministry is responsible. You must use your heads and prepare for the worst scenarios.
They keep provoking us
However, Ben Eliezer added, this exercise is not intended to threaten any of the countries surrounding us. Its single purpose is to be prepared for anything. The Iranians will not rush to attack Israel so quickly, because they understand the meaning of that. However, they keep on provoking us through their allies, Syria and Hizbullah, and supplying them with large amounts of weapons, and this is what we have to deal with.The ministry's war room for the exercise, dubbed Turning Point 2, is staffed by representative
There will be no place in the country that will be outside the range of Syria's and Hizbullah's missiles and rockets. of the ministry's Fuel Administration, Electricity Administration, Gas Authority and Sewage Authority.
Iran: exercise for internal consumption
The spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Muhammad Ali Husseini, said earlier Monday that the countries of the region need to follow the Israeli exercise. These provocative acts must be raised before the senior officials in charge of these matters in the international community.Echoing a statement Sunday by Hizbullah's deputy chief Sheikh Naeem Kassem, Husseini said the Israeli Home Front exercise was being held in order to rehabilitate and raise the morale of the [Israeli] military commanders and the soldiers.
Alluding to the recent visit to the area by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, he remarked: Unfortunately, after every visit by senior Americans in the region and the conquered territories, we see actions like this by the Zionist regime.
Israeli, Palestinian leaders meet By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer APR 7,08
JERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resumed face-to-face negotiations Monday, trying to push forward peace efforts after nearly two months marred by heavy Gaza Strip violence and new Israeli plans to expand settlements. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Olmert and Abbas agreed to meet every two weeks.Both leaders reiterated their commitment to the Annapolis process and to reaching a historic agreement by the end of the year, Regev said.He said the Palestinians discussed Israeli settlement construction and humanitarian issues in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel raised its security concerns and called on the Palestinians to rein in militants.Both sides today raised concerns, but they agreed that the negotiations will go on, Regev said.Negotiating teams also met during the three hours of meetings, he said.Palestinian officials weren't immediately available for comment.But ahead of the meeting, negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas would review the status of negotiations with Olmert, push for a halt in settlement activity, seek an easing of roadblocks and other travel restrictions on West Bank Palestinians, and urge Israel to reach a cease-fire with Hamas.
With U.S. backing, the two men have pledged to reach a final peace deal by the end of the year. But it remains unclear how much progress they have made.Negotiating teams have met dozens of times in recent months, and officials privately say that all key issues are under discussion. But there have been few visible signs of change on the ground. Israel continues to build in Jewish settlements, it has done little to improve Palestinian living conditions in the West Bank and the Hamas militant group, which regularly attacks Israeli targets, remains firmly in control of the Gaza Strip.Olmert and Abbas formally relaunched peace talks last November at a summit hosted by President Bush in Annapolis, Md. Their talks are supposed to be based on the road map, a U.S.-backed peace plan that sets a series of stages meant to lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.As initial obligations, the road map calls on Israel to halt all settlement activity and for the Palestinians to dismantle militant groups.
But since the Annapolis conference, Israel has announced plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas claimed by the Palestinians for their future state. Abbas has repeatedly condemned the construction.At the same time, Hamas militants have fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel from Gaza. Israel has warned that it will not carry out any peace agreement until Abbas regains control of Gaza. Hamas violently seized control of the coastal strip last June after routing Abbas' forces there.Israel launched a broad offensive in Gaza in late February in response to especially heavy rocket fire. The offensive, which killed more than 120 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, prompted Abbas to suspend his regular biweekly meetings with Olmert. Monday's meeting was the first between the men since Feb. 19.During a trip to the region late last month ,U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice persuaded Israel to begin lifting some of the hundreds of checkpoints and roadblocks it maintains in the West Bank.Israel says it has taken down one permanent checkpoint and removed some 50 unmanned roadblocks. But the Palestinians say more has to be done.Israel says the travel restrictions are needed to deter Palestinian attackers. The Palestinians, and the international community, have said the roadblocks are excessive and stifling the Palestinian economy. Associated Press Writer Laurie Copans contributed to this report.
BLAIR IS NOW PROMOTING A ONE WORLD RELIGION INTERESTING.
Anti-war protesters heckle Blair as he preaches on faith and extremism Last updated at 08:18am on 4th April 2008
Tony Blair has spoken of his strong sense of mission as he called for religious faith to be put at the centre of efforts to solve the world's problems. Speaking from the pulpit at Westminster Cathedral, the former prime minister said that in a world that was opening up both economically and politically, the role of faith was especially important. He also spoke out against religious extremism while demonstrators shouted outside. Blair announced details of his Faith Foundation, to be launched later in the year, saying it could help awaken the world's conscience and bring religions together to eradicate poverty and hunger. But the address on faith and globalisation, his first major speech since leaving office, was marked by hundreds of anti-war protesters staging a noisy demonstration outside. Campaigners from the Stop The War Coalition attempted to drown out the speech, blowing whistles, banging drums, and rattling pans in a cacophony heard as a low din inside the cathedral's walls. And at the beginning of the speech Mr Blair faced an embarrassing interruption when he misinterpreted calls from the back as heckles, when in fact people were complaining because they could not hear.
A perturbed Mr Blair apologised for the people who follow me around before realising his mistake. Tony Blair addressed a crowd of 1,600 at Westminster Cathedral as protesters heckled from outside.
He later joked: It's a really new thing for me for people to be frustrated because they can't hear me.Mr Blair told the 1,600-strong crowd that faith needed to be rescued from extremism, such as extremism in the name of Islam through the activities of al Qaeda and others. He said: Either positively (religion) will encourage peaceful co-existence by people of faith coming together in respect, understanding and tolerance, retaining their distinctive identity but living happily with those who do not share that identity. Or it will work against such co-existence by defining people by difference, those of one faith in opposition to others of a different faith. In this context, inter-faith action and encounter are vital. They symbolise peaceful co-existence.
Referring to the increasing profile of China, India and the East, Mr Blair said the world will be immeasurably poorer, more dangerous, more fragile and above all, more aimless without a spiritual dimension. Mr Blair, who said he was not a religious leader and made no claims to moral superiority, is currently working as an international envoy to the Middle East. He has also taken up positions in the private sector and a teaching job on the subject of faith and globalisation at Yale University in the US.
He said the Tony Blair Faith Foundation will focus on bringing different religions together to tackle the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, providing universal primary education and combating HIV and Aids.
Mr Blair said: We are falling short as a world in meeting them. It would be a great example of faith in action to try to bridge the gap and awaken the world's conscience.The foundation will bring together Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists to promote faith as a relevant and positive force for good. Mr Blair took several questions from the audience, submitted in advance in writing, but none of them touched directly on the Iraq war. Police step in to control the protest against the war in Iraq.
When asked if he would have done anything differently in office he said: There is nothing I look back on now and say that as a result of my religious journey I would have done things very differently, but that is expressly not to say that I got everything right.He said he was a Christian throughout his political career and had been attending mass for 20 to 25 years before converting to Catholicism. Mr Blair said religion had become more and more important to him and he felt a strong sense of mission about his foundation. Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy-O'Connor described the speech as marvellous, moving, personal and very brave. As the audience departed demonstrators continued to make a noise, waving placards denouncing Mr Blair as a war criminal, and calling for him to be brought to trial. Organisers said they were not attacking Mr Blair's freedom of speech, but his right to be treated as a pillar of respectability. A former monk who gave his name as John criticised the decision to allow the former prime minister to speak at the cathedral. What (Archbishop of Westminster) Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has done in welcoming Blair into the fold is enough to make a Pole a Protestant, he said.
I am disgusted to see so many pious holy nuns swanning in to give him legitimacy.Former hostage Norman Kember took part in a silent protest organised by Catholic peace organisation Pax Christi before the speech. He said: What happened to me was a minor blip in my life compared to the continuing plight of Iraq and the way ordinary Iraqi citizens have suffered so much. I feel it is partly Mr Blair's fault and I don't like the idea of him talking in a church.
I would ask Tony Blair to confess that he made an error and repent for it.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EU to upgrade relations with Israel
by: EJP Updated: 06/Apr/2008 17:59
Benita-Ferrero Waldner, EU External Relations Commissioner:A reflection group is currently considering areas where we can substantially upgrade EU-Israel relations to a truly special status.
BRUSSELS (EJP)---The European Union will deepen the political dialogue with Israel and involve the country more closely in some EU policies like financial services or technological cooperation, External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner announced.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the EU Commissioner said that the EU was working on a targeted deepening of relations with some of our partners in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the EU’s framework foreign policy to cover its eastern and southern neighbours.Israel is described as the front-runner among non-EU members participating in EU programs that range from scientific cooperation to trade integration. A reflection group is currently considering areas where we can substantially upgrade EU-Israel relations to a truly special status, Ferrero-Waldner said. Countries like Ukraine, Israel, Moldova and Morocco, Jordan and Georgia, and others, are now closer to European Union than ever before, she added.They have made gradual progress in their democratic and institutional reforms. Their economies are getting stronger. Our trade and investment have grown substantially, helping this economic development. And their administrations are receiving the best European know-how to become more efficient and accountable.Other countries participating in the ENP partnership include Algeria, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Armenia, Egypt, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.Israel is already the leading ENP partner associated with the 7th Framework Research Programme and the first ENP country to participate in the EU’s Competitiveness and Innovation Programme which supports small and medium businesses.
Israeli-European economic ties are growing as the parties seek to speedily integrate the strong and expanding Israeli economy into the huge European market, EU officials said. The progress report of the European Commission describes Israel as the front-runner among non-EU members participating in EU programs that range from scientific cooperation to trade integration. The EU is Israel’s main trade partner, with imports representing 38 % and exports 33 %. Data for the first quarter of 2007 show an increase respectively of 7.2 and 3.0 % compared to the same period of 2006. The EU and Israel signed an Association Agreement in 1995 in Brussels. In addition to the political dialogue, the agreement covers areas such as industry, energy, standards, financial servives, information infrastructures and telecommunications, transport and tourism. The EU-Israel Association Council meets annually at ministerial level.
EU finance ministers agree to strengthen cooperation
07.04.2008 - 09:24 CET | By Elitsa VuchevaEU OBSERVER
EU finance ministers over the weekend agreed on strengthening cooperation in order to avoid future financial crises, as well as on the need to reform the International Monetary Fund.The ministers, together with central bank governors on Friday (4 April), signed a so-called memorandum of understanding on co-operation in financial crisis situations.The memorandum commits all signatories to cooperate across borders between relevant authorities, both in normal times, in order to ensure preparedness for the management of a potential cross-border crisis situation; and in crisis situations, the document reads.
Taking into account the global nature of the financial markets and the need for broader international efforts in preserving financial stability, the memorandum can also provide the basis for international cooperation between authorities; and it can be extended to include third-country authorities when necessary, it continues.The ministers also said that the financial turmoil caused by an international credit crisis last year, will continue to affect EU economies through 2009 and called for full and immediate disclosure by the bloc's banks.To increase transparency and restore confidence, ministers and governors call on financial institutions to make full and immediate disclosure of on and off-balance sheet risk exposures and losses and on governors to guide this process as appropriate, says a statement by the Slovenian EU presidency.At their two-day meeting, the ministers also said they needed to improve the way money is spent on healthcare, welfare and pensions, while underlining that there is no single blueprint for improvements.
Reform of the IMF
On Saturday (5 April), the EU's finance ministers also agreed on a common position for the upcoming meeting of the International Monetary Fund (12 – 13 April) – the international organisation that oversees the global financial system.Among other things, the EU is to accept a lower voting quota in the institution, and give a bigger say to emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil.
EU members are fully committed to reach an outcome that enhances the legitimacy of the IMF by ensuring a fair and adequate representation for all members, said an EU presidency statement.
Under the proposed reforms, the EU, the US and Japan would lose some of their voting share, while that of developing countries would rise from 39.4 to 42.1 percent, according to the AP.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
The Real World: NATO and the Middle East
By ARIEL COHEN (Middle East Times)Published: April 04, 2008
Ariel Cohen
The Bucharest summit tells a cautionary tale to the Middle East countries and Afghanistan. The bottom line is: while there are severe limits to American and European power, largely for internal reasons, it is imprudent to write off European countries and the U.S. as global powers.Оne of the key squabbling points before and during Bucharest was the number of troops and equipment to be contributed to Afghanistan. Last fall, Canada warned that it will pull out of the NATO force there if the allies don't contribute adequately and allow their troops to fight in the south of the country. This is because several European NATO allies, especially Germany, have not allowed their troops to fight the Taliban, limiting their deployment to the relatively quiet north. Other troops were not allowed to fight at night – when the Taliban engage in the majority of their operations.At Bucharest, France announced that it will send one battalion (700-800 soldiers) to relieve the Canadians. The United States, which has contributed the majority of the 47,000 NATO troops, scrambled to persuade the Europeans to send more troops, but finally ended up throwing in the towel.
Instead, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the Pentagon will send an additional 3,200-3,500 Americans, mostly Marines, to Afghanistan. There is also a shortage of helicopters capable of flying in severe mountain conditions – something that American helos do well, and even the Soviet machines used to quite adequately.The bottom line, is some European governments and elites do not want to fight to win in Afghanistan. In informal conversations, they treat the NATO engagement there as America's war and think the fighting till victory is unnecessary.They would rather do economic development, build schools, train police, or teach opium poppy growing Afghan farmers advanced agricultural techniques. Then peace will materialize somehow.At a conference in Tallinn, Estonia, which this author attended last week, а senior EU security official called both Iraq and Afghanistan wrong wars and instead praised the EU mission in Darfur, which so far lacks troops and failed to stop what many called genocide of darker-skinned Sudanese.The French, for example, want to shift emphasis from NATO to the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), and build a separate rapid reaction force. ESDP will not have Americans in the decision making process at all, while borrowing American air lift or satellite when needed. It will take years if not decades for ESDP to stand up, but in the meantime, bickering inside the alliance will seriously delimit its expeditionary, out-of-area capacity.In another conference, British, French and Dutch security experts seriously discussed how post-war development trumps war-fighting. We have achieved great successes in building bus shelters in Afghanistan, even if they don't have buses in rural areas, one British expert said.
The Europeans are right to be wary in one sense. The Afghan theater, just as the Iraqi theater, requires more than just military operations. There is an important place for diplomacy, financial flaws interdiction, arms supply interruption, and yes, economic and institutional development. For example, if Pakistan continues to tolerate the Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens along its border with Afghanistan, then hostilities there may continue for a long time, and the Afghan, European and American troops will keep bleeding.But to recoil from fighting altogether is an expression of the deep malaise that is affecting Europe, and the roots of this are demographic, as well as philosophical.Since World War II, and especially with advance of birth control, Europe's indigenous population has fallen below replenishment level. The able-bodied population is in decline, with many families having only one or two children. Even with unemployment high by U.S. standards (8-12 percent on average), many shun professional military service. Тhe recent immigrants tend not to serve as well.
With the ranks of the European unemployed and aging swelling, more funds are needed for social security and retirement funds, and for socialized medicine. With almost the same GDP (around $13 trillion a year) in the EU and the U.S., military budgets in Europe are between 1 and 1.8 percent of GDP on average, while the U.S. military budget is close to 4 percent.As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have lasted a long time and take place in severe climates, the rate of equipment attrition is high. The troops need everything, from armored personnel carriers and helicopters which can operate in desert and mountainous climates, to trucks and ammo. This equipment is expensive, and the European governments are not rushing to pay.The second reason for the aversion to fighting is Europe's post-World War II trauma. Some 55 million people perished in that conflict (including in Russia and Asia), and the surviving populations have moved on, many abandoning religion in the process, and transitioning to a post-modern view of the world.Europe's rush to give up warfare as an instrument of foreign policy, viewing war as absolutely evil, and relying on the American shield against the Soviets simply does not answer modern, 21st century threats, including from Islamist terrorism. Unfortunately for the Europeans, this is one threat that diplomacy is not going to be able to negotiate away.
As Europe increasingly becomes post-Christian, absolute values, those considered worth dying for, have largely passed from the scene. Post-modernist education made every narrative, be it Christian, Muslim, pagan, capitalist or socialist, ecological or libertarian, equally indefensible and not worth fighting for.So the bottom line is that some NATO members may send troops to help villagers but not to fight a fanatical guerilla force, or simply argue that the social security budget deficit has caused them to cut military spending for 2008.This recognition of NATO's limitations may be a blessing in disguise. First, it may push India, China and even Russia to recognize that they have real interests at stake in Afghanistan, in the Middle East, and elsewhere. These interests may be real, going beyond thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. Vital agenda items may include stability in the Middle East and crisis prevention necessary to keep the oil prices stable, if not decreasing.Secondly, there are governments in the Middle East that think of the U.S. оr NATO as the security lenders of last resort. These may be forced to realize that they should take steps to upgrade their security and military forces and realistically assess external and internal threats to their countries – including from Iran and either domestic or transnational radicals.After Iraq and Afghanistan, the likelihood of another massive Western intervention is fading like the mist over an Afghan mountain valley on a warm spring day – for now. Yet, Europeans love their lifestyles and are committed to their values.
The UK and France still have hundreds of nuclear weapons. And with NATO enlargement to poorer countries, the alliance may come up with larger reservoirs of manpower from countries like Romania. Agreement on missile defense in Bucharest indicates that Europe will not be a sitting duck.If attacked on their own turf, NATO may fight. And if the current elites prove too feeble to lead, they may be replaced by the voters. One cannot easily discard a 2,000-year history of constant warfare. Another generation, espousing different values, may lead Europe, with results which are hard to predict.Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. is senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
The CARMEL ALERT April 4th 2008 A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
Guest Comment: Ms Rice: God Is Watching YOU! by Stan Goodenough
Dear Secretary Rice
As I write this, you are making your way back home after spending two days throwing your weight around in Israel, my adopted homeland. Yes, I know it’s your job as Secretary of State; you have a president to please. You speak for the world’s number one superpower. And of course you have your reputation to think of and your destiny to fulfil. I know, too, that you will never read this, and it is doubtful that anyone near you will either.
All Christians who believe the Bible and strive to live by it are responsible for conveying its truths. We have a calling, a duty, a responsibility; and a day is coming when we will have to give an account. I therefore feel bound to tell you, Madam Secretary, that ever since you set your sights on implementing the two-state vision that aims to create an Arab state on biblically and historically Jewish land, you have been playing with fire; potentially with eternal fire, and not just with your own life, but with the life and future of your nation. You need to know this. What I want to convey in the strongest possible terms is this: Just as the Israelites bore the consequences of the actions of their leaders, your American people are bearing the consequences of your actions, particularly your actions in the Middle East, into which the Bush administration was drawn against its will, but which it has now made its top priority as its time in office runs out.
I hope that President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert can sign an agreement before the end of my presidency [in January] that defines a clearly-outlined Palestinian state, the German daily Die Welt quoted Bush as saying yesterday. And, speaking on the same day here in Jerusalem, you let Israel know that you intend to be much more systematic about what is being promised and what is being done by Israel to facilitate this. You are expecting it to happen very very soon.
Then, in Amman, Jordan, standing next to veteran terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas - who used violence against civilians to generate support like yours for his cause - you denounced Israel for settling Jews in Samaria and Judea. We continue to state America’s position that settlement activity should stop, that its expansion should stop – that is indeed not consistent with Road Map obligations, you said. That’s a good solid biblical word, settlements. If I may, I’d like to draw your attention to two more Bible verses: In Isaiah 14:1 it says: For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and SETTLE them in their own land [emphasis mine].
And through Ezekiel in chapter 34, God says: And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL [emphasis again mine]. Do you see the phrase the mountains of Israel? Do you know where these are? The mountains of Israel are Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights, the very parts of the Land of Israel you are working to sever from Jewish occupation. Occupation? It is THEIR God-given land; it has never been the Palestinians! Bottom line: It is not the Israeli government that is behind the settlement activity in Judea and Samaria. It’s the LORD God Himself.
Moving on, I was interested to read that, while you planned to give Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu just 15 minutes of your time on this visit here- an expected courtesy perhaps - what he had to tell you, as he spoke of the dire consequences of giving Judea and Samaria to the Arabs, compelled you to spend at least an hour with him. I brought her information from security officials and intelligence indicating that Hamas could take over the West Bank and create what is essentially an Iranian base there, Netanyahu told reporters after that meeting.
In other words you can never say that you were not warned - and not for the first time - of the very probable outcome of what you are forcing Israel to do. I say forcing, because it is what you are doing; and you are building on what Israel has been forced to do - through diplomatic blackmail and not-always-so-veiled threats - by the presidents and secretaries of state that have preceded you.
With respect, your argument that the US is only doing what Israel’s governments are in agreement about doing is deceptive. The overwhelming majority of those in Israel who today go along with land-for-peace and the creation of Palestine ONLY do so because they have been pushed and pressured by America for decades to do so. The buck for this stops in the Oval Office - and at Foggy Bottom. And please don’t protest about all the good things that America has done for Israel - your friend and ally in the Middle East. There is little that is laudable about giving support to someone while aiding his enemies in their efforts to kill him.
I come back to what I said about the consequences of your actions to your nation. As you are flying home, Madam Secretary, the Fox Extreme Weather Centre is reporting multiple tornado warnings and unrelenting flooding hitting great swathes of your country. The weather, which has been excessive for weeks on end, with freak tornadoes brought about by record-breaking warm winter weather rampaging through towns and cities - is today being described as brutal.
Here in Israel we are watching pictures of destroyed homes in Oklahoma City and other parts of what the forecasters call America’s heartland and more damage is reportedly on the way. The weather is training through this region, storm after storm, flashflood warnings, six to eight inches of snow, and a possible uncontrollable tornado breakout lashing the country tomorrow. Instead of March roaring in like a lion and going out like a lamb, said Fox, the month was roaring out an even bigger lion than it came in.
And the second story topping the news? The most sweeping regulatory power being brought into play by the Treasury in America since the Great Depression. I don’t need to tell you about what has happened to your dollar; what your people are now paying for gas. How Vice President Dick Cheney had to go to Saudi Arabia, cap in hand, and ask for a favour to keep that price-per-barrel from going out of control. Bible believers read that God will require at America’s hand, and at the hands of all those nations who participate in this process, an answer for its dividing up of the Land of Israel and the scattering of its people. Ms. Rice, I know it will require a superhuman ability you likely do not have within yourself. But for the sake of your nation and for the sake of your ultimate legacy, it is my deep and earnest hope that you will recognize the error of the way in which you are set, and turn from this path before it is too late.
Yours, as a lover of Zion and a lover of the United States
Stan Goodenough - a Jerusalem Watchman
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
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.
BA cancels 34 more flights at Terminal 5
Mon Apr 7, 4:21 AM
LONDON (AFP) - British Airways said it had cancelled an additional 34 flights at Heathrow airport's new Terminal 5 on Monday because of the knock-on effects of snowy weather over the weekend.On Sunday, BA pulled 138 flights due to have flown in and out of London Heathrow because of heavy snowfall and persistent problems with the baggage system at the air hub's new multi-billion-pound terminal.A spokesman for BA, which has exclusive use of T5, said that Monday's cancellations were due to the lingering effects of recent freezing weather.This is not caused by the baggage system, this is simply because of the weather yesterday, the spokesman said.
There were a number of aircraft that were out of position which means that had a knock-on effect with the schedule today.Monday's cancellations accounted for 10 percent of the scheduled flights at T5, he added.A spokeswoman for BAA, which operates Heathrow airport, confirmed there were no further problems with T5's baggage system on Monday.Terminal 5 opened March 27 to much fanfare but has been plagued by severe logistical problems which have centred around the baggage handling system.The facility at Heathrow, one of the world's busiest airports, cost about 4.3 billion pounds to build.
BA cancels 126 flights over snow, Heathrow fiasco
Sun Apr 6, 3:31 PM
LONDON (AFP) - British Airways said it had cancelled 126 flights due to have flown to and from London Heathrow on Sunday because of heavy snowfall and persistent problems with the airport's new terminal.A BA spokeswoman said 114 flights had been cancelled because of snow and 12 owing to computer glitches at the recently opened Terminal 5.Heavy snowfall, which fell across many parts of Britain overnight and early Sunday, also forced BA to cancel 32 flights arriving and departing London Gatwick.Air traffic control has reduced the number of aircraft that can take off and land per hour, the BA spokeswoman said in a statement.A spokeswoman for BAA, the operator of Heathrow, said both of the airport's runways were briefly shut Sunday to de-ice tarmac.British Airways meanwhile blamed BAA for the cancellation of 12 flights owing to technical glitches.As a result of the continuing BAA baggage system failure in Terminal 5 we have had to cancel six shorthaul return flights (six in and six out) on Sunday, the airline said in a statement.
We are urging BAA to resolve these issues as soon as possible. British Airways had hoped to operate a full schedule on Saturday for the first time since the new terminal opened on March 27. Instead, it had to cancel 24 short-haul flights at the start of the weekend.The 4.3-billion-pound (8.7-billion-dollar, 5.6-billion-euro) terminal at one of the world's busiest airports opened with much fanfare but within hours had become a public relations disaster as the baggage handling system became overwhelmed.BA said last week that it expected the chaotic opening of T5 to cost it about 16 million pounds.
Hurricane price tags soaring on crowded U.S. coast
Sun Apr 6, 8:17 AM By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - The damage caused to U.S. coastal cities by hurricanes promises to rise into the stratosphere, raising concerns about a possible $500 billion storm and prompting calls for tougher building codes.Devastating hurricanes like 1992's Andrew and Katrina of 2005 have failed to put a dent in massive construction along the hurricane-vulnerable Atlantic and Gulf coasts, where millions of people face evacuation when a storm threatens.Katrina, which swamped New Orleans, was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, with damages of $80 billion.But a study published earlier this year found that a 1926 hurricane that struck Miami would have caused $157 billion in damage, adjusting for inflation and current building.The study suggested there could be a $500 billion hurricane by the 2020s.It's not that far fetched. The damages seem to be doubling every 10 years, said Max Mayfield, former director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center. As we continue to build at the coastline, the damage is going to continue to go up. There's no way around that.The higher prices tags are the inevitable result of U.S. migration to the coast, as well as rising real estate values, experts said at the U.S. National Hurricane Conference held this month in Orlando.
The population of coastal counties on the Atlantic and Gulf increased from 66.8 million in 1980 to 88.3 million in 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Miami Beach, with its miles of expensive oceanfront hotels and condos, is considered a prime target for a future costly mega-storm. The Galveston-Houston area of Texas, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., are all vulnerable.But New York City, with its billions of dollars in real estate, could be the site of the eventual $500 billion storm.The Long Island-New Jersey area could see a 30-foot storm surge in a big hurricane, representing one of the most alarming danger zones in the country.
NOT JUST PROPERTY, BUT LIVES
If you get the Long Island Express headed up there ... you take out all the subways, you take out the infrastructure. You're not just talking about an area impacted, you're talking about the financial center of the world. Yeah, it's possible, Florida emergency management chief Craig Fugate said.The rising danger is not only to property but to lives.The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 killed 372 people when the city's population was only 140,000. Now, more than 2.3 million live in the same area.I don't believe any place in the country is building highways with hurricane evacuations in mind, said Bill Read, the current National Hurricane Center director. If you keep pushing more and more cars onto them in a mass evacuation, the length of time it takes people to evacuate will increase.
Despite the huge damage toll of recent storms -- $26 billion for Andrew and $20 billion for Wilma in 2005 on top of Katrina's $80 billion, several vulnerable coastal states have no statewide building codes. Louisiana only enacted one after Katrina.You would think with Andrew and Katrina that would be enough to make something happen but it hasn't, Mayfield said.Miami-Dade County's post-Andrew building code, considered one of the nation's toughest, only requires construction to meet a Category 4 hurricane, one step below the maximum Category 5. Less than 10 percent of the county's buildings are new enough to have been built to that standard.With no hope of stopping people from moving to coastal areas, Fugate said a capitalistic model that stops subsidizing the risks of coastal living might be needed.That could involve raising insurance rates for coast dwellers, something that is in effect already happening, reducing subsidized national flood insurance, or even forcing developers to build fortified strongholds within their condo towers so a building's residents could be housed there, rather than evacuated, in a hurricane.You can build in these areas, but it's going to cost a lot more money, Fugate said. What we do now is create a system that doesn't address the risk, it minimizes it. We subsidize the risk.(Editing by Michael Christie and Todd Eastham)
Flooding kills 15, leaves thousands homeless in Brazil after weeks of rain Sun Apr 6, 12:14 AM By The Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Civil defence officials in Brazil say flooding from torrential rains in Brazil's normally arid northeast has killed 15 people and driven about 50,000 from their homes.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed an executive order releasing some $360 million to help flood victims. The 15 victims drowned in the state of Paraiba, where the Paraiba River overflowed its banks and the walls of a medium-size dam cracked. The Civil Defence Department had no further details on the deaths. Some 14,000residents in the state abandoned their homes to escape floodwaters. In nearby Piaui state, the floods drove about 19,000 people from their homes and destroyed corn and bean crops. About 30 cities and towns were isolated by washed-out roads. Some 15,000 more were displaced in Maranhao, Pernambuco and Ceara states, officials said.
Tornado hits central Arkansas, damaging buildings; flooding in Kentucky Fri Apr 4, 3:47 PM By Kelly P. Kissel, The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - At least two deaths are being blamed on a storm system stretching from Texas to New England. In central Arkansas, residents have been cleaning up in the wake of a tornado that damaged businesses and knocked out power to thousands of customers.
At least one person has been reported dead in a traffic accident.
Arkansas has been hit by deadly storms and near-record flooding in recent months. The governor says his state's been assaulted by Mother Nature.Kentucky is also coping with heavy rains Friday. Many roads are impassable and some evacuations are underway. Authorities say a two-year-old girl died after her mother drove into a flooded roadway. And in Mississippi, storms have downed trees and caused power outages in Vicksburg.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
Bread Price To Rise Four Percent after Passover APR 7,08
(IsraelNN.com) Consumers will have another reason to refrain from eating bread after the seven-day Passover holiday. Major bakeries announced Monday they will hike prices by four percent and are waiting for a response from the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry. The continuing higher prices of energy and of flour were cited as the reasons for the proposed increases.
The bakeries said the four percent hike does not cover all of their increased costs. However, continuing to eat matzo instead of returning to bread will not save any money because the price of the unleavened bread also has risen sharply.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The Fight for Jerusalem Begins by Hana Levi Julian APR 7,08
(IsraelNN.com) The Tourism Ministry will invest NIS 90 million (US $25 million) in tourism projects around the capital, announced Director General Shaul Tzemach on Monday.The Ministry of Tourism will continue to work to provide an answer for the shortage of hotel rooms in sought-after tourism and commercial areas, he said.
The ministry’s Investments Committee approved funding for 11 projects, including support for construction of new hotel rooms. Money also will be earmarked for hotels in Ashdod and in the Galilee.While the Tourism Ministry is working on beefing up facilities to accommodate the flood of tourists visiting the capital, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has quietly been working on ways to reduce the bottom line.Livni’s Bottom Line - Red Lines for Jerusalem.In her recent talks with Palestinian Authority negotiators, Livni has reportedly drawn the line only at three major points. The status of Jerusalem itself has not been discussed definitely. The discussions are apparently focusing on the issue of retaining control over holy sites, maintaining security and refusing to allow immigration to Jerusalem by Arabs who fled during the 1948 War and millions of other foreign Arabs who claim to be their descendants under what the Arab League refers to as the so-called Right of Return.
Livni shared with visiting evangelical Pastor John Hagee these red lines in her latest negotiating sessions with the Palestinian Authority during a rally held by Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (CUFI) organization celebrating Israel’s 60th birthday.The Christian pastor, who is vehemently opposed to dividing Jerusalem, said that turning part or all of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban.
Christian Dollars for Jerusalem
Hagee announced at the event, held in Jerusalem, that his group would donate some $6 million to various causes in Israel this year. He added that Israel must retain control over the city.The Christian pastor, who leads an 18,000-member church based in San Antonio, Texas, has become an increasingly influential force in Israel, as he has in Christian Zionist politics in the US.Hagee began with two small television licenses 28 years ago as a means of reaching out due to the state’s wide expanses. From there, the growth never stopped. Eventually he built a global media ministry that became an evangelical powerhouse telecast on eight major networks, 162 independent television stations and 51 radio stations worldwide, broadcasting in more than 190 countries, according to the CUFI website. He is also the author of 21 books, including one called, Jerusalem Countdown.Likud Party Chairman and Knesset Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu praised the group’s support for Israel during his speech at the event Sunday night, saying that Israel has no better friends than Christian Zionists. The friendship between evangelicals and Israel is a friendship of the heart, he said.
Reform Jews: Beware the Christian Zionists
American Reform Jewish leader Eric Yoffe told the annual conference of the movement’s leaders last Wednesday night that he personally cannot cooperate with Christian Zionists, however. What they mean by support of Israel and we mean by support of Israel are two very different things, Yoffe said in his speech in Cincinnati, Ohio.The Reform Jewish leader charged that aligning with Hagee and other Christian Zionists is harmful because the movement has a political agenda and does not express unconditional support for the Jewish State.The Reform movement objects to the pro-Israel evangelists’ rejection of the two-state solution, which would divide Israel and create a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Troopers probe Texas polygamist compound By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer APR 7,08
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Authorities who took 220 women and children from a polygamist compound weren't sure whether the teen girl whose phone call prompted the raid was among them. State troopers raided the 1,700-acre West Texas ranch on Friday to look for evidence that the teen, who called authorities a week ago, was married. They planned to continue interviews Monday with some of the women and children, who were transported to a historic San Angelo museum, said Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.So far, 18 children have been taken legally in state custody, Meisner said, who explained Friday that the children had either been harmed or were in imminent danger at the compound. She would not give details. The children remain with relatives, and no arrests had been made as of Sunday.Authorities planned to search Monday for more children and documents at the compound, which was built by jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Eldorado, about 45 miles south of San Angelo.They are looking for evidence the girl, who allegedly had a baby at 15, and 50-year-old Dale Barlow were married. Under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval.
Allison Palmer, the prosecutor working on the case, said other law enforcement agencies know where (Barlow) is and have talked to him, but our investigators have not.Barlow's probation officer, Bill Loader, told The Salt Lake Tribune that he was in Arizona. A call to Loader by The Associated Press was not returned Sunday.Barlow was sentenced to jail last year after pleading no contest to conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for three years while on probation.A search warrant for the raid instructed officers to look for marriage records or other evidence linking the teen to the man and the baby. The warrant authorized the seizure of computer drives, CDs, DVDs or photos.Meisner said the adults taken from the compound were cooperating with authorities, and that she didn't believe any were forced to leave the compound.Many members of the sect are related to one another and share similar names; investigators said in some case they have given different names at different times. Ages were also difficult to determine, Meisner said.Dozens of women and children, mostly girls, were seen boarding buses Sunday on their way to San Angelo. They wore long pastel dresses, and many carried bedding or infants.The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, headed by Jeffs after his father's death in 2002, broke away from the Mormon church after the latter disavowed polygamy more than a century ago.Eldorado, a dusty town surrounded by sheep ranches, has fewer than 2,000 people and is located nearly 200 miles northwest of San Antonio.
The compound sits down a narrow paved road and behind a hill that shields it almost entirely from view in town. Only the 80-foot-high, white temple can be seen on the horizon.Authorities kept onlookers miles away from the compound, which FLDS church members began building several years ago as authorities in Arizona and Utah began increasingly scrutinizing the group.The investigation prompted by the girl's call last week was the first in Texas involving the sect.Jeffs is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., where he awaits trial for four counts each of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. In November, he was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
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.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Israeli ministers tested in massive attack scenario Mon Apr 7, 4:55 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli ministers on Monday were to test their response to the scenario of simultaneous attacks from Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as part of a major home front defence drill. The five-day exercise, the largest in the country's history, is being staged against the backdrop of increased tension on the northern border, prompting the government to reassure Syria and Lebanon there was no hidden agenda behind the manoeuvres.The drill, which started on Sunday, simulates air and missile attacks on Israeli cities, and the use of non-conventional weapons by the attackers.As part of Monday's simulation members of the security cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, will have to make decisions after being told of widespread attacks and high numbers of casualties.Monday's exercise has Israel coming under simultaneous attack from Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the north and from Palestinian militants in Gaza to the south.
The government will also test coordination of vital services, including food distribution centres, hospitals and postal services.
Over the next few days emergency sirens will sound across the country and schoolchildren will practise entering shelters and protected areas in the event of chemical and biological attacks on Israel.The prime minister and his staff will also train to work from an underground bomb shelter at the premier's Jerusalem office, officials said.Dubbed Turning Point, the exercise follows widespread criticism of Israel's handling of the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.It also comes after local media last week reported heightened tensions along Israel's heavily guarded border with Syria and days after Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora put his armed forces on alert.On Sunday, Olmert sought to reassure Syria and Lebanon that Israel did not want the drill to worsen tensions along its northern border.
The goal of the exercise is to check the authorities' ability to carry out their duties in times of emergency and for preparing the home front for different scenarios, Olmert told a weekly cabinet meeting.There is nothing else hidden behind it. All the reports on tension in the north can be moderated and cooled down. We have no secret plans behind the exercises, he added.Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said the manoeuvres were primarily aimed at learning lessons from the Lebanon war, during which more than 4,000 rockets fired by the Hezbollah militia slammed into northern Israel.
The 34-day conflict ended under a UN-brokered ceasefire after more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed.An official inquiry into the war harshly criticised Israel's leadership for failing to protect civilians during the conflict.
Ben Eliezer: Strike by Iran Would Spell Its End
by Gil Ronen APR 7,08
(IsraelNN.com) National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Monday that an Iranian attack will lead to a harsh response by Israel, which will cause the destruction of the Iranian nation.Ben Eliezer visited the National Infrastructures Ministry war room as part of the national emergency response exercise and said: I expect that in the first strike Israel will be hit by hundreds of missiles. There will be no place in the country that will be outside the range of Syria's and Hizbullah's missiles and rockets.He told the war room staff: We, as a ministry, need to prepare for the possibility that missiles will hit Israel's strategic spots, for which our ministry is responsible. You must use your heads and prepare for the worst scenarios.
They keep provoking us
However, Ben Eliezer added, this exercise is not intended to threaten any of the countries surrounding us. Its single purpose is to be prepared for anything. The Iranians will not rush to attack Israel so quickly, because they understand the meaning of that. However, they keep on provoking us through their allies, Syria and Hizbullah, and supplying them with large amounts of weapons, and this is what we have to deal with.The ministry's war room for the exercise, dubbed Turning Point 2, is staffed by representative
There will be no place in the country that will be outside the range of Syria's and Hizbullah's missiles and rockets. of the ministry's Fuel Administration, Electricity Administration, Gas Authority and Sewage Authority.
Iran: exercise for internal consumption
The spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Muhammad Ali Husseini, said earlier Monday that the countries of the region need to follow the Israeli exercise. These provocative acts must be raised before the senior officials in charge of these matters in the international community.Echoing a statement Sunday by Hizbullah's deputy chief Sheikh Naeem Kassem, Husseini said the Israeli Home Front exercise was being held in order to rehabilitate and raise the morale of the [Israeli] military commanders and the soldiers.
Alluding to the recent visit to the area by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, he remarked: Unfortunately, after every visit by senior Americans in the region and the conquered territories, we see actions like this by the Zionist regime.
Israeli, Palestinian leaders meet By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer APR 7,08
JERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resumed face-to-face negotiations Monday, trying to push forward peace efforts after nearly two months marred by heavy Gaza Strip violence and new Israeli plans to expand settlements. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Olmert and Abbas agreed to meet every two weeks.Both leaders reiterated their commitment to the Annapolis process and to reaching a historic agreement by the end of the year, Regev said.He said the Palestinians discussed Israeli settlement construction and humanitarian issues in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel raised its security concerns and called on the Palestinians to rein in militants.Both sides today raised concerns, but they agreed that the negotiations will go on, Regev said.Negotiating teams also met during the three hours of meetings, he said.Palestinian officials weren't immediately available for comment.But ahead of the meeting, negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas would review the status of negotiations with Olmert, push for a halt in settlement activity, seek an easing of roadblocks and other travel restrictions on West Bank Palestinians, and urge Israel to reach a cease-fire with Hamas.
With U.S. backing, the two men have pledged to reach a final peace deal by the end of the year. But it remains unclear how much progress they have made.Negotiating teams have met dozens of times in recent months, and officials privately say that all key issues are under discussion. But there have been few visible signs of change on the ground. Israel continues to build in Jewish settlements, it has done little to improve Palestinian living conditions in the West Bank and the Hamas militant group, which regularly attacks Israeli targets, remains firmly in control of the Gaza Strip.Olmert and Abbas formally relaunched peace talks last November at a summit hosted by President Bush in Annapolis, Md. Their talks are supposed to be based on the road map, a U.S.-backed peace plan that sets a series of stages meant to lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.As initial obligations, the road map calls on Israel to halt all settlement activity and for the Palestinians to dismantle militant groups.
But since the Annapolis conference, Israel has announced plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas claimed by the Palestinians for their future state. Abbas has repeatedly condemned the construction.At the same time, Hamas militants have fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel from Gaza. Israel has warned that it will not carry out any peace agreement until Abbas regains control of Gaza. Hamas violently seized control of the coastal strip last June after routing Abbas' forces there.Israel launched a broad offensive in Gaza in late February in response to especially heavy rocket fire. The offensive, which killed more than 120 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, prompted Abbas to suspend his regular biweekly meetings with Olmert. Monday's meeting was the first between the men since Feb. 19.During a trip to the region late last month ,U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice persuaded Israel to begin lifting some of the hundreds of checkpoints and roadblocks it maintains in the West Bank.Israel says it has taken down one permanent checkpoint and removed some 50 unmanned roadblocks. But the Palestinians say more has to be done.Israel says the travel restrictions are needed to deter Palestinian attackers. The Palestinians, and the international community, have said the roadblocks are excessive and stifling the Palestinian economy. Associated Press Writer Laurie Copans contributed to this report.
BLAIR IS NOW PROMOTING A ONE WORLD RELIGION INTERESTING.
Anti-war protesters heckle Blair as he preaches on faith and extremism Last updated at 08:18am on 4th April 2008
Tony Blair has spoken of his strong sense of mission as he called for religious faith to be put at the centre of efforts to solve the world's problems. Speaking from the pulpit at Westminster Cathedral, the former prime minister said that in a world that was opening up both economically and politically, the role of faith was especially important. He also spoke out against religious extremism while demonstrators shouted outside. Blair announced details of his Faith Foundation, to be launched later in the year, saying it could help awaken the world's conscience and bring religions together to eradicate poverty and hunger. But the address on faith and globalisation, his first major speech since leaving office, was marked by hundreds of anti-war protesters staging a noisy demonstration outside. Campaigners from the Stop The War Coalition attempted to drown out the speech, blowing whistles, banging drums, and rattling pans in a cacophony heard as a low din inside the cathedral's walls. And at the beginning of the speech Mr Blair faced an embarrassing interruption when he misinterpreted calls from the back as heckles, when in fact people were complaining because they could not hear.
A perturbed Mr Blair apologised for the people who follow me around before realising his mistake. Tony Blair addressed a crowd of 1,600 at Westminster Cathedral as protesters heckled from outside.
He later joked: It's a really new thing for me for people to be frustrated because they can't hear me.Mr Blair told the 1,600-strong crowd that faith needed to be rescued from extremism, such as extremism in the name of Islam through the activities of al Qaeda and others. He said: Either positively (religion) will encourage peaceful co-existence by people of faith coming together in respect, understanding and tolerance, retaining their distinctive identity but living happily with those who do not share that identity. Or it will work against such co-existence by defining people by difference, those of one faith in opposition to others of a different faith. In this context, inter-faith action and encounter are vital. They symbolise peaceful co-existence.
Referring to the increasing profile of China, India and the East, Mr Blair said the world will be immeasurably poorer, more dangerous, more fragile and above all, more aimless without a spiritual dimension. Mr Blair, who said he was not a religious leader and made no claims to moral superiority, is currently working as an international envoy to the Middle East. He has also taken up positions in the private sector and a teaching job on the subject of faith and globalisation at Yale University in the US.
He said the Tony Blair Faith Foundation will focus on bringing different religions together to tackle the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, providing universal primary education and combating HIV and Aids.
Mr Blair said: We are falling short as a world in meeting them. It would be a great example of faith in action to try to bridge the gap and awaken the world's conscience.The foundation will bring together Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists to promote faith as a relevant and positive force for good. Mr Blair took several questions from the audience, submitted in advance in writing, but none of them touched directly on the Iraq war. Police step in to control the protest against the war in Iraq.
When asked if he would have done anything differently in office he said: There is nothing I look back on now and say that as a result of my religious journey I would have done things very differently, but that is expressly not to say that I got everything right.He said he was a Christian throughout his political career and had been attending mass for 20 to 25 years before converting to Catholicism. Mr Blair said religion had become more and more important to him and he felt a strong sense of mission about his foundation. Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy-O'Connor described the speech as marvellous, moving, personal and very brave. As the audience departed demonstrators continued to make a noise, waving placards denouncing Mr Blair as a war criminal, and calling for him to be brought to trial. Organisers said they were not attacking Mr Blair's freedom of speech, but his right to be treated as a pillar of respectability. A former monk who gave his name as John criticised the decision to allow the former prime minister to speak at the cathedral. What (Archbishop of Westminster) Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has done in welcoming Blair into the fold is enough to make a Pole a Protestant, he said.
I am disgusted to see so many pious holy nuns swanning in to give him legitimacy.Former hostage Norman Kember took part in a silent protest organised by Catholic peace organisation Pax Christi before the speech. He said: What happened to me was a minor blip in my life compared to the continuing plight of Iraq and the way ordinary Iraqi citizens have suffered so much. I feel it is partly Mr Blair's fault and I don't like the idea of him talking in a church.
I would ask Tony Blair to confess that he made an error and repent for it.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EU to upgrade relations with Israel
by: EJP Updated: 06/Apr/2008 17:59
Benita-Ferrero Waldner, EU External Relations Commissioner:A reflection group is currently considering areas where we can substantially upgrade EU-Israel relations to a truly special status.
BRUSSELS (EJP)---The European Union will deepen the political dialogue with Israel and involve the country more closely in some EU policies like financial services or technological cooperation, External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner announced.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the EU Commissioner said that the EU was working on a targeted deepening of relations with some of our partners in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the EU’s framework foreign policy to cover its eastern and southern neighbours.Israel is described as the front-runner among non-EU members participating in EU programs that range from scientific cooperation to trade integration. A reflection group is currently considering areas where we can substantially upgrade EU-Israel relations to a truly special status, Ferrero-Waldner said. Countries like Ukraine, Israel, Moldova and Morocco, Jordan and Georgia, and others, are now closer to European Union than ever before, she added.They have made gradual progress in their democratic and institutional reforms. Their economies are getting stronger. Our trade and investment have grown substantially, helping this economic development. And their administrations are receiving the best European know-how to become more efficient and accountable.Other countries participating in the ENP partnership include Algeria, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Armenia, Egypt, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.Israel is already the leading ENP partner associated with the 7th Framework Research Programme and the first ENP country to participate in the EU’s Competitiveness and Innovation Programme which supports small and medium businesses.
Israeli-European economic ties are growing as the parties seek to speedily integrate the strong and expanding Israeli economy into the huge European market, EU officials said. The progress report of the European Commission describes Israel as the front-runner among non-EU members participating in EU programs that range from scientific cooperation to trade integration. The EU is Israel’s main trade partner, with imports representing 38 % and exports 33 %. Data for the first quarter of 2007 show an increase respectively of 7.2 and 3.0 % compared to the same period of 2006. The EU and Israel signed an Association Agreement in 1995 in Brussels. In addition to the political dialogue, the agreement covers areas such as industry, energy, standards, financial servives, information infrastructures and telecommunications, transport and tourism. The EU-Israel Association Council meets annually at ministerial level.
EU finance ministers agree to strengthen cooperation
07.04.2008 - 09:24 CET | By Elitsa VuchevaEU OBSERVER
EU finance ministers over the weekend agreed on strengthening cooperation in order to avoid future financial crises, as well as on the need to reform the International Monetary Fund.The ministers, together with central bank governors on Friday (4 April), signed a so-called memorandum of understanding on co-operation in financial crisis situations.The memorandum commits all signatories to cooperate across borders between relevant authorities, both in normal times, in order to ensure preparedness for the management of a potential cross-border crisis situation; and in crisis situations, the document reads.
Taking into account the global nature of the financial markets and the need for broader international efforts in preserving financial stability, the memorandum can also provide the basis for international cooperation between authorities; and it can be extended to include third-country authorities when necessary, it continues.The ministers also said that the financial turmoil caused by an international credit crisis last year, will continue to affect EU economies through 2009 and called for full and immediate disclosure by the bloc's banks.To increase transparency and restore confidence, ministers and governors call on financial institutions to make full and immediate disclosure of on and off-balance sheet risk exposures and losses and on governors to guide this process as appropriate, says a statement by the Slovenian EU presidency.At their two-day meeting, the ministers also said they needed to improve the way money is spent on healthcare, welfare and pensions, while underlining that there is no single blueprint for improvements.
Reform of the IMF
On Saturday (5 April), the EU's finance ministers also agreed on a common position for the upcoming meeting of the International Monetary Fund (12 – 13 April) – the international organisation that oversees the global financial system.Among other things, the EU is to accept a lower voting quota in the institution, and give a bigger say to emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil.
EU members are fully committed to reach an outcome that enhances the legitimacy of the IMF by ensuring a fair and adequate representation for all members, said an EU presidency statement.
Under the proposed reforms, the EU, the US and Japan would lose some of their voting share, while that of developing countries would rise from 39.4 to 42.1 percent, according to the AP.
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
The Real World: NATO and the Middle East
By ARIEL COHEN (Middle East Times)Published: April 04, 2008
Ariel Cohen
The Bucharest summit tells a cautionary tale to the Middle East countries and Afghanistan. The bottom line is: while there are severe limits to American and European power, largely for internal reasons, it is imprudent to write off European countries and the U.S. as global powers.Оne of the key squabbling points before and during Bucharest was the number of troops and equipment to be contributed to Afghanistan. Last fall, Canada warned that it will pull out of the NATO force there if the allies don't contribute adequately and allow their troops to fight in the south of the country. This is because several European NATO allies, especially Germany, have not allowed their troops to fight the Taliban, limiting their deployment to the relatively quiet north. Other troops were not allowed to fight at night – when the Taliban engage in the majority of their operations.At Bucharest, France announced that it will send one battalion (700-800 soldiers) to relieve the Canadians. The United States, which has contributed the majority of the 47,000 NATO troops, scrambled to persuade the Europeans to send more troops, but finally ended up throwing in the towel.
Instead, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the Pentagon will send an additional 3,200-3,500 Americans, mostly Marines, to Afghanistan. There is also a shortage of helicopters capable of flying in severe mountain conditions – something that American helos do well, and even the Soviet machines used to quite adequately.The bottom line, is some European governments and elites do not want to fight to win in Afghanistan. In informal conversations, they treat the NATO engagement there as America's war and think the fighting till victory is unnecessary.They would rather do economic development, build schools, train police, or teach opium poppy growing Afghan farmers advanced agricultural techniques. Then peace will materialize somehow.At a conference in Tallinn, Estonia, which this author attended last week, а senior EU security official called both Iraq and Afghanistan wrong wars and instead praised the EU mission in Darfur, which so far lacks troops and failed to stop what many called genocide of darker-skinned Sudanese.The French, for example, want to shift emphasis from NATO to the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), and build a separate rapid reaction force. ESDP will not have Americans in the decision making process at all, while borrowing American air lift or satellite when needed. It will take years if not decades for ESDP to stand up, but in the meantime, bickering inside the alliance will seriously delimit its expeditionary, out-of-area capacity.In another conference, British, French and Dutch security experts seriously discussed how post-war development trumps war-fighting. We have achieved great successes in building bus shelters in Afghanistan, even if they don't have buses in rural areas, one British expert said.
The Europeans are right to be wary in one sense. The Afghan theater, just as the Iraqi theater, requires more than just military operations. There is an important place for diplomacy, financial flaws interdiction, arms supply interruption, and yes, economic and institutional development. For example, if Pakistan continues to tolerate the Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens along its border with Afghanistan, then hostilities there may continue for a long time, and the Afghan, European and American troops will keep bleeding.But to recoil from fighting altogether is an expression of the deep malaise that is affecting Europe, and the roots of this are demographic, as well as philosophical.Since World War II, and especially with advance of birth control, Europe's indigenous population has fallen below replenishment level. The able-bodied population is in decline, with many families having only one or two children. Even with unemployment high by U.S. standards (8-12 percent on average), many shun professional military service. Тhe recent immigrants tend not to serve as well.
With the ranks of the European unemployed and aging swelling, more funds are needed for social security and retirement funds, and for socialized medicine. With almost the same GDP (around $13 trillion a year) in the EU and the U.S., military budgets in Europe are between 1 and 1.8 percent of GDP on average, while the U.S. military budget is close to 4 percent.As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have lasted a long time and take place in severe climates, the rate of equipment attrition is high. The troops need everything, from armored personnel carriers and helicopters which can operate in desert and mountainous climates, to trucks and ammo. This equipment is expensive, and the European governments are not rushing to pay.The second reason for the aversion to fighting is Europe's post-World War II trauma. Some 55 million people perished in that conflict (including in Russia and Asia), and the surviving populations have moved on, many abandoning religion in the process, and transitioning to a post-modern view of the world.Europe's rush to give up warfare as an instrument of foreign policy, viewing war as absolutely evil, and relying on the American shield against the Soviets simply does not answer modern, 21st century threats, including from Islamist terrorism. Unfortunately for the Europeans, this is one threat that diplomacy is not going to be able to negotiate away.
As Europe increasingly becomes post-Christian, absolute values, those considered worth dying for, have largely passed from the scene. Post-modernist education made every narrative, be it Christian, Muslim, pagan, capitalist or socialist, ecological or libertarian, equally indefensible and not worth fighting for.So the bottom line is that some NATO members may send troops to help villagers but not to fight a fanatical guerilla force, or simply argue that the social security budget deficit has caused them to cut military spending for 2008.This recognition of NATO's limitations may be a blessing in disguise. First, it may push India, China and even Russia to recognize that they have real interests at stake in Afghanistan, in the Middle East, and elsewhere. These interests may be real, going beyond thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. Vital agenda items may include stability in the Middle East and crisis prevention necessary to keep the oil prices stable, if not decreasing.Secondly, there are governments in the Middle East that think of the U.S. оr NATO as the security lenders of last resort. These may be forced to realize that they should take steps to upgrade their security and military forces and realistically assess external and internal threats to their countries – including from Iran and either domestic or transnational radicals.After Iraq and Afghanistan, the likelihood of another massive Western intervention is fading like the mist over an Afghan mountain valley on a warm spring day – for now. Yet, Europeans love their lifestyles and are committed to their values.
The UK and France still have hundreds of nuclear weapons. And with NATO enlargement to poorer countries, the alliance may come up with larger reservoirs of manpower from countries like Romania. Agreement on missile defense in Bucharest indicates that Europe will not be a sitting duck.If attacked on their own turf, NATO may fight. And if the current elites prove too feeble to lead, they may be replaced by the voters. One cannot easily discard a 2,000-year history of constant warfare. Another generation, espousing different values, may lead Europe, with results which are hard to predict.Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. is senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
The CARMEL ALERT April 4th 2008 A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.
Guest Comment: Ms Rice: God Is Watching YOU! by Stan Goodenough
Dear Secretary Rice
As I write this, you are making your way back home after spending two days throwing your weight around in Israel, my adopted homeland. Yes, I know it’s your job as Secretary of State; you have a president to please. You speak for the world’s number one superpower. And of course you have your reputation to think of and your destiny to fulfil. I know, too, that you will never read this, and it is doubtful that anyone near you will either.
All Christians who believe the Bible and strive to live by it are responsible for conveying its truths. We have a calling, a duty, a responsibility; and a day is coming when we will have to give an account. I therefore feel bound to tell you, Madam Secretary, that ever since you set your sights on implementing the two-state vision that aims to create an Arab state on biblically and historically Jewish land, you have been playing with fire; potentially with eternal fire, and not just with your own life, but with the life and future of your nation. You need to know this. What I want to convey in the strongest possible terms is this: Just as the Israelites bore the consequences of the actions of their leaders, your American people are bearing the consequences of your actions, particularly your actions in the Middle East, into which the Bush administration was drawn against its will, but which it has now made its top priority as its time in office runs out.
I hope that President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert can sign an agreement before the end of my presidency [in January] that defines a clearly-outlined Palestinian state, the German daily Die Welt quoted Bush as saying yesterday. And, speaking on the same day here in Jerusalem, you let Israel know that you intend to be much more systematic about what is being promised and what is being done by Israel to facilitate this. You are expecting it to happen very very soon.
Then, in Amman, Jordan, standing next to veteran terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas - who used violence against civilians to generate support like yours for his cause - you denounced Israel for settling Jews in Samaria and Judea. We continue to state America’s position that settlement activity should stop, that its expansion should stop – that is indeed not consistent with Road Map obligations, you said. That’s a good solid biblical word, settlements. If I may, I’d like to draw your attention to two more Bible verses: In Isaiah 14:1 it says: For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and SETTLE them in their own land [emphasis mine].
And through Ezekiel in chapter 34, God says: And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL [emphasis again mine]. Do you see the phrase the mountains of Israel? Do you know where these are? The mountains of Israel are Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights, the very parts of the Land of Israel you are working to sever from Jewish occupation. Occupation? It is THEIR God-given land; it has never been the Palestinians! Bottom line: It is not the Israeli government that is behind the settlement activity in Judea and Samaria. It’s the LORD God Himself.
Moving on, I was interested to read that, while you planned to give Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu just 15 minutes of your time on this visit here- an expected courtesy perhaps - what he had to tell you, as he spoke of the dire consequences of giving Judea and Samaria to the Arabs, compelled you to spend at least an hour with him. I brought her information from security officials and intelligence indicating that Hamas could take over the West Bank and create what is essentially an Iranian base there, Netanyahu told reporters after that meeting.
In other words you can never say that you were not warned - and not for the first time - of the very probable outcome of what you are forcing Israel to do. I say forcing, because it is what you are doing; and you are building on what Israel has been forced to do - through diplomatic blackmail and not-always-so-veiled threats - by the presidents and secretaries of state that have preceded you.
With respect, your argument that the US is only doing what Israel’s governments are in agreement about doing is deceptive. The overwhelming majority of those in Israel who today go along with land-for-peace and the creation of Palestine ONLY do so because they have been pushed and pressured by America for decades to do so. The buck for this stops in the Oval Office - and at Foggy Bottom. And please don’t protest about all the good things that America has done for Israel - your friend and ally in the Middle East. There is little that is laudable about giving support to someone while aiding his enemies in their efforts to kill him.
I come back to what I said about the consequences of your actions to your nation. As you are flying home, Madam Secretary, the Fox Extreme Weather Centre is reporting multiple tornado warnings and unrelenting flooding hitting great swathes of your country. The weather, which has been excessive for weeks on end, with freak tornadoes brought about by record-breaking warm winter weather rampaging through towns and cities - is today being described as brutal.
Here in Israel we are watching pictures of destroyed homes in Oklahoma City and other parts of what the forecasters call America’s heartland and more damage is reportedly on the way. The weather is training through this region, storm after storm, flashflood warnings, six to eight inches of snow, and a possible uncontrollable tornado breakout lashing the country tomorrow. Instead of March roaring in like a lion and going out like a lamb, said Fox, the month was roaring out an even bigger lion than it came in.
And the second story topping the news? The most sweeping regulatory power being brought into play by the Treasury in America since the Great Depression. I don’t need to tell you about what has happened to your dollar; what your people are now paying for gas. How Vice President Dick Cheney had to go to Saudi Arabia, cap in hand, and ask for a favour to keep that price-per-barrel from going out of control. Bible believers read that God will require at America’s hand, and at the hands of all those nations who participate in this process, an answer for its dividing up of the Land of Israel and the scattering of its people. Ms. Rice, I know it will require a superhuman ability you likely do not have within yourself. But for the sake of your nation and for the sake of your ultimate legacy, it is my deep and earnest hope that you will recognize the error of the way in which you are set, and turn from this path before it is too late.
Yours, as a lover of Zion and a lover of the United States
Stan Goodenough - a Jerusalem Watchman
The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel . Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.
Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie
Sunday, April 06, 2008
SACRIFICE HAS TAKEN PLACE
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
Sunday, April 06, 2008 by Staff Writer
Jewish group to slaughter lamb in Passover sacrifice rehearsal
A Bible-adherent Jewish group on Sunday ritually slaughtered a young lamb in what is called a rehearsal for the renewal of the Passover sacrifice once the Jerusalem temple is rebuilt. The Temple Movement won approval to carry out the practice sacrifice from Israel's High Court on Friday after animal rights groups asserted that the lamb would be put through inhumane suffering. In its legal response, the Temple Movement explained that the slaughter would be carried out according to biblical standards, which is the same method used to slaughter lambs at kosher slaughterhouses around the country. The sacrifice and accompanying religious ceremonies were performed at a prominent yeshiva overlooking Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is still occupied by several Muslim shrines.
Sacrifice of Animal on Temple Mount Tommorow (April 6th)
IsraelNN.com) Animal rights group Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot (Let the Animals Live) is threatening to take legal action to prevent the Jewish Temple movement from carrying out an educational demonstration of the Pesach (Passover) sacrifice next week. The group's chairman, Attorney Reuven Ladiansky, sent a letter to Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski and to Temple Institute Director Yehuda Glick, urging them to cancel the planned event or face legal action. The group sees the planned sacrifice as an act of illegal cruelty to an animal.
The demonstration of the Paschal sacrifice is part of a study day scheduled to take place on Sunday, the First of Nissan (April 6), at the Kotel Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The study day is a joint project of the Temple Institute, the Sanhedrin and the King David Museum. It was originally planned to take place one week later, but the organizers decided to dedicate it to the memory of the eight yeshiva boys murdered in Jerusalem recently, and to hold it on the 30th day after their death.
The study day is to include a public sacrifice which is being termed a general rehearsal for the actual Pesach sacrifice on the Temple Mount, a ritual prescribed by the Torah but currently forbidden by the Israel government and courts.Public sacrifices are allowed.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
Sunday, April 06, 2008 by Staff Writer
Jewish group to slaughter lamb in Passover sacrifice rehearsal
A Bible-adherent Jewish group on Sunday ritually slaughtered a young lamb in what is called a rehearsal for the renewal of the Passover sacrifice once the Jerusalem temple is rebuilt. The Temple Movement won approval to carry out the practice sacrifice from Israel's High Court on Friday after animal rights groups asserted that the lamb would be put through inhumane suffering. In its legal response, the Temple Movement explained that the slaughter would be carried out according to biblical standards, which is the same method used to slaughter lambs at kosher slaughterhouses around the country. The sacrifice and accompanying religious ceremonies were performed at a prominent yeshiva overlooking Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is still occupied by several Muslim shrines.
Sacrifice of Animal on Temple Mount Tommorow (April 6th)
IsraelNN.com) Animal rights group Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot (Let the Animals Live) is threatening to take legal action to prevent the Jewish Temple movement from carrying out an educational demonstration of the Pesach (Passover) sacrifice next week. The group's chairman, Attorney Reuven Ladiansky, sent a letter to Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski and to Temple Institute Director Yehuda Glick, urging them to cancel the planned event or face legal action. The group sees the planned sacrifice as an act of illegal cruelty to an animal.
The demonstration of the Paschal sacrifice is part of a study day scheduled to take place on Sunday, the First of Nissan (April 6), at the Kotel Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The study day is a joint project of the Temple Institute, the Sanhedrin and the King David Museum. It was originally planned to take place one week later, but the organizers decided to dedicate it to the memory of the eight yeshiva boys murdered in Jerusalem recently, and to hold it on the 30th day after their death.
The study day is to include a public sacrifice which is being termed a general rehearsal for the actual Pesach sacrifice on the Temple Mount, a ritual prescribed by the Torah but currently forbidden by the Israel government and courts.Public sacrifices are allowed.
SACRIFICE DAY IN ISRAEL
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
TEMPLE INSTITUTES RESPONSE TO ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP TRYING TO STOP THEM FROM SACRIFICING ON APRIL 6TH 2008
As reported by Israel National News, the Temple Institute has received a letter from the animal rights organization Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot (Let the Animals Live) protesting the Temple Institute's intentions to take part in a day long symposium to be held on April 6, (Rosh Chodesh Nisan). Likewise, the group is threatening to take legal action to prevent the participants of the symposium from carrying out an educational demonstration of the Passover sacrifice.
Below is the response of the Temple Institute:
Shalom Reuven Ladiansky, Chairman of Let the Animals Live,
We have received your letter stating your concerns, and begin by welcoming this opportunity for dialogue. As you know, the prohibition against tzar l'ba'alai chaim cruelty to animals is a Torah based principle. Torah strictly forbids both causing physical pain and/or psychological or emotional anguish to animals. Anyone who transgresses this prohibition is in violation of the trust and responsibility placed in him by G-d.
This trust is first articulated in Genesis 2:15: God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. From this we learn that the Torah indeed empowers man to possess mastery over the natural world, but at the same time places upon man the responsibility to guard and protect nature.
The laws of kashrut and shechita (ritual slaughter) require that the slaughter of an animal, whether for personal consumption, or to be used as an offering in the Holy Temple, must be conducted employing certain methods and instruments in such a manner as to guarantee a painless and fear-free demise for the animal. Slaughter that fails to achieve either of these two goals is not kasher.
Concerning the specific case of the Passover lamb offering, one must be aware of the history of the offering, and of the intimacy and defining nature of the offering, in order to fully appreciate its centrality to the Jewish experience. The original Passover offering, commanded by G-d, literally to both mark and to precipitate the birth of the Jewish nation, while still in Egypt, was and remains an iconoclastic and liberating moment whose symbolic import is every bit as relevant today as it was some 3,500 years ago. To discuss the merits of the offering out of this context would both be a mockery of Torah and would render even a detached study void of meaning.
The Temple offerings, (the Passover offering included), were all conducted in the open light of day. Each animal was slaughtered by a priest properly trained to uphold both the technical requirements as mentioned above, and to also direct his heart toward his Creator and the Creator of the animal under his charge. The Temple Priests were masters of compassion, whose function was to perform their tasks while bearing in mind always the awesome responsibility with which they were trusted: the responsibility of life and death.
It is odious even to compare the Temple offerings to the present state of affairs throughout the world in which millions of cows are slaughtered in massive factories and ground into hamburger each and every day of the week in order to slake the appetite of homo sapiens the world over. It is noteworthy, perhaps, that many strict vegetarians are among those who yearn to perform and participate in the Passover offering and the consuming of the meat as part of the Torah prescribed Seder requirement, simply for the reason that this is what G-d requires of them. There is no conflict between a humane attitude toward all living things, and fulfilling one's privileges and obligations as a Jew to his or her Creator.
Finally, any discussion of the Passover offering would be incomplete if the social/national aspect of the offering is not also contemplated. The Passover offering is an obligation that touches all men, women and children of the Jewish nation. Each individual offering was eaten by groups of as many as thirty people or more. The poor, as is well known from the Passover Hagaddah, were also included. The Passover offering had to be eaten in Jerusalem. To this end, local Jerusalemites threw open their doors and courtyards to accommodate their fellow Jews who came from afar to celebrate. One can only imagine the overwhelming sense of unity and family, on the national level, that enveloped the people. And all this is centered around and made possible through the vehicle of the Passover lamb. This does not cheapen the life of the lamb. On the contrary, one can only marvel at the enabling power vested in this creature of G-d, and be grateful to Him for the life transforming gift He has granted us through the performing of the Passover offering.
Ultimately, the Passover offering remains, as it was that first Passover in Egypt, an expression of profound faith in G-d. By attaching ourselves to G-d we come to realize that it is His will, and not ours, that determines what is right and what is wrong. It is this attachment, and the ability to fulfill His expectations of us that informs the Passover offering with the power to set free. The Jewish compassion for all living things is likewise informed by our relationship with G-d, and is not the product of an anthropocentric humanism.
Reuven, I won't pretend that I have turned you into an advocate for the renewal of the Passover offering by my words above, which, in any case only touch upon the surface of the subject of the Passover offering. But before you press ahead with your plans to call for the upcoming symposium to be prevented from taking place, please allow for the fact that we who long to perform G-d's command and make the Passover offering this year, like you, hold dear, and consider holy, the life of each and every one of G-d's living creatures.
May we soon sit in unity as a people around our Passover offerings, in the homes and courtyards of Jerusalem, in the glow of the Holy Temple.
The meat from the lamb that is to be slaughtered at the symposium, (for educational purposes, not an actual Passover offering), is to be distributed to needy families.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
TEMPLE INSTITUTES RESPONSE TO ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP TRYING TO STOP THEM FROM SACRIFICING ON APRIL 6TH 2008
As reported by Israel National News, the Temple Institute has received a letter from the animal rights organization Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot (Let the Animals Live) protesting the Temple Institute's intentions to take part in a day long symposium to be held on April 6, (Rosh Chodesh Nisan). Likewise, the group is threatening to take legal action to prevent the participants of the symposium from carrying out an educational demonstration of the Passover sacrifice.
Below is the response of the Temple Institute:
Shalom Reuven Ladiansky, Chairman of Let the Animals Live,
We have received your letter stating your concerns, and begin by welcoming this opportunity for dialogue. As you know, the prohibition against tzar l'ba'alai chaim cruelty to animals is a Torah based principle. Torah strictly forbids both causing physical pain and/or psychological or emotional anguish to animals. Anyone who transgresses this prohibition is in violation of the trust and responsibility placed in him by G-d.
This trust is first articulated in Genesis 2:15: God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. From this we learn that the Torah indeed empowers man to possess mastery over the natural world, but at the same time places upon man the responsibility to guard and protect nature.
The laws of kashrut and shechita (ritual slaughter) require that the slaughter of an animal, whether for personal consumption, or to be used as an offering in the Holy Temple, must be conducted employing certain methods and instruments in such a manner as to guarantee a painless and fear-free demise for the animal. Slaughter that fails to achieve either of these two goals is not kasher.
Concerning the specific case of the Passover lamb offering, one must be aware of the history of the offering, and of the intimacy and defining nature of the offering, in order to fully appreciate its centrality to the Jewish experience. The original Passover offering, commanded by G-d, literally to both mark and to precipitate the birth of the Jewish nation, while still in Egypt, was and remains an iconoclastic and liberating moment whose symbolic import is every bit as relevant today as it was some 3,500 years ago. To discuss the merits of the offering out of this context would both be a mockery of Torah and would render even a detached study void of meaning.
The Temple offerings, (the Passover offering included), were all conducted in the open light of day. Each animal was slaughtered by a priest properly trained to uphold both the technical requirements as mentioned above, and to also direct his heart toward his Creator and the Creator of the animal under his charge. The Temple Priests were masters of compassion, whose function was to perform their tasks while bearing in mind always the awesome responsibility with which they were trusted: the responsibility of life and death.
It is odious even to compare the Temple offerings to the present state of affairs throughout the world in which millions of cows are slaughtered in massive factories and ground into hamburger each and every day of the week in order to slake the appetite of homo sapiens the world over. It is noteworthy, perhaps, that many strict vegetarians are among those who yearn to perform and participate in the Passover offering and the consuming of the meat as part of the Torah prescribed Seder requirement, simply for the reason that this is what G-d requires of them. There is no conflict between a humane attitude toward all living things, and fulfilling one's privileges and obligations as a Jew to his or her Creator.
Finally, any discussion of the Passover offering would be incomplete if the social/national aspect of the offering is not also contemplated. The Passover offering is an obligation that touches all men, women and children of the Jewish nation. Each individual offering was eaten by groups of as many as thirty people or more. The poor, as is well known from the Passover Hagaddah, were also included. The Passover offering had to be eaten in Jerusalem. To this end, local Jerusalemites threw open their doors and courtyards to accommodate their fellow Jews who came from afar to celebrate. One can only imagine the overwhelming sense of unity and family, on the national level, that enveloped the people. And all this is centered around and made possible through the vehicle of the Passover lamb. This does not cheapen the life of the lamb. On the contrary, one can only marvel at the enabling power vested in this creature of G-d, and be grateful to Him for the life transforming gift He has granted us through the performing of the Passover offering.
Ultimately, the Passover offering remains, as it was that first Passover in Egypt, an expression of profound faith in G-d. By attaching ourselves to G-d we come to realize that it is His will, and not ours, that determines what is right and what is wrong. It is this attachment, and the ability to fulfill His expectations of us that informs the Passover offering with the power to set free. The Jewish compassion for all living things is likewise informed by our relationship with G-d, and is not the product of an anthropocentric humanism.
Reuven, I won't pretend that I have turned you into an advocate for the renewal of the Passover offering by my words above, which, in any case only touch upon the surface of the subject of the Passover offering. But before you press ahead with your plans to call for the upcoming symposium to be prevented from taking place, please allow for the fact that we who long to perform G-d's command and make the Passover offering this year, like you, hold dear, and consider holy, the life of each and every one of G-d's living creatures.
May we soon sit in unity as a people around our Passover offerings, in the homes and courtyards of Jerusalem, in the glow of the Holy Temple.
The meat from the lamb that is to be slaughtered at the symposium, (for educational purposes, not an actual Passover offering), is to be distributed to needy families.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
B-1 BOMBER BURNS IN MIDEAST
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
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.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
U.S. B-1 bomber burns at Middle East base
Four crew members evacuated safely; bomber went down in Qatar
MSNBC News Services updated 5:56 p.m. ET, Fri., April. 4, 2008
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says all four crew members safely evacuated from a B-1 bomber that caught fire after landing at an Air Force base in Qatar. The Air Force says the bomber was taxiing after landing at al-Udeid Air Base and caught fire. The crew evacuated the aircraft and is safe. The fire was contained, the Air Force said in a statement.A board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate.Al-Udeid is the headquarters of all American air operations in the Middle East. U.S. defense officials said they did not know what mission the bomber was conducting. The B-1 is a long-range bomber aircraft capable of flying intercontinental missions without refueling and is able to penetrate sophisticated defensive networks.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
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.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
U.S. B-1 bomber burns at Middle East base
Four crew members evacuated safely; bomber went down in Qatar
MSNBC News Services updated 5:56 p.m. ET, Fri., April. 4, 2008
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says all four crew members safely evacuated from a B-1 bomber that caught fire after landing at an Air Force base in Qatar. The Air Force says the bomber was taxiing after landing at al-Udeid Air Base and caught fire. The crew evacuated the aircraft and is safe. The fire was contained, the Air Force said in a statement.A board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate.Al-Udeid is the headquarters of all American air operations in the Middle East. U.S. defense officials said they did not know what mission the bomber was conducting. The B-1 is a long-range bomber aircraft capable of flying intercontinental missions without refueling and is able to penetrate sophisticated defensive networks.
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