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ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

REVELATION 12:3-4
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,(SATAN) having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,( 1/3 OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (MARY JESUS MOTHER) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(JESUS WAS JEWISH,THIS IS PERSECUSSION AGAINST ISRAEL).

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

REVELATION 9:14-16
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARY) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
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)

GENESIS 6:1-7
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,(INTERCOURSE 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.
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.

JUDE 6-16
6 And the (DEMONIC FALLIN) angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,(HAD SEX WITH HUMANS) he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.(THATS OUR DAY NOW)(THESE GET LOOSED AT THE EUPHRATES TO KILL A THIRD PART OF MEN IN WW3).US - IRAQ WAR IS THE UNLOOSING OF THESE DEMONIC DEMONS I BELIEVE.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
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 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.

Belief in God drops among educated, but universal spirit prevails by Elizabeth Tenety Jul 30, 2008 Elizabeth Tenety

Religious Beliefs by Education Levels

WASHINGTON -- At first glance, a study from Gallup released Monday seems a victory for atheists: Belief in God declines as education increases. Yet something more nuanced is taking place in academia because while belief in God declines, belief in a universal spirit increases significantly during college. Among Americans with a high school diploma or less, 88 percent believe in God, 8 percent believe in a universal spirit or higher power and 5 percent say they do not believe in either. For college graduates, belief in God is at 73 percent, but another 20 percent believe in a universal spirit and only 6 percent say they do not believe in either.

The Gallup telephone survey of 1,017 American adults between May 8 and May 11 confirms the findings of a six-year study conducted at UCLA on spirituality in higher education released earlier this year. It found that while participation in religious services declines from 44 to 25 percent between students’ freshman and junior years, students also report nearly a 10 percent increase in integrating spirituality into their lives between those two years.

Charlotte Jones Carroll has served since 2001 at American University in Washington as a lay chaplain for the Unitarian Universalist church, a religion that she says encourages seeking.I think that college is a period of life where you’re seeking many things in the process of maturing, Carroll said. I think that having a sense that there’s something larger than ourselves but not necessarily wanting to be tied up to a particular set of rites and rituals is a very logical stage in one’s general intellectual seeking.Carroll said she is not surprised that college students explore spirituality rather than atheism.Well what does atheism have to offer? It’s by definition a zero. So if you’re curious, why wouldn’t you look into anything you could look into before you settled on the most negative one? Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, a Catholic organization that works to strengthen the religious identity of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States, is among those not thrilled with the move away from traditional religion. We’re losing so much of the great thought and theology that has developed over centuries when society emphasizes spirituality without the grounding of religion, Reilly said. Reilly said two forces impact the religiosity of young adults. In American society, we’ve relied much less on religious education so fewer young people and young adults are getting education in a particular faith. Reilly added: The education they are receiving at all levels is much more secularized than what was traditionally provided. Young people continue to have a sense of the divine but very little by way of religious formation.But Reilly said the survey did show that, despite the increasing secularization of American culture, Americans generally still recognize a higher power, which shows a tendency toward recognizing there is a God.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

Temple Institute holds first crimson worm harvest in 2000 years to prepare priestly garments
http://www.templeinstitute.org/tola-at_shani.htm

Jul 29, 2008 21:17 | Updated Jul 29, 2008 22:16 Chabad Temple seminar rankles Islamists By ETGAR LEFKOVITS

A brief course offered by the Chabad Hassidim about the Temple endangers the Aksa Mosque, Islamic Movement spokesman Zahi Nujidat said Tuesday. A view of the Temple Mount. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
The three-part seminar, which is being held this week and next week at some 200 Chabad Houses throughout the country, comes less than two weeks before Tisha Be'av, which marks the destruction of the Temple. We view this as a serious and drastic move toward the fruition of extremist organizations to establish a temple in place of al-Aksa Mosque, Zahi Nujidat said. This represents a real danger to al-Aksa.A similar condemnation was issued in Arabic this week by the Aksa Foundation. The Aksa Foundation was cynically pointing to the courses, which are held in three sessions, as proof that the Israeli establishment wants to damage the mosque, Chabad spokesman Rabbi Menachem Brod said. This is a pure provocation by an organization that is exploiting any opportunity to incite the Arab public to violence against Israel, he said. Every time they are looking for some other excuse to incite, and now they found it in the course.The courses, which are being attended by tens of thousands of young students, include a virtual tour of the Temple Mount and explanations of daily Temple life, as well as the job of the kohanim (priests), Brod said. In contrast to members of the modern Orthodox Zionist rabbinical leadership, Chabad hassidim do not even ascend the Temple Mount, he said.

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).

Inevitable flu pandemic will kill 75,000 Britons and 50 million worldwide, warn Lords By Tamara Cohen

Britain is facing an inevitable and devastating flu pandemic which will kill up to 75,000 people, a government committee revealed today. The outbreak – most likely a strain of bird flu which could claim the lives of up to 50 million worldwide – will be on a scale not seen for decades.The pandemic will require an urgent response to prevent the rapid spread of infection, the powerful House of Lords Intergovernmental Organisations Committee warned.They slammed Britain’s poorly coordinated disease control systems, which are run by too many similar groups. And the Lords also attacked the World Health Organisation (WHO) as dysfunctional and lacking the organisation and resources to curb a major outbreak.The next pandemic will kill between two and 50 million people worldwide and a fair fraction of that in the UK, it said.Echoing the report, the Government said: While there has not been a pandemic since 1968, another one is inevitable. Estimates are that the next pandemic will kill between two million and 50 million people and between 50,000 and 75,000 in the UK. Socio-economic disruption will be massive.Peers are calling for international alert systems for disease threats, which will spread rapidly due to our changing lifestyles. The last pandemics to hit Britain, caused by mild influenza, were in 1918 and 1968.

But the report raised concerns that an outbreak caused by the H5N1 strain, found in birds and poultry, could be utterly devastating, as prevention methods were less comprehensive than for human illnesses. It predicted human-to-human transmission in the near future.Three-quarters of newly-emerging human infections come from animals, but experts have warned that they are currently only identified after humans have been infected. Committee chairman Lord Soley said: The last 100 years have seen great advances in public health and disease control through the world, but globalisation and changes in lifestyles are giving rise to new infections and providing opportunities for them to spread rapidly throughout the world.We were particularly concerned about the link with animal health. Three quarters of new human infectious diseases start in animals. We urgently need better surveillance systems to deal with this problem.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

EU ELECTIONS
http://www.euractiv.com/en/eu-elections/interview-eu-needs-big-fight-2009-election/article-174536

Italy ratifies Lisbon Treaty AUG 1,08

(RTTNews) - Italy became the 24th country among the 27-member European Union to ratify the Lisbon treaty.The ratification was completed Wednesday, when the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian parliament, unanimously gave their final approval to the European Union's reforms.The Senate, the upper house, passed the ratification bill last week, with a unanimous vote.Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who attended Thursday's parliament session, termed the ratification as Italy's contribution to the re-launch of Europe.President Giorgio Napolitano said that the ratification is crucial for the country's future.The Lisbon Treaty, which is designed to improve the bloc's decision- making process, suffered a major setback on June 13 when Ireland, rejected the treaty with a majority of the voters saying no.Ireland is the only country to hold a referendum over the acceptability of the reforms.

Ireland's rejection of the treaty will seriously damage the prospects of it coming into force on January 1 of next year, as planned, for which approval by all member nations is a must.
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PREMEDITATED MERGER North American Union: The dream is dead Father of alignment of U.S., Mexico, Canada says secret plan has been killed by left, right July 28, 2008 9:46 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi 2008 WorldNetDaily

North American Model Parliament

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community.The new president will probably discard the SPP, Pastor wrote in an article titled The Future of North America, published in the current July/August issue of the Council on Foreign Relations magazine Foreign Affairs.The SPP, which critics contend is a step toward a North American Union, is an agreement to increase cooperation on security and economic issues signed by the leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada in 2005. Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration launched extensive working-group activity to implement the agreement. The working groups – ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration – have counterparts in Mexico and Canada.

The April summit meeting was probably the last hurrah for the SPP, Pastor wrote, referring to the fourth annual SPP meeting held in April in New Orleans.Pastor attributes the failure of SPP to its largely bureaucratic nature and the decision policy makers made to keep SPP largely below the radar of public opinion.The strategy of acting on technical issues in an incremental, bureaucratic way and keeping the issues away from public view has generated more suspicion than accomplishments, Pastor admitted.Pastor blames critics for the failure of the SPP, charging it has come under attack from both ends of the political spectrum.From the right have come attacks based on cultural anxieties of being overrun by Mexican immigrants and fears that cooperation with Canada and Mexico could lead down a slippery slope toward a North American Union, he wrote. From the left came attacks based on economic fears of jobs lost due to unfair trading practices.These two sets of fears came together in a perfect storm that was pushed forward by a surplus of hot air from talk-show hosts on radio and television, he continued. In the face of this criticism, the Bush administration was silent, and the Democratic candidates competed for votes in the rust-belt states, where unions and many working people have come to see NAFTA and globalization much as (commentator Lou) Dobbs does.

Pastor denied he had ever urged the creation of a North American Union.Dobbs, among others, viewed a report by a 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force (which I chaired), Building a North American Community, as the manifesto of a conspiracy to subvert American sovereignty, he asserted. Dobbs claimed that the CFR study proposed a North American Union, although it did not.Pastor has argued consistently for a North American Community, as suggested by the title of his 2001 book entitled Toward a North American Community.In a commentary authored for WND, Pastor stressed, I do not propose a North American Union; I propose a North American Community.Pastor argued the two were different in that North American Community would involve three sovereign governments that seek to strengthen bonds of cooperation.Noting that the European Community was a transitional state between the European Common Market and the European Union, Pastor conceded to WND that, I don't think a political union of North America is an inherently bad idea, nor do I think it is a good idea for right now.Despite the SPP setback, Pastor remains determined to advise a different approach to his continued goal of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into a North American Community.The three heads of state must also commit to building a new consciousness, a new way of thinking about one's neighbors and about the continental agenda, he said. Americans, Canadians and Mexicans can be nationals and North Americans at the same time.To correct the defects of the SPP bureaucratic closed-door process, Pastor's CFR article recommended creating new North American institutions, including a North American Investment Fund of at least $20 billion a year to connect central and southern Mexico to the United States with roads, ports, and communications.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, dropped his support for Senate bill 3622 in the 109th Congress when WND reported the North American Investment Fund proposed by the legislation would enact a key proposal Pastor has frequently made for advancing his North American Community agenda.In his CFR article, Pastor also called for the continuation of annual North American heads-of-state summits and the appointment in the next administration of a national adviser for North American affairs, who would chair a cabinet-level committee to formulate a comprehensive plan for North America.Pastor also encouraged creating a dozen university centers for North American studies to educate a new generation of students to think North American.WND reported on the fourth annual North American Model Parliament held this year in Montreal, Canada, for 100 university students from the U.S., Canada and Mexico.The North American Model Parliament is sponsored by the North American Forum on Integration, on which Pastor serves as a board member.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Euro area inflation breaks new record
LUCIA KUBOSOVA AUG 1,08 Today @ 07:07 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Inflation in the 15-strong euro area has reached a new record of 4.1 percent, twice as much as the monetary goal of the European Central Bank (ECB), leaving its Frankfurt-based decision-makers in a dilemma over the next interest rates move.According to a flash estimate issued on Thursday (31 July) by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, euro area annual inflation is expected to rise by 0.1 percent in July 2008, compared to June's rate of 4.0 percent. Prices have not climbed as fast since inflation records started in 1997 for countries which now form part of the single currency club, with the key factor behind such trends being soaring fuel and food prices.The ECB last month reacted to the inflationary pressure by raising the bloc's interest rates by a quarter percentage point to 4.25 percent, a seven-year maximum, with some analysts predicting the same move once again by the end of this year.However, Frankfurt also has to take into account the worsening state of the eurozone economy, with a separate survey showing that a business and consumer confidence in it slumped in July at the fastest pace since just after terrorist attack in the US in 2001.

Meanwhile, Eurostat statistics on unemployment - also released on Thursday - showed that unemployment rates kept steady in June at 7.3percent in the eurozone and 6.8 percent in the whole 27-strong European Union.Spain has been particularly affected by a housing slowdown due to the last year's US mortgage crisis, with its jobless rate in June rising sharply to 10.7 percent, the highest level in the EU. Almost a quarter of Spanish young people are unemployed. Ireland has also seen a sudden end to its economic boom with an increase in unemployment to 5.7 percent in June, while the biggest eurozone countries Germany recording a jobless rate of 7.3 percent and France 7.5 percent.

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Spanish banknotes carry heaviest cocaine traces
LEIGH PHILLIPS AUG 1,08 Today @ 07:26 CET

Spanish euro banknotes bear the highest concentration of traces of cocaine of all banknotes in Europe - whether euros, Swiss francs or pounds - according to a new study.Chemists at the University of Valencia carried out an investigation of randomly selected bills in circulation in the Iberian country, which had traces of cocaine with an average concentration of 155 microgrammes per note.Traces of the drug are found not only on notes that have been in direct contact with it, but on nearly all the notes in circulation, said Miguel de la Guardia, a co-author of the study and a professor in the Analytical Chemistry Department of the university, according to Spanish daily 20 Minutos.Germany, by comparison, had traces of cocaine five times lower than those in Spain. Irish euros came in lower still, bearing an average concentration of just 0.576 microgrammes of the drug.

The study, published this week in the latest issue of Trends in Analytical Chemistry, a scientific journal, also reviewed earlier studies on traces of cocaine found on various paper currencies around the world. United States dollars generally have the highest concentration of cocaine of any currency in the world. A 2006 study also found that 94 percent of Spanish notes were contaminated with cocaine traces. Data has showed that between 40 and 51 percent UK pound notes are contaminated, while just six percent of Swiss francs have cocaine traces above one nanogramme per note.The high rate of contamination does not mean that almost all Spaniards are using cocaine, the scientists were quick to underscore. Notes that have not been in direct contact with the drug become cross-contaminated from contact with other notes, and by money counting machines in banks.But cocaine has become entrenched in Spanish society, and is mortgaging the neuronal development of a whole generation, said Mr de la Guardia.The Iberian Peninsula is Europe's main entry point for most drugs trafficked across the continent, according to a report published in July by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Of the two countries on the peninsula, Spain is used most by cocaine smugglers, the report said. In 2006, some 50 tonnes of the drug were seized in the country, said the report, mainly at ports in Galicia, Andalucia, Barcelona and Valencia. By comparison, the country that saw the next largest tonnage of cocaine seized in 2006 was the Netherlands, where some 11tonnes were intercepted.

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 plans new carriers, subs to boost navy By Dmitry Solovyov Sun Jul 27, 8:45 AM ET

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia announced plans on Sunday to revive its once-mighty navy by building several aircraft carriers and upgrading its fleet of nuclear submarines in the coming years.

Russia's power at sea is a shadow of the formidable Soviet navy which challenged U.S. military dominance in the Cold War. But, with a strong economy now from booming oil exports, it is seeking to raise its profile on the world stage by modernizing the armed forces.Russia will build five or six aircraft carrier battle groups in the near future, RIA news agency quoted Navy Commander Vladimir Vysotsky as telling Navy Day festivities in St Petersburg, the second city.We call this a sea-borne aircraft carrier system which will be based on the Northern and Pacific fleets, Vysotsky said. The creation of such systems will begin after 2012.He said such carrier groups would operate in close contact with Russia's military satellites, air forces and air defenses.Russia now has only one aircraft carrier, the Soviet-built Nikolai Kuznetsov, which was launched in 1985 but did not become fully operational for 10 years due to the turmoil following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.In fact, it is not even a fully-fledged aircraft-carrier, being officially called an air-capable cruiser. It carries fewer aircraft than U.S. carriers and features a steam-turbine power-plant with turbo-generators and diesel generators, while all modern carriers are nuclear-powered.

NEW SUBS AND MISSILES

Vysotsky said that along with designing new aircraft carriers Russia would also modernize its new-generation nuclear submarines of the Borei class (Arctic Wind).The first Borei submarine of the so-called Project 955, the Yuri Dolgoruky, was launched in February and is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2008. Two other submarines of this class are now being built.Starting with the fourth submarine, we will begin modernizing this class, Vysotsky said. The modernized Borei submarines will be the core of Russian naval nuclear forces until 2040.We are aspiring not only to introduce new technologies, not only to compete with the West, but to take completely new steps which would allow us to look at submarine technologies of the middle of the 21st century, he said.

The prestige of Russia's navy was badly dented in August 2000 when the Kursk nuclear submarine, one of its newest, sank in the Barents Sea, with the loss of all the 118 sailors on board.Tests of a new nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava-M, designed to be mounted on Borei-class submarines, have been a mixture of failure and success. The Kremlin has touted Bulava as a unique weapon able to pierce any air defense.Vysotsky said Bulava would come into service this year.Despite the fact that there are still some glitches, the missile will all the same learn how to fly, he said. Not just to fly, but also to use all the potential invested in it.
(Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

OLMERT TO RESIGN By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., July 30, 2008) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will resign his office on or about September 17th. Suffering single digit approval ratings and haunted by numerous on-going corruption investigations, the Prime Minister just announced on national television that he will step down after the Kadima party primaries scheduled. I have decided I won't run in the Kadima movement primaries, nor do I intend to intervene in the elections, the embattled politician said just moments ago. When a new (Kadima party) chairman is chosen, I will resign as prime minister to permit them to put together a new government swiftly and effectively....I want to make it clear - I am proud to be a citizen of a country where the prime minister can be investigated like a regular citizen. It is the duty of the police to investigate, and the duty of the prosecution to instruct the police. The prime minister is not above the law.... From my first day in office I was forced to ward off malicious attacks, even while dealing with far-reaching decisions affecting Israel's defense and existence. I continue to believe with all my heart that the achievement of peace, combating terror, strengthening our security, and the realization of a different type of relationship with our neighbors are all necessary goals for the future of the State of Israel.

It's not clear yet when new elections will be held. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently well ahead of all contenders to replace Olmert, but Israeli politics are Byzantine, to say the least, and anything could happen. Israel's political crisis could not come at a worse time, with the real threat of war with Iran growing daily.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE----PRESS RELEASE----FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Moshe Feiglin Co-Founder & President Contact: Olmert's Leaving...but Hold the Celebrations July 30, 2008.

Before Israelis celebrate the impending exit of the inept and corrupt Ehud Olmert from the Prime Minister's chair, it should be understood that there will be no real change in Israel until there is a leader who will guide Israel with Jewish values and will put the best interests of the Jewish People ahead of their own fortunes. Manhigut Yehudit guarantees that it makes no difference if Tzipi Livni or Shaul Mofaz head Kadima and then sit in the Prime Minister's office, as both of these pretenders have clearly demonstrated their lack of commitment to any ideology except their political advancement. In fact, the situation may go from very, very bad to worst. Olmert was unable (due to the multitude of corruption charges against him) to carry out further Israeli concessions. However, Livni or Mofaz - by benefit of only being ideologically and not financially corrupt - may have the political capital to continue the so-called peace process which only serves to tear at the heart of the Jewish people by giving away our Divinely-given land. This process only serves to weaken the belief in the righteousness of our cause by Jews worldwide.It is impossible for Israel to survive as a Jewish Nation when the real war being fought is against Jewish identity. It is equally impossible to survive with policies of appeasement and painful concessions. The hope for Likud (and for Israel ) lies in the deputy Likud leader Moshe Feiglin, who will not give away the precious Land of Israel. Feiglin is the real hope for Israeli's who need an honest, moral leader who will act in the best interests of Israel and the Jewish People and not as a puppet for the nations.

OLMERT LEAVES MANY QUESTIONS
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NETANYAHU CALLS FOR SNAP ELECTIONS
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Olmert plows ahead on peace talks By Joshua Mitnick
Fri Aug 1, 4:00 AM ET

Tel Aviv - Peace talks between Israelis and Arabs are on hold until further notice. That's the conventional wisdom in the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement Wednesday that he'll resign: He's a lameduck leader with no leverage.But Mr. Olmert is charging full-speed ahead, say analysts and aides, although his persistence in pursuing a peace deal with the Palestinians and the Syrians appears to be as an eleventh-hour attempt by the disgraced prime minister to recast his political legacy. Still, the question remains: Will his efforts be taken seriously in the Middle East, the United States, or in his own country? He wants to leave a legacy, says Yossi Alpher, coeditor of the Israeli-Palestinian Web journal Bitterlemons.org. The ordinary profile of someone in his position is of a caretaker. But he might behave differently. He might feel more liberated.Olmert might also have considerably more time beyond his party's September leadership contest, the date he set for his resignation. At that point, he'll become the head of a transition government, retaining all the powers of prime minister theoretically for months afterward – but only if a Kadima Party successor fails in winning a vote of confidence in parliament and is forced to a general election.

An unnamed official close to Olmert told Reuters on Thursday that the prime minister plans to pursue an agreement with the Palestinians before he leaves office – and he said as much in his resignation speech. We are closer than ever to understandings that are liable to be the basis for agreements on two tracks of rapprochement – the Palestinian and the Syrian, Olmert said. As long as I serve in my position, I will not rest from the attempt to bring the negotiations between us and our neighbors to a successful conclusion.Officially, the Palestinian Authority has stuck to its traditional position of resisting the temptation to actively jump into Israel's volatile political fray. Negotiator Saeb Erekat called Olmert's announcement part of domestic Israeli affairs that would not affect the peace talks. It's none of our business, he told the Associated Press.On the one hand, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has staked his entire presidency on the US-mediated negotiations with Israel. If Olmert chooses to pursue an agreement while he is still in office, Mr. Abbas has few alternatives. Abandoning the talks would give the rival Hamas party, which controls the Gaza Strip, a moral victory. He doesn't have a choice, because he's between a rock and a hard place, says Munther Dajani, a professor of political science at Al Quds University. The only other card he has to play is to go home and dismantle the Palestinian Authority.At the same time, Abbas may be reluctant to make politically risky compromises in peace talks with an outgoing Israeli prime minister who's mandate to negotiate is already being challenged, analysts said.Israel and Syria are scheduled to hold a new round of indirect talks in Turkey in August, but most observers doubt that Damascus will take Olmert seriously as a negotiating partner. The remote chances for a breakthrough before his announcement Wednesday have all but been eliminated.Nothing much substantive will happen, says Steven Cook, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. It will be essentially treading water while they wait to see who will be the next prime minister of Israel.More broadly in the region, there's a cynicism among Israel's neighbors that no matter who is the next prime minister, Israel's fractious parliament will prevent them from taking the political risks for peace, Mr. Cook says.

There's a view that it actually doesn't matter who is going to be Israeli prime minister, he says. From the Arab perspective there's a certain frustration with political instability in Israel and that political instability makes it difficult for Israelis to have a coherent approach.Israel has held four elections in the last decade because successive prime ministers have failed to hold together their governing coalitions. The conventional wisdom among Israeli commentators in the wake of Olmert's announcement is that the leading candidates to succeed him, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, will be hard pressed to satisfy enough political parties to win a vote of confidence in the parliament. That is likely to trigger a fifth election. Peace process proponents note that Olmert will retain the legal authority to set Israeli security and diplomatic policy as the head of a transitional government. If he is able to reach a deal with the Palestinians or the Syrians, it will still be subject to the approval of the parliament and possibly even a referendum. Avshalom Vilan, a lawmaker from the dovish Meretz Party, said that while he believes that the Israeli public would accept a breakthrough deal with an Arab peace partner, he thinks its an unlikely possibility.

Even though Olmert was lauded for resigning on his own, his weak public credibility is likely to limit support for future negotiations. This is unbelievable chutzpah, says Yuval Steinitz, a lawmaker from the opposition Likud party about Olmert's plans to continue talks. He has announced he will resign, and then will finalize [a treaty] that will restrict future governments. We see it as part of his moral deficiency.

Oil prices jump nearly $3 after gas futures spike By STEVENSON JACOBS, AP Business Writer AUG 1,08

NEW YORK - Oil prices jumped almost $3 a barrel Friday, erasing losses from the previous session after a rally in gasoline futures and a drop on Wall Street drew investors back into energy markets.

But prices at the pump fell again, with a gallon of regular gas slipping on average just over a penny to $3.898, according to auto club AAA, Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. Gas is down 5.2 percent from record high of $4.114 a gallon reached July 17, as high prices eat into demand.Light, sweet crude rose $2.71 at $126.79 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after earlier rising to $128.60, its highest level in nine sessions. Prices fell $2.69 to settle at $124.08 on Thursday.Oil soared apparently after a surprise spike in gasoline futures energized oil markets, said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill. Unexplained jumps in gasoline futures usually suggest that a refinery somewhere is experiencing a slowdown in operations, perhaps from malfunctioning equipment, he said.Gasoline for September delivery rose 7.65 cents, or 2.49 percent, to $3.1473 a gallon on the Nymex.

Oil was also getting a boost as stocks fell on news that jobs fell for the seventh straight month and that General Motors Corp. had its third-worst quarterly loss ever. In addition, the Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index fell slightly from June's reading, but came in better than economists expected.

THIS BEHEADER WAS PROBABLY AN ARAB MUSLIM.

Man Stabbed, Decapitated on Bus in Manitoba, Globe Says
By Greg Quinn

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- A man in Canada was stabbed to death and decapitated on a Greyhound bus by a stranger in the seat beside him, the Globe and Mail reported. The victim, about 18 years old, was sleeping with headphones on when his seatmate began stabbing him in the throat with a hunting knife, according to a passenger sitting in the seat in front of them, the newspaper reported. The attacker then cut off the victim's head and brought it to the front of the bus after the other passengers had rushed off, the Globe said. Police arrested one man following a stand off at about 1 a.m. today, the newspaper said. The bus was traveling from Edmonton to Winnipeg, Manitoba. To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Quinn in Ottawa at gquinn1@bloomberg.net.

36 hours after beheading in Canada bus, no new information

As I pointed out last night, every news report yesterday about the stabbing, gutting, and beheading of a young man on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba Wednesday evening at 8:30 p.m. relied primarily on the same interview with the same passenger. There was virtually no information from other passengers, and there was zero information from Canadian police, not even the name of the suspect, because, the Mounties spokesman said, giving out any information would compromise the investigation! Most of the stories were published/posted yesterday afternoon. And here we are, a day later, a full 36 hours after the murder, and Google reveals no further stories on the incident, except for one from the BBC and another from the Belfast Telegraph, both of which merely repeat what was already in yesterday's stories.

I can think of only one explanation for this news blackout. The killer is indeed a Muslim, and the news is so shocking, its implications so frightening,--Canadians might be slaughtered and beheaded, anywhere, any time--that the ultra-PC Canadian authorities, than whom only the Brits are PC-er, can't handle it. Because it means that Canada (and every Western country with a Musulman population) has now become like Israel, where death-by-Islam can occur to anyone, any time, any place. The Israelis, surrounded by and filled with Arabs, seem to have no choice in the matter. But will the citizens of Canada and other Western countries accept living under permanent threat of random beheadings from their resident Muslims (as the authorities would, of course, prefer)? Or will they start to demand the removal of Muslims? You know, the way extremists like me have been urging for the last several years? My guess is that the Canadian authorities simply cannot bear to release the identity of the killer/beheader, because they sense that the information could give birth to popular resistance to Canada's liberal inclusive order. So they are delaying giving out the facts as long as possible. It's basically the tried and true Bill Clinton approach to damaging revelations. The more time that passes between the initial release of devastating news (e.g., the news about Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, in January 1998), and the release of the full truth about that news (e.g. the blue dress, about seven months later), the more time the public has to get used to the news and the more muted is their response to it. The Western countries today are not self-governing democracies; they are technocratically managed populations of passive Eloi.

By the way, even though scores of blogs covered the story yesterday, Jihad Watch has not mentioned it. The Corner has not mentioned it. And, speaking of Monica Lewinsky, the Drudge Report, which generally loves shocking news, has not mentioned it. Note: my above mention of Jihad Watch is obviously part of my attempted holocaust of Robert Spencer.

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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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Siberian Russians marvel at solar eclipse By GARY PEACH, Associated Press Writer AUG 1,08

MOSCOW - An enormous swath of western Siberia was submerged in darkness Friday afternoon as the moon completely blocked the sun, enrapturing huge crowds of Russians and foreign tourists. The peak of the eclipse occurred in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city.

There, forecasts of cloudy skies proved wrong, and tens of thousands of people who had flocked to the center of town were able to observe the rare total eclipse of the sun — which lasted two minutes, 23 seconds — in its full beauty.Traffic stopped. Crowds wearing protective eye wear cheered and whistled as the moon covered the sun, the wind died and day became night.Lucas Heinrich, a physics student from Berlin who traveled to Novosibirsk with classmates, described the eclipse as unbelievable.It became cold and dark, and suddenly it was light again. I am very happy — it was worth the trip, Heinrich said.The NTV news channel reported that more than 10,000 foreign tourists arrived in Novosibirsk, the largest city in the eclipse's path, to watch.The eclipse began in Arctic Canada, then passed through Greenland, western Siberia, Mongolia and China.In Novosibirsk, the airport announced that it turned on nighttime landing lights during the total and partial darkness, which lasted more than two hours.At the city zoo, polar bears and white tigers suddenly lay down to sleep. A snow leopard grew restless and ran around its cage until the sun reappeared.

Cloudy weather in other parts of Western Siberia prevented many people from enjoying the spectacle.Viewers were repeatedly warned to prevent eye injuries by wearing protective glasses, which sold throughout Novosibirsk for 50 rubles (US$2.10, euro1.40).In Moscow, half the sun was blocked, but cloud cover prevented Muscovites from viewing the partial eclipse.People have been recording solar eclipses for perhaps 4,000 years, and they typically inspire a combination of dread, fascination and awe.According to NASA, the next total eclipse will occur July 22, 2009, starting in India and moving across Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China and over the Pacific Ocean.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK)

REVELATION 18:10
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

I THINK IRAN AND SYRIA WILL SOON BE DESTROYED, IF THE USA IS ATTACKED BY A EMP I KNOW IT WILL BE FROM RUSSIA BY WHAT THE VERSES SAY ABOVE.

U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S. Tuesday, July 29, 20089:00 AM By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned. In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and in remarks to a private conference on missile defense over the weekend hosted by the Claremont Institute, Dr. William Graham warned that the U.S. intelligence community doesn’t have a story to explain the recent Iranian tests. One group of tests that troubled Graham, the former White House science adviser under President Ronald Reagan, were successful efforts to launch a Scud missile from a platform in the Caspian Sea. They’ve got [test] ranges in Iran which are more than long enough to handle Scud launches and even Shahab-3 launches, Dr. Graham said. Why would they be launching from the surface of the Caspian Sea? They obviously have not explained that to us.Another troubling group of tests involved Shahab-3 launches where the Iranians detonated the warhead near apogee, not over the target area where the thing would eventually land, but at altitude, Graham said. Why would they do that? Graham chairs the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001. The commission examined the Iranian tests and without too much effort connected the dots, even though the U.S. intelligence community previously had failed to do so, Graham said. The only plausible explanation we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from a ship and get it up to altitude and then detonate it, he said. And that’s exactly what you would do if you had a nuclear weapon on a Scud or a Shahab-3 or other missile, and you wanted to explode it over the United States.

The commission warned in a report issued in April that the United States was at risk of a sneak nuclear attack by a rogue nation or a terrorist group designed to take out our nation’s critical infrastructure. If even a crude nuclear weapon were detonated anywhere between 40 kilometers to 400 kilometers above the earth, in a split-second it would generate an electro-magnetic pulse [EMP] that would cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure, the report warned. While not causing immediate civilian casualties, the near-term impact on U.S. society would dwarf the damage of a direct nuclear strike on a U.S. city. The first indication [of such an attack] would be that the power would go out, and some, but not all, the telecommunications would go out. We would not physically feel anything in our bodies, Graham said. As electric power, water and gas delivery systems failed, there would be truly massive traffic jams, Graham added, since modern automobiles and signaling systems all depend on sophisticated electronics that would be disabled by the EMP wave. So you would be walking. You wouldn’t be driving at that point, Graham said. And it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, even if you could get through to them.The food distribution system also would grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline. Even warehouses equipped with backup diesel generators would fail, because we wouldn’t be able to pump the fuel into the trucks and get the trucks to the warehouses, Graham said. The United States would quickly revert to an early 19th century type of country. except that we would have 10 times as many people with ten times fewer resources, he said.

Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own assets and those we could reach by walking to them, Graham said. America would begin to resemble the 2002 TV series, Jeremiah, which depicts a world bereft of law, infrastructure, and memory. In the TV series, an unspecified virus wipes out the entire adult population of the planet. In an EMP attack, the casualties would be caused by our almost total dependence on technology for everything from food and water, to hospital care. Within a week or two of the attack, people would start dying, Graham says. People in hospitals would be dying faster than that, because they depend on power to stay alive. But then it would go to water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving the event.Asked just how many Americans would die if Iran were to launch the EMP attack it appears to be preparing, Graham gave a chilling reply. You have to go back into the 1800s to look at the size of population that could survive in a nation deprived of mechanized agriculture, transportation, power, water, and communication. I’d have to say that 70 to 90 percent of the population would not be sustainable after this kind of attack, he said. America would be reduced to a core of around 30 million people — about the number that existed in the decades after America’s independence from Great Britain. The modern electronic economy would shut down, and America would most likely revert to an earlier economy based on barter, the EMP commission’s report on Critical National Infrastructure concluded earlier this year. In his recent congressional testimony, Graham revealed that Iranian military journals, translated by the CIA at his commission’s request, explicitly discuss a nuclear EMP attack that would gravely harm the United States.

Furthermore, if Iran launched its attack from a cargo ship plying the commercial sea lanes off the East coast — a scenario that appears to have been tested during the Caspian Sea tests — U.S. investigators might never determine who was behind the attack. Because of the limits of nuclear forensic technology, it could take months. And to disguise their traces, the Iranians could simply decide to sink the ship that had been used to launch it, Graham said. Several participants in last weekend’s conference in Dearborn, Mich., hosted by the conservative Claremont Institute argued that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was thinking about an EMP attack when he opined that a world without America is conceivable.In May 2007, then Undersecretary of State John Rood told Congress that the U.S. intelligence community estimates that Iran could develop an ICBM capable of hitting the continental United States by 2015. But Iran could put a Scud missile on board a cargo ship and launch from the commercial sea lanes off America’s coasts well before then. The only thing Iran is lacking for an effective EMP attack is a nuclear warhead, and no one knows with any certainty when that will occur. The latest U.S. intelligence estimate states that Iran could acquire the fissile material for a nuclear weapon as early as 2009, or as late as 2015, or possibly later. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld first detailed the Scud-in-a-bucket threat during a briefing in Huntsville, Ala., on Aug. 18, 2004. While not explicitly naming Iran, Rumsfeld revealed that “one of the nations in the Middle East had launched a ballistic missile from a cargo vessel. They had taken a short-range, probably Scud missile, put it on a transporter-erector launcher, lowered it in, taken the vessel out into the water, peeled back the top, erected it, fired it, lowered it, and covered it up. And the ship that they used was using a radar and electronic equipment that was no different than 50, 60, 100 other ships operating in the immediate area.Iran’s first test of a ship-launched Scud missile occurred in spring 1998, and was mentioned several months later in veiled terms by the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, a blue-ribbon panel also known as the Rumsfeld Commission. I was the first reporter to mention the Iran sea-launched missile test in an article appearing in the Washington Times in May 1999. Intelligence reports on the launch were well known to the White House but have not been disseminated to the appropriate congressional committees, I wrote. Such a missile could be used in a devastating stealth attack against the United States or Israel for which the United States has no known or planned defense.Few experts believe that Iran can be deterred from launching such an attack by the threat of massive retaliation against Iran. They point to a December 2001 statement by former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who mulled the possibility of Israeli retaliation after an Iranian nuclear strike. The use of an atomic bomb against Israel would destroy Israel completely, while [the same] against the Islamic only would cause damages. Such a scenario is not inconceivable, Rafsanjani said at the time. Rep. Trent Franks, R, Ariz., plans to introduce legislation next week that would require the Pentagon to lay the groundwork for an eventual military strike against Iran, to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and EMP capability. An EMP attack on America would send us back to the horse and buggy era — without the horse and buggy, he told the Claremont Institute conference on Saturday. If you’re a terrorist, this is your ultimate goal, your ultimate asymmetric weapon.Noting Iran’s recent sea-launched and mid-flight warhead detonation tests, Rep. Franks concluded, They could do it — either directly or anonymously by putting some freighter out there on the ocean.The only possible deterrent against Iran is the prospect of failure, Dr. Graham and other experts agreed. And the only way the United States could credibly threaten an Iranian missile strike would be to deploy effective national missile defenses. It’s well known that people don’t go on a diet until they’ve had a heart attack, said Claremont Institute president Brian T. Kennedy. And we as a nation are having a heart attack when it comes to the threat of an EMP attack from Iran. As of today, we have no defense against such an attack. We need space-based missile defenses to protect against an EMP attack, he told Newsmax. Rep. Franks said he remains surprised at how partisan the subject of space-based missile defenses remain. Nuclear missiles don’t discriminate on party lines when they land, he said. Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, a long-standing champion of missile defense, told the Claremont conference on Friday that Sen. Obama has opposed missile defense tooth and nail and as president would cut funding for these programs dramatically.

Senator Obama has been quoted as saying, I don’t agree with a missile defense system, and that we can cut $10 billion of the research out — never mind, as I say, that the entire budget is $9.6 billion, or $9.3 billion, Kyl said. Like Franks, Kyl believes that the only way to eventually deter Iran from launching an EMP attack on the United States is to deploy robust missile defense systems, including space-based interceptors. The United States needs a missile defense that is so strong, in all the different phases we need to defend against . . . that countries will decide it’s not worth coming up against us, Kyl said. That’s one of the things that defeated the Soviet Union. That’s one of the ways we can deal with these rogue states . . . and also the way that we can keep countries that are not enemies today, but are potential enemies, from developing capabilities to challenge us.2008 Newsmax.

Give Back To School Blessings To Poor Israeli Kids

Dear Friend of Israel,

In less than two months children across Israel will begin a new school year. For some kids, it’s fun going to the store with their parents to buy new clothes, shoes, notebooks, backpacks, and other school supplies.

A heartbreaking scenario

But it is different for children from Israel's poorest families. They know they will head back to school in the same tattered clothes they wore months ago. They will carry their books to school in a plastic bag rather than a new backpack - or even an old backpack. They dread the teasing they will be subject to and the shame they will feel, simply because their parents cannot afford to prepare them for the school year. For children who live at the deepest level of poverty, the needs are even greater. Their learning will be greatly impaired because they cannot afford such essentials as eyeglasses or hearing aids. There are those who cannot afford the most basic hygiene items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, or shampoo. Some do not even have a bed to sleep in at night or a desk where they can do their schoolwork.Altogether, nearly 10,000 Israeli children in over 900 schools across Israel will be unable to afford basic school supplies and personal care items when they return to school this fall.

Be a blessing to Israel's poor children

You can help ensure that poor children across Israel have a positive school experience this year through The Fellowship's Guardians of Israel Back to School Blessings Catalog. Your gift purchases through the Blessings Catalog will provide a needy child with a backpack and school supplies, personal care items, or basic furniture.

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and help turn the beginning of the school year into a time of excitement rather than dread for a poor Israeli child. May God bless you, even as you have blessed His children, Israel.

With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS.

The CARMEL ALERT August 1st 2008 A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.Stefan's Comment: Israeli Youth Summer Camp Report - Vessel in the Hand of the Maker

As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. Jeremiah 18:6

This verse was the theme verse of this years summer youth camp. This summer was the first summer that the Katzir organization solely funded, planned and administrated the entire 9 days of camp. Until this summer an American organization called Souled Out had been coming to Israel each year and running summer camps for the Israeli youth. These were in fact the camps that all of the young people my age attended while growing up. However, we felt that this year God wanted to pass the torch and kindle a local fire, and thus it happened.A group of four young people made up of Keren and myself along with two very good friends, Andre and Dima, began praying at the end of last year and seeking God's will for the summer camp. During the entire time we were working under the covering and oversight of Eitan Shishkoff and some other mature leaders.We felt to connect the above theme and verse with creation and the creativity of the creator. We decided that during the 9 days of the camp the youth will participate in different art workshops that will be put together at the end to make up one grand performing arts show. We wanted to encourage the youth to use the creativity that God placed in each of them to glorify His name, wether through dance, music, art, photography and acting.

Each day also had a special topic that was emphasized in the morning during quiet time and during the message in the evening. These topics are relevant to the day by day life that these young people live. Some of these topics were friendship, having the liberty to dream, facing rejection and hurt, forgiveness and repentance and the identity of Messianic Jews in Israel.There was a lot of expectation and anticipation for God to do a mighty work in the youth during the camp. From the beginning of the camp we noticed that many of the youth had come seeking to be changed and to recommit their lives to the Lord. Usually, during youth gathering, it takes a couple of days for the youth to get comfortable and feel free to enter into the presence of God, however during this camp it seemed that a lot of the youth came prepared and ready to allow God to work in their lives. This was a true answer to our prayers that we in the leadership had been asking God for during the preparation time prior to the camp. Many of the meetings ended up with almost all of the camp participants on the floor worshipping the Lord, surrendering to Him and praying for fellow friends who needed support. Some of the young people made first time commitments to Yeshua and others made firm decisions to walk the walk in a sincere way.Many new friendships were made and past walls of division between the different ethnic groups were broken down which opened the door for overall unity and friendship. During the days of the camp the youth visited the museum, volunteered in a warehouse that sends food to needy families, we did a trek in one of Israel's beautiful water trails during which many had an opportunity to share the gospel with a large group of religious girls who arrived while we were there.

Another highlight of the camp was the second to last night when we prayed for the youth who are about to be drafted into the I.D.F. For the first time in a summer camp all those who were praying for the soon to be soldiers were all ex IDF men and woman who live in Israel and have already been through a full army service. It was a very special time.The grand performance that was done on the last night of the camp in Jerusalem was amazing. It was not amazing because of talent or good looks or professional guidance, but because the performance conveyed boldly yet gently what the Lord did during the 9 days of the camp. Everyone who came was immensely blessed.On the following link you can see a short summary of the entire camp. The final performance had a script and a clear message which cannot be written out in this report. This short video was showed at the end to conclude the evening. This is only one part of 2, the second has not yet been posted on the internet. I'm sure you will be able to perceive in the pictures that you will see, the depth of what God did during this summer. May Yeshua's name be glorified through this video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmg5U3fUayA

Thank you all for your prayer and support. The next Katzir conference will be in Hannuka, sometime during December. Please pray for guidance and provision in the planning and organizing of this conference.The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.

Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie

EU DEFENCE NOISES OFF

AMBASSADOR GILLERMAN'S FINAL SPEECH TO THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL As reported by Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva, Wednesday 23 July 2008

Israel's outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, gave his last speech Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council. Referring to Jerusalem's second tractor terror attack in three weeks, which occurred just hours before his speech, he said that when the first tractor attack occurred, people said the driver was a madman. It now is clear, he added, that the problem was not a solitary madman but rather a phenomenon.Gillerman had prepared a written speech but told the ambassadors that he decided to speak from his heart instead. This is most probably my last appearance before you as the representative of the State of Israel, he said. I would like to thank each and every one of you for the time you have spent on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our problems. He emphasized that whatever happens, whatever you discuss, whatever transpires - Israel will prevail.

Most of the Horror is Within Islam
Gillerman went on to say that the world was not dealing with a clash of civilizations, but rather with a clash of civilization, in the singular - within Islam. Most of the horror, most of the bloodshed, most of the killings, and most of the violence... is sadly and tragically within Islam, he said. Not only are the majority of terrorists Muslim, he noted, but also the majority of terror victims around the world. The Ambassador said he was most concerned about the eerie silence of the Muslim world in the face of terrorism, and expressed his hope to see a Muslim leader emerge who would say enough is enough, what are we doing? I hope very much that the Arab and Muslim world will realize that it is its duty and responsibility today, in that very clash, to support the moderates and isolate the extremists, he added.

Imagine...
Gillerman extended an invitation to all those present to visit Israel. You will see a country which is very different from the perception you get on TV, where you see a country torn by violence and bloodshed... You will discover a vibrant county, of great excellence and innovation, in making the desert bloom, in agriculture, science and medicine, he said. You will see a country which is contributing each and every day to mankind and to humanity, not just to itself and to the Jewish people, and making the world a better place.You will not understand the essence of Israel until you feel it and smell it, he said.He asked his colleagues to imagine, for one moment, what it is like to be an Israeli.

Boarding a Bus with Fear
He asked them to picture a grandfather like me who sometimes goes to the kindergarten to pick up my granddaughter and whose heart breaks when he sees an armed guard at the entrance to the kindergarten.Imagine what it is like, he said, to board a bus and look to the side in fear, or to sit in a coffee shop in Jerusalem. Sitting in a coffee house in Paris, Moscow and New York, costs a few dollars. Sitting in a coffee house in Jerusalem could cost many lives, he said.Gillerman asked those present to imagine a bulldozer driving down Fifth Avenue or the Champs Elysees and crushing cars... I have been here for almost six years. Occasionally I have been accused of over-reaction and dramatization. If you visit Israel or just imagine what happens in it, you will understand. When you speak about the situation in the Middle East, you will think about what we deal with every single day.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

[Comment] European defence: Noises off
NICK WITNEY 29.07.2008 @ 07:14 CET

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - How gratifying for Europeans listening to Barack Obama's speech in Berlin's Tiergarten to hear him affirm that America has no better partner than Europe, and to talk of how allies must listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.And how unsettling to hear him talk also of the need for shared sacrifice, and to assert that The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban, and al Qaeda. The next American President, whether Democrat or Republican, will be politer to Europeans than the current incumbent; but he will also be more demanding – and harder to fob off.Seventy percent of Europe’s land forces simply cannot operate outside national territory (Photo: MONUC Photo/Romain Desclous)

For the EU's new French Presidency, with their priority of boosting l'Europe de la Defense, these noises off can only be encouraging. And they will need all the encouragement they can get. For the European defence enterprise, launched at the famous Franco-British summit at St Malo nearly ten years ago, has in truth made depressingly little progress. 20 EU crisis-management operations to date sounds like a lot. But three-quarters of them have involved deployment of policemen or legal experts, not troops; half have comprised less than 100 personnel; and four of the five main military interventions, in Macedonia, Congo (twice) and Bosnia, have ridden on the coat-tails of either UN or NATO peace-keepers.

Meanwhile, efforts to make Europe's militaries fit for purpose – the purpose in today's world being expeditionary, multinational operations, not stopping invaders at the national frontier – have been even less productive.The original vision of a 60,000-strong rapid reaction force has been quietly shelved, in favour of 1,500-man battlegroups. 70% of Europe's land forces simply cannot operate outside national territory. Europe's 10,000 main battle tanks would be fine for a re-run of the battle of Kursk, but are little use in Chad or Afghanistan. Figures such as these highlight the extent to which Europeans' combined annual defence spending in Europe of some 200 billion euros is simply money down the drain.

No need for increases in defence spending

From the decade of wasted opportunity, however, some important truths can be distilled. First, there is no need for (unattainable) increases in defence spending – the money just needs to be spent on the right things, like support helicopters.Second, Europeans have no choice but to pool their efforts and resources; even the UK and France have had to accept that increased mutual reliance is the only way either can hope to make their defence books balance.Third, points one and two are, for defence establishments, profoundly counter-cultural. They hate change (their rationale, after all, is to protect the status quo), and they hate depending on others. So both ditching those tanks, and cooperating with others on the next generation of combat radio, will require external pressure. Fourth, Europeans are a heterogeneous lot, and efforts to develop European defence need to recognise and accommodate this diversity.

A multi-speed Europe

This last point is especially relevant in the aftermath of the Irish No to the Lisbon Treaty. For some, this latest failure to get 27 runners and riders into the starting gates at the same time has only confirmed the need to accept a multi-speed Europe.Whether or not this is true for the future of the Union as a whole, there is no room for dispute in defence – multi-speed is the reality, and will remain so as long as 27 Member States reserve the right to set their own defence policies, and take their own decisions about sending their young men and women into danger (as of course they all do – despite the EuroArmy fantasy).So the model for European defence has to be variable geometry – some Member States pooling their efforts on defence research, others setting up joint air transport commands, and so on – each according to national interest and aptitude.This approach – the concept of the pioneer group – appears in the Lisbon Treaty in the provisions on permanent structured cooperation. But, with Lisbon in baulk for the foreseeable future, the principles should be introduced as far and as fast as possible into the existing practices and institutions of European defence – most obviously, into the workings of the European Defence Agency.

EU Operational Headquarters in Brussels

Beyond that, the Presidency's agenda looks to be much on the right lines. The chronic problems over mounting and running ESDP operations need urgent attention. There needs to be a better shared understanding of where and when European interests and values may require interventions – and a greater readiness to share the burden, both through cost-sharing and through more member states keeping more of the right kind of units on stand-by.It is high time, too, for the much-discussed European civilian reserve corps to become a reality. And the current improvisations for the planning and conduct of operations must be replaced by a proper EU Operational Headquarters in Brussels, in which military and civilian staffs are fully integrated.The EU's claim to be uniquely capable of blending hard and soft power in crisis management will remain hollow as long as civilian and military operations are quite separately handled at the strategic level of command, as is the case today.On capabilities – the tools to do the job – the effort to get Member States to focus on the real, as opposed to the convenient, deficiencies must be pursued. At long last specific action is underway to make more support helicopters available – it is time that equally urgent attention was given to rationalising the plethora of incompatible national communications systems that bedevil all operations. This is a top priority for NGOs operating in crisis areas, too.Mainly, though, the way forward has to be a hard slog to get Member States to pool their efforts and resources – all the way from the research laboratory, through equipment procurement programmes, to joint forces.The European Defence Agency was set up precisely to catalyse such co-operations – it makes no sense to cap its staff numbers at a mere 100. Heads of government need to lend a hand, and encourage defence establishments to do what does not come naturally to them by attaching strings to defence budgets – spend it jointly, or lose it.And the same goes for the defence industry – consolidation needs to be re-energised, especially in the land- and sea-systems sectors, by summit meetings of defence industrial chiefs and government ministers.

Such an agenda would be readily achievable, if only the British would join hands with the French in pushing it. But 2008 is not 1998; and the glad confident morning of the New Labour government has declined into an apprehensive evening.Time, then, to pay attention to the noises off – and to reflect that it is not just Europe's role in the world, or the security of Europe's citizens, that depend on a stronger European defence – it is also the health of the transatlantic security relationship. The author is Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and former Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency

The CARMEL ALERT July 25th 2008
A compilation of news reports from the past week for the information of those committed to praying
for Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people.


The Out of Zion Ministries team is expanding. We have added two Israel Messianic believers to the apostolic team, Dena Gewanter and Scott Baker. This week we are introducing Dena ....... Dena has written this weeks comment, which Josie & I believe has had revelation
as to why Israel seems to be always bowing down to our enemies fro more details www.out-of-zion.com/ofzemissaries.htm

Dena Gewanter was raised in the Northeast United States in a conservative Jewish family. Her grandparents emigrated from eastern Europe before World War ll, but there were still some who remained and lost their lives during the holocaust. After searching for spiritual enlightenment in many of the occult practices popular in the '60's, she had a miraculous encounter with Yeshua, and received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit at age 16, having had no previous knowledge or connection with the Christian faith. She never lost her identity as a Jew, and made Aliyah to Israel in 2005. She is a physician and has a grown son who lives in California. Her heart is to reach out to the Church and reveal the Biblical truths of God's purposes for Israel and the Jewish people, as well as His Divine plan to connect Jew and Gentile in these last days.

Guest Comment: Does Israel Suffer From Battered Woman Syndrome? by Dena Gewanter

Those of us who love Israel and believe that the covenant promises of God state that Israel belongs to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob find ourselves frustrated with the Israeli government's current policies. There were unprecedented public protests and an outpouring of disapproval from religious leaders around the world when the Gaza Strip was given over to the Palestinians in a land for peace deal. It is inconceivable that anyone today would say that this was anything but an unmitigated disaster. Prior to the disengagement, thousands of greenhouses in that small area produced massive quantities of flowers, fruits and vegetables for import and export, as well as employing thousands of Arab laborers to work in the maintenance and distribution of the produce. It was a small area, formerly desert land, that truly brought to life the scripture in Isaiah 27:6: In the days to come, Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit. The sheer tonnage of produce coming out of that small area of land was nothing short of miraculous.

Now, the Gaza strip has not only become a barren and polluted wasteland, it is the source of thousands of rockets that are sent into the southern borders of Israel, and is home to lawless terrorists who no t only have the destruction of the 'Zionist Entity' in their constitution, but are persecuting the remaining Christians and implementing Sharia Law. Even more distressing is that the 8,000 plus Jewish inhabitants who were expelled remain to this day without permanent housing and adequate compensation for their losses. They as a people group have been abandoned by this government; there have been divorces, suicides and teen violence among communities that previously were productive and happy members of Israeli society. As if this weren't a good lesson for the government to learn from, we now hear that Judea and Samaria (the 'West Bank') is to be handed over to a group of people who have the same plans for the destruction of Israel. This time, there will be over 250,000 more refugees, with no plan as to where they will live or how they will support themselves. When the government still hasn't fulfilled it's promises to the 8,000 refugees of Gaza, what makes anyone think it will be any different for the inhabitants of Judea and Samaria?

Anyone who gets emails that are pro-Israel have received the lists of all the academic, scientific and cultural accomplishments of the Jewish people over the centuries; over 80 Nobel prizes, major medical breakthroughs and the like. My question, as a member of the Jewish race is: If we are so smart, WHY ARE WE SO STUPID?? Everyone knows the adage that stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that giving away land to a people group committed to violence and destruction will only result in... violence and destruction! So, why is Israel again poised make the same horrific mistake?

During my training as a physician at Boston City Hospital, I worked with many poor and underprivileged people, and had a clinic for drug addicts and the homeless. I became accustomed to seeing women in the emergency room with lacerations and bruises that they could not explain, but had obviously been inflicted upon them by their partners. Astonishingly, these women would get their broken bones casted, their lacerations sutured, and then return home with the batterer!! It was always shocking for me to discover that generally, no amount of begging and pleading would separate these women from the violent men who injured them. After residency, it once took me over 6 years to convince a woman to leave her battering husband, and that was only after he threw their son down a flight of stairs, and then accused the son of attacking him!

I made a point of studying the psychological makeup of the women who allowed themselves to be battered and a lso of the men who did it. One day, after reading yet more depressing news about Gaza and the possible abandonment of Judea and Samaria, I realized with a shock that there was an uncanny similarity between the passive complicity of the battered woman and Israel, as well as an exact correlation with the psychological makeup of a batterer and the Palestinians who are actively trying to destroy the State of Israel. I believe that the Israeli public and many in the government exhibit this syndrome and that this explains why we are AGAIN discussing giving land away to a violent neighbor.

A battered woman has endured years and years of psychological abuse. She is always told that it is her fault she is battered because she never does what the man asks her to do. If she does do what he wants, there is invariably something else that she neglected to do that requires yet another beating to teach her a lesson. She is always isolated from family and friends who usually receive distorted information about her faults and deficiencies from the batterer. She has constant threats against her children, economic pressure and intimidation. The batterer convinces her that if she does what he wants, the violence will stop, and after years of intimidation, she believes him, even though he never does stop. Since she often can't get away, giving in is the only alternative. Often the community at large believes the man's version of why there are problems and ostracizes the woman if she blames the man. The violence escalates slowly so that people on the outside get accustomed to it. The fear that the violence will worsen if she does anything to defend herself, along with the fact that she has no societal support keeps her constantly trying to appease her batterer; she thinks if she does what
he wants, she will be able to live in peace and stop being battered. Battered women have learned helplessness, denial, guilt, false hope, unfounded optimism and plain and simple exhaustion. Does this sound eerily like Israel?

Let's now examine the attributes of a batterer. This is always a chronic group of offenders who continually deny they are violent and always blame their partners. They take no responsibility for their behavior and often exhibit no outward remorse for the pain and suffering they cause. They divide and conquer by running disinformation campaigns. They are always convinced that they are the victim, not the woman. They often placate and enlist as allies anyone who is aligned or associated with the woman, thus convincing them that he does not need to be monitored, and thereby giving him freedom to batter in secret. Sometimes they use violent anger to repel those w ho are trying to help and successfully scare them away. Constant intimidation also can wear down those who are trying to intervene, until eventually they give up. They are always discrediting and minimizing the veracity and seriousness of the complaints of the woman. They always deny that they have used the threat of hurting the children or removing financial security as a way to manipulate the woman, and make it look like it is her fault that he has to behave the way he does. If you are well informed of the crafty media campaign of the Palestinians, this is an accurate portrayal of how they present Israel and their position to the world.

In my opinion, the emotional makeup of many of the residents of Israel is that of a battered woman. We have been told that this Palestinian problem is our fault for so many years we are beginning to believe it. Israel has battle fatigue; we are just plain worn down by years of abuse; perhaps if we just give them what they want, they will leave us alone. We are tired of the negative world opinion. We are sick of having our children threatened and hurt; we'll do anything to achieve peace.

On the other side, the Palestinians successfully portray themselves as the victim; They wanted Gaza, they got it, but now all the problems there are Israel's fault! No one has any sense of outrage that they have become a welfare state of Israel; they have the world crying over their suffering. They bomb checkpoints, but then blame Israel for not sending in supplies through the very roads that are targeted by terrorists. The world wrings it's hands in sympathy over the plight of the Palestinians, but says nothing about the terror of the innocent people being bombarded day after day in Sderot. The continual escalation of violence has numbed the world to it's presence. The thousands of bombs raining down into sovereign Israeli territory doesn't even merit a news report! The Palestinians take no responsibility for any of the problems whatsoever, and keep asking for more and more aid and assistance, even though they have already received billions of dollars of aid, far more per capita than any other people group in the world! Who will speak the truth while the world believes these lies?

Dear friends, while everyone wants to think that the people of Israel are still those courageous warriors who fought successfully, with God's help, the battles of 1948 and 1967, we have become weakened in our resolve after years and years of being emotionally and physically battered! We desperately need to hear the voices and prayers of those who believe that this Land should remain a Jewish state rising up in our defense. Israel has been given the responsibility of fighting physically to defend our Biblical birthright. Please stand with us now not only in prayer, but also with letters and petitions to your leaders and politicians. Speak out when there are distorted newspaper and television reports about Israel. Be an ambassador for the truth in your neighborhood and workplace. Do not be lukewarm during this urgent time of Israel's need. Do not let the 'Accuser of the Brethren' succeed in his plan to divide and conquer this Land. (end)

The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist on the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray for that breakthrough to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for our son Jordan, and all of his fellow soldiers in the IDF.

Shabbat Shalom ... David & Josie

A MESSAGE OF HOPE FROM DR. JACK VAN IMPE AUG 1,08

In this newsletter we will deal with the subject: The Power of the Holy Spirit.

Believers are powerless and ineffective in their daily lives because they do not partake of the vast storehouse of power that is available to them in the person of the Holy Spirit. As a result, they depend upon personality traits and psychological manipulations rather than the power of God. They forget that God says in Zechariah 4:6: . . . Not by [human] might, nor by [human] power, but by my spirit . . . . Man, with all of his reliance on tricks, gimmicks, and manifold activities, could accomplish so much more if God, the Holy Spirit, originated, motivated, and activated the program. He alone supplies the power needed by powerless human beings. He alone is the match to ignite the fire, the fuel to propel the motor. A person cannot move without His assistance. Acts 1:8 states: . . . ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you . . . . Do you have this power? Or are you still serving God in the energy of the flesh? Just as there is a difference in cultivating a field with a shovel or with a tractor, so there is a mighty difference in one's service when empowered by the all-powerful Holy Spirit. May I also say that there is no power shortage in God's Spirit because:

The Holy Spirit is Omnipotent

The Holy Spirit manifested this power on numerous occasions:

A. At creation, this blessed Spirit was active because the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). Job 26:13 states: By his spirit [God] hath garnished the heavens . . . . Again, Psalm 104:30 declares that mankind, animals, birds of the air, fish of the sea and all other created objects came because thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created....

B. At the conception and birth of Christ, the Holy Spirit again displayed His power. The Bible teaches that Christ was an unembodied spirit in eternity past, for He was in the form of God (Philippians 2:6), and God is a Spirit (John 4:24). However, one of the members of the Trinity had to become embodied because God had decreed in the councils of eternity that the blood . . . maketh an atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11). Animal blood was only an inadequate temporary covering looking toward the planned, prepared, permanent sacrifice (I Peter 1:20). This eternal offering also had to be a sacrifice of blood. Man's blood was already poisoned through Adam's transgression (Romans 5:12). Therefore, since animal blood was inadequate and man's blood was tainted, the only solution was that a member of the Godhead should take a body containing blood. However, if this One were to come into the world through natural generation, the seed of a man deposited into the womb of a woman, the tainted blood would then be passed on to the newborn Christ. Thus God planned and prepared a body for His Son (Hebrews 10:5), which the Holy Spirit miraculously placed in the womb of the virgin, and the result was the incarnation -God in the flesh, with sinless blood. That is why I Peter 1:19 declares that we are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Perhaps this information may help some seeking soul see why the entire program of redemption and salvation stands or falls upon the foundation of the virgin birth. The blessed, all-powerful Holy Spirit was the agent in carrying out this miracle of the ages. The story is unfolded in Luke chapter one. The angel appears to Mary and says: . . . thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. Mary, in her astonished frame of mind, replies: How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? The word know in Scripture often refers to the sex act. For instance, Genesis 4:1 says: And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived . . . . So Mary is actually saying, How shall I have a child when I have never known a man intimately? The angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (verse 35). Oh, blessed be the wonder-working, omnipotent Holy Spirit who took the body and blood prepared by the Father and placed the Christ - the sent One - into the womb of the pure virgin.

C. Again, notice the power of the Holy Spirit in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. First Peter 3:18 declares: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened [made alive] by the Spirit. Romans 8:11 also states: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

We have thus far witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit in the work of creation, incarnation, and resurrection. We have discussed the unlimited power of the Holy Spirit for one primary reason: to show every child of God that this power is available in each believer's life.

Holy Spirit Power for Believers

. . . ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you . . . (Acts 1:8). This power is released in a Christian as the indwelling Holy Spirit is allowed to take full control. Do not misunderstand - every saved person has this Holy Spirit indwelling him . . . [we] have been all made to drink into one Spirit (I Corinthians 12:13). All means ALL. In fact, it is correct to say that it is impossible to be a child of God if one does not have the Holy Spirit, for if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:9). Romans 5:5 says: . . . the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Who? A select few? No! . . . the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal (I Corinthians 12:7). One cannot have the manifestation of the Spirit without having Him, and this manifestation is given to every man who says: Jesus is the Lord (verse 3).

While it is true that every believer has the Holy Spirit (and has all of Him, for He does not enter in percentage portions), this does not guarantee that He has all of us. Therefore, subsequent to salvation, every believer needs the filling of the Spirit (also see Chapter 4). Ephesians 5:18,19 says:. . . be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. One evidence of the filling, then, is a heart overflowing with spiritual songs.

Another evidence is Holy Spirit power for witnessing . . . ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: [the result:] and ye shall be witnesses unto me. . . (Acts 1:8). Seek the power the apostles had to witness as they bore ridicule, hatred, persecution, and death for the Lord Jesus Christ. May I go one step further? I care not what you call your experience with the Holy Spirit. However, do not pray for the fulness of the Holy Ghost unless you are willing to become hated and even slaughtered for the name of Jesus. This is where the power of the Holy Spirit usually leads the sold out, dedicated, Spirit-filled Christian. Let's look at the Book of Acts for a moment and see.

Peter, after being filled with the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:4 (not baptized, which takes place at salvation, but filled, which is subsequent to salvation), becomes a power-laden giant for God. Earlier in his life - in fact, only 7 weeks earlier - he sat by a fire denying the Lord (Matthew 26). At that point in his life, he was a powerless witness. After he allowed the Holy Spirit to take full control and possession of his body, he became a one-man army for the Saviour. Please notice that the texts to be quoted mention boldness and power as the results of the filling of the Spirit. These two attributes, which the indwelling Spirit generates in the believer when He is allowed to have control, cannot be easily duplicated in the flesh. Boldness and power in the face of persecution and death can only be produced by the blessed Spirit of God.

The Boldness of Peter

First, let's consider the boldness of the Apostle Peter. Acts 4 states: Then Peter, filled [filled - not baptized, but filled] with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel . . . Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This [Christ] is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (verses 8, 10-12). Verse 13 states that these people saw the BOLDNESS of Peter and John. Imagine the high priest and his relatives and a great multitude of those who had put Christ to death gathered together as Peter denounces their sin publicly and declares that this Christ they killed is the only way of salvation! It takes Holy Spirit boldness to be uncompromising.

Are you seeking the fulness of the Holy Ghost for the same reason or because it is the popular thing to do?

This same crowd hated Peter's message and threatened Peter and John in verses 18-20: And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. That is boldness, my brother! Did they quit? No! Acts 4:33 states: . . . with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. In Acts 5:40-42 they are beaten for the sweet name of Jesus and guess what?. . . they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. Did it stop them? And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. The only thing that stopped these Spirit-filled warriors was death. Beloved, to be filled with the Spirit is to die daily (Luke 9:23).

The Power of Paul

In Acts 9:17, Paul, too, was filled with the Spirit -not baptized, but filled. He was baptized by the Spirit at salvation, as all believers are (I Corinthians 12:13), and then filled as all believers should be (Ephesians 5:18). This filling prepared him for the Lord's plan: . . . I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake (Acts 9:16). Has anyone ever suffered as much as Jesus or Paul? This battle-scarred apostle enumerates his sufferings in II Corinthians 11:23-27: . . . in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Why was he so hated? Because. . . he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God (Acts 19:8); because his preaching caused an uproar in the city (Acts 20:1); and because he called sin and sinners by name. In Acts 13:9,10 we see Paul filled - get the exact word -filled with the Spirit, setting his eyes on Elymas the sorcerer and saying: . . . thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? A Holy Spirit-filled life denounces sin in an uncompromising way. It also often brings death because they beheaded Saint Paul. Stephen also experienced the same in Acts 7:55 when he, being full of the Holy Ghost, BOLDLY exposed sin PUBLICLY and was murdered.

Friend, do you want to be filled with the Spirit? Think twice before asking Him to take full control of your life. It may cost you everything you have. However, it will be worth it all when we see Jesus. He said in Matthew 5:10-12: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

FROM THE HEART OF DR. REXELLA VAN IMPE

Listen to the Birds

My husband, Jack, and I have a special fondness for birds. We enjoy seeing them fly, darting from tree to tree, soaring and wheeling about, riding the wind in joyous freedom.

And it's fun to watch them splash in a puddle or pool of water, bathing themselves and carefully preening their feathers.

We have two feeders and a drinking bowl in our backyard, and the birds have discovered this safe haven. Besides sparrows, cardinals, robins, blackbirds, and other small songbirds, we've seen crows, doves, mallard ducks, and even Canadian Geese in our yard. Sometimes there will be several different kinds of birds there all at the same time.

Jack and I love to watch them-and so does Finica, our cat. She sits by the sliding glass door and stares out at the birds. She gets so intense that her whiskers twitch! Now and then, a bird will land on the patio near the door, and Finica's eyes get so big. But we don't let her out for fear that her natural feline instincts might overpower her usually friendly disposition.

I especially enjoy listening to the birds. More than any other creature, it seems to me they have learned to serve the Lord with gladness: [and] come before his presence with singing (Psalm 100:2).

When God created the fowl of the air on the fifth day of creation, He gave them a song. And virtually all types of birds make some kind of joyful noise-it seems like they're always praising the Lord. I've seen them after a winter snowstorm, sitting on top of the feeders, thankfully chirping and singing because the food is there.

Jesus once referred to the sparrows, which many consider an ordinary little bird with no apparent value. But He, who values all His creatures, said not one of them falls to the ground without God noticing (see Matthew 10:29).

Luke records what the Lord said about the common crow. Consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? (Luke 12:24).

Watching the birds and remembering what God has said about them has really been a blessing to Jack and me.

Lessons from the birds

There is much we can learn from our fine feathered friends. The Bible is filled with references to birds as symbols of what we humans ought to be or can do with God's help.

On the top of the pole where our American flag flies there often is the image of an eagle, symbol of strength and majesty. The Bible tells us that if we wait upon the Lord, He will give us strength to overcome every difficulty and to mount up on wings, as the eagle (see Isaiah 40:31).

Genesis 8 tells us that when the ark landed on solid ground after the great flood, Noah sent out a dove to see if the land was habitable. The dove found no place to light and returned to the ark. A week later, Noah sent the dove out again and it returned in the evening with an olive branch in its beak. So Noah knew it would soon be safe to go out into the unknown.

Of course, it is no accident that the dove is symbolic of the Holy Spirit who wings His way over the abyss of man's sinful past, bridged by the sacrificial ark of the cross of Christ, and leads all who will follow step by step into the Father's new beginning.

God used a common barnyard rooster to deal with the heart of Peter during the last days of Jesus' life. After Peter had boasted that he would stay close to the Lord no matter what happened or who turned against Him, Jesus told Peter that he would deny Him before the cock crowed the next morning.

The gospels tell the awful story of how Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane, then taken before Caiaphas the high priest to be sentenced to death. Warming himself by the fire at the edge of the angry mob, Peter was asked once, twice, three times if he knew or was a companion to this Jesus.

Once, twice, three times - with oaths - Peter denied knowing the Lord! And at that darkest hour, just before the dawn, a rooster crowed! Instantly Peter remembered his prideful boast and Jesus' prophetic words... and he wept bitterly.

Of course, we know Peter repented and went on to become a leader in proclaiming the message of Christ's death and Resurrection all across the known world.

Being fed by the birds

You may remember the story of how God used birds to answer the prayers of the Children of Israel. After wandering in the wilderness for many years and being fed on manna, the people cried out for meat. God caused coveys of quail to come near their camp until there was plenty to feed all the people.

The Old Testament tells of the Prophet Elijah being sent into the wilderness to wait beside the brook Cherith. Twice a day the Lord sent ravens to deliver his food. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening (1 Kings 17:6).

Imagine depending on crows to deliver your breakfast and supper! I'm not sure I'd want to trust them with my food. But Elijah did...and he never went hungry.

Are birds good parents?

I'm certainly not an ornithological expert, but I've been impressed about the strong parental instinct birds seem to have. It's fascinating to watch them building a nest, gathering twigs, straw, string, and grass to fashion a fragile but sturdy place to lay their eggs.

In some species, both father and mother bird take turns sitting on the nest, keeping the eggs safe and warm. And once the little ones come out of the eggs, the parents feed the babies until they grow large enough to fly.

I've seen mother birds fiercely attack other birds, even animals, which prowled too close to their nest. In many instances, the mother seems willing to give her own life to protect her young.

During the time the baby birds are being incubated, then fed and cared for until they can fly away, nothing is more important to the mother bird. Her babies are the center of her life and the sole reason for her existence.

In our day, necessity sometimes forces both parents to work outside the home. Still, I can't help feeling there are lessons both fathers and mothers can learn about parenting from the example of the birds. Most of all, we must understand how precious the lives of our children really are, worth any sacrifice to protect and nurture in the fear and admonition of God.

Once for a lifetime

I'm impressed with the instinct of birds to be good, faithful partners. I've heard that some species, including the turtle dove, mate once for a lifetime. Once a male and female come together, they stay with their mate and remain faithful to each other until separated by death.

Oh, that these beautiful creatures could teach the men and women of America the lessons of fidelity and faithfulness. In a society where there are more divorces being granted than new marriages performed, surely we need to turn again to the example of these beautiful creatures for instruction in living as God intended.

Listen, my friend, to the voices of the little birds, and hear God speaking to you today. Observe the life-style and the joy of these beautiful creatures and learn anew of God's plan for your life.

Satellite telemissions

Ecclesiastes 10:20 says, For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Did you know that, in the TV communications industry, the slang term for an orbiting communications satellite is... a bird! We'll beam this up to the bird, they say, and let it relay the signal to the other side of the world!

So the words of Solomon have become another fulfilled prophecy! For today a bird does indeed carry the voice of the gospel, and that which hath wings is proclaiming the matter of God's Word to the ends of the earth.

What an exciting day in which to be alive! And what a thrill it is for Jack and me to be partners with you in helping to carry out Christ's Great Commission to evangelize our world in this generation.

Shalom Stan, Ultra-Orthodox Jew walked into the house of an Israeli Evangelist: AUG 1,08 MESSIANIC BIBLE PROJECT

I first met him on the corner near my house in Ramot, Jerusalem, as I was coming back from the post office. The following week, Moshe knocked on my door and after I opened the door and invited him in, he turned around to make sure that no one was watching as he entered my house. I shared with him for a couple of hours reading to him from the Prophets in the Tanakh (Old Testament) and then he wanted me to read to him from the New Testament. He then asked for prayer, so I prayed for him in the Name of Yeshua! I find that the ultra-Orthodox who are open to the Gospel are more interested than secular Israelis because they know the Scriptures. Unfortunately they rarely read the teachings of the Prophets and that’s where Yeshua is revealed. But hey, that’s what we are here to do – share what the Prophets foretold about Yeshua, and show them how He fulfilled all of these prophecies. It is very important that the Prophecy Bible is finished so that we can give them out here to all the people in Israel.Reaching young Israelis: Svidka one of our outreach workers, is involved with the youth in the North of Israel. The number of young Israelis coming to the Lord is growing, he said. It’s lovely to see them ministering to one another, they are growing in the Lord as we teach them the Word of God. Today, things are very different; they are bold in sharing the Gospel with other teenagers. They know that their friends in school need to hear the truth and find true life. Helping the poor in Israel: This month we distributed funds to new immigrants in Haifa, Israel. One mother with her four small children aged three months to six years was overjoyed to receive financial aid and blessings in the name of Yeshua.

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