http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cirm.htm
DOES GOD SAY TO DESTROY WOMANS GENITALS,NOOOOOOOOOOO.
GENESIS 1:26-31
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
OK, countries that do Genital mutilation, lets look at verse 28. GOD says he created MAN and WOMAN to be fruitful and multiply. This sounds like no Gental mutilation to me which can destroy the Womans Gentitals. Woman can't bear children if their Genitals are cut out.
As for sexual reasons, GOD gave Woman their Genitals to have feelings to enjoy sex, not to have them destroyed so they can't have sexual desire. This Genital Mutilation is clearly against GODS WORD and should be stopped around the world.
GOD CREATED WOMAN (EVE) FOR THE MAN (ADAM) TO BE IN A MONOGOMOUS RELATIONSHIP AND TO ENJOY SEX TOGETHER AND TO PRODUCE CHILDREN AND FILL THE EARTH. NOT DESTROY THE WOMANS GENITALIA.
So there no debate about it. ITS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Africa, the Middle East & Far East,Debates about FGM
Debate Among Muslims:
As noted above, FGM is a social custom, not a religious practice.
However, in those Muslim countries where it is practice, FGM is often justified by a controversial saying attributed to the Prophet Mohammed that seem to favor sunna circumcision. The authenticity of these sayings are unconfirmed, and some scholars have refuted them. Even if true, they only permit the practice; they do not mandate it. FGM has probably been performed for at least 1,400 years (some references estimate 2,000 years), and started during what Muslims call al-gahiliyyah (the era of ignorance). The Qu'r'an, Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and Christian Scriptures (New Testament) is silent on the subject. The Sunnah (the words and actions of the Prophet Mohammed) contains a reference to female circumcision.
According to the Muslim Women's League:
Those who advocate for FGM from an Islamic perspective commonly quote the following hadith to argue that it is required as part of the Sunnah or Tradition of the Prophet:Um Atiyyat al-Ansariyyah said: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (pbuh) said to her: Do not cut too severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband'.1,8. One interpretation of this passage is that the woman was going to proceed with the circumcision anyway; Muhammad suggested that she remove a smaller amount of her genitalia than she had perhaps intended to.This passage is regarded by many Muslims as having little credibility or authenticity. The Muslim Women's League comments: According to Sayyid Sabiq, renowned scholar and author of Fiqh-us-Sunnah, all hadiths concerning female circumcision are non-authentic.
Many Muslims see passages in the Qur'an which, by implication, oppose FGM. they reason: God apparently created the clitoris for the sole purpose of generating pleasure. It has no other purpose. There is no instruction in the Qur'an or in the writings of the Prophet Mohammed which require that the clitoris be surgically modified. Thus God must approve of its presence. And so, it should not be removed or reduced in size or function. The Qur'an promotes the concept of a husband and wife giving each other pleasure during sexual intercourse. For example: It is lawful for you to go in unto your wives during the night preceding the (day's) fast: they are as a garment for you and you are as a garment for them.(2:187) and He has put love and mercy between you.(30:21)
Mutilated genitalia reduce or eliminate a woman's pleasure during the act.
The Qur'an (An-Nisa': 119) states that Satan will try to trick humans into body modification: And I will surely lead them astray, and arouse desires in them, and command them and they will cut the cattle's ears, and I will surely command them and they will change Allah's creation.This might be interpreted as forbidding FGM as well as tattoos, piercing and any other modification that alters the design of the human body as Allah created it.
Nawal El-Saadawi, a Muslim victim of infibulation, stated:
The importance given to virginity and an intact hymen in these societies is the reason why female circumcision still remains a very widespread practice despite a growing tendency, especially in urban Egypt, to do away with it as something outdated and harmful.
Behind circumcision lies the belief that, by removing parts of girls' external genitals organs, sexual desire is minimized. This permits a female who has reached the dangerous age of puberty and adolescence to protect her virginity, and therefore her honor, with greater ease. Chastity was imposed on male attendants in the female harem by castration which turned them into inoffensive eunuchs. Similarly female circumcision is meant to preserve the chastity of young girls by reducing their desire for sexual intercourse.3.Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, head of the al-Azhar Islamic Institute has stated that the practice is un-Islamic. The Health Minister of Egypt, Ismail Sallam, announced the ban on FGM in 1996-JUL. This was upheld by a junior administrative court in Cairo.
Sheik Youssef Badri, a Muslim fundamentalist, took the health minister to court. In 1997-JUN, an Egyptian court overturned the country's ban on FGM. Eight Muslim scholars and doctors had testified that the ban exceeded the government's authority and violated the legal rights of the medical profession. Sheik Youssef Badri commented: [Female] circumcision is Islamic; the court has said that the ban violated religious law. There's nothing which says circumcision is a crime, but the Egyptians came along and said that Islam is a crime.
About 1997-JUL-6, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel interviewed Sheik Badri. He claimed that many Muslim women are pleased with this victory of Islam over its enemies. When it was pointed out to him that parents in Morocco and Algeria do not practice FGM, he replied that the clitoris in Egyptian girls was larger than in those countries and had to be cut back to a normal size. He quoted a French study which showed that circumcised girls are less likely to catch AIDS. He believes that the United States is spreading misinformation on the health risks of FGM. Author's note: This may be true; victims of FGM are probably less likely to be sexually active.
The government appealed the case to Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court. They ruled that the operation is not required by Islam, and that female circumcision is not a personal right according to the rules of Islamic Sharia (law).Thus, FGM is subject to Egyptian law. They prohibited the procedure, even if it is done with the agreement of the child and her parents. However, gynecologists will be able to approve the surgery if it is needed for health reasons. Fatwas are published opinions by Muslim religious scholars. They are non-binding in law. But Muslim believers are expected to follow them. In Egypt, a number of Fatwas have been issued by the influential Egyptian Fatwa Committee on FGM:
1949-MAY-28: They decided that it is not a sin to reject female circumcision.
1951-JUN-23: They stated that female circumcision is desirable because it curbs nature (i.e. sexual drive among women). It stated that medical concerns over the practice are irrelevant.
1981-JAN-29: The Great Sheikh of Al-Azhar (the most famous University of the Islamic World) stated that parents must follow the lessons of Mohammed and not listen to medical authorities because the latter often change their minds. Parents must do their duty and have their daughters circumcised.
Reaction by the rest of the world
The United Nations has supported the right of member states to grant refugee status to women who fear being mutilated if they are returned to their country of origin. Canada has granted such status to women in this situation. A judge of a Canadian Federal Court declared it a cruel and barbaric practice. In 1994 CNN broadcast footage of the circumcision of a 10 year old Egyptian girl by an unskilled practitioner. This program drew international attention to the operation. A 500 million dollar lawsuit was brought against CNN for allegedly damaging Egypt's reputation, It was rejected by the courts.In the West, the procedure is outlawed in Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. A US federal bill, Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation of 1995 was passed in 1996-SEP. Section 273.3 of the Canadian Criminal Code protects children who are ordinarily resident in Canada, (as citizens or landed migrants) from being removed from the country and subjected to FGM. In the US and Canada, the very small percentage of immigrants who wish to continue the practice often find it impossible to find a doctor who will cooperate. The operation is often done in the home by the family.
Legislation against FGM can be counter-productive in some cases. It might force the practice deeply underground. Women may not seek medical care because their parents might be charged.
UN activity:
In 1958, the Economic and Social Committee of the United Nations invited the World Health Organization (WHO) to undertake a study on the persistence of customs involving ritual practices on girls and on the measures in effect or planned to put an end to those practices.4 The WHO responded that the ritual practices in question, resulting from social and cultural conceptions, are not within the WHO's jurisdiction.5 They subsequently changed their position. 6 In 1989, the Regional Committee of the WHO for Africa passed a resolution urging participating governments to adopt appropriate policies and strategies in order to eradicate female circumcision and to forbid medicalization of female circumcision and to discourage health professionals from performing such surgery.In 1980, UNICEF announced that its anti-FGM program is based on the belief that the best way to handle the problem is to trigger awareness through education of the public, members of the medical profession and practitioners of traditional health care with the help of local collectives and their leaders.7.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is ambiguous about FGM. On one hand, Article 24, paragraph 3 states: States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children.But Article 29 paragraph 1.c calls for: The development of respect for the child's parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is living, the country from which he or she may originate, and for civilizations different from his or her own.
References used:
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
Position paper on Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision, Muslim Women's League, at: http://www.mwlusa.org/
Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, Religious arguments about male and female circumcision, at: http://www.lpj.org/
Nawal El-Saadawi, The hidden face of Eve, Women in the Arab World, translated and edited by Sherif Hetata, Zed Press, London, 1980, P. 33.
United Nations, 26th Session of the Economic and Social Committee, 1029th Plenary Meeting, 1958-JUL-10.
WHO, 12th World Health Assembly, 11th Plenary Meeting, 1959-MAY-28.
WHO, Resolution of the Regional Committee for Africa, 39th session, AFR/RC39/R9, 1989-SEP-13.
UNICEF, Department of Information, Position of UNICEF on Female Excision, 1980-SEP-23, Page 1.
Partial Translation of Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 41: General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab), at: http://www.usc.edu/
Saturday, November 04, 2006
BRITONS MOST SPIED ON
1-Earthquakes occur near Anchorage, Klukwan. 2-Mild quake off southern Philippines. 3-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 4-Diseases staring at flood-hit villages. 5-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 6-Ex-Israel PM Sharon rushed to intensive care. 7-Iran test-fires 3 new missiles in Gulf. 8-Palestinian Authority Terrorists Use Female Shields Against IDF. 9-Income Trust Investments. 10-Britons are the most spied on in Europe.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Earthquakes occur near Anchorage, Klukwan
Associated Press 11/03/2006
An earthquake was felt Friday morning in Anchorage and Kenai. The Alaska Earthquake Information Office says the Cook Inlet area quake occurred at 6:38 a.m., and had a preliminary magnitude of 3.7. It was centered 45 miles west of Anchorage and 44 miles north of Kenai. A second earthquake occurred later Friday morning in Southeast Alaska. It had a preliminary magnitude of 3.6 and was centered 65 miles west of Haines. There were no reports of damage in either case.
Mild quake off southern Philippines Sat Nov 4, 4:58 AM ET
MANILA (AFP) - A mild earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale has been detected in waters off the southern Philippines but caused no damage or panic.The epicenter of the quake was located off the southeastern coast of Mindanao island, about 1,090 kilometers (676 miles) south of Manila, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said on Saturday.The quake, which occurred at a depth of about 0.3 kilometers, took place at 2:18 pm (0600 GMT) Saturday and was tectonic in origin.Residents in the southern cities of Davao and General Santos on Mindanao island barely noticed the quake, the institute added.The Philippines sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire where continental plates meet, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.Although about 10 quakes hit the Philippines every day, few are felt. Only three major, destructive tremors have been recorded in more than 30 years, according to the institute.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Sat Nov 4 10:01:04 AM EDT
NOV 04,2006
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.9 SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.7 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.7 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.3 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
NOV 03,2006
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 3.5 ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.6 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 VIRGINIA-NORTH CAROLINA BORDER REGION
MAP 3.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.0 MYANMAR-INDIA BORDER REGION
MAP 2.5 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
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).
Diseases staring at flood-hit villages
Friday November 3 2006 11:42 IST
CHIRALA: With hygiene and sanitary conditions deteriorating in Chirala town, fears are being this website’s newspaper about the spread of viral and contagious diseases.While floodwater has been causing havoc from the southern side of the town, seawater has been gushing in from the eastern side. The breached Nallamada, Saki, Aaleru, Apperu and Romperu drains, flowing from outer reaches, had inundated several villages, agricultural fields besides surrounding villages of the town.Consequently, communications between Chirala and coastal areas like Chilakaluripet have been cut off.The medical and health authorities are lagging behind in providing necessary medical care to the victims owing to shortage of personnel and funds. Further, the citizens have been facing scarcity of drinking water and essential commodities, apart from the rising prices.
Even as Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took stock of the situation in the flood-ravaged coastal mandals in Prakasam district, he had face the anger of the scores of displaced families. As his convoy trooped through the villages, people forced him to stop and address their grievances. Reacting to their plea, Reddy announced immediate relief of 20 kg of rice and five litres of kerosene to each of the affected families.At some places, ruling party members tried their best to keep off the agitating persons from approaching the CM Reddy visited parts of Railway colony, Karamchedu mandal and other surrounding places.At Karamchedu, farmers met Reddy and poured out their woes. Union Minister Daggubati Purandareswari, Parchur MLA Daggubati Venkeswarara Rao, Ministers K Rosaiah, N Raghuveera Reddy and other senior officials were present.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
November 2, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
As I look back on the past few months, I think how truly extraordinary they have been for Israel. Who could have imagined, at the beginning of this year so rapidly drawing to a close, that by summer Israel would be involved in an all-out war - a war that would take such a devastating human and economic toll on a country already reeling from a years-long Palestinian intifada?
Today I write to say thank you to all who have given so generously to provide for Israel's many emergency and rebuilding needs. Israeli officials and ordinary citizens alike have been quick to offer their thanks as well and now you can read letters to The Fellowship and its supporters from the mayors of some of Israel's northern cities to see the impact that your generous contributions made during their critical time of need.
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=micro_goi_about_mayorthankyou&s_src=E6J1&s_subsrc=E6J1
I have just returned to the U.S. after several weeks in Israel, where I had the opportunity to see firsthand the war damage and assess the ongoing rebuilding efforts. I assure you that the need remains great. The war may be old news to the media outside of Israel, but one look at the statistics surrounding the devastating impact will give you an idea of the seriousness of the rebuilding task that lies ahead. Israel still faces an ongoing battle for long-term economic recovery - and she will need her friends to stand with her through this struggle.
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=micro_goi_about_conflictfacts
I want to call your attention to an email you received just a few days ago. Perhaps you were unable to respond then, but can do so now. As I said above, the need is great, and by giving today to our Guardians of Israel program you can help many needy people whose lives have been ravaged by war. And you can know like the Israelites in ancient times who responded to Nehemiah's call to rebuild Jerusalem with a resounding, Let us start rebuilding that you played a crucial role in blessing the Israeli people and rebuilding the Jewish state.
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=appeal_october
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Ex-Israel PM Sharon rushed to intensive care From correspondents in Jerusalem November 04, 2006 12:07am
ISRAEL'S former prime minister Ariel Sharon has been rushed to intensive care due to a fresh deterioration in his fragile health, 10 months after falling into a deep coma following a huge stroke.Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was transferred this morning from the Sheba Medical Centre department of respiratory rehabilitation to its intensive care unit, due to a weakening of his condition,the hospital treating him announced.Sharon contracted an infection that is affecting his heart and will receive intensive treatment to combat the infection.At this point, his condition is stable.
The hospital provided no further comment.
The former statesman who oversaw Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 following a 38-year occupation of the Palestinian territory, dramatically disappeared from public life after suffering a brain haemorrhage in January.Today's announcement was the first public update on the 78-year-old Mr Sharon's health since August, when he was removed after yet another spell in intensive care having come down with pneumonia and kidney problems.Mr Sharon, who was elected premier in early 2001, suffered a huge stroke on January 4 and was moved from a Jerusalem hospital in May to Tel Hashomer, a facility on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, for long-term treatment.His collapse signalled a dramatic end to the career of the former general who had been on course at the time for re-election as head of the brand-new Kadima party he created just two months before falling ill.Mr Sharon, who came to be revered by Israelis as a father figure after his career underwent a dramatic rehabilitation, was succeeded by his close ally Ehud Olmert, who led Kadima to a less than convincing victory in a March election.
Mr Sharon had called an early election on the same day as quitting his long-time political home in the right-wing Likud party, fed up with hardliners who refused to forgive him for unilaterally pulling Israel out of Gaza.He masterminded Israel's disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon as defence minister before assuming the premiership following several stints in the cabinet.At one stage, an official Israeli commission declared him unfit for public office over his role in a massacre by Christian militiamen of Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps during Israel's invasion of Lebanon.Mr Sharon was also heavily blamed for sparking the second Palestinian uprising by visiting Jerusalem's disputed Al-Aqsa mosque compound in September 2000.But he managed to salvage his reputation internationally by ordering the first ever evacuation of Jews from occupied Palestinian territory in 2005.
Mr Sharon's disengagement from Gaza had been expected to allow Mr Olmert to pull tens of thousands of Jewish settlers out of the West Bank later.But those plans now appear to be dead in the water, following Israel's war in Lebanon and ongoing operations in the Gaza Strip to retrieve an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants on June 25 and stop rocket attacks.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran test-fires 3 new missiles in Gulf By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has successfully test-fired three new models of sea missiles in a show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf, military officials said Friday.Television showed footage of the elite Revolutionary Guards firing the missiles from warships and from mobile launching pads on the shore.Iranian forces have previously test-fired missiles in the crowded Gulf waters, but the new maneuvers, which began on Thursday, appeared to be Iran's response to a U.S.-led military exercise held earlier this week in the same zone.The maneuvers are not a threat to any neighboring country, said Gen. Ali Fazli, the spokesman for the Iranian war games.Iran nonetheless insisted the new sea missiles enhanced its military muscle in the Gulf, where most of the world's oil is extracted.The weapons are suitable for covering all the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian gulf and the sea of Oman,said Adm. Sardar Fadavi, the deputy navy chief of the Revolutionary Guard.
Some 20 percent of the world's oil supply passes every day through the strategic Strait of Hormuz.The three new types of missiles, named Noor, Kowsar, and Nasr, have a range of about 106 miles and were built for naval warfare, TV reported. Iranian sea missiles previously had a range of 75 miles, TV quoted Fadavi as saying.The new tests demonstrate Iran's military capacities at sea, the admiral said.State TV said the new missiles were Iranian-made and could be used in lant-to-sea or sea-to-sea warfare. It did not give more details about the weapons.The Revolutionary Guards began the maneuvers, named Great Prophet, on Thursday by firing dozens of long-range missiles in a desert area of central Iran.Iran insisted the renewed saber-rattling was not intended at intimidating countries in the region. We are in good interaction with our neighbors, said Fazli, the military spokesman.
On Thursday, however, Iran said it hoped the war games would send world powers a strong message. We want to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, said in a clear reference to the United States, Britain and France, who were among the six nations that took part in the Gulf maneuvers this week.Iran called adventurist the U.S.-led naval exercise that ended on Monday, criticizing Arab states that took part and saying Gulf nations would be safer if they organized their own security alliance an implicit criticism of American military presence in the region.The U.S. Fifth fleet is stationed in Bahrain, a tiny oil kingdom located across the Gulf from Iran.
Iran remains locked in dispute with the West over its nuclear program, which Washington says is geared to producing atomic weapons but Tehran says is only for generating electricity.Asked about Thursday's maneuvers, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she thought the Iranians are trying to demonstrate that they are tough.The Islamic Republic has already held three large-scale military exercises this year. In its April exercises, Iran tested what it called an ultra-horizon missile, which is fired from helicopters and jet fighters, and the Fajr-3 missile, which can reportedly evade radar and use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously.While U.S. officials have suggested that Iran is exaggerating the capabilities of its newly developed weapons, Washington and its allies have been watching the country's progress in missile technology with concern.
The U.S.-led maneuvers that finished Monday focused on surveillance, with warships tracking a vessel suspected of carrying nuclear components or illegal weapons. The nations that took part were Australia, Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy and the United States. The U.N. Security Council is considering imposing sanctions on Iran, which has ignored demands that it cease uranium enrichment, a process that can produce the fuel for nuclear reactors or material for atomic bombs. Russia, a veto yielding power at the Security Council, said it opposed the U.N. sanctions in their current form.
Palestinian Authority Terrorists Use Female Shields Against IDF
By Hana Levi Julian(INN)
Palestinian Authority terrorists used women to protect them from arrest by IDF soldiers at the cost of life on Friday. One woman died in Gaza. Arab women in northern Gaza were urged in a radio broadcast Friday morning to go to a mosque in Beit Hanoun to serve as human shields for gunmen holed up in the Muslim religious building surrounded by IDF forces. According to military sources a number of Arab terrorists who were wanted for Kassam rocket attacks had taken refuge in the mosque, which was also used as a storehouse for weapons and other materials. The women rushed to the building despite the exchange of gunfire between the terrorists and IDF soldiers. Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene.
Meanwhile, Israeli special forces surrounded a house in Bethlehem on Friday and ordered the terrorists to surrender. The armed Arabs opened fire and in an ensuing shootout, one soldier was wounded by a ricocheted bullet and evacuated to a hospital in light to moderate condition. Two IDF companies provided backup for the front unit.Arab sources say that one woman was killed in the gunfire, but the IDF spokesman said that it could not confirm that its soldiers had hit any bystanders.
Income Trust Investments
By BobThompson Nov 03 2006
It was a bit of a shock this week, but once again a Canadian ruling party has made a statement on income trusts. As you may recall, income trusts are investment entities that flow through earnings to shareholders, resulting in no tax being paid at the corporate level. The investor, or unit holder, in turn pays the tax. More and more companies have been converting themselves to income trusts in the last few years, and more and more investors have been using them to receive a steady income stream. This week, we will talk a bit about trusts. I write this on Wednesday, as we have seen a $23 billion drop in the value of trusts on the market today. I won’t dive into the pros and cons, or personal opinions on the decision of the tax trusts, but I will highlight some facts for you to ponder. First, there are four basic types of income trusts. Utility trusts are companies like power generation businesses. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) invest in a portfolio of real estate income producing properties, and energy and resource trusts have properties that produce oil, gas, coal, iron or other commodities. Lastly, business trusts are businesses that could include anything from auto shops, to pizza, to restaurant chains. As far as the tax changes, it looks like REITs will not necessarily be affected, whereas the other trusts will be taxed to some extent under the current proposals. We will have to see how things develop in the future but for now, I have included excerpts from the Ministry of Finance press release.
• For months there has been a growing trend toward corporate tax avoidance. Top Canadian companies, operating within the current rules, have announced their intention to convert to income trusts. They feel compelled to seek more favourable tax treatment by capitalizing on an available tax rule.
• For income trusts that begin trading after today, these measures will apply beginning with their 2007 taxation year. For existing income trusts and limited partnerships the government is proposing a four-year transition period. They will not be subject to the new measures until their 2011 taxation year.
The time has come for Canada’s New Government to act, said Minister Flaherty. By introducing our Tax Fairness Plan today we are acting in the national interest, doing what’s right for all Canadians, and significantly enhancing the incentives to save and invest for family retirement security.
If the proposals made this week go through, then people will have to reassess some of the ways they derive income from their portfolios. Probably some of the trusts will go back to the normal corporate structure, and some may get bought out. It will be an interesting time going forward, and I’m sure there will be lots of discussion on the subject for a long time to come.
Tip of the Week
Pursuant to my job as an alternative investment strategist at my company, from time to time I go on Report on Business Television to discuss non-traditional investment strategies. With regard to the current big news in the income trust sector, I was on TV on Thursday morning. If you are interested in seeing the segment, which lasted about five minutes, feel free to go to www.robtv.com, then click on WATCH PAST VIDEOS. Once you are there, click on the tab THURSDAY, then scroll down to 11:15 a.m. (Eastern). Click on play, and that will be me. For more information, please contact Bob Thompson at 604-643-7743. Dollars and Sense is a regular column appearing in the NewsLeader. Burnaby News Leader
THERE WILL BE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT HEADED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,12,16-18
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
Britons are the most spied on in Europe
03.11.2006 - 09:41 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk (EU OBSERVER)
Britain has emerged as surveillance society number one, while Germany is the only EU country offering significant privacy protection, according to a study by civil liberties group Privacy International.It estimates that there are now over four million cameras in Britain, one for every 14 residents, a 300 percent increase in just three years.The average Briton is captured about 300 times a day on film.The study, called The Privacy and Human Rights Report, assesses the state of technology, surveillance and privacy protection in all EU countries together with eleven benchmark countries.Britain ranks as the worst western democracy at protecting individual privacy, at the level of Russia, China, Malaysia and Singapore.Only slightly better were the US, Thailand and the Philippines, described as extensive surveillance societies.
The report runs to almost 1,200 pages and holds a chapter for each of the countries ranked.The aim of the study was not to humiliate the worst ranking nations, according to its foreword "but to demonstrate that it is possible to maintain a healthy respect for privacy within a secure and fully functional democracy.
Britain in the black box
Germany comes out as the only EU country offering significant privacy protection, followed by Belgium, Austria and Greece offering adequate safeguards against abuse, while citizens in nine EU countries are exposed to systemic failure to uphold safeguards. These are Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Spain, Slovenia, Netherlands and Sweden.Only the UK ranks in the black box of endemic surveillance societies.Richard Thomas, the UK's independent information commissioner, said clear lines needed to be drawn for the monitoring of people.Two years ago I warned that we were in danger of sleepwalking into a surveillance society. Today I fear that we are in fact waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us, Mr Thomas said, according to Reuters. And it is not only cameras on the streets that are watching over Europeans.
The internet will hold so much digital data in the future that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, according to Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance.He said, according to UK daily the Guardian, that people would be able to sit down and type into search engine Google what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Earthquakes occur near Anchorage, Klukwan
Associated Press 11/03/2006
An earthquake was felt Friday morning in Anchorage and Kenai. The Alaska Earthquake Information Office says the Cook Inlet area quake occurred at 6:38 a.m., and had a preliminary magnitude of 3.7. It was centered 45 miles west of Anchorage and 44 miles north of Kenai. A second earthquake occurred later Friday morning in Southeast Alaska. It had a preliminary magnitude of 3.6 and was centered 65 miles west of Haines. There were no reports of damage in either case.
Mild quake off southern Philippines Sat Nov 4, 4:58 AM ET
MANILA (AFP) - A mild earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale has been detected in waters off the southern Philippines but caused no damage or panic.The epicenter of the quake was located off the southeastern coast of Mindanao island, about 1,090 kilometers (676 miles) south of Manila, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said on Saturday.The quake, which occurred at a depth of about 0.3 kilometers, took place at 2:18 pm (0600 GMT) Saturday and was tectonic in origin.Residents in the southern cities of Davao and General Santos on Mindanao island barely noticed the quake, the institute added.The Philippines sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire where continental plates meet, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.Although about 10 quakes hit the Philippines every day, few are felt. Only three major, destructive tremors have been recorded in more than 30 years, according to the institute.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Sat Nov 4 10:01:04 AM EDT
NOV 04,2006
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.9 SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.7 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.7 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.3 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
NOV 03,2006
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 3.5 ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.6 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.7 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.5 VIRGINIA-NORTH CAROLINA BORDER REGION
MAP 3.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.0 MYANMAR-INDIA BORDER REGION
MAP 2.5 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
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).
Diseases staring at flood-hit villages
Friday November 3 2006 11:42 IST
CHIRALA: With hygiene and sanitary conditions deteriorating in Chirala town, fears are being this website’s newspaper about the spread of viral and contagious diseases.While floodwater has been causing havoc from the southern side of the town, seawater has been gushing in from the eastern side. The breached Nallamada, Saki, Aaleru, Apperu and Romperu drains, flowing from outer reaches, had inundated several villages, agricultural fields besides surrounding villages of the town.Consequently, communications between Chirala and coastal areas like Chilakaluripet have been cut off.The medical and health authorities are lagging behind in providing necessary medical care to the victims owing to shortage of personnel and funds. Further, the citizens have been facing scarcity of drinking water and essential commodities, apart from the rising prices.
Even as Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took stock of the situation in the flood-ravaged coastal mandals in Prakasam district, he had face the anger of the scores of displaced families. As his convoy trooped through the villages, people forced him to stop and address their grievances. Reacting to their plea, Reddy announced immediate relief of 20 kg of rice and five litres of kerosene to each of the affected families.At some places, ruling party members tried their best to keep off the agitating persons from approaching the CM Reddy visited parts of Railway colony, Karamchedu mandal and other surrounding places.At Karamchedu, farmers met Reddy and poured out their woes. Union Minister Daggubati Purandareswari, Parchur MLA Daggubati Venkeswarara Rao, Ministers K Rosaiah, N Raghuveera Reddy and other senior officials were present.
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
November 2, 2006
Dear Friend of The Fellowship,
As I look back on the past few months, I think how truly extraordinary they have been for Israel. Who could have imagined, at the beginning of this year so rapidly drawing to a close, that by summer Israel would be involved in an all-out war - a war that would take such a devastating human and economic toll on a country already reeling from a years-long Palestinian intifada?
Today I write to say thank you to all who have given so generously to provide for Israel's many emergency and rebuilding needs. Israeli officials and ordinary citizens alike have been quick to offer their thanks as well and now you can read letters to The Fellowship and its supporters from the mayors of some of Israel's northern cities to see the impact that your generous contributions made during their critical time of need.
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=micro_goi_about_mayorthankyou&s_src=E6J1&s_subsrc=E6J1
I have just returned to the U.S. after several weeks in Israel, where I had the opportunity to see firsthand the war damage and assess the ongoing rebuilding efforts. I assure you that the need remains great. The war may be old news to the media outside of Israel, but one look at the statistics surrounding the devastating impact will give you an idea of the seriousness of the rebuilding task that lies ahead. Israel still faces an ongoing battle for long-term economic recovery - and she will need her friends to stand with her through this struggle.
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=micro_goi_about_conflictfacts
I want to call your attention to an email you received just a few days ago. Perhaps you were unable to respond then, but can do so now. As I said above, the need is great, and by giving today to our Guardians of Israel program you can help many needy people whose lives have been ravaged by war. And you can know like the Israelites in ancient times who responded to Nehemiah's call to rebuild Jerusalem with a resounding, Let us start rebuilding that you played a crucial role in blessing the Israeli people and rebuilding the Jewish state.
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=appeal_october
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Ex-Israel PM Sharon rushed to intensive care From correspondents in Jerusalem November 04, 2006 12:07am
ISRAEL'S former prime minister Ariel Sharon has been rushed to intensive care due to a fresh deterioration in his fragile health, 10 months after falling into a deep coma following a huge stroke.Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was transferred this morning from the Sheba Medical Centre department of respiratory rehabilitation to its intensive care unit, due to a weakening of his condition,the hospital treating him announced.Sharon contracted an infection that is affecting his heart and will receive intensive treatment to combat the infection.At this point, his condition is stable.
The hospital provided no further comment.
The former statesman who oversaw Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 following a 38-year occupation of the Palestinian territory, dramatically disappeared from public life after suffering a brain haemorrhage in January.Today's announcement was the first public update on the 78-year-old Mr Sharon's health since August, when he was removed after yet another spell in intensive care having come down with pneumonia and kidney problems.Mr Sharon, who was elected premier in early 2001, suffered a huge stroke on January 4 and was moved from a Jerusalem hospital in May to Tel Hashomer, a facility on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, for long-term treatment.His collapse signalled a dramatic end to the career of the former general who had been on course at the time for re-election as head of the brand-new Kadima party he created just two months before falling ill.Mr Sharon, who came to be revered by Israelis as a father figure after his career underwent a dramatic rehabilitation, was succeeded by his close ally Ehud Olmert, who led Kadima to a less than convincing victory in a March election.
Mr Sharon had called an early election on the same day as quitting his long-time political home in the right-wing Likud party, fed up with hardliners who refused to forgive him for unilaterally pulling Israel out of Gaza.He masterminded Israel's disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon as defence minister before assuming the premiership following several stints in the cabinet.At one stage, an official Israeli commission declared him unfit for public office over his role in a massacre by Christian militiamen of Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps during Israel's invasion of Lebanon.Mr Sharon was also heavily blamed for sparking the second Palestinian uprising by visiting Jerusalem's disputed Al-Aqsa mosque compound in September 2000.But he managed to salvage his reputation internationally by ordering the first ever evacuation of Jews from occupied Palestinian territory in 2005.
Mr Sharon's disengagement from Gaza had been expected to allow Mr Olmert to pull tens of thousands of Jewish settlers out of the West Bank later.But those plans now appear to be dead in the water, following Israel's war in Lebanon and ongoing operations in the Gaza Strip to retrieve an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants on June 25 and stop rocket attacks.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran test-fires 3 new missiles in Gulf By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has successfully test-fired three new models of sea missiles in a show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf, military officials said Friday.Television showed footage of the elite Revolutionary Guards firing the missiles from warships and from mobile launching pads on the shore.Iranian forces have previously test-fired missiles in the crowded Gulf waters, but the new maneuvers, which began on Thursday, appeared to be Iran's response to a U.S.-led military exercise held earlier this week in the same zone.The maneuvers are not a threat to any neighboring country, said Gen. Ali Fazli, the spokesman for the Iranian war games.Iran nonetheless insisted the new sea missiles enhanced its military muscle in the Gulf, where most of the world's oil is extracted.The weapons are suitable for covering all the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian gulf and the sea of Oman,said Adm. Sardar Fadavi, the deputy navy chief of the Revolutionary Guard.
Some 20 percent of the world's oil supply passes every day through the strategic Strait of Hormuz.The three new types of missiles, named Noor, Kowsar, and Nasr, have a range of about 106 miles and were built for naval warfare, TV reported. Iranian sea missiles previously had a range of 75 miles, TV quoted Fadavi as saying.The new tests demonstrate Iran's military capacities at sea, the admiral said.State TV said the new missiles were Iranian-made and could be used in lant-to-sea or sea-to-sea warfare. It did not give more details about the weapons.The Revolutionary Guards began the maneuvers, named Great Prophet, on Thursday by firing dozens of long-range missiles in a desert area of central Iran.Iran insisted the renewed saber-rattling was not intended at intimidating countries in the region. We are in good interaction with our neighbors, said Fazli, the military spokesman.
On Thursday, however, Iran said it hoped the war games would send world powers a strong message. We want to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, said in a clear reference to the United States, Britain and France, who were among the six nations that took part in the Gulf maneuvers this week.Iran called adventurist the U.S.-led naval exercise that ended on Monday, criticizing Arab states that took part and saying Gulf nations would be safer if they organized their own security alliance an implicit criticism of American military presence in the region.The U.S. Fifth fleet is stationed in Bahrain, a tiny oil kingdom located across the Gulf from Iran.
Iran remains locked in dispute with the West over its nuclear program, which Washington says is geared to producing atomic weapons but Tehran says is only for generating electricity.Asked about Thursday's maneuvers, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she thought the Iranians are trying to demonstrate that they are tough.The Islamic Republic has already held three large-scale military exercises this year. In its April exercises, Iran tested what it called an ultra-horizon missile, which is fired from helicopters and jet fighters, and the Fajr-3 missile, which can reportedly evade radar and use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously.While U.S. officials have suggested that Iran is exaggerating the capabilities of its newly developed weapons, Washington and its allies have been watching the country's progress in missile technology with concern.
The U.S.-led maneuvers that finished Monday focused on surveillance, with warships tracking a vessel suspected of carrying nuclear components or illegal weapons. The nations that took part were Australia, Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy and the United States. The U.N. Security Council is considering imposing sanctions on Iran, which has ignored demands that it cease uranium enrichment, a process that can produce the fuel for nuclear reactors or material for atomic bombs. Russia, a veto yielding power at the Security Council, said it opposed the U.N. sanctions in their current form.
Palestinian Authority Terrorists Use Female Shields Against IDF
By Hana Levi Julian(INN)
Palestinian Authority terrorists used women to protect them from arrest by IDF soldiers at the cost of life on Friday. One woman died in Gaza. Arab women in northern Gaza were urged in a radio broadcast Friday morning to go to a mosque in Beit Hanoun to serve as human shields for gunmen holed up in the Muslim religious building surrounded by IDF forces. According to military sources a number of Arab terrorists who were wanted for Kassam rocket attacks had taken refuge in the mosque, which was also used as a storehouse for weapons and other materials. The women rushed to the building despite the exchange of gunfire between the terrorists and IDF soldiers. Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene.
Meanwhile, Israeli special forces surrounded a house in Bethlehem on Friday and ordered the terrorists to surrender. The armed Arabs opened fire and in an ensuing shootout, one soldier was wounded by a ricocheted bullet and evacuated to a hospital in light to moderate condition. Two IDF companies provided backup for the front unit.Arab sources say that one woman was killed in the gunfire, but the IDF spokesman said that it could not confirm that its soldiers had hit any bystanders.
Income Trust Investments
By BobThompson Nov 03 2006
It was a bit of a shock this week, but once again a Canadian ruling party has made a statement on income trusts. As you may recall, income trusts are investment entities that flow through earnings to shareholders, resulting in no tax being paid at the corporate level. The investor, or unit holder, in turn pays the tax. More and more companies have been converting themselves to income trusts in the last few years, and more and more investors have been using them to receive a steady income stream. This week, we will talk a bit about trusts. I write this on Wednesday, as we have seen a $23 billion drop in the value of trusts on the market today. I won’t dive into the pros and cons, or personal opinions on the decision of the tax trusts, but I will highlight some facts for you to ponder. First, there are four basic types of income trusts. Utility trusts are companies like power generation businesses. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) invest in a portfolio of real estate income producing properties, and energy and resource trusts have properties that produce oil, gas, coal, iron or other commodities. Lastly, business trusts are businesses that could include anything from auto shops, to pizza, to restaurant chains. As far as the tax changes, it looks like REITs will not necessarily be affected, whereas the other trusts will be taxed to some extent under the current proposals. We will have to see how things develop in the future but for now, I have included excerpts from the Ministry of Finance press release.
• For months there has been a growing trend toward corporate tax avoidance. Top Canadian companies, operating within the current rules, have announced their intention to convert to income trusts. They feel compelled to seek more favourable tax treatment by capitalizing on an available tax rule.
• For income trusts that begin trading after today, these measures will apply beginning with their 2007 taxation year. For existing income trusts and limited partnerships the government is proposing a four-year transition period. They will not be subject to the new measures until their 2011 taxation year.
The time has come for Canada’s New Government to act, said Minister Flaherty. By introducing our Tax Fairness Plan today we are acting in the national interest, doing what’s right for all Canadians, and significantly enhancing the incentives to save and invest for family retirement security.
If the proposals made this week go through, then people will have to reassess some of the ways they derive income from their portfolios. Probably some of the trusts will go back to the normal corporate structure, and some may get bought out. It will be an interesting time going forward, and I’m sure there will be lots of discussion on the subject for a long time to come.
Tip of the Week
Pursuant to my job as an alternative investment strategist at my company, from time to time I go on Report on Business Television to discuss non-traditional investment strategies. With regard to the current big news in the income trust sector, I was on TV on Thursday morning. If you are interested in seeing the segment, which lasted about five minutes, feel free to go to www.robtv.com, then click on WATCH PAST VIDEOS. Once you are there, click on the tab THURSDAY, then scroll down to 11:15 a.m. (Eastern). Click on play, and that will be me. For more information, please contact Bob Thompson at 604-643-7743. Dollars and Sense is a regular column appearing in the NewsLeader. Burnaby News Leader
THERE WILL BE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT HEADED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,12,16-18
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
Britons are the most spied on in Europe
03.11.2006 - 09:41 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk (EU OBSERVER)
Britain has emerged as surveillance society number one, while Germany is the only EU country offering significant privacy protection, according to a study by civil liberties group Privacy International.It estimates that there are now over four million cameras in Britain, one for every 14 residents, a 300 percent increase in just three years.The average Briton is captured about 300 times a day on film.The study, called The Privacy and Human Rights Report, assesses the state of technology, surveillance and privacy protection in all EU countries together with eleven benchmark countries.Britain ranks as the worst western democracy at protecting individual privacy, at the level of Russia, China, Malaysia and Singapore.Only slightly better were the US, Thailand and the Philippines, described as extensive surveillance societies.
The report runs to almost 1,200 pages and holds a chapter for each of the countries ranked.The aim of the study was not to humiliate the worst ranking nations, according to its foreword "but to demonstrate that it is possible to maintain a healthy respect for privacy within a secure and fully functional democracy.
Britain in the black box
Germany comes out as the only EU country offering significant privacy protection, followed by Belgium, Austria and Greece offering adequate safeguards against abuse, while citizens in nine EU countries are exposed to systemic failure to uphold safeguards. These are Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Spain, Slovenia, Netherlands and Sweden.Only the UK ranks in the black box of endemic surveillance societies.Richard Thomas, the UK's independent information commissioner, said clear lines needed to be drawn for the monitoring of people.Two years ago I warned that we were in danger of sleepwalking into a surveillance society. Today I fear that we are in fact waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us, Mr Thomas said, according to Reuters. And it is not only cameras on the streets that are watching over Europeans.
The internet will hold so much digital data in the future that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, according to Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance.He said, according to UK daily the Guardian, that people would be able to sit down and type into search engine Google what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer.
Friday, November 03, 2006
IRAN 10 DAYS OF WAR GAMES
1-WORLD EARTHQUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS). 2-TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH.3-German court deals blow to Berlin's EU constitution plans.4-Israel marks 11 years since Rabin assassination. 5-Tensions Rise as Homosexhibitionist Parade Nears/ 6-Hundreds to Commemorate Genesis and Land of Israel Weekends. 7-Jesus Only Way to Stop Radical Islam, Former Muslim Says.8-Seafood Population Depleted by 2048, Study Finds. 9-First woman priest to head US church. 10-US pastor resigns in gay sex row. 11-Tuberculosis returns with big jump in cases. 12-Iran begins 10 days of war games.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD EARTHQUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Fri Nov 3, 7:47:04 AM EDT 2006
NOV 03,2006
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 PAGAN REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
NOV 02,2006
MAP 5.0 CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 VIRGINIA
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.3 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.4 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH.
Stan
I am attaching below what is perhaps the most important column that I have ever written. It is an appeal to US President George W. Bush from one man of faith to another to take military action against Iran to stop its drive toward obtaining nuclear weapons.I feel that I am being guided in faith to try and spread this message as widely as possible, so if there is anything you can do to help get it
out to a wider audience in the US especially among Christians I would appreciate it very much.
Thanks, and G-d bless,
Michael Freund
An appeal of faith to President George W. Bush
by Michael Freund
Dear Mr. President, I am writing to you because I am afraid. I have been closely following the rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the past few months, and I want you to know that I am gripped with a sense of fear.I fear for the future of Israel and for that of the entire Jewish people, as the would-be Hitler of Persia readies to do battle against us with the most horrific of weapons.I fear for the future of the West, because outside of Washington, few and far between are the leaders with the common sense and courage to stand up to the Tyrant of Teheran.And I fear for the future of the world, because if Iran's fundamentalists get their hands on a nuclear weapon, it will only be a matter of time before their extremist allies abroad become similarly armed.
Hence, I am writing to you because I am convinced that you alone understand and appreciate the gravity of the current situation, and I pray in my heart that you will not let it stand.I appeal to you now, not as a political analyst nor as a newspaper columnist, but as one man of faith to another: Please strike Iran hard with military force, and dismantle its nuclear weapons program, before it is too late.I know you believe, as I do, that God guides the destiny of men and of nations. And I know you believe, just as I do, that He raised you up to the helm of power precisely at this critical period, to serve as His agent and His instrument in this world.The God of history has chosen you, Mr. President, just as He did Churchill, and He has entrusted you with a sacred mandate: to save the world from the designs of a madman.
I can tell you that in Israel, a sense of dread has slowly, but surely, begun to sink in. As the Sunday Times of London reported earlier this week, a growing number of my fellow Jews have begun to build underground nuclear shelters adjacent to their homes.The shelters, says the Times, are built to withstand radioactive fallout, have fortified walls and doors and generate their own electricity and decontaminated air. Hundreds of such bunkers, reports the paper, have been built in recent months, and demand is soaring.Mr. President, just the other night, I went out with my family for dinner to a restaurant in Herzliya, the city named after Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl, who foresaw the need to establish a safe haven for the Jewish people. Our waitress was an attractive and cheerful young lady who moved to Israel 16 years ago at the age of four from her native Lithuania, where her family had suffered anti-Semitism and persecution.
But when we asked her if she was happy living here in the Jewish state, the smile on her lips quickly faded. Glumly, she answered us with the following words: That Ahmadinejad of Iran, he scares me. It is a very scary situation. And indeed it is, Mr. President, because my people are in danger once again. It was just six decades ago that the Europeans tossed us into Hitler's ovens and turned 6 million Jews into ashes. Now, with no shame, they stand by silently as Iran seeks to do the same.The United Nations is a lost cause, and we have no faith in Russia, China or international institutions.
The sad fact is that most of the world will not shed a tear if Mr. Ahmadinejad succeeds in achieving his dreadful aims.Here in Israel, our own leadership is tired and weak. They have lost their way, and they are no longer anchored in faith. As we saw this past summer in the Lebanon war, they stumble about as though walking in darkness, oblivious to the danger that stalks us all.There is only one person now, Mr. President, who can stop this terrifying scenario from coming to pass, and I believe that person is you.
I think of you often, and when I do, I am guided in faith to the fourth chapter of the Book of Esther in the Bible, where the evil Persian court officer Haman threatened the Jewish people with extinction. After Mordechai the Jew got wind of Haman's plot, he passed along a message of great urgency to Queen Esther: Who knows, perhaps it was precisely for a moment such as this that you have attained power? Mr. President, that message was as compelling then as it is today, and I believe it is clearly directed to you too.
The decision you face is not an easy one, and I do not mean to suggest otherwise. But there are moments when a leader, like Joshua of old, must be strong and of good courage (Joshua Chapter 1), and not shy away from doing what must be done. In the case of Iran, there can be no room for retreat or for shrinking back from the task at hand. The stakes are simply too great.
Iran can and must be stopped, and the only way to do so is through the use of military force.Diplomacy and resolutions are a smoke screen, and you know as well as I do that they will not slow Iran's steady drive toward obtaining a nuclear arsenal. Only the long and powerful arm of the United States, flexed with all its might, can and will be able to do the job.Sure, the critics and the nay-sayers will try to tear you down, just as they have been doing since you the day you were elected. They will heap scorn on you, call you a warmonger and worse, and denigrate you and your family for many, many years to come.But please don't allow them to deter you or to drive you to despair. Don't let them drown out that still, small voice within, the one that reaches into each of our hearts and calls out every day: I am the Lord, and there is none else (Isaiah Chapter 45).
Mr. President, you know as well as I do that history's final verdict is not written by academics, nor is it determined by the opinion-mongers at The New York Times.The one and only verdict, the one that really, truly counts, is the one that is penned in heaven, by He Who gave each of us life. It is to Him, and Him alone, that we will all have to answer.In just over two years you will leave office. In the greater scheme of things, I am convinced that your legacy will depend largely on the decisions that you make in the coming few months about what to do with Iran.I urge you, I plead with you: don't walk out of the White House in January 2009 without having stopped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Don't leave the fate of Israel and the Jewish people hanging in the balance.
Remember the promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis Chapter 12: I will bless those that bless you, and those that curse you I shall curse.Note that when it comes to standing by Israel and the Jewish people, there is no middle ground. God delineates two categories, and two categories only: those who bless Israel, and those who curse it.You are in a unique position to bless Israel, and through it, all of humanity, by removing the nuclear sword from the hand of the Persian executioner.The same God Who spoke, and said, Let there be light, and there was light, surely expects you to do nothing less.I will be praying for you, as will many others, and I hope that you take this message to heart.Be strong, be strong, Mr. President, and through you, may we all be strengthened.
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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
German court deals blow to Berlin's EU constitution plans
02.11.2006 - 09:24 CET | By Honor Mahony (EU OBSERVER)
Germany's plans to put the EU constitution back on track early next year have been dealt a blow by the country's constitutional court in Karlsruhe.The court on Tuesday (31 October) said it would not rule on whether the EU charter was compatible with the German constitution until after a final decision had been taken on the overall fate of the document, which has been on political ice since it was rejected by French and Dutch voters last year.German constitutional judge Siegfried Bros, who is dealing with the EU constitution, said that a decision on the issue was currently not a priority.He added, according to German daily Die Welt, that as the EU constitutional process is still under discussion since the two no referendums last year, the issue is not urgent.Should the text stay as it is, said Mr Bros, he would resume work on the constitutional complaint adding there is definitely sufficient time to deal with the issue before 2009.
Setback for Merkel
The statements are a setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel who had recently put the EU constitution back on the bloc's political agenda by outlining a roadmap under which the document would be on its political feet by the European elections in mid 2009.
Berlin had been hoping for a decision by the federal constitutional court in early 2007 which would have coincided with the country's six-month stint at the EU helm.Instead, Mrs Merkel will be leading the constitutional revival efforts although Germany has not yet technically finished ratification. The German parliament ratified the constitution by an overwhelming majority in 2005 (569 of 603 votes) but president Horst Koehler refused to sign off the ratification process until the federal court had taken a decision on a complaint by centre-right MP Peter Gauweiler that the EU treaty was taking too much power from the national parliament.
The MP filed a legal complaint in 2005 that the EU constitution will take power away from the German parliament. He argued it oversteps the boundaries that the German constitution provides for the integration of state institutions in the EU. He also said that the German parliament cannot give more rights to the EU than it has itself.Hailing the court's decision on Tuesday, Mr Gauweiler said the EU constitution has in all probability also failed in Germany.
Second ratification?
Currently 14 member states have passed the EU charter which needs all 25 member states to ratify it before it can come into force.With Germany and France making statements on the constitution, the issue has slowly moved up the political agenda once more. However, each new pronouncement raises as many questions as it does answers. France's Nicolas Sarkozy recently suggested the constitution should be pared down to a mini treaty, raising questions for those who have already ratified the document.
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet told the Irish Times that countries that have already ratified the constitution should not have to ratify a second version of the document.For the future, our first preference is that we should avoid the situation that all those (...) countries have to ratify Constitutional Treaty Volume II or something like this, he said according to Thursday's newspaper.
Israel marks 11 years since Rabin assassination Thu Nov 2, 9:58 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has commemorated 11 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist with a series of memorial services across the country.
Thousands of dignitaries and citizens gathered at a graveside ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and beleaguered President Moshe Katsav, who could be facing an indictment over rape charges.Following the central memorial service, the parliament was to hold a special session in Rabin's memory where Olmert was to speak.On Saturday, thousands are expected to pack Tel Aviv Rabin Square for a memorial service at the same site where the premier was slain by right-wing radical Yigal Amir after a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4,1995.
A recent poll found that one in three Israelis were willing to see Amir, who shot Rabin for initiating the peace process with the Palestinians and who has never expressed regret for the murder, eventually pardoned. Only one in five Israelis held such a view last year.The general-turned-peacemaker inspired both admiration and hatred for signing the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords with the Palestinians, for which he shared the 1994 Nobel peace prize with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, then foreign minister, and the late Palestinian leader,Yasser Arafat.
Tensions Rise as Homosexhibitionist Parade Nears
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The High Court has been asked to order the cancellation of the homosexual exhibitionist march in order to avoid violence. Apparent supporters of the parade vandalized a synagogue in Tel Aviv. Worshipers at the Geulat Yisrael synagogue in central Tel Aviv arrived this morning to find broken windows and this message scrawled on one of the walls: If we don't march in Jerusalem, you won't walk in Tel Aviv.
The police have begun an investigation.Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, a former Neturei Karta member who now heads the Zaka emergency rescue and recovery organization, has filed a suit with the Supreme Court against the parade. The suit, filed against Israel Police and Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco, demands that the march be called off in order not to endanger the public.
Already today, Meshi-Zahav told Ynet, the hospitals are preparing, police won't be allowed to go on vacations, thousands of security force personnel are being enlisted, there is tension, disturbances and demonstrations and there's no reason for this whole mess. Asked why he is taking action against the homosexuals and not those who threaten violence against them, Meshi-Zahav said, The marchers have the alternative of marching somewhere else, but the opponents of the parade have no alternatives.
As others before him, Meshi-Zahav cites the ban on Jews entering the Temple Mount most of the year because of a fear of Arab violence. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor, of the Almagor Terror Victims Association, said that if the police do not cancel the parade but rather provide increased protection, I will petition the Supreme Court to allow and protect Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, despite the threats of Arab violence that will result.
Two months ago, when the marchers wished to hold the offensive event on the day before Rosh HaShanah, the Supreme Court oversaw a compromise in which the date would be pushed off to Nov. 10.
But they didn't take into account what has been happening in Jerusalem over the past two days, Meshi-Zahav said. Maybe [Franco] thought he would get it done easily, but he is not, and the public leaders told him clearly that it would not pass easily.Similar homosexual marches in Israel and around the world have not limited themselves to dignified calls for equal rights, but included also exhibitionist men and women in various states of undress.
What may be acceptable in Scandinavia or Amsterdam has no place in the Holy Land,say both Jewish and Moslem leaders.
Pro-Arab and anti-Israel messages are often promulgated at these marches as well.Among the planned protest activities will be a mass public recital of Psalms outside the Great Synagogue on King George St., beginning at 9:00 on the morning of the planned march, Nov. 10. Many synagogue will hold services on the street this Sabbath, and rabbis' sermons will concentrate on the sanctity of marital relations and the obligation to protest against evil. The route of the Friday afternoon march will take it from Independence Park, not far from the Great Synagogue, down Agron and King David Streets, and then to Liberty Bell Park, where the marchers will hold a concluding rally.
Hundreds to Commemorate Genesis and Land of Israel Weekends
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The Land of Israel and the Book of Genesis read aloud on autumn weekends in synagogues around the world are deeply intertwined, and special Sabbaths mark the connection.
This weekend, Parshat Lekh Lekha Genesis 12-17 is read aloud, detailing the Divinely-commanded journeys of the Patriarch Abraham from his father's house in Mesopotamia to the Land of Israel.
The journeys end in the place near Shechem, Elon Moreh - and a special mass Sabbath gathering to mark the occasion will be held this week in present-day Elon Moreh, just east of Shechem. With past experience as the guide, hundreds of people are expected to attend - even though Elon Moreh is the furthest large Yesha community from central Israel. It will be the ninth consecutive year in which the Elon Moreh weekend is being held.
The theme of the weekend will be National Responsibility specifically the religious-Zionist camp's outreach movements that are beginning to make inroads around the country. This is based on Abraham's efforts to bring his neighbors close to G-d and bring them under the wings of the Divine Presence, the organizers explain.Elon Moreh was the first Jewish community in the Shomron over 30 years ago, and continues to blaze many new trails even today, the Shabbaton organizers say. Several years ago, the town prepared in advance for the government's dry up Yesha policy, preparing many new apartments for families, and for this reason, Elon Moreh continues to grow by tens of families each year.This is not the only special Sabbath being held these weeks throughout Judea and Samaria. In two weeks' time, the Torah portion Chaye Sarah (beginning in Gen. 23) detailing the purchase of the Machpelah Cave in Hevron will be read, and thousands of people are expected to follow tradition by flocking to Hevron for the occasion.
Shortly afterwards, when VaYetze (beginning in Gen. 28) and the story of Jacob's dream in Beit El is read, the new-old town of Beit El will host hundreds of people for its anniversary Sabbath. The event will mark 29 years since the re-founding of Beit El, some 20 kilometers north of Jerusalem.Finally, the anniversary of the death of Matriarch Rachel - whose death and burial is recounted in more than one place in Genesis - is being marked today (Thursday), the 11th of the month of MarCheshvan. Thousands of people have already frequented the holy site in Bethlehem - less than one kilometer south of the Jerusalem city lines - today, and more continue to arrive.
Jesus Only Way to Stop Radical Islam, Former Muslim Says
Chad Groening (Crosswalk.com)
A former Muslim woman who has dedicated herself to winning Muslims to Christ has traveled to India to witness to that country's large Muslim population.W.L. Cati recently traveled to an area of northeastern India that is dominated by the country's Muslim minority. The founder and president of Florida-based White Horse Ministry says she plans to speak two to three times a day, carrying the message of the gospel. Christ, says Cati, is the best hope for stopping radical Islam.That's the bottom line. Our salvation is their salvation,says the former Muslim. We need to stop playing patty-cake with them and start giving them the truth and praying that they find Jesus because if they don't, we're all going to be wearing the veil soon.Cati expresses her excitement about witnessing to the large Muslim community in the area and says she is expecting tangible results.
[The area is] full of Muslims. I'm really expecting signs, wonders, and miracles, whatever it takes to bring them into the kingdom, she shares. So I'm going there, laying my life down for their salvation.Cati says the group she is traveling with plans to distribute 7,000 copies of the JESUS video in three languages that are spoken in that country. Her ministry's former name was Zennah Ministries.AgapePress
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Well heres proof the Bible will come to Pass, the secular world are saying this also, that everything in the sea will die. The only difference I believe it will be in 10-15 years at the latest.
Seafood Population Depleted by 2048, Study Finds
By Juliet Eilperin,Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006; 2:28 PM
The world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, according to a study released today by an international group of ecologists and economists.The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution, and other environmental factors are wiping out important species across the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease.We really see the end of the line now, said lead author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University. It's within our lifetime. Our children will see a world without seafood if we don't change things.The 14 researchers from Canada, Panama, Sweden and the United States spent four years analyzing all the available data on fish populations and ocean ecosystems to reach their conclusion. They found that by 2003 the last year for which data on global commercial fish catches is available 29 percent of all fished species had collapsed, and that the rate of population collapses has accelerated in recent years.
As of 1980, just 13.5 percent of fished species had collapsed, even though fishing vessels were pursuing 1,736 fewer species back then. Today, the fishing industry harvests 7,784 species commercially.It's like hitting the gas pedal and holding it down at a constant level, Worm said in an telephone interview. The rate accelerates over time.Some American fishery management officials, industry representatives and academics questioned the team's dire predictions, however, saying countries such as the U.S. and New Zealand have taken steps in recent years to halt the depletion of their commercial fisheries.The projection is way too pessimistic, at least for the United States, said Steven Murawski, chief scientist for the National Marine Fisheries Service. We've got the message. We will continue to reverse this trend.
The National Fisheries Institute, a trade group representing seafood producers as well as suppliers, restaurants and grocery chains, said in a statement that most wild marine stocks remain sustainable. It added that its members could meet the rising global demand for seafood in part by relying on farmed fish: To meet the gap between what wild capture can provide sustainably and the growing demand for seafood, aquaculture is filling that need.But several scientists challenged that prediction and questioned why humanity should pay for a resource that the ocean had long provided for free. It's like turning on the air conditioning rather than
opening the window,said Stanford University marine sciences professor Stephen R. Palumbi, one of the paper's authors.
Oregon State University marine biologist Jane Lubchenco said the new study makes clear that fish stocks are in trouble even though consumers appear to have a cornucopia of seafood choices.I think people don't get it, Lubchenco said. They think, If there is a problem with the oceans, how come the case in my grocery store is so full?' There is a disconnect.The researchers said the loss of so many species is eroding the viability of marine ecosystems and their ability to resist environmental stresses. In 12 marine ecosystems they surveyed, they found than a decline in biodiversity of 50 percent or more cut the number of viable fisheries by 33 percent, reduced nursery habitats by 69 percent and cut the ocean's capacity to filter and detoxify contaminants by 63 percent.
This phenomenon is visible in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, where the collapse of the oyster fishery has reverberated across the ecosystem. In 1880 there were enough oysters to filter all the water in the bay in three days; by 1988 it took more than a year for the remaining oysters to accomplish the same task.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
JUDE 4-16
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
SCOFFERS MOCKING CHRISTS LITERAL 2ND COMING TO EARTH BODILY.
2 PETER 3:3-7
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
LETHARGY AND INDIFFERENCE AMONG GODS PEOPLE.
REVELATION 3:14-16
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
This so called New Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori says all paths lead to God, Allows Gays, and calls God a Woman. INTERESTINGGGGGGGGGG,but Lukewarm reality.
First woman priest to head US church
Thursday, November 2, 2006 (New York):
Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal bishop in the western state of Nevada, thought the odds she would be elected to lead the church nationally were ridiculous.I was a woman, fairly young, I hadn't been a bishop all that long, and I was serving a diocese that's not part of the Eastern establishment,the 52-year-old Jefferts Schori said.Then came the surprise: she won anyway, in balloting at the Episcopal General Convention this June. On Saturday, Jefferts Schori will be installed as presiding bishop at the Washington National Cathedral, becoming the first woman priest to lead a national church in the nearly 500-year-old Anglican Communion.
The Bible is full of stories of the younger son being called and the outsider being called by God to serve, Jefferts Schori said in an interview this week. I think courage is a central characteristic of leadership. If you're not willing to go into dangerous places, you have no business doing this work,she added.The perils for anyone leading The Episcopal Church right now are considerable.
Debating sexuality
The 2.3 million-member denomination is at the center of a worldwide Anglican feud over how to interpret what the Bible says about sexuality and other issues. Jefferts Schori unapologetically supports ordaining gays and allowing blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples. In 2003, she voted to confirm New Hampshire Bishop V Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop.
The uproar over his consecration is threatening to split the Anglican family, of which The Episcopal Church is the American branch.I'm clear about this role involving the entire breadth of The Episcopal Church, Jefferts Schori said. But at some level, I don't think it's appropriate for me to disguise what my own theological understanding is. I'm someone who believes transparency is incredibly important. It's part of integrity,she added.Yet the bishop also is aware that compromise is necessary to heal the rift with overseas Anglicans, a goal she says is important to her.
Saddening compromise
She believes Episcopalians should fulfil the request of Anglican leaders that the American church stop consecrating any more gay bishops for now, and should refrain from developing an official prayer service to bless same-gender couples.There's a piece of me that is very sad that we need to do that, she said, but there's a piece of me that understands that for the health of the larger body, we might have to do that for a season.Having served just five years as a bishop, Jefferts Schori knows her experience in the church may seem all too brief for such an important job. But she has spent her life tackling outsized challenges.
She is an oceanographer who graduated from Stanford University and earned a doctorate at Oregon State, working at sea with boat captains more accustomed to all-male research crews.A pilot with more than 500 hours logged, she flew her plane to visit parishes in the sprawling Nevada Diocese. She also rock climbs with her husband of more than 25 years, Richard Schori, a theoretical mathematician and retired university professor. Their daughter, 25-year-old Katharine Johanna, is a pilot in the US Air Force. (AP)
US pastor resigns in gay sex row
Mr Haggard said he stepped aside voluntarily
The leader of the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals in the US has resigned after being accused of paying for sex with a man.The Reverend Ted Haggard said he would also temporarily step aside as head of his 14,000-strong New Life Church while his colleagues investigated the claims.Mr Haggard, who is known as a vocal opponent of same-sex marriages, denies the accusations.The claims were made by a man during a radio show in Denver, Colorado. In a statement to the New Life Church, Mr Haggard said he could not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations.Mike Jones said he had been paid to have sex I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity, he said.In an interview with KUSA-TV, Mr Haggard said he never had a gay relationship with anybody.
I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife, he said.Mr Haggard, who has five children, became the president of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2003.He has been described as one of the most influential evangelical Christians in the US.
Allegations
The row began after Mike Jones said he had been paid to have sex with Mr Haggard nearly every month over the past three years. The allegations come as voters in Colorado and several other US states are due to hold simultaneous votes on gay marriage laws. Mr Jones, 49, said Mr Haggard's public stance on gay marriage had prompted him to reveal the details of their relationship. It made me angry that here's someone preaching about gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex,Mr Jones told the Associated Press news agency.
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
Tuberculosis returns with big jump in cases
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 03 November 2006,The Independent
Almost two centuries after the poet John Keats coughed, turned his pillow crimson and died, specialists have warned that the disease that killed him is on its way back.The number of cases of tuberculosis, one of the worlds deadliest and hardest to treat diseases, leapt by almost 11 per cent last year to 8,115, the highest total for more than 20 years.Known as the white death because of the deathly pallor of its victims, TB claimed the lives of Chopin, three of the Brontes, Modigliani, Kafka, Stevenson, Lawrence, Chekhov and Orwell.It had been thought beaten by the introduction of powerful drugs in the mid -20th century and cases fell to an all-time low of about 5,700 a year in the late 1980s. But since then they have been increasing year on year and last year was the largest increase since 1999.
Professor Peter Borriello, director of the Centre for Infections at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), which published the latest figures, said:The Black Death, smallpox and tuberculosis were the major killers of the past. Tuberculosis is the bogeyman that is returning.The disease is politically sensitive because the increase over the past decade has been almost wholly confined to the immigrant community.John Watson, head of the HPA's Respiratory Diseases Department, said the largest rise last year was seen among people not born in the UK, who accounted for 5,310 cases, 72 per cent of the total.
Rates among the indigenous population were low and stable.Four out of five cases among immigrants involved people who had been in the country for more than two years, who would not have been picked up by screening at the point of entry, he said.They had either caught the infection after they arrived or their disease was latent when they arrived in the country and it only emerged later. TB infection can lie dormant for decades only flaring into active disease when the patient's immunity is low.
A blood test for detecting the condition in its dormant state is commercially available but it could be five years before trials established it as an effective screening mechanism, specialists said.John Moore-Gillon, president of the British Lung Foundation, called for more resources to target high-risk groups and recruit more TB nurses. If we are going to stop TB we have to have action now, he said.When I started training I never dreamt I would see the number of cases we are seeing today. Something fairly dramatic is going on.
But he questioned the Home Office strategy of X-raying people applying to enter the UK a scheme introduced just last year. The programme operates in Bangladesh, Sudan, Tanzania and Thailand for people wishing to come to the UK for more than six months.We need informed thinking on migration and what X-rays can and cannot achieve, he said.There are 10 new cases of TB a day in London and more than 600 of the total diagnosed last year were drug resistant. Drug resistant strains can take over a year to treat and cost tens of thousands of pounds. England and Wales are the only countries in the EU to have seen an increase in TB cases over the past 10 years. Germany, France and Spain have seen decreases of up to 35 per cent. In New York, the number of cases has more than halved in the past decade.
Caroline Flint, the Public Health minister, said TB was a global problem that could not be solved by countries in isolation. We cannot be complacent about this issue. There are no short-term solutions to tackling TB - this will need long-term, concerted action.Andrew Murrison, a shadow health minister, said: This is alarming. It suggests that, for all its rhetoric, the Government has failed to get a grip on an important public health issue that is preventable and treatable.Almost two centuries after the poet John Keats coughed, turned his pillow crimson and died, specialists have warned that the disease that killed him is on its way back.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran begins 10 days of war games
Robert Tait in Tehran,Thursday November 2, 2006,Guardian Unlimited
Iran opened a sabre-rattling show of military might today by firing a long-range weapon said to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads and striking Israel and US forces in the Middle East.Revolutionary Guards tested a Shahab-3 missile at the start of 10 days of war games in a calculated rebuff to the west as it seeks to impose sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme. The UN security council’s permanent five members - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany are locked in discussions over an appropriate punishment for Iran’s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, which many in the west suspect is a front for making atomic bombs.The war games, codenamed Operation Great Prophet 2, were announced in retaliation for US-led manoeuvres earlier this week in the strategically vital Gulf, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes. In an apparent rehearsal for an anti-Iranian embargo, allied warships practised surveillance of suspected illegal shipments of weapons parts. The US and Britain want sanctions to include a ban on components that could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Iran denounced the manoeuvres in which Britain also participated along with France, Italy, Australia and Bahrain as adventurist. It responded yesterday by announcing a series of exercises in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and 14 provinces across the country. The head of the Revolutionary Guards, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said Iran’s response was not intended to threaten its neighbours but as a powerful signal to its enemies. We want to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message of the manoeuvres, he said.The first and main goal is to demonstrate the power and national determination to defend the country against possible threat.The Shahab-3 missile fired today has an estimated range of 1,240 miles.
State television said the exercises also included tests on the shorter-range Shahab-2 to take account of adjustments to install it with cluster warheads and give it the capacity to carry 1,400 bombs.
Solid-fuel Zalzal missiles were also launched, as were guided missiles as well as Scud-B, Zolfaghar-73 and Z-3 weapons. It is the third set of war games Iran’s military has staged this year as it has stepped up activity in response to escalating tensions over the nuclear crisis. In April, new missiles and torpedoes were tested in what was seen as a display of Iran’s potential to disrupt oil
shipments. Further tests were conducted in August, days after Iran had flouted a security council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD EARTHQUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Fri Nov 3, 7:47:04 AM EDT 2006
NOV 03,2006
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 PAGAN REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
NOV 02,2006
MAP 5.0 CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 VIRGINIA
MAP 2.8 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.3 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.4 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH.
Stan
I am attaching below what is perhaps the most important column that I have ever written. It is an appeal to US President George W. Bush from one man of faith to another to take military action against Iran to stop its drive toward obtaining nuclear weapons.I feel that I am being guided in faith to try and spread this message as widely as possible, so if there is anything you can do to help get it
out to a wider audience in the US especially among Christians I would appreciate it very much.
Thanks, and G-d bless,
Michael Freund
An appeal of faith to President George W. Bush
by Michael Freund
Dear Mr. President, I am writing to you because I am afraid. I have been closely following the rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the past few months, and I want you to know that I am gripped with a sense of fear.I fear for the future of Israel and for that of the entire Jewish people, as the would-be Hitler of Persia readies to do battle against us with the most horrific of weapons.I fear for the future of the West, because outside of Washington, few and far between are the leaders with the common sense and courage to stand up to the Tyrant of Teheran.And I fear for the future of the world, because if Iran's fundamentalists get their hands on a nuclear weapon, it will only be a matter of time before their extremist allies abroad become similarly armed.
Hence, I am writing to you because I am convinced that you alone understand and appreciate the gravity of the current situation, and I pray in my heart that you will not let it stand.I appeal to you now, not as a political analyst nor as a newspaper columnist, but as one man of faith to another: Please strike Iran hard with military force, and dismantle its nuclear weapons program, before it is too late.I know you believe, as I do, that God guides the destiny of men and of nations. And I know you believe, just as I do, that He raised you up to the helm of power precisely at this critical period, to serve as His agent and His instrument in this world.The God of history has chosen you, Mr. President, just as He did Churchill, and He has entrusted you with a sacred mandate: to save the world from the designs of a madman.
I can tell you that in Israel, a sense of dread has slowly, but surely, begun to sink in. As the Sunday Times of London reported earlier this week, a growing number of my fellow Jews have begun to build underground nuclear shelters adjacent to their homes.The shelters, says the Times, are built to withstand radioactive fallout, have fortified walls and doors and generate their own electricity and decontaminated air. Hundreds of such bunkers, reports the paper, have been built in recent months, and demand is soaring.Mr. President, just the other night, I went out with my family for dinner to a restaurant in Herzliya, the city named after Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl, who foresaw the need to establish a safe haven for the Jewish people. Our waitress was an attractive and cheerful young lady who moved to Israel 16 years ago at the age of four from her native Lithuania, where her family had suffered anti-Semitism and persecution.
But when we asked her if she was happy living here in the Jewish state, the smile on her lips quickly faded. Glumly, she answered us with the following words: That Ahmadinejad of Iran, he scares me. It is a very scary situation. And indeed it is, Mr. President, because my people are in danger once again. It was just six decades ago that the Europeans tossed us into Hitler's ovens and turned 6 million Jews into ashes. Now, with no shame, they stand by silently as Iran seeks to do the same.The United Nations is a lost cause, and we have no faith in Russia, China or international institutions.
The sad fact is that most of the world will not shed a tear if Mr. Ahmadinejad succeeds in achieving his dreadful aims.Here in Israel, our own leadership is tired and weak. They have lost their way, and they are no longer anchored in faith. As we saw this past summer in the Lebanon war, they stumble about as though walking in darkness, oblivious to the danger that stalks us all.There is only one person now, Mr. President, who can stop this terrifying scenario from coming to pass, and I believe that person is you.
I think of you often, and when I do, I am guided in faith to the fourth chapter of the Book of Esther in the Bible, where the evil Persian court officer Haman threatened the Jewish people with extinction. After Mordechai the Jew got wind of Haman's plot, he passed along a message of great urgency to Queen Esther: Who knows, perhaps it was precisely for a moment such as this that you have attained power? Mr. President, that message was as compelling then as it is today, and I believe it is clearly directed to you too.
The decision you face is not an easy one, and I do not mean to suggest otherwise. But there are moments when a leader, like Joshua of old, must be strong and of good courage (Joshua Chapter 1), and not shy away from doing what must be done. In the case of Iran, there can be no room for retreat or for shrinking back from the task at hand. The stakes are simply too great.
Iran can and must be stopped, and the only way to do so is through the use of military force.Diplomacy and resolutions are a smoke screen, and you know as well as I do that they will not slow Iran's steady drive toward obtaining a nuclear arsenal. Only the long and powerful arm of the United States, flexed with all its might, can and will be able to do the job.Sure, the critics and the nay-sayers will try to tear you down, just as they have been doing since you the day you were elected. They will heap scorn on you, call you a warmonger and worse, and denigrate you and your family for many, many years to come.But please don't allow them to deter you or to drive you to despair. Don't let them drown out that still, small voice within, the one that reaches into each of our hearts and calls out every day: I am the Lord, and there is none else (Isaiah Chapter 45).
Mr. President, you know as well as I do that history's final verdict is not written by academics, nor is it determined by the opinion-mongers at The New York Times.The one and only verdict, the one that really, truly counts, is the one that is penned in heaven, by He Who gave each of us life. It is to Him, and Him alone, that we will all have to answer.In just over two years you will leave office. In the greater scheme of things, I am convinced that your legacy will depend largely on the decisions that you make in the coming few months about what to do with Iran.I urge you, I plead with you: don't walk out of the White House in January 2009 without having stopped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Don't leave the fate of Israel and the Jewish people hanging in the balance.
Remember the promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis Chapter 12: I will bless those that bless you, and those that curse you I shall curse.Note that when it comes to standing by Israel and the Jewish people, there is no middle ground. God delineates two categories, and two categories only: those who bless Israel, and those who curse it.You are in a unique position to bless Israel, and through it, all of humanity, by removing the nuclear sword from the hand of the Persian executioner.The same God Who spoke, and said, Let there be light, and there was light, surely expects you to do nothing less.I will be praying for you, as will many others, and I hope that you take this message to heart.Be strong, be strong, Mr. President, and through you, may we all be strengthened.
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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
German court deals blow to Berlin's EU constitution plans
02.11.2006 - 09:24 CET | By Honor Mahony (EU OBSERVER)
Germany's plans to put the EU constitution back on track early next year have been dealt a blow by the country's constitutional court in Karlsruhe.The court on Tuesday (31 October) said it would not rule on whether the EU charter was compatible with the German constitution until after a final decision had been taken on the overall fate of the document, which has been on political ice since it was rejected by French and Dutch voters last year.German constitutional judge Siegfried Bros, who is dealing with the EU constitution, said that a decision on the issue was currently not a priority.He added, according to German daily Die Welt, that as the EU constitutional process is still under discussion since the two no referendums last year, the issue is not urgent.Should the text stay as it is, said Mr Bros, he would resume work on the constitutional complaint adding there is definitely sufficient time to deal with the issue before 2009.
Setback for Merkel
The statements are a setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel who had recently put the EU constitution back on the bloc's political agenda by outlining a roadmap under which the document would be on its political feet by the European elections in mid 2009.
Berlin had been hoping for a decision by the federal constitutional court in early 2007 which would have coincided with the country's six-month stint at the EU helm.Instead, Mrs Merkel will be leading the constitutional revival efforts although Germany has not yet technically finished ratification. The German parliament ratified the constitution by an overwhelming majority in 2005 (569 of 603 votes) but president Horst Koehler refused to sign off the ratification process until the federal court had taken a decision on a complaint by centre-right MP Peter Gauweiler that the EU treaty was taking too much power from the national parliament.
The MP filed a legal complaint in 2005 that the EU constitution will take power away from the German parliament. He argued it oversteps the boundaries that the German constitution provides for the integration of state institutions in the EU. He also said that the German parliament cannot give more rights to the EU than it has itself.Hailing the court's decision on Tuesday, Mr Gauweiler said the EU constitution has in all probability also failed in Germany.
Second ratification?
Currently 14 member states have passed the EU charter which needs all 25 member states to ratify it before it can come into force.With Germany and France making statements on the constitution, the issue has slowly moved up the political agenda once more. However, each new pronouncement raises as many questions as it does answers. France's Nicolas Sarkozy recently suggested the constitution should be pared down to a mini treaty, raising questions for those who have already ratified the document.
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet told the Irish Times that countries that have already ratified the constitution should not have to ratify a second version of the document.For the future, our first preference is that we should avoid the situation that all those (...) countries have to ratify Constitutional Treaty Volume II or something like this, he said according to Thursday's newspaper.
Israel marks 11 years since Rabin assassination Thu Nov 2, 9:58 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has commemorated 11 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist with a series of memorial services across the country.
Thousands of dignitaries and citizens gathered at a graveside ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and beleaguered President Moshe Katsav, who could be facing an indictment over rape charges.Following the central memorial service, the parliament was to hold a special session in Rabin's memory where Olmert was to speak.On Saturday, thousands are expected to pack Tel Aviv Rabin Square for a memorial service at the same site where the premier was slain by right-wing radical Yigal Amir after a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4,1995.
A recent poll found that one in three Israelis were willing to see Amir, who shot Rabin for initiating the peace process with the Palestinians and who has never expressed regret for the murder, eventually pardoned. Only one in five Israelis held such a view last year.The general-turned-peacemaker inspired both admiration and hatred for signing the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords with the Palestinians, for which he shared the 1994 Nobel peace prize with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, then foreign minister, and the late Palestinian leader,Yasser Arafat.
Tensions Rise as Homosexhibitionist Parade Nears
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The High Court has been asked to order the cancellation of the homosexual exhibitionist march in order to avoid violence. Apparent supporters of the parade vandalized a synagogue in Tel Aviv. Worshipers at the Geulat Yisrael synagogue in central Tel Aviv arrived this morning to find broken windows and this message scrawled on one of the walls: If we don't march in Jerusalem, you won't walk in Tel Aviv.
The police have begun an investigation.Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, a former Neturei Karta member who now heads the Zaka emergency rescue and recovery organization, has filed a suit with the Supreme Court against the parade. The suit, filed against Israel Police and Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco, demands that the march be called off in order not to endanger the public.
Already today, Meshi-Zahav told Ynet, the hospitals are preparing, police won't be allowed to go on vacations, thousands of security force personnel are being enlisted, there is tension, disturbances and demonstrations and there's no reason for this whole mess. Asked why he is taking action against the homosexuals and not those who threaten violence against them, Meshi-Zahav said, The marchers have the alternative of marching somewhere else, but the opponents of the parade have no alternatives.
As others before him, Meshi-Zahav cites the ban on Jews entering the Temple Mount most of the year because of a fear of Arab violence. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor, of the Almagor Terror Victims Association, said that if the police do not cancel the parade but rather provide increased protection, I will petition the Supreme Court to allow and protect Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, despite the threats of Arab violence that will result.
Two months ago, when the marchers wished to hold the offensive event on the day before Rosh HaShanah, the Supreme Court oversaw a compromise in which the date would be pushed off to Nov. 10.
But they didn't take into account what has been happening in Jerusalem over the past two days, Meshi-Zahav said. Maybe [Franco] thought he would get it done easily, but he is not, and the public leaders told him clearly that it would not pass easily.Similar homosexual marches in Israel and around the world have not limited themselves to dignified calls for equal rights, but included also exhibitionist men and women in various states of undress.
What may be acceptable in Scandinavia or Amsterdam has no place in the Holy Land,say both Jewish and Moslem leaders.
Pro-Arab and anti-Israel messages are often promulgated at these marches as well.Among the planned protest activities will be a mass public recital of Psalms outside the Great Synagogue on King George St., beginning at 9:00 on the morning of the planned march, Nov. 10. Many synagogue will hold services on the street this Sabbath, and rabbis' sermons will concentrate on the sanctity of marital relations and the obligation to protest against evil. The route of the Friday afternoon march will take it from Independence Park, not far from the Great Synagogue, down Agron and King David Streets, and then to Liberty Bell Park, where the marchers will hold a concluding rally.
Hundreds to Commemorate Genesis and Land of Israel Weekends
By Hillel Fendel(INN)
The Land of Israel and the Book of Genesis read aloud on autumn weekends in synagogues around the world are deeply intertwined, and special Sabbaths mark the connection.
This weekend, Parshat Lekh Lekha Genesis 12-17 is read aloud, detailing the Divinely-commanded journeys of the Patriarch Abraham from his father's house in Mesopotamia to the Land of Israel.
The journeys end in the place near Shechem, Elon Moreh - and a special mass Sabbath gathering to mark the occasion will be held this week in present-day Elon Moreh, just east of Shechem. With past experience as the guide, hundreds of people are expected to attend - even though Elon Moreh is the furthest large Yesha community from central Israel. It will be the ninth consecutive year in which the Elon Moreh weekend is being held.
The theme of the weekend will be National Responsibility specifically the religious-Zionist camp's outreach movements that are beginning to make inroads around the country. This is based on Abraham's efforts to bring his neighbors close to G-d and bring them under the wings of the Divine Presence, the organizers explain.Elon Moreh was the first Jewish community in the Shomron over 30 years ago, and continues to blaze many new trails even today, the Shabbaton organizers say. Several years ago, the town prepared in advance for the government's dry up Yesha policy, preparing many new apartments for families, and for this reason, Elon Moreh continues to grow by tens of families each year.This is not the only special Sabbath being held these weeks throughout Judea and Samaria. In two weeks' time, the Torah portion Chaye Sarah (beginning in Gen. 23) detailing the purchase of the Machpelah Cave in Hevron will be read, and thousands of people are expected to follow tradition by flocking to Hevron for the occasion.
Shortly afterwards, when VaYetze (beginning in Gen. 28) and the story of Jacob's dream in Beit El is read, the new-old town of Beit El will host hundreds of people for its anniversary Sabbath. The event will mark 29 years since the re-founding of Beit El, some 20 kilometers north of Jerusalem.Finally, the anniversary of the death of Matriarch Rachel - whose death and burial is recounted in more than one place in Genesis - is being marked today (Thursday), the 11th of the month of MarCheshvan. Thousands of people have already frequented the holy site in Bethlehem - less than one kilometer south of the Jerusalem city lines - today, and more continue to arrive.
Jesus Only Way to Stop Radical Islam, Former Muslim Says
Chad Groening (Crosswalk.com)
A former Muslim woman who has dedicated herself to winning Muslims to Christ has traveled to India to witness to that country's large Muslim population.W.L. Cati recently traveled to an area of northeastern India that is dominated by the country's Muslim minority. The founder and president of Florida-based White Horse Ministry says she plans to speak two to three times a day, carrying the message of the gospel. Christ, says Cati, is the best hope for stopping radical Islam.That's the bottom line. Our salvation is their salvation,says the former Muslim. We need to stop playing patty-cake with them and start giving them the truth and praying that they find Jesus because if they don't, we're all going to be wearing the veil soon.Cati expresses her excitement about witnessing to the large Muslim community in the area and says she is expecting tangible results.
[The area is] full of Muslims. I'm really expecting signs, wonders, and miracles, whatever it takes to bring them into the kingdom, she shares. So I'm going there, laying my life down for their salvation.Cati says the group she is traveling with plans to distribute 7,000 copies of the JESUS video in three languages that are spoken in that country. Her ministry's former name was Zennah Ministries.AgapePress
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Well heres proof the Bible will come to Pass, the secular world are saying this also, that everything in the sea will die. The only difference I believe it will be in 10-15 years at the latest.
Seafood Population Depleted by 2048, Study Finds
By Juliet Eilperin,Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006; 2:28 PM
The world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, according to a study released today by an international group of ecologists and economists.The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution, and other environmental factors are wiping out important species across the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease.We really see the end of the line now, said lead author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University. It's within our lifetime. Our children will see a world without seafood if we don't change things.The 14 researchers from Canada, Panama, Sweden and the United States spent four years analyzing all the available data on fish populations and ocean ecosystems to reach their conclusion. They found that by 2003 the last year for which data on global commercial fish catches is available 29 percent of all fished species had collapsed, and that the rate of population collapses has accelerated in recent years.
As of 1980, just 13.5 percent of fished species had collapsed, even though fishing vessels were pursuing 1,736 fewer species back then. Today, the fishing industry harvests 7,784 species commercially.It's like hitting the gas pedal and holding it down at a constant level, Worm said in an telephone interview. The rate accelerates over time.Some American fishery management officials, industry representatives and academics questioned the team's dire predictions, however, saying countries such as the U.S. and New Zealand have taken steps in recent years to halt the depletion of their commercial fisheries.The projection is way too pessimistic, at least for the United States, said Steven Murawski, chief scientist for the National Marine Fisheries Service. We've got the message. We will continue to reverse this trend.
The National Fisheries Institute, a trade group representing seafood producers as well as suppliers, restaurants and grocery chains, said in a statement that most wild marine stocks remain sustainable. It added that its members could meet the rising global demand for seafood in part by relying on farmed fish: To meet the gap between what wild capture can provide sustainably and the growing demand for seafood, aquaculture is filling that need.But several scientists challenged that prediction and questioned why humanity should pay for a resource that the ocean had long provided for free. It's like turning on the air conditioning rather than
opening the window,said Stanford University marine sciences professor Stephen R. Palumbi, one of the paper's authors.
Oregon State University marine biologist Jane Lubchenco said the new study makes clear that fish stocks are in trouble even though consumers appear to have a cornucopia of seafood choices.I think people don't get it, Lubchenco said. They think, If there is a problem with the oceans, how come the case in my grocery store is so full?' There is a disconnect.The researchers said the loss of so many species is eroding the viability of marine ecosystems and their ability to resist environmental stresses. In 12 marine ecosystems they surveyed, they found than a decline in biodiversity of 50 percent or more cut the number of viable fisheries by 33 percent, reduced nursery habitats by 69 percent and cut the ocean's capacity to filter and detoxify contaminants by 63 percent.
This phenomenon is visible in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, where the collapse of the oyster fishery has reverberated across the ecosystem. In 1880 there were enough oysters to filter all the water in the bay in three days; by 1988 it took more than a year for the remaining oysters to accomplish the same task.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
JUDE 4-16
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
SCOFFERS MOCKING CHRISTS LITERAL 2ND COMING TO EARTH BODILY.
2 PETER 3:3-7
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
LETHARGY AND INDIFFERENCE AMONG GODS PEOPLE.
REVELATION 3:14-16
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
This so called New Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori says all paths lead to God, Allows Gays, and calls God a Woman. INTERESTINGGGGGGGGGG,but Lukewarm reality.
First woman priest to head US church
Thursday, November 2, 2006 (New York):
Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal bishop in the western state of Nevada, thought the odds she would be elected to lead the church nationally were ridiculous.I was a woman, fairly young, I hadn't been a bishop all that long, and I was serving a diocese that's not part of the Eastern establishment,the 52-year-old Jefferts Schori said.Then came the surprise: she won anyway, in balloting at the Episcopal General Convention this June. On Saturday, Jefferts Schori will be installed as presiding bishop at the Washington National Cathedral, becoming the first woman priest to lead a national church in the nearly 500-year-old Anglican Communion.
The Bible is full of stories of the younger son being called and the outsider being called by God to serve, Jefferts Schori said in an interview this week. I think courage is a central characteristic of leadership. If you're not willing to go into dangerous places, you have no business doing this work,she added.The perils for anyone leading The Episcopal Church right now are considerable.
Debating sexuality
The 2.3 million-member denomination is at the center of a worldwide Anglican feud over how to interpret what the Bible says about sexuality and other issues. Jefferts Schori unapologetically supports ordaining gays and allowing blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples. In 2003, she voted to confirm New Hampshire Bishop V Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop.
The uproar over his consecration is threatening to split the Anglican family, of which The Episcopal Church is the American branch.I'm clear about this role involving the entire breadth of The Episcopal Church, Jefferts Schori said. But at some level, I don't think it's appropriate for me to disguise what my own theological understanding is. I'm someone who believes transparency is incredibly important. It's part of integrity,she added.Yet the bishop also is aware that compromise is necessary to heal the rift with overseas Anglicans, a goal she says is important to her.
Saddening compromise
She believes Episcopalians should fulfil the request of Anglican leaders that the American church stop consecrating any more gay bishops for now, and should refrain from developing an official prayer service to bless same-gender couples.There's a piece of me that is very sad that we need to do that, she said, but there's a piece of me that understands that for the health of the larger body, we might have to do that for a season.Having served just five years as a bishop, Jefferts Schori knows her experience in the church may seem all too brief for such an important job. But she has spent her life tackling outsized challenges.
She is an oceanographer who graduated from Stanford University and earned a doctorate at Oregon State, working at sea with boat captains more accustomed to all-male research crews.A pilot with more than 500 hours logged, she flew her plane to visit parishes in the sprawling Nevada Diocese. She also rock climbs with her husband of more than 25 years, Richard Schori, a theoretical mathematician and retired university professor. Their daughter, 25-year-old Katharine Johanna, is a pilot in the US Air Force. (AP)
US pastor resigns in gay sex row
Mr Haggard said he stepped aside voluntarily
The leader of the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals in the US has resigned after being accused of paying for sex with a man.The Reverend Ted Haggard said he would also temporarily step aside as head of his 14,000-strong New Life Church while his colleagues investigated the claims.Mr Haggard, who is known as a vocal opponent of same-sex marriages, denies the accusations.The claims were made by a man during a radio show in Denver, Colorado. In a statement to the New Life Church, Mr Haggard said he could not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations.Mike Jones said he had been paid to have sex I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity, he said.In an interview with KUSA-TV, Mr Haggard said he never had a gay relationship with anybody.
I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife, he said.Mr Haggard, who has five children, became the president of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2003.He has been described as one of the most influential evangelical Christians in the US.
Allegations
The row began after Mike Jones said he had been paid to have sex with Mr Haggard nearly every month over the past three years. The allegations come as voters in Colorado and several other US states are due to hold simultaneous votes on gay marriage laws. Mr Jones, 49, said Mr Haggard's public stance on gay marriage had prompted him to reveal the details of their relationship. It made me angry that here's someone preaching about gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex,Mr Jones told the Associated Press news agency.
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
Tuberculosis returns with big jump in cases
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 03 November 2006,The Independent
Almost two centuries after the poet John Keats coughed, turned his pillow crimson and died, specialists have warned that the disease that killed him is on its way back.The number of cases of tuberculosis, one of the worlds deadliest and hardest to treat diseases, leapt by almost 11 per cent last year to 8,115, the highest total for more than 20 years.Known as the white death because of the deathly pallor of its victims, TB claimed the lives of Chopin, three of the Brontes, Modigliani, Kafka, Stevenson, Lawrence, Chekhov and Orwell.It had been thought beaten by the introduction of powerful drugs in the mid -20th century and cases fell to an all-time low of about 5,700 a year in the late 1980s. But since then they have been increasing year on year and last year was the largest increase since 1999.
Professor Peter Borriello, director of the Centre for Infections at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), which published the latest figures, said:The Black Death, smallpox and tuberculosis were the major killers of the past. Tuberculosis is the bogeyman that is returning.The disease is politically sensitive because the increase over the past decade has been almost wholly confined to the immigrant community.John Watson, head of the HPA's Respiratory Diseases Department, said the largest rise last year was seen among people not born in the UK, who accounted for 5,310 cases, 72 per cent of the total.
Rates among the indigenous population were low and stable.Four out of five cases among immigrants involved people who had been in the country for more than two years, who would not have been picked up by screening at the point of entry, he said.They had either caught the infection after they arrived or their disease was latent when they arrived in the country and it only emerged later. TB infection can lie dormant for decades only flaring into active disease when the patient's immunity is low.
A blood test for detecting the condition in its dormant state is commercially available but it could be five years before trials established it as an effective screening mechanism, specialists said.John Moore-Gillon, president of the British Lung Foundation, called for more resources to target high-risk groups and recruit more TB nurses. If we are going to stop TB we have to have action now, he said.When I started training I never dreamt I would see the number of cases we are seeing today. Something fairly dramatic is going on.
But he questioned the Home Office strategy of X-raying people applying to enter the UK a scheme introduced just last year. The programme operates in Bangladesh, Sudan, Tanzania and Thailand for people wishing to come to the UK for more than six months.We need informed thinking on migration and what X-rays can and cannot achieve, he said.There are 10 new cases of TB a day in London and more than 600 of the total diagnosed last year were drug resistant. Drug resistant strains can take over a year to treat and cost tens of thousands of pounds. England and Wales are the only countries in the EU to have seen an increase in TB cases over the past 10 years. Germany, France and Spain have seen decreases of up to 35 per cent. In New York, the number of cases has more than halved in the past decade.
Caroline Flint, the Public Health minister, said TB was a global problem that could not be solved by countries in isolation. We cannot be complacent about this issue. There are no short-term solutions to tackling TB - this will need long-term, concerted action.Andrew Murrison, a shadow health minister, said: This is alarming. It suggests that, for all its rhetoric, the Government has failed to get a grip on an important public health issue that is preventable and treatable.Almost two centuries after the poet John Keats coughed, turned his pillow crimson and died, specialists have warned that the disease that killed him is on its way back.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran begins 10 days of war games
Robert Tait in Tehran,Thursday November 2, 2006,Guardian Unlimited
Iran opened a sabre-rattling show of military might today by firing a long-range weapon said to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads and striking Israel and US forces in the Middle East.Revolutionary Guards tested a Shahab-3 missile at the start of 10 days of war games in a calculated rebuff to the west as it seeks to impose sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme. The UN security council’s permanent five members - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany are locked in discussions over an appropriate punishment for Iran’s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, which many in the west suspect is a front for making atomic bombs.The war games, codenamed Operation Great Prophet 2, were announced in retaliation for US-led manoeuvres earlier this week in the strategically vital Gulf, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes. In an apparent rehearsal for an anti-Iranian embargo, allied warships practised surveillance of suspected illegal shipments of weapons parts. The US and Britain want sanctions to include a ban on components that could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Iran denounced the manoeuvres in which Britain also participated along with France, Italy, Australia and Bahrain as adventurist. It responded yesterday by announcing a series of exercises in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and 14 provinces across the country. The head of the Revolutionary Guards, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said Iran’s response was not intended to threaten its neighbours but as a powerful signal to its enemies. We want to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message of the manoeuvres, he said.The first and main goal is to demonstrate the power and national determination to defend the country against possible threat.The Shahab-3 missile fired today has an estimated range of 1,240 miles.
State television said the exercises also included tests on the shorter-range Shahab-2 to take account of adjustments to install it with cluster warheads and give it the capacity to carry 1,400 bombs.
Solid-fuel Zalzal missiles were also launched, as were guided missiles as well as Scud-B, Zolfaghar-73 and Z-3 weapons. It is the third set of war games Iran’s military has staged this year as it has stepped up activity in response to escalating tensions over the nuclear crisis. In April, new missiles and torpedoes were tested in what was seen as a display of Iran’s potential to disrupt oil
shipments. Further tests were conducted in August, days after Iran had flouted a security council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
CANADIAN STOCKS DIVE
1-Moderate Quake Measuring 4.8 Rattles Eastern Bingol Province. 2-Turkey Shaken by over 100 quakes in Ten Days. 3-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS). 4-Netherlands hit by Autumn storms. 5-3RD Storms batter Nordic countries - oil platform adrift. 6-A Stormy Northwest. 7-Canadian Stocks May Retreat, Dragged Down By Income Trusts. 8-Iran test fires longer range missile. 9-Russia, China won't back Iran sanctions. 10-Higher than the Al-Aqsa Mosque. 11-Britons could be microchipped like dogs in a decade. 12-Gay Episcopal bishop says communities of faith may be at crossroads.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Moderate Quake Measuring 4.8 Rattles Eastern Bingol Province
By Cihan News Agency
Thursday, November 02, 2006 ,zaman.com
A moderate earthquake rattled the eastern Turkish province of Bingol late on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to public or private property.The tremor measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred at 11.19 p.m. in the Yedisu district of Bingol province, according to the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory House. The epicenter of the mild quake was Yedisu town.
The quake was also felt in the city of Bingol and neighboring Erzurum province.
In late October, northwestern Turkey was shaken by two separate medium-strength earthquakes, both measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale. Two quakes in four days caused consternation among residents, especially in Istanbul, since one of Turkey's worst earthquakes had struck in 1999 in the same region. Earthquakes occur frequently in Turkey, which lies on a seismically active stretch of the Anatolian fault. With a magnitude of 7.4 on the Richter scale, the August 1999 earthquake killed more than 17 thousand people and destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings in northwestern Turkey.For further information please visit http://www.cihannews.com
Turkey Shaken by over 100 quakes in Ten Days
By Cihan News Agency
Monday, October 30, 2006 ,zaman.com
Turkey has been rocked by small to medium sized earthquakes measuring from 1 to 5.3 on the Richter scale, according to report of Istanbul-based Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory.Between October 20 to 30, Turkey was shaken by 130 quakes in different regions of the country, the report stated. There haven't been any reports of damages, injuries or loss of life in the aftermath of these moderate quakes. Most of the quakes took places in the regions of Bingol, Erzurum, Erzincan, Yalova provinces, regions which previously witnessed strong earthquakes.For further information please visit http://www.cihannews.com
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Thu Nov 2 10:00AM EDT 2006
NOV 02,2006
MAP 3.1 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.3 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.4 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
NOV 01,06
MAP 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.5 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Netherlands hit by Autumn storms
November 01 2006 at 08:38PM
Amsterdam - High water caused by the first major autumn storm to hit the Netherlands claimed the lives of 12 horses near the far northern village of Marrum Wednesday, local authorities reported.
Troops were called in to rescue around 100 horses cut off to the north of the village after efforts by the fire brigade and the owner failed.The horses were reported to be outside the dyke and standing on a raised point.A number of foals had been brought to safety with the aid of small boats, but efforts to get the mature horses to swim 500m to safety had not been successful, the authorities reported. Despite high winds and lashing rain, the storm caused little damage.In Amsterdam police reported that a man standing urinating against a tree had been thrown into a canal when the tree was blown over. The man was taken to hospital but later discharged. - Sapa-dpa
3RD Storms batter Nordic countries - oil platform adrift
dpa German Press Agency,Published: Wednesday November 1, 2006
Stockholm/Oslo- Large parts of the Nordic region were Wednesday buffeted by strong winds in combination with heavy snowfall that caused blackouts and disrupted road and railway services, and shipping. Hurricane-force winds were reported overnight on the North Sea.The winds damaged several lifeboats on an oil platform operated by oil company BP Norway. The company therefore decided to halt operations and evacuate 95 workers from the Valhall platform. An oil platform under tow for repairs in Poland was drifting in the sea off western Norway after the tow chains broke but the 75- strong crew crew was in no immediate danger, Anders Bang Andersen of the southern Norwegian rescue centre in Stavanger said.A tug boat and a coastguard vessel were near the platform and a second tug boat was due late Wednesday to try to resume the tow operation. Weather conditions were calmer but waves were still 10-15 metres high and winds were near-gale force, Bang-Andersen said.
A search operation for a Dutch sailing boat that was headed for Stavanger was called off Wednesday after a British plane had radio contact with it.
The two onboard were delayed due to the bad weather, Bang-Andersen said. In Sweden, hundreds of train passengers were stranded overnight at several locations in northern Sweden as heavy snowfall and strong winds toppled trees and made tracks impassable. Although some train services resumed Wednesday afternoon, train operator SJ said it would halt north-bound night trains from Stockholm Wednesday evening, and at least one south-bound night train. Passengers were to be offered bus transports where possible, but SJ warned of delays. No serious road accidents were reported although many vehicles skidded off roads. Garages were swamped with queries from motorists' who wanted help to change their winter-tyres. Blackouts affected some 33,000 households in Sweden, and parts of southern and central Finland. In Denmark, a passenger ferry from Norway attempted to dock at a quay in Copenhagen, but failed and rammed it. None of the 650 passengers reportedly sustained any injuries. The ferry was waiting offshore for calmer conditions.
The 20-kilometre-long showpiece Storebaelt Bridge over the Great Belt, a strait between the main Danish islands of Zealand and Funen, was also affected by strong winds. Only one train track over the bridge was open while car lanes were closed until the early afternoon.Train services over the 7.8-kilometre-long Oresund Bridge that links Denmark and Sweden were also halted - but the reason was a faulty power pylon not the weather, Danish train operator DSB said. A vessel from the Faroe Islands commissioned to patrol oil installations in the North Sea arrived late Wednesday to the south-western Norwegian town of Egersund. The five-strong crew alerted authorities late Tuesday after a massive wave smashed windows on the bridge and the vessel took in a lot of water.
Heavy snowfall also blanketed southern Finland overnight causing problems for trucks and train services in the vicinity of the town of Tampere, Finnish news agency STT said.
A Stormy Northwest W. Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
2 hours, 54 minutes ago
West
A storm system off the Pacific Northwest Coast will continue to pump abundant moisture inland, resulting in widespread rain, and increasing higher elevation snows over the next few days. Rain could become heavy at times, especially over western parts of Washington and Oregon, where more than an inch of rain could fall over the next few days. In the higher elevations of the Cascades, nearly a foot of snow may accumulate. Meanwhile, high pressure will dominate the rest of the west, resulting on partly to mostly sunny skies, and seasonal temperatures.
Northeast
An area of low pressure and associated cold front will spread rain from Washington and Philadelphia, north to New York this morning, followed by some breaks in the clouds by afternoon as the system moves north and east. The rain will continue into the afternoon in areas from Boston, north through northern New England, with some wet snow mixing in across the higher elevations if central New England. Colder air will filter into areas from Pittsburgh to Buffalo, and as winds flow across the warmer lakes, lake effect snow showers will develop over northwest Pennsylvania into western New York State later this afternoon. Lake effect snow showers and squalls may increase overnight tonight over the favored snow belts east of Lakes Erie and Ontario, where several inches could accumulate, especially over western New York State. Cold conditions will spread east across the entire Northeast for the weekend, with a gradual warming trend expected by early next week.
Midwest
Winds circulating across the Great Lakes will continue to generate lake effect snows near the lakes, especially over the northern Michigan area. Several inches of snow could accumulate in some the favored snow belts through tonight, across northern Lower Michigan, and parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Meanwhile high pressure will dominate the rest of the central Plains and Midwest, providing sunny skies, but cool temperatures. A general warming tread can be expected over the central Plains and Midwest, and high pressure moves east, and southerly flow begins to increase into the weekend.
South
A cold front will continue to move away from the southeastern states this morning and into central Florida by afternoon. Ahead of this front, showers and thunderstorms can be expected over central and southern Florida; while behind the front cooler conditions will settle into much of the Deep South. It will also be breezy this afternoon, especially over the southeast and southern Applications, where winds could gust to 20 mph during the afternoon hours. High pressure will build across the entire area tonight, making for a chilly Friday morning. A gradual warming trend can be expected into early next week.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER (MARKET CRASH)
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Canadian Stocks May Retreat, Dragged Down By Income Trusts
By John Kipphoff
Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian stocks may fall after the government unexpectedly said it will begin taxing dividends from income trusts, securities that make up about one tenth of the country's main equity benchmark, the Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index. BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. may drop. The nation's two biggest telephone companies are the most recent concerns to announce that they will convert to the structure that avoids most taxes by distributing much of cash flow to investors. The proposed taxes, essentially a shutdown of the trust sector, are a shock that will resonate cruelly through the Canadian income trust market, said David Wolf, chief strategist at Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. in Toronto. Any stock currently enjoying any premium due to the actual or potential tax advantage of the income trust structure can be expected to have that premium removed virtually immediately, Wolf wrote in a note.
The S&P/TSX yesterday added 70.19, or 0.6 percent, to 12,344.59 in Toronto. It rose 5 percent in October for its best monthly advance since January and is around 1 percent below its record close of 12,487.32 on April 19. Canada plans to tax dividends from income trusts for the first time and raise dividend tax rates for pension funds and foreign investors that own trusts, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters in Ottawa yesterday.
C$200 Billion Market
The move would close a loophole in the C$200 billion ($178 billion) market for the high-yield securities favored by many investors seeking regular cash distributions to boost retirement income. The number of trusts in Canada has tripled to about 250, and their market value has soared 20-fold in six years as companies convert to avoid taxes and boost share prices. Foreign investors own more than a fifth of outstanding income trust units, said RBC Capital Markets analyst Sue Trinh in Sidney. Existing trusts won't be subject to the taxes until 2011, while new trusts will be taxed as of next year, Flaherty said. The advantage trusts enjoy over corporations is not fair, and the securities deprive the government of tax revenue, he said. Real-estate investment trusts will be exempted, as in the U.S. The tax changes may halt some of the C$70 billion ($62 billion) in new trust conversions announced this year such as BCE and Telus. BCE's conversion, following rival Telus's announcement one month earlier, would have increased annual revenue losses to C$800 million from C$500 million, Flaherty said. BCE spokesman Pierre Leclerc yesterday didn't return a
call seeking comment, and Telus's Shawn Hall declined to comment.
BCE May Plunge
Shares of BCE and Telus may slip. BCE also reported quarterly earnings today. Profit fell to C$302 million ($267.4 million), or 36 cents a share, from C$459 million, or 48 cents, a year earlier. Morgan Stanley's Simon Flannery, top-ranked among fixed-line phone-company analysts by Institutional Investor, had estimated earnings would be 46 cents. A gauge of trusts fell 7.7 percent between Sept. 19 of last year, when the previous Liberal Party government announced a moratorium on conversions while it reviewed their status, and Nov. 24, 2005, when it backed down in the face of concerted opposition and said it would leave trusts alone. The S&P/TSX declined 6 percent during that period. Declines for income trusts may take roughly two percent to three percent off the S&P/TSX today, Wolf said. A drop of three percent would be the benchmark's worst decline since a 3.5 percent retreat on April 28, 2004.The three biggest by market value among the 72 trusts that trade in Toronto as part of the S&P/TSX are Canadian Oil Sands Trust, Penn West Energy Trust and CI Financial Income Fund.
The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in Canadian markets. This preview includes news that broke after markets closed yesterday. Symbols are in parentheses after company names and prices are from the last close. Algoma Steel Inc. (AGA CN): The maker of steel sheets and plates for the auto industry is scheduled to report quarterly earnings today. The average profit estimate of five analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial is C$1.82 a share, compared with 7 cents a year earlier. Thomson Financial doesn't disclose the basis of its estimates. Algoma fell 74 cents, or 2.2 percent, to C$33.75. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNQ CN): Canada's second- biggest natural-gas company is scheduled to release third-quarter earnings today. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson is 84 cents a share. The shares rose 35 cents, or 0.6 percent, to C$58.45.
Centerra Gold Inc. (CG CN): The Canadian owner of Mongolia's biggest gold mine said in a statement that third-quarter profit was 5 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial on average had estimated a 1 cent loss. Centerra fell 16 cents, or 1.4 percent, to C$11.15. Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO CN): The Canadian insurer said in a statement that its U.S. subsidiary will acquire Indiana Health Network Inc., a closely held hospital and physician network based in Indiana. Great-West fell 11 cents, or 0.4 percent, to C$31.27. To contact the reporter on this story: John Kipphoff in Toronto at jkipphoff@bloomberg.net Last Updated: November 1, 2006 07:05 EST
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran test fires longer range missile By NASSER KARIMI
1 minute ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, during the first hours of new military maneuvers, Iranian state-run television said Thursday.
The report said several kinds of short-range missiles were also fired in a central desert area of Iran during the maneuvers, which came two days after U.S.-led warships finished an exercise in the Gulf that Tehran described as adventurist.We want to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message of the maneuvers, said the head of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, in an apparent reference to the US and other western powers.The general said the 10-day maneuvers, named Great Prophet, would take place in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and several provinces of the country. He did not specify how many troops were involved.
The Shahab-3 missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and is believed to have a range of more than 1,242 miles. It can reach Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East.The state-run TV said that among the other weapons tested during the maneuvers was the Shahab-2, which Iran says has a cluster warhead that can send 1,400 bomblets at the same time. Solid-fuel Zalzal missiles also were launched, as were guided missiles as well as Scud-B, Zolfaghar-73 and Z-3, it said.The maneuvers came as the U.N. Security Council considered sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, which Tehran says is purely geared at civilian use but that the US and other western powers fear could hide research on an atomic bomb.Iran has said that the U.S.-led six-nation drills this week in the region would not improve security in the Gulf waters, through which about 20 percent of the world's oil passes. It also called on Gulf nations to set up their own regional security arrangements.The U.S.-led maneuvers focused on surveillance, with warships tracking a ship suspected of carrying components of illegal weapons. The nations that took part were Australia, Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy and the United States.Iran regularly holds large maneuvers, often using them to test weapons developed by its arms industry.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Russia, China won't back Iran sanctions By STEVE GUTTERMAN and EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writers
Thu Nov 2, 4:15 AM ET
MOSCOW - Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program. The comments by Russia's foreign minister and China's U.N. ambassador were the strongest reactions yet to the draft by the two key U.N. Security Council members, and signaled difficult negotiations ahead on the resolution drawn up by Britain, France and Germany.We cannot support measures that in essence are aimed at isolating Iran from the outside world, including isolating people who are called upon to conduct negotiations on the nuclear program, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Wednesday.
China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said there are still different views on what kind of actions the council needs to do under the current circumstances.Wang said the major concern is that some members want tough sanctions like those in the resolution that the council approved on Oct. 14 to punish North Korea for conducting a nuclear test.The European draft on Iran orders all countries to prevent the sale and supply of material and technology that could contribute to Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
It imposes a travel ban and freezes the assets of people involved in these programs and also orders countries to freeze the assets of companies and organizations involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
I think the situation, the cases, are slightly different, Wang said. Of course, the main concern is nuclear, but I think that North Korea had a test and the Iranians always claim that their programs are for peaceful use.Unlike North Korea, Iran has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, he said.Both Russia and China, which have strong commercial ties to Tehran, agreed in principle to sanctions over Iran's defiance of the council's ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment and dramatically improve cooperation with the U.N. probe of suspect Iranian atomic activities.But both nations have continued to publicly push for dialogue instead of U.N. punishment, despite the collapse last month of a European Union attempt to entice Iran into talks. The EU had proposed that Iran at least temporarily freeze enrichment as a condition for multilateral talks aimed at erasing suspicions it may be trying to build nuclear arms in violation of its treaty commitments.
Wang said the question is what is the best way out.We want to have a solution of the Iranian nuclear issue, whether sanctions is the right way or whether further negotiation, he said.The five veto-wielding permanent council members the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France were expected to discuss the resolution this week at the United Nations.Lavrov said that Russia would seek to focus the document on aspects of Iran's program that the International Atomic Energy Agency has identified as possibly serious risks, including uranium enrichment and a heavy-water reactor, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.While Russia and China signaled the draft resolution is too strong, the United States indicated it considers the draft too weak.
Russia's Security Council chief Igor Ivanov indicated in comment Tuesday that Russia could support sanctions as a way to push Tehran into talks, but also left plenty of room for wrangling in the council.
Speaking Wednesday in Moscow, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, who will take over as U.N. secretary-general on Jan. 1, urged Iran to halt uranium enrichment and accept the incentives in return, Interfax reported.A Russian Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his government would fulfill a contract to supply air defense missiles to Iran unless Moscow decides to back the international sanctions that would make it illegal. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, denied an ITAR-Tass report that said Russia had already started delivering the missiles. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov defended the $700 million contract signed last December to sell 29 Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, saying they were purely defensive weapons with a limited range. Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report. Edith M. Lederer reported from the United Nations.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Higher than the Al-Aqsa Mosque
By Nadav Shragai (Haaretz)
Nearly 25 years ago, Rami Zayit, a scribe from Kiryat Arba, and Jerusalem architect Gideon Harlap, drew up the plan, Mivneh Negev.
The plan was to open the triple gate in the southern part of the Temple Mount (the Hulda Gates) and to transform the subterranean spaces of Solomon's Stables in the southeastern part of the Temple Mount into a prayer area for Jews. The plan was designed to bypass the problems of Jews praying on the Mount, with specific reference to the tension between Jews and Arabs surrounding the location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and halakha, which prohibits Jews from entering the sanctity of the Mount. Only after some time did moderate Temple Mount movements adopt this idea. Today we know the most significant change since 1967 - turning Solomon's Stables into a third mosque on the Mount, larger in area than Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock combined - was almost a direct result of these plans. Although the Israeli Islamic Movement sought an anchor in the Temple Mount, the location that was chosen for the Al-Marwani Mosque, Solomon's Stables, was the direct result of the Jewish plan to build a synagogue there.
Competing for the best minaret design
About 10 years after the construction of the Al-Marwani Mosque, the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount is again abuzz with provocative plans. A few weeks ago, to Israel's dissatisfaction, Jordan's King Abdullah announced the construction of a fifth minaret in the Temple Mount area. The minaret is to be named after King Hussein, Abdullah's father. One of the places designated for the minaret is the empty, southeastern corner of the Temple Mount, above the mosque in Solomon's Stables. Abdullah even declared a competition for the best minaret design. The religious right is skeptical of the government's unofficial attempts to placate them.
When it comes to the Temple Mount, the religious right is tired of denials, which ultimately turn out to be false, concerning the third mosque in Solomon's Stables, the fourth mosque in ancient Al-Aqsa, and the archaeological damage to the Temple Mount during the construction of the Waqf (the Moslem trust) over the years.
Perhaps this is why now, of all times, MK Uri Ariel (National Union-National Religious Party) is presenting a plan of his own for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount. He is also discussing the southeastern corner of the Mount, and this is apparently no coincidence. Ariel is presently looking for an architect, and he plans to submit the plan for the approval of the Jerusalem Municipality's planning committee not that it has a chance. However, it will cause a commotion. Such an act will repair a historical injustice much more than did the transfer to Israel of the remains of Herzl's children, says Ariel.Throughout the generations we were expelled from the site. This is an opportunity for the Muslim world to prove that it is sufficiently tolerant to contain beliefs that differ from its own.Circumstances indicate that Jordanian shares in the Mount are on the rise, whereas those of the Palestinian Authority are declining. After many years during which the Waqf was operated by the Jordanians, the PA expelled the Jordanian mufti (Sheikh Abdul Qader Abdeen) from the Temple Mount by force, and instead appointed a mufti of its own (Sheikh Ikrama Sabri).
All this took place in the early 1990s at the time of the Oslo Accords, years after King Hussein contributed money to cover the Dome of the Rock with gold. The PA also began to pay, at least in part, the salaries of Waqf officials, which for years came from Jordan. The fact that some of the PA officials adopted a policy of conflict with Israel on the Mount led to a revolution in the Israeli approach in recent years.In the peace agreement signed with Jordan, the Hashemite kingdom received future precedence regarding anything concerning the Temple Mount, but for years there was no reflection of this commitment. In recent years, the situation has changed. Jordan was involved in reopening the Mount to Jewish tourists, after it was closed to non-Muslims for three years. The Mount was closed at the end of 2000, in the wake of the visit there by then chair of the opposition, MK Ariel Sharon. Jordan was also involved in coordinating the renovation of the southern and eastern walls of the Mount, which had cracks and protrusions, with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the police, the Prime Minister's Office and the Waqf.
Attorney Dr. Shmuel Berkovitz (author of The Wars of the Holy Places), who is very well versed in the fine points of relations between the various Mount groups, believes Jordan is trying to gain Israel's consent to build a fifth minaret; this fits in with the Israeli view of Jordan as a moderating influence on the Mount vis-a-vis the Palestinians and the Israeli Islamic Movement. This perspective, which Israel does not hide, is exactly what frightens the Temple Mount movements, which fear a quiet agreement between Israel and Jordan on the construction of the minaret.In light of this, there is ferment in the Temple Mount movements; Ariel and his proposal are only the tip of the iceberg. Gershon Solomon of the Temple Mount Faithful, for example, is planning a campaign against the Western Wall, which he says diverts attention from the real thing the Temple Mount - to which the Western Wall is only an entrance hall, at most. The Western Wall is not a vestige of the Temple, as people tend mistakenly to believe, but the western support wall of the compound, Solomon points out. The discourse among other activists is no different. Berkovitz remarks that for
the right-wing organizations, another minaret on the Mount will perpetuate foreign domination. He predicts harsh opposition on their part to the plan, if it becomes realistic.
A relay race of the generations
The Chief Rabbinate is preferring to keep quiet for the time being, and, considering the two chief rabbis, this is hardly surprising.
Rabbi Yona Metzger and Rabbi Shlomo Amar belong to the conservative rabbinic school, which considers the Temple Mount a matter for messianic times and not for the present. Metzger and Amar, like their patrons Rabbi Shalom Yosef Elyashiv and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, are opposed to allowing Jews to enter the Temple Mount, for two halakhic reasons: The lack of any possibility of becoming purified from contact with the dead before entering the Mount; and the lack of information regarding the exact site of the holiest of holies to which entry is forbidden except to the high priest on Yom Kippur. During the term of Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who also adhered to the same prohibition, the Chief Rabbinate became involved almost against its will in the issue of building a synagogue on the Temple Mount. At the time, it was not right-wing organizations or Temple Mount movements that raised the idea. At that time, during the Camp David talks in 2000, it was none other than then prime minister Ehud Barak who raised the possibility of building a synagogue on the Mount, parallel to relinquishing sovereignty over significant sections.
The council of the Chief Rabbinate decided at the time that the Temple Mount must remain under Israeli sovereignty, but one of the absurd consequences of Barak's moves was that after 33 years during which the Rabbinate rejected for halakhic reasons any possibility of Jews praying on the Mount, a committee was established by the Rabbinate to formally examine the possibility of building a synagogue on the Mount or within its walls. Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, is the head of the committee. The committee has met several times and discussed alternative sites for a synagogue, but did not reach a decision. The establishment of the committee was meant as a directional sign for the political leadership, or as Rabbi Lau put it at the time: We are in a relay race of the generations, and our entire right to the Land of Israel derives in effect from our basic right to the Temple Mount. The Muslim claim to precedence on the Temple Mount is baseless. Islam was born 550 years after the destruction of the Second Temple [in 70 CE].
The Muslims had a different interpretation of the establishment of the committee. Sheikh Hian al-Adrisi, the Temple Mount imam, accused:They are actually talking about a synagogue in order not to heat up the atmosphere, but they are planning to build their Temple on Al-Aqsa. The Muslims are willing to sacrifice their lives and their blood to preserve the Islamic character of Jerusalem and of Al-Aqsa.Two additional plans for the construction of a synagogue on the Temple Mount were presented in recent years. One is that of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, also a former chief rabbi. Eliyahu claimed years ago that foreigners and idol worshippers should be expelled from the Temple Mount and a synagogue built there. We see with our own eyes how foxes walk there [a sign of desolation], and in a place of which it is said 'the stranger who approaches will be killed, strangers walk and profane it,wrote Eliyahu in the periodical Tehumin. We need not fear what they will say. My proposal is to build a synagogue and a place for Torah and prayer in the area where we are permitted to enter, with supervised entry and exit.
When he was chief rabbi, Eliyahu refined his proposal even further, and proposed building a synagogue in the southeast corner of the Mount behind the Al-Aqsa mosque, as long as the building would be higher than the mosque. Eliyahu also raised a possibility that one of the walls of the synagogue, the one that faces the holy place, be built of glass. Another proposal for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount is that of architect Gideon Harlap, who even placed it on city planning maps as a change in city plan 62 Jerusalem, on behalf of the Friends of the Temple association headed by Prof. Hillel Weiss. It was published in the anthology Kumu Ve'Naaleh (Let us rise and go up), edited by rabbis Yehuda Shaviv and Yisrael Rosen. Harlap got down to details, and even prepared a budgetary estimate. The cost of the planning and implementation will, according to his calculations, total about $8 million.
This report, Harlap explained, comes to inform the official authorities of the fact that, in terms of engineering, architecture and planning, there is a wide range of solutions that facilitate providing a place for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, which has long been necessary. And in any case, there are solutions for providing access for worshippers of various religions, without mutual interference, and in accordance with Jewish halakha. Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, who heads the Tzomet Institute in Gush Etzion and began the anthology in which Harlap's plan was published, said, secular Zionism has become distant from the Mount and its Torah, but he and his friends want to illuminate Torah viewpoints, which are uplifting and exalting.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Britons could be microchipped like dogs in a decade
by DAN NEWLING,Last updated at 00:11am on 30th October 2006
Daily Mail
Human beings may be forced to be microchipped like pet dogs, a shocking official report into the rise of the Big Brother state has warned. The microchips which are implanted under the skin allow the wearer's movements to be tracked and store personal information about them. They could be used by companies who want to keep tabs on an employee's movements or by Governments who want a foolproof way of identifying their citizens and storing information about them. The prospect of chip-citizens with its terrifying echoes of George Orwell's Big Brother police state in the book 1984 was raised in an official report for Britain's Information Commissioner Richard Thomas into the spread of surveillance technology.
The report, drawn up by a team of respected academics, claims that Britain is a world-leader in the use of surveillance technology and its citizens the most spied-upon in the free world. It paints a frightening picture of what Britain might be like in ten years time unless steps are taken to regulate the use of CCTV and other spy technologies. The reports editors Dr David Murakami Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, claim that by 2016 our almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies.The most contentious prediction is the spread in the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.
The RFID chips which can be detected and read by radio waves are already used in new UK passports and are also used the Oyster card system to access the London Transport network. For the past six years European countries have been using RFID chips to identify pet animals.
Already used in America
However, its use in humans has already been trialled in America, where the chips were implanted in 70 mentally-ill elderly people in order to track their movements. And earlier this year a security company in Ohio chipped two of its employees to allow them to enter a secure area. The glass-encased chips were planted in the recipients upper right arms and 'read' by a device similar to a credit card reader. In their Report on the Surveillance Society, the authors now warn: The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated.
The authors also highlight the Government's huge enthusiasm for CCTV, pointing out that during the 1990s the Home Office spent 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget a total of £500 million on installing the cameras. There are now 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain and the average Briton is caught on camera an astonishing 300 times every day. This huge enthusiasm comes despite official Home Office statistics showing that CCTV cameras have little effect on crime levels.
They write: The surveillance society has come about us without us realising, adding: Some of it is essential for providing the services we need: health, benefits, education. Some of it is more questionable. Some of it may be unjustified, intrusive and oppressive.Yesterday Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, whose office is investigating the Post Office, HSBC, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland over claims they dumped sensitive customer details in the street, said: Many of these schemes are public sector driven, and the individual has no choice over whether or not to take part. People are being scrutinised and having their lives tracked, and are not even aware of it. He has also voiced his concern about the consequences of companies, or Government agencies, building up too much personal information about someone.
He said: It can stigmatise people. I have worries about technology being used to identify classes of people who present some kind of risk to society. And I think there are real anxieties about that. Yesterday a spokesman for civil liberties campaigners Liberty said: We have got nothing about these surveillance technologies in themselves, but it is their potential uses about which there are legitimate fears. Unless their uses are regulated properly, people really could find themselves living in a surveillance society. There is a rather scary underlying feeling that people may worry that these microchips are less about being a human being than becoming a barcoded product.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
JUDE 4-16
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
SCOFFERS MOCKING CHRISTS LITERAL 2ND COMING TO EARTH BODILY.
2 PETER 3:3-7
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
LETHARGY AND INDIFFERENCE AMONG GODS PEOPLE.
REVELATION 3:14-16
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
This so called New Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori says all paths lead to God, Allows Gays, and calls Jesus a Woman. All I have to say in concintrate on the Lukewarm passage and WW3 is coming get ready katherine.
Gay Episcopal bishop says communities of faith may be at crossroads
Gay clergy and same-sex marriage, among issues roiling his Episcopal and other denominations, may cause major shifts, V. Gene Robinson says.By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer,November 2, 2006
Prepared for the worst, V. Gene Robinson wore a bulletproof vest under a simple white monk's cassock when he was consecrated as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in the history of the Anglican Communion.A few months later, he received a postcard with a photograph of a stately English cathedral on one side and a message on the other: You fornicating lecherous pig.
That was in 2003, when his elevation to bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire triggered a crisis in Anglicanism and transformed Robinson into a symbol of gay and lesbian rights.The repercussions continue to reverberate throughout the 77-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, which some fear now teeters on the edge of schism.
The Episcopal Church is a member of the Communion. Tensions heightened last month after an Episcopal bishop in Connecticut announced that priests may bless same-sex couples who have had civil unions granted by the state.Robinson, 59, recently visited Los Angeles to receive the 2006 Family Tree Award from Family Pride, a national nonprofit group dedicated to equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families. In an interview, he talked about his remarkable career and the challenges facing the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, who this week will be consecrated as the first female presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
There is a whole Gene Robinson myth out there. Do you think you are a lot different from that person? At home, I'm just a bishop of a rural diocese. It's when I venture outside of it that I enter the other extremely important diocese given to me by history. In that world, I'm a negative symbol for people who would demonize me and make me into a far worse person than I actually am.
But that can be less of a personal burden than the people who pin their hopes and dreams and sometimes their faith on what is happening to me.Overall, I feel so insufficient to the task at hand. The damage done to gay and lesbian people by organized religion Christianity, Judaism, Islam is so deep and so violent that it's overwhelming. I can't make up for all of it. But I can make up for some of it. I can at least say a healing word about how God didn't get it wrong, the church got it wrong.Of course, we had it wrong before about slavery, and about women. So the huge debate now is about getting it right about gays and lesbians.
What's taking so long?
I remind people that our detractors are only believing what they've been taught for 2,000 years. Why are we surprised this is so hard? We're asking people to change their minds about something we all seemed so sure about for so long.Nonetheless, I love it when I'm debating someone about this. If my opponent is divorced, for example, I like to say, I'll tell you how I deal with the seven or so verses of Scripture that seem to be talking about homosexuality if you tell me how you can have gotten a divorce and remarried in the church when Jesus said that's adultery.
Is reconciliation possible?
I'm arguing that we don't all have to be in the same place on this issue. The greatest gift the Anglican Communion has to offer is its 400 years as an enormously hospitable umbrella beneath which has existed a wide spectrum of beliefs. We don't find our unity in a unanimity of opinion. We find it when we go to the altar rail and receive the body and blood of Christ then we go back to the pews and fight about everything. You'll find us all over the map on abortion, stem cell research, who should be president and everything else one can think of.How do your efforts play in the orthodox dioceses of Africa, home to a vast majority of the world's Anglicans?
I want Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria in my church. The problem is they don't want me in their church. I believe Peter Akinola is going about his journey back to God as faithfully as he knows how. I just wish he could acknowledge that is exactly what I'm doing as well.Nonetheless, several conservative dioceses, including one in Central California, recently voted to be placed under someone else's jurisdiction, possibly someone in Africa.
What a lousy basis for an allegiance, being against homosexuals. How far can that go? What can they really share with these far-off dioceses? Are they really going to put themselves under the authority of those bishops? What if one of them feels called by God to be ordained in ministry? Are they going to go to Africa to speak with a bishop about it? It makes no sense.Of course, those people are more than free to leave the Episcopal Church. For their own spiritual health, that may be the best thing for them. I only wish them well. But what's wrong with staying together while we figure this one out?
Nearly every major denomination is obsessing over gay ordination and same-sex marriage. Is organized religion in the Western world at a crossroads? This may well be the beginning of some kind of realignment of communities of faith, the ultimate shape of which is not at all clear. But it may well be along the lines separating those who see God's love extending to everyone in a sort of forgiving embrace from those who see the role of religion as setting up rules whereby you know whether you are in or out.At its root, this debate is really about whether God is the deity that says, I will love you if you fill in the blank or a god that says, I just love you.Any words of advice for Jefferts Schori, whose election and support of gay rights have been a source of controversy?
I'd remind her that no matter how well or poorly she does as presiding bishop, she's going to heaven.Immediately after her election, I confessed to Katharine: I was completely self-serving in voting for you. It was the only way I could get off the front page!I was also the one who came up with the idea of the pink buttons passed around that day that said, It's a girl! over her name and the date. In fact, I had the honor of giving her my own button on the floor of the House of Bishops. She loved it.Are there indications that your own consecration was about something more than gay and lesbian rights?
Three days after my election I got a letter from a woman in the New Hampshire state women's prison who said, I'm neither gay nor particularly Christian. But there's something about your election that makes me feel there might be a community out there that could love me despite what I've done.I went to see her and learned that she killed her mother when she was 15. Each year for the past three years I've spent Christmas Eve with her and the other women in there. It means a lot to them that someone like me would be with them to celebrate the birth of Jesus and sing Christmas carols together.louis.sahagun@latimes.com
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Moderate Quake Measuring 4.8 Rattles Eastern Bingol Province
By Cihan News Agency
Thursday, November 02, 2006 ,zaman.com
A moderate earthquake rattled the eastern Turkish province of Bingol late on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to public or private property.The tremor measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred at 11.19 p.m. in the Yedisu district of Bingol province, according to the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory House. The epicenter of the mild quake was Yedisu town.
The quake was also felt in the city of Bingol and neighboring Erzurum province.
In late October, northwestern Turkey was shaken by two separate medium-strength earthquakes, both measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale. Two quakes in four days caused consternation among residents, especially in Istanbul, since one of Turkey's worst earthquakes had struck in 1999 in the same region. Earthquakes occur frequently in Turkey, which lies on a seismically active stretch of the Anatolian fault. With a magnitude of 7.4 on the Richter scale, the August 1999 earthquake killed more than 17 thousand people and destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings in northwestern Turkey.For further information please visit http://www.cihannews.com
Turkey Shaken by over 100 quakes in Ten Days
By Cihan News Agency
Monday, October 30, 2006 ,zaman.com
Turkey has been rocked by small to medium sized earthquakes measuring from 1 to 5.3 on the Richter scale, according to report of Istanbul-based Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory.Between October 20 to 30, Turkey was shaken by 130 quakes in different regions of the country, the report stated. There haven't been any reports of damages, injuries or loss of life in the aftermath of these moderate quakes. Most of the quakes took places in the regions of Bingol, Erzurum, Erzincan, Yalova provinces, regions which previously witnessed strong earthquakes.For further information please visit http://www.cihannews.com
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Thu Nov 2 10:00AM EDT 2006
NOV 02,2006
MAP 3.1 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.3 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.7 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.4 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
NOV 01,06
MAP 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.5 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Netherlands hit by Autumn storms
November 01 2006 at 08:38PM
Amsterdam - High water caused by the first major autumn storm to hit the Netherlands claimed the lives of 12 horses near the far northern village of Marrum Wednesday, local authorities reported.
Troops were called in to rescue around 100 horses cut off to the north of the village after efforts by the fire brigade and the owner failed.The horses were reported to be outside the dyke and standing on a raised point.A number of foals had been brought to safety with the aid of small boats, but efforts to get the mature horses to swim 500m to safety had not been successful, the authorities reported. Despite high winds and lashing rain, the storm caused little damage.In Amsterdam police reported that a man standing urinating against a tree had been thrown into a canal when the tree was blown over. The man was taken to hospital but later discharged. - Sapa-dpa
3RD Storms batter Nordic countries - oil platform adrift
dpa German Press Agency,Published: Wednesday November 1, 2006
Stockholm/Oslo- Large parts of the Nordic region were Wednesday buffeted by strong winds in combination with heavy snowfall that caused blackouts and disrupted road and railway services, and shipping. Hurricane-force winds were reported overnight on the North Sea.The winds damaged several lifeboats on an oil platform operated by oil company BP Norway. The company therefore decided to halt operations and evacuate 95 workers from the Valhall platform. An oil platform under tow for repairs in Poland was drifting in the sea off western Norway after the tow chains broke but the 75- strong crew crew was in no immediate danger, Anders Bang Andersen of the southern Norwegian rescue centre in Stavanger said.A tug boat and a coastguard vessel were near the platform and a second tug boat was due late Wednesday to try to resume the tow operation. Weather conditions were calmer but waves were still 10-15 metres high and winds were near-gale force, Bang-Andersen said.
A search operation for a Dutch sailing boat that was headed for Stavanger was called off Wednesday after a British plane had radio contact with it.
The two onboard were delayed due to the bad weather, Bang-Andersen said. In Sweden, hundreds of train passengers were stranded overnight at several locations in northern Sweden as heavy snowfall and strong winds toppled trees and made tracks impassable. Although some train services resumed Wednesday afternoon, train operator SJ said it would halt north-bound night trains from Stockholm Wednesday evening, and at least one south-bound night train. Passengers were to be offered bus transports where possible, but SJ warned of delays. No serious road accidents were reported although many vehicles skidded off roads. Garages were swamped with queries from motorists' who wanted help to change their winter-tyres. Blackouts affected some 33,000 households in Sweden, and parts of southern and central Finland. In Denmark, a passenger ferry from Norway attempted to dock at a quay in Copenhagen, but failed and rammed it. None of the 650 passengers reportedly sustained any injuries. The ferry was waiting offshore for calmer conditions.
The 20-kilometre-long showpiece Storebaelt Bridge over the Great Belt, a strait between the main Danish islands of Zealand and Funen, was also affected by strong winds. Only one train track over the bridge was open while car lanes were closed until the early afternoon.Train services over the 7.8-kilometre-long Oresund Bridge that links Denmark and Sweden were also halted - but the reason was a faulty power pylon not the weather, Danish train operator DSB said. A vessel from the Faroe Islands commissioned to patrol oil installations in the North Sea arrived late Wednesday to the south-western Norwegian town of Egersund. The five-strong crew alerted authorities late Tuesday after a massive wave smashed windows on the bridge and the vessel took in a lot of water.
Heavy snowfall also blanketed southern Finland overnight causing problems for trucks and train services in the vicinity of the town of Tampere, Finnish news agency STT said.
A Stormy Northwest W. Verno, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
2 hours, 54 minutes ago
West
A storm system off the Pacific Northwest Coast will continue to pump abundant moisture inland, resulting in widespread rain, and increasing higher elevation snows over the next few days. Rain could become heavy at times, especially over western parts of Washington and Oregon, where more than an inch of rain could fall over the next few days. In the higher elevations of the Cascades, nearly a foot of snow may accumulate. Meanwhile, high pressure will dominate the rest of the west, resulting on partly to mostly sunny skies, and seasonal temperatures.
Northeast
An area of low pressure and associated cold front will spread rain from Washington and Philadelphia, north to New York this morning, followed by some breaks in the clouds by afternoon as the system moves north and east. The rain will continue into the afternoon in areas from Boston, north through northern New England, with some wet snow mixing in across the higher elevations if central New England. Colder air will filter into areas from Pittsburgh to Buffalo, and as winds flow across the warmer lakes, lake effect snow showers will develop over northwest Pennsylvania into western New York State later this afternoon. Lake effect snow showers and squalls may increase overnight tonight over the favored snow belts east of Lakes Erie and Ontario, where several inches could accumulate, especially over western New York State. Cold conditions will spread east across the entire Northeast for the weekend, with a gradual warming trend expected by early next week.
Midwest
Winds circulating across the Great Lakes will continue to generate lake effect snows near the lakes, especially over the northern Michigan area. Several inches of snow could accumulate in some the favored snow belts through tonight, across northern Lower Michigan, and parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Meanwhile high pressure will dominate the rest of the central Plains and Midwest, providing sunny skies, but cool temperatures. A general warming tread can be expected over the central Plains and Midwest, and high pressure moves east, and southerly flow begins to increase into the weekend.
South
A cold front will continue to move away from the southeastern states this morning and into central Florida by afternoon. Ahead of this front, showers and thunderstorms can be expected over central and southern Florida; while behind the front cooler conditions will settle into much of the Deep South. It will also be breezy this afternoon, especially over the southeast and southern Applications, where winds could gust to 20 mph during the afternoon hours. High pressure will build across the entire area tonight, making for a chilly Friday morning. A gradual warming trend can be expected into early next week.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER (MARKET CRASH)
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Canadian Stocks May Retreat, Dragged Down By Income Trusts
By John Kipphoff
Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian stocks may fall after the government unexpectedly said it will begin taxing dividends from income trusts, securities that make up about one tenth of the country's main equity benchmark, the Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index. BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. may drop. The nation's two biggest telephone companies are the most recent concerns to announce that they will convert to the structure that avoids most taxes by distributing much of cash flow to investors. The proposed taxes, essentially a shutdown of the trust sector, are a shock that will resonate cruelly through the Canadian income trust market, said David Wolf, chief strategist at Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. in Toronto. Any stock currently enjoying any premium due to the actual or potential tax advantage of the income trust structure can be expected to have that premium removed virtually immediately, Wolf wrote in a note.
The S&P/TSX yesterday added 70.19, or 0.6 percent, to 12,344.59 in Toronto. It rose 5 percent in October for its best monthly advance since January and is around 1 percent below its record close of 12,487.32 on April 19. Canada plans to tax dividends from income trusts for the first time and raise dividend tax rates for pension funds and foreign investors that own trusts, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters in Ottawa yesterday.
C$200 Billion Market
The move would close a loophole in the C$200 billion ($178 billion) market for the high-yield securities favored by many investors seeking regular cash distributions to boost retirement income. The number of trusts in Canada has tripled to about 250, and their market value has soared 20-fold in six years as companies convert to avoid taxes and boost share prices. Foreign investors own more than a fifth of outstanding income trust units, said RBC Capital Markets analyst Sue Trinh in Sidney. Existing trusts won't be subject to the taxes until 2011, while new trusts will be taxed as of next year, Flaherty said. The advantage trusts enjoy over corporations is not fair, and the securities deprive the government of tax revenue, he said. Real-estate investment trusts will be exempted, as in the U.S. The tax changes may halt some of the C$70 billion ($62 billion) in new trust conversions announced this year such as BCE and Telus. BCE's conversion, following rival Telus's announcement one month earlier, would have increased annual revenue losses to C$800 million from C$500 million, Flaherty said. BCE spokesman Pierre Leclerc yesterday didn't return a
call seeking comment, and Telus's Shawn Hall declined to comment.
BCE May Plunge
Shares of BCE and Telus may slip. BCE also reported quarterly earnings today. Profit fell to C$302 million ($267.4 million), or 36 cents a share, from C$459 million, or 48 cents, a year earlier. Morgan Stanley's Simon Flannery, top-ranked among fixed-line phone-company analysts by Institutional Investor, had estimated earnings would be 46 cents. A gauge of trusts fell 7.7 percent between Sept. 19 of last year, when the previous Liberal Party government announced a moratorium on conversions while it reviewed their status, and Nov. 24, 2005, when it backed down in the face of concerted opposition and said it would leave trusts alone. The S&P/TSX declined 6 percent during that period. Declines for income trusts may take roughly two percent to three percent off the S&P/TSX today, Wolf said. A drop of three percent would be the benchmark's worst decline since a 3.5 percent retreat on April 28, 2004.The three biggest by market value among the 72 trusts that trade in Toronto as part of the S&P/TSX are Canadian Oil Sands Trust, Penn West Energy Trust and CI Financial Income Fund.
The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in Canadian markets. This preview includes news that broke after markets closed yesterday. Symbols are in parentheses after company names and prices are from the last close. Algoma Steel Inc. (AGA CN): The maker of steel sheets and plates for the auto industry is scheduled to report quarterly earnings today. The average profit estimate of five analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial is C$1.82 a share, compared with 7 cents a year earlier. Thomson Financial doesn't disclose the basis of its estimates. Algoma fell 74 cents, or 2.2 percent, to C$33.75. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNQ CN): Canada's second- biggest natural-gas company is scheduled to release third-quarter earnings today. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson is 84 cents a share. The shares rose 35 cents, or 0.6 percent, to C$58.45.
Centerra Gold Inc. (CG CN): The Canadian owner of Mongolia's biggest gold mine said in a statement that third-quarter profit was 5 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial on average had estimated a 1 cent loss. Centerra fell 16 cents, or 1.4 percent, to C$11.15. Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO CN): The Canadian insurer said in a statement that its U.S. subsidiary will acquire Indiana Health Network Inc., a closely held hospital and physician network based in Indiana. Great-West fell 11 cents, or 0.4 percent, to C$31.27. To contact the reporter on this story: John Kipphoff in Toronto at jkipphoff@bloomberg.net Last Updated: November 1, 2006 07:05 EST
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran test fires longer range missile By NASSER KARIMI
1 minute ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, during the first hours of new military maneuvers, Iranian state-run television said Thursday.
The report said several kinds of short-range missiles were also fired in a central desert area of Iran during the maneuvers, which came two days after U.S.-led warships finished an exercise in the Gulf that Tehran described as adventurist.We want to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message of the maneuvers, said the head of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, in an apparent reference to the US and other western powers.The general said the 10-day maneuvers, named Great Prophet, would take place in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and several provinces of the country. He did not specify how many troops were involved.
The Shahab-3 missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and is believed to have a range of more than 1,242 miles. It can reach Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East.The state-run TV said that among the other weapons tested during the maneuvers was the Shahab-2, which Iran says has a cluster warhead that can send 1,400 bomblets at the same time. Solid-fuel Zalzal missiles also were launched, as were guided missiles as well as Scud-B, Zolfaghar-73 and Z-3, it said.The maneuvers came as the U.N. Security Council considered sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, which Tehran says is purely geared at civilian use but that the US and other western powers fear could hide research on an atomic bomb.Iran has said that the U.S.-led six-nation drills this week in the region would not improve security in the Gulf waters, through which about 20 percent of the world's oil passes. It also called on Gulf nations to set up their own regional security arrangements.The U.S.-led maneuvers focused on surveillance, with warships tracking a ship suspected of carrying components of illegal weapons. The nations that took part were Australia, Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy and the United States.Iran regularly holds large maneuvers, often using them to test weapons developed by its arms industry.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Russia, China won't back Iran sanctions By STEVE GUTTERMAN and EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writers
Thu Nov 2, 4:15 AM ET
MOSCOW - Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program. The comments by Russia's foreign minister and China's U.N. ambassador were the strongest reactions yet to the draft by the two key U.N. Security Council members, and signaled difficult negotiations ahead on the resolution drawn up by Britain, France and Germany.We cannot support measures that in essence are aimed at isolating Iran from the outside world, including isolating people who are called upon to conduct negotiations on the nuclear program, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Wednesday.
China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said there are still different views on what kind of actions the council needs to do under the current circumstances.Wang said the major concern is that some members want tough sanctions like those in the resolution that the council approved on Oct. 14 to punish North Korea for conducting a nuclear test.The European draft on Iran orders all countries to prevent the sale and supply of material and technology that could contribute to Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
It imposes a travel ban and freezes the assets of people involved in these programs and also orders countries to freeze the assets of companies and organizations involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
I think the situation, the cases, are slightly different, Wang said. Of course, the main concern is nuclear, but I think that North Korea had a test and the Iranians always claim that their programs are for peaceful use.Unlike North Korea, Iran has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, he said.Both Russia and China, which have strong commercial ties to Tehran, agreed in principle to sanctions over Iran's defiance of the council's ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment and dramatically improve cooperation with the U.N. probe of suspect Iranian atomic activities.But both nations have continued to publicly push for dialogue instead of U.N. punishment, despite the collapse last month of a European Union attempt to entice Iran into talks. The EU had proposed that Iran at least temporarily freeze enrichment as a condition for multilateral talks aimed at erasing suspicions it may be trying to build nuclear arms in violation of its treaty commitments.
Wang said the question is what is the best way out.We want to have a solution of the Iranian nuclear issue, whether sanctions is the right way or whether further negotiation, he said.The five veto-wielding permanent council members the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France were expected to discuss the resolution this week at the United Nations.Lavrov said that Russia would seek to focus the document on aspects of Iran's program that the International Atomic Energy Agency has identified as possibly serious risks, including uranium enrichment and a heavy-water reactor, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.While Russia and China signaled the draft resolution is too strong, the United States indicated it considers the draft too weak.
Russia's Security Council chief Igor Ivanov indicated in comment Tuesday that Russia could support sanctions as a way to push Tehran into talks, but also left plenty of room for wrangling in the council.
Speaking Wednesday in Moscow, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, who will take over as U.N. secretary-general on Jan. 1, urged Iran to halt uranium enrichment and accept the incentives in return, Interfax reported.A Russian Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his government would fulfill a contract to supply air defense missiles to Iran unless Moscow decides to back the international sanctions that would make it illegal. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, denied an ITAR-Tass report that said Russia had already started delivering the missiles. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov defended the $700 million contract signed last December to sell 29 Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, saying they were purely defensive weapons with a limited range. Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report. Edith M. Lederer reported from the United Nations.
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Higher than the Al-Aqsa Mosque
By Nadav Shragai (Haaretz)
Nearly 25 years ago, Rami Zayit, a scribe from Kiryat Arba, and Jerusalem architect Gideon Harlap, drew up the plan, Mivneh Negev.
The plan was to open the triple gate in the southern part of the Temple Mount (the Hulda Gates) and to transform the subterranean spaces of Solomon's Stables in the southeastern part of the Temple Mount into a prayer area for Jews. The plan was designed to bypass the problems of Jews praying on the Mount, with specific reference to the tension between Jews and Arabs surrounding the location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and halakha, which prohibits Jews from entering the sanctity of the Mount. Only after some time did moderate Temple Mount movements adopt this idea. Today we know the most significant change since 1967 - turning Solomon's Stables into a third mosque on the Mount, larger in area than Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock combined - was almost a direct result of these plans. Although the Israeli Islamic Movement sought an anchor in the Temple Mount, the location that was chosen for the Al-Marwani Mosque, Solomon's Stables, was the direct result of the Jewish plan to build a synagogue there.
Competing for the best minaret design
About 10 years after the construction of the Al-Marwani Mosque, the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount is again abuzz with provocative plans. A few weeks ago, to Israel's dissatisfaction, Jordan's King Abdullah announced the construction of a fifth minaret in the Temple Mount area. The minaret is to be named after King Hussein, Abdullah's father. One of the places designated for the minaret is the empty, southeastern corner of the Temple Mount, above the mosque in Solomon's Stables. Abdullah even declared a competition for the best minaret design. The religious right is skeptical of the government's unofficial attempts to placate them.
When it comes to the Temple Mount, the religious right is tired of denials, which ultimately turn out to be false, concerning the third mosque in Solomon's Stables, the fourth mosque in ancient Al-Aqsa, and the archaeological damage to the Temple Mount during the construction of the Waqf (the Moslem trust) over the years.
Perhaps this is why now, of all times, MK Uri Ariel (National Union-National Religious Party) is presenting a plan of his own for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount. He is also discussing the southeastern corner of the Mount, and this is apparently no coincidence. Ariel is presently looking for an architect, and he plans to submit the plan for the approval of the Jerusalem Municipality's planning committee not that it has a chance. However, it will cause a commotion. Such an act will repair a historical injustice much more than did the transfer to Israel of the remains of Herzl's children, says Ariel.Throughout the generations we were expelled from the site. This is an opportunity for the Muslim world to prove that it is sufficiently tolerant to contain beliefs that differ from its own.Circumstances indicate that Jordanian shares in the Mount are on the rise, whereas those of the Palestinian Authority are declining. After many years during which the Waqf was operated by the Jordanians, the PA expelled the Jordanian mufti (Sheikh Abdul Qader Abdeen) from the Temple Mount by force, and instead appointed a mufti of its own (Sheikh Ikrama Sabri).
All this took place in the early 1990s at the time of the Oslo Accords, years after King Hussein contributed money to cover the Dome of the Rock with gold. The PA also began to pay, at least in part, the salaries of Waqf officials, which for years came from Jordan. The fact that some of the PA officials adopted a policy of conflict with Israel on the Mount led to a revolution in the Israeli approach in recent years.In the peace agreement signed with Jordan, the Hashemite kingdom received future precedence regarding anything concerning the Temple Mount, but for years there was no reflection of this commitment. In recent years, the situation has changed. Jordan was involved in reopening the Mount to Jewish tourists, after it was closed to non-Muslims for three years. The Mount was closed at the end of 2000, in the wake of the visit there by then chair of the opposition, MK Ariel Sharon. Jordan was also involved in coordinating the renovation of the southern and eastern walls of the Mount, which had cracks and protrusions, with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the police, the Prime Minister's Office and the Waqf.
Attorney Dr. Shmuel Berkovitz (author of The Wars of the Holy Places), who is very well versed in the fine points of relations between the various Mount groups, believes Jordan is trying to gain Israel's consent to build a fifth minaret; this fits in with the Israeli view of Jordan as a moderating influence on the Mount vis-a-vis the Palestinians and the Israeli Islamic Movement. This perspective, which Israel does not hide, is exactly what frightens the Temple Mount movements, which fear a quiet agreement between Israel and Jordan on the construction of the minaret.In light of this, there is ferment in the Temple Mount movements; Ariel and his proposal are only the tip of the iceberg. Gershon Solomon of the Temple Mount Faithful, for example, is planning a campaign against the Western Wall, which he says diverts attention from the real thing the Temple Mount - to which the Western Wall is only an entrance hall, at most. The Western Wall is not a vestige of the Temple, as people tend mistakenly to believe, but the western support wall of the compound, Solomon points out. The discourse among other activists is no different. Berkovitz remarks that for
the right-wing organizations, another minaret on the Mount will perpetuate foreign domination. He predicts harsh opposition on their part to the plan, if it becomes realistic.
A relay race of the generations
The Chief Rabbinate is preferring to keep quiet for the time being, and, considering the two chief rabbis, this is hardly surprising.
Rabbi Yona Metzger and Rabbi Shlomo Amar belong to the conservative rabbinic school, which considers the Temple Mount a matter for messianic times and not for the present. Metzger and Amar, like their patrons Rabbi Shalom Yosef Elyashiv and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, are opposed to allowing Jews to enter the Temple Mount, for two halakhic reasons: The lack of any possibility of becoming purified from contact with the dead before entering the Mount; and the lack of information regarding the exact site of the holiest of holies to which entry is forbidden except to the high priest on Yom Kippur. During the term of Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who also adhered to the same prohibition, the Chief Rabbinate became involved almost against its will in the issue of building a synagogue on the Temple Mount. At the time, it was not right-wing organizations or Temple Mount movements that raised the idea. At that time, during the Camp David talks in 2000, it was none other than then prime minister Ehud Barak who raised the possibility of building a synagogue on the Mount, parallel to relinquishing sovereignty over significant sections.
The council of the Chief Rabbinate decided at the time that the Temple Mount must remain under Israeli sovereignty, but one of the absurd consequences of Barak's moves was that after 33 years during which the Rabbinate rejected for halakhic reasons any possibility of Jews praying on the Mount, a committee was established by the Rabbinate to formally examine the possibility of building a synagogue on the Mount or within its walls. Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, is the head of the committee. The committee has met several times and discussed alternative sites for a synagogue, but did not reach a decision. The establishment of the committee was meant as a directional sign for the political leadership, or as Rabbi Lau put it at the time: We are in a relay race of the generations, and our entire right to the Land of Israel derives in effect from our basic right to the Temple Mount. The Muslim claim to precedence on the Temple Mount is baseless. Islam was born 550 years after the destruction of the Second Temple [in 70 CE].
The Muslims had a different interpretation of the establishment of the committee. Sheikh Hian al-Adrisi, the Temple Mount imam, accused:They are actually talking about a synagogue in order not to heat up the atmosphere, but they are planning to build their Temple on Al-Aqsa. The Muslims are willing to sacrifice their lives and their blood to preserve the Islamic character of Jerusalem and of Al-Aqsa.Two additional plans for the construction of a synagogue on the Temple Mount were presented in recent years. One is that of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, also a former chief rabbi. Eliyahu claimed years ago that foreigners and idol worshippers should be expelled from the Temple Mount and a synagogue built there. We see with our own eyes how foxes walk there [a sign of desolation], and in a place of which it is said 'the stranger who approaches will be killed, strangers walk and profane it,wrote Eliyahu in the periodical Tehumin. We need not fear what they will say. My proposal is to build a synagogue and a place for Torah and prayer in the area where we are permitted to enter, with supervised entry and exit.
When he was chief rabbi, Eliyahu refined his proposal even further, and proposed building a synagogue in the southeast corner of the Mount behind the Al-Aqsa mosque, as long as the building would be higher than the mosque. Eliyahu also raised a possibility that one of the walls of the synagogue, the one that faces the holy place, be built of glass. Another proposal for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount is that of architect Gideon Harlap, who even placed it on city planning maps as a change in city plan 62 Jerusalem, on behalf of the Friends of the Temple association headed by Prof. Hillel Weiss. It was published in the anthology Kumu Ve'Naaleh (Let us rise and go up), edited by rabbis Yehuda Shaviv and Yisrael Rosen. Harlap got down to details, and even prepared a budgetary estimate. The cost of the planning and implementation will, according to his calculations, total about $8 million.
This report, Harlap explained, comes to inform the official authorities of the fact that, in terms of engineering, architecture and planning, there is a wide range of solutions that facilitate providing a place for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, which has long been necessary. And in any case, there are solutions for providing access for worshippers of various religions, without mutual interference, and in accordance with Jewish halakha. Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, who heads the Tzomet Institute in Gush Etzion and began the anthology in which Harlap's plan was published, said, secular Zionism has become distant from the Mount and its Torah, but he and his friends want to illuminate Torah viewpoints, which are uplifting and exalting.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Britons could be microchipped like dogs in a decade
by DAN NEWLING,Last updated at 00:11am on 30th October 2006
Daily Mail
Human beings may be forced to be microchipped like pet dogs, a shocking official report into the rise of the Big Brother state has warned. The microchips which are implanted under the skin allow the wearer's movements to be tracked and store personal information about them. They could be used by companies who want to keep tabs on an employee's movements or by Governments who want a foolproof way of identifying their citizens and storing information about them. The prospect of chip-citizens with its terrifying echoes of George Orwell's Big Brother police state in the book 1984 was raised in an official report for Britain's Information Commissioner Richard Thomas into the spread of surveillance technology.
The report, drawn up by a team of respected academics, claims that Britain is a world-leader in the use of surveillance technology and its citizens the most spied-upon in the free world. It paints a frightening picture of what Britain might be like in ten years time unless steps are taken to regulate the use of CCTV and other spy technologies. The reports editors Dr David Murakami Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, claim that by 2016 our almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies.The most contentious prediction is the spread in the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.
The RFID chips which can be detected and read by radio waves are already used in new UK passports and are also used the Oyster card system to access the London Transport network. For the past six years European countries have been using RFID chips to identify pet animals.
Already used in America
However, its use in humans has already been trialled in America, where the chips were implanted in 70 mentally-ill elderly people in order to track their movements. And earlier this year a security company in Ohio chipped two of its employees to allow them to enter a secure area. The glass-encased chips were planted in the recipients upper right arms and 'read' by a device similar to a credit card reader. In their Report on the Surveillance Society, the authors now warn: The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated.
The authors also highlight the Government's huge enthusiasm for CCTV, pointing out that during the 1990s the Home Office spent 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget a total of £500 million on installing the cameras. There are now 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain and the average Briton is caught on camera an astonishing 300 times every day. This huge enthusiasm comes despite official Home Office statistics showing that CCTV cameras have little effect on crime levels.
They write: The surveillance society has come about us without us realising, adding: Some of it is essential for providing the services we need: health, benefits, education. Some of it is more questionable. Some of it may be unjustified, intrusive and oppressive.Yesterday Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, whose office is investigating the Post Office, HSBC, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland over claims they dumped sensitive customer details in the street, said: Many of these schemes are public sector driven, and the individual has no choice over whether or not to take part. People are being scrutinised and having their lives tracked, and are not even aware of it. He has also voiced his concern about the consequences of companies, or Government agencies, building up too much personal information about someone.
He said: It can stigmatise people. I have worries about technology being used to identify classes of people who present some kind of risk to society. And I think there are real anxieties about that. Yesterday a spokesman for civil liberties campaigners Liberty said: We have got nothing about these surveillance technologies in themselves, but it is their potential uses about which there are legitimate fears. Unless their uses are regulated properly, people really could find themselves living in a surveillance society. There is a rather scary underlying feeling that people may worry that these microchips are less about being a human being than becoming a barcoded product.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
JUDE 4-16
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
SCOFFERS MOCKING CHRISTS LITERAL 2ND COMING TO EARTH BODILY.
2 PETER 3:3-7
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
LETHARGY AND INDIFFERENCE AMONG GODS PEOPLE.
REVELATION 3:14-16
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
This so called New Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori says all paths lead to God, Allows Gays, and calls Jesus a Woman. All I have to say in concintrate on the Lukewarm passage and WW3 is coming get ready katherine.
Gay Episcopal bishop says communities of faith may be at crossroads
Gay clergy and same-sex marriage, among issues roiling his Episcopal and other denominations, may cause major shifts, V. Gene Robinson says.By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer,November 2, 2006
Prepared for the worst, V. Gene Robinson wore a bulletproof vest under a simple white monk's cassock when he was consecrated as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop in the history of the Anglican Communion.A few months later, he received a postcard with a photograph of a stately English cathedral on one side and a message on the other: You fornicating lecherous pig.
That was in 2003, when his elevation to bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire triggered a crisis in Anglicanism and transformed Robinson into a symbol of gay and lesbian rights.The repercussions continue to reverberate throughout the 77-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, which some fear now teeters on the edge of schism.
The Episcopal Church is a member of the Communion. Tensions heightened last month after an Episcopal bishop in Connecticut announced that priests may bless same-sex couples who have had civil unions granted by the state.Robinson, 59, recently visited Los Angeles to receive the 2006 Family Tree Award from Family Pride, a national nonprofit group dedicated to equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families. In an interview, he talked about his remarkable career and the challenges facing the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, who this week will be consecrated as the first female presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
There is a whole Gene Robinson myth out there. Do you think you are a lot different from that person? At home, I'm just a bishop of a rural diocese. It's when I venture outside of it that I enter the other extremely important diocese given to me by history. In that world, I'm a negative symbol for people who would demonize me and make me into a far worse person than I actually am.
But that can be less of a personal burden than the people who pin their hopes and dreams and sometimes their faith on what is happening to me.Overall, I feel so insufficient to the task at hand. The damage done to gay and lesbian people by organized religion Christianity, Judaism, Islam is so deep and so violent that it's overwhelming. I can't make up for all of it. But I can make up for some of it. I can at least say a healing word about how God didn't get it wrong, the church got it wrong.Of course, we had it wrong before about slavery, and about women. So the huge debate now is about getting it right about gays and lesbians.
What's taking so long?
I remind people that our detractors are only believing what they've been taught for 2,000 years. Why are we surprised this is so hard? We're asking people to change their minds about something we all seemed so sure about for so long.Nonetheless, I love it when I'm debating someone about this. If my opponent is divorced, for example, I like to say, I'll tell you how I deal with the seven or so verses of Scripture that seem to be talking about homosexuality if you tell me how you can have gotten a divorce and remarried in the church when Jesus said that's adultery.
Is reconciliation possible?
I'm arguing that we don't all have to be in the same place on this issue. The greatest gift the Anglican Communion has to offer is its 400 years as an enormously hospitable umbrella beneath which has existed a wide spectrum of beliefs. We don't find our unity in a unanimity of opinion. We find it when we go to the altar rail and receive the body and blood of Christ then we go back to the pews and fight about everything. You'll find us all over the map on abortion, stem cell research, who should be president and everything else one can think of.How do your efforts play in the orthodox dioceses of Africa, home to a vast majority of the world's Anglicans?
I want Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria in my church. The problem is they don't want me in their church. I believe Peter Akinola is going about his journey back to God as faithfully as he knows how. I just wish he could acknowledge that is exactly what I'm doing as well.Nonetheless, several conservative dioceses, including one in Central California, recently voted to be placed under someone else's jurisdiction, possibly someone in Africa.
What a lousy basis for an allegiance, being against homosexuals. How far can that go? What can they really share with these far-off dioceses? Are they really going to put themselves under the authority of those bishops? What if one of them feels called by God to be ordained in ministry? Are they going to go to Africa to speak with a bishop about it? It makes no sense.Of course, those people are more than free to leave the Episcopal Church. For their own spiritual health, that may be the best thing for them. I only wish them well. But what's wrong with staying together while we figure this one out?
Nearly every major denomination is obsessing over gay ordination and same-sex marriage. Is organized religion in the Western world at a crossroads? This may well be the beginning of some kind of realignment of communities of faith, the ultimate shape of which is not at all clear. But it may well be along the lines separating those who see God's love extending to everyone in a sort of forgiving embrace from those who see the role of religion as setting up rules whereby you know whether you are in or out.At its root, this debate is really about whether God is the deity that says, I will love you if you fill in the blank or a god that says, I just love you.Any words of advice for Jefferts Schori, whose election and support of gay rights have been a source of controversy?
I'd remind her that no matter how well or poorly she does as presiding bishop, she's going to heaven.Immediately after her election, I confessed to Katharine: I was completely self-serving in voting for you. It was the only way I could get off the front page!I was also the one who came up with the idea of the pink buttons passed around that day that said, It's a girl! over her name and the date. In fact, I had the honor of giving her my own button on the floor of the House of Bishops. She loved it.Are there indications that your own consecration was about something more than gay and lesbian rights?
Three days after my election I got a letter from a woman in the New Hampshire state women's prison who said, I'm neither gay nor particularly Christian. But there's something about your election that makes me feel there might be a community out there that could love me despite what I've done.I went to see her and learned that she killed her mother when she was 15. Each year for the past three years I've spent Christmas Eve with her and the other women in there. It means a lot to them that someone like me would be with them to celebrate the birth of Jesus and sing Christmas carols together.louis.sahagun@latimes.com
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