KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
ROME (AP) — An Italian expert in
Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he has discovered the oldest known complete
Torah scroll,
a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his
nose, in the University of Bologna library, where it had been mistakenly
catalogued a century ago as dating from the 17th century.The find isn't the oldest Torah
text in the world: the Leningrad and the Aleppo bibles — both of them
Hebrew codexes, or books — pre-date the Bologna scroll by more than 200
years. But this is the oldest Torah scroll of the Pentateuch, the five
books of Moses, according to
Mauro Perani, a professor of Hebrew in the
University of Bologna's cultural heritage department.Two separate carbon-dating tests — performed by the University of
Salento in Italy and the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — confirmed the revised dating, according
to a statement from the University of Bologna.Such scrolls — this one is 36 meters (40 yards) long and 64
centimeters (25 inches) high — are brought out in synagogues on the
Sabbath and holidays, and portions are read aloud in public. Few such
scrolls have survived since old or damaged Torahs have to be buried or
stored in a closed room in a synagogue.In a telephone interview Wednesday, Perani said he was updating the
library's Hebrew manuscript catalogue when he stumbled upon the scroll
in February. He said he immediately recognized the scroll had been
wrongly dated by the last cataloguer in 1889, because he recognized that
its script and other graphic notations were far older.Specifically, he said the scroll doesn't take into account the
rabbinical rules that standardized how the Pentateuch should be copied
that were established by Maimonides in the late 12th century. The scroll
contains many features and markings that would be forbidden under those
rules, he said.
The 1889 cataloguer, a Jew named Leonello Modona, had described the
letters in the scroll as "an Italian script, rather clumsy-looking, in
which certain letters, as well as the usual crowns and strokes show
uncommon and strange appendices," according to the University of Bologna
release.Perani, however, saw in the document an elegant script whose
square letters were of Babylonian tradition, the statement said.
Perani told The Associated Press it was "completely normal" for a
cataloguer to make such a mistake in the late 1800s, given the "science
of manuscripts was not yet born."Outside experts said the finding was
important, even though older Hebrew bibles do exist."It is fairly big
news," said James Aiken, a lecturer in Hebrew and
Old Testament studies at Cambridge University. "Hebrew scholars get
excited by very small things, but it certainly is important and clearly
looks like a very beautiful scroll."However, Giovanni Garbini, a leading
expert on ancient Semitic
languages and retired professor at Rome's La Sapienza university, said
the discovery doesn't change much about what the world knows about
Hebrew manuscripts."It's an example of an ancient scroll, but from the
point of view of
knowledge, it doesn't change anything," he said in a telephone
interview.But Stephen Phann, acting president of the University of the
Holy
Land in Jerusalem and an expert in ancient Jewish manuscripts, said if
accurately dated, the scroll is a rare and important find. "We don't
have anything much from that period," Phann said.There are far older
scraps of
Torah scrolls
that can be dated back to the 8th century, but Phann said it was rare
to find a complete manuscript.The find was also emotionally important,
he said because the scroll,
as opposed to a bound book, is used for reading Torah portions
throughout the year in synagogue."It's almost a friendship — that they
have come to know the Torah
scroll in their midst, and they draw their knowledge and focus on
worship on how they live their daily life," Phann said.Perani said it
remains a mystery how the scroll came to be part of
the Bologna university library but that he anticipated further study
would now begin.The scroll remains in the library and doesn't require
any extra conservation precautions beyond what it already has, he
said.___Diaa Hadid contributed from Jerusalem.___Follow Nicole Winfield
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ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Israel ‘the most threatened state in the world,’ says PM
Concluding
a three-day nationwide defense drill, Netanyahu warns of ‘tens of
thousands of missiles and rockets’ aimed at civilians
Facing the threat of thousands
of enemy rockets, Israel’s home front is more vulnerable than ever,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at a meeting concluding
this week’s home front drill,
which tested the country’s readiness for chemical and
conventional rocket attacks.
“We are deep in the era of missiles that are aimed at civilian population areas,” Netanyahu said during a meeting of the Emergency Economy Committee.
“We
must prepare defensively and offensively for the new era of warfare.
The State of Israel is the most threatened state in the world. Around us
are tens of thousands of missiles and rockets that could hit our home
front.”Netanyahu said that November’s Operation
Pillar of Defense, during which Hamas terrorists fired hundreds of
rockets from Gaza at Israeli civilian areas, was a small example of the
change in the nature of the threats Israel faces.In addition to training the military and
emergency services, the weeklong exercise also sought to prepare the
civilian population. Air raid sirens sounded twice, drilling the
civilian population in finding shelter at home, work and school.The prime minister explained that maintaining high public morale was a key element of national security.
“Defensive
preparations, first of all, mean preparing the spirit of the nation to
be steadfast in order to allow the military to strike the enemy that
wants to destroy us,” Netanyahu said. “It is important to maintain
functional continuity in the home front that is under fire. The Israeli
home front is more accessible to the enemy than it has been.“Defense demands many resources and this requires a change in our national priorities, including legislative changes,” Netanyahu added in an apparent reference to ongoing political turmoil surrounding a universal draft law that would induct ultra-Orthodox youth into the army.“It is the responsibility of government
ministries to work together and see to it that the vital enterprises
under their purview continue to operate even in emergencies in order to
create functional continuity in time of emergency,” said Home Front
Defense Minister Gilad Erdan.The Emergency Economy Committee, led by Erdan,
is composed of the director-generals of all government ministries, as
well as representatives of other business and industry organizations.
The committee is tasked with evaluating and ensuring the functional
continuity of the economy and government ministries in times of
emergency.
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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) 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,(OIL IS IN 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.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
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,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) 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.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
AnaIysis: Israel could swoop on S-300 missiles in Syria, but with risks
By Dan Williams | Reuters – 1 hr 11 mins ago MAY 30,13
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel could overcome advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles if they were deployed in Syria but any strikes on the system would be difficult and risk alienating its supplier, Russia.
Israel has pledged to take preventive action, seeing a future Syrian
S-300 as a "game-changing" threat to its own air space as well as to
the relative free rein with which it now overflies its northern foe as
well as neighboring Lebanon.Experts agree that Israeli
sabotage or open force to disrupt delivery by Russia is extremely
unlikely - a view seemingly shored up by
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's announcement on Thursday that the first missiles had arrived.That leaves Israel lobbying Moscow to slow down the shipment in
hopes it would be overtaken and scrapped if Assad fell to a more than
two-year-old rebellion, and in parallel preparing counter-measures to
neutralise the S-300 on the ground in Syria.The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted National Security Adviser
Yaakov Amidror as warning European diplomats that Israel would "prevent
the S-300 missiles from becoming operational". That may be achieved by
ensuring Assad does not get the full system, experts say, or by
disabling it militarily if he does."The S-300 would be the pinnacle of Russian-supplied arms for
Syria,"
Colonel Zvika Haimovich, a senior Israeli air force officer, told
Reuters in an interview. "Though it would impinge on our operations, we
are capable of overcoming it.He said Israel's "red line" on the S-300 was "between Syria and
others". This was a hint Israel might hold off on bombing the batteries
as long they did not appear set on shooting down planes within Israeli
airspace, of being transferred to Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas or to
Iran - both staunch allies of Assad and enemies of Israel, or of being
looted by Islamist rebels.
MARKETING MOSCOW
The Israelis excel in electronic warfare. In 1982, they "blinded"
Soviet-supplied Syrian anti-aircraft units in Lebanon, then destroyed 19
of them without Israeli losses. Similar technologies helped Israeli
jets destroy a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 and, this
year, to hit Syrian targets on at least three occasions to prevent what
intelligence sources called attempts to move advanced weaponry to
Hezbollah.A source close to Russia's defence ministry agreed that the Israelis
"likely have a million ways to combat the S-300 electronically". But he
questioned their feasibility because they had not been tested in war."So, whether the S-300 would fail or not cannot be known".
Robert Hewson,
an IHS Jane's air power analyst, predicted Israeli prowess would
prevail in Syria while cautioning that the S-300 would be the most
formidable air defence system it had ever faced. "Israel has had nasty
surprises from these things before," he said, noting its steep losses to
the Soviet anti-aircraft missiles used by Syria and Egypt in the 1973
war.Hewson felt Israel would prefer to destroy the S-300 in Syria but
may opt instead just to circumvent it as required for missions,
especially if there was the risk of inadvertently killing or wounding
Russians helping to install the system.
Security sources have put the number of Russian military personnel in Syria at several hundred."The Russians would react badly to losing their people, and Israel knows that equally," Hewson said.Former Israeli defence minister Moshe Arens said
Moscow should be mindful of the harm that seeing the S-300 defeated in Syria would do to exports of the system elsewhere.Past clients include Cyprus, whose S-300, posted on the Greek island
of Crete, may have given Israel's air force a chance for test runs
during manoeuvres over the Mediterranean."I'd be very surprised if the Russians deliver this system (to
Syria)," Arens told Israel Radio. "It would become apparent that our air
force is capable of besting this system, and that would not make for
good advertising."Playing down the strategic challenge that would be posed to Israel
by a Syrian S-300, Arens added. "We are not afraid. This would simply
change the situation, and we are not interested in the situation being
changed to our detriment."
HAZY DEPLOYMENT TIMELINE
The timeline for the anticipated Syrian deployment of the S-300
remains hazy. Hewson said it could be "up and running within a minimum
of a few weeks" once all components were in, and provided qualified
Syrian personnel were available.But the Russian defence ministry source said he knew of no Syrians
who had already been trained by Moscow, and put the completion of the
S-300 delivery at "six to 12 months from now".Assuming Assad survives in power, such a lag could provide Israel with thwarting opportunities.
Hewson said the truck-towed S-300 would be physically hard to
conceal. Its radar, if activated, would emit a distinctive signal that
Israel could easily monitor, he added.Diplomatic alternatives may not have been exhausted, though.Yuval Steinitz, a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's cabinet, held on Thursday what political sources described
as a discussion of the Syrian S-300 deal with Russian Ambassador Sergei
Yakovlev.In 2010, following Israeli appeals, Russia scrapped an S-300 sale to
Iran. In what may have been a quid pro quo, the Israelis also agreed
that year to sell Russia surveillance drones that would narrow its
technological military gap with rival Georgia.Russia now has other strategic interests - for example, investment in
Israel's
Mediterranean gas fields. Silvan Shalom, another Israeli cabinet
minister, told Reuters that Russian President Vladimir Putin mentiond
the gas fields while hosting Netanyahu in Sochi on May 14 for talks that
focused on Syria.But Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to
Moscow,
was sceptical that Israel could offer anything that would spur Putin to
slacken his support for Assad. "There's too much at stake here for the
Russians," he said.He was alluding to the conflagration's wider geo-strategic
dimensions - pitting a Russian preference to keep Syria under Assad's
control to preserve Moscow's last significant toehold in the Middle East
against a Western and Gulf Arab desire for the downfall of Assad to
roll back Iranian influence in the region.(Additional reporting by Thomas Grove in Moscow; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Mark Heinrich)
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
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)
ISAIAH 6:9-12
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 24:1
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
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.
ISAIAH 11:10-16
10 And in that day (WHEN JESUS IS RULING ON EARTH AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD) there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
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(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) 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 24:6-8
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.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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.
Lebanese TV: Syria has received Russian missiles
By BARBARA SURK | Associated Press – 2 hrs 49 mins ago MAY 30,13
BEIRUT (AP) —
Syria has received the first shipment of
Russian missiles that are part of a more sophisticated air defense system, President
Bashar Assad told
Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned TV channel, according to remarks released by the station Thursday.Bashar Assad's comment on the arrival of the long-range S-300 air defense missiles in
Syria could further ratchet up tensions in the region and undermine efforts to hold U.N.-sponsored talks with Syria's warring sides.
Israel's defense chief, Moshe Yaalon, said earlier this week that
Russia's plan to supply Syria with the weapons was a threat and that Israel was prepared to use force to stop the delivery.The Al-Manar TV, owned by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group,
released Assad's comments on the Russian missiles in print, through its
breaking news service Thursday morning."Syria has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300
rockets," the TV quoted Assad as saying. The Syrian leader added: "All
our agreements with Russia will be implemented and parts of them have
already been implemented."An official at the station confirmed to The Associated Press that the
remarks were from the exclusive interview the TV was to air in full
later Thursday.The shipment of the missiles, if confirmed, comes just days after the
European Union lifted an arms embargo on Syria, paving way for
individual countries of the 27-member bloc to send weapons to rebels
fighting to topple Assad's regime.The developments raise fears of an arms race — not just between
Assad's forces and the opposition fighters battling to topple his
regime, but also in the wider Middle East.Israel has carried out several airstrikes in Syria in recent months
that are believed to have destroyed weapon shipments bound for
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group that along with Iran and Russia is a
staunch Assad ally. It is not clear whether Israeli warplanes entered
Syrian airspace in these attacks.With the Russian missiles in Syria's possession, the Israeli air
force's ability to strike inside the Arab country could be limited since
the S-300s would expand Syria's capabilities, allowing it to counter
airstrikes launched from foreign airspace as well.The S-300s have a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles) and the
capability to track and strike multiple targets simultaneously. Syria
already possesses Russian-made air defenses, and Israel is believed to
have used long-distance bombs fired from Israeli or Lebanese airspace.When Israeli warplanes struck near the capital of Damascus, targeting purported Iranian missiles intended for
Hezbollah earlier this month, Syria did not respond.
But on Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told
Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV that Damascus "will retaliate immediately" if
Israel strikes Syrian soil again.It was the regime's most serious warning to Israel since the
beginning of the conflict in March 2011 but it was not clear if there
was a link between al-Moallem's remark and the Russian shipment.Israel has long lobbied Moscow over the planned sale of S-300
air-defense missiles to Syria. However, on Tuesday, Russia's deputy
foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said his government remained committed
to the deal.Monday's decision by the EU to lift the arms embargo opened the
possibility for individual countries to send weapons to Assad's
outgunned opponents, though there was no indication any single European
country would send lethal weapons to the rebels anytime soon.Britain and France, the main military powers in the EU, had pushed
for the lifting of the embargo, arguing that Europe's threat of arming
the rebels would force Assad to negotiate in good faith.Russia harshly criticized Europe's decision, saying it undercuts
international efforts to bring the opposing sides in Syrian conflict
together for a peace conference.There was no immediate reaction from Israel on the Russian shipment
but Silvan Shalom, a Cabinet minister from Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's party, told Israel Radio that the Jewish state will "take
actions" to make sure advanced weapons don't reach rogue groups.
Prospects for convening a peace conference on Syria were further
thrown in doubt after al-Moallem said Wednesday that Assad intends to
remain Syria's president at least until elections in 2014 and might run
for another term.The Syrian foreign minister also said any deal reached in eventual
talks with the opposition would have to be put to a referendum,
introducing a new condition that could complicate efforts by the U.S.
and Russia to bring the two sides together in Geneva, possibly next
month.While Syria has said that it will "in principle" attend the
conference, the fractured political opposition has not yet announced
whether it will attend or not, despite more than a week of meetings in
Turkey to devise a strategy for the Geneva talks.
Leading opposition members have said they would only attend the
conference if Assad's departure from power tops the agenda, a demand on
which sponsors Russia and the U.S. appear to disagree.In Syria, Assad's forces backed by Hezbollah fighters fought pockets
of resistance in the strategic town of Qusair near the border with
Lebanon. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the
government controls most of Qusair following a fierce, 12-day battle
with opposition forces.Thursday's sporadic clashed came as government troops were mopping up
in northern and western parts of Qusair, said the Observatory, which
relies on information from a network of activists on the ground.The Syrian army on Wednesday took control of nearby Dabaa air base,
dealing a major blow to the rebels in Qusair, an overwhelmingly Sunni
town in western part of the country that has been controlled by the
opposition since early last year.
The government launched an offensive on Qusair on May 19 and
Hezbollah militants joined the battle, drawing the Lebanese Shiite group
deep into the civil war next door.More than 70,000 people have been killed in the 26-months-old Syrian
conflict that has had increasingly sectarian overtones. Members of
Syria's Sunni Muslim majority dominate the rebel ranks and Assad's
regime is mostly made up of Alawites, an offshoot sect of Shiite Islam.Both sides in the conflict value Qusair, which lies along a land
corridor linking two Assad's strongholds, the capital of Damascus and an
area along the Mediterranean coast that is the Alawite heartland. For
the rebels, holding the town means protecting their supply line to
Lebanon, just 10 kilometers (six miles) away.Also Thursday, the opposition coalition said more than 1,000 wounded
in the government offensive in Qusair need to be evacuated for medical
treatment.The opposition said the town hospitals lack doctors and medical supplies to treat those injured and trapped there.___Associated Press writers Zeina Karam in Beirut and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed.
Syria threatens ‘immediate retaliation’ for any Israeli attack
Foreign minister insists embattled Assad will remain in power at least until 2014 elections
Syria’s foreign minister laid out a hard line Wednesday, warning
that Syria would “retaliate immediately” if Israel strikes Syrian soil
again. Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes reportedly twice struck
near the Syrian capital, Damascus, targeting purported Iranian missiles
intended for Assad’s ally, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.“We’ve declared to the world that we will
retaliate immediately if Israel attacks again,” Walid al-Moallem said in
an interview with the Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen. ”Any aggression
will be met with a response of a similar magnitude.”
He also insisted
that Bashar Assad will remain Syria’s president at least until
elections in 2014 and might run for another term, a statement that will
make it difficult for Syria’s opposition to agree to UN-sponsored talks
on ending Syria’s civil war.Israel has warned Damascus that if Assad
chooses to hit back at Israel for any further Israeli military strikes,
Israel will bring down his regime. An Israeli official confirmed that a
dramatic and unprecedented message to that effect had been conveyed to
Damascus, Channel 2 news reported on May 15.
Syria vowed to respond “immediately and harshly” to
any further Israeli airstrikes, after Israel carried out two early
morning attacks on weapons consignments being stored in and around
Damascus en route from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The shipments
contained highly sophisticated Fateh-110 missiles.
Almagor: Livni Planning 'Back-Door' Terrorist Release
The
Almagor anti-terror organization fears that Justice Minister Tzipi
Livni is preparing for another mass release of Arab terrorists
By David Lev-First Publish: 5/30/2013, 3:58 PM-Israelnationalnews
Security prisoners-Flash 90
The Almagor anti-terror organization expressed concerns Wednesday
that Israel could be preparing for another mass release of Arab
terrorists from Israeli prisons, among them terrorists who directly
participated or plotted murders of Israelis. The organization said that
it had obtained information that in recent weeks, Justice Minister Tzipi
Livni has ordered staff to examine the cases of over a hundred of these
terrorists, with the suspicion being that she is seeking loopholes in
the law that would enable their release.Most of the terrorists have been in Israeli prisons for years or even
decades, with many of the terrorist acts undertaken before the
signing of the Oslo Accords.Almagor chairman Meir Indor told Arutz Sheva that he had requested an
urgent meeting with Livni in order to discuss the matter. Indor said
that the Palestinian Authority had launched a massive campaign aimed at
pressuring Israel to release “long-term prisoner” terrorists, who are in
prison for terrorist acts that occurred over two decades ago. The
release of the terrorists, along with a full building freeze in all of
Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, are the two preconditions the PA has given
Israel for a return to negotiations.Indor said that his organization had obtained
a list
of 120 such terrorists. “All of them are murderers,” Indor said. “And
they are all in good health. We are not talking about old men or sick
men.” Indor added that the terrorists in question had participated in
terror attacks that had cost Israelis their lives, not just “attempted”
attacks. These are terrorists that Yitzchak Rabin, who signed the Oslo
Accords along with chief PA terrorist Yasser Arafat, himself refused to
release in the mass exodus of terrorists from Israeli prisons after the signing of Oslo.Indor said that Livni has portrayed the requests for release by the
PA as “very problematic,” but he fears that this is just a public
statement designed to hide the attempt by Livni to seek legal ways to
release the terrorists. Indor also said that it appeared that if Livni
did decide to release the terrorists, President Shimon Peres would not
stand in her way, as he said in a recent speech that he, too, was in
favor of the release of “prisoners.”Almagor is attempting to organize an opposition bloc of the families of victims of the terrorists to pressure Livni against signing release papers for the terrorists.
Abbas Admits He's Under Pressure to Drop Preconditions
PA Chairman admits he is under international pressure to resume talks with Israel and drop demands for a construction freeze.
By Elad Benari-First Publish: 5/30/2013, 4:16 AM-Israelnationalnews
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas-Flash 90
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly between a
rock and a hard place as he ponders whether to accept a request by U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry to resume peace talks with Israeli.Abbas has reportedly told advisers that as the U.S.
tries to restart Mideast peace talks, he is under intense international
pressure to return to negotiations with Israel and drop his long
standing precondition of a freeze on Jewish construction in Judea,
Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.PA officials told the Associated Press on
Wednesday that in a closed meeting, Abbas lamented his difficult choice:
Rebuff the Americans and alienate Washington, or cave in, drop the
demand that Israel freeze construction and face an uproar at home.
"There is pressure on us from international parties
who are saying we should give the Americans a chance," said Hana
Amireh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's
decision-making executive council.
"What the Americans are talking about is
negotiations over security and borders, and some confidence-building
measures, and asking both sides to refrain from any provocative acts,"
Amireh told
AP.Abbas has reportedly rejected a proposal from Kerry
for Israel to halt most construction, but allow building to proceed in
the so called "settlement blocs". At the same time, he is wary of
turning down the whole U.S. initiative, fearing he would be blamed for
the failure. He is concerned about a public backlash at home if he
returns to negotiations without winning any significant concessions.The peace talks with Israel broke down in 2010,
when Abbas refused to negotiate with Israel even though it agreed to his
precondition and froze construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern
Jerusalem for 10 months. Instead, he has continued
to impose preconditions on talks with Israel.In recent weeks, Kerry has been pushing the sides to resume peace talks, and reports last week indicated that
he has proposed that Israel freeze construction east of the 1949 armistice line so the talks can resume.It was not clear if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded favorably to Kerry’s suggestion of a new construction freeze.As part of his efforts to lure the sides back to the negotiating table, Kerry
unveiled a plan to boost the Palestinian Authority’s economy by attracting $4 billion in private investment.Kerry said the plan could transform the lives of PA
Arabs, adding it was also imperative to create jobs and meet the hopes
of young people for a better economic future.Israel has not officially responded to the plan, but it was
given a cool reception by the PA, which stated that it would “not offer political concessions in exchange for economic benefits.”
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
France says Brussels 'cannot dictate' economic policy
Today @ 09:29 MAY 30,13
By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - France's President and Prime Minister have said Brussels has no right to tell them which economic reforms to make.Speaking to AFP on a visit to Rodez, in southern France, on Wednesday
(29 May), President Francois Hollande said: "The European Commission
cannot dictate to us what we have to do. It can simply say that France
has to balance its public accounts, which is true."He noted: "On pensions, it's a discussion which we will have with our social partners."He added: "We have respected our European commitment on deficit
reduction. But regarding structural reforms, especially pensions reform,
it's for us and only us to say what is the right way to attain this
objective."His Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, was equally defiant at a
meeting in Matignon, in north-east France, with former German leader
Helmut Schmidt the same day.He said: "We will carry out reforms in our own way."He noted: "If I think of pensions reform, it's [needed] not because
Brussels has asked us to do it, but because we know it's necessary."He added that his reform programme will help to restore France's "leading position in Europe."The reactions come after the commission published recommendations for 23 member states, including France, earlier on Wednesday.
It gave France an extra two years to meet deficit targets.But it also called for reforms in six areas.It said on pensions the French treasury "will still face large
deficits by 2020 and new policy measures are urgently needed to remedy
this situation," proposing a hike in the retirement age among other
ideas.Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso told press in the EU capital: "Our message to France is in fact quite challenging."
He added: "France has in the last decade lost maybe even 20 years of competitiveness."The commission won the right to make the recommendations - which also
cover areas such as tax and social policy - under the "European
semester" law passed in 2011.They are non-binding.A second set of laws - the "two pack," which comes into force on Thursday - gives Brussels real teeth.Under the two pack, eurozone countries such as France will have to submit their national budgets to the commission in October.If EU officials do not like them, they can force governments to submit new proposals.But Hollande's remarks raise the prospect that big EU countries will
bully the commission, while smaller member states will have to obey -
just as they did with the Union's old Stability and Growth Pact.For his part, administrative affairs commissioner Maros Sefcovic
voiced worry over the two pack at a seminar in April in Slovakia.He said at the time: "The commission in its history never had more power than it has now."He noted: "In September or October, the commission will send letters
to Estonia or to France saying: 'Show us your budgets. We want to see
them first to see if they're sustainable'."He added: "When I present this [the commission verdict] … people
might say: 'Who is this man from Brussels telling us what to do?'."
EU NATIONAL RECOMENDATIONS AT A GLANCE
http://euobserver.com/economic/120295
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has said a video
reportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine doesn't exist, but
questions remain in the controversy that has been swirling around City
Hall for nearly two weeks. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
Mark Towhey, Mayor Rob Ford's chief of staff, leaves Toronto City Hall after he was fired from his post on May 23, 2013. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
Toronto
City Mayor Rob Ford reacts as the Don Bosco Eagles, the high school
team he coached, trailed in their 28-14 defeat to Huron Heights Warriors
in the Metro Cup in Toronto on Nov. 27, 2012. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)