KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
PSALS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) 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.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Abbas: We're Not Making Any Concessions
PA Chairman indicates that he is willing to resume negotiations with Israel - but not give up on even one of his preconditions.By Dalit Halevi & Elad Benari-First Publish: 7/8/2013, 4:43 AM-INN
Mahmoud Abbas-AFP photo
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who
is often touted by the West as a “moderate peace partner”, has once
again indicated that he is willing to resume negotiations with Israel - but not give up on even one of his never-ending preconditions.In an interview with the pan-Arab Al-Hayat
newspaper which was published on Saturday, Abbas expressed hope that
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been pushing the sides to
return to the negotiating table, will make another visit to the region
soon.The negotiations, he stressed, will be a starting
point, and “while we may not get everything, we will fight to realize
our national aspirations, especially the issue of Al-Quds (the Arab name
for Jerusalem), which is an issue on which we will not give up, because
if it is not the capital of the State of Palestine, there will be no
solution.”Abbas rejected the claims that the Palestinian Authority has made any concessions to Kerry.
"Show me one concession we made," he said, adding,
"When we present the demand for a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, it
is not a condition. This issue appears in all the UN documents.""We consider any settlement after 1967 illegal
based on 13 Security Council resolutions condemning settlement, and
which consider it illegal,” declared Abbas. “In addition, U.S. President
Barack Obama opposed the settlements and even any natural growth in
them."Abbas has insisted that Israel recognize the 1949
Armistice Line as a designated border for any future PA state. Israel
refuses, as the pre-1967 borders are indefensible and withdrawing back
to these borders would guarantee its destruction.The demand that Israel recognize these indefensible
borders as a designated border for a Palestinian state is just one in a
long line of preconditions that Abbas has imposed on negotiations. He
has also demanded
that Israel release terrorists jailed before the 1993 Oslo Accords and that it freeze all Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
In the
Al-Hayat interview, Abbas voiced
unequivocal opposition to any armed struggle against Israel, saying, "I
will not wave the flag of an (armed struggle) and destroy my country as a
result. I will not have a missile will be fired from our territory so
that the (Israelis) will react and destroy our territory. We tried it in
the second intifada, which led to destruction, and in 2007 and 2009,
and the result was that Egypt sponsored a peaceful agreement between
Hamas and Israel, which sees armed operations as hostilities. Our way is
the way of a popular resistance in peaceful ways.”Abbas expressed his opposition to one state in
“Palestine”, saying that "We do not see an alternative to the concept of
the two-state solution.”According to Abbas, PA Arabs as well as Arabs from
other countries are not doing enough to talk with the American Jewish
leadership and introduce their positions. These leaders, he claimed, are
exposed only to the positions of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.Last week, Abbas said that Kerry had made "useful and constructive proposals" during recent
his four-day visit and added that
he was "optimistic" about the outcome.
"Kerry made useful and constructive proposals and
we are not saying they were bad, but they need further clarification and
explanation before we can return to negotiations," Abbas said.The optimism displayed by Abbas was not reflected on the ground, with a new Israel-PA survey
showing most people held little hope the talks would result in a
resumption of direct talks after a hiatus of nearly three years.According to a poll jointly conducted by the Harry
S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Jerusalem's
Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, just over a quarter of PA Arabs -- 27 percent -- and only one in 10 Israelis, believe that talks will resume and violence will end.Just over two thirds of both peoples -- 68 percent
of Israelis and 69 percent of PA Arabs -- view the likelihood of a
Palestinian state emerging in the next five years as low or non-existent.
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).
Dengue outbreak strikes 1,800 in Philippine province
AFP News – Sat, Jul 6, 2013
Dengue fever has surged in the central Philippines,
infecting more than 1,800 people and killing at least ten, a provincial
official said Saturday.The number of people struck down by the mosquito-borne disease in the
central province of Iloilo this year is already 71 percent higher than
the same period last year, provincial administrator Raul Banias told
AFP.He added dengue fatalities in the first half of 2013 were already equal to the total deaths for the whole of 2012.The latest outbreak in the province, located around 400 kilometres
(249 miles) south of Manila, has caused particular alarm because it
began before the rainy season's start in June, when mosquitoes are less
plentiful, he said.He added that the outbreak may be a sign of the changing behaviour of
mosquitoes and a result of people storing water improperly.Dengue is spread by mosquitoes that breed in stagnant water and usually bite people during daytime."But the behaviour of the mosquitoes has changed. They are no longer
biting only during the day. Even at night, they are biting," he said.Additionally many of the 1.6 million people living in the
largely-rural province still stockpile water in their homes due to lack
of proper plumbing, making it easier for the mosquitoes to breed.Provincial health workers are now being deployed to the hardest-hit
areas to inspect homes, searching for any water container where the
mosquitoes might breed, Banias said.Residents are also being advised to keep their water containers
covered while victims are being given free treatment in government
hospitals, he said.Dengue fever is a recurring problem in the Philippines but while the
number of incidents this year is slightly lower nationwide, it has been
spiking in certain areas such as Iloilo.
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
35 Reported Killed in Brotherhood Clash with Army
Morsi supporters said up to 34 of their members were killed. Military says one officer died. Not clear who attacked whom.By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 7/8/2013, 9:15 AM-Israelnationalnews
Muslim Brotherhood supporters protest in front of the High Court in Cairo-AFP photo
Up to 35 people, most of then Muslim
Brotherhood supporters, may have been killed in a confrontation between
the Brotherhood and the Egyptian military. It is not clear who attacked
whom.Initial reports describe an attack by members of the Muslim
Brotherhood against a Republican Guard facility in Cairo, but the
Brotherhood says the soldiers opened fire on unarmed people without
being provoked.The Egyptian military said one of their
officers
was killed and 40 more wounded in the shooting when a "terrorist group"
tried to storm the army base at dawn, state TV reported.However, according to
Sky News, a spokesman for the
Brotherhood said its members were unarmed and were fired upon while
praying outside the building and up to 34 of their members were killed.
Medical sources said they were aware of at least 16 dead.The spokesman said that the Islamists staged a sit-in outside the Republican Guard
barracks where deposed president Mohamed Morsi is being held.
“An Egyptian news channel broadcast footage of what appeared to be five men killed in the violence, and medics
applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation to an unconscious man at a makeshift clinic at the sit-in,” reported
Sky News.
Muslim Brotherhood Calls for Uprising Following Egypt 'Massacre'
Salafist Al Nour party pulls out of talks to appoint interim PM, as Egypt's political crisis takes a turn for the worse.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 7/8/2013, 12:28 PM-Israelnationalnews
Burnt pick-up truck during clashes between protesters and riot police in Cairo
AFP/Khaled Desouki
At least 40 people were killed Monday in
clashes outside a military building in Cairo, where supporters of
ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi were holding a sit-in against
what they are describing as an "illegal coup", according to an Egyptian
health ministry official.Precisely
what happened in the run-up to what Morsi's supporters are already
calling a "massacre" is unclear, but what is known is that Egyptian
soldiers opened fire on the crowd, made up largely of Muslim Brotherhood
members, causing large scale carnage.Both the Brotherhood and the Egyptian health ministry said at least
40 people had been killed, including an army officer. Some 300 people
were reported to be wounded.Egyptian television showed casualties being taken to a makeshift
hospital in the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, where Brotherhood activists
have been based.
The Muslim Brotherhood said the army had raided its sit-in at about 4:00 a.m., as protesters were in the middle of dawn prayers."The protesters were taken unawares and the troops used live
ammunition, bird shot and tear gas," protester Alaa el-Hadidi told the
BBC.Another protester, Mahmud al-Shilli, told the
AFP news agency that troops had used tear gas but that a group of men in civilian clothing had then opened fire.
"The thugs came from the side. We were the target," he told
AFP.The Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood's political wing,
called on Egyptians to stage an "uprising" in response to the incident,
against "those trying to steal their revolution with tanks".
Al-Jazeera showed footage of at least six dead bodies laid
out on the ground, some with severe wounds. A medic from the area,
Hesham Agami, said ambulances were prevented from taking the wounded to
hospitals because the military had blocked off the roads.A Salafist party, Al-Nour, said Monday it had withdrawn from talks on
the formation of a new cabinet following the killing of the Morsi
supporters.“We have decided to withdraw immediately from all negotiations in
response to the massacre outside the Republican Guard” headquarters,
Al-Nour spokesman Nadder Bakkar said on Twitter.The spokesman told
Al Arabiya that a committee must be formed to inquire into Monday’s incident.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
- 4.8 30km SW of Hastings, New Zealand 2013-07-07 17:58:47 UTC-04:00 43.8 km
- 2.8 72km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska 2013-07-07 16:52:12 UTC-04:00 49.2 km
- 6.6 29km NE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea 2013-07-07 16:30:07 UTC-04:00 62.0 km
- 5.4 57km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska 2013-07-07 16:18:03 UTC-04:00 43.9 km
- 2.5 26km W of Glennallen, Alaska 2013-07-07 15:07:35 UTC-04:00 30.2 km
- 7.2 110km ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2013-07-07 14:35:30 UTC-04:00 378.8 km
- 4.6 122km W of El Aguilar, Argentina 2013-07-07 11:00:22 UTC-04:00 234.2 km
- 4.7 50km W of Barberton, South Africa 2013-07-07 10:52:14 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
- 4.5 31km SE of Belen, Argentina 2013-07-07 10:39:19 UTC-04:00 159.6 km
- 4.4 56km NW of Ewirgol, China 2013-07-07 09:53:01 UTC-04:00 29.4 km
- 4.0 20km S of Khuzdar, Pakistan 2013-07-07 09:02:24 UTC-04:00 36.4 km
- 4.3 84km SSE of Kuril'sk, Russia 2013-07-07 05:48:42 UTC-04:00 51.1 km
- 3.5 54km S of Fredonia, Arizona 2013-07-07 04:38:59 UTC-04:00 5.2 km
- 2.7 18km ESE of Anza, California
Officials: Sinai Desert not Safe for Israelis
National Anti-Terror Unit issues stern travel warning to Israelis urges those already there to return home asap.By David Lev-First Publish: 7/7/2013, 10:17 PM-Israelnationalnews
Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula-AFP photo
The National Anti-Terror Unit on Sunday issued a travel warning for
Sinai, and warned Israelis still there to come home immediately. “Given
the deteriorating security situation in Sinai, which includes numerous
violent clashes between groups, along with intelligence we have received
about possible terror attacks,” the warning strongly suggests that
Israelis avoid Sinai altogether, including the popular resort of Taba on
the border near Eilat.With the deposing by the Egyptian army of Mohammed Morsi and the
arrests of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders, many of the Brotherhood have
been clearing out of large cities and taking refuge in remote areas,
like Sinai. Over the weekend, angry riots broke out in El Arish between
pro- and anti-Morsi groups, and on Saturday night the Egyptian army
announced that it was moving troops and tanks into Sinai in order to
root out Brotherhood and pro-Morsi groups.In addition to the unrest in Sinai, the Anti-Terror Unit said that it
had been made aware of terror attacks that groups were seeking to
execute against Israelis. “Israelis are likely to be targeted in the
coming days, with terror groups seeking to kidnap them” for ransom or
political purposes.The Unit “strongly warns against traveling to Sinai, and strongly
suggest that those already there return home immediately,” it said in a
statement.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)
ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) 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,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
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.
Tisha B'Av: "When will the Mourning Stop?"
Temple Institute video seeks to reframe the traditional Jewish day of mourning over the loss of the Two Temples in Jerusalem.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 7/8/2013, 2:16 AM
Temple Institute-Temple Institute.org
For millions
of Jews across the world, Tish'a B'Av (the 9th Day of the Hebrew month
of Av) is a day of sadness, mourning and reflection over the destruction
of the ancient Jewish Temples, which stood on the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem.The day is
traditionally marked by fasting, prayer and reciting the book of Eicha,
also known as Lamentations, which recounts the destruction of the First
Temple (Beit Hamikdash in Hebrew) by the Babylonians some two and a half
thousand years ago. The Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE by
Imperial Rome on the same day in the Hebrew calendar.Both events
were accompanied by widescale massacres of the city's Jewish
inhabitants, and spelled the end of Jewish sovereignty in the land of
Israel - in the latter case for nearly 2,000 years, until the
establishment of the modern State of Israel. The day is also used to
commemorate various major tragedies which occurred during the Galut, or
Exile, of the Jewish nation from its land.One group,
however, feels that many Jews have missed the point, and is trying to
restore a collective focus on "the true meaning of Tish'a B'Av."The Temple
Institute is an organization, based in Jerusalem's Old City, which seeks
to educate the Jewish and wider public on the history and essence of
the Temple. Its International Department, headed by Rabbi Chaim Richman,
"provides direct access to the world of the Holy Temple" through
educational programs, publications and online lectures.In
preparation for Tish'a B'Av, the Institute has released a video,
entitled "The Children are Ready II". The video follows a similar
campaign last year, when the Temple Institute's viral video reached an
audience of over 1 million viewers.Now, the Temple Institute has released a sequel which will begin a new genre of Jewish world videos.The Children
are Ready II depicts an emotional journey that begins in a synagogue
during the traditional mourning and lamentations of the 9th of Av and
ends with a dramatic twist in which the next generation demonstrates
their willingness for change and an end to the mourning. The two and a
half minute video is likely to emotionally shake up Jewish communities
worldwide by reframing the holiday, focusing away from the past and
towards the future.Last year,
The Children are Ready inadvertently outraged the Arab world with the
Egyptian government releasing a formal complaint and rebuttal videos
made by Hamas and other Islamist organizations. The uproar was raised by
a coincidental scene in which a newspaper that featured an article on
Mohammed Morsi's election fell on the ground."The Temple
Institute wants people to focus on the true meaning of Tisha B'Av," said
Rabbi Chaim Richman, international director of the Temple Institute.
"Tisha B'Av is not about just mourning, it is about contemplating a
world devoid of the Holy Temple, a house of peace and prayer for all
nations, and it's about asking: when will the mourning stop?" he added.Through its
educational programs, publications and multimedia lectures online, the
Temple Institute's International Department provides direct access to
the world of the Holy Temple. The International Department is headed by
Rabbi Chaim Richman, a Torah scholar and world renowned expert on the
Holy Temple and its significance to mankind. The Temple Institute's
English website is the largest online educational resource dealing with
The Holy Temple.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) 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.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
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.
By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Perry-JULY 7,13
CAIRO (Reuters) -
Hundreds of thousands of supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian
President Mohamed Mursi gathered in Cairo and Alexandria on Sunday, two
days after similar gatherings led to nationwide clashes that claimed
more than 30 lives.The huge rallies, which began to thin out
towards midnight, have been largely peaceful, but a military-backed plan
to resolve the political crisis remained bogged down by infighting over
who should be interim prime minister.Protesters opposed to
Mursi crammed into Cairo's Tahrir Square and at the presidential palace
in a festive atmosphere. Unlike Friday there were no running street
battles with Mursi's supporters, despite a much bigger turnout.Those who backed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement concentrated
in large numbers outside a mosque in the northeast of the city, and
outside the Republican Guard barracks where Mursi was being held and
three people were killed on Friday."We will not leave until Mursi returns. Otherwise we'll die as
martyrs," said 55-year-old Hanim Ahmad Ali Al-Sawi, wearing a veil over
her face in the searing sun, as soldiers and policemen looked on from
behind barbed wire. She had been there with her five children for the
last three days.Mursi was toppled on Wednesday in a takeover the
military denied was a coup. The army said it stepped in to enforce the
will of millions of Egyptians who rallied on June 30 demanding his
resignation.But while Mursi's ouster was met with scenes of
jubilation, it angered Islamists who held protests on Friday in which
some 1,400 people were wounded in addition to those killed.
NEED FOR POLITICAL PROGRESS
In Alexandria, where 14 people died on Friday, clashes broke out again, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.The violence across the Arab world's most populous state saw rival
factions fighting, throwing rocks and clashing with soldiers amid
sporadic gunfire in Cairo and others cities.Egypt's allies in
the West, including main aid donors the United States and the European
Union, and in Israel, with which Egypt has had a U.S.-backed peace
treaty since 1979, have looked on with increasing alarm.The
chaos underlined the pressing need for a swift and inclusive political
solution. Liberals and conservatives disputed on Sunday over the choice
of interim prime minister.The transitional authorities had been
set to appoint liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei, a favorite of young
anti-Mursi protest leaders, before his candidacy was scuppered on
Saturday when the hardline Islamist Nour Party objected.On
Sunday, the administration said the Oxford-educated lawyer, Social
Democrat Ziad Bahaa el-Din, was its most likely choice, with ElBaradei
as deputy president. But again Nour said no, raising fears of a
prolonged deadlock."Both are from the same party, the National Salvation Front. This is
rejected," Nour Party's leader Younes Makhyoun told Reuters.Nour, the Brotherhood's rival for the Islamist vote, had agreed to the
army-backed transition plan leading to new elections. Its withdrawal
from the process would strip that plan of Islamist legitimacy.
HUGE CROWDS
As darkness fell in Cairo, anti-Mursi demonstrators packed Tahrir
Square, the cradle of the movement to unseat him, which holds some
350,000, and spilled out into adjoining streets.A troupe of folk musicians played darabukka drums and mizmar flutes in a celebratory atmosphere.There were loud cheers when military jets left trails in the sky that
formed the shape of a heart above the square. The military has staged
frequent flyovers in the last three days to underscore their authority.Mohamed Manndouh, a 21-year-old business studies student, reflected the
mood among many who backed military intervention. "I came out to
protest today because we reject the terror of the Brotherhood," he said
near Tahrir Square.Tens of thousands of men, women and children
gathered at a Brotherhood sit-in near the mosque, where some have braved
the heat since Wednesday.For many Islamists, the overthrow of
Egypt's first freely elected president was a bitter reversal that raised
fears of a return to the suppression they endured for decades under
autocratic rulers like Hosni Mubarak, himself toppled in the 2011 Arab
Spring uprisings.The Brotherhood has said it wants nothing to do
with the military's plans for a new interim government. It wants Mursi
reinstated and has pledged to keep protesting until he is.The military has shown no sign of moving to dislodge the Islamists and
may be hoping that sweltering summer heat and the onset of the Ramadan
Muslim fasting month from Tuesday will gradually wear them down.State media reported that the public prosecutor had ordered four top
Brotherhood leaders arrested this week to be detained for a further 15
days on accusations of inciting violence against protesters.Authorities have sealed the burned-out national headquarters of the
Brotherhood, and the offices of its political arm, the Freedom and
Justice Party, as part of the investigation.
U.S. LAWMAKERS EXPECT CONTINUED SUPPORT
Washington has not condemned the military takeover or called it a coup,
prompting suspicion within the Brotherhood that it tacitly supports the
overthrow.bama has ordered a review to determine whether annual U.S. assistance
of $1.5 billion, most of which goes to the Egyptian military, should be
cut off as required by law if a country's military ousts a
democratically elected leader.But U.S. lawmakers said that was unlikely to happen."We should continue to support the military, the one stabilizing force
in Egypt that I think can temper down the political feuding," U.S.
Representative Mike Rogers said on CNN's "State of the Union".
Egypt can ill afford to lose foreign aid. The country appears headed for
a looming funding crunch unless it can quickly access money from
overseas. The local currency has lost 11 percent of its value since late
last year.The governor of Egypt's central bank, Hisham Ramez,
flew to Abu Dhabi on Sunday, officials at Cairo airport said, following
Egyptian media reports Cairo was seeking financial aid from Gulf states
after Mursi's removal.Egypt's foreign reserves fell $1.12 billion in June to $14.92 billion, representing less than three months of imports.Only about half are in the form of cash or in securities that can
easily be spent, and the IMF considers three months to be the minimum
safe cushion for reserves.(Additional reporting by Asma
Alsharif, Mike Collett-White, Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Tom Finn,
Sarah McFarlane, Tom Perry, Yasmine Saleh, Paul Taylor and Patrick Werr
in Cairo and Steve Holland and Patrick Temple-West in Washington;
Writing by Mike Collett-White; editing by Ralph Boulton)
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The new president of the opposition
Syrian National Coalition said on Sunday he expected advanced weapons
supplied by Saudi Arabia to reach rebel fighters soon and change their
military situation, which he described as weak.Ahmad Jarba, who has close links to Saudi Arabia, told Reuters in
the first interview since he was elected president of the coalition on
Saturday that the opposition will not go to a proposed U.S.- and
Russian-sponsored peace conference in Geneva unless its military
position becomes strong."Geneva in these circumstances is not possible. If we are going to
go to Geneva we have to be strong on the ground, unlike the situation
now, which is weak. We cannot go to Geneva unless we are strong," Jarba
said after returning from the northern Syrian province of Idlib, where
he met commanders of rebel brigades in the rugged Jabal al-Zawiya
region.Asked if shoulder-fired weapons that could blunt Assad's massive
advantage in armor would reach the rebels after Saudi Arabia took a lead
role in supporting the opposition in recent weeks, Jarba said: "We are
pushing in this direction.""I think the situation is better than before. I think these weapons will arrive to Syria soon," he said."My priority to secure two-tier support for the Syrian people:
military and humanitarian. We are working qualitative and medium and
other weapons to reach the Free Syrian army and the liberated areas."Jarba offered Assad's forces a truce for the duration of the holy
month of Ramadan to stop fighting in the besieged city of Homs, where
rebels face a ferocious ground and air onslaught by Hezbollah-backed
troops and militias loyal to Assad.Jarba was speaking in Istanbul where he had been elected president of the Syrian National Coalition at a meeting this weekend.(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Editing by Ralph Boulton)
Rail company in Quebec explosion says brakes may have been released
Reuters – 2 hours 15 minutes ago-JULY 7,13
(Reuters) - The operator of a train that rolled
downhill and careened into a Quebec town, causing a deadly explosion,
said on Sunday that the air brakes used to hold the locomotive in place
may have been released after the train was parked.The train had been hauling crude oil from North Dakota to eastern
Canada, and was sitting parked, without a driver, outside town when it
began to roll downhill, gathered speed and derailed on a curve at 1 a.m.
(0500 GMT) on Saturday.The statement from Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway did not
make clear how the brakes had been disengaged, or who could be
responsible."One fact that has emerged is the locomotive of the (parked) oil
train ... was shut down subsequent to the departure of the engineer who
had handled the train from Farnham, which may have resulted in the
release of air brakes on the locomotive that was holding the train in
place," the company statement said.Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, a small operator with some
500 miles of tracks in New England and eastern Canada, had said an
engineer had correctly secured the train for the night.Five people died and 40 are missing after the train, which was
carrying crude oil, hurtled into the center of Lac-Megantic, jumped the
tracks and exploded.Montreal Maine & Atlantic said it had not been able to complete
its own investigation while the Canadian government was probing the
cause of the blast. It said a dozen company officials are in
Lac-Megantic.(Reporting by Janet Guttsman; Editing by Stacey Joyce)
07/ 8/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Pope on Lampedusa: “No one mourns the dead who are our brothers"
Francis in Lampedusa
In his homily at Mass celebrated with the residents of Lampedusa
and the immigrants who have sought refuge there, Pope Francis spoke out
against the “globalization of indifference”
Vatican Insider Staff
Rome
Immigrants who died at sea, from that boat that, instead of being a
way of hope was a way of death. This is the headline in the papers!
When, a few weeks ago, I heard the news – which unfortunately has been
repeated so many time – the thought always returns as a thorn in the
heart that brings suffering. And then I felt that I ought to come here
today to pray, to make a gesture of closeness, but also to reawaken our
consciences so that what happened would not be repeated. Not repeated,
please! But first I want to say a word of sincere gratitude and
encouragement to you, the residents of Lampedusa and Linosa, to the
associations, to the volunteers and to the security forces that have
shown and continue to show attention to persons on their voyage toward
something better. You are a small group, but you offer an example of
solidarity! Thank you! Thanks also to Archbishop Francesco Montenegro
for his help and his work, and for his pastoral closeness. I warmly
greet the Mayor, Mrs Giusy Nicolini. Thank you so much for all you have
done, and for all you do. I give a thought, too, to the dear Muslim
immigrants that are beginning the fast of Ramadan, with best wishes for
abundant spiritual fruits. The Church is near to you in the search for a
more dignified life for yourselves and for your families. I say to you
“O’ scia’!” [trans.: a friendly greeting in the local dialect].This
morning, in light of the Word of God that we have heard, I want to say a
few words that, above all, provoke the conscience of all, pushing us to
reflect and to change certain attitudes in concrete ways.“Adam,
where are you?” This is the first question that God addresses to man
after sin. “Where are you Adam?” Adam is disoriented and has lost his
place in creation because he thought to become powerful, to dominate
everything, to be God. And harmony was broken, the man erred – and this
is repeated even in relations with his neighbour, who is no longer a
brother to be loved, but simply someone who disturbs my life, my
well-being. And God puts the second question: “Cain, where is your
brother?” The dream of being powerful, of being as great as God, even of
being God, leads to a chain of errors that is a chain of death, leads
to shedding the blood of the brother! These two questions resonate
even today, with all their force! So many of us, even including myself,
are disoriented, we are no longer attentive to the world in which we
live, we don’t care, we don’t protect that which God has created for
all, and we are unable to care for one another. And when this
disorientation assumes worldwide dimensions, we arrive at tragedies like
the one we have seen.“Where is your brother?” the voice of his
blood cries even to me, God says. This is not a question addressed to
others: it is a question addressed to me, to you, to each one of us.
These our brothers and sisters seek to leave difficult situations in
order to find a little serenity and peace, they seek a better place for
themselves and for their families – but they found death. How many times
to those who seek this not find understanding, do not find welcome, do
not find solidarity! And their voices rise up even to God! And once more
to you, the residents of Lampedusa, thank you for your solidarity! I
recently heard one of these brothers. Before arriving here, he had
passed through the hands of traffickers, those who exploit the poverty
of others; these people for whom the poverty of others is a source of
income. What they have suffered! And some have been unable to arrive! “Where
is your brother?” Who is responsible for this blood? In Spanish
literature there is a play by Lope de Vega that tells how the
inhabitants of the city of Fuente Ovejuna killed the Governor because he
was a tyrant, and did it in such a way that no one knew who had carried
out the execution. And when the judge of the king asked “Who killed the
Governor?” they all responded, “Fuente Ovejuna, sir.” All and no one!
Even today this question comes with force: Who is responsible for the
blood of these brothers and sisters? No one! We all respond this way:
not me, it has nothing to do with me, there are others, certainly not
me. But God asks each one of us: “Where is the blood of your brother
that cries out to me?” Today no one in the world feels responsible for
this; we have lost the sense of fraternal responsibility; we have fallen
into the hypocritical attitude of the priest and of the servant of the
altar that Jesus speaks about in the parable of the Good Samaritan: We
look upon the brother half dead by the roadside, perhaps we think “poor
guy,” and we continue on our way, it’s none of our business; and we feel
fine with this. We feel at peace with this, we feel fine! The culture
of well-being, that makes us think of ourselves, that makes us
insensitive to the cries of others, that makes us live in soap bubbles,
that are beautiful but are nothing, are illusions of futility, of the
transient, that brings indifference to others, that brings even the
globalization of indifference. In this world of globalization we have
fallen into a globalization of indifference. We are accustomed to the
suffering of others, it doesn’t concern us, it’s none of our business.
The
figure of the Unnamed of Manzoni returns. The globalization of
indifference makes us all “unnamed,” leaders without names and without
faces.“Adam, where are you?” “Where is your brother?” These are the
two questions that God puts at the beginning of the story of humanity,
and that He also addresses to the men and women of our time, even to us.
But I want to set before us a third question: “Who among us has wept
for these things, and things like this?” Who has wept for the deaths of
these brothers and sisters? Who has wept for the people who were on the
boat? For the young mothers carrying their babies? For these men who
wanted something to support their families? We are a society that has
forgotten the experience of weeping, of “suffering with”: the
globalization of indifference has taken from us the ability to weep! In
the Gospel we have heard the cry, the plea, the great lament: “Rachel
weeping for her children . . . because they are no more.” Herod sowed
death in order to defend his own well-being, his own soap bubble. And
this continues to repeat itself. Let us ask the Lord to wipe out
[whatever attitude] of Herod remains in our hears; let us ask the Lord
for the grace to weep over our indifference, to weep over the cruelty in
the world, in ourselves, and even in those who anonymously make
socio-economic decisions that open the way to tragedies like this. “Who
has wept?” Who in today’s world has wept? O Lord, in this Liturgy, a
Liturgy of repentance, we ask forgiveness for the indifference towards
so many brothers and sisters, we ask forgiveness for those who are
pleased with themselves, who are closed in on their own well-being in a
way that leads to the anaesthesia of the heart, we ask you, Father, for
forgiveness for those who with their decisions at the global level have
created situations that lead to these tragedies. Forgive us, Lord! O Lord, even today let us hear your questions: “Adam, where are you?” “Where is the blood of your brother?” Amen.
