JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these
things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE)
then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE)
draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that
summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT
COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A
fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES
AGAINST ISRAEL) 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
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,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and
their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM
ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD
PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say
to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour
every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall
not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be
burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor
their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for
he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC
BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here
are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through
war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE
Top Middle East intel official says Mossad
behind killing of Syrian rocket chief-New York Times quotes senior
figure from intelligence agency in the region; Israeli cabinet minister
refuses to comment on report but says it's a 'good thing' Aziz Azbar is
dead-By TOI staff and Agencies-AUG 8,18
A senior official
from a Middle East intelligence agency has pointed the finger at
Israel’s Mossad for the killing of a top Syrian chemical weapons and
rocket scientist over the weekend, The New York Times reported Tuesday,
reinforcing accusations from Syria.Aziz Azbar was killed when his car
exploded in the northern city of Masyaf late Saturday night. The unnamed
official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the paper that
Israel was behind the attack and said his own intelligence agency had
been informed of the Israeli operation.A senior Israeli government
official declined to comment on the report Tuesday, but noted it was “a
good thing” that Azbar was dead.A pro-government Syrian paper on Sunday
had accused the Mossad of being behind the hit. Azbar’s driver was also
killed in the blast.According to the report, Israel believed that Azbar
was leading a classified weapons development program called Sector 4 at
the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, and was busy
re-building an underground weapons factory to replace the one said
destroyed by Israel last year.Azbar was working alongside Maj. Gen.
Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’
elite al-Quds Force and enjoyed high-level access to both the Syrian and
Iranian governments, the New York Times said.Azbar and his team were
working to begin mass-producing precision-guided missiles by
retrofitting SM600 Tishreen rockets. They were also working on a
solid-fuel plant for missiles and rockets, a safer alternative to liquid
fuel, the report said. The Tishreen is a Syrian version of the Iranian
Fateh-110, a missile with a range of 200 kilomenters (125 miles.) On
Sunday the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which
monitors the Syria war through local contacts, also reported Azbar’s
death. It said he specialized in developing rocket systems at the
center’s Masyaf facility in Hama.Israel’s Hadashot TV news said Sunday
night he was in charge of a project improving the range and accuracy of
the regime’s Scud missiles. Reports have also indicated an Iranian
missile operation at the site.The intelligence official also told The
New York Times that Azbar had for years been active in the Assad
regime’s chemical-weapons production program and was also involved in
coordinating Iranian and Hezbollah activities in Syria.The Scientific
Research and Studies Center in Masyaf, also known by its French acronym
CERS, has long been associated with chemical weapons production, and was
the target of a number of airstrikes attributed to Israel. An alleged
Israeli strike on the site in April reportedly killed a number of
Iranian soldiers.The official quoted in The New York Times Tuesday said
that Israel had been tracking Azbar for years, and had wanted to
assassinate him over his prominent role in Syria’s weapons program even
before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. He said it was the
fourth time in three years the Mossad has assassinated an enemy weapons
engineer in a foreign country.Israel has been blamed for the killing of
several scientists in recent years, including two Hamas engineers in the
last 18 months.A Hamas rocket scientist was shot dead by gunmen in
Malaysia in April and a drone engineer was killed in Tunisia in December
2016. Hamas blamed the Mossad for both deaths.Israel does not usually
comment on reports of its alleged military operations in Syria but has
repeatedly warned it would work to keep advanced weapons out of
Hezbollah terrorists’ hands and has vowed to stop Iran establishing a
military presence in the country.On Tuesday, Gilad Erdan who heads the
Public Security and Strategic Affairs ministries declined to comment on
Israel’s involvement in Azbar’s killing, but said it was “a good thing”
that he was dead.“We obviously do not comment on these kinds of reports —
neither confirming nor denying them — but we can talk about the man
himself, who was responsible for putting high quality weapons in the
hands of some bad people, and so we can say that the fact he is no
longer with us is a good thing,” he told Israel Radio when asked about
the New York Times report.Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday
sought to downplay the possibility of Israeli involvement.“Every day in
the Middle East there are hundreds of explosions and settling of scores.
Every time they try to place the blame on us. So we won’t take this too
seriously,” he told Hadashot News.An insurgent group calling itself the
Abu Amara Brigades claimed responsibility for the operation. The group
has previously claimed attacks targeting officials and militia
commanders inside government territory.In April 2017, the Trump
administration placed sanctions on hundreds of CERS employees following a
chemical attack on the Syrian rebel-held city of Khan Sheikhoun that
killed dozens of civilians, including children.Another CERS facility
near Damascus was bombed by US, British and French forces in April after
another chemical attack.The Syrian regime has been accused of dozens of
gas attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians during the war, even
after it said it was giving up its stockpile.
Israeli
minister says ‘good chance’ Iran will renegotiate nuclear deal-Gilad
Erdan slams 'morally bankrupt' EU for trying to salvage accord; Israeli
intelligence community said optimistic that new sanctions will force
major change in Tehran-By TOI staff-AUG 8,18
Public
Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Tuesday praised the US for reimposing
tough sanctions on Iran that brought back into effect the harsh
penalties lifted under the Iran nuclear deal.“It would be better if the
Iranian regime would disappear entirely from this world, but it would
also be a blessing to see Obama’s bad nuclear agreement replaced with a
better one,” he told Israel Radio. US President Donald Trump abandoned
the deal in May.“In my opinion, there is a good chance of that,” said
Erdan, who also heads the Strategic Affairs Ministry. “We can already
see positive results from what Trump did.”Erdan criticized the European
Union for trying to salvage the deal by ensuring that economic benefits
guaranteed under the 2015 accord continue to flow to the country.“The EU
is morally bankrupt, and we need to remember that next time they try to
lecture us,” Erdan said. The EU, along with China, Russia, France,
Germany and the UK, was also a signatory to the deal and has not
withdrawn.In Israel, the reimposition of US sanctions was lauded as a
historic turning point that could ultimately lead to the Islamic
Republic’s downfall.On Tuesday, Israel Radio quoted an unnamed senior
official who said the Israeli intelligence community was optimistic the
sanctions would lead to major changes in Iran and force Tehran to
renegotiate the deal.“We would like to see a change in policy, but there
is no way of knowing how long that will take,” the official said.“The
only hammer available right now is economic, and using that, there is a
good change Iran will fall to its knees,” he said. “Right now Iran is
weak and hysterical.”The new sanctions on Iran took effect just after
midnight in Washington on Tuesday as part of Trump’s withdrawal from the
international accord designed to limit Iran’s nuclear program.Trump
signed an executive order restoring the penalties on Monday, which he
said would put “maximum economic pressure” on the country. The sanctions
affect financial transactions that involve US dollars, Iran’s
automotive sector, the purchase of commercial planes and metals
including gold.A second batch of US sanctions targeting Iran’s oil
sector and central bank are to be reimposed in early November.Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump for ratcheting up pressure on
the Islamic Republic, and called on European nations to follow his
lead.“It symbolizes the determination to curb Iran’s regional aggression
and its ongoing plans to arm itself with nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu
said in a video released Monday.On Monday, the European Union’s
diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said the bloc, as well as Britain,
France and Germany, deeply regretted Washington’s move.“We are
determined to protect European economic operators engaged in legitimate
business with Iran,” she said in a statement.Many large European firms
are leaving Iran for fear of US penalties, and Trump warned of “severe
consequences” against firms and individuals that continued to do
business with Iran.The impact of the return of sanctions has ramped up
tensions inside Iran, which has seen days of protests and strikes in
multiple towns and cities over water shortages, high prices and wider
anger at the political system.Severe reporting restrictions have made it
impossible to verify the swirl of claims coming through social
media.Agencies contributed to this report.
Fresh US
sanctions on Iran kick in as clock hits midnight-Reimposition of
economic restrictions as part of Trump's withdrawal from nuclear deal
met with cheers in Jerusalem, jeers in Tehran and Europe-By TOI
staff-AUG 8,18
New US sanctions on Iran took effect just
after midnight in Washington on Tuesday as part of President Donald
Trump’s withdrawal from the international accord meant to limit the
Iranian nuclear program.On Monday, Trump signed an executive order
restoring sanctions on Iran, which he said would would put “maximum
economic pressure” on the country. He also held out hope for new
negotiations between Iran and the United States that would result in
another, more wide-ranging, accord.The new sanctions target Iran’s
automotive sector and trade in gold and precious metals. They come ahead
of even more biting sanctions set to be introduced on November 5
against the country’s energy and banking sectors.While cheered by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials, the
reimposition of US sanctions was bemoaned by the nuclear deal’s European
signatories and the EU, who defended the accord and vowed to protect
European firms from US economic penalties.In a White House statement
announcing the sanctions, Trump repeated his criticisms of the deal, and
argued that Iran’s behavior since the pact was implemented has
vindicated his long-held position.“The JCPOA, a horrible, one-sided
deal, failed to achieve the fundamental objective of blocking all paths
to an Iranian nuclear bomb, and it threw a lifeline of cash to a
murderous dictatorship that has continued to spread bloodshed, violence,
and chaos,” Trump said.“Since the deal was reached, Iran’s aggression
has only increased. The regime has used the windfall of newly accessible
funds it received under the JCPOA to build nuclear-capable missiles,
fund terrorism, and fuel conflict across the Middle East and
beyond.”Following Trump’s announced US departure from the deal in May,
the White House has, through 17 rounds, sanctioned 38 Iran-related
targets.The objective, the administration has indicated, is to change
Iranian behavior.“Reimposition of nuclear-related sanctions through
today’s actions further intensifies pressure on Tehran to change its
conduct,” Trump said Monday.In May, Trump withdrew the United States
from the Iran nuclear deal forged under the Obama administration and
with five other world powers, a move that set in motion a renewal of
sanctions against Iran that had been removed once the landmark accord
was implemented in January 2016.In Israel, the reimposition of US
sanctions was lauded as a historic turning point that could ultimately
lead to the Islamic Republic’s downfall, with senior officials calling
on other countries to follow suit.“It symbolizes the determination to
curb Iran’s regional aggression and its ongoing plans to arm itself with
nuclear weapons,” said Netanyahu in a video released Monday, moments
after Trump signed new sanctions into law.Jerusalem’s warm embrace of
the US sanctions in Iran stood in stark contrast to the European Union,
which said it would move to protect countries that remain in Iran.“We
deeply regret the re-imposition of sanctions by the US, due to the
latter’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA),” the union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, and the
foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany said in a joint
statement, using the nuclear deal’s technical name.“The JCPOA is working
and delivering on its goal, namely to ensure that the Iranian program
remains exclusively peaceful,” the statement went on. “It is a key
element of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture, crucial
for the security of Europe, the region, and the entire world.”The
European Commission vowed to oppose the new US sanctions regime,
updating its so-called Blocking Statute that is aimed at “sustaining
trade and economic relations between the EU and Iran.”In Tehran,
President Hassan Rouhani rejected Trump’s call for renewed negotiations
on Iran’s nuclear program, saying it was a statement intended only for
American audiences and to foment chaos in Iran.In a televised interview,
he said “Negotiations with sanctions doesn’t make sense. They are
imposing sanctions on Iranian children, patients and the nation.” He was
referring to fears that essential supplies such as medicines would be
affected when sanctions return.He said Iran had “always welcomed
negotiations,” but that Washington would first have to demonstrate it
can be trusted.“If you’re an enemy and you stab the other person with a
knife and then you say you want negotiations, then the first thing you
have to do is remove the knife.”“How do they show they are trustworthy?
By returning to the JCPOA,” he said, using the technical name for the
2015 nuclear deal.Rouhani fell back on the rhetoric of many of his
predecessors by referencing the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overthrew
Iran’s elected prime minister and cemented the shah’s rule.“I have no
pre-conditions” for negotiating with America “if the US government is
ready to negotiate about paying compensation to the Iranian nation from
1953 until now,” Rouhani said. “The US owes the Iranian nation for its
intervention in Iran.Two weeks ago, Trump indicated that he was willing
to meet with Iran’s leaders at any time and without any preconditions.“I
would certainly meet with Iran if they’re ready to meet,” Trump said
during a White House press conference, adding that he was willing to do
so with “no preconditions.”The week before, Trump tweeted at Rouhani
that Iran would “suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout
history have ever suffered before,” in a dramatic all-caps tweet.To
Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN
OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT
HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL
STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!—
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018-His tweet was
ostensibly a response to a speech Rouhani gave the night before in which
he threatened that the United States would experience the “mother of
all wars” if it entered into an armed confrontation with Iran.Agencies
contributed to this report.
2 officers dismissed from elite
army unit after training accidents-After 2 Maglan soldiers injured in
separate incidents, IDF says it is 'unacceptable and unprofessional to
unnecessarily endanger' troops during training-By TOI staff-AUG 8,18
The
Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday the dismissal of two officers
from an elite commando unit following a pair of recent training
accidents in which soldiers were injured.Additionally, the commander of
the platoon in which the officers served was reprimanded, the IDF said
in a statement summarizing the investigation into the incidents led by
Brig. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, head of the 98th Paratroopers Division.In
one of the instances, a soldier from the Maglan unit was seriously
injured during a training exercise while jumping from a moving vehicle
into a thorn bush, according to the army.The soldier’s commander, who
the army named only as First Lieutenant Y., was removed as a result of
the incident. Finkelman also ordered a halt to all training exercises in
the Commando Brigade until the investigation’s recommendations are
implemented and the unit’s training files are reviewed.“The division
commander determined this action was improper, unprofessional, immoral,
dangerous and unnecessary,” the IDF said.In the second incident a
soldier was moderately wounded during Krav Maga exercises but did not
receive medical treatment immediately after. The army said the injury
occurred during a Krav Maga demonstration in which protective equipment
was not used.The IDF said the soldier’s commander, First Lieutenant G.,
was removed for “acting erroneously during the [Krav Maga] training and
acted negligently by not sending the soldier for treatment.”Krav Maga
exercises have been put on hold in the Commando Brigade until commanders
and instructors undergo a “refresher” of the training commands, the
army said. New mechanisms for oversight and approval of Krav Maga
training in the brigade will also be introduced, the IDF added.The army
said the findings of the investigation would be given to the Military
Advocate General to decide whether to open a Military Police
investigation. It also said commanders were in touch with the families
of the injured soldiers.“The IDF takes risks in the face of the enemy as
required to fulfill its operational duties,” the army said. “It is
unacceptable and unprofessional to unnecessarily endanger soldiers
during training and routine activities.”Parents of soldiers in the unit
claimed to the Ynet news site earlier this week that routine training
for the soldiers regularly crossed the threshold into violence. They
also complained of the secrecy surrounding the activities of the unit,
and said they relied on the officers and commanders to keep their
children safe.Maglan is a special elite unit that operates behind enemy
lines. The unit’s 18 months of training is among the most strenuous in
the IDF.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear
the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth,
nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein
shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of
heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword,
and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until
thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC)
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION)
the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing
them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of
heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Firefighters battling 122 active forest fires across northern Ontario-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 8, 2018
TORONTO
— There was little rest for firefighters in northern Ontario during the
long weekend as they continued battling flames on numerous fire
lines.The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources says there were 122
active fires as of Monday night, including 78 in the northwest region
and 44 in the northeast.Eighteen fires in the northeast and seven in the
northwest were classified as out of control.The largest fire in the
northeast, "Parry Sound 33," covers about 113 square kilometres and
remains out of control. Officials say "extremely dry fuel conditions
remain" despite the area receiving about 10 millimetres of rain on
Monday.An evacuation order for residents of several communities in the
French River area remain in effect and numerous travel restrictions
remain in force.Another large fire dubbed "North Bay 72" about 30
kilometres west of Temiskaming Shores remains out of control. That blaze
began on July 8 and was being held at about 272 square kilometres.The
ministry says there have been 918 forest fires so far this year compared
to 354 in 2017.The Canadian Press.
Health care workers ask Tories to stop repeal of sex-ed curriculum-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 8, 2018
TORONTO
— Nearly 1,800 health-care workers from across the province are asking
the Tory government to stop plans to repeal and replace Ontario's
modernized sex-ed curriculum.The group of doctors, nurses and social
workers signed a petition that was delivered to the provincial
legislature today by NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.Premier Doug Ford had
long promised to scrap the sex-ed curriculum updated by his Liberal
predecessors, and has said the government will engage in a province-wide
consultation to create a new lesson plan.The government has said
teachers will use a 1998 version of the curriculum this fall as those
consultations are underway.The group of health-care workers who signed
the petition says repealing the curriculum will put children's safety
and mental health at risk by providing them with outdated information.In
addition to individual workers, groups including the Registered Nurses
of Ontario, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the
Ontario Association of Social Workers have signed the petition.The
Canadian Press.
Largest wildfire in California history to burn for rest of August-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-By Dan Whitcomb-August 8, 2018
LOS
ANGELES (Reuters) - California's biggest wildfire on record was
expected to burn for the rest of the month, fire officials said on
Tuesday, as hot and windy conditions challenged thousands of fire crews
battling eight major blazes burning out of control across the state.The
Mendocino Complex grew to span 290,692 acres (117,639 hectares) by
Tuesday morning, with barely a third of it contained since two wildfires
merged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest, the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said.It
is the largest of eight major fires burning out of control across
California, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to declare a "major
disaster" in the state.The size of the fire has surpassed that of last
year's Thomas Fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and
Ventura counties and destroyed more than 1,000 structures.Nearly half of
the ten largest California wildfires on record occurred in the last
decade.The Mendocino Complex has burnt 75 homes and forced the
evacuation of thousands of people. Fire officials had hoped to
extinguish the fire by mid-August, but pushed that date to early
September on Tuesday.Temperatures could reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43
Celsius) in Northern California over the next few days, with gusty
winds fanning the flames of the complex, a National Weather Service
meteorologist said.The 3,900 personnel battling the Mendocino Complex on
Monday were focusing on keeping flames from breaking through fire lines
on a ridge above the foothill communities of Nice, Lucerne, Glen Haven,
and Clearlake Oaks, said Tricia Austin, a spokeswoman for Cal
Fire.Elsewhere in California, evacuations were ordered for cabins in
Cleveland National Forest's canyons in Orange County on Monday
afternoon, after a blaze broke out to quickly engulf 700 acres (283
hectares).The Carr Fire, which has torched 167,000 acres in the scenic
Shasta-Trinity region north of Sacramento since breaking out on July 23,
was 47 percent contained.The Carr Fire has been blamed for seven
deaths, including that of a 21-year-old Pacific Gas and Electric Company
lineman Jay Ayeta. The company said on Sunday he was killed in a
vehicle crash as he worked with crews in dangerous terrain."California
wildfires are being magnified and made so much worse by the bad
environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily
available water to be properly utilized," Trump wrote on Twitter,
without providing supporting evidence.A Cal Fire spokesman declined to
comment on Trump's claims but said crews did not lack water to fight the
flames.Environmental activists and some politicians say the intensity
of the state's wildfire season could be linked in part to climate
change.(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by
Raissa Kasolowsky and Bernadette Baum)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH
BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN
ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE
MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE
REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND
LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) 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 (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Amnesty International calls for united front against Saudi Arabia-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 8, 2018
MONTREAL
— Amnesty International says the global community should form a united
front with Canada and speak out to protect two recently arrested women,
including the sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi.Genevieve Paul, the
director of Amnesty's francophone branch, points out that pressure is
put on the Saudi government when news of such arrests becomes public."I
don't think it will worsen the situation because very often when we make
evident unjust imprisonments, like the case of Samar Badawi, that
increases their protection and increases pressure on the government,"
she said in an interview Monday.Amnesty International has said Badawi's
sister was recently detained along with Nassima al-Sada, another
prominent female activist.Paul pointed to the case of Raif Badawi as an
example of how putting international pressure on the Saudis can have an
impact."He was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison, he
received 50 lashes in 2015 and he could receive others, but he hasn't,"
she said."We do believe that this is because of continuous pressure and
visibility on Raif's case so we're really hoping that more states speak
out on Samar Badawi and all other activists."Paul stressed the situation
is worse when the government does what it wants in secret and is not
singled out for alleged human rights violations. "Clearly the aggressive
reaction of the Saudi government shows that it's been disturbed," she
added.Saudi Arabia said Sunday it was ordering Canada's ambassador to
leave the country and freezing all new trade and investment transactions
with Canada in a spat over human rights.The Islamic Kingdom made the
decision in retaliation to a Global Affairs Canada's tweet that
expressed concerns about the arrests of civil society and women's rights
activists in the country, such as Samar Badawi.Paul said the Saudi
government knows there are serious human rights violations in the
country."It shows the real colours of the regime, and the international
community should toughen its tone against the Saudi government," she
said.The Amnesty spokeswoman noted a ban on women drivers was lifted in
June, but that a number of activists who campaigned for the right to
drive were arrested and face up to 20 years in prison."That's proof
there's double talk, it's proof that there is no real reform in the
country," she said. "On the contrary, the repression has intensified."
She reiterated that Ottawa should suspend the sale of armoured vehicles
to the Saudis, claiming that Amnesty still has strong reasons to believe
they are being used in Yemen to commit serious human rights
violations."We've been saying that without a serious human rights
evaluation, we should not be transferring any military aid, any arms to
Saudi Arabia," Paul said.Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said
Monday the Canadian government will continue to raise its voice and
defend human rights."We will always speak up for human rights, we will
always speak up for women's rights around the world," she told reporters
in Vancouver. "The most important thing for us is the life and the
living conditions of activists."Ensaf Haidar, Raif Badawi's wife, who
lives in Quebec with her three children, said Monday she was surprised
when she heard about the two new arrests.Haidar and her children became
Canadian citizens on Canada Day.Freeland also said Haidar and her family
merit special attention from the government of Canada, adding, "a lot
of Canadian civil society has been speaking up for her.""It's something
that we do," Freeland said. "We stand up for Canadians and their
families around the world."Peter Rakobowchuk , The Canadian Press.
For God or party? China's Christians face test of faith-[The Canadian Press]-YAHOONEWS-August 8, 2018
NANYANG,
China — The 62-year-old Chinese shopkeeper had waited nearly his entire
adult life to see his dream of building a church come true — a brick
house with a sunny courtyard and spacious hall with room for 200
believers.But in March, about a dozen police officers and local
officials suddenly showed up at the church on his property and made the
frightened congregants disperse. They ordered that the cross, a painting
of the Last Supper and Bible verse calligraphy be taken down. And they
demanded that all services stop until each person, along with the church
itself, was registered with the government, said the shopkeeper,
Guo.Without warning, Guo and his neighbours in China's Christian
heartland province of Henan had found themselves on the front lines of
an ambitious new effort by the officially atheist ruling Communist Party
to dictate — and in some cases displace — the practice of faith in the
country."I've always prayed for our country's leaders, for our country
to get stronger," said Guo, who gave only his last name out of fear of
government retribution. "They were never this severe before, not since I
started going to church in the 80's. Why are they telling us to stop
now?"Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao
Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as
the country undergoes a religious revival. Experts and activists say
that as he consolidates his power, Xi is waging the most severe
systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious
freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982.The crackdown
on Christianity is part of a broader push by Xi to "Sinicize" all the
nation's religions by infusing them with "Chinese characteristics" such
as loyalty to the Communist Party. Islamic crescents and domes have been
stripped from mosques, and a campaign launched to "re-educate" tens of
thousands of Uighur Muslims. Tibetan children have been moved from
Buddhist temples to schools and banned from religious activities during
their summer holidays, state-run media report.This spring, a five-year
plan to "Sinicize" Christianity in particular was introduced, along with
new rules on religious affairs. Over the last several months, local
governments across the country have shut down hundreds of private
Christian "house churches." A statement last week from 47 in Beijing
alone said they had faced "unprecedented" harassment since
February.Authorities have also seized Bibles, while major e-commerce
retailers JD.com and Taobao pulled them off their sites. Children and
party members are banned from churches in some areas, and at least one
township has encouraged Christians to replace posters of Jesus with
portraits of Xi. Some Christians have resorted to holding services in
secret.A dozen Chinese Protestants interviewed by the Associated Press
described gatherings that were raided, interrogations and surveillance,
and one pastor said hundreds of his congregants were questioned
individually about their faith. Like Guo, the majority requested that
their names be partly or fully withheld because they feared punishment
from authorities. After reporters visited Henan in June, some
interviewees said they were contacted by police or local officials who
urged them not to discuss any new measures around Christianity.The party
has long been wary of Christianity because of its affiliation with
Western political values. Several Chinese human rights lawyers jailed
for their work, including Jiang Tianyong and Li Heping, are outspoken
Christians. So too are many Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, not least
among them 2014 protest leader Joshua Wong."Chinese leaders have always
been suspicious of the political challenge or threat that Christianity
poses to the Communist regime," said Xi Lian, a scholar of Christianity
in China at Duke University. "Under Xi, this fear of Western
infiltration has intensified and gained a prominence that we haven't
seen for a long time."___Guo, who keeps a small storefront selling
ornate doors in a riverside district, once had eyesight so poor that he
could not distinguish the sky from the earth. But after finding God at
27 years old, he made a seemingly miraculous recovery that he attributes
to his faith.For decades, he, like many Christians in China, shuttled
from one unregistered house church to another, where folding chairs
served as pews and coffee tables as lecterns. Two years ago, he and 10
other Christians pooled their money to erect a permanent church on his
property.They are part of what experts describe as a spiritual awakening
in China.The number of Chinese believers of all faiths has doubled in
two decades to an estimated 200 million, by official count, as the hold
of the Communist party has weakened. Among them are an estimated 67
million Christians, including Catholics — a number that is expected to
swell to become the world's largest Christian population in a matter of
decades. This rapid growth has reinvigorated the party's longtime
mission to domesticate a religion traditionally aligned with the
West.Historians believe that Christianity was known to China as early as
the seventh century, and was later propagated by Jesuit missionaries
starting in the 1500s. In recent decades the religion has faced by turns
heavy persecution and tacit acceptance.During the Cultural Revolution,
when Mao sought to eradicate all religions, Christians were jailed,
tortured and publicly humiliated. But they survived by operating
covertly and grew steadily in number after Mao's death in 1976, when a
populace disillusioned with the Communist Party began to seek moral
guidance elsewhere.Chinese Christians say the Bible gives them a sense
of right versus wrong and the strength to endure in a country where
power often trumps justice. While China's rapid growth has brought
prosperity to many, others despair at what they see as a deterioration
of public morals. The deaths of children in scandals involving tainted
infant formula and shoddily-built schools in recent years have led to
the sense that modern China was in the midst of an ethical crisis."After
the 'collapse' of communist ideology, no value system has been in place
to fill the spiritual vacuum," said writer Zhang Lijia. "China has
witnessed a religious revival in recent decades precisely because of
this vacuum and relaxed control."Officials once largely tolerated the
unregistered Protestant house churches that sprang up independent of the
official Christian Council, clamping down on some while allowing others
to grow. But this year they have taken a tougher approach that relies
partly on "thought reform" — a phrase for political indoctrination. Last
November, Christian residents of a rural township in southeast Jiangxi
province were persuaded to replace posters of the cross and Jesus Christ
inside their homes with portraits of Xi, a local official said."Through
our thought reform, they've voluntarily done it," Qi Yan, a member of
the township party committee, told the AP by phone. "The move is aimed
at Christian families in poverty, and we educated them to believe in
science and not in superstition, making them believe in the party."The
poster campaign appears to symbolize what analysts see as the underlying
force driving the change in the party's approach to religion: the
ascendance of Xi."Xi is a closet Maoist — he is very anxious about
thought control," said Willy Lam, a Chinese politics expert at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. "He definitely does not want people to
be faithful members of the church, because then people would profess
their allegiance to the church rather than to the party, or more
exactly, to Xi himself."Various state and local officials declined
repeated requests to comment. But in 2016, Xi explicitly warned against
the perceived foreign threats tied to faith, telling a religion
conference: "We must resolutely guard against overseas infiltrations via
religious means." And in April, the religious affairs department
published an article saying that churches must endorse the party's
leadership as part of "Sinicization.""Only Sinicized churches can obtain
God's love," the article stated.The government is even cracking down on
Christians more aggressively through legal means. In March, a prominent
Chinese house church leader with US permanent residency was sentenced
to seven years in prison after he built Christian schools in Myanmar.
And half a dozen Christians were sentenced last month to up to 13 years
in jail for involvement in a "cult," according to U.S.-based Christian
non-profit ChinaAid.The pressure has pushed several dozen pastors and
their families to flee to the United States in recent years, ChinaAid
says. The wife of one pastor under house arrest left for Midland, Texas
about a year ago, after authorities warned that their children might
have trouble getting an education in China. She said members of their
church in China were barred from being baptized, and even a simple
Christmas service was interrupted."The government says that we have
religious freedom, but really there is no freedom at all," said the
pastor's wife, who asked to remain anonymous for her husband's safety.
"Many of our Christian brothers and sisters are upset and fearful."Those
who resist pay the price.After Jin Mingri, a prominent pastor who leads
Zion Church in Beijing, refused local authorities' request to install
surveillance cameras inside his house church, police individually
questioned hundreds of members of the 1,500-person congregation, he
said. The congregants faced veiled threats, Jin said, and many were
asked to sign a pledge promising to leave Zion, which the government
agents called illegal, politically incorrect and a cult. Some people
lost their jobs or were evicted from rented apartments because police
intimidated their bosses and landlords.For 11 years, the church has been
housed on one floor of an office building, but the property management
informed Jin in May that they would have to move out at the end of the
summer. Jin said the management admitted to being influenced by external
"pressures.""A lot of our flock are terrified by the pressure that the
government is putting on them," he said. "It's painful to think that in
our own country's capital, we must pay so dearly just to practice our
faith."__At the epicenter of the drive to control the Christian
community in China is Henan, the cradle of Chinese civilization and the
entry point for many of the earliest foreign missionaries. Today, the
province is one of the most populous in the country and a key part of
Xi's fight against poverty, as proclaimed by red banners across acres of
peanut farms and oil fields.Around the time authorities ordered Guo's
church to stop congregating in March, his district announced a crackdown
on private Christian meeting spots. On a single Sunday morning, the
announcement said, 700 religious banners were removed, 200 religious
texts seized and 31 illegal Christian gathering places shut down.
Officials went door-to-door stripping decorative scrolls bearing the
cross from home entrances.In Zhengzhou, Henan's capital, all that is
left of one house church is shattered glass, tangled wires and torn
hymnbooks, strewn among the rubble of a knocked-down wall. Pegged to
another wall is a single wooden cross, still intact.The church inside a
commercial building had served about 100 believers for years. But in
late January, nearly 60 officials from the local religion department and
police station appeared without warning. Armed with electric saws, they
demolished the church, confiscated Bibles and computers and held a
handful of young worshippers — including a 14-year-old girl — at a
police station for more than 10 hours, according to a church leader.The
authorities called the church illegal. The church leader said they had
brought documentation to the religion department three or four times in
an attempt to formally register it, but never received a response. Now,
they have ceased to congregate.The church leader prays that the
government will change its mind."We support President Xi," he said. "All
we ask for is a space for our faith."That space for Xu Shijuan, a
63-year-old Seventh-Day Adventist, was her living room, where she held
house church gatherings for four years. She stopped in March, after a
group of men led by a local official ordered her to disband the meeting
of about two dozen elderly Christians."If you don't heed our orders, the
next group to come will be law enforcement," he said, according to Xu.
"They will use force to disband you."Xu readily complied. "The people
have dispersed, but our faith has not," she told the AP at her home in
Zhengzhou. "God's path cannot be blocked. The more you try to control
it, the more it will grow."Even Protestant churches already registered
with the state have not been spared greater restrictions. When reporters
visited five such churches in Henan this June, all bore notices at
their entrances stating that minors and party members were not allowed
inside. A banner above one church door exhorted members to "implement
the basic direction of the party's religious work." Another church
erected a Chinese flag at the foot of its steps.Some congregations now
sing the national anthem during services, according to a house church
pastor named Liu. Another pastor said his government-approved church
shut down its Sunday school and cancelled all activities for children
after receiving orders in February.Across Henan, house churches that
once hosted gatherings of hundreds have now sealed their doors and split
into groups of no more than a handful. Services are announced
last-minute and held in different locations each week, often under the
cloak of darkness.For a time, Guo's church did the same. They avoided
congregating on Sundays to escape authorities' notice.But the church
members were scared, and the group dwindled to 30. Authorities appealed
to Guo to help gather information on his fellow Christians. He was given
a form, reviewed by the AP, which asked for churchgoers' names,
educational background and addresses, as well as the length of time they
had been faithful and whether they were baptized.The brick house was
largely deserted this summer. Around the door frame, tattered red
outlines remained of a scroll that once read "God's love is as deep as
the sea."Inside, Guo has refused to remove the cross and other
decorations, telling authorities they are within his private
property.Among them, pinned to a wall in the nave, is a bright blue
poster that quotes China's constitutional promise of religious
freedom.__AP writer Brian Skoloff contributed to this report from
Midland, Texas.__Follow Yanan Wang on Twitter at
https://twitter.com/yananw.Yanan Wang, The Associated Press.
Russia warns of 'horrible' conflict if Georgia joins NATO-[Associated Press]-YAHOONEWS-VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV-August 8, 2018
MOSCOW
(AP) — An attempt by NATO to incorporate the former Soviet republic of
Georgia could trigger a new, "horrible" conflict, Russia's prime
minister said Tuesday in a stern warning to the West marking 10 years
since the Russia-Georgia war.Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with
the Kommersant daily broadcast by Russian state television that NATO's
plans to eventually offer membership to Georgia are "absolutely
irresponsible" and a "threat to peace."Medvedev was Russia's president
during the August 2008 war, which erupted when Georgian troops tried
unsuccessfully to regain control over the Moscow-backed breakaway
province of South Ossetia and Russia sent troops that routed the
Georgian military in five days of fighting.The Russian army was poised
to advance on the Georgian capital, but Medvedev rolled it back,
accepting a truce mediated by the European Union.After the war, Georgia
entirely lost control of both South Ossetia and another separatist
region, Abkhazia. Russia has strengthened its military presence in both
regions and recognized them as independent states, but only a few
countries have followed suit.The European Union on Tuesday reiterated
its "firm support to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Georgia within its internationally recognized borders" and lamented the
Russian military presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.In a show of
support for Georgia, foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland,
and a Cabinet member from Ukraine, visited Tbilisi Tuesday, urging
Russia to withdraw its troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "Nowadays
no country can change the borders of another country by force," said
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz.Russian-Georgian relations
have improved since the war, but the issue of the breakaway regions
remains, preventing the full normalization of ties.Medvedev warned that
NATO's attempt to embrace Georgia could have catastrophic
consequences."There is an unresolved territorial conflict ... and would
they bring such a country into the military alliance?" he said. "Do they
understand the possible implications? It could provoke a horrible
conflict."Medvedev pointed to Moscow's recognition of independence of
Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the Russian military bases there, saying
that any attempt to change the status quo could lead to "extremely grave
consequences." ''I hope that NATO's leadership will be smart enough not
to take any steps in that direction," he said.The Russian prime
minister described NATO's eastward expansion as a major security threat
to Russia."Whatever our colleagues from the alliance may say, NATO
countries see Russia as a potential enemy," he said. "We can't help
getting worried when the circle around our country keeps narrowing as
more and more countries join NATO. NATO's expansion clearly poses a
threat to the Russian Federation."
