From Jack Van Impe show Monday March 12,2007
THE WORLD WILL NEVER END JUST BE SHAKIN TO THE CORE. ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL ALWAYS EXIST FOREVER.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born,(1ST COMING OF JESUS) unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(2ND COMING OF JESUS TO RULE FROM JERUSALEM) and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,(THAT MEANS FOREVER) upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
I can not stand it when the Lukewarm Leftists insist the Christian Zionists say the World will be destroyed, when we do not, we go by the Bible and the Bible says the World will go on forever and Ever Amen.
Sure, half of Earths population die in the future through Nuclear weapons, diseases and tribulation, but 3 BILLION people will be living on Earth at the return of Christ at the 2ND COMING for the 1000 YR REIGN, then forever from Jerusalem also. For all you lukewarmers that hate Israel, for get it, Israel will always exist as a Nation (and heres the kicker) Jerusalem will not only be the Capital of Israel, it will be the Capital of the Whole World.
Now lets get down to the numbers. Prove only half die and the World goes on forever.
When the flood occured, God only saved 8 people to go through the Flood and repopulate the Earth. As we see back then, as today the Earth was Filled with Violence (Terrorism) and Godlessness.
GENESIS 6:1-13
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God (Demonic fallin Angels)came in unto the daughters of men,(Had sex with Human Women) and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.(thats today for sure again)
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
NOAH TO BUILD AN ARK TO GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH.
GENESIS 6:14-22
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
40 DAYS AND NIGHTS IT RAINED
GENESIS 7:1-12
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Note here The Israelites waundered in the Desert 40 Years. Jesus was tempted in the desert 40 days, in the future the 1ST half of the tribulation Period is 42 Months, and the 2ND half of the tribulation, the great wrath of God is 42 months.
After the 40 days and nights everyone (living ,breathing animals and people) on earth were gone, only the 8 of noahs family were alive to repopulate the Earth.
GENESIS 8:2-6
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.(Notice its mountains of Ararat the Arc landed on, more then just one)(The Arc was so big it needed more then 1 mountain to balance it after the flood.)
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.(Ararat is obviously 2 or more mountains) (not just a single mountain that the Arc landed on)
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
GOD MAKES A COVENANT THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED BY WATER EVER AGAIN.
GENESIS 8:13-22
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.(Heres the 1st confirmation in the Bible that the earth will go on forever)
GENESIS 9:1-17
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
NOW WE COME TO OUR DAY
Well since GOD said the earth would never be totally destroyed by water ever again, there must be another way GOD gets rid of the Sins of the Earth this time. And its fire.
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,
OK SO NOW WE SEE HOW GOD WILL DEAL WITH THE EARTH IN THE LAST DAYS, IT WILL BE WITH FIRE. EVEN THOUGH THE EARTH WILL GO ON FOREVER, THERE IS LOTS OF SCRIPTURES THAT GOD SAYS FIRE WILL BE USED TO CLEANSE THE WORLD THIS TIME.
ISAIAH 45:17-18
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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.
HOW 3 BILLION WILL BE ON EARTH AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST TO EARTH LITERALLY, BODILY. THE WORLD NEVER ENDS.
In Revelation 9:18 we see one-third of earths population die from Fire
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.(Nuclear Bombs)
OK, there are currently 6 BILLION PEOPLE on the EARTH. 6 BILLION MINUS 1/3RD = 2 BILLION PEOPLE KILLED FROM NUCLEAR WARFARE. THIS LEAVES 4 BILLION PEOPLE REMAINING ON THE EARTH.
In Revelation 6:7-8 we see another one-quarter of earths population die from, weapons, famine and diseases.
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
OK, 4 BILLION LEFT FROM NUCLEAR WARFARE, MINUS 1/4 from DISEASE = 1 BILLION KILLED FROM THESE 3 DISASTERS. THIS LEAVES A TOTAL OF 3 BILLION DEAD DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. THIS IS EXACTLY HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DEAD LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.
FROM 6 BILLION CURRENTLY, TO 3 BILLION AT THE END OF THE 7 YR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27 AND THE RETURN OF EARTH BODILY BY JESUS AND THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS.
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.
SO WE SEE CLEARLY HERE THAT LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS, THE EARTH WILL GO ON FOREVER. HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION WILL BE ALIVE ON EARTH TO SEE THE LITERAL BODILY RETURN TO EARTH OF JESUS.
AND IF EVERYONE WAS DEAD LIKE THE SECULER (LUKEWARM LEFTIST) WORLD CLAIMS WE ZIONISTS SAY, HOW COULD JESUS SEPARATE THE GOAT (BAD) FROM THE SHEEP (GOOD) NATIONS AFTER HE RETURNS TO EARTH. THIS JUDGEMENT IS HOW THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH TREATED THE ISRAELIS DURING THE 7 YR TREATY.
MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
TO FINISH IT OFF HERES SCRIPTURES THAT SAY THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER. NOT ALL OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE. IT MAKES ME SO MAD WHEN I HEAR THE GODLESS SAY THE END OF THE WORLD.CHRIST COMES FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH TO RULE FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
2 CORINTHIANS 12:2
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
MATTHEW 6:10
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
JUDE 14
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
REVELATION 19;14,16
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
DANIEL 2:44
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
LUKE 1:32-33
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:(IN JERUSALEM)
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (ISRAEL) for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.(FOREVER)
2 KINGS 17:34
34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
PERES DREAMS GOVERNMENT APPROVES
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Sluggish system soaks Texas. 3-Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights. 4-Early daylight time means less shut-eye. 5-Peres Dreams, Government Approves. 6-Israel serious on Saudi peace initiative. 7-EU Climate Goals a Model for Other Nations, Merkel Says. 8-Hopes are Low for Olmert-Abbas Meeting.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Mon Mar 12 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 11,07
MAP 5.0 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 6.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.4 BERING SEA
MAR 10,07
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.7 GREENLAND SEA
MAP 5.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
MAP 4.1 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
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.
Sluggish system soaks Texas Kevin Roth, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 11,07
A sluggish storm over New Mexico is spiraling waves of heavy showers and thunderstorms to western Texas and the southern Plains. Through early Sunday afternoon Oklahoma City had picked up nearly an inch of rain with more on the way. This system swirls slowly through Texas Monday and Tuesday producing rounds of heavy rainfall over the Lone Star State and adjacent areas of the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible over much of Texas with 1 to 3 inches possible over Oklahoma, western Arkansas and western Louisiana through Tuesday. A few of the thunderstorms could become severe Sunday evening producing large hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. The threat of severe thunderstorms goes down Monday and Tuesday, but isolated heavier storms are still possible, primarily over central and eastern Texas. The heavier rainfall in the Pacific Northwest has lifted northward into Canada as the next wave of low pressure makes a run at British Columbia. Showers are still in the forecast through Tuesday with lighter rainfall expected.
Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights Sat Mar 10, 9:28 PM ET
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Volanic ash from the Caribbean island of Montserrat disrupted airport traffic in Puerto Rico Saturday, prompting delays and cancellations by several airlines. Most of the problems were in the small airport in the southern city of Ponce, but four Delta Airlines flights were canceled in San Juan, on the north coast, said Fred Sosa, the general manager of the capital's Luis
Munos Marin International Airport.Most flights out of San Juan were unaffected, Sosa said.A large cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert also was contributing to the poor visibility, said Miguel Calimano, general manager of Puerto Rico's regional airport system.Ash from the volcano in Montserrat, a British territory about 275 miles southwest of Puerto Rico, often clouds the skies of the Caribbean.In recent days, officials have warned that a dome of hardened lava over the Soufriere Hills volcano has swollen to near-record size and could collapse. On Wednesday, the Montserrat Volcano Observatory said the ash cloud had reached 8,000 feet and was blowing west.People in Montserrat have been on alert since Dec. 24, when the dome's growth shifted toward the volcano's northwestern flank, which is home to many of the island's 5,000 inhabitants. In January, the government issued an evacuation order for dozens of households.The volcano's 1997 eruption buried much of the island's
south and killed 19 people.
Early daylight time means less shut-eye
Clocks spring ahead 1 hour Sunday in most parts of Canada
Saturday, March 10, 2007 CBC News
Many Canadians are no doubt feeling sleepy-eyed on Sunday, as daylight time at 2 a.m. in each time zone traditionally means the springing ahead of clocks by one hour before bedtime.This year, daylight time, established in most parts of the country, comes three weeks earlier than usual, starting the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April after the ushering in of spring and ending late as well, the first Sunday in November.Dr. Brian Murray, Toronto neurologist and sleep specialist, says he would do away with daylight time altogether.(CBC) The three-weeks-early start is the result of Canada following the lead of the U.S., a move designed to save energy.
Sleep experts, however, say many Canadians don't get enough shuteye already, and studies have shown the time change can affect how the brain functions the Monday after the clocks have changed.There's a small increase in traffic accidents that occurs in the period of time where an hour of sleep is lost, which is interesting, says Dr. Brian Murray, a neurologist and sleep specialist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.I would be happy if we did away with it just for the nuisance of having to reset clocks and computers and all.
Peres Dreams, Government Approves
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
The Cabinet approved on Sunday morning a series of mega-projects envisioned by Shimon Peres and designed to improve regional cooperation. Among the approved ventures are a Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, and railway tracks to Jordan.
Peres, long the Minister of Regional Cooperation, has described his ideas as being intended to support diplomatic channels via economic anchors. The largest of the projects is the digging of a canal from the Red Sea northward to the Dead Sea. Water from the south will flow naturally to Earth's lowest spot, the Dead Sea, thus preventing it from drying up. In addition, the surge of the water will be used to power electricity generators, which in turn will power desalination facilities for Jordan and the PA. Another project will be the establishment of a joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport in Aqaba, adjacent to Eilat. Also planned are an agricultural industrial zone in Jericho, funded partially by Japan, and a high-employment Israeli-PA industrial zone near Jenin in the northern Shomron.
Israel serious on Saudi peace initiative Associated Press
Posted Sunday , March 11, 2007 at 18:51
PEACE INITIATIVE: Saudi initiative calls for a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world.
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was ready to treat seriously a dormant Saudi initiative calling for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Mideast War.Olmert spoke to his Cabinet ahead of a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the leaders' second summit in the past month. Both sides acknowledged they expected no major breakthroughs ahead of the formation of a new Palestinian government in the coming weeks.The talks, following an inconclusive meeting on February 19 attended by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are part of US-backed efforts to prod the sides to a return to peace talks.
The Saudi peace initiative, which aimed to solve the Palestinian issue by offering Israel a comprehensive peace, was first proposed in 2002 but never got off the ground.
It is expected to be high on the agenda at an Arab League summit later this month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The Saudis, who have never backed away from the initiative, have been pushing hard for other regional countries, many of whom also have endorsed it, to gather behind the initiative in strength to push the peace process forward. Olmert told his Cabinet today that Israel is following developments in the Arab world with the utmost attention and noted positive developments among moderate Arab countries.
EU Climate Goals a Model for Other Nations, Merkel Says
By Philip White MAR 10,07
(EUNN) London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the climate goals set by the European Union this week were really a model for all other nations to follow.
Merkel called the EU's move a pioneering role.The European Union had agreed earlier this week cut greenhouse gas emissions and use more renewable energy, which included the further development of nuclear power as a clean fuel source for powering the EU member nations.In her weekly video message Merkel said through the European Union's example she hoped other nations would follow and do as much as they could to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The German Chancellor pointedly named the United States as one of those nations which could do more to fight global warming and pollution. I'm thinking of the United States and the emerging economies of India and China, Merkel said.
In June, Merkel hopes to present the EU Climate Summit results to the Group of Eight leading industrial nations when they meet.I hope that more people in the world are prepared to commit themselves to action to stop climate change, she said.As President of the European Union Merkel used her post Friday to push the leaders of the 27-member bloc of the EU to adopt a binding goal on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.The deal calls for all of the EU member nations to cut carbon dioxide emissions 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. Merkel also hopes that all of the EU leaders will go along with a target of using 20 per cent renewable energy as well.
Hopes are Low for Olmert-Abbas Meeting
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to meet Sunday, but a Hamas legislator said there is no point in talking. Neither Israel nor the PA expects much progress in head-on talks scheduled for Sunday, but the Prime Ministers office said it is does not want to close the lines of communication. Frankly speaking, there isnt one Palestinian who believes in negotiations, said Sheikh Ahmed Mubarak, a terrorist recently freed from Israeli prison. Even those who believe in negotiations have no hope that Israel will meet the Palestinian conditions.
Prime Minister Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisen, proved him correct Saturday night, saying that negotiations cannot take place until Hamas fulfills Quartet-set conditions to recognize Israel, renounce terror and accept existing agreements, all of which it has repeatedly vowed not to do. Eisen called the talks a pre-negotiation stage, adding, We are not at a phase where we are actually talking about substance. Abbas's top aide, chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, also sees little hope for more than words.
These are difficult times between us and I don't want to raise expectations, he said. The Prime Minister and Abbas will talk for the first time since their summit last month, which was marked by angry shouts in the presence of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Abbas claimed at the time that he had attained from Hamas all the concessions he could ever hope to get. However, this amounted only to a statement that Hamas would respect not even fulfill existing agreements.The discussions will take place in the shadow of continued Kassam rocket attacks on Israel, in continued violation of the Gaza ceasefire that the PA and Israel announced in late November. Four rocket blasts in the western Negev on Saturday caused no injuries.
Abu Mazen's Requests
Despite the violations of the ceasefire, Hamas wants Abbas to offer to extend it throughout all of Judea and Samaria in return for Israel's halting all counter-terrorist operations. Even if Hamas offers to free kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, it will be difficult for Olmert to agree to a widened ceasefire in the face of constant warnings of terrorist attacks and an escalation in shootings, stonings and firebombings on Israeli vehicles. However, rejecting a ceasefire offer may be fodder for the media to continue portray Israel in a negative light. PA sources say Abu Mazen also plans to ask Olmert not to torpedo the PA unity government's activities - even though it was conceived in contrast with Abu Mazen's promise to Israel. The Fatah leader also intends to request that Olmert not pressure the
international community to continue its economic siege on the PA despite the fact that funds recently freed to the PA were given to Hamas.
Olmert Expresses Measure of Support for Saudi Plan
Olmert, at this morning's Cabinet meeting, made a surprising announcement of guarded support for the Saudi initiative. He said that the five-year-old plan - which calls for Israel's full withdrawal to the 1949-67 borders, the entry of an untold number of so-called Arab refugees into Israel, and full normalization with Arab countries - has some positive elements. The Saudi initiative is a plan that we are willing to relate to seriously, Olmert said. It has elements that we can talk about.Just ten days ago, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny told the PA Al Ayam newspaper that Israel could not accept the initiative in its current format.
Shalit: Before or After?
Olmert also told the Cabinet ministers today that Israel has expressed its reservations regarding the Mecca Agreement [for a national unity government in the Palestinian Authority]. He said he will tell Abu Mazen today that the PA must honor its commitment to form a new government only after it releases kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.Just two days ago, Hamas parliament member Halil Al-Haya told a crowd in Gaza that he feels Shalit will be released shortly after the unity government is formed.
Olmert further said he expects any PA government that is established to adhere to the Quartet's conditions. Hamas has refused to accept the demands to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism; regarding the Quartet's demand that it abide by previous PA-Israel agreements, Hamas has said it would respect not abide by Them.
While Abbas and the Prime Minister are talking, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will be in the United States for talks with their
counterparts. Peretz will also speak with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has said he intends to visit the Middle East at the end of this month. Foreign Minister Livni will be backed by a bi-partisan effort initiated by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida and Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada. In a letter to Secretary Rice, they stated, We urge you to continue to hold
firm and insist that [there will be] no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israels right to exist, renounce terror and accept previous agreements.Russia has taken the opposite stance and has been campaigning for Israel and the international community to recognize Hamas.
Unity Gov't Problems Cast Shadow
A dark cloud overshadowing the talks between Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert is the proposed unity government between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions.
The PA Chairman also has threatened that if Israel does not accept the proposed Hamas-Fatah unity government, which has not yet been finalized, violence will escalate. On Saturday, Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists fired at a Hamas minister. No one was injured, but the incident, which occurred in eastern Samaria, is a sign of the extent of how far discontent has spread beyond Gaza. Hamas has indicated that the new unity government will retain a strong Hamas influence, with four of its remaining ministers remaining in the government. No agreement has been reached on who will head the Interior Ministry, which oversees security forces. A Ramallah-based pollster expects a short life for a unity government, which was agreed on in Mecca under intense pressure from Arab leaders. The Mecca agreement has done nothing, said Jamil Rabah. It allowed the sides to come together, but not on a common agenda. I give it two months before it falls apart. We have a scrambled egg which is very difficult to unscramble.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Mon Mar 12 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 11,07
MAP 5.0 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 6.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.4 BERING SEA
MAR 10,07
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.7 GREENLAND SEA
MAP 5.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
MAP 4.1 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
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.
Sluggish system soaks Texas Kevin Roth, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 11,07
A sluggish storm over New Mexico is spiraling waves of heavy showers and thunderstorms to western Texas and the southern Plains. Through early Sunday afternoon Oklahoma City had picked up nearly an inch of rain with more on the way. This system swirls slowly through Texas Monday and Tuesday producing rounds of heavy rainfall over the Lone Star State and adjacent areas of the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible over much of Texas with 1 to 3 inches possible over Oklahoma, western Arkansas and western Louisiana through Tuesday. A few of the thunderstorms could become severe Sunday evening producing large hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. The threat of severe thunderstorms goes down Monday and Tuesday, but isolated heavier storms are still possible, primarily over central and eastern Texas. The heavier rainfall in the Pacific Northwest has lifted northward into Canada as the next wave of low pressure makes a run at British Columbia. Showers are still in the forecast through Tuesday with lighter rainfall expected.
Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights Sat Mar 10, 9:28 PM ET
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Volanic ash from the Caribbean island of Montserrat disrupted airport traffic in Puerto Rico Saturday, prompting delays and cancellations by several airlines. Most of the problems were in the small airport in the southern city of Ponce, but four Delta Airlines flights were canceled in San Juan, on the north coast, said Fred Sosa, the general manager of the capital's Luis
Munos Marin International Airport.Most flights out of San Juan were unaffected, Sosa said.A large cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert also was contributing to the poor visibility, said Miguel Calimano, general manager of Puerto Rico's regional airport system.Ash from the volcano in Montserrat, a British territory about 275 miles southwest of Puerto Rico, often clouds the skies of the Caribbean.In recent days, officials have warned that a dome of hardened lava over the Soufriere Hills volcano has swollen to near-record size and could collapse. On Wednesday, the Montserrat Volcano Observatory said the ash cloud had reached 8,000 feet and was blowing west.People in Montserrat have been on alert since Dec. 24, when the dome's growth shifted toward the volcano's northwestern flank, which is home to many of the island's 5,000 inhabitants. In January, the government issued an evacuation order for dozens of households.The volcano's 1997 eruption buried much of the island's
south and killed 19 people.
Early daylight time means less shut-eye
Clocks spring ahead 1 hour Sunday in most parts of Canada
Saturday, March 10, 2007 CBC News
Many Canadians are no doubt feeling sleepy-eyed on Sunday, as daylight time at 2 a.m. in each time zone traditionally means the springing ahead of clocks by one hour before bedtime.This year, daylight time, established in most parts of the country, comes three weeks earlier than usual, starting the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April after the ushering in of spring and ending late as well, the first Sunday in November.Dr. Brian Murray, Toronto neurologist and sleep specialist, says he would do away with daylight time altogether.(CBC) The three-weeks-early start is the result of Canada following the lead of the U.S., a move designed to save energy.
Sleep experts, however, say many Canadians don't get enough shuteye already, and studies have shown the time change can affect how the brain functions the Monday after the clocks have changed.There's a small increase in traffic accidents that occurs in the period of time where an hour of sleep is lost, which is interesting, says Dr. Brian Murray, a neurologist and sleep specialist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.I would be happy if we did away with it just for the nuisance of having to reset clocks and computers and all.
Peres Dreams, Government Approves
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
The Cabinet approved on Sunday morning a series of mega-projects envisioned by Shimon Peres and designed to improve regional cooperation. Among the approved ventures are a Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, and railway tracks to Jordan.
Peres, long the Minister of Regional Cooperation, has described his ideas as being intended to support diplomatic channels via economic anchors. The largest of the projects is the digging of a canal from the Red Sea northward to the Dead Sea. Water from the south will flow naturally to Earth's lowest spot, the Dead Sea, thus preventing it from drying up. In addition, the surge of the water will be used to power electricity generators, which in turn will power desalination facilities for Jordan and the PA. Another project will be the establishment of a joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport in Aqaba, adjacent to Eilat. Also planned are an agricultural industrial zone in Jericho, funded partially by Japan, and a high-employment Israeli-PA industrial zone near Jenin in the northern Shomron.
Israel serious on Saudi peace initiative Associated Press
Posted Sunday , March 11, 2007 at 18:51
PEACE INITIATIVE: Saudi initiative calls for a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world.
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was ready to treat seriously a dormant Saudi initiative calling for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Mideast War.Olmert spoke to his Cabinet ahead of a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the leaders' second summit in the past month. Both sides acknowledged they expected no major breakthroughs ahead of the formation of a new Palestinian government in the coming weeks.The talks, following an inconclusive meeting on February 19 attended by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are part of US-backed efforts to prod the sides to a return to peace talks.
The Saudi peace initiative, which aimed to solve the Palestinian issue by offering Israel a comprehensive peace, was first proposed in 2002 but never got off the ground.
It is expected to be high on the agenda at an Arab League summit later this month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The Saudis, who have never backed away from the initiative, have been pushing hard for other regional countries, many of whom also have endorsed it, to gather behind the initiative in strength to push the peace process forward. Olmert told his Cabinet today that Israel is following developments in the Arab world with the utmost attention and noted positive developments among moderate Arab countries.
EU Climate Goals a Model for Other Nations, Merkel Says
By Philip White MAR 10,07
(EUNN) London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the climate goals set by the European Union this week were really a model for all other nations to follow.
Merkel called the EU's move a pioneering role.The European Union had agreed earlier this week cut greenhouse gas emissions and use more renewable energy, which included the further development of nuclear power as a clean fuel source for powering the EU member nations.In her weekly video message Merkel said through the European Union's example she hoped other nations would follow and do as much as they could to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The German Chancellor pointedly named the United States as one of those nations which could do more to fight global warming and pollution. I'm thinking of the United States and the emerging economies of India and China, Merkel said.
In June, Merkel hopes to present the EU Climate Summit results to the Group of Eight leading industrial nations when they meet.I hope that more people in the world are prepared to commit themselves to action to stop climate change, she said.As President of the European Union Merkel used her post Friday to push the leaders of the 27-member bloc of the EU to adopt a binding goal on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.The deal calls for all of the EU member nations to cut carbon dioxide emissions 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. Merkel also hopes that all of the EU leaders will go along with a target of using 20 per cent renewable energy as well.
Hopes are Low for Olmert-Abbas Meeting
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 11,07
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to meet Sunday, but a Hamas legislator said there is no point in talking. Neither Israel nor the PA expects much progress in head-on talks scheduled for Sunday, but the Prime Ministers office said it is does not want to close the lines of communication. Frankly speaking, there isnt one Palestinian who believes in negotiations, said Sheikh Ahmed Mubarak, a terrorist recently freed from Israeli prison. Even those who believe in negotiations have no hope that Israel will meet the Palestinian conditions.
Prime Minister Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisen, proved him correct Saturday night, saying that negotiations cannot take place until Hamas fulfills Quartet-set conditions to recognize Israel, renounce terror and accept existing agreements, all of which it has repeatedly vowed not to do. Eisen called the talks a pre-negotiation stage, adding, We are not at a phase where we are actually talking about substance. Abbas's top aide, chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, also sees little hope for more than words.
These are difficult times between us and I don't want to raise expectations, he said. The Prime Minister and Abbas will talk for the first time since their summit last month, which was marked by angry shouts in the presence of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Abbas claimed at the time that he had attained from Hamas all the concessions he could ever hope to get. However, this amounted only to a statement that Hamas would respect not even fulfill existing agreements.The discussions will take place in the shadow of continued Kassam rocket attacks on Israel, in continued violation of the Gaza ceasefire that the PA and Israel announced in late November. Four rocket blasts in the western Negev on Saturday caused no injuries.
Abu Mazen's Requests
Despite the violations of the ceasefire, Hamas wants Abbas to offer to extend it throughout all of Judea and Samaria in return for Israel's halting all counter-terrorist operations. Even if Hamas offers to free kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, it will be difficult for Olmert to agree to a widened ceasefire in the face of constant warnings of terrorist attacks and an escalation in shootings, stonings and firebombings on Israeli vehicles. However, rejecting a ceasefire offer may be fodder for the media to continue portray Israel in a negative light. PA sources say Abu Mazen also plans to ask Olmert not to torpedo the PA unity government's activities - even though it was conceived in contrast with Abu Mazen's promise to Israel. The Fatah leader also intends to request that Olmert not pressure the
international community to continue its economic siege on the PA despite the fact that funds recently freed to the PA were given to Hamas.
Olmert Expresses Measure of Support for Saudi Plan
Olmert, at this morning's Cabinet meeting, made a surprising announcement of guarded support for the Saudi initiative. He said that the five-year-old plan - which calls for Israel's full withdrawal to the 1949-67 borders, the entry of an untold number of so-called Arab refugees into Israel, and full normalization with Arab countries - has some positive elements. The Saudi initiative is a plan that we are willing to relate to seriously, Olmert said. It has elements that we can talk about.Just ten days ago, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny told the PA Al Ayam newspaper that Israel could not accept the initiative in its current format.
Shalit: Before or After?
Olmert also told the Cabinet ministers today that Israel has expressed its reservations regarding the Mecca Agreement [for a national unity government in the Palestinian Authority]. He said he will tell Abu Mazen today that the PA must honor its commitment to form a new government only after it releases kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.Just two days ago, Hamas parliament member Halil Al-Haya told a crowd in Gaza that he feels Shalit will be released shortly after the unity government is formed.
Olmert further said he expects any PA government that is established to adhere to the Quartet's conditions. Hamas has refused to accept the demands to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism; regarding the Quartet's demand that it abide by previous PA-Israel agreements, Hamas has said it would respect not abide by Them.
While Abbas and the Prime Minister are talking, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will be in the United States for talks with their
counterparts. Peretz will also speak with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has said he intends to visit the Middle East at the end of this month. Foreign Minister Livni will be backed by a bi-partisan effort initiated by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida and Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada. In a letter to Secretary Rice, they stated, We urge you to continue to hold
firm and insist that [there will be] no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israels right to exist, renounce terror and accept previous agreements.Russia has taken the opposite stance and has been campaigning for Israel and the international community to recognize Hamas.
Unity Gov't Problems Cast Shadow
A dark cloud overshadowing the talks between Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert is the proposed unity government between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions.
The PA Chairman also has threatened that if Israel does not accept the proposed Hamas-Fatah unity government, which has not yet been finalized, violence will escalate. On Saturday, Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists fired at a Hamas minister. No one was injured, but the incident, which occurred in eastern Samaria, is a sign of the extent of how far discontent has spread beyond Gaza. Hamas has indicated that the new unity government will retain a strong Hamas influence, with four of its remaining ministers remaining in the government. No agreement has been reached on who will head the Interior Ministry, which oversees security forces. A Ramallah-based pollster expects a short life for a unity government, which was agreed on in Mecca under intense pressure from Arab leaders. The Mecca agreement has done nothing, said Jamil Rabah. It allowed the sides to come together, but not on a common agenda. I give it two months before it falls apart. We have a scrambled egg which is very difficult to unscramble.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
A GODLESS SPEAKS
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Quake strikes off El Salvador, Honduras. 3-Flash floods kill six in Algeria. 4-Typhoon Muifa creating battering waves. 5-Flood potential: Northwest/southern Plains. 6-Far-right and wrong, or how to ruin Judaism. 7-Olmert, Abbas set to hold second summit. 8-Jordan's king urges Abbas to set clear goals to revive Mideast peacemaking.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Sun Mar 11 12:00 AM EDT
NAR 11,07
MAP 3.4 BERING SEA
MAR 10,07
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.7 GREENLAND SEA
MAP 5.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.5 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
MAP 4.1 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAR 09,07
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 OREGON
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.5 GOLFO DE FONSECA, HONDURAS
MAP 4.6 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.1 BATAN ISLANDS REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.4 BANDA SEA
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.9 MID-INDIAN RIDGE
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.8 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 NEVADA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.0 PRIMORYE, RUSSIA
MAP 3.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
Quake strikes off El Salvador, Honduras Fri Mar 9, 11:26 PM ET
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - An earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador and Honduras on Friday, alarming some residents but causing no damages or injuries, officials said. The temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 and struck at 3 p.m., 65 miles southwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Authorities in El Salvador said the quake startled some residents of the capital of San Salvador. Juan Carlos Elvir, chief of Honduras' emergency response department, said the quake was hardly even felt in that country
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.
Flash floods kill six in Algeria Sat Mar 10, 2:27 PM ET
ALGIERS (AFP) - A flash flood killed six people in southern Algeria when torrential rains caused wadis to overflow, while high winds brought down trees and walls, press reports said Saturday.
Two teenage schoolgirls and four shepherds were swept away in separate incidents in the Djelfa region, 270 kilometres (170 miles) south of Algiers on Thursday when more than 100 millimetres (four inches) of rain fell in just a few hours, the reports said.Other people were injured by falling walls, trees and telegraph poles as winds reached 120 kilometres (75 miles) an hour, the reports added.In Algiers itself some 30 houses were flooded in the east of the city when a river overflowed for the first time in 15 years. Firemen had to use boats to evacuate the residents.In the mountainous east of the country meanwhile roads were blocked by snow, and weather forecasters predicted conditions would worsen on Sunday.
Typhoon Muifa creating battering waves Tim Ballisty, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Sat Mar 10, 9:11 AM ET
What started Tuesday innocently enough as a moderate tropical storm has become a small, but potent, typhoon east of the Philippines. Typhoon Muifa (Moy-fa) became worthy of its prefix today when winds were estimated at near 105 mph. Muifa is at best meandering to the north while churning in the Philippine Sea just east of Manila. In fact, for all intents and purposes, the typhoon has stalled.
Though forecast to move west over the islands, forward progression will be slow. Bad news for the island chain as flooding and mudslides will result from the copious amounts of rain expected to fall over the next 48 hours. There is no doubt that the large and powerful waves have been battering the eastern coast of the northern Philippines. The system is forecasted to weaken gradually over the next 5 days as it heads towards southern Vietnam. The Atlantic and eastern Pacific Basins remain quiet.
Flood potential: Northwest/southern Plains Jonathan Erdman and M. Ressler, Sr. Meteorologists, The Weather Channel MAR 10,07
Flood watches continue in western Washington through Sunday. Rainfall will persist along windward (west & southwest-facing) slopes of the Olympics and Cascades. Rainfall totals from 5-10" can be expected through early Monday along these slopes. At the same time, snow levels will be quite high (at or above 8000 feet) so rapid snow melt will add to the heavy rain. River flooding looks to be widespread in western Washington. Rainfall from 1-2" can be expected in the Seattle-Tacoma portland urban corridors. Heavy precipitation should end by Monday, as a cold front sweeps through, bringing snow levels back down to about 3000 feet. Sunday, rain and thunderstorms will be numerous in Oklahoma and West Texas. A few strong thunderstorms west of I-35 between the Red River and the Rio Grande may turn severe, with large hail the primary severe threat. Local rainfall totals from 1-3" may trigger flash flooding from southwest Oklahoma into West Texas through early Monday. Regarding the low's lumbering nature, the axis of most concentrated rain and thunderstorms may only shift to along and just east of the I-35 corridor in the Lone Star State during the day Monday. Tuesday, the stubborn rain may nudge eastward into the Piney Woods of east Texas, western Louisiana, and southwest Arkansas. Thanks to this slow movement, flash flooding will continue to be a concern.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
JUDE 12-16
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them (LUKEWARM LESTISTS) of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
The way this Guy puts down the Bible believers in Israel just amazes me, now we know why the 21 judgements will be shot on the GODLESS of the Earth during the Tribulation Hour with remarks like this guy says.
Far-right and wrong, or how to ruin Judaism
By Bradley Burston MAR 10,07
For years, the members of the radical right have done their best to help ruin any chance for peace.
They've done quite a job.Given free rein, in the end they'd ruin Judaism as well, replacing it with their own belief system. If the rest of us would only let them.How would it look? Something like this perhaps:
THE NEW 13 ARTICLES OF FAITH
1. Jews have the full right, and the duty, to settle anywhere they choose in the biblically defined Land of Israel.
Author's note: No one in this world has the right to settle wherever they choose.
2. Settling the Land is a commandment of the highest order in Judaism.
Corollary:
3. Ceding land to Arabs under so-called peace deals is a sin. Judaism must revive the medieval concept of the moser, under which Jews who hand over Jewish land to gentiles, inform against fellow Jews or hand over fellow Jews to gentiles are guilty of capital crimes.
Author's note: The distortion of contemporary Judaism to a perverse extreme is especially evident in the works of the self-appointed Sanhedrin of leading far-right rabbis, whose rabbinical court recently pronounced overall IDF West Bank commander Yair Naveh, himself Orthodox, a moser for approving the eviction of 20 occupants of an illegal outpost.
Leaving aside the problematic issue of a Great Sanhedrin arbitrarily constituting itself after 1,650 years of inactivity, the ancient Sanhedrin was historically renowned, if for nothing else, for its marked reluctance to impose the death penalty.
4. Refusal of orders by leftist soldiers serving in the territories is an act of cowardice, self-hatred, treachery, defeatism.
5. Refusal of orders by rightist soldiers serving in the territories is an act of conscience, of uncommon valor, a defense of Jewish values, a historical necessity.
6. Meir Kahane was a saint and a prophet.
Author's note: Corollary - Racism against Arabs is thus not bigotry, but realism.
7. Baruch Goldstein was a saint and a savior.
Author's note: In Hebron, the second most holy city to Jews and the contemporary headquarters of twisting authentic Judaism into obscenity, Goldstein's grave has become a pilgrimage magnate for the Voodoo Jews who revere his massacre of 29 Muslims at prayer. Going obscenity one better, Goldstein chose for his terror attack the holiday of Purim, arguably the most joyous occasion on the Jewish calendar.
To hear the radical right tell it, Goldstein's action prevented an unimaginable terrorist plot from unfolding and murdering large numbers of Jews.
It was a fiction that has become an article of faith. Thus it is that radical rightist Jews have come to revere Goldstein not because of the lives - Arab and Jewish - that he saved as a physician, but because of those - exclusively Muslim - that he took as a gunman.
8. Leftist Jews are systematically destroying Israel. The leftist-dominated media foments and directs that process of destruction, through its treasonous criticism of right-wing governments.
9. Criticism by Jews of left-wing Israeli governments is a patriotic duty.
10. There is no difference between the Arabs of today and the Nazis of World War II. There is no such thing as a Palestinian people. The Arabs of the Land of Israel should be transferred to Muslim nations.
11. The Israel Defense Forces, the Border Police, and the Shin Bet, acting under the orders of left-leaning government officials, coddle the Palestinians and refrain from carrying out the kinds of operations that would put an end to terror once and for all.
12.Jews are no longer bound by the rabbinic prohibition against setting foot on the Temple Mount.
Author's note: No less an authority than Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook, first chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, ruled that it is a Torah commandment that until the day of the resurrection, we are not permitted to even enter the courtyard of the Temple.
The fact that Jewish law can be summarily ignored or rescinded for reasons of politics and ideology does not bode well. Neither does the possibility that it can only be revamped for reasons of right-wing politics or ideology.
13. The Muslim occupation of the Temple Mount should be ended at the first opportunity, and the construction of the new Temple to begin. Jews, who everywhere in the world pray facing the direction of the Temple Mount, have a clear right to the site, in contrast to Muslims, who pray facing Mecca.
Author's note: For Jews to decide how much Muslims care about their holy sites is fully as wrong as Muslims deciding how much Jews care about theirs.
Among many of us, there is a tendency to discount the potency and the danger of the far right.
Perhaps this is because of the funhouse mirror carnival aspect of the ragtag righteous: the End of Days addicts, the Temple Mount groupies, the hilltop hormone punks, the Kahane-rama tubby hippies, the curiously mousy men of the Women in Green, the fanatical would-be settler, the gun nut, the Messiah crank, the Earthmother curser of Arab mothers, the thick of payes and the thin of patience, the wide of scullcap and the wild of eye, the would-have-been ghetto fighter and the might-have-been Maccabee.
What unites them? What do they know that we don't know? The destructive potential of the lunatic notion, the obscene plan, the crackpot mantra.They know that this is no joke. This is a struggle for the soul of Judaism. Ultimately, however, the result will not be up to them. It will be up to the rest of us.
Olmert, Abbas set to hold second summit MAR 10,07
JERUSALEM. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas hold their second summit in less than a month tomorrow but with few hopes of a breakthrough as both are facing major problems.Israeli and Palestinian officials have raised minimal expectations and different versions of the agenda ahead of the expected talks in Jerusalem where Abbas and Olmert will meet for the third time in as many months.I don’t want to raise the level of expectation, but this is nevertheless an important meeting, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said. The Palestinian president intended to raise a range of matters linked to final status peace talks, he said, and petition Olmert to expand a fragile November 26 Israeli-Palestinian truce in the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We should consolidate this truce in order to be able to extend it to the West Bank" where Israeli arrests and raids take place daily, Erekat said.
But Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin denied that the talks would broach either a ceasefire extension, as long as the arrangement is not respected in the Gaza Strip, or peace negotiations. The prime minister will notify Mr Abbas that Israel won’t be able to continue its policy of restraint for ever while the rocket fire continues, she said. More than 140 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel since the truce began.Neither will Olmert bring up negotiations talks, said Eisin, who instead presented the summit as an opportunity to keep the channel of dialogue open. She said Olmert would also ask Abbas to clarify how he spent US$100 million that Israel transferred after a December summit and part of US$600 million owed to the Palestinian Authority in tax receipts. According to Israeli media reports, the money was used to pay back debts owed by the Western-boycotted Hamas-led government, despite Israeli insistence that it be used only to bolster Abbas’s security forces and for humanitarian purposes. The summit comes with Israel and the Palestinian Authority deeply divided about an incoming Palestinian government due to unite Hamas blacklisted by the West as a terrorist organisation and Abbas’s moderate Fatah party.
Israel insists that it will continue to boycott any Palestinian administration that does not explicitly meet Western demands that it recognise Israel’s right to exist, renounce violence and abide by past peace agreements. The unity government, the makeup of which is expected to become known next week, is the product of a landmark power-sharing agreement signed by Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, whom Israel tried to assassinate in 1997. AFP.
Jordan's king urges Abbas to set clear goals to revive Mideast peacemaking The Associated PressPublished: March 10, 2007
AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan's King Abdullah II urged visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday to set clear goals for talks with the Israelis as the next step to reviving stalled Mideast peacemaking saying the momentum must be maintained.It's necessary to build on Arab and international efforts over the past few weeks to activate the peace process, Abdullah said in a royal palace statement issued after his talks with Abbas in the Jordanian capital.
He stressed the necessity to formulate a clear view of the objectives and results to be reached through the upcoming negotiations, referring to Abbas' meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday the second between the two leaders in a month.It's very important to establish this formula before the (U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice visit and the Arab summit at end of month, Abdullah said.Earlier in the week, Abdullah met with U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice in Washington where he urged officials in a speech to the U.S. Congress to quickly take the lead in creating conditions for a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Today in Africa & Middle East
Iraqi leader requests regional aid to curb violence Kenyan police arrest key Al Qaeda suspect Disaster puts spotlight on Malian immigrants to U.S.The goal must be a peace in which all sides gain, he said. There must be a peace in which Israelis will be part of the neighborhood.Abbas briefed Abdullah on the formation of a unity government with the militant Hamas and efforts to prepare the necessary political groundwork to relaunching negotiations with Israel, the statement said.But both Israel and the Palestinians have acknowledged that they don't expect any major breakthroughs in Sunday's talks ahead of the formation of a new Palestinian government.Israel said it would not delve into the most important issues like the borders of a future Palestinian state unless the new Palestinian government meets international demands to renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace deals as demanded by the Quartet of Middle East mediators.The power-sharing deal falls short of those demands, but Abbas says its the best he can get from Hamas.
Olmert is expected to tell Abbas the new Palestinian government must meet the Quartet demands. Abbas will try to persuade Olmert to soften his opposition to the unity government.
Last month, Rice promised to return to the Middle East to push forward attempts to restart peacemaking after inconclusive talks with Abbas and Olmert.Arab states are also expected to reiterate their support for a 2002 land-for-peace offer to end the decades long conflict with Israel at a summit in Saudi Arabia later this month. It calls for the creation of a Palestinian state and the full recognition of Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from land seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.Associated Press writer Shafika Mattar contributed to this report.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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Quake strikes off El Salvador, Honduras Fri Mar 9, 11:26 PM ET
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - An earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador and Honduras on Friday, alarming some residents but causing no damages or injuries, officials said. The temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 and struck at 3 p.m., 65 miles southwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Authorities in El Salvador said the quake startled some residents of the capital of San Salvador. Juan Carlos Elvir, chief of Honduras' emergency response department, said the quake was hardly even felt in that country
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.
Flash floods kill six in Algeria Sat Mar 10, 2:27 PM ET
ALGIERS (AFP) - A flash flood killed six people in southern Algeria when torrential rains caused wadis to overflow, while high winds brought down trees and walls, press reports said Saturday.
Two teenage schoolgirls and four shepherds were swept away in separate incidents in the Djelfa region, 270 kilometres (170 miles) south of Algiers on Thursday when more than 100 millimetres (four inches) of rain fell in just a few hours, the reports said.Other people were injured by falling walls, trees and telegraph poles as winds reached 120 kilometres (75 miles) an hour, the reports added.In Algiers itself some 30 houses were flooded in the east of the city when a river overflowed for the first time in 15 years. Firemen had to use boats to evacuate the residents.In the mountainous east of the country meanwhile roads were blocked by snow, and weather forecasters predicted conditions would worsen on Sunday.
Typhoon Muifa creating battering waves Tim Ballisty, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Sat Mar 10, 9:11 AM ET
What started Tuesday innocently enough as a moderate tropical storm has become a small, but potent, typhoon east of the Philippines. Typhoon Muifa (Moy-fa) became worthy of its prefix today when winds were estimated at near 105 mph. Muifa is at best meandering to the north while churning in the Philippine Sea just east of Manila. In fact, for all intents and purposes, the typhoon has stalled.
Though forecast to move west over the islands, forward progression will be slow. Bad news for the island chain as flooding and mudslides will result from the copious amounts of rain expected to fall over the next 48 hours. There is no doubt that the large and powerful waves have been battering the eastern coast of the northern Philippines. The system is forecasted to weaken gradually over the next 5 days as it heads towards southern Vietnam. The Atlantic and eastern Pacific Basins remain quiet.
Flood potential: Northwest/southern Plains Jonathan Erdman and M. Ressler, Sr. Meteorologists, The Weather Channel MAR 10,07
Flood watches continue in western Washington through Sunday. Rainfall will persist along windward (west & southwest-facing) slopes of the Olympics and Cascades. Rainfall totals from 5-10" can be expected through early Monday along these slopes. At the same time, snow levels will be quite high (at or above 8000 feet) so rapid snow melt will add to the heavy rain. River flooding looks to be widespread in western Washington. Rainfall from 1-2" can be expected in the Seattle-Tacoma portland urban corridors. Heavy precipitation should end by Monday, as a cold front sweeps through, bringing snow levels back down to about 3000 feet. Sunday, rain and thunderstorms will be numerous in Oklahoma and West Texas. A few strong thunderstorms west of I-35 between the Red River and the Rio Grande may turn severe, with large hail the primary severe threat. Local rainfall totals from 1-3" may trigger flash flooding from southwest Oklahoma into West Texas through early Monday. Regarding the low's lumbering nature, the axis of most concentrated rain and thunderstorms may only shift to along and just east of the I-35 corridor in the Lone Star State during the day Monday. Tuesday, the stubborn rain may nudge eastward into the Piney Woods of east Texas, western Louisiana, and southwest Arkansas. Thanks to this slow movement, flash flooding will continue to be a concern.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
JUDE 12-16
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them (LUKEWARM LESTISTS) of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
The way this Guy puts down the Bible believers in Israel just amazes me, now we know why the 21 judgements will be shot on the GODLESS of the Earth during the Tribulation Hour with remarks like this guy says.
Far-right and wrong, or how to ruin Judaism
By Bradley Burston MAR 10,07
For years, the members of the radical right have done their best to help ruin any chance for peace.
They've done quite a job.Given free rein, in the end they'd ruin Judaism as well, replacing it with their own belief system. If the rest of us would only let them.How would it look? Something like this perhaps:
THE NEW 13 ARTICLES OF FAITH
1. Jews have the full right, and the duty, to settle anywhere they choose in the biblically defined Land of Israel.
Author's note: No one in this world has the right to settle wherever they choose.
2. Settling the Land is a commandment of the highest order in Judaism.
Corollary:
3. Ceding land to Arabs under so-called peace deals is a sin. Judaism must revive the medieval concept of the moser, under which Jews who hand over Jewish land to gentiles, inform against fellow Jews or hand over fellow Jews to gentiles are guilty of capital crimes.
Author's note: The distortion of contemporary Judaism to a perverse extreme is especially evident in the works of the self-appointed Sanhedrin of leading far-right rabbis, whose rabbinical court recently pronounced overall IDF West Bank commander Yair Naveh, himself Orthodox, a moser for approving the eviction of 20 occupants of an illegal outpost.
Leaving aside the problematic issue of a Great Sanhedrin arbitrarily constituting itself after 1,650 years of inactivity, the ancient Sanhedrin was historically renowned, if for nothing else, for its marked reluctance to impose the death penalty.
4. Refusal of orders by leftist soldiers serving in the territories is an act of cowardice, self-hatred, treachery, defeatism.
5. Refusal of orders by rightist soldiers serving in the territories is an act of conscience, of uncommon valor, a defense of Jewish values, a historical necessity.
6. Meir Kahane was a saint and a prophet.
Author's note: Corollary - Racism against Arabs is thus not bigotry, but realism.
7. Baruch Goldstein was a saint and a savior.
Author's note: In Hebron, the second most holy city to Jews and the contemporary headquarters of twisting authentic Judaism into obscenity, Goldstein's grave has become a pilgrimage magnate for the Voodoo Jews who revere his massacre of 29 Muslims at prayer. Going obscenity one better, Goldstein chose for his terror attack the holiday of Purim, arguably the most joyous occasion on the Jewish calendar.
To hear the radical right tell it, Goldstein's action prevented an unimaginable terrorist plot from unfolding and murdering large numbers of Jews.
It was a fiction that has become an article of faith. Thus it is that radical rightist Jews have come to revere Goldstein not because of the lives - Arab and Jewish - that he saved as a physician, but because of those - exclusively Muslim - that he took as a gunman.
8. Leftist Jews are systematically destroying Israel. The leftist-dominated media foments and directs that process of destruction, through its treasonous criticism of right-wing governments.
9. Criticism by Jews of left-wing Israeli governments is a patriotic duty.
10. There is no difference between the Arabs of today and the Nazis of World War II. There is no such thing as a Palestinian people. The Arabs of the Land of Israel should be transferred to Muslim nations.
11. The Israel Defense Forces, the Border Police, and the Shin Bet, acting under the orders of left-leaning government officials, coddle the Palestinians and refrain from carrying out the kinds of operations that would put an end to terror once and for all.
12.Jews are no longer bound by the rabbinic prohibition against setting foot on the Temple Mount.
Author's note: No less an authority than Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook, first chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, ruled that it is a Torah commandment that until the day of the resurrection, we are not permitted to even enter the courtyard of the Temple.
The fact that Jewish law can be summarily ignored or rescinded for reasons of politics and ideology does not bode well. Neither does the possibility that it can only be revamped for reasons of right-wing politics or ideology.
13. The Muslim occupation of the Temple Mount should be ended at the first opportunity, and the construction of the new Temple to begin. Jews, who everywhere in the world pray facing the direction of the Temple Mount, have a clear right to the site, in contrast to Muslims, who pray facing Mecca.
Author's note: For Jews to decide how much Muslims care about their holy sites is fully as wrong as Muslims deciding how much Jews care about theirs.
Among many of us, there is a tendency to discount the potency and the danger of the far right.
Perhaps this is because of the funhouse mirror carnival aspect of the ragtag righteous: the End of Days addicts, the Temple Mount groupies, the hilltop hormone punks, the Kahane-rama tubby hippies, the curiously mousy men of the Women in Green, the fanatical would-be settler, the gun nut, the Messiah crank, the Earthmother curser of Arab mothers, the thick of payes and the thin of patience, the wide of scullcap and the wild of eye, the would-have-been ghetto fighter and the might-have-been Maccabee.
What unites them? What do they know that we don't know? The destructive potential of the lunatic notion, the obscene plan, the crackpot mantra.They know that this is no joke. This is a struggle for the soul of Judaism. Ultimately, however, the result will not be up to them. It will be up to the rest of us.
Olmert, Abbas set to hold second summit MAR 10,07
JERUSALEM. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas hold their second summit in less than a month tomorrow but with few hopes of a breakthrough as both are facing major problems.Israeli and Palestinian officials have raised minimal expectations and different versions of the agenda ahead of the expected talks in Jerusalem where Abbas and Olmert will meet for the third time in as many months.I don’t want to raise the level of expectation, but this is nevertheless an important meeting, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said. The Palestinian president intended to raise a range of matters linked to final status peace talks, he said, and petition Olmert to expand a fragile November 26 Israeli-Palestinian truce in the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We should consolidate this truce in order to be able to extend it to the West Bank" where Israeli arrests and raids take place daily, Erekat said.
But Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin denied that the talks would broach either a ceasefire extension, as long as the arrangement is not respected in the Gaza Strip, or peace negotiations. The prime minister will notify Mr Abbas that Israel won’t be able to continue its policy of restraint for ever while the rocket fire continues, she said. More than 140 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel since the truce began.Neither will Olmert bring up negotiations talks, said Eisin, who instead presented the summit as an opportunity to keep the channel of dialogue open. She said Olmert would also ask Abbas to clarify how he spent US$100 million that Israel transferred after a December summit and part of US$600 million owed to the Palestinian Authority in tax receipts. According to Israeli media reports, the money was used to pay back debts owed by the Western-boycotted Hamas-led government, despite Israeli insistence that it be used only to bolster Abbas’s security forces and for humanitarian purposes. The summit comes with Israel and the Palestinian Authority deeply divided about an incoming Palestinian government due to unite Hamas blacklisted by the West as a terrorist organisation and Abbas’s moderate Fatah party.
Israel insists that it will continue to boycott any Palestinian administration that does not explicitly meet Western demands that it recognise Israel’s right to exist, renounce violence and abide by past peace agreements. The unity government, the makeup of which is expected to become known next week, is the product of a landmark power-sharing agreement signed by Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, whom Israel tried to assassinate in 1997. AFP.
Jordan's king urges Abbas to set clear goals to revive Mideast peacemaking The Associated PressPublished: March 10, 2007
AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan's King Abdullah II urged visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday to set clear goals for talks with the Israelis as the next step to reviving stalled Mideast peacemaking saying the momentum must be maintained.It's necessary to build on Arab and international efforts over the past few weeks to activate the peace process, Abdullah said in a royal palace statement issued after his talks with Abbas in the Jordanian capital.
He stressed the necessity to formulate a clear view of the objectives and results to be reached through the upcoming negotiations, referring to Abbas' meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday the second between the two leaders in a month.It's very important to establish this formula before the (U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice visit and the Arab summit at end of month, Abdullah said.Earlier in the week, Abdullah met with U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice in Washington where he urged officials in a speech to the U.S. Congress to quickly take the lead in creating conditions for a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Today in Africa & Middle East
Iraqi leader requests regional aid to curb violence Kenyan police arrest key Al Qaeda suspect Disaster puts spotlight on Malian immigrants to U.S.The goal must be a peace in which all sides gain, he said. There must be a peace in which Israelis will be part of the neighborhood.Abbas briefed Abdullah on the formation of a unity government with the militant Hamas and efforts to prepare the necessary political groundwork to relaunching negotiations with Israel, the statement said.But both Israel and the Palestinians have acknowledged that they don't expect any major breakthroughs in Sunday's talks ahead of the formation of a new Palestinian government.Israel said it would not delve into the most important issues like the borders of a future Palestinian state unless the new Palestinian government meets international demands to renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace deals as demanded by the Quartet of Middle East mediators.The power-sharing deal falls short of those demands, but Abbas says its the best he can get from Hamas.
Olmert is expected to tell Abbas the new Palestinian government must meet the Quartet demands. Abbas will try to persuade Olmert to soften his opposition to the unity government.
Last month, Rice promised to return to the Middle East to push forward attempts to restart peacemaking after inconclusive talks with Abbas and Olmert.Arab states are also expected to reiterate their support for a 2002 land-for-peace offer to end the decades long conflict with Israel at a summit in Saudi Arabia later this month. It calls for the creation of a Palestinian state and the full recognition of Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from land seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.Associated Press writer Shafika Mattar contributed to this report.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
SANHEDRIN SACRIFICES CONDEMNED BY WORLD
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Magnitude-4.7 quake hits northern Calif.. 3-The Nation's Weather. 4-Volcanic activity in Indonesia increases. 5-Olmert and Kadima Plummet, Netanyahu - Up. 6-Israel Develops Remote Air and Land Combat Robots. 7-Israeli Diplomat: Abu Mazen Lied to Us Thrice (3 Times). 8-11 states oppose North American Union. 9-David's Comment: Don't Let Them Rattle Your Faith - It's A Load of 'Baloney. 10-Take for Every Man a Lamb (WORLD CONDEMNES SANHEDRIN SACRIFICES.
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MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
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Magnitude-4.7 quake hits northern Calif. Thu Mar 8, 11:35 PM ET
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. - A light earthquake struck the mountains of Central California on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake at 7:17 p.m. PST had a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 and was centered about 114 miles east of Sacramento, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was followed by several smaller aftershocks.Calls inquiring about the temblor were pouring in to the sheriff's department, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported, a dispatcher said.At the Bridgeport Inn, the quake rattled the nerves of some guests, said manager Dennis Williams.It was a five-second roller and then a really hard jolt, Williams said. This building was built 1877. ... It's been standing this long, and this little earthquake wasn't going to take it down.
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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
Fri Mar 9, 6:40 AM ET
Warmer temperatures were forecast Friday for the Northeast, with some locations topping Thursday's highs by as much as 20 degrees. Scattered thunderstorms were anticipated in the central Mississippi Valley.Highs in the Southwest were expected to reach the upper 80s in many areas.Rain was forecast for much of the Pacific Northwest.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Thursday ranged from a low of minus 22 degrees at Berlin, N.H., to a high of 91 degrees at East Mesa, AZ.
Volcanic activity in Indonesia increases By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 9, 6:25 AM ET
MOUNT TALANG, Indonesia - An earthquake that killed more than 70 people in western Indonesia may have led to heightened activity at three volcanoes, experts warned Friday. Geologists said sensors on the slopes of three active volcanoes — Talang, Tandikat and Merapi — have detected above-average activity since the 6.3 magnitude temblor, which was also felt in Singapore and Malaysia.We usually need about a month to observe whether the earthquake could trigger an eruption, said Gede Suantika, an official from Indonesia's volcanology institute.Tuesday's quake, which was followed by a powerful aftershock, flattened scores of homes and buckled roads on Sumatra island's western side.We should see the quake as a test for all of us ... and redeem ourselves by doing good deeds, Muhammad Thantawi, a preacher, told worshippers gathered outside a destroyed mosque.
Residents living near Talang one of the country's most active mountains were nervous. In 2005, a minor eruption forced the evacuation of more than 2,500 people.
Every night I keep my eyes on the peak before I go to sleep, said Nur Hayati, adding that an official from the volcano's monitoring post had told her village to be alert.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.Suantika said the quake's epicenter was located on a fault line that goes close to the three volcanoes on its way to the southern part of Sumatra, which like many of Indonesia's 17,000 islands is dotted with volcanoes.Some survivors living near Mount Talang said they were running low on food because they had not returned to work in fields on its slopes.Food, water and instant noodles have arrived in cities, but assistance has been slow to reach victims in surrounding areas, said Ahmad Arsnal, an official at the provincial emergency relief agency. Agencies have given conflicting death tolls, as is common in disasters here.A presidential spokesman said Wednesday that 52 people died, revising the toll down from 70 reported on the day of the quake. But a day later, West Sumatra vice governor Marlis Rahman said 74 people had died.
Great video how Ben (Bibi) Netanyahu confronts Godless bill maher.
http://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2007/03/netanyahu_takes.asp
Olmert and Kadima Plummet, Netanyahu - Up
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 09,07
In probably the lowest show of support for an incumbent in the history of political polling, only 3% of the populace feel Olmert should continue to serve as Prime Minister. The New Wave Institute poll, first reported on Channel Ten, shows that 57% of the respondents feel that new elections should be held. If elections were held now, the survey shows, Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu would receive ten times more support than Olmert - 30% of the electorate. Front-runner Netanyahu is followed by Labor's Ami Ayalon, with 18%. Only 1% support current Labor leader Amir Peretz for Prime Minister. Ayalon is the current favorite to win the race for leadership of the Labor Party, in aprimaries vote to be held in May. Netanyahu and other Likud members have been promoting the message that the Olmert government is all but doomed. Most of the country has lost confidence in the government, Netanyahu told reporters on Wednesday.
The nation wants either new elections, or at least a major change in the composition of the government. MK Gideon Saar (Likud), asked today what could save the Olmert government, said, Nothing.
Netanyahu said that several former Likud members who joined Kadima now wish to return to the Likud. He refused to name them, but said that contacts are underway. Some key non-politicians have also lost faith in Kadima - and some have re-joined the Likud. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's nephew Ya'ir Olmert has left Kadima, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny's brother Eli - a Galilee surveyor and a Lt.-Col. in the reserves - announced this week that he was leaving Kadima and returning to the Likud.
Yet another blow to Prime Minister Olmert came from the direction of a Smith Institute poll commissioned by Ynet. The survey shows that in the much-publicized fracas between Olmert and State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, 58% believe the latter's version, while only 9% believe Olmert. Lindenstrauss had said that Olmert was working to delay the publication of the Comptroller's findings regarding the lack of Home Front readiness for last summer's war with Hizbullah.
Israel Develops Remote Air and Land Combat Robots
by Ezra HaLevi (INN) MAR 09,07
Israel has developed the capabilities to engage in both air and land combat via remote control.
Israels Air Force received the Heron (Mahatz in Hebrew) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Thursday. The UAV is called the Shoval by the IAF and expands Israels capabilities greatly. The Heron has a 50-foot wingspan, can fly at an altitude of up to 30,000 feet and carries a 550-pound payload. It can fly up to 30 hours without refueling and can be operated completely remotely. The large UAV can identify the launch sites of missiles as well as deliver air-to-surface missiles itself, eliminating targets as far away as Iran. It will be phased in at the expense of the older Sarcher model.
The Heron is considered the most advanced UAV in the world and can carry the largest payload as well. Israel leads the UAV market and is currently producing several models on rush order for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another Israeli defense company, Elbit Systems, has designed a new robot that can enter a combat zone, hurl grenades and shoot an automatic pistol at enemy forces.
Called the VIPeR, the robot is about the size of a small television. The machine moves on tread and is undeterred by stairs, rubble, dark alleys caves or narrow tunnels, according to Elbit. Elbit says the machine has bomb-detecting capabilities as well and greatly reduces the risk to soldiers in hand-to-hand combat situations such as those encountered in the war against Hizbullah terrorists last summer.
Israeli Diplomat: Abu Mazen Lied to Us Thrice (3 Times)
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 09,07
Israeli sources say the ceasefire is already all but non-existent, and that in any event, Hamas is massively building up its arms arsenal for a confrontation with Israel. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah has broken three explicit promises he made to Israel regarding diplomatic matters, and cannot be depended upon. So says a top Israeli government official. Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this Sunday.
Abbas will reportedly ask Olmert to show flexibility on two issues - regarding both of which he (Abbas) has lied to Israel in the past. Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman, to whom the source spoke on condition of anonymity, reports that the first lie occurred last June, when terrorist prisoners in Israeli jails formulated what became known as the Prisoners Document. The paper's goal was to formulates guidelines for Hamas-Fatah understandings, and called for an Arab state in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. It also emphasized no fewer than five times the so-called right of return for millions of Arabs to Israel, and encouraged further terrorism. In meetings with Israeli officials, Abbas promised clearly that he would not support the document, which was drawn up under the leadership of arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Not only did he support it, however, he made great efforts to have Hamas support it as well.
The second deception of Abu Mazen was just several weeks ago, on the eve of the Hamas-Fatah summit meeting in Mecca. Abu Mazen had promised beforehand that he would not form a unity government with Hamas unless it included the Quartet's pre-conditions: recognition of Israel and agreements signed with it, and renunciation of terrorism. In the end, however, the agreement signed in Mecca for a Hamas-Fatah unity government does not recognize Israel, does not renounce terrorism, and includes only an oblique reference to respecting - not fulfilling - past agreements with Israel.
Abu Mazen's third lie was revealed in the Maariv newspaper yesterday (Thursday). The paper reported that tax monies Israel handed over to Abbas, based on a clear understanding that they would not reach the Hamas government, in fact made their way to Hamas. Abbas, viewed as a moderate by the United States and the international community, is not trustworthy, the Israeli diplomat concluded.
However, when he meets with Olmert this Sunday, PA sources say he plans to ask the Israeli leader not to torpedo the PA unity government's activities even though it was conceived in contrast with Abu Mazen's promise to Israel. He also intends to request of Olmert not to pressure the international community to continue its economic siege on the PA despite the fact that previous monies given to PA were given to Hamas.Abbas reportedly plans to say that if Olmert does not come through on the above requests, the ceasefire in Gaza will be in jeopardy. Israeli sources say the ceasefire is already all but non-existent, and that in any event, Hamas is massively building up its arms arsenal for a confrontation with Israel.
11 states oppose North American Union
Eagle Forum working with legislators to halt globalists' plans March 9, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern.WorldNetDaily.com
Eleven states are working on resolutions that would oppose not only the implementation but the idea of a North American Union, or other plans that would lead to the integration of the United States into a larger structure. Americans are rapidly learning the new vocabulary of the globalists, Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum told WND, and they don't like it.While President Bush, many members of Congress, and Bush administration bureaucrats deny there are plans for a North American Union, under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, those in state legislatures are taking no chances. Already, 11 states have introduced resolutions to oppose the SPP, the NAU, and even the idea of the amero, a proposed currency that could be used to replace the dollar.
The resolutions also typically oppose the creation of North American Free Trade Act superhighways along the model of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the car-truck-train-pipeline corridor that is four football-fields wide and is being built parallel to Interstate 35 from Laredo, Texas to the border with Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City. Schlafly told WND that those lawmakers, and their constituents, are reacting against a wide range of concepts and structures being generated by the increasing pace of the integration of North America they see under the Bush administration. That's why state legislators are responding with resolutions criticizing a North American Community, SPP, harmonization of regulations, NAFTA superhighways, foreign-owned toll roads, totalization of Social Security, and speculation about the amero, Schlafly explained. The groundswell is growing against measures that lead to economic integration' with other countries.Schlafly also has joined with Howard Philips of the Conservative Caucus to create an organization specifically opposing the NAU and NAFTA superhighways. Phyllis Schlafly is doing a magnificent job leading the charge to oppose the North American integration at the state level, Phillips told WND. Once again, we see the genius of Eagle Forum being able to communicate a message throughout America in terms that mobilize voters to take action.
American University Professor Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor is an American University professor who is using his book, Toward a North American Community, to promote the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso. The resolutions are typically worded to oppose, in addition to SPP and the NAU, the construction of NAFTA Superhighways and the creation of the Amero as a North American unitary currency.
David's Comment: Don't Let Them Rattle Your Faith - It's A Load of Baloney MAR 09,07
One of last week's major news items was the announcement of the discovery of a burial cave in Jerusalem which was being hailed as the tomb of a certain Joseph, Mary and Jesus. I couldn't help but observe the glee on the faces of the CNN & SKY announcers as they reported the find. I suppose when one is living in denial of a Surpreme Being / Creator who lays down His standards for righteousness, and living a sinful secular life, then any evidence to prove that the Bible is wrong, whether it be true or false, must bring a great deal of comfort to ones concerns for eternity.
If this ancient tomb was in fact the tomb of the family of the One who millions believe to be the Son
of God, the One who was crucified foe the sins of the world 2000 years ago, it would throw great doubt on whether the resurrection actually took place. And that would shatter the very foundation of faith of the Christians and Messianic Jews. No wonder they news people were smiling as they read.
Tragically ( for them ) most of them are living their lives outside of a covenant relationship with the Creator of the Universe, also known as The God of Israel. And as Yeshua warned in Luke 13:3, unless they repent they will perish for all of eternity.
Back to the story of the tombs. Just like the Da Vinci Codes, this is just the latest attempt to disprove the Bible, to belittle Yeshua, and to destroy, or at least rattle the faith of Christians around the world.
If this truly were the burial tomb of Yeshua of Nazareth, then the truth of the resurrection would be in serious doubt, and as Paul said that we of all people would be most pitiful 1 Cor 15:13-19 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up-- if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. (NKJ)
I felt to write about this to arm you with the real facts, to enable you to assist people you may know whose faith may have been shaken by this find, or to present a strong argument to those who want to argue with you about the truth of the Bible. We can all rest easy While CNN & SKY gloated over the news of the tombs, the secular Israeli media told the truth. They interviewed several Israeli archeological experts who all expressed the same opinion. The facts that the movie presents are nothing more than exaggerated speculation. A study released last week has cast doubts on the statistical methods used in the new documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus to conclude there is a 599-out-of-600 chance a burial cave in Talpiot was the family tomb of Christ.
To quote from various reports I have received since the story broke, Dr. Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land reviewed the record of inscribed Jewish names on first century ossuaries found in Jerusalem, and out of 917 ossuaries in Israel's custody, only 231 (25.2%) are inscribed with Hebrew names.
Of these, Yeshua occurs 10 times, while Mary occurs 20 times or on roughly half of the ossuaries inscribed with female names. He thus contends that the methods and findings of the documentary team are based upon a number of fallacies and a general misuse of statistics.
Cameron, the director of the film is known as a man whose job is to turn fiction into believability. His partner in this movie, Israeli Simcha Jacobovici has been completely discredited by the scholarly community as nothing more than a modern-day, self-proclaimed Indiana Jones. The Lost Tomb of Jesus, is full of inaccuracies, and Israeli experts insists there is nothing here of any substance. Nor is there anything remarkable about finding bone boxes inscribed with the names of Yeshua,or Miriam, since Yeshua was one of the most popular male names of that period, he adds, and 30 percent of women were named Mary at that time. Lastly, Yeshua's family were poor Galileans and it is highly unlikely that they would have been able to afford a large tomb in Jerusalem.
The media interest seems to have already died down and moved on, so .........Don't Let Them Rattle Your Faith - It's just a load of baloney - and you can be sure it will happen again .... and again .....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 . Do not be silent, but share this to 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 Silver
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE WITH ACTIVE SACRIFICES (LITERALLY) WILL HAPPEN
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.
Take for Every Man a Lamb (WORLD CONDEMNS SANHEDRIN SACRIFICES)
Adar 19,5767/March 9, 2007 (Temple Institute)
Speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating you shall make your count for the lamb. (Exodus 12:3-4).The modern-day Sanhedrin, headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, has decided to purchase a herd of sheep to be used for the Passover sacrifice ritual to be held this year if possible at the Temple Mount. In light of the well-known Biblical commandment cited above, the news item concerning the contemporary Sanhedrin's intentions to acquire lambs for this year's Pascal offering should not even have been considered news worthy. Yet a quick search on the internet will reveal blaring newspaper headlines, the world over, condemning the Sanhedrin as being a group of radical fringe elements, bent on causing war. Unfortunately, even a rabbi was quoted as declaring that the era of animal offerings ended two thousand years ago, and its return is not to be desired. Let's hope that his words were misconstrued.
For starters, let us dispel the myth that today's Sanhedrin is comprised of fringe elements. This slur is patently untrue, as is readily apparent to any knowledgeable person. So what then, is their beef, (or should we say, lamb)? Is it because the Rabbis of the Sanhedrin are plotting to storm the Temple Mount with their lambs and slaughtering knives? Is it because they are proposing that Moslems not be allowed to pray on the Mount, or congregate on the Mount in groups numbering more than a handful?
Or is it because they are engaged in a protracted propaganda blitz, aimed at denying any Moslem spiritual or historical connection to the Mount? The reason the world takes umbrage at the Sanhedrin's statement begins and ends with the fact that the Sanhedrin is attempting to fulfill the word of G-d, as quoted above. No more, no less. Today's politically correct world is no more accepting of the Jewish nation's desire to practice Torah precepts than was Pharaoh, in his day. Some will shout that the slaughter of animals is inhumane and vulgar. Others will add that to do so in the name of G-d is nothing less than pagan!
Millions of animals are slaughtered each day across the world in assembly line factories, far from the eyes of the tens of millions of people blithely consuming their flesh each day, yet the world, by and large, is silent. Apparently, the mass destruction of animal life for the purpose of physical gratification is quite acceptable, as long as it's done out of sight, out of mind.The Pascal lambs were slaughtered one at a time, by the Temple priests, in the light of day, while the entire nation of Israel was watching.
Each lamb was slaughtered in the name of the mitzvah - commandment - attaching lofty spiritual import to the act. The slaughtering was performed in a strictly proscribed manner designed to minimize any pain caused to the animal. The slaughtering was done in shifts, within the confines of the Temple Courtyard. Between shifts, the priests completely washed down the Courtyard, maintaining the cleanliness and the dignity appropriate to the Holy Temple.
The animal in its entirety was to be eaten. Each lamb was designated to be eaten by predetermined groups. The groups were based on family units. The poor, or people without families, were assigned by the elders to the predetermined groups. No one was allowed to be absent from the Passover meal, on what has come to be known as the Seder night. No one was allowed to go hungry.What then, is the objection? It would seem that if modern society conducted itself in a similar fashion to that described above, showing respect for all living things, and caring for all members of society, the world might be a better place to live in. This of course, is a description of a world in which there is a Holy Temple. A world in which G-d dwells among us. Until that day when the nation of Israel can once again go up to the Holy Temple in freedom, all we can do is everything possible to prepare for that day. And that is the spirit behind the Sanhedrin's decision to acquire a herd of sheep.
This week, due to the Purim festivities, there is no new Temple Talk broadcast. Next week, Temple Talk will be broadcast as usual.This week's Light to the Nations on the Universal Torah Network, features Rabbi Richman's latest teaching, entitled The Soul of King David: A continuation of Holy Temple Studies 21: The Waters of the Depth.Be sure to view Rabbi Richman's five minute teaching on this week's Torah reading of Ki Tisa (Exodus 30:11-34:35), also on the Universal Torah Network.
Also this week, in honor of the reading of Parashat Parah Adumah (the Red Heifer, Numbers 19:1-22) on this upcoming Shabbat, Rabbi Richman presents a short video teaching on the Red Heifer. We are please to announce that the Light to the Nations video teachings are now available on DVD. If you would like to be able to view past episodes of Light to the Nations at your leisure, or send the gift of Torah to a friend.
May we merit a speedy redemption,
Yitzchak Reuven
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EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
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Magnitude-4.7 quake hits northern Calif. Thu Mar 8, 11:35 PM ET
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. - A light earthquake struck the mountains of Central California on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake at 7:17 p.m. PST had a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 and was centered about 114 miles east of Sacramento, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was followed by several smaller aftershocks.Calls inquiring about the temblor were pouring in to the sheriff's department, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported, a dispatcher said.At the Bridgeport Inn, the quake rattled the nerves of some guests, said manager Dennis Williams.It was a five-second roller and then a really hard jolt, Williams said. This building was built 1877. ... It's been standing this long, and this little earthquake wasn't going to take it down.
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
Fri Mar 9, 6:40 AM ET
Warmer temperatures were forecast Friday for the Northeast, with some locations topping Thursday's highs by as much as 20 degrees. Scattered thunderstorms were anticipated in the central Mississippi Valley.Highs in the Southwest were expected to reach the upper 80s in many areas.Rain was forecast for much of the Pacific Northwest.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Thursday ranged from a low of minus 22 degrees at Berlin, N.H., to a high of 91 degrees at East Mesa, AZ.
Volcanic activity in Indonesia increases By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 9, 6:25 AM ET
MOUNT TALANG, Indonesia - An earthquake that killed more than 70 people in western Indonesia may have led to heightened activity at three volcanoes, experts warned Friday. Geologists said sensors on the slopes of three active volcanoes — Talang, Tandikat and Merapi — have detected above-average activity since the 6.3 magnitude temblor, which was also felt in Singapore and Malaysia.We usually need about a month to observe whether the earthquake could trigger an eruption, said Gede Suantika, an official from Indonesia's volcanology institute.Tuesday's quake, which was followed by a powerful aftershock, flattened scores of homes and buckled roads on Sumatra island's western side.We should see the quake as a test for all of us ... and redeem ourselves by doing good deeds, Muhammad Thantawi, a preacher, told worshippers gathered outside a destroyed mosque.
Residents living near Talang one of the country's most active mountains were nervous. In 2005, a minor eruption forced the evacuation of more than 2,500 people.
Every night I keep my eyes on the peak before I go to sleep, said Nur Hayati, adding that an official from the volcano's monitoring post had told her village to be alert.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.Suantika said the quake's epicenter was located on a fault line that goes close to the three volcanoes on its way to the southern part of Sumatra, which like many of Indonesia's 17,000 islands is dotted with volcanoes.Some survivors living near Mount Talang said they were running low on food because they had not returned to work in fields on its slopes.Food, water and instant noodles have arrived in cities, but assistance has been slow to reach victims in surrounding areas, said Ahmad Arsnal, an official at the provincial emergency relief agency. Agencies have given conflicting death tolls, as is common in disasters here.A presidential spokesman said Wednesday that 52 people died, revising the toll down from 70 reported on the day of the quake. But a day later, West Sumatra vice governor Marlis Rahman said 74 people had died.
Great video how Ben (Bibi) Netanyahu confronts Godless bill maher.
http://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2007/03/netanyahu_takes.asp
Olmert and Kadima Plummet, Netanyahu - Up
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 09,07
In probably the lowest show of support for an incumbent in the history of political polling, only 3% of the populace feel Olmert should continue to serve as Prime Minister. The New Wave Institute poll, first reported on Channel Ten, shows that 57% of the respondents feel that new elections should be held. If elections were held now, the survey shows, Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu would receive ten times more support than Olmert - 30% of the electorate. Front-runner Netanyahu is followed by Labor's Ami Ayalon, with 18%. Only 1% support current Labor leader Amir Peretz for Prime Minister. Ayalon is the current favorite to win the race for leadership of the Labor Party, in aprimaries vote to be held in May. Netanyahu and other Likud members have been promoting the message that the Olmert government is all but doomed. Most of the country has lost confidence in the government, Netanyahu told reporters on Wednesday.
The nation wants either new elections, or at least a major change in the composition of the government. MK Gideon Saar (Likud), asked today what could save the Olmert government, said, Nothing.
Netanyahu said that several former Likud members who joined Kadima now wish to return to the Likud. He refused to name them, but said that contacts are underway. Some key non-politicians have also lost faith in Kadima - and some have re-joined the Likud. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's nephew Ya'ir Olmert has left Kadima, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny's brother Eli - a Galilee surveyor and a Lt.-Col. in the reserves - announced this week that he was leaving Kadima and returning to the Likud.
Yet another blow to Prime Minister Olmert came from the direction of a Smith Institute poll commissioned by Ynet. The survey shows that in the much-publicized fracas between Olmert and State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, 58% believe the latter's version, while only 9% believe Olmert. Lindenstrauss had said that Olmert was working to delay the publication of the Comptroller's findings regarding the lack of Home Front readiness for last summer's war with Hizbullah.
Israel Develops Remote Air and Land Combat Robots
by Ezra HaLevi (INN) MAR 09,07
Israel has developed the capabilities to engage in both air and land combat via remote control.
Israels Air Force received the Heron (Mahatz in Hebrew) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Thursday. The UAV is called the Shoval by the IAF and expands Israels capabilities greatly. The Heron has a 50-foot wingspan, can fly at an altitude of up to 30,000 feet and carries a 550-pound payload. It can fly up to 30 hours without refueling and can be operated completely remotely. The large UAV can identify the launch sites of missiles as well as deliver air-to-surface missiles itself, eliminating targets as far away as Iran. It will be phased in at the expense of the older Sarcher model.
The Heron is considered the most advanced UAV in the world and can carry the largest payload as well. Israel leads the UAV market and is currently producing several models on rush order for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another Israeli defense company, Elbit Systems, has designed a new robot that can enter a combat zone, hurl grenades and shoot an automatic pistol at enemy forces.
Called the VIPeR, the robot is about the size of a small television. The machine moves on tread and is undeterred by stairs, rubble, dark alleys caves or narrow tunnels, according to Elbit. Elbit says the machine has bomb-detecting capabilities as well and greatly reduces the risk to soldiers in hand-to-hand combat situations such as those encountered in the war against Hizbullah terrorists last summer.
Israeli Diplomat: Abu Mazen Lied to Us Thrice (3 Times)
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 09,07
Israeli sources say the ceasefire is already all but non-existent, and that in any event, Hamas is massively building up its arms arsenal for a confrontation with Israel. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah has broken three explicit promises he made to Israel regarding diplomatic matters, and cannot be depended upon. So says a top Israeli government official. Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this Sunday.
Abbas will reportedly ask Olmert to show flexibility on two issues - regarding both of which he (Abbas) has lied to Israel in the past. Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman, to whom the source spoke on condition of anonymity, reports that the first lie occurred last June, when terrorist prisoners in Israeli jails formulated what became known as the Prisoners Document. The paper's goal was to formulates guidelines for Hamas-Fatah understandings, and called for an Arab state in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. It also emphasized no fewer than five times the so-called right of return for millions of Arabs to Israel, and encouraged further terrorism. In meetings with Israeli officials, Abbas promised clearly that he would not support the document, which was drawn up under the leadership of arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Not only did he support it, however, he made great efforts to have Hamas support it as well.
The second deception of Abu Mazen was just several weeks ago, on the eve of the Hamas-Fatah summit meeting in Mecca. Abu Mazen had promised beforehand that he would not form a unity government with Hamas unless it included the Quartet's pre-conditions: recognition of Israel and agreements signed with it, and renunciation of terrorism. In the end, however, the agreement signed in Mecca for a Hamas-Fatah unity government does not recognize Israel, does not renounce terrorism, and includes only an oblique reference to respecting - not fulfilling - past agreements with Israel.
Abu Mazen's third lie was revealed in the Maariv newspaper yesterday (Thursday). The paper reported that tax monies Israel handed over to Abbas, based on a clear understanding that they would not reach the Hamas government, in fact made their way to Hamas. Abbas, viewed as a moderate by the United States and the international community, is not trustworthy, the Israeli diplomat concluded.
However, when he meets with Olmert this Sunday, PA sources say he plans to ask the Israeli leader not to torpedo the PA unity government's activities even though it was conceived in contrast with Abu Mazen's promise to Israel. He also intends to request of Olmert not to pressure the international community to continue its economic siege on the PA despite the fact that previous monies given to PA were given to Hamas.Abbas reportedly plans to say that if Olmert does not come through on the above requests, the ceasefire in Gaza will be in jeopardy. Israeli sources say the ceasefire is already all but non-existent, and that in any event, Hamas is massively building up its arms arsenal for a confrontation with Israel.
11 states oppose North American Union
Eagle Forum working with legislators to halt globalists' plans March 9, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern.WorldNetDaily.com
Eleven states are working on resolutions that would oppose not only the implementation but the idea of a North American Union, or other plans that would lead to the integration of the United States into a larger structure. Americans are rapidly learning the new vocabulary of the globalists, Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum told WND, and they don't like it.While President Bush, many members of Congress, and Bush administration bureaucrats deny there are plans for a North American Union, under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, those in state legislatures are taking no chances. Already, 11 states have introduced resolutions to oppose the SPP, the NAU, and even the idea of the amero, a proposed currency that could be used to replace the dollar.
The resolutions also typically oppose the creation of North American Free Trade Act superhighways along the model of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the car-truck-train-pipeline corridor that is four football-fields wide and is being built parallel to Interstate 35 from Laredo, Texas to the border with Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City. Schlafly told WND that those lawmakers, and their constituents, are reacting against a wide range of concepts and structures being generated by the increasing pace of the integration of North America they see under the Bush administration. That's why state legislators are responding with resolutions criticizing a North American Community, SPP, harmonization of regulations, NAFTA superhighways, foreign-owned toll roads, totalization of Social Security, and speculation about the amero, Schlafly explained. The groundswell is growing against measures that lead to economic integration' with other countries.Schlafly also has joined with Howard Philips of the Conservative Caucus to create an organization specifically opposing the NAU and NAFTA superhighways. Phyllis Schlafly is doing a magnificent job leading the charge to oppose the North American integration at the state level, Phillips told WND. Once again, we see the genius of Eagle Forum being able to communicate a message throughout America in terms that mobilize voters to take action.
American University Professor Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor is an American University professor who is using his book, Toward a North American Community, to promote the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso. The resolutions are typically worded to oppose, in addition to SPP and the NAU, the construction of NAFTA Superhighways and the creation of the Amero as a North American unitary currency.
David's Comment: Don't Let Them Rattle Your Faith - It's A Load of Baloney MAR 09,07
One of last week's major news items was the announcement of the discovery of a burial cave in Jerusalem which was being hailed as the tomb of a certain Joseph, Mary and Jesus. I couldn't help but observe the glee on the faces of the CNN & SKY announcers as they reported the find. I suppose when one is living in denial of a Surpreme Being / Creator who lays down His standards for righteousness, and living a sinful secular life, then any evidence to prove that the Bible is wrong, whether it be true or false, must bring a great deal of comfort to ones concerns for eternity.
If this ancient tomb was in fact the tomb of the family of the One who millions believe to be the Son
of God, the One who was crucified foe the sins of the world 2000 years ago, it would throw great doubt on whether the resurrection actually took place. And that would shatter the very foundation of faith of the Christians and Messianic Jews. No wonder they news people were smiling as they read.
Tragically ( for them ) most of them are living their lives outside of a covenant relationship with the Creator of the Universe, also known as The God of Israel. And as Yeshua warned in Luke 13:3, unless they repent they will perish for all of eternity.
Back to the story of the tombs. Just like the Da Vinci Codes, this is just the latest attempt to disprove the Bible, to belittle Yeshua, and to destroy, or at least rattle the faith of Christians around the world.
If this truly were the burial tomb of Yeshua of Nazareth, then the truth of the resurrection would be in serious doubt, and as Paul said that we of all people would be most pitiful 1 Cor 15:13-19 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up-- if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. (NKJ)
I felt to write about this to arm you with the real facts, to enable you to assist people you may know whose faith may have been shaken by this find, or to present a strong argument to those who want to argue with you about the truth of the Bible. We can all rest easy While CNN & SKY gloated over the news of the tombs, the secular Israeli media told the truth. They interviewed several Israeli archeological experts who all expressed the same opinion. The facts that the movie presents are nothing more than exaggerated speculation. A study released last week has cast doubts on the statistical methods used in the new documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus to conclude there is a 599-out-of-600 chance a burial cave in Talpiot was the family tomb of Christ.
To quote from various reports I have received since the story broke, Dr. Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land reviewed the record of inscribed Jewish names on first century ossuaries found in Jerusalem, and out of 917 ossuaries in Israel's custody, only 231 (25.2%) are inscribed with Hebrew names.
Of these, Yeshua occurs 10 times, while Mary occurs 20 times or on roughly half of the ossuaries inscribed with female names. He thus contends that the methods and findings of the documentary team are based upon a number of fallacies and a general misuse of statistics.
Cameron, the director of the film is known as a man whose job is to turn fiction into believability. His partner in this movie, Israeli Simcha Jacobovici has been completely discredited by the scholarly community as nothing more than a modern-day, self-proclaimed Indiana Jones. The Lost Tomb of Jesus, is full of inaccuracies, and Israeli experts insists there is nothing here of any substance. Nor is there anything remarkable about finding bone boxes inscribed with the names of Yeshua,or Miriam, since Yeshua was one of the most popular male names of that period, he adds, and 30 percent of women were named Mary at that time. Lastly, Yeshua's family were poor Galileans and it is highly unlikely that they would have been able to afford a large tomb in Jerusalem.
The media interest seems to have already died down and moved on, so .........Don't Let Them Rattle Your Faith - It's just a load of baloney - and you can be sure it will happen again .... and again .....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 . Do not be silent, but share this to 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 Silver
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE WITH ACTIVE SACRIFICES (LITERALLY) WILL HAPPEN
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.
Take for Every Man a Lamb (WORLD CONDEMNS SANHEDRIN SACRIFICES)
Adar 19,5767/March 9, 2007 (Temple Institute)
Speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating you shall make your count for the lamb. (Exodus 12:3-4).The modern-day Sanhedrin, headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, has decided to purchase a herd of sheep to be used for the Passover sacrifice ritual to be held this year if possible at the Temple Mount. In light of the well-known Biblical commandment cited above, the news item concerning the contemporary Sanhedrin's intentions to acquire lambs for this year's Pascal offering should not even have been considered news worthy. Yet a quick search on the internet will reveal blaring newspaper headlines, the world over, condemning the Sanhedrin as being a group of radical fringe elements, bent on causing war. Unfortunately, even a rabbi was quoted as declaring that the era of animal offerings ended two thousand years ago, and its return is not to be desired. Let's hope that his words were misconstrued.
For starters, let us dispel the myth that today's Sanhedrin is comprised of fringe elements. This slur is patently untrue, as is readily apparent to any knowledgeable person. So what then, is their beef, (or should we say, lamb)? Is it because the Rabbis of the Sanhedrin are plotting to storm the Temple Mount with their lambs and slaughtering knives? Is it because they are proposing that Moslems not be allowed to pray on the Mount, or congregate on the Mount in groups numbering more than a handful?
Or is it because they are engaged in a protracted propaganda blitz, aimed at denying any Moslem spiritual or historical connection to the Mount? The reason the world takes umbrage at the Sanhedrin's statement begins and ends with the fact that the Sanhedrin is attempting to fulfill the word of G-d, as quoted above. No more, no less. Today's politically correct world is no more accepting of the Jewish nation's desire to practice Torah precepts than was Pharaoh, in his day. Some will shout that the slaughter of animals is inhumane and vulgar. Others will add that to do so in the name of G-d is nothing less than pagan!
Millions of animals are slaughtered each day across the world in assembly line factories, far from the eyes of the tens of millions of people blithely consuming their flesh each day, yet the world, by and large, is silent. Apparently, the mass destruction of animal life for the purpose of physical gratification is quite acceptable, as long as it's done out of sight, out of mind.The Pascal lambs were slaughtered one at a time, by the Temple priests, in the light of day, while the entire nation of Israel was watching.
Each lamb was slaughtered in the name of the mitzvah - commandment - attaching lofty spiritual import to the act. The slaughtering was performed in a strictly proscribed manner designed to minimize any pain caused to the animal. The slaughtering was done in shifts, within the confines of the Temple Courtyard. Between shifts, the priests completely washed down the Courtyard, maintaining the cleanliness and the dignity appropriate to the Holy Temple.
The animal in its entirety was to be eaten. Each lamb was designated to be eaten by predetermined groups. The groups were based on family units. The poor, or people without families, were assigned by the elders to the predetermined groups. No one was allowed to be absent from the Passover meal, on what has come to be known as the Seder night. No one was allowed to go hungry.What then, is the objection? It would seem that if modern society conducted itself in a similar fashion to that described above, showing respect for all living things, and caring for all members of society, the world might be a better place to live in. This of course, is a description of a world in which there is a Holy Temple. A world in which G-d dwells among us. Until that day when the nation of Israel can once again go up to the Holy Temple in freedom, all we can do is everything possible to prepare for that day. And that is the spirit behind the Sanhedrin's decision to acquire a herd of sheep.
This week, due to the Purim festivities, there is no new Temple Talk broadcast. Next week, Temple Talk will be broadcast as usual.This week's Light to the Nations on the Universal Torah Network, features Rabbi Richman's latest teaching, entitled The Soul of King David: A continuation of Holy Temple Studies 21: The Waters of the Depth.Be sure to view Rabbi Richman's five minute teaching on this week's Torah reading of Ki Tisa (Exodus 30:11-34:35), also on the Universal Torah Network.
Also this week, in honor of the reading of Parashat Parah Adumah (the Red Heifer, Numbers 19:1-22) on this upcoming Shabbat, Rabbi Richman presents a short video teaching on the Red Heifer. We are please to announce that the Light to the Nations video teachings are now available on DVD. If you would like to be able to view past episodes of Light to the Nations at your leisure, or send the gift of Torah to a friend.
May we merit a speedy redemption,
Yitzchak Reuven
THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
RUSSIA -IRAN - SYRIA WEAPONS DEAL
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Magnitude 6 quake off eastern Japan, no damage. 3-La Nina may form in Pacific by May as El Nino disappears. 4-Australia's west braces for tropical storm. 5-Northeast cold snap; Southwest hot spell. 6-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 7-RUSSIA SIGNS MAJOR ARMS DEALS WITH IRAN, SYRIA. 8-Jordan's king exhorts U.S. to take lead in Mideast peace process.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Fri Mar 9 12:00 AM EDT
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Magnitude 6 quake off eastern Japan, no damage Thu Mar 8, 2:09 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - A magnitude 6 earthquake was registered southeast of Japan's eastern coast, the Meteorological Agency said on Thursday. The focus of the tremor was 140 km (87 miles) below the surface of the earth near Torishima, an uninhabited island 600 km south of Tokyo, the agency said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.The earthquake measured up to two on the Japanese intensity scale, which measures ground motion. A quake with that reading could be felt by some people.Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.
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.
La Nina may form in Pacific by May as El Nino disappears Thu Mar 8, 10:18 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The La Nina weather anomaly may form in the equatorial Pacific in the next two to three months, possibly increasing the risks for more hurricanes later this year in the Atlantic.
A transition to La Nina conditions is possible during the next two to three months, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in its monthly update on Thursday.It also said the El Nino weather pattern, whose wind shear ripped apart and reduced the amount of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean in 2006, has disappeared.Typically, El Nino causes rampant flooding in Peru and Ecuador while causing searing drought in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines among other countries.
La Nina usually has the opposite effect, and U.S. government forecasters have warned it may cause a higher-than-normal number of hurricanes.For instance, with El Nino running at full bore last year, only nine named storms formed in the Atlantic. That was much lower than the record 28 storms in 2005 that included monster storms like Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma which ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast and caused billions of dollars worth of damage.The prediction center said warm sea surface temperatures that accompanied the last El Nino fell rapidly last December and January.These trends in surface and subsurface ocean temperatures indicate that the warm (El Nino) episode has ended and that conditions are becoming favorable for La Nina to develop, it said.Some of the computer forecast models indicate a rapid transition to La Nina conditions during March-May 2007, the center added.
The more famous El Nino is an anomaly that results in an abnormal warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific, wreaking havoc in weather patterns from Latin America to Asia.Literally, it means little boy in Spanish and was called El Nino by Latin American anchovy fishermen in the 19th century who first noticed it usually peaked during the Christmas season.The last La Nina occurred from 1998 to 2001, leading to drought across much of the western United States.
Australia's west braces for tropical storm Thu Mar 8, 1:53 AM ET
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Communities on Australia's north west coast prepared for a severe tropical cyclone expected to hit the region early on Friday, with mines and oil production shut down and emergency services placed on alert. Cyclone George was expected to hit the remote coast between Port Hedland and Karratha early on Friday, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 235 km per hour (146 miles per hour).A second storm, tropical cyclone Jacob, was also heading toward Western Australia, but was still far off the coast and was 240 km south of the Australian territory of Christmas Island.Mining company BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. said it had closed its iron ore port operations in Western Australia's Port Hedland as George was expected to intensify from category three to a category four cyclone within hours, just one step short of the maximum level five.
People have been sent home to look after their own properties, a company spokeswoman said.Much of the offshore oil production in the area was also suspended as a precaution, affecting about half of Australia's daily oil output.The storm was moving slowly south toward the coast, in an area known as Cyclone Alley, at 16 km (10 miles) per hour and the Bureau of Meteorology expected it to cross the coast around 6 a.m. on Friday (2200 Thursday GMT).Emergency services issued a yellow alert -- the second highest -- for the area between Broome and Dampier, warning of destructive winds and advising people to shelter in the strongest parts of their homes.Ships in the area's iron ore ports were heading to the safety of deeper water to ride out the cyclone and await the possible arrival of category two Jacob.
The storm threat revived memories of Cyclone Glenda, a destructive category four storm, which forced oil and gas fields to shut down and thousands of people to take shelter when it hit the region last March.Destructive storms also caused havoc along Western Australia's southern coast and goldfields in January, bringing flooding and strong winds.The weather bureau said George also threatened to bring extensive flooding and dangerous storm tides as it crossed the coast, after which its power was expected to weaken quickly.Cyclones are a regular feature of the Australian summer in the tropical north and the season still has another month to run. The most deadly on record was Cyclone Tracy, which killed 65 people in the northern city of Darwin in 1974.
Northeast cold snap; Southwest hot spell Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Thu Mar 8, 12:38 PM ET
Northeast
A cold front will move across the New England states today, bringing a chance of snow showers from Buffalo north through Burlington. Much colder temperatures will also move into these areas, with afternoon highs only in the single digits and teens. Ahead of the cold front from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, north through New York, breezy winds of 15 to 25 mph will develop, with afternoon highs generally in the 30s. Gusty winds will also develop across northern New England, resulting in decreasing wind chills through the day today, into tonight. Dangerous wind chills of 20 to 30 below will be possible. Overnight, high pressure will build across the area resulting in very cold temperatures. Friday morning low temperatures will range from 10 to 20 below across northern New England to the teens and single digits elsewhere. Several record low temperatures will be possible Friday morning, from New York City north through Boston and Burlington. Into the weekend, high pressure will move offshore resulting in a shift of winds to a more southwesterly direction. This will bring milder air across the area, along with an increasing chance of precipitation.
South
High pressure will continue to dominate much of the South today, resulting in mostly sunny skies. Areas from Atlanta and New Orleans, west through Dallas and Houston will see afternoon high temperatures in the 70s today, with lower 80s across Florida, from Orlando to Miami. A developing weather system over the central Plains will bring a chance of a few showers and isolated thunderstorms to the southern Plains from Tulsa to Oklahoma City on Friday. A few showers may also develop along the Southeast and Florida eastern coasts, as an onshore flow develops there. By Saturday, the weather system over the southern Plains will spread showers and a few thunderstorms into the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys. The warm temperatures, along with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, will spread across much of the South through the weekend.
West
A series of weather disturbances will continue to impact parts of the Pacific Northwest into this weekend. Today will feature a general break in the stormy pattern but a persistent onshore flow will keep the scattered showers from Seattle to Portland. With this continued wet weather, temperatures will be held down a bit this afternoon, with highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s. Meanwhile, a weather disturbance will track across the central Rockies spreading a few rain and snow showers between Salt Lake City and Denver, while the Southwest remains warm and dry with afternoon highs in the 70s and 80s from Los Angeles to Phoenix. Friday and Saturday, the next in a series of disturbances will bring steady rain back into the Pacific Northwest, some of which could be heavy at times. Higher elevation snow will also be on the increase. With the potential for more rain, some heavy, through the weekend, parts of the Pacific Northwest may develop flooding concerns. Across the Southwest, heat will begin to build with the potential for record highs over parts of southern California and southern Arizona into the weekend.
Midwest
High pressure will dominate much of the central Plains, Upper Midwest, and Midwest today, resulting in mainly dry and sunny conditions. A few scattered snow showers may occur over the far northern Great Lakes, but these will not amount to much. A shift toward milder air will kick in across the area today, as more of a southerly flow develops. Afternoon highs will range from the 30s across Fargo, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cleveland, to the 50s from Omaha and Kansas City, to St. Louis and Louisville. A developing weather system will move into the central Plains on Friday, bringing a few scattered showers from Kansas City and Omaha, through St. Louis and Chicago. By Saturday, this system will move across the Midwest, affecting the Ohio Valley with a few showers from Cleveland to Louisville. Meanwhile, milder temperatures will continue build across the area into the weekend.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
March 8, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
I've spoken before about the disturbing phenomenon of Christians who have stood against Israel by supporting divestment from the Jewish state, harshly criticizing Israel's efforts to defend herself, and portraying terrorists as innocent victims of Israeli aggression. Most of these are in leadership positions in the mainline denominations—the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and others—that used to make up the religious establishment in this country, but have for many years been waning in membership and influence.Once again we've seen evidence of the moral confusion and dangerous political naiveté of some of these church leaders. Late last month, a delegation from the National Council of Churches (NCC), an umbrella organization of mainline and orthodox denominations, went to Iran to meet with its Israel-hating president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and members of the country's ruling religious authority.Ahmadinejad's outrageous statements against Israel have been well publicized. He has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, promised the annihilation of the Jewish State, and denied the Holocaust ever occurred. He repeatedly launches vicious verbal attacks on the U.S., and is actively pursuing nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.
None of this seems to faze the NCC. While acknowledging that the Iranian president's views on Israel undercut attempts to build relationships, a spokesperson concluded that the meeting provided three encouraging items: a clear declaration that Iran does not intend to acquire nuclear weapons; a statement that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved militarily, and…a willingness to talk with US government officials. Despite all the hard evidence to the contrary, the NCC took Ahmadinejad at his word when he said he is a man of peace! But the NCC reserved their greatest praise for the Ayatollahs, Iran's ruling religious authorities, whom they describe as learned and wise men who enjoy significant public support, legitimacy and authority. These learned and wise men, of course, are known as sponsors of worldwide terrorism and brutal oppressors of the Iranian people. But to the NCC they are colleagues with whom we could engage in the task of finding common ground.By portraying the hateful Iranian regime in a positive light, the NCC is bringing shame upon itself and granting to tyrants an air of legitimacy they do not deserve. It is, in effect, saying to the world that all Iran's threats need not be taken seriously, and is undermining international efforts to get Iran to stop its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Anyone who supports Israel—in fact, anyone who cares about liberty and democracy—should be outraged by these actions.It can indeed be discouraging to hear about groups like the NCC who seem committed to spreading distorted views of Israel and to reversing the great progress that has been made in Jewish-Christian relations over the past decades. And yet, it is at times like this that I am especially heartened to know that there are millions of Christians who do not share these views—who are true friends of Israel, committed to supporting the Jewish people and helping Israel in its ongoing struggle for peace and security.The psalmist said, How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity (Psalm 133:1). Today, my friend, I thank you with all my heart for expressing your unity with the Jewish people through your support of The Fellowship's programs, for standing with Israel through all her trials, and for your continued prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews.
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.
RUSSIA SIGNS MAJOR ARMS DEALS WITH IRAN, SYRIA MAR 08,07
MOSCOW [MENL] -- The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to keep secret its arms deals with Iran and Syria.Russia's leading business daily Kommersant asserted that a reporter who had been investigating Moscow's defense exports to Iran and Syria was killed. Kommersant said the reporter, former Col. Ivan Safronov, who fell from his apartment window to his death, disclosed the Russian sale of advanced Su-30 fighter-jets to Syria and S-300PMU-1 anti-aircraft systems to Iran.From what we know already it is clear it was not suicide, Russian SJR journalist union secretary -general Igor Yakovenko said. The chances that it was a murder linked to the exercise of his profession are very high.On March 5, the Russian prosecutor's office launched an investigation into Safronov's death on March 2. In a statement, the office termed the probable cause of death incitement to suicide. An autopsy did not find any drugs or alcohol in Safronov, scheduled to be buried on Wednesday.
Jordan's king exhorts U.S. to take lead in Mideast peace process MAR 8,07
CAPITOL HILL Jordan's King Abdullah says the U-S must quickly take the lead in creating conditions for a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking to a joint meeting of Congress, Abdullah said he looked to the U-S to play a historic role, adding that results are needed this year, and not in one year or five years. The king told Congress he wanted "no more bloodshed, no more lives pointlessly taken.He said history has shown the progress in Mideast peace is impossible without American leadership.Abdullah delivered the half-hour speech in flawless English, with an occasional aside in Arabic. He was interrupted a number of times by applause.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Fri Mar 9 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 08,07
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY
MAP 5.6 EAST OF THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.1 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 4.7 TONGA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAR 07,07
MAP 5.3 HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO
MAP 5.1 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.3 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 2.7 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 5.9 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.0 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.5 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
Magnitude 6 quake off eastern Japan, no damage Thu Mar 8, 2:09 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - A magnitude 6 earthquake was registered southeast of Japan's eastern coast, the Meteorological Agency said on Thursday. The focus of the tremor was 140 km (87 miles) below the surface of the earth near Torishima, an uninhabited island 600 km south of Tokyo, the agency said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.The earthquake measured up to two on the Japanese intensity scale, which measures ground motion. A quake with that reading could be felt by some people.Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.
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.
La Nina may form in Pacific by May as El Nino disappears Thu Mar 8, 10:18 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The La Nina weather anomaly may form in the equatorial Pacific in the next two to three months, possibly increasing the risks for more hurricanes later this year in the Atlantic.
A transition to La Nina conditions is possible during the next two to three months, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in its monthly update on Thursday.It also said the El Nino weather pattern, whose wind shear ripped apart and reduced the amount of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean in 2006, has disappeared.Typically, El Nino causes rampant flooding in Peru and Ecuador while causing searing drought in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines among other countries.
La Nina usually has the opposite effect, and U.S. government forecasters have warned it may cause a higher-than-normal number of hurricanes.For instance, with El Nino running at full bore last year, only nine named storms formed in the Atlantic. That was much lower than the record 28 storms in 2005 that included monster storms like Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma which ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast and caused billions of dollars worth of damage.The prediction center said warm sea surface temperatures that accompanied the last El Nino fell rapidly last December and January.These trends in surface and subsurface ocean temperatures indicate that the warm (El Nino) episode has ended and that conditions are becoming favorable for La Nina to develop, it said.Some of the computer forecast models indicate a rapid transition to La Nina conditions during March-May 2007, the center added.
The more famous El Nino is an anomaly that results in an abnormal warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific, wreaking havoc in weather patterns from Latin America to Asia.Literally, it means little boy in Spanish and was called El Nino by Latin American anchovy fishermen in the 19th century who first noticed it usually peaked during the Christmas season.The last La Nina occurred from 1998 to 2001, leading to drought across much of the western United States.
Australia's west braces for tropical storm Thu Mar 8, 1:53 AM ET
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Communities on Australia's north west coast prepared for a severe tropical cyclone expected to hit the region early on Friday, with mines and oil production shut down and emergency services placed on alert. Cyclone George was expected to hit the remote coast between Port Hedland and Karratha early on Friday, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 235 km per hour (146 miles per hour).A second storm, tropical cyclone Jacob, was also heading toward Western Australia, but was still far off the coast and was 240 km south of the Australian territory of Christmas Island.Mining company BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. said it had closed its iron ore port operations in Western Australia's Port Hedland as George was expected to intensify from category three to a category four cyclone within hours, just one step short of the maximum level five.
People have been sent home to look after their own properties, a company spokeswoman said.Much of the offshore oil production in the area was also suspended as a precaution, affecting about half of Australia's daily oil output.The storm was moving slowly south toward the coast, in an area known as Cyclone Alley, at 16 km (10 miles) per hour and the Bureau of Meteorology expected it to cross the coast around 6 a.m. on Friday (2200 Thursday GMT).Emergency services issued a yellow alert -- the second highest -- for the area between Broome and Dampier, warning of destructive winds and advising people to shelter in the strongest parts of their homes.Ships in the area's iron ore ports were heading to the safety of deeper water to ride out the cyclone and await the possible arrival of category two Jacob.
The storm threat revived memories of Cyclone Glenda, a destructive category four storm, which forced oil and gas fields to shut down and thousands of people to take shelter when it hit the region last March.Destructive storms also caused havoc along Western Australia's southern coast and goldfields in January, bringing flooding and strong winds.The weather bureau said George also threatened to bring extensive flooding and dangerous storm tides as it crossed the coast, after which its power was expected to weaken quickly.Cyclones are a regular feature of the Australian summer in the tropical north and the season still has another month to run. The most deadly on record was Cyclone Tracy, which killed 65 people in the northern city of Darwin in 1974.
Northeast cold snap; Southwest hot spell Wayne Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Thu Mar 8, 12:38 PM ET
Northeast
A cold front will move across the New England states today, bringing a chance of snow showers from Buffalo north through Burlington. Much colder temperatures will also move into these areas, with afternoon highs only in the single digits and teens. Ahead of the cold front from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, north through New York, breezy winds of 15 to 25 mph will develop, with afternoon highs generally in the 30s. Gusty winds will also develop across northern New England, resulting in decreasing wind chills through the day today, into tonight. Dangerous wind chills of 20 to 30 below will be possible. Overnight, high pressure will build across the area resulting in very cold temperatures. Friday morning low temperatures will range from 10 to 20 below across northern New England to the teens and single digits elsewhere. Several record low temperatures will be possible Friday morning, from New York City north through Boston and Burlington. Into the weekend, high pressure will move offshore resulting in a shift of winds to a more southwesterly direction. This will bring milder air across the area, along with an increasing chance of precipitation.
South
High pressure will continue to dominate much of the South today, resulting in mostly sunny skies. Areas from Atlanta and New Orleans, west through Dallas and Houston will see afternoon high temperatures in the 70s today, with lower 80s across Florida, from Orlando to Miami. A developing weather system over the central Plains will bring a chance of a few showers and isolated thunderstorms to the southern Plains from Tulsa to Oklahoma City on Friday. A few showers may also develop along the Southeast and Florida eastern coasts, as an onshore flow develops there. By Saturday, the weather system over the southern Plains will spread showers and a few thunderstorms into the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys. The warm temperatures, along with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, will spread across much of the South through the weekend.
West
A series of weather disturbances will continue to impact parts of the Pacific Northwest into this weekend. Today will feature a general break in the stormy pattern but a persistent onshore flow will keep the scattered showers from Seattle to Portland. With this continued wet weather, temperatures will be held down a bit this afternoon, with highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s. Meanwhile, a weather disturbance will track across the central Rockies spreading a few rain and snow showers between Salt Lake City and Denver, while the Southwest remains warm and dry with afternoon highs in the 70s and 80s from Los Angeles to Phoenix. Friday and Saturday, the next in a series of disturbances will bring steady rain back into the Pacific Northwest, some of which could be heavy at times. Higher elevation snow will also be on the increase. With the potential for more rain, some heavy, through the weekend, parts of the Pacific Northwest may develop flooding concerns. Across the Southwest, heat will begin to build with the potential for record highs over parts of southern California and southern Arizona into the weekend.
Midwest
High pressure will dominate much of the central Plains, Upper Midwest, and Midwest today, resulting in mainly dry and sunny conditions. A few scattered snow showers may occur over the far northern Great Lakes, but these will not amount to much. A shift toward milder air will kick in across the area today, as more of a southerly flow develops. Afternoon highs will range from the 30s across Fargo, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cleveland, to the 50s from Omaha and Kansas City, to St. Louis and Louisville. A developing weather system will move into the central Plains on Friday, bringing a few scattered showers from Kansas City and Omaha, through St. Louis and Chicago. By Saturday, this system will move across the Midwest, affecting the Ohio Valley with a few showers from Cleveland to Louisville. Meanwhile, milder temperatures will continue build across the area into the weekend.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
March 8, 2007
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
I've spoken before about the disturbing phenomenon of Christians who have stood against Israel by supporting divestment from the Jewish state, harshly criticizing Israel's efforts to defend herself, and portraying terrorists as innocent victims of Israeli aggression. Most of these are in leadership positions in the mainline denominations—the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and others—that used to make up the religious establishment in this country, but have for many years been waning in membership and influence.Once again we've seen evidence of the moral confusion and dangerous political naiveté of some of these church leaders. Late last month, a delegation from the National Council of Churches (NCC), an umbrella organization of mainline and orthodox denominations, went to Iran to meet with its Israel-hating president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and members of the country's ruling religious authority.Ahmadinejad's outrageous statements against Israel have been well publicized. He has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, promised the annihilation of the Jewish State, and denied the Holocaust ever occurred. He repeatedly launches vicious verbal attacks on the U.S., and is actively pursuing nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.
None of this seems to faze the NCC. While acknowledging that the Iranian president's views on Israel undercut attempts to build relationships, a spokesperson concluded that the meeting provided three encouraging items: a clear declaration that Iran does not intend to acquire nuclear weapons; a statement that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved militarily, and…a willingness to talk with US government officials. Despite all the hard evidence to the contrary, the NCC took Ahmadinejad at his word when he said he is a man of peace! But the NCC reserved their greatest praise for the Ayatollahs, Iran's ruling religious authorities, whom they describe as learned and wise men who enjoy significant public support, legitimacy and authority. These learned and wise men, of course, are known as sponsors of worldwide terrorism and brutal oppressors of the Iranian people. But to the NCC they are colleagues with whom we could engage in the task of finding common ground.By portraying the hateful Iranian regime in a positive light, the NCC is bringing shame upon itself and granting to tyrants an air of legitimacy they do not deserve. It is, in effect, saying to the world that all Iran's threats need not be taken seriously, and is undermining international efforts to get Iran to stop its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Anyone who supports Israel—in fact, anyone who cares about liberty and democracy—should be outraged by these actions.It can indeed be discouraging to hear about groups like the NCC who seem committed to spreading distorted views of Israel and to reversing the great progress that has been made in Jewish-Christian relations over the past decades. And yet, it is at times like this that I am especially heartened to know that there are millions of Christians who do not share these views—who are true friends of Israel, committed to supporting the Jewish people and helping Israel in its ongoing struggle for peace and security.The psalmist said, How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity (Psalm 133:1). Today, my friend, I thank you with all my heart for expressing your unity with the Jewish people through your support of The Fellowship's programs, for standing with Israel through all her trials, and for your continued prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews.
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.
RUSSIA SIGNS MAJOR ARMS DEALS WITH IRAN, SYRIA MAR 08,07
MOSCOW [MENL] -- The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to keep secret its arms deals with Iran and Syria.Russia's leading business daily Kommersant asserted that a reporter who had been investigating Moscow's defense exports to Iran and Syria was killed. Kommersant said the reporter, former Col. Ivan Safronov, who fell from his apartment window to his death, disclosed the Russian sale of advanced Su-30 fighter-jets to Syria and S-300PMU-1 anti-aircraft systems to Iran.From what we know already it is clear it was not suicide, Russian SJR journalist union secretary -general Igor Yakovenko said. The chances that it was a murder linked to the exercise of his profession are very high.On March 5, the Russian prosecutor's office launched an investigation into Safronov's death on March 2. In a statement, the office termed the probable cause of death incitement to suicide. An autopsy did not find any drugs or alcohol in Safronov, scheduled to be buried on Wednesday.
Jordan's king exhorts U.S. to take lead in Mideast peace process MAR 8,07
CAPITOL HILL Jordan's King Abdullah says the U-S must quickly take the lead in creating conditions for a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking to a joint meeting of Congress, Abdullah said he looked to the U-S to play a historic role, adding that results are needed this year, and not in one year or five years. The king told Congress he wanted "no more bloodshed, no more lives pointlessly taken.He said history has shown the progress in Mideast peace is impossible without American leadership.Abdullah delivered the half-hour speech in flawless English, with an occasional aside in Arabic. He was interrupted a number of times by applause.
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