(The Last Days started in 1989. If 12 o'clock will be the Second Coming of Christ, we are now at 3 minutes before 12 - Roelof)



LAST DAYS – GOD’S STRATEGY FOR OUR WORLD


I believe that already at “In the Beginning,” God had a strategy for our world, He planned something better for all His children.

Hebrews 11:40 (NIV)
God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Psalm 33:11 (New Living Translation)
11 But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever;

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/Timeline.jpg




(Tim Lahaye)



GOD IS THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING
Revelation 1:8 (21st Century KJV)

"I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA,THEBEGINNING AND THE ENDING," saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

ALL IS UNDER THE PERMISSIVE DIRECTION OF GOD
Revelation13:5. (KJV Bible Commentary) ….. All is under the permissive direction of God, as with Job and Satan long ago (cf. Job 1–2).


GOD LOVES THE WORLD
John 3:16 (King James Version)
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son {Jesus Christ}, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

JESUS CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED FOR OUR SINS
Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

JESUS CHRIST’S SOLUTION FOR NEW AGE
John 14:6 (Amplified Bible) Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

Romans 12:2 (New Living Translation)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.


THE RAPTURE
(Some churches do not believe in it)


1 Thessalonians 4:16-17(KJV with Strong Numbers)
16 For the Lord {Christ} Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
17 then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up {catch away, pluck, pull} together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.



THE 7-YEAR TRIBULATION
Matthew 24:21 (KJV) For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.



THE GLORIOUS SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
Revelation 1:7 (21st Century KJV) The second coming of Christ to earth in fulfillment of Old Testament prediction (cf. Dan 7:13) will be seen by all kindreds of the earth at the time, Israel and the nations.

Matthew 24:30 (KJV)

and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man {Jesus Christ} coming in the clouds of heaven with power and with great glory.

SATAN BOUND FOR A 1000 YEARS IN ABYSS
Matthew 24:16-28 (KJV Bible Commentary) The terrible days [Great Tribulation] of that time shall be shortened by the sudden return of Christ to destroy the Wicked One {Satan) (II Thess 2:8).

Revelation 20:2 (KJV)

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

1000-YEAR (MILLENNIAL) KINGDOM OF CHRIST
Matthew 24:29-31(KJV Bible Commentary) Signs of the coming Son of Man {Christ}
The reference to the events immediately after the tribulation, such as the sun being darkened and the stars falling, etc., refer to the cataclysmic events that will accompany Christ’s return at the end of the Tribulation Period to establish His millennial kingdom on earth (see W. Price, Jesus’ Prophetic Sermon, p. 118ff.). What this sign (Gr semeion) will be is not explained here.

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


GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT
Revelation 20:11(KJV) And I saw a great white throne and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.

Romans 14:10 (KJV)

But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

LAKE OF FIRE
Revelation 19:20 (KJV) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles in his presence, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone.

Revelation 20:15 (KJV)
And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8 (KJV + Dictionary)

But the fearful and unbelieving {without Christian faith}, and the abominable {dreadful, extremely offensive}, and murderers, and whoremongers {sexually indiscriminate; sexual intercourse outside marriage}, and sorcerers {have magical powers}, and idolaters {worshipper of idols}, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

THE NEW JERUSALEM
Revelation 21 (Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Bible)
…. in the conduct of divine Providence towards the church in the world: now, at the close of all, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away; a new world now appears, the former having passed away. Some are willing to understand all that is said in these last two chapters of the state of the church even here on earth, in the glory of the latter days; but others, more probably, take it as a representation of the perfect and triumphant state of the church in heaven.

SPIRITUAL HEALTH CHECKLIST


This list may also reveal reasons why you do not heal after healing prayers.

then they shall confess their sin which they have done. …. (Num 5:7)

Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. (James 5:16)

But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in Heaven forgive your trespasses. (Mar 11:26)

Did you forgive others?
Did you forgive yourself?
Jesus turned. He saw the woman and said, "Don't worry! You are now well because of your faith." At that moment she was healed. (Mat 9:22)

And when He had called to Him His twelve disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. (Mat 10:1)


Evil spirits may afflict or threaten you / your health from the outside
Demon possessed (radical behavior)
Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. (Mat 6:10)


The Lord wants you to use modern medicines
The Lord wants you to fast
The Lord will heal you later
The Lord says “no”

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has ordered an inquiry in to the "suspicious" death of Neda Soltan, the woman shot by government militiamen during a protest in Tehran.

The President sent a letter to the chief of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, requesting a serious investigation to help to identify and prosecute “the elements” behind the killing earlier this month.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6601570.ece

More than 2,000 Iranians have been arrested and hundreds more have disappeared since the regime decided to crush dissent after the disputed presidential election, a leading human rights organisation said yesterday.

“A climate of terror and of fear reigns in Iran today,” the International Federation for Human Rights (http://www.fidh.org/Iran-A-climate-of-fear) , an umbrella body for 155 human rights organisations, said as it released the startling figures

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6597957.ece

JERUSALEM — Israel (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/israel/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) would be open to a complete freeze of settlement building in the West Bank for three to six months as part of a broad Middle East peace endeavor that included a Palestinian (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/palestinians/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) agreement to negotiate an end to the conflict and confidence-building steps by major Arab nations, senior Israeli officials said Sunday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/world/middleeast/29mideast.html?_r=1&hp

CAIRO — As officials began a limited recount of Iran (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/index.html?inline=nyt-geo)’s disputed presidential ballot on Monday, authorities in Tehran said they had extended by five days their deadline to investigate opposition claims of electoral fraud. The move could postpone the final certification of the ballot, which Iranian leaders insist was fair.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html?hp

Now, in an unexpected move, Obama has told White House aides that instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush's footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1907610,00.html

ROME — The first-ever scientific test on what are believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul "seems to confirm" that they do indeed belong to the Roman Catholic saint, Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday.

It was the second major discovery concerning St. Paul announced by the Vatican in as many days.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529346,00.html?test=latestnews

There have been a few major discoveries lately. A while back a cave used by early Christians was found. Then last week we had all this discussion about the Ark.

I wonder if, as end-times approach, God allows us to re-discover many ancient symbols of faith as a way of reminding us of Him and in some way, prepare for the coming times. Are more such discoveries coming? Just a thought.

(A sure sign that we are speeding into the Great Tribulation - Roelof)

Two-timing politicians, take note: cheating has never been easier. AshleyMadison.com, a personals site designed to facilitate extramarital affairs, now boasts slick iPhone and Blackberry versions that help married horndogs find like-minded cheaters within minutes. The new tools are aimed at tech-savvy adulterers wary of leaving tracks on work or home computers. Because the apps are loaded up from phones' browsers, they leave no electronic trail that suspicious spouses can trace.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1907542,00.html


From Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary:

THE GREAT TRIBULATION— a short but intense period of distress and suffering at the end of time. The exact phrase, “the great tribulation,” is found only once in the Bible (Rev. 7:14). The great tribulation fulfills Daniel’s prophecies (Daniel 7–12). It will be a time of evil from false christs and false prophets (Mark 13:22) when natural disasters will occur throughout the world.

One in 25 deaths around the world is caused by alcohol consumption, and booze is now as damaging to global health as tobacco was a decade ago, according to a new study in the British medical journal the Lancet.

The increase was primarily the result of more women taking up drinking

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1907408,00.html

(The US and Obama might experience the wrath of the Lord because of plans to divide Israel and Jerusalem - Roelof)

Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem are included in the US demand that Israel halt "settlement" construction, including for natural growth, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told The Jerusalem Post during a press briefing on Monday.
"We're talking about all settlement activity, yes, in the area across the line," he said, referring to neighborhoods in Jerusalem over the Green Line, or pre-1967 armistice line, in response to a question on where America's calls to halt construction in the settlements would be applied.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184902559&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

The point is that the proposed federal "hate crime" law before the Senate is less about righting wrongs than it is about elevating sexual preferences -- all of them -- to civil rights status so they can be used as a battering ram against people with traditional values.


"Hate crime" laws ensure unequal justice. They empower some groups of victims at the expense of others. A grandma using an ATM machine should have as much protection under the law as a man walking out of a "gay" bar. But under the proposed federal "hate crimes" law, an assailant of a man perceived as homosexual would face greater penalties than grandma's mugger.


Yesterday (Thursday, June 25), the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (S. 909), which passed the House on April 29 in a largely partisan vote of 249 to 175, with 10 abstentions.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=581080

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The U.S. economy shrank at an annual pace of 5.5% in the first quarter, the government said Thursday, a slower pace of decline than previously reported but still the second largest quarterly drop in 27 years.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/news/economy/gdp_final/index.htm?postversion=2009062510

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The US federal government is likely to spend $835 billion this year fighting the crises in the financial system and the economy, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
That spending represents about 6% of the nation's gross domestic product.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/26/news/economy/cbo_federal_budget_outlook/index.htm?postversion=2009062610

I wonder if, as end-times approach, God allows us to re-discover many ancient symbols of faith as a way of reminding us of Him and in some way, prepare for the coming times. .

Revolvr

We are living in the Last Days and scientists are proving daily that the Bible is true and we serve a living God !!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5675166/At-least-85-sharia-courts-operating-in-Britain-says-Civitas-report.html

At least 85 sharia 'courts' operating in Britain, says Civitas report:


It led to claims of a "creeping" acceptance of sharia principles in British law, but the Muslim Council of Britain dismissed the report as "scaremongering".

:B:B:B


The man behind the world's biggest online Michael Jackson fan club has said heartbroken followers of the star have committed suicide because of his death.

Gary Taylor, president and owner of MJJcommunity.com, said he understood the tragedies had mostly taken place outside of the UK but he believed one may have been British.
"I know there has been an increase, I now believe the figure is 12. I believe there may have been one Briton who has taken their life," he said.

I didn't know where else to post this, but IMHO it's a sign of the end times. How pathetic is that???

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529346,00.html?test=latestnews

There have been a few major discoveries lately. A while back a cave used by early Christians was found. Then last week we had all this discussion about the Ark.

I wonder if, as end-times approach, God allows us to re-discover many ancient symbols of faith as a way of reminding us of Him and in some way, prepare for the coming times. Are more such discoveries coming? Just a thought.


I have a feeling that any findings about the apostle Paul will be used to discredit the New Testament. It would make it much easier to merge major religions if they just go after a "generic one God". They will point and say that all religions worship the "same God".

:B:B:B



I didn't know where else to post this, but IMHO it's a sign of the end times. How pathetic is that???

These days people are always looking for something or someone to believe in, to have faith in. They are ABC'ers: Anyone But Christ.

The man behind the world's biggest online Michael Jackson fan club has said heartbroken followers of the star have committed suicide because of his death.

Gary Taylor, president and owner of MJJcommunity.com, said he understood the tragedies had mostly taken place outside of the UK but he believed one may have been British.

"I know there has been an increase, I now believe the figure is 12. I believe there may have been one Briton who has taken their life," he said.


Joe King

It is very sad but that is what might happen if you worship idols

I have a feeling that any findings about the apostle Paul will be used to discredit the New Testament. It would make it much easier to merge major religions if they just go after a "generic one God". They will point and say that all religions worship the "same God".

Joe

That is the "god" of the New Age Movement
This perfectly fits in with the New World Order

(Another sure sign of the Last Days - Roelof)

But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, (1Ti 4:1)

Britain’s most prominent non-believer is backing its first atheist summer camp for children.

WHEN schoolchildren break up for their summer holidays at the end of next month, India Jago, aged 12, and her brother Peter, 11, will be taking a vacation with a twist.

While their friends jet off to Spain or the Greek islands, the siblings will be hunting for imaginary unicorns in Somerset, while learning about moral philosophy. The Jagos, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, are among 24 children who will be taking part in Britain’s first summer camp for atheists.

The five-day retreat is being subsidised by Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, and is intended to provide an alternative to faith-based summer camps normally run by the Scouts and Christian groups.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6591231.ece

(Full speed towards a New World Order - Roelof)

The UK economy shrank by 2.4 per cent in the first quarter at the fastest rate in more than 50 years and far worse than expected, according to official figures today.

Revised figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that, between January and March, the economy contracted by its fastest pace since 1958.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6608270.ece


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The U.S. economy shrank at an annual pace of 5.5% in the first quarter, the government said Thursday, a slower pace of decline than previously reported but still the second largest quarterly drop in 27 years.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/news...ion=2009062510 (http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/news/economy/gdp_final/index.htm?postversion=2009062510)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq regained full control if its towns and cities on Tuesday as U.S. troops pulled back, six years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

Though some Iraqis fear the first step in a full U.S. withdrawal may leave them open to attack, the government declared "National Sovereignty Day" a holiday and held a military parade to flex its muscles at a still stubborn insurgency.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55T10I20090630

(Even the holy city Jerusalem has gays !!!! - Roelof)

Nitzhan Horowitz, an openly-gay member of Israel's parliament, led songs in Jerusalem's gay pride parade as protestors yelled anti-gay epithets

Open the link for video clip

http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=27980590001


Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals, (1Co 6:9)

Food shortages returned last year, while aid and investment from neighbors such as South Korea and Japan have dwindled. How bad the situation may be is hard to assess since North Korea doesn't reveal significant economic data.

North Korea's woes are a direct result of the regime's refusal to change its outdated economic system. Unlike China's leaders, who linked market-oriented reforms to the Communist Party's survival, Kim Jong Il and his cohorts see economic openness as a threat to their power and have in recent years intensified state control over the economy.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1907641,00.html

President Shimon Peres met his Kazakhstani counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev on Tuesday morning and urged him to act to stop his country's sale of uranium ores to Iran

Nazarbayev said his country did not sell any nuclear material to the Islamic republic and that he had told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that nuclear weapons would not safeguard Iran's security, since there would always be counter measures.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296535221&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Islam is playing a major role in the New World Order - Roelof)

At least 85 sharia “courts” now operate in Britain making decisions that sometimes contradict British law, according to a report (http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/ShariaLawOrOneLawForAll.pdf) by independent think tank Civitas (http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/prcs91.php). These Islamic courts, or arbitration tribunals, make rulings on marriage, polygamy and child custody that are illegal, the study shows.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6306.4751.0.0

One of Radio 2's most popular religious presenters has launched a stinging attack on the BBC suggesting the broadcaster is biased against Christianity.

Don Maclean, 66, who hosted Good Morning Sunday for 16 years, said the broadcaster was 'keen' on programmes that attack the Christian church.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194580/The-BBC-keen-attacking-Christianity-support-Islam-claims-radio-presenter-Maclean.html#

HONG KONG — Oil companies from China (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo), the world’s second-largest and fastest-growing consumer of oil, bid aggressively on Tuesday as Iraq (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) began auctioning licenses in six large oil fields.

A partnership of BP (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/bp_plc/index.html?inline=nyt-org) and the China National Petroleum Corporation, or C.N.P.C., won the first contract awarded, in the latest indication of Chinese interest in Iraq, a country that has until recently seemed to be firmly in the American sphere of influence for natural resources.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/business/global/01chinaoil.html?ref=world

(This sounds evil to me. How can you expose your children to the H1N1 virus in this manner? - Roelof)

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Health experts are warning parents against holding "swine flu parties" in the hope of infecting their children with the H1N1 virus.

Talk of swine flu parties has emerged on Internet forums. The idea is that exposing a child to the H1N1 virus while it remains relatively mild will give the child immunity if the virus returns in a more virulent form later on.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/30/flu.party/

I wonder if, as end-times approach, God allows us to re-discover many ancient symbols of faith as a way of reminding us of Him and in some way, prepare for the coming times. Are more such discoveries coming? Just a thought.
Hi, Revolvr--I have been thinking the exact same thing!

(We serve a living, Trinity God !!!! - Roelof)

The patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world Friday the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the world's most prized archaeological and spiritual artifact, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.

Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries."

The announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102119

Obama promises the Palestinians Jerusalem

Last week in a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Obama Administration promised the PA that, “the US foresees the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”

http://www.examiner.com/x-3678-Baltimore-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m5d31-Obama-promises-the-Palestinians-Jerusalem

Obama is dividing Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087107.html

(This sounds evil to me. How can you expose your children to the H1N1 virus in this manner? - Roelof)

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Health experts are warning parents against holding "swine flu parties" in the hope of infecting their children with the H1N1 virus.

Talk of swine flu parties has emerged on Internet forums. The idea is that exposing a child to the H1N1 virus while it remains relatively mild will give the child immunity if the virus returns in a more virulent form later on.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/30/flu.party/

It's not evil, it's preemptive. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I do understand it. Many people here in the U.S. have Chicken Pox parties for toddlers under the age one. It is beneficial for several reasons: you don't have to worry about your kid getting them later; you don't have to worry about keeping your kid home from school when they do get them; the kid is too young to scratch. All in all it's a more pleasant experience for the kid and the parents. Though Chicken Pox is a much less threatening disease than Swine Flu is. Anyways, just letting you understand the philosophy behind it all and it is certainly not evil. It's quite similar to the science behind a flu shot.

It's not evil, it's preemptive. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I do understand it. ...... It's quite similar to the science behind a flu shot.

White Spider

It is very good to hear from you!!!
I am no medical doctor, you may be right

Obama promises the Palestinians Jerusalem

Last week in a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Obama Administration promised the PA that, “the US foresees the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”

http://www.examiner.com/x-3678-Baltimore-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m5d31-Obama-promises-the-Palestinians-Jerusalem

Obama is dividing Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087107.html

Obama is pro-abortion, pro-gay and pro-New World Order, why should he feel anything for Jerusalem?
Obama might experience the full wrath of the Lord if he continues

Iran's opposition leader flagrantly courted arrest today by labelling President Ahmadinejad's government "illegitimate" one day after the regime said it would tolerate no further challenges to the election result.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister, issued a brave and defiant statement on his website declaring: "It is our historical responsibility to continue our protests and not to abandon our efforts to preserve the nation's rights".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6618756.ece

Israeli and Palestinian troops both committed war crimes in the recent war in Gaza, Amnesty International has claimed in the first in-depth human rights report on the war.

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed by high precision artillery, while others were shot at close range, the report said. It also described rocket fire attacks by Gaza's militant Hamas rulers against Israeli towns as war crimes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6621805.ece

(A sure sign that we are speeding into the Great Tribulation - Roelof)

Two-timing politicians, take note: cheating has never been easier. AshleyMadison.com, a personals site designed to facilitate extramarital affairs, now boasts slick iPhone and Blackberry versions that help married horndogs find like-minded cheaters within minutes. The new tools are aimed at tech-savvy adulterers wary of leaving tracks on work or home computers. Because the apps are loaded up from phones' browsers, they leave no electronic trail that suspicious spouses can trace.


Call me crazy if you want, but I call that Hype. Any website you visit leaves an electronic trail somewhere. The phone company probably tracks it so they can meter your usage. So to say you leave no electronic trail is something I highly doubt is 100% true, but then, that's the point there isn't it? To assuage the conscience of those who might use this awful site in the first place.

(This post reconfirms that the NWO was born in 1993. The Last Days started in 1989 - Roelof)

Then in 1993, the New World Order was established as a legitimate national agenda - by a socialist Democrat, Bill Clinton.
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/ (http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/)


(Very interesting that the last katun in the Mayan calendar started in 1993 and will end in 2012 - Roelof)

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar) forms the basis for a New Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age) belief, first forecast by José Argüelles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles), that a cataclysm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm) will take place on or about December 21, 2012 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Doomsday_prediction),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar)

The end of the current 28 year cycle will be 2014, a Sabbatical year - Roelof


(Be ready to meet the Lord every day - Roelof)

(How far are we from the peace treaty of the Antichrist? [Not meaning anything on Obama] - Roelof)

If airline travel counted as progress then you could say that Israel and the Palestinians had a good chance of a deal. Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister, flies back from Washington; George Mitchell, President Obama’s special envoy, will pitch up in the region again in a fortnight. Obama suggests that the US will unveil its grand plan in the coming weeks, and his team is talking about a regional summit in September (possibly in London, a coup for Gordon Brown).

Obama himself is the biggest new factor bringing hope; another is the engagement of Israel’s Arab neighbours, provoked by fear of Iran’s rise, and of the effect of a festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict on radical Islam. “The regional dimension gives a golden opportunity to move forward,” argues Isaac Herzog, a Labour minister in Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition Government.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/article6620234.ece

Washington - The United States is prepared to intercept any North Korean long-range missile as Pyongyang tested international patience further with new launches, a top US military commander said on Thursday.
"The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defence capability," General Victor "Gene" Renuart, the top US commander in North America, told The Washington Times.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/c2a34821934949a18ca609794b69102d/02-07-2009%2010-07/US_prepared_for_missiles_

More than 100,000 swine flu cases could be diagnosed every day by the end of next month, the Health Secretary has warned. Britain has moved past the stage of trying to contain the spread of the virus and into the “treatment phase”, Andy Burnham told the House of Commons.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6623554.ece

More than 100,000 swine flu cases could be diagnosed every day by the end of next month . . .

As I pointed out, I think could be are the key words in that statement. From my experience government agencies, disease agencies and the likes all focus on worst case scenarios.

I mean I could say next week could be the end of the world, but most people would laugh at that.

And I have to somewhat laugh at the Swine Flu scare, so far it has not surpassed any normal yearly flu from what I have read and I am glad they are taking preemptive measures but I think they hype is just that. HYPE.

Glad to see you are keeping an eye on it though Roelof. Just had to throw my two cents in on the matter. :hug:

And my prayers are that it does not become that bad. :pray:

As I pointed out, I think could be are the key words in that statement. From my experience government agencies, disease agencies and the likes all focus on worst case scenarios.

Glad to see you are keeping an eye on it though Roelof. Just had to throw my two cents in on the matter. :hug:
.

White Spider

I heard on the news that 5 000 people die world-wide weekly from "other flue" That is much more than from H1N1

(I do not think that the UK will accept this - Roelof)

Iran’s top legislative body announced today that British embassy staff accused of inciting post-election violence will be forced to stand trial in Tehran.

The surprise move by the Guardian Council will cause relations between London and the Iranian regime to sink further after the two countries engaged in tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions last week. Downing Street said the Government was concerned and seeking urgent clarification today.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6629514.ece

Pope Benedict XVI today cleared the way for Cardinal John Henry Newman to become a saint.

The Pope issued the decree that allows the beatification of England’s most significant convert to Roman Catholicism.

The Pope opened the way for the beatification in 2001 by officially recognising the healing of Jack Sullivan, a Catholic deacon in the US, as a miracle resulting from the intercession of Newman.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6629851.ece

(We all know that healing and miracles are by the power of Jesus Christ only - Roelof)

The process by which a person is declared a saint can only start after they have died and normally there is at least a five year gap.
Once it starts it can take a only a few years to move through the stages to sainthood, or it can take centuries.

The Catholic Church believes that God works miracles through intercessionary prayers through people in heaven.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6630142.ece

(The world money powers have already decided to destroy the US dollar - Roelof)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Major countries should support the dollar as the key international currency, although emerging nations may discuss a new global reserve currency on the sidelines of the G8 summit next week, a Japanese official said on Friday.

China has asked for debate on a new global reserve currency when leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) meet with the G5 emerging economies next week in Italy,

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5621DR20090703

Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic.

The announcement, made by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 83, the head of Iran’s powerful Guardian Council, at Friday prayers, was a sharp escalation of the confrontation with Britain.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6633790.ece

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and possibly repeat the mistake it made when it condemned astronomer Galileo in the 17th century, a Vatican official said on Thursday in a rare self-criticism.

Galileo, who lived from 1564 to 1642, was condemned by the Inquisition in 1633 for asserting that the earth revolved around the sun.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5614DL20090702

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea fired four missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, in what was likely to be seen as a message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day holiday.

The launches, which came two days after North Korea fired four short-range missiles, could further escalate tensions in the region as the U.S. tries to muster support for tough enforcement of the U.N. resolution imposed on the communist regime for its May nuclear test.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1908684,00.html

A detained Iranian employee of the British embassy has been charged with harming Iran’s national security, his lawyer said Saturday, in a move certain to increase tension with Europe.

Iran has been holding nine local members of the British embassy staff on accusations of fomenting unrest. All but one has now been released and he has been chanrged with “acting against national security.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6636883.ece

North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles in an ‘act of provocation’ on American Independence Day.
The communist state defied a United Nations ban to fire at least seven scud-type missiles into the Sea of Japan this morning.
Reports from South Korea claim the ballistic missiles have a range of about 500km.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6637022.ece

Judgment Day arrived for California, and the debt grows by about half a billion a month - Roelof

With California (http://get.lingospot.com/link/?@li2=23419&is_lhid=1&key=ATPUCNWCXV&portal_key=3_Sacbee&ps_id=wu8uy9aIih&q=QQ:lqOTqjptCQZD7SI7P7AORJJOHHOHAUVOqptJ:pnCHOqmj _J:pnCGSO4aJm8CPAIRA:GSSAKVV&site_id=&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.sacbee.com%2FCalifornia%2F&url_key=_TaCSO0C7{ISSGUBK&v=1&~boot=1246721184375)'s budget gap growing by millions each day, Thursday marked a roller coaster of Capitol emotion that veered from optimism about prospects for a deal to eruption of a new fight over school funding. (http://topics.sacbee.com/school+funding/)

Bottom line: No agreement – and state finance officials estimate that the red ink grows by about $25 million per day for every day that goes by this month without a balanced budget in place.

http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1997581.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Staving off California's financial meltdown will be the toughest role ever for Hollywood hero Arnold Schwarzenegger as he enters the last 18 months of his governorship.

The most populous and often trend-setting U.S. state has racked up a $26.3 billion budget gap -- about a quarter of its total annual spending -- and could run out of cash this month if its books are not balanced.

Financial woes in California, home to both Hollywood and high-tech hub Silicon Valley, are so severe that some state officials have begged Washington for financial aid.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5615PZ20090703

If you are interested in the remarks of pres Obama on the gay pride, please open the White House link - Roelof

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-LGBT-Pride-Month-Reception/

A respected Iranian political analyst employed by the British embassy in Tehran is facing a lengthy prison sentence after he was charged yesterday with “acting against national security”.

The charge was a sharp escalation of the hardline Iranian regime’s campaign to blame Britain for instigating demonstrations against last month’s disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6638263.ece

The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6638568.ece

For the U.S. military, it’s the million dollar question — or rather the $687 billion question, according to a recent estimate of the Iraq war’s total cost. Is Iraq now stable enough for them to take a permanent back seat?

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/07/03/is-iraq-stable-enough-to-cope-without-us-troops/?p=2224?tempedition=debatehub

California is under the judgment of the Lord for liberal gay and abortion laws - Roelof

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, optimistic California can finish its budget negotiations in a few days, is willing to reconsider his proposed cuts to education in hopes of averting a cash crisis, the San Francisco Chronicle said on Saturday.

Schwarzenegger to help reduce California's $26.3 billion budget deficit with cuts to school spending that would require suspension of constitutional rules on education expenditures.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5601F220090704

CAIRO — The most important group of religious leaders in Iran (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html?_r=1&hp

It is not now as it hath been of yore. Summits between the leaders who live in the White House and the Kremlin once transfixed the world, as competing superpowers, ideologies and worldviews clashed. But when Barack Obama visits Moscow on July 6, it will be something of a rarity for the U.S. President: a rather dull trip. Obama will encounter no cheering crowds or overly excited local media.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1908308,00.html

A lot of my former colleagues have been out of work for over a year," she says from her home

Today's unemployment figures don't offer much solace for job seekers. Nationally, unemployment reached 9.5 percent, up from 9.4 percent in May, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/205038

The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6638568.ece

I am sure a lot of us have suspected this for a long time. Question is, why leak this now? Who is the message for?

Today we live in a bizzarro world created by Obama, where Israel's ally, the US, might actually shoot down an Israeli jet passing through Iraq on the way to Iran. But Israel's long time enemy, Saudi Arabia, would let them pass through.

The shortest route form Israel to Iran's nuclear facilities in through Iraq. Obama has shut that down. The only other practical route is through Saudi Arabia. Israel is sending a signal to Obama that they do not need Iraqi airspace. Israel will do this without US help when the time comes.

I just wonder if they will decide to go through with it before its too late.

The shortest route form Israel to Iran's nuclear facilities in through Iraq. Obama has shut that down. The only other practical route is through Saudi Arabia. Israel is sending a signal to Obama that they do not need Iraqi airspace. Israel will do this without US help when the time comes.

I just wonder if they will decide to go through with it before its too late.

2008/9/10 - Three total solar eclipses on the Biblical date of Av 1, for three years: Av 1 – 1 August 2008; Av 1 – 22 July 2009; Av 1 – 11 July 2010.

Maybe Israel will strike Iran still in July. The elections in Iran are past now

One hundred and forty people have been killed and more than 800 wounded in riots that rocked the western China at the weekend, the deadliest social unrest since the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Running battles raged through the city of Urumqi throughout Sunday, pitting members of the Uighur minority against ethnic Han Chinese. Witnesses said that up to 3,000 rioters went on the rampage, smashing buses and overturning police barricades during several hours of violence.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6646669.ece

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama) arrived in Russia on Monday for a summit with Russian leaders at which a framework deal on arms cuts was to be signed as part of efforts to improve strained ties between Moscow and Washington.

An agreed text of an outline deal on cutting Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals would be put to Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev at a Kremlin meeting later in the day, a U.S. official told Reuters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5640IZ20090706

The government can scrap all laws discriminating against gays, the Holy Bible will remain the same forever - Roelof

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American attitudes have changed and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays serving in the U.S. military should be reviewed, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell said on Sunday.

President Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama) favors overturning the policy, which bars gay troops from serving openly in the military. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked military lawyers to look at ways to make the law more flexible, hailed by gay rights groups as a "seismic political shift".

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5641A920090705

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals, (1Co 6:9)

The Lord loves all sinners. All you must do is to repent your sins and stop sinning. God will forgive you then - Roelof

My prayer for all gays:

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. (Rom 12:2)

In the Name of Jesus
Amen.

LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - The surviving parts of the world's oldest Christian bible will be reunited online on Monday, generating excitement among biblical scholars still striving to unlock its mysteries.

The Codex Sinaiticus was hand written by four scribes in Greek on animal hide, known as vellum, in the mid-fourth century around the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great who embraced Christianity.

Not all of it has withstood the ravages of time, but the pages that have include the whole of the New Testament and the earliest surviving copy of the Gospels written at different times after Christ's death by four of the Apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The bible's remaining 800 pages and fragments -- it was originally some 1400 pages long -- also contain half of a copy of the Old Testament. The other half has been lost.

"The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library.

The bible, which can be viewed online free from Monday, includes modern Greek translations and some sections translated into English.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/07/05/world/international-britain-bible-codex.html?_r=1&hp

Page the old Bible:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important witnesses to the Greek text of the Septuagint (the Old Testament in the version that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians) and the Christian New Testament. No other early manuscript of the Christian Bible has been so extensively corrected.

A glance at the transcription will show just how common these corrections are. They are especially frequent in the Septuagint portion. They range in date from those made by the original scribes in the fourth century to ones made in the twelfth century. They range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences.

One important goal of the Codex Sinaiticus Project is to provide a better understanding of the text of the Codex and of the subsequent corrections to it. This will not only help us to understand this manuscript better, but will also give us insights into the way the texts of the Bible were copied, read and used.
By the middle of the fourth century there was wide but not complete agreement on which books should be considered authoritative for Christian communities. Codex Sinaiticus, one of the two earliest collections of such books, is essential for an understanding of the content and the arrangement of the Bible, as well as the uses made of it.

The Greek Septuagint in the Codex includes books not found in the Hebrew Bible and regarded in the Protestant tradition as apocryphal, such as 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach. Appended to the New Testament are the Epistle of Barnabas and 'The Shepherd' of Hermas.
The idiosyncratic sequence of books is also remarkable: within the New Testament the Letter to the Hebrews is placed after Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians, and the Acts of the Apostles between the Pastoral and Catholic Epistles. The content and arrangement of the books in Codex Sinaiticus shed light on the history of the construction of the Christian Bible.

The ability to place these 'canonical books' in a single codex itself influenced the way Christians thought about their books, and this is directly dependent upon the technological advances seen in Codex Sinaiticus. The quality of its parchment and the advanced binding structure that would have been needed to support over 730 large-format leaves, which make Codex Sinaiticus such an outstanding example of book manufacture, also made possible the concept of a 'Bible'. The careful planning, skilful writing and editorial control needed for such an ambitious project gives us an invaluable insight into early Christian book production.

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/significance.aspx

I'm glad scientist are waking up, but I know he is alive for he has been real in my life.
I too believe we will be going home soon. :idea:

Watching the governor of South Carolina cry like a little girl because his sexy e-mails got forwarded to his local newspaper, the State, made me wonder whether the real secret to a lasting marriage lies in limiting your means of escape. Whether you're putting the Buick Regal in reverse or hitting "Send" on a love note, you're busting out of your marriage, however temporarily, and soon enough there will be hell to pay.

When a married man begins a secret, solicitous correspondence with a beautiful and emotionally needy single woman, he has already begun to cheat on his wife.

And so two more american families discover a truth as old as marriage: a lasting covenant between a man and a woman can be a vehicle for the nurture and protection of each other, the one reliable shelter in an uncaring world — or it can be a matchless tool for the infliction of suffering on the people you supposedly love above all others, most of all on your children.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908243,00.html

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come. (Mat 24:14)

My view is that "the end" could refer to the end of the Great Tribulation

The 10/40 Window is a term coined by Christian missionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_(Christian)) strategist Luis Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bush) in 1990 to refer those regions of the eastern hemisphere located between 10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_parallel_north) and 40 degrees north (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_parallel_north) of the equator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equator), a general area that in 1990 was purported to have the highest level of socioeconomic challenges and least access to the Christian message and Christian resources on the planet.

The 10/40 Window concept highlights these three elements: an area of the world, with great poverty and low quality of life, combined with lack of access to Christian resources.

The Window forms a band encompassing Saharan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara) and Northern Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Africa), as well as almost all of Asia (West Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Asia), Central Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia), South Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia), East Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia) and much of Southeast Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia)). Roughly two-thirds of the world population lives in the 10/40 Window. The 10/40 Window is populated by people who are predominantly Muslim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim), Hindu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu), Buddhist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist), Animist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animist), Jewish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish) or Atheist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist).


"Unreached (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unreached&action=edit&redlink=1)" non-Christian populations in the 10/40 Window:

865 million Muslims (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim)
550 million Hindus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu)
275 million Buddhists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist)
140 million in 2550 tribal groups (mainly animist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animist))
17 million Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew)
Total of 1.8 billion people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10/40_Window

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/10-40_Window_world_map-1.png

MOSCOW — President Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per) signed an agreement on Monday to cut American and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals by at least one-quarter, a first step in a broader effort intended to reduce the threat of such weapons drastically and to prevent their further spread to unstable regions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=1&hp

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u298/hogndog/theholocaust.jpg


I feel the madness will accelerate, then we will be put into
Concentration Camps anyone that holds on to Christ will be
looked down upon as being crazy, The mark may be closer
than we think.

I Corinthians 1: 18 For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are
saved it is the power of God.

Jude

Glory To God!

I feel the madness will accelerate, then we will be put into
Concentration Camps anyone that holds on to Christ will be
looked down upon as being crazy, The mark may be closer
than we think.



Many people already think we as Christians are mad.
What you mentioned might happen during the Great Tribulation

(I wonder what the world money powers say about this? - Roelof)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States should be planning for a possible second round of fiscal stimulus to further prop up the economy after the $787 billion rescue package launched in February, an adviser to President Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama) said.

"We should be planning on a contingency basis for a second round of stimulus," Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a member of the panel advising President Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama) on tackling the economic crisis. said on Tuesday.

Tyson dispelled concerns about the ballooning U.S. fiscal deficit that is estimated to hit nearly 10 percent of gross domestic product, and its possible inflationary consequences.
"The Federal Reserve is not going to allow the U.S. to inflate away its debt," she said.

It is almost in no one's interest to have a sharply spiraling downward dollar," she said. The dollar ought to decline in the longer term on a trade-weighted basis but she did not anticipate a sharp and sudden decline.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56611D20090707

Except for an abortion due to medical reasons, the use of human embrios is murder. This is passing the buck to allow federal funds to be used for human embryonic stem cell research - Roelof

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government released new rules on Monday governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells, loosening some ethical requirements that scientists said could have cost them a decade of work.

The rules, which take effect on Tuesday, keep many existing restrictions on the research. U.S. federal funds may still not be used to actually make the cells using human embryos -- only to work with the cells after someone else has made them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5654NK20090706

We must be ready to meet our Lord every day, either by rapture or by death. I heard on Christian news that two evangelists visited Jackson two weeks before his death and that he asked them to pray for him. By the Grace of our Lord, he could have been saved - Roelof

In the same Los Angeles arena where he rehearsed for the ill-fated "This Is It" tour, Michael Jackson will be remembered on Tuesday by a bevy of luminaries paying their final homage to the globally celebrated star. Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey, John Mayer, Usher, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder have all been announced as performers who will help bid Jackson farewell at L.A.'s Staples Center in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on all major networks and many cable channels as well as streamed live on websites from Myspace to MTV.com.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1908968,00.html

Even as Pentagon lawyers begin trying to ease the "Don't ask, don't tell" prohibition on gays serving openly in the U.S. military, the murder last week of an apparently gay sailor at California's Camp Pendleton has raised new questions over the readiness of the armed forces to accept openly homosexual personnel.

Seaman August Provost of Houston was shot and killed while standing nighttime guard at his base on June 30. His body was found at about 3 a.m. after his guard shack had been torched, apparently to destroy evidence surrounding his slaying, according to Navy officials. Provost was gay, according to his family, gay activists and his MySpace page, and had reportedly "come out" to some of his Navy colleagues. Two California Democratic members of Congress, Susan Davis and Bob Filner, have asked the military to investigate whether Provost's sexual orientation was the reason for his murder. Local gay activists have also asked for such a probe, and are planning a candlelight vigil outside Camp Pendleton's gates this Friday

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908956,00.html

"If the threat from Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program is eliminated, the driving force for missile defense in Europe will be eliminated," US President Barack Obama said Tuesday.

The US president was speaking to students at the National Economic School (NES) in Moscow, on the second day of a visit to the formerly soviet country.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443741778&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his top deputies have not formally asked for US aid or permission for a possible military strike on Iran's nuclear program, since they fear the White House would not approve, according to two Israeli officials, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443739359&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

We must be ready to meet our Lord every day, either by rapture or by death. I heard on Christian news that two evangelists visited Jackson two weeks before his death and that he asked them to pray for him. By the Grace of our Lord, he could have been saved - Roelof

In the same Los Angeles arena where he rehearsed for the ill-fated "This Is It" tour, Michael Jackson will be remembered on Tuesday by a bevy of luminaries paying their final homage to the globally celebrated star. Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey, John Mayer, Usher, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder have all been announced as performers who will help bid Jackson farewell at L.A.'s Staples Center in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on all major networks and many cable channels as well as streamed live on websites from Myspace to MTV.com.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1908968,00.html

You have to wonder with the propaganda that some of these guests are going to say whether God is pleased with these folks. Wouldn't it be an ironic twist of timing if some event, say an earthquake happened in the middle of all this.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his top deputies have not formally asked for US aid or permission for a possible military strike on Iran's nuclear program, since they fear the White House would not approve, according to two Israeli officials, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443739359&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Does Israel need permission from the U.S. in order to act in its own self defense?

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, saying the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do."

Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who just won a disputed re-election. He repeatedly has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and contends the Holocaust is a "myth."

Israel and the U.S. accuse Iran of seeking to develop weapons under the cover of a nuclear power program. Iran denies that.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/05/biden-wont-stand-way-israel-iran-nukes/

IsraelNN.com) The Israel Air Force’s F-15 fleet is undergoing an upgrade, with systems that make it better equipped for complex long distance attack scenarios. The systems are being installed in both the F-15 and the F-15I -- a model of the F-15 that was developed by its U.S. manufacturer specifically for the IAF.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132102

This is a very well known New Age view point - Roelof

WASHINGTON - Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country told several thousand American Muslims on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems.

"Some problems are so big you have to team tackle them," evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren addressed the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America.

Warren said Muslims and Christians should be partners in working to end what he calls "the five global giants" of war, poverty, corruption, disease and illiteracy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31741969/ns/us_news-faith/

A sure sign of the Last Days - Roelof

Homosexual "weddings" should be celebrated in churches, a Government minister has said in defiance of religious teaching.

Chris Bryant, who once posed in his underpants on a gay dating website, said he wanted clergy to be "much more open" to the idea of treating civil partnership ceremonies like traditional marriages.

However, his suggestion goes directly against the rules of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, which state that only the union of a man and a woman can be celebrated by a priest in church.

It comes as the Government is pushing through an Equality Bill that religious groups fear will force them to give jobs to homosexual youth workers or secretaries, even if their faith maintains that same-sex relationships are sinful.

"I would like to see churches be much more open to the idea of gay relationships or partnerships being celebrated in church."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5723177/Homosexual-weddings-should-be-celebrated-in-church-says-Chris-Bryant.html


But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, (1Ti 4:1)

This is a very well known New Age view point - Roelof

WASHINGTON - Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country told several thousand American Muslims on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems.

"Some problems are so big you have to team tackle them," evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren addressed the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America.

Warren said Muslims and Christians should be partners in working to end what he calls "the five global giants" of war, poverty, corruption, disease and illiteracy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31741969/ns/us_news-faith/


2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Except for an abortion due to medical reasons, it is murder - Roelof

At United Nations headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil. The US proposal calls for “universal access” to “sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning.” The document under consideration will culminate in the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, which convenes next week in Geneva.

The sticking point for many delegations and what has driven apart the usual solid European bloc is the use of the word “services” in the context of “reproductive health.” Way back in 2001 during negotiations related to the ten year review of the Child Convention, a Canadian delegate blurted out “of course everyone knows ‘services’ means abortion.”

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/abortion_access_obama/2009/07/02/231524.html

The view point of The Trumpet is not mine - Roelof

Even as it became an observable trend in the decline of ancient Rome, so it has been during the collapse of all great world powers: You can track the moral descent of a nation by its cultural decline.

Media coverage of this week’s funeral for Michael Jackson will be massive, and it will be global. Such was the almost universal appeal of the Jackson entertainment machine. Yet, just a single lifetime ago, the style of “entertainment” embraced by generations of Jackson worshippers would have been relegated to the world of the weird and the perverse, if not the downright demonic.

Gates placed Jackson in order of descent in a line of pop idols that have emanated from postwar Anglo-American “culture.”

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6317.4770.0.0

The common perception in the West is that the Jews are the primary stumbling block to peace in Israel. Truth be told, the Palestinians are their own worst enemy.

Speaking in a television interview last week, Palestinian Authority (pa) leader Mahmoud Abbas warned that Hamas, the democratically elected Palestinian terrorist group in charge of the Gaza Strip, is “preparing a terrorist attack.”

Was Abbas referring to Hamas plotting another attack on Israel? Not this time.
According to Abbas (http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_palestinians0528_07_02.asp), Hamas was plotting to attack Fatah leaders and facilities in the West Bank.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6320.4775.0.0

A day before the G8 summit, the pope calls for a New World Order - Roelof)

Pope Benedict XVI criticized the international economic system yesterday and called for a new global structure based on social responsibility, concern for the dignity of the worker and a respect for ethics.

"Today's international economic scene, marked by grave deviations and failures, requires a profoundly new way of understanding human enterprise," Benedict wrote in his latest encyclical, which is the most authoritative document a pope can issue. "Without doubt, one of the greatest risks for business is that they are almost exclusively answerable to their investors, thereby limited in their social value."

In the sweeping 144-page document (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html), Benedict sketches a radically different world economy, in which access to food and water is a universal right, wealthy nations share with poorer ones and profit is not the ultimate goal of commerce. He advocates the creation of a "world political authority" to manage the economy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/07/AR2009070700656.html?hpid=sec-religion

ROME, Italy -- As President Barack Obama arrived in Italy today for a summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations, aides voiced confidence that leaders will maintain their support for economic stimulus strategies in the face of a global recession and said the best commitment that the United States can make on climate change lies with energy legislation moving through Congress.

Leaders have said "it's time to prepare exit strategies," Froman said, "but not necessarily to put them into place yet."

World leaders gathered in L'Aquila for a noontime luncheon and then a series of meetings on issues ranging from the global economy to nuclear nonproliferation and food security.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-italy-g8-obama8-2009jul08,0,6761853.story

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) - G8 leaders believe the world economy still faces "significant risks" and may need further help, according to summit draft documents that also reflect failure to agree climate change goals for 2050.

Documents seen by Reuters before the G8 summit began on Wednesday cautioned that "significant risks remain to economic and financial stability" while "exit strategies" from pro-growth packages should be unwound only "once recovery is assured."

The Group of Eight -- United States, Germany, Japan, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia -- kicked off with debate on the economic crisis, after what one analyst called a "reality check" in recent weeks on the prospects for rapid recovery.

But few big initiatives were expected as the G20, a broader forum that also includes the main emerging economies, is tasked with formulating a regulatory response to the crisis and meets in September in Pittsburgh after an April summit in London.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5662VJ20090708

China and Russia are eager to implement the New World Order - Roelof

LONDON (Reuters) - The world needs to wake up to the scale of the downturn and stay focused on restarting growth in recession-hit economies, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Reuters on the eve of the G8 summit.

The run-up to the three-day summit in Italy has been dominated by speculation that China and Russia want to discuss getting rid of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.

Asked about this, Brown said: "Countries are free to put forward any proposals they have got but I would have thought people are more interested in the detail of how we can get growth going now."

http://www.reuters.com/article/gc07/idUSTRE5667K820090707

The United States will call for "even stricter sanctions on Iran to try to change the behavior of the regime," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a TV interview broadcast late Tuesday.

Washington remained concerned about what Clinton called Iran's "pursuit of nuclear weapons," which could "be very destabilizing in the Middle East and beyond," Clinton told the private Venezuelan television network Globovision.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443749799&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The support of the Pope will boost the maturing of the New World Order - Roelof

VATICAN CITY (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/vaticancity/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) — Pope Benedict XVI (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benedict_xvi/index.html?inline=nyt-per) on Tuesday called for a radical rethinking of the global economy, criticizing a growing divide between rich and poor and urging the establishment of a “true world political authority” to oversee the economy and work for the “common good.”

He criticized the current economic system, “where the pernicious effects of sin are evident,” and urged financiers in particular to “rediscover the genuinely ethical foundation of their activity.”
He also called for “greater social responsibility” on the part of business.

More than two years in the making, “Caritas in Veritate,” or “Charity in Truth,” is Benedict’s third encyclical since he became pope in 2005. Filled with terms like “globalization,” “market economy,” “outsourcing,” “labor unions” and “alternative energy,” it is not surprising that the Italian media reported that the Vatican was having difficulty translating the 144-page document into Latin.

Reportedly delayed to take into consideration the financial crisis, it was released by the Vatican on the eve of the Group of 8 (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/group_of_eight/index.html?inline=nyt-org) industrialized nations summit meeting, which opens in Italy on Wednesday, and before Benedict is expected to receive President Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per) at the Vatican on Friday.

Benedict also called for a reform of the United Nations (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org) so there could be a unified “global political body” that allowed the less powerful of the earth to have a voice, and he called on rich nations to help less fortunate ones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/world/europe/08pope.html?em

The Final Antichrist will love this - Roelof

Mountain View, Calif. — It’s summertime and the Terminator is back. A sci-fi movie thrill ride, “Terminator Salvation” (http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/movies/21term.html)comes complete with a malevolent artificial intelligence dubbed Skynet, a military R.&D. project that gained self-awareness and concluded that humans were an irritant — perhaps a bit like athlete’s foot — to be dispatched forthwith.

Today, artificial intelligence, once the preserve of science fiction writers and eccentric computer prodigies, is back in fashion and getting serious attention from NASA (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_aeronautics_and_space_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org) and from Silicon Valley companies like Google (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org) as well as a new round of start-ups that are designing everything from next-generation search engines to machines that listen or that are capable of walking around in the world. A.I.’s new respectability is turning the spotlight back on the question of where the technology might be heading and, more ominously, perhaps, whether computer intelligence will surpass our own, and how quickly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/weekinreview/24markoff.html?_r=2

The Final Antichrist will love this - Roelof

WASHINGTON — Robots are gaining on us humans.
Thanks to exponential increases in computer power — which is roughly doubling every two years — robots are getting smarter, more capable, more like flesh-and-blood people.

Nevertheless, robots guided by their own computer "brains'' now can pick up and peel bananas, land jumbo jets, steer cars through city traffic, search human DNA for cancer genes, play soccer or the violin, find earthquake victims or explore craters on Mars.

At a "Robobusiness" conference in Boston last week, companies demonstrated a robot firefighter, gardener, receptionist, tour guide and security guard.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/66530.html

Free will (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025504.000-free-will--you-only-think-you-have-it.html), or at least the place where we decide to act, is sited in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex, new research suggests.

When a neurosurgeon electrically jolted this region in patients undergoing surgery, they felt a desire to, say, wiggle their finger, roll their tongue or move a limb. Stronger electrical pulses convinced patients they had actually performed these movements, although their bodies remained motionless.

"What it tells us is there are specific brain regions that are involved in the consciousness of your movement," says Angela Sirigu (http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/sir/Sirigu_Research_Biography-1.pdf) (pdf format), a neuroscientist at the CNRS Cognitive Neuroscience Centre in Bron, France, who led the study.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17092-possible-site-of-free-will-found-in-brain.html

LAST DAYS – 3 minutes before 12 o’clock

When I read the news articles on the Pope and a New World Economic Order, I realized that it is indeed 3 minutes before 12 o’clock, with 12 o’clock the Second Coming of our beloved Jesus Christ.

The Pope openly and in writing asked for a New World Economic Order, something that never happened before in the history of man.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/wo...08pope.html?em (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/world/europe/08pope.html?em)

If I look at the situation in the Middle East, it is very tense and the region is ready for a peace treaty, which might be the revealing of the Final Antichrist, we must pray and watch carefully.

My view point is that the Final Antichrist is already a mature grown-up man, ready to be revealed by the world powers, when the time is right.

We always suspected that the Vatican and the Pope are involved in the final End Time prophesies, yesterday it was confirmed by the Pope himself.

We as Christians must prepare ourselves to meet our Lord any day, that day is known only by the Father in Heaven.

Daniel 12.4 has been fulfilled, the Last Days started in 1989.

Daniel 2 and 7 have been fulfilled, the Revived Roman Empire and the New World Order were created in 1993.

The prophesies of Jesus himself in Matt 24:3-14 have been fulfilled:

· Constant war around the world
· 1 000 million people of the world population of 6 500 million are hungry
· 5 000 people die weekly of flue
· HIV / AIDS pandemic
· +6.0 earthquakes rose with 40% since 1990 (1 year after 1989)
The First Seal of Revelations, the White Horse was opened in 1987 with the strengthening of the New Age Movement.

The Third Seal is already opened:

• 53% of the world population lives on less that US $2 per day
• 200 million workers live in extreme poverty
The world clock is moving fast towards 12 o’clock.

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/12oclock-1.jpg

WASHINGTON — Robots are gaining on us humans.
Thanks to exponential increases in computer power — which is roughly doubling every two years — robots are getting smarter, more capable, more like flesh-and-blood people.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/66530.html

Thanks for this Roelof, very interesting stuff. As I live in the United States and am familiar with the "Terminator" series of movies and shows I found all this very interesting. This statement I found the most interesting of all: "It's conceivable, he [Rattner] added, that "machines could even overtake humans in their ability to reason in the not-so-distant future.'' It just makes me wonder if machines, like in shows, will view humans as a threat to themselves and the survival of the planet and then take the necessary measures to either enslave us or eradicate us. With machines nearing that capability it makes me more convinced the End is near as I don't see God letting technology exceed man in the Bible. I see a very short timeline unfolding.

How to make human sperm in the lab:




Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first.
The researchers believe the work could eventually help men with fertility problems to father a child.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8138963.stm

2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Ugh, more of this global religion crap. First, I was sent a book in the mail from thw University of Illinois that was sent to all incoming freshmen that is called 'Acts of Faith' by Eboo Patel, an alum. Basically it's about bringing the world together under religion, especially the youth......:note:

Also, if any of you saw the Michael Jackson funeral, then that part where everyone was singing stuff like "we are all children under God together" while crosses, Jewish stars, Muslim crescents, and a bunch of other symbols were going across the screen was sooo eye opening. The world is def. becoming more tolerant of a global religion, yuck.

Also, if any of you saw the Michael Jackson funeral, then that part where everyone was singing stuff like "we are all children under God together" while crosses, Jewish stars, Muslim crescents, and a bunch of other symbols were going across the screen was sooo eye opening. The world is def. becoming more tolerant of a global religion, yuck.

IamRyan

That is what the world and New Agers want, a One World Religion
We are on a fast track towards it, even Rick Warren supports it.

President Obama and other leaders backed historic new targets for tackling global warming last night in an agreement designed to pave the way for a world deal in the autumn.

For the first time, America and the other seven richest economies agreed to the goal of keeping the world’s average temperature from rising more than 2C (3.6F).

They also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 as they strove for a worldwide deal at Copenhagen in December.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6670327.ece

I thought the Pentagon now has a special cyberforce - Roelof

North Korea is the main suspect behind a campaign of cyber attacks that have paralysed the websites of US and South Korean government agencies, banks and businesses since American Independence Day.

News of the campaign — which would be the first such large-scale attack attempted by the dictatorship — emerged yesterday as an ill and emaciated Kim Jong Il made a rare public appearance.

US government agencies, ranging from the Treasury Department to the Secret Service, and South Korea’s presidential office, parliament and defence and foreign ministries were among those hit by the attacks, which began on July 4.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6667440.ece

Is Russia part of Obama's New World Order? - Roelof

President Obama today offered to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if Russia helped to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.

He appealed in Moscow for a new era of partnership between Russia and the United States to fight the spread of nuclear weapons to rogue states and terrorist groups.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6658328.ece

Tehran is braced for renewed violence tomorrow as the regime’s opponents attempt to stage fresh demonstrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the student uprising of 1999.

The opposition sees the anniversary as a chance to show that it has not been crushed by the regime’s use of overwhelming force, and the demonstrators are planning to thwart the security forces by gathering in eight or nine places before converging on Enghelab (Revolution) Square. Demonstrations are also planned in several other cities.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6670275.ece

National healthcare will be a major issue in the New World Order. The SA government is also pushing for a new system - Roelof

BOSTON (Reuters) - Within Washington's tangled debate over how to reform healthcare, many are looking to Massachusetts, a state that could offer both a way forward and a warning.

As President Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama) and Congress work to revamp a wasteful national system which leaves millions uninsured, attention has turned to Massachusetts' ambitious three-year-old program to cover almost all of its 6.4 million people.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56776020090709

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/iran) will not back down "even one step" over its nuclear work, a senior adviser to the country's top authority said in remarks published on Thursday, making clear Tehran's continued defiance in a row with the West.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday Group of Eight major powers would give Iran (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/iran) until September to accept negotiations over its nuclear ambitions or else face tougher sanctions.

Ali Akbar Velayati, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's top adviser on international affairs, said Western countries did not want the Islamic state to have peaceful nuclear activities, state broadcaster IRIB said on its website.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5681D720090709

All are very good reasons for a New World Order - Roelof

California is the poster child for dysfunctional state finance. A week past the legal deadline for passing a budget, the state has yet to close a $26 billion hole. State workers are — yet again — being told to stay home. The National Park Service is threatening to take back parks it gave to California should the state try to save money by closing them. Taxpayers are getting IOUs in the mail instead of refund checks since there's no cash to pay them what they're owed. You can now buy the IOUs on eBay.

In Washington, 40,000 people are losing their state-subsidized health care, and public-college tuition could be going up as much as 14%.

And there could be plenty more pain ahead. Revenues — from income, sales and property taxes — continue to fall. True, states have already plowed through a lot of tough decisions to close the $102 billion shortfall they collectively faced during the last budget cycle. But already it looks like this year's gap will be $121 billion, according to a report from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The typical state now gets 36% of its funding from personal-income tax

And then there are the long-term obligations — those big, hulking costs that, much as society may value them, eventually weigh on states' financial health. In New York, unfunded state pension liabilities average $2,633 per person. Massachusetts' tab is even larger, at $3,372 per capita, although that's nothing compared to New Jersey's $9,833.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1909344,00.html

It appears that Israel stands alone against Iran - Roelof

The leaders of the G-8 countries meeting in the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila issued an unusually tough statement on Iran's post-election crackdown Wednesday night, calling on the regime to respect the rule of law and human rights. But when it came to Tehran's nuclear program, which President Barack Obama sees as the overriding strategic issue between the U.S. and Iran, the leaders struck a milder tone, urging negotiations and underscoring Iran's rights to a civilian nuclear program. It was the clearest indication yet that despite the post-election violence in Iran, President Obama intends to stick to his strategy of offering carrots first, then sticks, for handling Iran's nuclear ambitions.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1909428,00.html

Will the state subsidize abortion, which is planned murder, except for medical reasons? - Roelof

Should government-subsidized health coverage pay for abortion procedures? For more than three decades, that question had seemed pretty much settled. The Hyde Amendment, passed by the House on Sept., 30, 1976, forbade Medicaid — a program for poor people, jointly administered by Washington and the states, which had, up till then, paid for about 300,000 abortions a year — from using any federal money to pay for the procedure. All but 17 states followed suit, banning use of their own funds as well; with a few modifications, the ban has stood up ever since.

The prospect of sweeping health reform, however, has reopened the issue. While current versions of the legislation do not address the abortion issue at all, late last month, 19 antiabortion Democrats in the House sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warning that they "cannot support any health-care-reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health-insurance plan."

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1909178,00.html

It is unbelievable how arrogent the North Koreans are - Roelof

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT, 5:30 a.m. EDT ) Thursday.

He said one of the affected sites belongs to the government, the other six are private. Some are still working normally despite the attacks.

Earlier Thursday, the country's leading computer security company warned that another wave of cyber attacks was expected later in the day.
South Korea's spy agency suspects North Korea is behind the series of attacks that have triggered Web site outages in South Korea and the United States.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvH8X8qojQgzc1R8X_5PceTd1nWQD99ATHCO0

This has got nothing to do with the Last Days. It is just interesting that Google takes the mighty Microsoft Windows head-on - Roelof

It has hardly been two days since Google announced the Google Chrome OS (http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Watch_Out_Microsoft_Here_Comes_Google_Chrome_OS/551-104152-580.html) and now its screenshots have been leaked (http://chromeosleak.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/the-first-pics-of-the-chrome-os-beta-for-devs/) on the web. Google Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel and is an open source project that is currently supported by Acer, Asus, Adobe, Freescale, HP, Lenovo, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Google_Chrome_OS_Screenshots_Leaked/551-104195-580.html

http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2009/07/08/623836/pope8709-420x0.jpg

Close the gap... Pope Bennedict with Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso. Photo: Reuters

Barney Zwartz

July 9, 2009

Pope calls for a New World Order

POPE Benedict XVI has proposed a new world political authority "with real teeth", possibly in place of the United Nations, to enforce an ethical financial order and end the global financial crisis.

Calling for more aid, a bigger role for trade unions and an economic system aimed at the common good as well as profit, the Pope said only a moral market could end the crisis and solve world poverty.

The proposals were in his long-awaited encyclical - the second-highest level of papal teaching - released in Rome yesterday morning Australian time, before the G8 leaders gathered in Italy to discuss the global crisis.
The conviction that the economy must be autonomous and shielded from moral influences had led humanity to abuse the economic process in a destructive way, the Pope said in the encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth).

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/pope-calls-for-a-new-world-order-20090709-ddic.html

My view point is that the Final Tribulation has already started in some parts of the world. This is building up to a climax, which might be seven years long, according to the prophesies of Daniel

The next major Biblical event will be the revealing of the Antichrist, when and who it is, I do not know.

Do not forget the Rapture as well - Roelof


New Spirit Filled Life Bible on Rev 7:14:

Expressing a continuous and repeated action, not a once-for-all action. Therefore tribulation is to some degree taking place throughout the entire Church Age.
The Great Tribulation describes the acceleration and intensification of troublesome times as the Church Age comes to and end, climaxing with the Rapture and Second Coming of Christ.

THE GREAT TRIBULATION— a short but intense period of distress and suffering at the end of time. The exact phrase, “the great tribulation,” is found only once in the Bible (Rev. 7:14). The great tribulation fulfills Daniel’s prophecies (Daniel 7–12). It will be a time of evil from false christs and false prophets (Mark 13:22) when natural disasterswill occur throughout the world.

If we study the fulfilling of the signs for the Last Days, with particular attention to the mocking of the Holy Word, the rejecting of the Virgin Birth of Christ, the rejecting of His resurrection, New Age philosophies, liberation theology, the killing and persecution of Christians in India, Asia, Ossira, North Korea, or Sudan and many other parts of the world, I am convinced that the Great Tribulation already started in some parts of the world.

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/Timeline.jpg

Graphics by Tim la Haye

Let us pray that the world-wide recession will end soon - Roelof

Rising unemployment rates seem to trigger more suicides and murders, US and European investigators reported in The Lancet. But government initiatives designed to keep people on the job or get people back to work can help, they say.

Dr David Stuckler, University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues looked at how economic changes have affected death rates in 26 European Union (EU) countries over the past three decades, and identified how governments might reduce the harmful effects of economic downturns.

They found that for every 1% increase in unemployment, there was roughly a 0.8% rise in suicide rates in people younger than age 65. This translates into between 60 and 550 extra suicides per year across the EU in times of economic crisis.

Murder rates also rose 0.8% for every 1% increase in unemployment - or between three and 80 potential excess homicide deaths across Europe.
Both these effects were seen mostly in working-age people.

http://www.health24.com/news/Mind_Psychology/1-930,51663.asp

Iran is at a crossroads. America is ignoring it. Germany isn’t.
In the broad scheme, Iran’s star is rising. It is ready to seize the advantage from a fading United States in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, it has effectively neutralized the long-standing threat from the U.S. It has prepared its terrorist proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip for a future attack on Israel. It is about to go nuclear. Many long-held dreams of Iran’s radicals appear about to come true.

And yet, trouble stirs at home. Cracks in the ayatollah’s power have appeared. After allegations of fraud sullied last month’s presidential election, the streets filled with angry protest. The government cracked down; the unrest mostly dispersed. But last Friday, Iran’s biggest group of clerics defied the ayatollah and declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory illegitimate. “It’s a clerical mutiny,” an Iranian analyst told the London Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6644817.ece). “This is the first time ever you have all these big clerics openly challenging the leader’s decision” (emphasis mine).

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6324.4777.0.0

The European Union is part of the Revived Roman Empire - Roelof

The Roman Catholic Church has been one of the most powerful forces over the past two millennia to “interfere,” with every means at its disposal, “in the politics of states.”

Even this present pope has been quite overt in his “interference” in the politics of the State of Israel.

By the same token, Pope Benedict’s latest encyclical is designed to influence most profoundly, and lead to very direct interference by the Vatican in “the politics of states,” especially within the European Union.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6326.4781.0.0

NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO) – BORN IN 1993


From history it can be established that the European Union (EU) was born in 1993 in Maastricht, Netherlands. I will explain later that the EU is the core of the fourth and final empire, namely the New World Order, in the prophesy of Daniel,

The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 Nov 1993, upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community (EEC)..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union)

Then in 1993, the New World Order was established as a legitimate national agenda - by a socialist Democrat, Bill Clinton.
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/ (http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/)

Very interesting that the last katun in the Mayan calendar started in 1993 and will end in 2012

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar) forms the basis for a New Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age) belief, first forecast by José Argüelles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles), that a cataclysm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm) will take place on or about December 21, 2012 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Doomsday_prediction),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar)

I regard 1989 as the year the Last Days started. The Last Days is the short period just before the Second Coming of Christ. The End Times started when Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven.

The beginning of the current 28 year cycle was 1989 AD, which was 71 of the 28 year cycles after Jesus Christ was born. The World Wide Web (Internet) was created in 1989by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in Switzerland. This led to an explosion of knowledge, as prophesized by Daniel.

“Daniel was then told to protect the message received so that it could be read in later times. The time of the end is aptly described as a day when knowledge shall be increased, namely our modern computer era.” (Daniel 12:4, KJV Bible Commentary)

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/Daniel4_free.gif

The fourth empire in the prophesies of Daniel

In order to understand the end time world government we need to look at biblical prophecy. The prophet Daniel saw a vision of a great statue (Dan 2:31-35) and was told its interpretation (Dan 2:36-43). The statue symbolised four great empires that would reign over Israel. These were the historic Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman empires, the Roman Empire being symbolised by the statue's legs of iron and its feet of iron mixed with clay. Some see the iron legs symbolising the eastern and western empires of ancient Rome. Daniel also had a vision of 'four great beasts' representing four great kingdoms (Dan 7:1-8), and again these can be identified as the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman Empires. The important point here is that the fourth and final empire in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 refers both to historic Rome and to an end time world empire or world government. The visions extend to an empire that rules the world!

This final world empire will be an alliance with ten other world authorities or governments(Rev 17:12,13). In fact, Daniel sees a 'world dictator' associated with this final kingdom (Dan 7:24,25).
http://www.seekingtruth.co.uk/world_government.htm (http://www.seekingtruth.co.uk/world_government.htm)

The creation of the European Union in 1993 as the fourth empire started the fulfilling of this prophesy.

The European Union is already building on its own army.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5884104.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5884104.ece)

The European Union already generates an estimated 30% of nominal gross world product
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union)

(California is still under the judgment of the Lord for liberal gay and abortion laws - Roelof)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tom Campbell aims to become governor of California after serving as the state's finance director, arguably the kind of job experience the state's cash-strapped government could use in its top office.

But there are no easy scenarios that will lead to a resolution of the state's budget crisis, Campbell said in an interview on Thursday.

Recession and rising unemployment are hammering California, the world's eighth-largest economy, and have opened a historic $26.3 billion state budget gap.

The deficit could be plugged if state leaders truly feared the state tipping into a financial abyss, said Campbell, who also has been a state lawmaker, U.S. House representative and University of California, Berkeley business school dean.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5687T120090710

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Ethnic tensions in China's far-west Xinjiang shift from the streets to mosques of the regional capital on Friday, with many Uighur Muslims saying the authorities would not let them observe their main day of prayer.

Those attacks were in revenge for the deaths of 156 people in Uighur rioting on Sunday, the region's worst ethnic violence in decades.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56907020090710

(I am still waiting for Israel to strike Iran, who wants to wipe Israel from the map - Roelof)

Both the US and Israel believe Iran has the technical capacity to build one nuclear bomb within a year if it decides to do so, but both countries also believe the chances that Teheran will indeed make that decision are slim, according to assessments made known to The Jerusalem Post.

According to these Israeli assessments, there is not much difference now between the US and Israel regarding a timeline for a "worst case scenario" on Iran's development of a bomb. At the same time, both Jerusalem and Washington currently believe that "worst case scenario is not likely to materialize."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443770383&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iranians prepared for another violent day of confrontations between demonstrators and security forces on Friday, after riot police used tear-gas against hundreds of demonstrators who defied government warnings and swarmed the streets to commemorate the anniversary of a student massacre in 1999.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443771902&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel moved a step closer to receiving its first stealth fighter jets this week after the Israel Air Force submitted an official Letter of Request (LOR) to the Pentagon to purchase its first squadron of 25 F-35 stealth fighter jets.

Also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F-35 will be one of the most-advanced fighter jets in the world and will enable Israel to phase out some of its older F-15 and F-16 models. The JSF is manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443770618&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The Iranian regime warned that any demonstrations would be mercilessly crushed, and meant it. As darkness fell on baking, dust-shrouded Tehran last night an army of riot police and hardline basiji militiamen used batons, gun butts and tear gas to beat back thousands of Iranians converging on the city centre.

"The security presence was massive. It was like a military occupation," one witness told The Times. "They were clubbing the hell out of people."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6675448.ece

The group has reportedly pledged to provide at least $15bn (£9.2bn) over three years to efforts to help poor nations develop their own agriculture.

AFP news agency quotes a G8 statement as saying there is "an urgent need for decisive action" on hunger and poverty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143566.stm

L’AQUILA, Italy — President Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per), a former Catholic school student who says his thinking in some ways has been profoundly influenced by the church, plans to visit Pope Benedict XVI (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benedict_xvi/index.html?inline=nyt-per) on Friday afternoon to wrap up three days of meetings with world leaders here.

Mr. Obama and the pope make for an interesting pair, sharing a vision about social justice but profoundly disagreeing on issues like abortion, embryonic stem cell (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/stemcells/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) research, gay rights and the death penalty. White House aides predicted that the two ultimately would not let their differences cloud their common ground.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/world/europe/11prexy.html

SEOUL (Reuters) - Cyber attacks slowing U.S. and South Korean websites could enter a new phase on Friday by attacking personal computers and wiping out hard disks, a South Korean government agency and web security firm said.

North Korea was originally a prime suspect for launching the cyber attacks, but the isolated state was not named on a list of websites from five countries where the attacks may have originated, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said.

The attacks targeting dozens of government and business sites in South Korea and the United States did not cause major damage or security breaches, experts said, but the KCC warned a new phase at 1500 GMT on Friday could cause severe damage to PCs.

"The affected computers will not be able to boot and their storage files will be disabled," said Lee Byung-cheol of Ahnlab.

The KCC said host websites believed behind the original attacks were based in Germany, Austria, Georgia, the United States and South Korea. The location of the hackers behind the attacks was still unknown, it said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE56709E20090710

pres Obama will meet the Pope this afternoon, who asked for a New World Economic Order just two days ago.

To watch video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_YqstMXww

A bit long but very interesting video - Roelof

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3891535120990840079


I will say of Jehovah, my refuge and my fortress; my God; in Him I will trust. (Psa 91:2)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/07/68494086/1



... the great Western heresy -- that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It's caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention.


:B:B:B

How then else are we saved? All of our works are filthy rags to the LORD!!

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/07/68494086/1



:B:B:B

How then else are we saved? All of our works are filthy rags to the LORD!!


As the great day approaches, there will be many Christian churches that are persecuted by the world. There will also be Christian churches which are embraced by the world.

Choose wisely.

The NHS is preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu after the disease claimed the life of its first healthy British patient.
A new vaccine is expected to arrive in Britain in the next few weeks and could be fast-tracked through regulatory approval in five days.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6689955.ece

Green flags and banners fly as a crowd of 2,000 or so demonstrators chant anti-Iranian regime slogans. Many pump their fists into the air, screaming in Persian: “Guns and tanks are of no use to you any more because the people have now spoken.” It’s a chant followed by: “Ahmadinejad, you’re a murderer.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6684840.ece

What Obama said is true, we also experience it in SA - Roelof

ACCRA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama) told Africans on Saturday that Western aid must be matched by good governance and urged them to take greater responsibility for stamping out war, corruption and disease plaguing the continent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56711G20090711

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's military is behind a series of cyber attacks against South Korean and U.S. websites that slowed or disabled access by saturating them with traffic this week, a South Korean news report said on Saturday.

The attacks on dozens of U.S. and South Korean government and business sites appeared to have all but ceased as of Friday but have crippled hundreds of personal computers that had been turned into "zombies" when they were enlisted for the attacks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE56709E20090711

By Jeff Israely / Vatican City (javascript:void(0)) Friday, Jul. 10, 2009

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0907/obama_pope_0710.jpg


The potential for global symbolism abounds whenever an American President meets the Roman Pontiff, and the first-ever encounter between the 47-year-old Obama and the 82-year-old Benedict offered a vivid snapshot of how the change of the guard in Washington looks on the world stage.

The Obama Administration's focus on dialogue-centric, multilateral foreign policy is to the Vatican's liking, while its support of abortion rights and stem-cell research are a deep worry after the Pope's having had an ally on bioethics in the White House for eight years.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1909969,00.html

Hi, everyone! Here is some interesting information about the G-8 summit that just took place in Italy. According to this article, a prototype coin was given to each of the G-8 members to represent the hope of a global world currency, and uniting the European and U.S. currencies. The coin is called the Euro-Dollar, and I'd like you all to take particular note of the tree design on the back side of the coin, which shows five different types of leaves. The designer is calling it The Tree of Life. On the other side of the coin is the motto Unity in Diversity. The first link takes you to the designing company's website, which shows pictures and descriptions of the coin. There is interesting information there regarding bar-coding paper currency, as well. The second link is to an article about how they were given out at the G-8 summit.


http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/ (http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/)

http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=38819&t=1&c=33&cg=4&mset= (http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=38819&t=1&c=33&cg=4&mset=)

Hi, everyone! Here is some interesting information about the G-8 summit that just took place in Italy. According to this article, a prototype coin was given to each of the G-8 members to represent the hope of a global world currency, and uniting the European and U.S. currencies. The coin is called the Euro-Dollar, and

http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/ (http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/)

http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=38819&t=1&c=33&cg=4&mset= (http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=38819&t=1&c=33&cg=4&mset=)

wombat

This is great news !!:pp

The New World Order is picking up speed now :pp

Wow. A physical one world currency already??:o

If I look at current world events: the Pope openly supporting a New World Economic Order, the introduction of the proposed world currency, the Eurodollar at the G8, Obama supporting a New World Order and many other events, there is a high probability that we could have a full-blown New World Order by the end of 2012. Remember, world money powers planned this for a long time - Roelof

My view is that the Last Days started in 1989 - Roelof

Very interesting that the last katun in the Mayan calendar started in 1993 and will end in 2012 - Roelof

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar) forms the basis for a New Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age) belief, first forecast by José Argüelles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles), that a cataclysm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm) will take place on or about December 21, 2012 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Doomsday_prediction),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar)

NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO) – DESCRIPTION


New world order

In international relations theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations_theory), the term "new world order" has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_power_in_international_relations). Despite various interpretations of this term, it is primarily associated with the notion of global governance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_governance) only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual states to solve.

The Malta Conference on December 2–3, 1989 reinvigorated discussion of the new world order. Various new concepts arose in the press as elements on the new order. Commentators expected the replacement of containment with superpower cooperation. This cooperation might then tackle problems such as reducing armaments and troop deployments, settling regional disputes, stimulating economic growth, lessening East-West trade restrictions, the inclusion of the Soviets in international economic institutions, and protecting the environment.

I regard 1989 as the year the Last Days started. The Last Days is the short period just before the Second Coming of Christ. The End Times started when Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven – Roelof

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_world_order (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_world_order)

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

In conspiracy theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory), the term "New World Order" (the capital letters are distinguishing) refers to the advent of a cryptocratic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocratic) or totalitarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian) one world government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government).

The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a powerful and secretive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretive) group of globalists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalist) is conspiring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(political)) to eventually rule the world through an autonomous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomy) world government, which would replace sovereign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty) states and other checks and balances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checks_and_balances) in international power struggles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_in_international_relations). Significant occurrences in politics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics) and finance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance_capitalism) are speculated to be caused by an extremely influential cabal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal) operating through many front organizations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_organization). Numerous historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to achieve world domination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_domination) primarily through secret political gatherings and decision-making processes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke-filled_room).

In his 11 September (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11) 1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) "Toward a New World Order" speech (full text (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toward_a_New_World_Order)) to a joint session of the United States Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress), President George H. W. Bush described his administration's objectives for post-Cold-War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Cold_War_era) global governance in cooperation with post-Soviet states (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory))


The fourth empire in the prophesies of Daniel

In order to understand the end time world government we need to look at biblical prophecy. The prophet Daniel saw a vision of a great statue (Dan 2:31-35) and was told its interpretation (Dan 2:36-43). The statue symbolised four great empires that would reign over Israel. These were the historic Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman empires, the Roman Empire being symbolised by the statue's legs of iron and its feet of iron mixed with clay. Some see the iron legs symbolising the eastern and western empires of ancient Rome. Daniel also had a vision of 'four great beasts' representing four great kingdoms (Dan 7:1-8), and again these can be identified as the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman Empires. The important point here is that the fourth and final empire in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 refers both to historic Rome and to an end time world empire or world government. The visions extend to an empire that rules the world!

This final world empire will be an alliance with ten other world authorities or governments(Rev 17:12,13). In fact, Daniel sees a 'world dictator' associated with this final kingdom (Dan 7:24,25).

http://www.seekingtruth.co.uk/world_government.htm (http://www.seekingtruth.co.uk/world_government.htm)


http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/Daniel4_free.gif



….. All is under the permissive direction of God, as with Job and Satan long ago (Revelation 13:5 KJV Bible Commentary)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer warned on Tuesday that time is running out for dialogue with Tehran to avoid either a nuclear-armed Iran or a possible military strike against the Islamic Republic.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it is critical for diplomatic efforts to reach a solution before Iran develops a nuclear weapon or faces an Israeli or U.S. strike to turn back its nuclear program.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40879020090707

Clearly the work of the False Prophet - Roelof

A government crackdown on doctors and nurses who offer to pray with patients is drawing a response from physicians at a meeting this week of the British Medical Association.

"I think it is getting to the point where many of us feel we cannot talk to patients about their spiritual or religious needs or ask them about praying," Dr. Bernadette Birtwhistle, a cancer specialist, told a BBC reporter.

"Christianity is being seen as something that is unhelpful," she said. "… Freedom of speech is being curtailed too much, and I don't think that is always in the benefit of patients."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102641

Britain became the first country to halt arms exports to Israel in response to its Gaza offensive, rescinding five export licences for parts used on warships which were deployed in the conflict.

An Israeli official said that Britain had reviewed 182 licenses before deciding to revoke the five in connection with the Saar 4.5 class corvette. The British Embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed the move but said that it did not constitute an embargo on Israel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6699852.ece

The number of unemployed workers in the US is nearly double the population of New York city, how sad - Roelof

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With U.S. unemployment at a 20-year high, some Americans are working for free while looking for a job, but experts are split over whether it is a sign of dedication or desperation.

Unpaid job seekers can keep their resumes fresh by boosting their experience and learning new skills, experts say, but others warn businesses may take advantage of the jobless and that it is illegal for commercial companies not to pay workers.

Dana Lin, 22, is one of the 14.7 million unemployed workers in the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56C0T120090713

Biography matters
During the campaign, Obama told American voters that his election, as the first black president of goatherd ancestry and foreign upbringing, could itself change geopolitical dynamics.

If it's good for the South Side, it's good for the world
Nothing has been so central to the president's foreign policy approach than the theoretical lessons he learned as a community organizer in Chicago

Pragmatism should often trump idealism
Compared with the relatively Panglossian vision of George W. Bush, who sought to remake whole parts of the world under the banner of American moral authority, Obama brings a more conservative, cynical view to the question of when nations should act on idealistic impulses.

America is one of many nations
The United States continues to boast the largest, most powerful military in the world, and a Gross Domestic Product nearly twice as large as the next biggest national economy, China. But Obama has made a point, stop after stop, of noting that America's fate is tied to the fate of developing nations.

Young people matter
As president, Obama has adopted the mantle of chief youth inspirer. At almost every stop, Obama makes an appeal to young people, often addressing them directly through television cameras.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1910057,00.html

You shall not kill. (Exo 20:13)

One shouldn't have to go to Switzerland to die with dignity.

Forget medical tourism, rehab tourism and sex tourism (for which Cape Town apparently has quite a reputation). Switzerland has beaten us on the front of death tourism.

It's not the kind of business for which you can build up a clientéle, as it sells the kind of journey from which no one ever returns. No return tickets for sale. In short, it's assisted suicide.

http://www.health24.com/news/Columns/1-4411,51704.asp

The swine flu pandemic has grown "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official said Monday, as seven new deaths were reported and a study raised fresh concerns.

Britain, Thailand and the Philippines all reported deaths on Monday, while Saudi Arabia shut an international school after 20 students were diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus.

As the death toll increased, the World Health Organisation official said a swine flu vaccine should be available as early as September and all countries would need to be able to protect themselves.

http://www.health24.com/news/Flu_Influenza/1-912,51707.asp

OBAMA AND THE NEW AGE

In “One On One: Regulating the Pursuit of Self” (Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2009), Amitai Etzioni states: “There is no philosophy that better describes Obama’s position than Communitarianism,” which Etzioni defines as a term “that would speak for community and the common good.”

As I’ve mentioned numerous times before, the Power Elite (PE) uses crises to move us toward its ultimate goal of a World Socialist Government.

I referred to 2012 as the year New Agers believe the Piscean (Christian) Age will end and the Age of Aquarius will begin.

Then compare it to McLaughlin’s and Gordon Davidson’s 2008 article, “The Spiritual Dimensions of Obama’s Leadership (http://www.visionarylead.org/print/obama.htm).” This work begins with the New Age authors contending that “in this moment of historical crisis, another great leader, uniquely qualified to meet the needs of our nation and the world, has come forth, overlighted by Spirit…. He is a catalyst dropped into a supersaturated solution…

And in “New Age America Is Entranced By Obama’s Electoral Aura” (The Guardian, July 3, 2008),

Please open link for more information - Roelof

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis151.htm

When I was a liberal I loved mocking the Bible. I'd get giddy arguing with conservatives over Bible stories that to me were ludicrous. One example is the biblical account of Moses parting the Red Sea to help the Israelites escape Pharaoh’s pursuing army. Boy did I scoff at that one! I categorized Christians who bought into the miraculous signs and wonders in the Bible as “unenlightened twits.”

As I mentioned earlier (part one (http://www.newswithviews.com/West/marsha183.htm)) liberals prefer the term “progressive Christian” (PC) but a horse by any other name is still a horse. Most PCs don’t believe the Bible’s miracles are true. To them the Bible’s simply an ancient book of historical writings and moral precepts. The biblical accounts are largely legends, myths and fables. On the other hand, orthodox Christianity holds that God speaks to us through Scripture, hence it is the infallible, inerrant Word of God and is objective (absolute) truth.

PCs reject the notion that the Bible is infallible and inerrant but accept that it has some truth sprinkled throughout. When a PC comes to accept the orthodox view of Christianity, his or her worldview crumbles. (Mine did.)

Here’s cold hard fact: most PCs align themselves with the popular culture’s view of morality, social issues, psychology, politics, and whatnot. They do not cotton to a God who’s inflexible, nor do they accept that in the future He will judge all mankind and that those who reject Jesus Christ will spend eternity in Hell. No way, they say! All of mankind will ultimately be saved through Jesus even if they reject Him as their Savior in this life.

Ope the link for more information - Roelof

http://www.newswithviews.com/West/marsha184.htm


Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me. (Joh 14:6)

HEAVENLY SIGNS AND 2014/15


And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. (Gen 1:14)

Shmita (Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the Sabbatical Year, is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah) for the Land of Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel). It is the year the land must rest.

And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in the middle. (Luk 23:45)
And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. And when He had said this, He breathed out the spirit. (Luk 23:46)

Total solar eclipse


http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/solareclipse1.jpg



Total lunar eclipse (blood moon)

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/bloodmoon1.jpg


The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Jehovah. (Joe 2:31)

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it. (Isa 13:9)
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light. (Isa 13:10)

2014/15
The Sabbatical year Sep. 2014 – Sep. 2015 will have 2 solar eclipses and 4 lunar eclipses. This will happen on Biblical or Jewish holidays. The four lunar eclipses will occur on: Passover, 15 April 2014; The Feast of Tabernacles, 8 October 2014; Passover, 4 April 2015 and The Feast of Tabernacles, 28 September 2015. It will not happen again for hundreds of years. Two solar eclipses will occur on: Adar 29/Nisan 1, 20 March 2015; The Feast of Trumpets, 13 September 2015. Nisan 1 marks the beginning of the religious festival cycle. On Tishri 1, the Jews observe Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets. This day is highly prophetic, because it is said to be the anniversary of the Creation of Adam. It is Adam’s birthday.

“What is God telling Israel through the upcoming lunar eclipses?” Is it possible that these are fulfilling biblical prophecies? I don’t know when the Second Coming of Christ will be. We must WATCH and be ready.

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Parliament elected ex-Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek as its president on Tuesday, making him the first leader from a former Soviet bloc country to hold one of the top European Union posts.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56D2XY20090714

At $1.95 trillion, China's international reserves are more than enough to fund America's entire budget deficit next year, which the U.S. Treasury estimates will reach $1.3 trillion because of the government's massive stimulus spending. There is no direct correlation between these two numbers, but they highlight a reversal of fortune. China now has the cash to cherry-pick the world's best assets, while America has no choice but to pawn its future to finance today's needs. As it is, China already own $763.5 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bills, 24% of the total, and has become the Federal Government's largest single creditor.

It's all causing angst and hostility, and not only in the U.S., where congressmen shot down an $18 billion bid by Beijing-backed oil company CNOOC for Unocal in 2005. In Australia last month, aluminum maker Chinalco's $19.5 billion purchase of miner Rio Tinto collapsed in part because of political opposition. In Germany last year, there were murmurings against China Development Bank's $13.5 billion purchase of Dresdner Bank, which eventually faltered.

These high-profile failures notwithstanding, the Chinese are actually notching up notable success in overseas-asset purchases. Data compiled by the Heritage Foundation show a dramatic increase in the volume of the country's completed megadeals, worth $100 million or more, over the past three-and-a-half years. From $8.7 billion in 2005, these large acquisitions rose to $20 billion in 2006, $36.2 billion in 2007 and $54 billion in 2008.

The new rules may further boost investment in U.S. property. According to the U.S. National Association of Realtors, mainland Chinese were the fourth-largest group of foreign buyers in the 12 months to May 2008, picking up posh homes mainly in California and Florida at a median price of $450,000, the highest paid by foreign purchasers.

Beijing is also getting antsy about keeping the bulk of its money in U.S.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910319,00.html

Back in early January, when Obama was still President-elect, two of his chief economic advisers, and leading proponents of a stimulus bill, predicted that the passage of a large economic-aid package would boost the economy and keep the unemployment rate below 8%. It hasn't quite worked out that way. Last month, the jobless rate in America hit 9.5%, the highest level it has reached since 1983.

The two advisers who wrote the paper, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, went on to land key jobs in Obama's Administration. Romer is the head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Bernstein is the chief economist and economic-policy adviser to Vice President Biden.

A little over a month ago, the Administration said the stimulus bill had created or saved 150,000 jobs. That's a far cry from the 3 million to 4 million jobs that Romer and Bernstein foresaw back in January.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1910208,00.html

Two Sa'ar-5 class Navy ships reportedly crossed through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea on Tuesday to beef up Israel's naval presence in the Red Sea.

The passage of the ships comes several weeks after a Dolphin-class Navy submarine passed through the waterway for the first time. One of the ships, the Hanit, already crossed the canal both ways in June, in what an Egyptian source said was the first case of a large Israeli warship using the strategic waterway, AFP reported.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443805951&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

I pray that the Holy Spirit will prevent people from comitting suicide - Roelof

The death of a leading British conductor and his wife at a Swiss suicide clinic has raised fears that couples will be encouraged to die together even when one of them is not terminally ill.

Sir Edward Downes travelled to the Dignitas clinic with his wife Joan, 74, last week, after she was told that she had terminal cancer. They were accompanied by their son and daughter, Caractacus and Boudicca. Sir Edward, 85, was frail but not dying. Police are investigating and will pass a file of evidence to prosecutors.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6711273.ece

California is continuing to slide into economic bankruptcy. It is still under the judgment of the Lord for liberal gay and abortion laws - Roelof

He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground; (Psa 107:33)
a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. (Psa 107:34)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers were set to resume talks on Tuesday to arrive at a state budget agreement, the Hollywood icon turned politician hit the airwaves with a television commercial underscoring he is no mood to compromise.
Whether dispirited Californians will respond, however, is uncertain, analysts said.

The Republican governor said in the 60-second spot that he would not sign a budget that plugs a $26.3 billion deficit if it includes higher taxes and excludes changes in state government he has said will prevent welfare fraud.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56D6DT20090715

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rejects charges by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and U.N. agencies that its January invasion of the Gaza Strip inflicted civilian death and destruction on an unjustifiable scale.
Now, some of the Israeli soldiers who took part say they were urged by commanders to shoot first and worry later about sorting out civilians from combatants. Accordingly, they say, the force went into Gaza with guns blazing.

In print and video testimony published on Wednesday by the activist group Breaking the Silence, the 30 soldiers say the Israeli army's imperative was to minimize its own casualties to ensure Israeli public support for the operation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56E0PU20090715

Obama must be careful for the wrath of the Lord - Roelof

President Barack Obama has concluded that Israel and the Palestinians are unlikely to achieve peace unless they're under external pressure to make the requisite compromises. Believing that a two-state solution is in the best interests of both parties and that time is running out for such a solution, the President is stepping up the pressure on both sides. That was Obama's message at a White House meeting on July 13 with representatives of leading Jewish-American organizations, some of whom have lately complained that the President is unfairly pressuring Israel to make concessions on West Bank settlements, while going easy on the Palestinians.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910376,00.html

This is a really bad sign - Roelof

California State University campuses will not accept nearly all student applications for the 2010 spring term due to budget reductions, the 23-college system announced.

In addition, officials said that campuses on the quarter system have stopped accepting admission applications for the 2010 winter term.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/71673.html

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday responded to a new report which accused the IDF of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Any criticism of IDF operations should be directed to me, as the Israeli defense minister," Barak said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443810679&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(How far is it from Israel to Iran? - Roelof)

Israel and the US will hold a joint test of the Arrow missile over the Pacific Ocean in what will be the first trial of the system with a target with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, further than the test sites over the Mediterranean could allow.

According to a US defense official quoted by Reuters, the test, which will take place sometime in the coming days off of the coast of central California, will be the third trial of the Arrow conducted by Israel in the United States. He said the Federal Aviation Administration had warned aircraft to stay clear of the area.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443812526&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(How far is it from Israel to Iran? - Roelof)

Israel and the US will hold a joint test of the Arrow missile over the Pacific Ocean in what will be the first trial of the system with a target with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, further than the test sites over the Mediterranean could allow.

According to a US defense official quoted by Reuters, the test, which will take place sometime in the coming days off of the coast of central California, will be the third trial of the Arrow conducted by Israel in the United States. He said the Federal Aviation Administration had warned aircraft to stay clear of the area.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443812526&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The distance from Jerusalem to the closest point in Iran, is just about 1,000 kilometers.

I think the US is still mostly a God fearing nation. But those opposed to Jesus are gaining and may have hit a critical mass, where enough of them are in positions of power to control the US destiny. Meaning to lead it off the cliff into the abyss.

This has been attempted before and failed. Sooner or later it must succeed.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/14/group-seeks-block-god-trust-engraving/?test=latestnews

I have never been that impressed by prototype military robots. They look cool, but they are really noisy, are difficult and expensive to maintain, and require lots of heavy batteries or frequent refueling.

This one caught my attention. It gets energy from "biomass" meaning it can burn anything, even dead bodies for fuel. It could operate for months or years feeding on bodies. It has an acronym: EATR.

Heaven forbid it should come upon someone sleeping.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html?test=latestnews

I think the US is still mostly a God fearing nation. But those opposed to Jesus are gaining and may have hit a critical mass, where enough of them are in positions of power to control the US destiny. Meaning to lead it off the cliff into the abyss.

This has been attempted before and failed. Sooner or later it must succeed.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/14/group-seeks-block-god-trust-engraving/?test=latestnews

Johnny

When will they try to stop "In God we trust" on the US dollar?

This one caught my attention. It gets energy from "biomass" meaning it can burn anything, even dead bodies for fuel. It could operate for months or years feeding on bodies. It has an acronym: EATR.

Heaven forbid it should come upon someone sleeping.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html?test=latestnews

Revolvr

So this robot soldier will kill the enemy and eat up the dead bodies for fuel??

Johnny

When will they try to stop "In God we trust" on the US dollar?

As soon as we get a new currency, which will most likely be in the next half decade in my opinion.

I would almost guarantee when the dollar goes, any signs of God on currency goes as well.

I like it when God does something that baffles scientists. Science seems so full of pride these days. We think we understand this universe, but I think we hardly have a clue.

I'm also on the lookout for strange physical happenings that might indicate God is up to something.

Interesting news from the town of Homer alaska:


Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down.


It would take an earthquake over magnitude 7 to cause an uplift that high, said Peter Haeussler, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage.

http://www.homernews.com/stories/070809/news_1_002.shtml

As soon as we get a new currency, which will most likely be in the next half decade in my opinion.

I would almost guarantee when the dollar goes, any signs of God on currency goes as well.

white spider

How far are they with the North American Union?
Which one will be 1st, the new North American Union dollar or the new world dollar, the Eurodollar?

I'm also on the lookout for strange physical happenings that might indicate God is up to something.


Revolvr

I think that the Lord is preparing Earth and us for the full-scale Great Tribulation

1989 – THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD


From the Berlin Wall to the Web, from Tiananmen Square to a moment in South Africa, from an oil spill to a banned book – how a year of both hope and despair transformed our planet forever. The unparalleled events of 20 years ago triggered forces that are still shaping our world today. TIME Magazine, June 29 to July 6, 2009.

Major events that occurred in 1989 that changed our world forever:


The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Russia’s Revolution
Reagan’s role
The World Wide Web
In Tiananmen Square
Mandela meets De Klerk
A murder in Peshawar
Vietnam exits Cambodia
The Dalai Lama’s Nobel prize
The Hillsborough tragedy
Cold Fusion
The Satanic Verses
Ravel Culture
Gay marriages
The Simpsons
Robert Mapplethorpe
The Exxon Valdez
GPS
Japan’s Burst Bubble
For a photo gallery on 1989, open the link:

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2009/journey_1989/


BIBLICAL PROPHESY OF DANIEL 12:4

“Daniel was then told to protect the message received so that it could be read in later times. The time of the end is aptly described as a day when knowledge shall be increased, namely our modern computer era.” (Daniel 12:4, KJV Bible Commentary)

FULFILLING OF DANIEL 12:4

The World Wide Web (Internet) was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in Switzerland. This led to an explosion of knowledge, asprophesized by Daniel.

The Last Days started in 1989.


ESCHATOLOGY (LAST DAYS)

The study of what will happen when all things are consummated at the end of history, particularly centering on the event known as the Second Coming of Christ. The word comes from two Greek words, eschatos (last) and logos (study) — thus its definition as "the study of last things." (Nelson Illustrated Bible Dictionary)

Health care will be a major issue in the New World Order (NWO) - Roelof

Washington - President Barack Obama achieved a milestone on Wednesday when a Senate committee approved a plan to revamp the US health care system.

The Senate panel's action, which attracted no Republican votes, came as the president's campaign organisation rolled out television ads to build support for his top domestic priority.

Obama met with Republicans at the White House in search of an elusive bipartisan compromise on his call to expand coverage to the nearly 50 million uninsured Americans as well as restrain spending increases in health care.

Unlike other developed nations, the United States does not have a comprehensive national health care programme for all its citizens.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/a032e8fdfdc94fb8ac23308763fd9f4b/16-07-2009%2008-07/Milestone_for_Obama

But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, (1Ti 4:1)

Arkansas - A woman who says she was a child bride of evangelist Tony Alamo told jurors on Wednesday that the minister had so many partners that he had to schedule when he would have sex with them.

The woman, now 30, said she was a third-generation Alamo follower into adulthood - until the Arkansas-based pastor took an 8-year-old as his latest bride. At one point, the woman said, Alamo told her graphically how he fondled the girl as she held a stuffed animal - and she raised concerns about his actions.

"He told me to shut up and that I shouldn't question what 'the Lord told me to do,"' the woman said.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/ad6cbc0bffc540abb7342bc347cebb4d/16-07-2009%2007-07/Lord_told_me_to_abuse_girl

Britain’s most senior civil servant has warned of sweeping cuts in some public services to maintain spending on key government programmes such as those dealing with care for the elderly, obesity and climate change.

In an interview with The Times, Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, suggested that some departments would suffer more than others in the looming spending squeeze.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6715497.ece

(I am expecting an Israeli strike on Iran nuclear plants for a while now - Roelof

Two Israeli missile class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal ten days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike, in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The deployment into the Red Sea, confirmed by Israeli officials, was a clear signal that Israel was able to put its strike force within range of Iran at short notice. It came before long-range exercises by the Israeli air force in America later this month and the test of a missile defence shield at a US missile range in the Pacific Ocean.

Israel has strengthened ties with Arab nations who also fear a nuclear-armed Iran

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6715412.ece

Does anyone know where WW3 fits in End Time prophesies? - Roelof

It is the toughest decision that any Israeli leader has had to make in living memory. Ordering a pre-emptive attack against Iran’s nuclear sites would plunge the country into war with a powerful enemy. The region would be thrown into turmoil and the resources of Israel’s military would be stretched — with no guarantee of success.

An attack would isolate the country and jeopardise relations with America, Israel’s most important ally. Yet Israelis across the political spectrum are prepared to support a strike if it means preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear bomb; something most experts believe is only months away.

How the operation is carried out will probably not be known until it happens, but recent airstrikes against Syria and Sudan suggest that it would include the bulk of Israel’s formidable air force. It would mean crossing “friendly” Arab airspace, the use of unmanned drones and maybe even special forces on the ground.

An American “green light” would be necessary, particularly since any attack would have to pass through airspace controlled by the US military over Iraq and the Gulf.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6715414.ece

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/Iran_svg.png

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - CIT Group Inc, a lender to hundreds of thousands of small and mid-sized U.S. businesses, said bailout talks with the government had ended, a development that could ultimately drive the company into bankruptcy.

Wednesday's announcement followed last-ditch talks in which Treasury officials had expressed concern about a worsening liquidity crunch at the 101-year old lender and indications that government aid would not put it on a path to recovery.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1444850020090716

Tsunami threat cancelled following New Zealand earthquake

The New Zealand quake rumbled the South Island at 7.22pm, prompting tsunami warnings for all low-lying coastal areas from New South Wales to Victoria.

Two hours after the quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported that any sea changes would be small and no tsunami would occur.

The US Geological Survey says the powerful 7.8-magnitude undersea quake struck west of Invercargill on New Zealand's South Island.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25787688-661,00.html


BIBLICAL PROPHESY

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (Mat 24:3-14)
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. (Mat 24:7)


WORLD-WIDE EARTHQUAKES (White Spider)

The average from 1980-1989 is 108.6 of 6.0+ quakes

The average from 1990-1999 is 150.3 of 6.0+ quakes

The average from 2000-2007 is 158. of 6 6.0+ quakes

Their was nearly a 40% increase in world-wide 6.0+ earthquakes since 1990.


From Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary:

THE GREAT TRIBULATION— a short but intense period of distress and suffering at the end of time. The exact phrase, “the great tribulation,” is found only once in the Bible (Rev. 7:14). The great tribulation fulfills Daniel’s prophecies (Daniel 7–12). It will be a time of evil from false christs and false prophets (Mark 13:22) when natural disasters will occur throughout the world.

It is incredible how a communist country can outperform capitalistic countries. I regard China as the "King of the East" – Roelof

SHANGHAI -- Fueled by an ambitious economic stimulus program and aggressive bank lending, China’s economy grew by 7.9 percent in the second quarter of this year, the government said Thursday, a surprisingly strong showing given the world economic crisis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/global/17gdp.html?_r=1&hp

Iran may have an ace in the hole as Western governments weigh sanctions in response to the often violent crackdown on opposition demonstrators. The card Tehran is likely to play? China.

On July 13 Iran's Oil Ministry announced that it had China's agreement to invest about $40 billion in refining Iranian gasoline.

The Chinese deal would literally keep Iran's factories, homes and cars — in effect, a nation of 66 million people — running.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910669,00.html

From Time Magazine:

The ancient Israelites got straightforward guidance from Scripture on how to handle people who didn't worship Israel's god, Yahweh. "You shall annihilate them — the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites — just as the Lord your God has commanded."

The point of this exercise, explained the Book of Deuteronomy, was to make sure the "abhorrent" religions of nearby peoples didn't rub off on Israelites.

Muslims, who like Christians and Jews worship the God who revealed himself to Abraham, are counseled in one part of the Koran to "kill the polytheists wherever you find them." But another part prescribes a different stance toward unbelievers, "To you be your religion; to me my religion."

You'd think the Abrahamic God would make up his mind — Can he live with other gods or not? What's with the random mood fluctuations?
But the fluctuations aren't really random. If you juxtapose the Abrahamic Scriptures with what scholars have learned about the circumstances surrounding their creation, a pattern appears. Certain kinds of situations inspired tolerance, and other kinds inspired the opposite. You might even say this pattern is a kind of code, a code that is hidden in the Scriptures and that, once revealed, unlocks the secret of God's changing moods.

Maybe the hidden code in the Bible and the Koran, the code that links Scriptural content to context, could even help mend the most dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews.

The first step in seeing this code is to look to the world that gave us the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament) and the Koran — the world that embedded the code in them. There we'll see how consequential God's mood changes could be — how, indeed, a burst of vengeful intolerance helped give us monotheism itself; we'll see that the birth of monotheism left us with what you might call a bad God.
But we'll also see that this God then had bursts of moral growth — within both Judaism and Islam — and that the proven ingredients of that growth are around today, just when another such burst is needed.

Open the link for more detail - Roelof

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1902851,00.html

I disagree with this article, God is not a computer machine that uses codes to function.

I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. (Rev 1:8)

A deal taking shape between Israel and Western leaders will facilitate international support for an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in exchange for concessions in peace negotiations with the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, The Times reported Thursday.

According to one British official quoted by the paper, such an understanding could allow an Israeli attack "within the year." The report in the UK paper quoted unnamed diplomats as saying Israel was prepared to offer concessions on the formation of a Palestinian state as well as on its settlement policy and on "issues" with Arab neighbors, in exchange for international backing for an Israeli operation in Iran.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443824234&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The recent unemployment numbers have undermined confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession. What we can see on the surface is disconcerting enough, but the inside numbers are just as bad.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary estimate for job losses for June is 467,000, which means 7.2 million people have lost their jobs since the start of the recession. The cumulative job losses over the last six months have been greater than for any other half year period since World War II, including the military demobilization after the war. The job losses are also now equal to the net job gains over the previous nine years, making this the only recession since the Great Depression to wipe out all job growth from the previous expansion.

Factories are operating at only 65% of capacity

Job losses may last well into 2010 to hit an unemployment peak close to 11%. That unemployment rate may be sustained for an extended period.

Here are 10 reasons we are in even more trouble than the 9.5% unemployment rate indicates:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124753066246235811.html

Now even Al Gore supports a New World Order (NWO) - Roelof

Former Vice President Al Gore, whose "An Inconvenient Truth" video epistle on the claims of global warming has not weathered recent scientific research, now has promised at a conference in the United Kingdom that the impending virtual energy tax under the U.S. "cap-and-trade" legislation will bring about "global governance."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103634

A sure sign of the Last Days - Roelof

My prayer for all gay bishops, priests, ministers and preachers world-wide:

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. (Rom 12:2)

In the Name of Jesus, Amen. - Roelof


A worldwide Anglican schism now seems inevitable after Episcopal bishops in the United States today backed the consecration of gay bishops.

Episcopal bishops approved a resolution passed earlier this week by the laity and clergy that allows “partnered gays” full access to ordination.
The Archbishop of Canterbury expressed “regret” over a decision by Anglicans in the US that represents a blow to his hopes for Church unity.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6707029.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084

But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, (1Ti 4:1)

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals, (1Co 6:9)

THE LAST DAYS AND THE El Niño PHENOMENON

My research shows that the Last Days started in 1989.

Even the El Niño phenomenon protracted after the start of the Last Days in 1989.

The beauty is that the Lord is still in control.

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO; commonly referred to as simply El Niño),, is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific Ocean signatures, El Niño and La Niña, are important temperature fluctuations in surface waters of the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean). The name El Niño, from the Spanish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language) for "the little boy", refers to the Christ child (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_child), because the phenomenon is usually noticed around Christmas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas) time in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o#cite_note-DFG-0) La Niña, similarly, means "the little girl".

New capabilities to predict the onset of ENSO events can have global socio-economic impacts. While ENSO is a natural part of the Earth's climate, an important concern is whether its intensity or frequency may change as a result of global warming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming). Low-frequency variability has been evidenced; interdecadal modulation of ENSO from the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Decadal_Oscillation) (PDO) or the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Decadal_Oscillation) (IPO) might exist. This could explain the so-called protracted ENSO of the early 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o)

From Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary:

THE GREAT TRIBULATION— a short but intense period of distress and suffering at the end of time. The exact phrase, “the great tribulation,” is found only once in the Bible (Rev. 7:14). The great tribulation fulfills Daniel’s prophecies (Daniel 7–12). It will be a time of evil from false christs and false prophets (Mark 13:22) when natural disasters will occur throughout the world.

The German high court is ambushing the European Union. Europe’s leaders don’t see it, but they will. Soon.

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/en/index.html) recently ruled that the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with the German constitution.

EU leaders are so relieved Berlin said ja to Lisbon that they appear to have given little thought to a colossal caveat attached to the ruling.

He means this: Before Germany ratifies the Lisbon Treaty, it must strengthen the German parliament’s influence on EU decisions made in Brussels. Therefore, a law is now being created that will demand members of the Bundestag approve any change to the Lisbon Treaty, or any expansion of EU power, before it can be imposed on Germany.

By nature, this law essentially equips Germany with the power to hijack the EU!

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6337.4795.0.0

SYDNEY, July 16 (Reuters) - As many as 6,000 people could die from H1N1 in Australia this season in a "worst case scenario" if no preventive measures or vaccines are found, Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon said on Thursday.

The H1N1 influenza has killed 21 people in Australia so far and there are 10,387 confirmed cases, according to data compiled by Australia's health department.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSYD537212

Bishops in the US dealt a death blow to hopes for unity in the worldwide Anglican Church when they gave their blessing to services for same-sex partnerships.

After years of increasingly tense debate the decision will finally split the Anglican Communion, confirming the finality of the rift between Bible-based conservative evangelicals and liberal modernisers.

The bishops voted 104-30 at the Episcopal General Convention to “collect and develop theological resources and liturgies” for blessing same-gender relationships

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6716407.ece

The United Nations hit North Korea’s nuclear chief and four other key officials with sanctions yesterday in the growing conflict with the reclusive Communist regime.

The decision was the first time that the UN’s North Korea sanctions committee had blacklisted individuals. The action risked provoking a strong reaction from Pyongyang.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6717277.ece

The veteran head of Iran’s nuclear programme has resigned in the chaotic aftermath of President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election.
Officials gave no reason for the sudden departure of Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, but he has been close to Mir Hossein Mousavi, the man millions of Iranians consider to be the real winner of the June 12 elections.
The outgoing nuclear chief is also allied to Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former President and cleric, who backed Mr Mousavi’s candidacy and is an enemy of Mr Ahmadinejad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6717202.ece

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nouriel Roubini, one of the few economists who accurately predicted the magnitude of the financial crisis, said on Thursday that the worst of the turmoil has passed.

But Roubini emphasized the United States will still need a second fiscal stimulus, possibly by the end of this year, as the unemployment rate quickly approaches 10 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56F5TS20090716

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellites can spot the leading edge of a tsunami, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday in a study that might lead to better ways of detecting the giant waves and get people out of their way.

They went back and looked at satellite images in the Indian Ocean as the December 2004 tsunami raced across to destroy coastlines in Thailand, Sri Lanka and elsewhere. They found clear patterns in the water.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56E6LA20090715

If numbers alone tell the story, then China appears to have beaten the odds. It has apparently shrugged off the worst global recession in at least 30 years — one that had, at the end of last year, crippled growth in a country for which exports are a critical part of its economic lifeblood. The government responded by announcing a $585 billion spending package (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1857867,00.html), driven by massive infrastructure investments across the country, and, for now anyway, that policy is paying off. China announced today that its GDP in the second quarter grew at 7.9%, just a shade below the 8.1% goal the government set for growth in 2009. "The strong acceleration in underlying economic activity is now unmistakable," says Yu Song, a Goldman Sachs economist based in Hong Kong

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910875,00.html

A sign of the coming New World Order

Consider for a moment the following quotes. "Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature," "Guide reproduction wisely encouraging fitness and diversity," and "let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court." Sayings you may hear in popular circles today, or perhaps even the national media? Everywhere you turn, we are constantly bombarded with reports concerning obesity, abortion, global warming, diversity, and an ever growing world population. It may surprise you, however, to know that these quotes are not the headlines of a news paper article or even a twitter feed. Instead, these quotes originated from the Georgia Guidestones.

Revealed in 1980 in Elberton, Georgia, the Guidestones is a colossal 25,000 pound granite monument consisting of four 16-foot-high slabs surrounding a central column. Written in Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs this monument espouses its own ten commandments. Also written on the four sides of the capstone are the words, "Let these be Guidestones to An Age of Reason." Perhaps the creator of this memorial may have desired to leave its reader with the wisdom of creating a utopia here on earth, but some have taken the suggestions of the Guidestone to be a blue print for a New World Order. Termed as the ten commandments of the antichrist, the inscriptions are thought to be an esoteric proposal from a secret brotherhood for a new world society. However, they may simply be an elaborate hoax as well. Regardless, the words advocated on the monument are starting to have a ring of truth.

In an interview with ABC, speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi said, ""The family planning services reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs.

"One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government,"
Here are some statists that you may not have known. Within the US, black women are 3 times more likely than white women to seek an abortion. 64% of all abortions are performed on unwed mothers. 86% of all abortions are performed on women whose family income is less than $59,999 a year.

http://www.examiner.com/x-15871-Little-Rock-Christianity-Examiner~y2009m7d16-A-sign-of-the-coming-New-World-Order


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It appears that Obama is also working towards a New World Order, which should be in place by the end 2012 - Roelof

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) — Leaders of the developing world were in Egypt for the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to discuss the effect of the global financial crisis on their countries.
But the organisation's 15th summit, attended by 55 heads of state, is likely to be overshadowed by talks on the sidelines between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, both NAM members.

On Monday, during preparatory talks, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said the summit aimed for "a new international order... in which nations (are not judged) by their size or military and economic capabilities."

Delegates at Monday and Tuesday's preparatory ministerial meetings indicated to AFP that the new US administration's departure from a policy of unilateral diplomacy could help to achieve that goal.

Founded in 1955, NAM's 118 member states represent around 56 percent of the global population.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeB4ruDhwhNBaSrTHbjBBSSaib9Q

Africa's new world order

Of the three legs of U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign trip last week -- to Moscow, the G-8 in l'Aquila, Italy, and Accra, Ghana -- the African stop was the most interesting and not just because of the symbolism.

In Ghana, Obama was neither competing with the ghost of Ronald Reagan, as he was in Russia, nor still slaying the ghost of George W. Bush (both economically and diplomatically) as he was in Italy.

Obama's broader message to the Ghanaian parliament was that no continent is an island in a new world so small that no island is an island anymore. "I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world," he said.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/columnists/lisa_vandusen/2009/07/13/10112651-sun.html

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/Assets/Imgs/Personaggi/B/BENEDETTO_XVIs0rs01f233--200x150.jpg



Val D'Aosta, 17 July (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI fractured his wrist on Friday after a fall and was taken to a hospital in the northwestern Italian region of Val D'Aosta, hospital and Vatican sources told Adnkronos. Vatican reports said the pontiff fell and was taken to the emergency service of the Umberto Parini hospital, located in the Aosta Valley at 9.45am local time and was seen entering the hospital on foot, accompanied by his staff.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.3551976745

Iran may have an ace in the hole as Western governments weigh sanctions in response to the often violent crackdown on opposition demonstrators. The card Tehran is likely to play? China.

On July 13 Iran's Oil Ministry announced that it had China's agreement to invest about $40 billion in refining Iranian gasoline.

The Chinese deal would literally keep Iran's factories, homes and cars — in effect, a nation of 66 million people — running.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910669,00.html



This deal with China comes at a convenient time for Iran. Makes one wonder how far China would go to protect it's interests there.

How hard could it be to fit a few Iranian Shahab-3 or 4 missiles (which would easily reach Israel) with Chinese nuclear warheads. Don't necessarily have to be accurate to be effective.

The Rise of the King of the South

And at the end-time, the king of the south shall butt at him. And the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships. (Dan 11:40)


The Islamic Republic of Iran is the head of the international network of Islamic terrorism—the biblically prophesied “king of the south.” This radical network, as the scripture says, practices a “pushy,” or combative, foreign policy. Is there a better way to describe Iran?

Iran is gunning for the destruction of the Jewish state. It feeds Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinian terrorist groups inside Israel, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has complicated American efforts in Iraq and is meddling in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its nuclear weapons program is advancing rapidly, and it has been connected to the nuclear programs of both Syria and North Korea. Iran is the number-one threat to peace in Israel and the Middle East—in many ways, even worldwide.

Included in the audience at Cairo were members of the Muslim Brotherhood (mb), a radical Islamist group with terrorist roots and the primary political opposition to President Mubarak. The Egyptian daily Al-Masri al-Youm reported June 4 that Obama met with mb officials in Washington earlier this year. Certainly, Washington’s overtures toward the Brotherhood will not help Egypt’s president, who himself didn’t attend the June 4 speech.


The Palestinians also have good reason to celebrate Obama’s historic Muslim address. As we have often pointed out, the prophesied clash between the European king of the north and the Iran-led king of the south will primarily revolve around Jerusalem.


http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

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Breaking the Brotherhood

Then I broke My other staff Union apart, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. (Zec 11:14)

John Wesley:
Zec 11:14 - Then - So soon as I saw what value they put upon me. I cut asunder - Christ did it really, the prophet did it in the type. Break - Declare it broken. The brother - hood - That friendship which had been among them. Judah - The two tribes, and the remnant of the ten tribes.

Biblical history testifies to the familial relationship between Manasseh (America) and Judah (the Jewish people)—which explains the historic bond between these nations. Yet Bible prophecy says that in the end time this historic brotherhood would be severed. In Zechariah 11:14, God said He would “break the brotherhood between Judah [modern-day Israel] and Israel [primarily the United States and Britain].”

In fact, Jewish aspirations for statehood not only predate the Adolf Hitler era, they predate the Zionist movement. Their history in the territory on which their country is built goes back to biblical times

Palestinians have reinvented this history, claiming the Jews are without legal or historic right to their homeland and that modern-day Israel exists only because of Europe’s guilt after the Holocaust. In Cairo, President Obama legitimized this bit of Arab propaganda.

Nine years ago, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians 94 percent of the West Bank, all of East Jerusalem, and unrestricted control of the Temple Mount. In swift response, Nobel Prize winner Yasser Arafat unleashed a bloody five-year campaign of rockets, sniper fire and suicide bombings aimed primarily at civilians that killed more than 1,000 Jews.

President Obama went to Cairo in search of a “new beginning” in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. By doing so, the U.S. effectively ended its brotherly and strategically critical alliance with Israel. That “unbreakable” bond between America and Israel, the president’s assurances notwithstanding, is now broken. Israel knows it has been abandoned by the United States.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

Israel Appeals to Germany for Help

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb. Yet he could not heal you nor cure you of your wound. (Hos 5:13)

The Hosea 5:13 wound is the misnamed “peace” process. Since kicking off its land-for-peace strategy in Oslo in 1993, Israel has only suffered greater violence and death. The voids it has left by pulling out of southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip have been filled by Iran’s most lethal proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas. At least 1,500 Israeli citizens have been murdered by terrorists during this time. And with Hezbollah and Hamas furiously amassing a much deadlier arsenal, the body count will inevitably rise.

Still, President Obama is applying massive pressure on Israel to freeze all settlement growth and to cede more land to the Palestinians and Syrians.
This is why in Hosea, God says that Judah, after being mortally wounded by the peace process, will seek help from Assyria (Germany), rather than the United States. This prophecy provides further proof of America’s growing irrelevance in the world, particularly to its former ally Israel.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

According to wiki Assyria is modern Iraq - Roelof

Jerusalem Split Down the Middle

For I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women raped. And half of the city shall go into exile, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.(Zec 14:2)

And His feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall divide from its middle, from the east and to the west, a very great valley. And half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south. (Zec 14:4)

According to this prophecy, a Hamas-dominated Palestinian insurgence, backed by Iran, will take half of Jerusalem by force shortly before the Messiah sets foot on the Mount of Olives (verse 4). Thus, we can deduce that Israel will not cave in to pressure from Washington and give away what little land it has left. As the U.S.- Israeli alliance has suffered, so too has America’s ability to dictate terms to Israel.

In his Cairo speech, President Obama increased expectations among Arabs that Jerusalem would be theirs. Meanwhile, a growing number of Israelis have lost faith in the land-for-peace strategy.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. bank, posted a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street forecasts but warned of a fresh surge in soured loans to credit card, mortgage and business customers.

Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis said tough economic conditions will hurt results into 2010.

Bank of America set aside $13.38 billion for bad loans for a second straight quarter, and net charge-offs totaled $8.7 billion, up 25 percent from the prior three-month

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56G2Y920090717

BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co warned investors that the economic contagion that has dragged down its finance and media businesses has spread to its heavy industrial units, prompting Chief Executive Jeff Immelt to lower his profit forecast for those businesses.

Shares of the largest U.S. conglomerate fell 5 percent on Friday after it reported a profit that topped Wall Street's expectations, but a 17 percent drop in revenue that was sharper than analysts had foreseen.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE56G2RD20090717

I live in a developing country and strongly condemn this type of dumping - Roelof

Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international convention.

The Government last night was considering tightening the enforcement of rules after the discovery of hazardous medical and electrical waste in Brazil and Ghana.

Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, ordered an investigation into two British companies linked to 90 shipping containers containing 1,400 tonnes of waste. They included syringes, condoms and nappies. The companies that received the waste — sent from Felixstowe to three Brazilian ports — said that they had been expecting recyclable plastic.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6718689.ece

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Even if California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and top lawmakers quickly plug a $26.3 billion deficit to balance the state's budget, the state's weak revenues signal that a new shortfall will emerge.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE56G4FT20090717

http://www.littleabout.com/news/24189,us-expect-terror-strike-months-homegrown-attackers-ex-israeli-bodyguar.html


Has this been posted yet as to a guy that says the U.S. will be hit in the next few months?

http://www.littleabout.com/news/24189,us-expect-terror-strike-months-homegrown-attackers-ex-israeli-bodyguar.html


Has this been posted yet as to a guy that says the U.S. will be hit in the next few months?

vinsight4uS

This has not been posted and I did not pick it up in any of my regular websites

I will watch closely

Thanks

vinsight4uS

This has not been posted and I did not pick it up in any of my regular websites

I will watch closely

Thanks

Thanks for keeping an eye out to see if there is more on this! I wish someone could show somewhere else that this guy from Israel did give the warnings as they say he did in the past.

vinsight4uS

This has not been posted and I did not pick it up in any of my regular websites

I will watch closely

Thanks

That is old stuff that was debunked back in 2007. The same text was published then in several places, that we could expect terror attacks in the next few months. Never happened. Whoever posted this is just recycling old stuff and should know better.

Also there is no evidence he appeared on Bill O'Reilly a week before the 7/7 attacks. Snopes.com has an article on it.

Having said that, I do agree with the concerns expressed, and I do expect terror attacks on US soil to start happening one of these days. This particular warning though, is not credible.

Very interesting dat Bush delivered his "New World Order speech" exactly eleven years before the 9/11 terrorist attack in the US - Roelof

In his 11 September (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11) 1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) "Toward a New World Order" speech (full text (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toward_a_New_World_Order)) to a joint session of the United States Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress), President George H. W. Bush described his administration's objectives for post-Cold-War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Cold_War_era) global governance in cooperation with post-Soviet states (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11


The September 11 attacks (often referred to as 9/11, pronounced nine-eleven) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack) by Al-Qaeda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda) upon the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) on September 11, 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11

The world’s richest man has joined the battle against the world’s most destructive weather. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is backing inventors and climate scientists who claim to have devised a technique for diminishing the power of hurricanes.

Gates was named last week among a group of weather experts who have applied for patents on a system for lowering ocean temperatures. Using a fleet of barges equipped with pumps, Gates and his team believe a hurricane can be slowed by cooling the tropical waters that fuel its progress.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article6719092.ece

Eight years after Middle East militants carried out the September 11 attacks, Muslim Americans are raising their profile, encouraged by the election of Barack Obama (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama), a U.S. president proud of his Kenyan father's Muslim heritage.

The president, who is a Christian, used his middle name, Hussein, at his inauguration. He called for new dialogue with Islamic nations and named a special envoy for the Middle East on his second full day in office.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56C00D20090713

Maybe we will now get superfast VW's? - Roelof

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Porsche SE's (PSHG_p.DE (http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=PSHG_p.DE)) controlling families will agree on Thursday to accept an offer by Volkswagen (VOWG.DE (http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=VOWG.DE)) to buy its sports car business Porsche AG for roughly 8 billion euros ($11.28 billion), Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.

The sale would help Porsche SE pay off most of its debt, which two sources told Reuters has ballooned to considerably more than 10 billion euros.

http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE56H1AM20090719

The chilling call appears to be the latest attempt to take the moral high ground by a quasi-religious drug cartel that has become one of the most dangerous threats to the Mexican security forces. The caller identified himself as Servando Gomez, head of a narcotics mafia that has baptized itself "La Familia Michoacana." The gangsters, who had bought ads in newspapers and given an interview to a leading Mexican magazine, claim that although they traffic drugs, they protect their local community and purport to be devout Evangelical Christians. All members are disciplined to abstain from narcotics themselves and care for their homes and children,

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1911556,00.html

A senior Israeli diplomatic official on Sunday morning said that Israel would continue to build in Jerusalem, responding to a demand from the US that the government put an end to a housing project to be built in east Jerusalem.

Following a complaint by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren was summoned to a meeting at the US State Department over the week-end where he was told that the Obama administration wanted Israel to put an end to work at the site of the historic Shepherd's Hotel in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443844574&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Tehran - Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has called for a nationwide referendum on the legitimacy of the government to end the country's post-election crisis.
Khatami's proposal was reported by several reformist websites on Monday.
He said Iranians have lost their faith in the ruling political system following the June 12 election. The opposition charges that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election through mass fraud.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/67ee7e7f002a4b35b66beb12c6621dc1/20-07-2009%2011-07/Referendum_can_end_Iran_crisis

Cape Town - South Africa is launching clinical trials of two Aids vaccines its researchers developed in collaboration with US experts, a major step for a developing country where political leaders once shocked the world with their unscientific pronouncements about the disease.

Trials to test the safety in humans of the vaccines begin this month on 36 healthy volunteers

http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/AidsFocus/1058/d31db0484c59469cadc1fdaeeb39a673/20-07-2009%2007-07/SA_tests_Aids_vaccine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. recession's grip on the economy appears to be easing but likely has not yet ended, according to a survey of economists released on Monday.

The National Association for Business Economics' quarterly industry survey found that demand is stabilizing, but a small majority of the 102 respondents said their firms had not yet seen the bottom.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56J0OR20090720

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's population of older people is growing at the fastest rate ever seen and the old will soon outnumber the young for the first time, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

An aging population will push up pension and healthcare costs, forcing major increases in public spending that could slow economic growth in rich and poor countries.

The number of people 65 and older hit about 506 million as of midyear 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This will double to 1.3 billion by 2040, accounting for 14 percent of the total global population.
"People aged 65 and over will soon outnumber children under age 5 for the first time in history,"

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56J0IY20090720



And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. (Gen 6:3)

Humans live on average 39.5 years in Swaziland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaziland) and on average 81 years in Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) (2008 est.).
The oldest confirmed recorded age for any human is 122 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy



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Seoul - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in an act of defiance towards the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.

North Korea is barred by United Nations resolutions from firing ballistic missile such as the Scud. A South Korean Defence Ministry official said more launches could come soon.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/47d6cedadcd04ffd9126fc623288c7db//North_Korea_defies_US

Open the link for photos:

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10001215-3.html?tag=mncol

There were in fact two men who landed on the moon and returned safely to Earth in the first-ever visit by humankind to another celestial body, NASA's Apollo 11 mission (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/index.html). Those two were Neil Armstrong, the flight commander, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, who piloted the Apollo lunar module to the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. The third member of the crew, Michael Collins, piloted the command module that orbited the moon for the 21 hours that Armstrong and Aldrin were on the lunar surface.

Amid reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is heading to Israel next week for talks on Teheran's nuclear program, a senior US defense official has told The Jerusalem Post that an Israeli strike on Iran could be profoundly destabilizing and would affect US interests.

Israel needed to take its relationship with America into account in contemplating any such attack, he warned.

Gates, who last week described the Islamic republic's nuclear drive as the greatest current threat to global security

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443850435&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Although talk of peace, "two states for two peoples" and the "Arab League initiative" fill the lofty speeches of American and European leaders, the political war to delegitimize Israel is accelerating.

Officials of the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority, working with powerful groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, exploit the rhetoric of international law to brand Israeli defense against terror as "war crimes" and "collective punishment." As a result, talk of peace process continues to be a façade, demonstrating that the core ideology and objectives - the elimination of Jewish sovereignty and statehood - remain unchanged since 1947.
The Gaza war that took place six months ago, like the 2006 Second Lebanon War, provided major platforms for accelerating political warfare against Israel.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443835245&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Late last year, Israel embarked on a coordinated campaign of leaks to the press regarding its determination to take out Iran's nuclear facilities if Obama's then-new administration fails to sway the Iranians diplomatically. Israel is unwilling to accept a nuclear Iran: "It is not an option", say its senior intelligence and military leadership.

Israel has decided to go ahead. Taking into account political, geopolitical, military preparedness, and climatic conditions, there are two windows: between July 21 and 24 and between August 6 and 8. Advance teams comprised of Mossad agents and military personnel are already on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq (including in the Kurdish lands, adjacent to Turkey).

http://www.globalpolitician.com/25720-iran-israel-nuclear-obama-usa

It appears that America is now steadily heading towards paganism - Roelof

Legislation long sought by Democrats that would expand federal hate-crime laws to cover gay and transgendered people has won approval in the Senate, raising expectations among supporters that the time has finally come for it to be enacted.

"The Senate made a strong statement this evening that hate crimes have no place in America," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat.

The legislation, named the Matthew Shepard Act after the gay University of Wyoming student beaten to death in 1998, would impose longer prison sentences for offenses motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

It also would make it easier for federal prosecutors to pursue hate-crime charges when local authorities do not.

If enacted, it would be the largest expansion of federal hate-crime laws since they were created in 1968 in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/19/senate-oks-bill-on-hate-crimes/?source=newsletter_must-read-stories-today_more_news_carousel

California is still under the judgment of the Lord for liberal gay and abortion laws - Roelof

The National Education Association has thrown its full support behind homosexual "marriage."


The NEA recently held its annual convention in San Diego, California, where members voted on two issues of importance to those involved in the culture war. One of those issues was whether the union would support same-gender marriage. According to Jeralee Smith, co-founder of the Conservative Educators Caucus, the resolution passed by roughly a two-thirds majority.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=603580


You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination to God. (Lev 18:22)

Very interesting, please open the link:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Full speed towards a mature New World Order - Roelof

The United Nations has called for a return to state-led "industrial policy" for poorer countries in what amounts to a rejection of the free-market thinking that has dominated global institutions for the last 30 years.

Capital flows to poorer states and export earnings have together collapsed by $2 trillion (£1.22 trillion) since the credit crunch began. "This is an alarming trend, and it's not a result of their own doing," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5844775/UN-calls-for-overthrow-of-free-market-ideology.html

For a glimpse of what awaits Britain, Europe, and America as budget deficits spiral to war-time levels, look at what is happening to the Irish welfare state.

Events have already forced Premier Brian Cowen to carry out the harshest assault yet seen on the public services of a modern Western state. He has passed two emergency budgets to stop the deficit soaring to 15pc of GDP. They have not been enough. The expert An Bord Snip report said last week that Dublin must cut deeper, or risk a disastrous debt compound trap.

A further 17,000 state jobs must go (equal to 1.25m in the US), though unemployment is already 12pc and heading for 16pc next year.

There is a further listing of programs that need to be cut. Everything from rural schools, to child benefits, to social welfare. Police, who have taken a 7% pay cut already, will have to buy their own uniforms. Hospital visits will cost £107 a day.

No doubt Ireland has been the victim of a savagely tight monetary policy given its specific needs. But the deeper truth is that Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the US, and Japan are in varying states of fiscal ruin, and those tipping into demographic decline (unlike young Ireland) have an underlying cancer that is even more deadly. The West cannot support its gold-plated state structures from an aging workforce and depleted tax base.

My awful fear is that we will do exactly the opposite, incubating yet another crisis this autumn, to which we will respond with yet further spending. This is the road to ruin.

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=230749&t=01000218353128929071

The world money powers are smiling. The only way out is to turn to God - Roelof

Justin Lin, the bank’s chief economist, said factories running idle around world threaten to trap economies in a vicious cycle, risking further spasms of financial stress, requiring yet more rescue packages.

"Significant excess capacity has been built up and unless this issue is addressed, we will face a deflationary spiral and the crisis will become protracted," he told an audience in Cape Town.

Mr Lin said capacity use had fallen to 72pc in Germany, 69pc in the US, 65pc in Japan, and as low as 50pc in some developing countries, mostly touching lows not seen in modern times.

The traditional cure for countries caught in slumps is to claw their way back to health through devaluation, but this cannot be done today because the crisis is global. "No country can count on currency depreciation and exports as a way out of recession.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5836488/World-Bank-warns-of-deflation-spiral.html

And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates. And its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared. (Rev 16:12)

The King of the East is China. A definite sign of the 6th vial - Roelof

The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of neighboring Turkey and Syria, a two-year drought and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now.

The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesies its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, left fishermen impoverished and depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work.

It is a crisis that threatens the roots of Iraq’s identity, not only as the land between two rivers

http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/1484137.html (http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/1484137.html)



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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iran.html?nav=el) Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned senior officials on Monday not to help Tehran's enemies after two former presidents expressed defiant opposition to the result of June's disputed presidential poll.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072000954.html

http://www.littleabout.com/news/24189,us-expect-terror-strike-months-homegrown-attackers-ex-israeli-bodyguar.html
Has this been posted yet as to a guy that says the U.S. will be hit in the next few months?
Hi, Vinsight4u8! Thanks for posting this--I had not seen this in my news research yet!

Roelof, what's the deal with the eclipse this week?

Very interesting dat Bush delivered his "New World Order speech" exactly eleven years before the 9/11 terrorist attack in the US
That is interesting indeed, Roelof! Thanks for this information--I keep track of things like this!

That is old stuff that was debunked back in 2007.
That is a big relief, Revolvr! Thanks for updating us!

Earlier in February, I posted here an article that said UFO sightings in the UK had doubled in 2008, over 2007.

Now, it appears that UFO sightings may double again in 2009.

So what's going on here? Could this be part of the "strong delusion" Paul spoke of? Are people desperate to believe in something, just unwilling to turn to God? Could it be demons? Or have Chinese Lanterns suddenly become very popular at kid's birthday parties?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/113657/UFO-sightings-soar

Exclusive: Dramatic discovery by Jewish-American scientists could change world; anti-radiation medication proves effective, safe in tests. Further experiments to be fast tracked, FDA approval possible within 1-2 years.

The ground-breaking medication, developed by Professor Andrei Gudkov – Chief Scientific Officer at Cleveland BioLabs - may have far-reaching implications on the balance of power in the world, as states capable of providing their citizens with protection against radiation will enjoy a significant strategic advantage vis-à-vis their rivals. You know, there's something terrribly sad about this report. Like something out of Dr. Strangelove.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3748014,00.html

Roelof, what's the deal with the eclipse this week?

Joe

I expect Israel to strike the nuclear plants of Iran soon - Roelof

2008/9/10 - Three total solar eclipses on the Biblical date of Av 1, for three years: Av 1 – 1 August 2008; Av 1 – 22 July 2009; Av 1 – 11 July 2010.

On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv195/Roelof_bucket/solareclipse1.jpg


Av (Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): אָב‎, Standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language#Modern_Hebrew) Av Tiberian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberian_vocalization) ʾĀḇ ; from Akkadian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language) abu) is the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar). The name is Babylonian in origin and appeared in the Talmud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud) around the 3rd century. This is the only month which is not named in the Bible. It is a summer month of 30 days. Av usually occurs in July–August on the Gregorian calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Av_(month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Av_(month))

The Nine Days are the first nine days of the Jewish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish) month of Av (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Av_(month)). During this time, a strict level of mourning is observed, in accordance with the Talmudic dictum (Ta'anit 26): "When the month of Av begins, we reduce our joy." They are days of intense mourning culminating in Tisha B'Av (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B%27Av) which commemorates the destruction of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem).

During The Nine Days, Jewish law (Halakha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha)) forbids various activities, including drinking wine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine), eating meat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat), pleasure-bathing, and wearing freshly laundered clothes. These prohibitions are in addition to those already adhered to during The Three Weeks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Weeks), which take place concurrent to The Nine Days. Those restrictions include listening to music, getting a haircut or shaving, participating in weddings.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Days#cite_note-0)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Days

London - Britain has announced plans to vaccinate half the population against H1N1 flu by year's end, as health officials in Russia warned the virus could spread across the vast country in the coming months.
As more than 100 British students and teachers were quarantined in Beijing over fears they may have A(H1N1), Health Secretary Andy Burnham told lawmakers the government expected to receive the first supplies of a vaccine next month

Britain is the worst-hit territory in Europe, with estimates of 55 000 new cases of the A(H1N1) virus last week.

The worldwide death toll gathered pace, with Argentina announcing a total of 165 fatalities, making it the nation with the second highest number of H1N1 flu deaths after the United States.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/SwineFlu/1255/e1aff914f6aa4a1cae3e0851d17f8465/21-07-2009%2008-07/H1N1_Millions_to_be_vaccinated