Watching and Waiting

$800 Million for Arab Spring

2012-02-14T15:56:00.000-06:00

Remember the folks in Egypt that keep chanting, "Death to America!" and who voted in the Muslim Brotherhood, whose number one goal is the destruction of America and Israel?

It appears that Obama's budget is going to give them some money to help their cause.

(Reuters) - The White House announced plans on Monday to help "Arab Spring" countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt.

In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years -- $1.3 billion -- despite a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists.

Here; http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-usa-budget-foreign-idUSTRE81C1C920120213

Well...that's nice. I sure hope the money that we give them will finally make them like us!

Boy oh boy....that "reset" button that Obama has been pushing for the past 3 years...it must not be functioning correctly. Oh well...just keep pushing it!!

Hat tip to Tom F.

Google Message

2012-02-14T14:57:00.000-06:00

Of course it is Valentine's Day today. And Google has a message for you about who can be special friends on this special day.

Go to google.com and click on the play button in the header. You will see a little cartoon video of a girl jumping rope. Near the end of the video get ready with you pause button so you can see the other special relationships that they support for this special day.

You will see a human space man and an alien. A black woman and white woman. Two gay men in tuxes. A dog and a cat and a few others.

Can't a man and a woman just have their special day without everyone else feeling they have to be involved?

And what's up with all the alien references? I guess the message is that when aliens do show up on earth...we should be ready with a Valentine card. How's that for tolerance?

Hat tip to Jared F.

What's Left?....Television and Football

2012-02-13T13:48:00.001-06:00

Greece continues to burn. We are pretty sure this unrest is not going to quiet down any time soon. You simply can't give people a lifestyle that they grow used to and then take it away. It doesn't matter that you should have never given that lifestyle to them in the first place.

A LANDMARK Athens cinema lay in ruins yesterday as stunned Greeks surveyed the damage of widespread riots.

Officials say 45 buildings were wholly or partly destroyed by fire as violence erupted during demonstrations while parliament voted on Sunday for tough new austerity measures aimed at averting national bankruptcy.

"It's culture that has gone up in smoke," filmmaker Nikos Kavoukidis lamented as he shot footage of the crowd gathered at the ruins of the Attikon cinema. "What do we have left? Television and football?"

Overall, 170 businesses around the city centre sustained damage, including banks, bookstores, jewellery shops, home appliance stores and supermarkets, the Athens chamber of commerce said.

The government, neck-deep in debt, said it would seek a way to help out.

Here; http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/riots-leave-athens-smouldering/story-fn6e1m7z-1226270276396

So again, we have to ask....how is Greece substantially different than America when it comes to balance sheets and borrowing? Will we come to a time when Occupy Wall Street turns into Occupy Every City...and the fire bombs, riots, and anarchy pour across this nation?

Will a reporter one day ask an U.S. citizen why the anarchy is happening...to which the citizen will reply, "what else do we have left, but television and football?"

Violence in Syria Spills Into Lebanon

2012-02-12T17:08:00.000-06:00

Hezbollah is alive and well in Lebanon so the fact that violence from Syria has spilled in should come as no surprise to anyone.

In Lebanon, two people died and 24 were wounded in fierce clashes between Sunnis hostile to Syria’s regime and Alawites who support it, a security official said.

“A Sunni and an Alawite were killed and 24 people were wounded in clashes that continued since Friday between people from the neighbourhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tebbaneh” in the northern city of Tripoli, he told AFP.

Ten of the wounded were Lebanese soldiers, including a sergeant in critical condition.

The two sides fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other in the bloodiest clashes since June, when six people died in the wake of demonstrations against Syria’s government.

Sunni-majority Tripoli has in the past few years been the scene of intense clashes between Sunni supporters of the anti-Syrian opposition and Alawites loyal to a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Iran and Syria.

Assad hails from the Alawite community, an offshoot of the Shia sect. Syrian state media blamed “terrorists” for Friday’s double car bomb attacks on security posts in Aleppo.

Here; http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C02%5C12%5Cstory_12-2-2012_pg7_9

Just imagine if you were the leaders in Israel today as you watch the violence, unrest and mayhem spread all across the lands on your borders....and KNOW that those regimes are filled with people who want nothing more than to destroy your country and kill all your people.

These are some serious times for Israel...and for all of us.

Muslims Claim Jews Planning Third Temple

2012-02-12T16:58:00.000-06:00

Here is more evidence that we must be approaching the very last days...because talk of a Jewish Third Temple built on the Temple Mount is increasing.

Let's remember that the 2nd Temple was the one that Jesus stood in when he was in Jerusalem. That one was destroyed about 35 years after Jesus' death and resurrection and there has never been a temple there since.

When the Muslims showed up centuries later they knew that the site was a Jewish Holy site and since they claimed that Allah was greater than any other god they chose to build two mosques on the exact site and claim it as their own. This Muslim practice is a little bit like a dog raising it's leg to mark its territory.

Israel is planning to build a new structure on the Temple Mount, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported on Saturday.

The report cited the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage, which claimed that a committee within the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem has submitted plans for the new structure.

According to the foundation, the 3,700-square-meter structure will be built near the Mughrabi Gate. It will consist of five floors, two of which will be underground.

The building will reportedly be designed to include a Jewish museum, lecture halls, exhibition halls, a library and archives center, and a center for information.

Ma’an quoted a statement by the Al-Aqsa Foundation, which claimed the structure would be built on Islamic and Arab ruins.

“The building will serve settlers and foreign tourists who visit the square,” the foundation said. “The Israeli archeology department has been digging and excavating for about five years demolishing structures that date back to different Arab and Islamic eras.”

Israel has not officially responded to the claims, a report on Israel’s Channel 2 News on Saturday said.

Last week, the Al Aqsa Heritage Foundation’s website featured photos of IDF soldiers touring the Temple Mount. The foundation claimed that two photos are of a Jewish man urinating on a wall within the Temple Mount compound.

However, the website did not provide any evidence that the man is indeed Jewish or that he was indeed engaged in the act they claim he was engaged in. Nor is there any account or documentation that he was approached by anyone following his supposed act of sacrilege, as one would have expected to happen.

Here; http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/152649

Remember friends, we need to have a 3rd Temple to fulfill prophecy because this is the Temple that the Antichrist will sit at 3 1/2 years into the 7 year peace agreement signed between Israel and its enemies....and he will declare himself to be god.

When this happens...all hell will break loose on earth.

Thanks you Jesus that you promised to come and receive us unto yourself so that we will not be witnesses to this horrible time.

Birds, Bees, Bats and Dolphins

2012-02-11T17:18:00.000-06:00

Lots of strange things happening in the animal kingdom these past few years...birds falling from the skies, massive fish kills, bees disappearing, strange fungus killing millions of bats...and now we have a massive dolphin kill.

WELLFLEET — Marine mammal rescuers continued to scout the coastline of Cape Cod Bay on Friday for additional live or dead common dolphins in what has been the largest mass-stranding event in at least 10 years.

Since Jan. 12, International Fund for Animal Welfare staff members and volunteers have identified 160 short-beaked common dolphins as stranded, organization spokesman Michael Booth said Friday. Of those, 103 have been found dead, 17 have died or been euthanized after being found alive, and 40 have been released to deep waters.

Here; http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20120211dolphins_still_sought_along_cape_cod_bay_coastline/

It seems that nature is groaning....

Greek Police Threaten to Arrest IMF Officials

2012-02-11T12:15:00.000-06:00

This is incredible! Greece is being forced to slash their budget after years of spending borrowed money and living an unsustainable life style.

The European Union and the IMF have been working on ways to bail out Greece and help them get on a sustainable track. Of course this track MUST include budget cuts and also economic growth plans and also a revamping of the tax code.

Of course no adolescent child wants to be told he has to change his lifestyle and spend less money....so they would rather throw a tantrum at their parents than accept a smaller lifestyle.

So today we have news that the police force is sick and tired of having to take less pay....so they have threatened to arrest those who would help them become financially sustainable.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country's European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures.

In a letter obtained by Reuters Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused the officials of "...blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty" and said one target of its warrants would be the IMF's top official for Greece, Poul Thomsen.

"Since you are continuing this destructive policy, we warn you that you cannot make us fight against our brothers. We refuse to stand against our parents, our brothers, our children or any citizen who protests and demands a change of policy," said the union, which represents more than two-thirds of Greek policemen.

"We warn you that as legal representatives of Greek policemen, we will issue arrest warrants for a series of legal violations ... such as blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty."

Here; http://news.yahoo.com/greek-police-union-wants-arrest-eu-imf-officials-131051425.html

Remember that Greece spent decades living off of "free" money that was easily given to them for any reason they deemed acceptable...including vacations. Very few people pay taxes and most people have been collecting some sort of check from the government.

When you go to the Cycle of Nations that we blogged about yesterday....where does it appear that Greece is today? It would look like she will soon be in bondage again. To whom?...remains to be seen, but for sure in the short term she will be in bondage to the IMF and the European Union....and that inevitability is exactly why the Greek police force is lashing out at those parties.

Indians Sue Brewers for Getting Them Drunk

2012-02-10T18:31:00.000-06:00

Uh-Oh.....here we go!

The Oglala Sioux Tribe is suing some of the world's largest beer brewers, saying they knowingly have contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court of Nebraska, seeks $500 million in damages for the costs the tribe has incurred in dealing with crime and providing social services and health care as a result of rampant alcoholism among the 20,000 tribal members.

The suit is on behalf of the tribe, however, and no individual tribal members are plaintiffs and eligible for money.

It also targets four beer stores in Whiteclay, Neb., a tiny town in northwest Nebraska at the South Dakota border near the reservation. Despite only about dozen residents in town, the stores sold almost 5 million cans of beer in 2010 -- almost 250 cans per Pine Ridge tribal member. Alcohol is not legal on the reservation.

Tribal leaders and activists blame Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on the reservation. They say most of the stores' customers come from Pine Ridge.

"In a town of 11 people selling 4.9 million 12-ounce servings of beer, there is no way that alcohol could be legally consumed. It's just impossible," said Thomas White, a former Nebraska legislator and Omaha, Neb., lawyer who is representing the tribe.

Here; http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-10/oglala-sioux-tribe-alcohol-lawsuit/53041392/1

Next up...obese people suing Kemps Ice Cream, diabetics suing Crystal sugar, porn addicts suing Hustler Magazine, and gambling addicts suing Las Vegas casinos....

I think we can all now agree that this nation is in serious trouble....it's just a discussion of how long the trouble can last before it becomes catastrophic trouble.

Hat tip to Julie E.

The Big Tune Out

2012-02-10T14:51:00.000-06:00

The world is on a precipice. The Middle East is close to war, federal deficits are at an unsustainable level, Europe is set to collapse, unemployment is at record highs, global unrest seems to be spreading.....holy cats!, with all that news one would think Americans would be intensely involved in choosing our next leader. Someone who can lead us away from the abyss to which we are heading!!!

But of course, you would be wrong. Americans are not only tuning out the Republican race...but they are also tuning out President Obama and Congress. They simply don't care who leads them or what their leaders or future leaders are saying or doing in these tumultuous times.

But you know what they do care about and what they ARE tuning into?.....NFL FOOTBALL!!!!

But it's not confined to the Republican side. Look at President Obama's State of the Union numbers. That speech famously blankets all television and radio networks. His first speech to a joint session of Congress, in February 2009, drew 52 million viewers. A year later the State of the Union had an understandable fall-off to about 48 million. In 2011, another fall: 43 million watched. A few weeks ago his 2012 State of the Union drew just 38 million. From 52 to 38: That's quite a decline. And again, during an continuing crisis and in a presidential election year. As for the president's interviews and other speeches, well, when was the last time you heard someone ask excitedly, "Did you hear what Obama said?"

Whose numbers are up? The NFL's.

Maybe the story the political class is missing is not "They don't like the Republican field," or "They don't like Obama." Maybe the story is that people are tuning out altogether. Maybe they're bored with politics, and most especially with politicians. Maybe they don't think our government can't solve anything. Maybe, even, our political class has done such a good job depicting the crisis we're in that the American people, with their low faith in institutions, think nothing, really, can be done about it. So let's check out. Let's watch the game.

Here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203824904577212832724317096.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Now lets attempt to plug in our entertainment driven society into the Cycle of Nations to see where we are;
From Bondage to Spiritual faith
From Spiritual faith to great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to selfishness
From selfishness to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependency
From dependency BACK to bondage again.

And so ends the cycle...only to be repeated again. For those who read the Bible see how many times the Israelites completed this cycle.

Now where do you think America is? Of course if we are tuning out the election of the man who could affect our entire lives as Leader of the Free World, then clearly we are in the apathy stage and also WELL INTO the dependency stage because we now have over 45,000,000 on food stamps, millions dependent on Social Security for their income and government Medicaid for health care....not to mention Section 8 housing and welfare.

Sounds like our next stop is back to bondage.

How, who, when and where are yet to be determined.

Even so....come Lord Jesus.

U.S. Senator Taunts Putin

2012-02-10T08:46:00.000-06:00

Most prophecy watchers agree that current day Russia was once part of the biblical land called Magog. Of course Magog is mentioned as a player that leads a Last Days army intent on the destruction of Israel.

Recently there have been demonstrations in Russia against Putin coming back to power...and most Russians properly assume that corruption and voter fraud have made his re election possible and now protests are happening in the streets.

Senator John McCain thought it may be fun to provoke Putin with a little friendly ribbing on Twitter.

U.S. Senator John McCain has again angered supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by describing Russia's nascent protest movement as an extension of the Arab Spring uprisings that have shaken and toppled governments across the Middle East.

"Dear Vlad, the #ArabSpring has arrived at a neighborhood near you," the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate tweeted Sunday. He included a link to a New York Times article about Saturday's opposition protest, which drew tens of thousands.

The tweet provoked a sharp response from at least two senior United Russia officials including Andrei Vorobyov, the leader of the party's Duma faction, who described it as a "provocation," and called on Russians to resist foreign "meddling" from American officials he said were trying to incite revolution.

Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/mccain-taunts-putin-over-protests/452421.html#ixzz1lzRrKdKA
The Moscow Times

Also remember that Russia has given their thumbs up to Syrian leader Assad to continue murdering his people so that he can put down their unrest. So we are dealing with a brutal bunch of leaders....all of which are mentioned in the Bible during the Last Days.

Senator McCain,....you should consider a few things before you taunt the Russian bear which has been sleeping nicely for the past 20 years.....America is NOT mentioned anywhere in future prophecy AND it is not a good idea to provoke sleeping bears....especially bears that you owe LOTS of money to.

Hat tip to Julie E.

No Lost Ice in Past 10 Years

2012-02-09T18:14:00.000-06:00

This next headline is going to disappoint those folks who are giddy about global warming....like Al Gore and half of America.

It turns out the glaciers and snow haven't been melting everywhere.

The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.

The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.

The study is the first to survey all the world's icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps – Greenland and Antarctica – is much less than previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia responsible for most of the discrepancy.

But of course the scientists who have made a living telling us that global warming is going to kill everyone simply aren't going to quit...no matter how much UN MELTED SNOW they find. Keep worrying people!!

"Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year," said Prof John Wahr of the University of Colorado. "People should be just as worried about the melting of the world's ice as they were before."

Here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/glaciers-mountains?intcmp=122

Israel's Peace Message to Iran

2012-02-08T14:57:00.000-06:00

No one can argue with the fact that Israel is front and center in the headline news every single day.

Today is no different. We find this on the front page of MSNBC.

JERUSALEM — Israel's president reached out to the Iranian people with a message of peace Wednesday, as the West tightened sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, and a former Israeli spymaster said Israel is not in mortal danger.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the 63rd anniversary of the founding of Israel's parliament, Peres directed his remarks to the people of Iran.

"We were not born enemies and there is no need to live as enemies. Do not allow the flags of hostility to cast a dark shadow over your historic heritage," Peres said. "Your people are a sensitive people that aspire for friendship and peace, and not for conflicts and wars."

Israel and Iran had close relations before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

"Peres is one of the few people in Israel who remember the warm ties between the two countries. He visited a few times before the revolution, he walked the streets of Tehran, ate at restaurants there and had many Iranian friends," she told The Associated Press.

In contrast to his message to the people, Peres denounced the Iranian regime.

"Iran is not only a threat for Israel, it constitutes a real danger to humanity as a whole," Peres said about the Iranian nuclear program. "The present Iranian regime is Imperialism-hungry, aspiring to be the region's supreme ruler," he said.

Here; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46314147/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

So what does all this public chatter mean? Panetta is saying Israel is going to attack in April, May or June, Kruathammer says the leak from Israel is that an attack on Iran is going to happen any day now, and now you have Peres talking around the Iranian regime and talking directly to the Iranian people....almost like he is apologizing to them for some form of violence that is coming?

What an amazing time to be alive and witness all these things.

"But do not be afraid. All these things must happen, but the end is still to come."

Quake in Philippines

2012-02-08T14:41:00.000-06:00

While we were busy discussing the outcome of the Superbowl....did anyone even hear of the large earthquake that hit the Philippines? Seriously....these large quakes are coming so often that few people in the rest of the world even know about them.

Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery residents stayed away from their homes amid a flurry of aftershocks.

Soldiers, rescue volunteers and villagers using picks and shovels have not found anyone alive under concrete rubble and tons of rocks and mountain soil since the magnitude-6.9 quake struck two townships in central Negros Oriental province on Monday. So far, 26 bodies have been recovered and identified.

Ramos said many jittery villagers refused to return to their houses, fearing more damage from numerous aftershocks and opting instead to sleep in vacant fields and parks.

"We could see how severe nature's wrath was," Aquino said. "The aftershocks are enlarging the cracks of the roads."

With more bodies expected to be recovered, Guihulngan Mayor Ernesto Reyes said his town of 100,000 people might run out of coffins. At least 23 people were still missing there.

Here; http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0208/Negros-earthquake-President-Aquino-criticizes-shoddy-road-building

College Vending Machine Dispenses Morning After Pill

2012-02-07T15:59:00.000-06:00

This article can be filed in the, "I never thought I would see the day," file.

Of course the vending machine on campus not only dispenses abortion pills but also condoms, and pregnancy tests. I wonder if they will soon add sex toys?

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government.

The Etter Health Center at Shippensburg, a public school of 8,300 students in Appalachia's scenic Cumberland Valley, provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.

The pill is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older, and the school checked records and found that all current students are that age or older, spokesman Peter Gigliotti said.

The machine was installed after a request from the student association. The pill's availability in a vending machine appears to be rare, if not unprecedented.

Here; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46297601/ns/health-sexual_health/

So we now live in a society that says to our kids, "Feast your eyes on free internet pornography, watch copious amounts of crap on TV and at theatres, get good and drunk at least 3-4 nights a week while at college, make sure you have sex with lots of different partners so you can decide who you want to live with, marriage is optional, and if you ever get so drunk that you forget to use your condom, just go the vending machine and take this pill which will kill the unwanted tissue in your stomach."

Do we really believe that the #1 issue facing this country is getting people back to work? Do we really believe that if we can get the stock market back on firm footing that everything is going to be OK? Do we really believe that electing someone different than Obama is going to "fix" everything?

Now Watch Kuwait

2012-02-06T15:40:00.000-06:00

We know the Muslim extremists are partying in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, and just about every other Muslim country. And now it appears we can ad the country of Kuwait as they just elected a bunch of Muslim extremists.

ABU DHABI — Sunni Islamists have won a majority of Kuwait’sparliament.

Authorities said Islamic opposition candidates won 34 out of 50 seats in
the parliament. They said Sunni Islamists, bolstered by tribal support, won
23 seats, compared to nine in the previous parliament. No women were
elected.

“The Kuwait of tomorrow will not be the Kuwait of yesterday,” said Obeid Al Wasmi, a key opposition figure elected to parliament. (NOW THERE IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT)

Pro-government candidates did poorly in the elections, said to have been the most violent in years. Royalists won only a handful ofseats, with many losing their reelection bid amid an investigation over
corruption charges.

The Salafists, regarded as followers of Al Qaida, increased their representation from three to 12 seats.

The Salafists have been vociferousopponents of the U.S. military presence in Kuwait, with more than 25,000 troops.

Here; http://www.worldnewstribune.com/2012/02/05/islamists-register-big-gains-in-kuwaiti-parliamentary-elections/

OK....let's just think about this for a little bit...if you were a devout Muslim who believed what Allah said about a world wide caliphate taking over the world and ruling by Shariah law....a time when Jews and Christians would be destroyed...a time when the poor, ignorant Muslims will finally get there place in the sun...as Muhammad promised.....WOULDN'T YOU LOOK AROUND and start to believe that that is EXACTLY what you are witnessing? Wouldn't it very possible confirm your faith in Islam and maybe embolden you to enter into this Arab Spring which seems to be spreading?

"Wide is the road that leads to destruction and many will be on it." said Jesus.

Friends, the spiritual battle in the heavens is upon us like never before. We need to be in prayer for these lost people and in prayer for this nation and our leaders. We need to pray that America would wake up...before it's simply too late.

Hat tip to Tom F.

Bible Rewritten to Not Offend Muslims

2012-02-06T11:00:00.000-06:00

This next article can be filed into your drawer labeled, "Tickle their ears."...of course coming from the passage that says, "In the Last Days men will surround themselves with teachers who tell them what their itchy ears want to hear."

Remember that Muslims DENY the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The god of Allah that they worship claims to have no "helpers"....so some of the Bible printing companies thought it might be good to rework and rewrite the Bible.

Next up will be a Bible translation that reworks the word "sin"....so we can present the Bible to sinners but get rid of any of the offensive language that may be offensive to sinners.

And finally, we can work on a Bible that gets rid of the words "Jews" and "Israel" and replaces those words with "people" and "nations"....so that we can do away once and for all with this crazy notion that God has a "chosen people"....

A controversy is brewing over three reputable Christian organizations, which are based in North America, whose efforts have ousted the words "Father" and "Son" from new Bibles. Wycliffe Bible Translators, Summer Institute of Linguistics and Frontiers are under fire for "producing Bibles that remove "Father," "Son" and "Son of God" because these terms are offensive to Muslims."

Concerned Christian missionaries, Bible translators, pastors, and national church leaders have come together with a public petition to stop these organizations. They claim a public petition is their last recourse because meetings with these organizations' leaders, staff resignations over this issue and criticism and appeals from native national Christians concerned about the translations "have failed to persuade these agencies to retain "Father" and "Son" in the text of all their translations."

Here; http://news.yahoo.com/father-son-ousted-trinity-bible-translations-003300519.html

It would appear that the "Great Falling Away" (apostasy) is upon us...when we can throw out the foundations of Christ as to not offend anyone....or to sell books.

This behavior is so egregious that even the Arab speaking Christians are speaking against it. Here are three examples.

The main issues of this controversy surround new Arabic and Turkish translations. Here are three examples native speakers give:

First, Wycliffe and SIL have produced Stories of the Prophets, an Arabic Bible that uses an Arabic equivalent of "Lord" instead of "Father" and "Messiah" instead of "Son."

Second, Frontiers and SIL have produced Meaning of the Gospel of Christ , an Arabic translation which removes "Father" in reference to God and replaces it with "Allah," and removes or redefines "Son." For example, the verse which Christians use to justify going all over the world to make disciples, thus fulfilling the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) reads, "Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit" instead of "baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Rev. Bassam Madany, an Arab American who runs Middle East Resources, terms these organization's efforts as "a western imperialistic attempt that's inspired by cultural anthropology, and not by biblical theology."

Third, Frontiers and SIL have produced a new Turkish translation of the Gospel of Matthew that uses Turkish equivalents of "guardian" for "Father" and "representative" or "proxy" for "Son." To Turkish church leader Rev. Fikret Böcek, "This translation is 'an all-American idea' with absolutely no respect for the 'sacredness' of Scripture, or even of the growing Turkish church."

Hat tip to Jared F.

Obama Says Israel USA Working Together

2012-02-05T21:36:00.000-06:00

I hope Obama is telling the truth on this one...and that USA and Israel are working together on how to solve the Iran problem.

The US is working closely with Israel to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, President Barack Obama has said.

He told NBC he believed Israel had not yet decided how to deal with the issue, amid reports that Israel may strike Iran as early as spring.

Mr Obama said the aim was to resolve the crisis diplomatically, but added that no option was off the table.

NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THIS COMMENT:

Mr Obama also said there was no evidence that the Iranians had "intentions or capabilities" to strike US targets in retaliation.

WHAT!!!!!

Every day now for the past 2 weeks, Iran's supreme leaders have been saying they have EVERY intention of taking out the USA, or striking the USA if anybody does anything to strike Iran and its illegal nuclear program...but I guess Obama doesn't believe those qualify as "intentions".

It President Obama's world...I wonder what they would have to say for Iran's threats to be registered in his mind as "intentions"?

Here is the article; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16900705

Survival Guide by Mormon

2012-02-05T16:44:00.001-06:00

It appears that the Mormons also believe we are in the End of Days. They have put out a 100 page manual on how to be prepared for the collapse of the USA...be it because of solar storm, massive earthquake on the New Madrid fault knocking out power, or nuclear attack by a rogue nation such as North Korea, Iran, etc...

This is a serious manual...with PLENTY of detail.

While we folks, who believe in the Pre-Tribualtion return of Christ for His bride the Church, HOPE that we will not have to see chaos and anarchy befall this nation....we have no idea of how bad things COULD GET before Christ does return.

Also some of us may have been called to set aside food, wood, fuel, guns and ammo not so much for ourselves but because we may actually be setting aside provisions for those who will come to Christ during THE TRIBULATION.

With that as a backdrop, take a few minutes to check out this manual my Mormon. Also please ignore the references to the book of Mormon and other false teachings that conflict with the Bible.

We have NOT BEEN GIVEN A SPIRIT OF FEAR!

Browse it here; http://www.abysmal.com/LDS/Preparedness/Preparedness.pdf

President Joseph Fielding Smith said:

“The distress and perplexity, bloodshed and terror, selfish ambition of despotic rulers, such as

the world has never before seen, all indicate that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is very

near, even at our doors. We have been warned by the prophets from the beginning of time. They

have declared, by revelation from the Lord, that in this present day, confusion, bloodshed, misery,

plague, famine, earthquake, and other calamities, would cover the face of the earth. The Lord told

his disciples of these dreadful scenes and said men’s hearts would fail them because of these things

coming upon the earth. . . .”

Hat tip to Guy B.

Iran Warns World of Coming Great Event

2012-02-04T08:32:00.000-06:00

Amid crippling sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, Iran is continuing to prepare itself for war against the West, and now is warning of a coming great event.

“In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God, the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated,” Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, is warning.

Khamenei, speaking to hundreds of youths from more than 70 countries attending a world conference on the Arab Spring just days ago, told a cheering crowd in Tehran that “Allah’s promises will be delivered and Islam will be victorious.”

Khamenei then claimed the current century as the century of Islam and promised that human history is on the verge of a great event and that soon the world will realize the power of Allah.

Many clerics in Iran have stated that Khamenei is the deputy of the last Islamic messiah on earth and that obedience to him is necessary for the final glorification of Islam.

Khamenei has been heard to say that the coming of the last Islamic Messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that specific actions need to be taken to protect the Islamic regime for upcoming events.

Here; http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/iran-warns-world-of-coming-great-event/

The article goes on to say how studies show that were Iran to detonate even one nuclear bomb over America that within a year 2/3 of Americans would cease to exist and the other 1/3 would be living in very dire circumstances.

Israel is a Cancer and Will be Removed

2012-02-03T12:52:00.000-06:00

The hot-heads from Iran are cooking a nuclear bomb. Even Israel now affirms that they have all the materials and know how to put a nuclear warhead together and mount it on a missile...however the Religious leaders of Iran have not given the order yet to "assemble the bomb." When they do, Israel says it will take them about 6-8 months to accomplish the task.

So you can see how fast the clock is ticking towards a showdown.

Now let's look at what the #1 Towel Head from Iran is saying today...and ask yourselves if someone like this should have a button under his finger to launch a nuclear missile?

If not...what would you be willing to do to stop him?

"The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed," Teheran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.

The Iranian Revolution brought freedom and dignity to Iranian people and "destroyed the anti-Islamic regime, and brought Islamic regime instead… Dictatorship was changed to democracy," he said.

Khamenei further downplayed the possibility of a United States' strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities: "A war would be 10-times deadlier for the Americans… These threats indicate America's weakness and the Americans need to know that the more threats they make, the more they damage themselves."

He also dismissed the West's sanctions on Iran, saying that they will not make Iran forfeit its nuclear ambitions: "They said they would impose crippling sanctions to punish us, but the sanctions are good for us – they make us rely on our own talented people."

He also reiterated Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, saying that "when the time comes we will execute our warning."

Khamenei also addressed the Arab Spring, saying he believed the Palestinians will soon follow the example of the Arab world. He promised that "Iran would assist any country or organization that would fight the Zionist regime, which is now weaker than ever," he said.

Here; http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4184838,00.html

Does Israel really have any choice that to blow the nuclear program to kingdom come? If they do nothing and a million Jews are killed and Israel crippled....won't the world forever more ask them why they allowed that to happen?

Isn't that question still being asked around the world today as Hitler came to power and started spouting the destruction of the Jews...and the Jews assumed it would all blow over. The next thing they knew, the barbed wire went up and they were put on a train en route to a gas chamber.

"Never Again" are the words on the Holocaust Museum....and I believe that Israel means it.

I will say it again...we need to be in prayer for all the hot heads of Iran. Pray that Jesus would appear to them and change their twisted way of thinking. They are lost, but Jesus wants them found. Also pray for Israel that their leaders can discern the course that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob wants them to take.

Raping Boys in Afghanistan

2012-02-03T08:23:00.000-06:00

Want some more evidence of the fruit of Satan in Afghanistan? Read below what is considered "normal" or acceptable in this dark, dark place where the light of Christ has not been able to shine.

Of course this shouldn't surprise us...after all, these folks claim to follow Muhammad....and we know that that charlatan was having sex with a little girl...which makes him a pedophile....so am pretty sure that the demon of pedophilia that possessed Muhammad has been passed on to many who worship him as a god higher than Christ.

Also let's remember to pray for our U.S. soldiers who have been serving in this dark and twisted stronghold of Satan. It should not surprise us that so many are coming back with depression and other mental problems. If they didn't have the full armor of God strapped on before they went "in country"....then they could have been exposed to this evil.

Hat tip to Angela E.

Afghan Pedophilia: A way of life, say U.S. soldiers and journalists

Apologists say that Bacha Bazi or 'Boy Play' is a very old cultural practice in Afghanistan and part of that nation's mainstream.

Citing the Afghanistan strategy review, Vice President Joe Biden reported "great progress" in the counter terrorism effort that has significantly degraded al-Qaeda and the Taliban, particularly their leadership. Lagging behind, he said, is progress on the counterinsurgency front – eliminating terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and building a stable Afghan government.

However, not once did Biden – nor Defense Secretary Leon Panetta -- mention Afghanistan's dirty secret – a large number of pedophiles and pederasts among the Afghan male population.

Pedophilia is a widely-accepted practice in southern Afghanistan, where "boys are given to older men for the sexual gratification of the elder and the sexual education of the child," say many returning U.S. troops.

Afghans say pedophilia is most prevalent among Pashtun men in the south who comprise Afghanistan's most important tribe.

Apologists say that Bacha Bazi or 'Boy Play' is a very old cultural practice in Afghanistan and part of that nation's mainstream.

When U.S. officials such as President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta discuss the war in Afghanistan and make claims of success in that fledgling democracy, one issue that's avoided is the widespread sexual intercourse between Afghan men and young boys. In non- diplomatic terms, Afghanistan is a haven for child rape, according to several American military officers just returning from the front lines of the Global War on Terrorism.

In a country that is considered overly repressive due to its adherence to the precepts contained in the Muslim religion's Koran, it's difficult for American service members and diplomats to understand the fact that a large portion of the Afghan male population are pedophiles (adults who enjoy sexual contact with prepubescent children) or pederasts (adults who enjoy sexual relations with pubescent or post-pubescent children).

While Muslims in Iraq have on several occasions stoned homosexuals for their sexual activities, not all Muslims believe pedophilia is a violation of Sharia law. Those who believe in the sacredness and infallibility of the Koran adhere to the teaching that women are sub-human and quasi-slaves, and therefore Muslim men will look for relationships -- even sexual relationships -- with others of their own gender.

According to Reuters, there is a lot of homosexuality going on in Afghanistan, but those engaging in it don't think of themselves as gay, so that makes it okay since Islam officially disapproves of the gay and lesbian lifestyle.

"They regard themselves as non-gay because they don’t “love” the sex object so Allah is happy. These are the men who avoid their wives as unclean. Apparently there is very little love of any kind in Afghanistan, which explains a lot," according to Reuters.

“Having a boy has become a custom for us,” Ena Yatullah, a 42-year-old in Baghlan province, told a Reuters reporter. “Whoever wants to show off should have a boy.” [. . .]

Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from a perverse interpretation of Islamic law. Women are simply unapproachable. Afghans cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can't even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle, according to columnist Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, and a former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times.

In Kandahar, a city with a population of about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular -- often weekly -- pastime. Young boys dress up as females, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home.

A recent State Department report called “dancing boys” a “widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape.” If women dressed and behaved in such a way, they would surely be punished by Muslim men.

Even after marriage, many men keep their boy-lovers, according to former U.S. military personnel who served in Afghanistan. That helps explain why women are compelled to wear clothing that hides their faces and bodies and if they "sin" they are stoned to death in accordance with Islamic law. That same law also forbids homosexuality, but the pedophiles explain that it's not homosexuality since they aren’t in love with their boys only fulfilling a bodily need.

Paradoxically, the Taliban frown on sexual relations between men and boys and enforce Sharia law to the letter. Are the followers of Islam, who adopt a more "liberal" approach to practicing their religion, perhaps responsible for the widespread rape of male children in Afghanistan?

Why is there hesitation on the part of Obama, Clinton, Panetta and others to discuss the widespread sexual assault of male children in Afghanistan? Could it be that it is politically incorrect to discuss any immoral and unlawful behavior on the part of Muslims? It's quite evident that U.S. politicians may bash Christians without fear of adverse effects on their political careers. But these same leaders will behave as if they are walking on egg shells to avoid even the hint of criticizing Muslims.

In addition, there is always a hesitation to discuss man-on-boy sexual relationship for fear of mentioning the obvious: such a relationship is homosexual in nature.

More Chaos in Egypt

2012-02-02T15:46:00.000-06:00

It was reported yesterday that a soccer game in Egypt led to a brawl where 75 people have died...and hundreds are injured so the death toll could rise.

What's up with all these angry Muslims?

Evidently the security police just stood by and watched. And now today we have protesters who are mad at the military, mad at the police and mad at the government for not preventing the chaos....so lots more angry Muslims in Egypt today.

Young, poor and unemployed - many of the Ahly football fans caught up in the violence on the terraces in Port Said also took part in the battles for Tahrir Square. What they want are jobs and the opportunity to escape their predicament. What they hate are privileged and powerful symbols of authority.

Internet forums and blogs are full of conspiracy theories, blaming the generals for deliberately allowing Ahly fans to be attacked. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's biggest political movement, also accused the military of fomenting unrest to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

That seems far-fetched. All we know for sure is that poorly paid and poorly trained riot police failed to keep apart two sets of football fans with a history of violence and mutual hatred.

After the overthrow of President Mubarak, you might expect everyone to now come together, preparing for a new era. But the reality is that Egypt is still a country in turmoil.

Here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16848473

Yep...young, poor and unemployed is sure a recipe for disaster and unrest in Egypt and other Muslim lands.

Hey...come to think of it....isn't it the young, poor and unemployed that are making up the majority of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland and Occupy D.C. protests right here in our own country?

Could this be a foreshadowing of what is coming for the rest of us?

Meanwhile in Iran...they are rubbing their hands together as they watch the chaos build all over the planet...as they believe in their hearts that out of the growing chaos will come the 12th Imam.

Raise Up Your Children in the Ways of the Lord

2012-02-02T15:33:00.000-06:00

The Bible tells us to teach our kids about the Bible, Jesus, the foundations of our faith, the 10 commandments, the Lord's prayer, etc...

So it should come as no suprise what the Minnesota atheists are putting on billboards.

"Please don't indoctrinate me with religion. Teach me to think for myself," reads the billboard at 725 Washington Ave. N. in Minneapolis.

See it here; http://www.twincities.com/ci_19827758?IADID

Hat tip Jennie D.

Another U.S. Downgrade Coming?

2012-02-01T12:05:00.000-06:00

Remember that last summer the USA had it's debt downgraded a notch by Standard and Poor's. Today there is talk of further downgrades.

Concerns over the size of United States debt reared their head once again as ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned that health care costs for a number of highly-rated Group of 20 countries, including the U.S., could hurt growth prospects and harm their sovereign creditworthiness from the middle of this decade.

S&P downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time ever in August of last year.

"Governments' fiscal burdens will increase significantly over the coming decade, with the highest deterioration in public finances likely to occur in Europe and other advanced G-20 economies, such as Japan and the U.S.," S&P said in a statement on Tuesday.

"Population aging will lead to profound changes in economic growth prospects for countries around the world as governments work to build budgets to face ever greater age-related spending needs," said Standard & Poor's credit analyst Marko Mrsnik in the statement.

NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THESE NEXT COMMENTS!!

S&P's first downgrade has not driven up the United States’ borrowing costs and the dollar appreciated relative to other currencies in the months following the cut as investors sought out safe havens to escape the European debt crisis.

“The U.S. [dollar] is a reserve currency. It’s able to retain all the confidence of international investors,” Owen said.

Here; http://www.cnbc.com/id/46202656

He's right of course when he says that money continued to flow into U.S. Treasury Bonds...because everyone was so freaked about Europe collapsing that they dove head first into the USA with their money....believing that the the USA is the "least worst" place to be.

But it's the last sentence that is so troubling.....the US dollar is able to RETAIN ALL THE CONFIDENCE?.....REALLY?!?!

That's like my friends in my financial office saying, "America will always be great." When asked why they respond, "Because this is America!"

It's almost like the Western World is under a delusion....probably the same delusion that Rome, Greece, and Babylon were under when they once ruled the financial and military world....and the entire known world used their money as a reserve currency.

"Rome will always be great." Why? "Because this is Rome!" And of course they didn't see their enemies gathering behind the hill and their bankers getting ready to flee with the little gold that was left.

Playground or Battleground?

2012-01-31T23:09:00.000-06:00

What's wrong with Americanized Christianity today? The late A. W. Tozer nails it.

"In the early days, when Christianity exercised a dominant influence over American thinking, men conceived the world to be a battleground. Our fathers believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force, and they believed in God and righteousness and heaven as the other...Man...had to choose sides--he could not be neutral. For him it must be life or death, heaven or hell, and if he chose to come out on God's side, he cold expect open war with God's enemies. The fight would be real and deadly and would last as long as life continued here below...The Christian soldier...never forgot what kind of world he lived in --it was a battleground, and many were wounded and slain.
How different today. The fact remains the same, but the interpretation has changed completely. Men think of the world not as a battleground, but as a playground."

Remember the hymn we used to sing, "Onward Christian soldiers...marching as to war." What happened? The answer is simple...our adversary has deceived us.

Will we wake up and remember the faith of our fathers?....or is it simply too late?

Why Are the Chinese Buying Gold?

2012-01-31T16:19:00.000-06:00

OK...this article in Forbes is incredibly interesting. It seems that maybe things are quite so rosy fine in China... not as rosy as many PRO CHINA investment managers would have us believe.

Why? Because it appears that Chinese citizens are buying gold...which is a hedge against bad things happening with the Chinese currency.

Why? Because it appears that the Chinese who have money that they are converting to gold are starting to smell a big bubble that has already been cooked in China and that bubble may be getting ready to pop.

What will happen to the global economy if China falters while the rest of the globe is reliant on their growing economy leading us all through the desert and back to the promised land of prosperity?

Ummmm....if Greece falls, then Italy, Japan, Spain, and then China makes some big groaning noise....we better be looking to the sky...for our redemption is nigh.

Although indicators showed the Chinese economy faltered only at the end of September, there had been a growing sense of pessimism inside the country for months before then. Beijing, after all, could build only so many “ghost cities” before citizens began to notice. As Joseph Sternberg of the Wall Street Journal Asia said on the John Batchelor Show last Wednesday, “people inside China seem to be losing faith in the Chinese growth story that we’ve been hearing so much about for the past few years.” Estimates of capital flight are sketchy, but it appears there was $34 billion of it in the third quarter of last year and a $100 billion in the fourth.

Not every Chinese citizen is in the position to export cash, so the next best tactic for the nervous is to buy gold, a refuge from plunging property prices and declining stock markets as well as an anticipated depreciation of their currency.

The worst thing about capital flight and gold purchases is that they drain liquidity out of the Chinese economy just when it is needed most. Beijing can continue to work its magic as long as strict capital controls keep money inside the country. Once they fail to do so, however, all bets are off. The purchasing of gold, of course, results in the exporting of cash.

Chinese asset values have not yet crashed across the board, but the buying of gold—a leading indicator of panic—is an especially troubling sign that they will.

Here; http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/01/29/why-are-the-chinese-buying-record-quantities-of-gold/

"Greece is Doomed"

2012-01-31T14:28:00.000-06:00

Now...before I post this headline I want you to remember that the Lord didn't give us a spirit of fear...so we are NOT supposed to fear all the tremblings, tumbling, and bumblings that are taking place all over the world. We are NOT supposed to fear because we are to have faith that the Lord will care for us and our eternal souls. Also PLEASE REMEMBER...sometimes He cares for us by REMOVING us from this life and transitioning us directly to glory.

Isaiah 57:1 "The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil."

With that being said, check out this headline from today;

In Case You Still Don't Get It, Here's Why A Greek Default Should Put Fear In Your Heart

More importantly overseas, it (Greek default) could cause borrowing rates for Portugal and Italy to jump, pushing those much larger countries closer to defaults of their own.

That's only the beginning. A Greek default could unleash a host of larger problems. Some are already anticipated while others are likely to blindside even the closest observers, says Nick Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group. "In any complex system, you're going to have unintended consequences," he says.

He compares it to the collapse of Lehman Brothers: Analysts saw it coming, but the fallout in still caught them by surprise. A money market mutual fund found that it couldn't redeem its customers' money. Money market funds, which many considered as safe as savings accounts, suddenly looked suspect until the Federal Reserve backed them up.

At a conference on sovereign debt this week in New York, Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, predicted that even commodity prices would plunge in response to a messy Greek default.

If Greece goes under, traders seeking safety would immediately sell euros and buy dollars, Hanke said. The dollar would soar and prices for commodities like oil and wheat, which are bought and sold in dollars around the world, would collapse. A single dollar would buy much more oil or wheat.

"If the bomb is set off by Greece, commodity prices will collapse," Hanke said.

Hanke, who has advised governments around the world on managing their currencies, argued that Greece appears bound to collapse under its debts as its economy shrinks. "Greece is doomed," he said.

To Colas, the deepest concern isn't how the S&P 500 reacts or whether the dollar rises if Greece drops the European currency. It's the possibility for panic, especially a run on European banks.

What if people across France and Germany crowd into banks to pull their deposits? Banks, after all, are some of the largest buyers of government debt.

"Human emotions can drive things off the rails," Colas says.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/experts-terrified-by-greece-debt-problems-2012-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheMoneyGame+%28The+Money+Game%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#ixzz1l4M6gEvy

What?!?! Human emotions can drive things off the rails?!?! What does that even mean?!?!

What it means is that the entire system is now based on faith, confidence and good feelings. If people get all emotional and start to have fear and bad feelings...which could lead to more panic and even worse feelings....then the whole GLOBAL FINANCIAL TRAIN could come off the rails.

I don't need to tell you that when a train leaves the rails...it creates an awful mess.

Iran Willing to Attack on U.S. Soil

2012-01-31T12:48:00.000-06:00

This article has it all!...threats of war, fear of terrorism, culture clash, militant Islam, possible strike on Iran by Israel, CIA estimates....

BREAKING NEWS: Clapper recently said in testimony that IRAN has capacity today to build nuclear bomb if they decide to. So decision is in their hands.

U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said in prepared testimony that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington that was uncovered last year reflects an aggressive new willingness within the upper ranks of the Islamist republic to authorize attacks against the United States.

That plot “shows that some Iranian officials — probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime,” Clapper said in the testimony, which was submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee in advance of a threat assessment hearing Tuesday. “We are also concerned about Iranian plotting against U.S. or allied interests overseas.”

The assessment signals a potentially dire new direction in the adversarial relationship between the United States and Iran, at a time when there are indications that a covert campaign is already underway to thwart Iran’s alleged ambition to develop a nuclear weapon.

Here; http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iran-is-prepared-to-launch-terrorist-attacks-in-us-intelligence-report-finds/2012/01/30/gIQACwGweQ_story.html

Yes...this assessment DOES signal a dire new direction in the USA's adversarial relationship with Persia...now known as Iran.

Isn't it funny/interesting how 8-10 years ago, President Bush dared to stand behind the bully pulpit and proclaim that Iran, Iraq and North Korea were all evil empires? Remember the trouble that got him in for using the word "evil"? The liberals went insane with rage!!

And now here we are.

Russia to Block Syria Vote

2012-01-30T14:02:00.000-06:00

The government of Syria continues to butcher its people. Yesterday they killed another 58 which now brings the count up close to 5000 that they have killed since the uprising started.

A few weeks ago the Arabs decided they needed to do something to try to stop the murders....so they sent in some "observers". Now the observers have left because their presence didn't seem to slow down the violence.

So now the Arabs need to call in the The West and ask everyone else to fix their Arab problems...meaning they are going to go to the United Nations. But Russia has said they will veto any attempt by the UN to stop the Syrian government from killing people.

Well of course they will!! Russia has HUGE investments in Syria...particularly the deep water port that Russia just built in Syria where they can rest their naval fleet....right off the coast of Israel! Plus Russia has shipped lots of military equipment to Syria...so they are protecting their customers. Makes perfect business sense.

Russia has said it will block a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a transfer of power in Syria because it "leaves open the possibility of intervention" in Syria's affairs.

The US, the UK and France are lobbying on behalf of the Arab League's draft text, which calls for President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a deputy.

The White House said Mr Assad had lost control of Syria, adding "he will go".

But Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister said the text was "not balanced".

Meanwhile, fighting in Syria continued as government troops bombarded the central city of Homs. Heavy machine gun fire was reported in the restive Bab Amr district.

At least 225 tank shells were fired at the suburbs of Damascus, activists said.

The Local Co-ordination Committees, a network of anti-government groups, said 58 people were killed on Monday.

Here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16796616

Let's review;....A few weeks ago Russia said that any invasion of Iran will be treated as an attack on Moscow. And now today we have Russia standing up for the bloody regime in Syria. Of course BOTH IRAN AND SYRIA would love to destroy Israel...and now they have Russian backing.

You sure have to look at Ezekiel 38 again and wonder if the "hooks in your jaws" that God speaks of that literally PULL Russia into a conflict with Israel, have now been identified? Israel really has no choice but to stand up to Iran....so bombing Iran could commence any day...which could draw in Russia. Also it would appear that Damascus may be destroyed by Israel according to Isaiah 17...and when either one of these events happen....Russia will be drawn into conflict with Israel.

¹ The word of the LORD came to me: ² “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, (Russia/Old Soviet satellite nations) the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him ³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. ⁴ I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—

Strange Swarm of Birds Invades Kentucky Town

2012-01-29T19:49:00.001-06:00

This one can be filed into the, "I've never seen anything like it" file.

You can watch the news reports of these thousands of black birds settling into a Kentucky town....and they have been there since Thanksgiving. Pretty annoying....to say the least.

See video Here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RolkD2xtYsM

Last year it was thousands of birds falling from the sky and millions of fish washing up on shore. Is nature starting to go wild? Can all these strange occurrences be just one more wake up call that the God of the Universe is preparing to do something really large?

Turkey to Broadcast Pro Holocaust Film

2012-01-29T18:59:00.000-06:00

We already know that in the past few years that Hitler's book, Mien Kempf, has been a bestseller in Turkey and other Arab countries...so today's headline shouldn't really come as a surprise.

Turkey to broadcast pro-Holocaust film

Sponsored by the Paris-based Aladdin Project, the nine-hour-plus documentary is directed by Claude Lanzmann and has never been completely shown in a Muslim country.

Shoah mostly consists of interviews with those who claim to be Holocaust-survivors, exploring the alleged killing of European Jews in Nazi death camps during the World War II.

Turkey's move can be considered as controversial and unacceptable since Muslim nations hold that Holocaust believers have lost touch with the reality and that western governments are using the saga to play the role of innocent victims.

A French court fined author Roger Garaudy $20,000 in 1998, for questioning the Nazi Holocaust during the World War II.

The French scholar was convicted of challenging crimes against humanity and of racial libel.

In his book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, Garaudy argued that Hitler's killing of the Jews could not be described as genocide.

He also questioned whether gas chambers were used for mass slaughter.
Here; http://www.presstv.ir/detail/223743.html

Did you notice the phrase, "...alleged killing"? Seriously....it is now not a fact but simply alleged?

Remember what General Eisenhower told the U.S. troops who were ordered to film the liberation and clean up of Nazi concentration camps, "I want to get this all on film because one day in the future some son of a bitch is going to say this never happened."

It would appear that numerous sons of bitches have all showed up in the last few years....and Holocaust denial is now upon us as anti-Semitism continues to rise.

Hat tip to Tom F.

Israel Prepares for Euro Collapse

2012-01-28T12:37:00.000-06:00

The word "collapse" sure seems to be making the headlines in the last 12 months. Again, we ask the question....what does it look like to have the Euro currency and the European Union collapse? I'm not sure anyone really knows. It kind of falls into that category of "unknown territory".

Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's government is preparing for a possible collapse of the euro region, the destination for about 30 percent of its exports and a source of tourist revenue, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said.

"We cannot deny the possibility” that one or more major members of the euro zone will exit the bloc, Steinitz, 53, said in an interview yesterday at Bloomberg's headquarters in New York. “If the euro zone will disintegrate, that's a whole new crisis. We have an emergency plan in the worst case scenario.”

The Finance Ministry reduced its growth predictions for 2012 this month, to 3.2 percent from 4 percent, citing Europe's sovereign debt crisis. Greece, with a total 350 billion euros ($454 billion) of debt, is in talks with bondholders as it seeks to avert a default. More than half the respondents in a Bloomberg Global Poll published yesterday say one or more nations will leave the euro in the next 12 months.

Here; http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LYDN8Z1A74E901-7Q4KQHFICA0Q8NARBQ6HF0HBNT

Maybe the Euro coming apart won't be that big of deal? Maybe there will just end up being a orderly exit of countries?...kind of just like the countries were added one at a time to the Euro zone...maybe they will exit it one at a time?...and it will be no big deal?

OR.....

Maybe it will be a train wreck of a collapse, with wealth evaporating like water on an Arizona parking lot....and lots of countries pointing fingers at other countries...and every country blaming Germany who refused to write a blank check to keep the whole Euro debt scheme alive?

Remember that Europe has been the bloodiest continent for the last 400 years. The European Union was supposed to help guarantee that Europe quit it's warring ways. This will be very interesting to watch.

Israel to Give Obama 12 Hours Notice

2012-01-27T13:29:00.000-06:00

The White House must be pretty concerned that Israel is getting ready to do some damage in Iran.

Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint of Staffs Martin Dempsey that it would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran, The London Times reported Sunday.

The Netanyahu government also will not coordinate with the United States an attack on the Islamic Republic, according to the report, the latest in a number of suposed scenarios concerning cooperation or lack of it between Jerusalem and Washington.

It is left to speculation whether the rumors are based on facts or are leaked by officials to mask the possibility of secret military coordination.

The London Times said its sources explained that that Israel fears that President Obama would try to torpedo an Israel attack if more notice were given because he is concerned that Iran will respond by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a rise in the price of oil that could cripple Western economies. If the attack were to occur in the next 10 months, it would put President Obama in a tight spot on the eve of his bid for re-election.

Here; http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151965

Please tell me that you read that last paragraph that I put all in bold.

If this is true...what kind of leaders do we have running this country? The world is getting ready to come apart and we need to make sure this country is prepared and standing with our allies....and Obama is more concerned about being put in a tight spot before the election?

The nation of Israel is making life and death decisions on what could be the eve of another Holocaust against the Jews...and Obama is more concerned about being in an election tight spot?

Also realize that the USA and Israel were SUPPOSED to have a joint military exercises....which was then subsequently cancelled. Some in the USA are saying it was cancelled because Obama thought it may be TOO provocative to Iran.

Dempsey tried to play down the postponement of what was billed as the largest-ever joint military drill between the Israeli and American armies, involving thousands of U.S. Army soldiers.

Published reasons for the delay have ranged from budgetary constraints, logistical problems to a signal from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he distrusts President Obama’s commitment to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Lord...please help this nation if we quit standing with Israel...if Israel's leaders can no longer trust us. And Lord, if this great United States is ripe for judgment and this judgment comes before we hear the trumpet calling us into the sky...please give us the faith, joy, hope and strength to stand firm for the Gospel until You return. Amen.

Ahmadinejad Offers to Talk

2012-01-26T10:44:00.000-06:00

If any of you have read Joel Rosenberg's latest book, TEHRAN INITIATIVE, you will remember a part in the book where the 12th Imam is getting ready to launch nuclear weapons...so in order to keep the USA off guard, he proposes "talks" about their nuclear program. And of course the President of the USA is happy to hear that the date for such talks is scheduled for later next week...so he hangs all his hope on having some good talks next week. Meanwhile he refuses to believe the intelligence reports he is receiving from Israel warning of an attack.

With that as a backdrop, today's headline is interesting in light of yesterday's posting that Iran was preparing for war.

Nuclear row: Iran President Ahmadinejad offers talks

On Monday, the EU banned new oil contracts with Iran, saying it was not confident Tehran's nuclear plans were "exclusively peaceful".

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said it was evident that "those who resort to coercion are opposed to talks".

Tehran insists its nuclear programme is for energy purposes.

Negotiations between Iran and the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany ended in a stalemate in January 2011.

President Ahmadinejad is the highest-ranking Iranian official since then to offer to resume talks.

In a speech made in Kerman, southeastern Iran, and broadcast on state television, he accused the West of trying to ruin negotiations in order to put increased pressure on Iran.

"It is the West that needs Iran and the Iranian nation will not lose from the sanctions," the president said.

"It is you who come up with excuses each time and issue resolutions on the verge of talks so that negotiations collapse,'' he said.

"Why should we shun talks? Why and how should a party that has logic and is right shun talks? It is evident that those who resort to coercion are opposed to talks and always bring pretexts and blame us instead."

Here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16746683

This is crazy! All Iran has been doing for the past five years is proposing to talk about their nuclear program...the West hangs their hat on the upcoming "talks" and the "hope" that may come out of them. The talks then end in a stalemate with Iran agreeing to nothing...but in the meantime they have just bought themselves 3 more months of uninterrupted work on their nuclear bomb program.

Is it possible they are ready to start a major war in the near future...and have made this most recent offer of "more talks" simply to let the attacks come as more of a surprise to The West?

The headlines are getting pretty intense folks. Remember, no matter WHAT happens....hold firm in your faith that Jesus Christ has already purchased you for a huge price...and He promised to stay with us until the end of the age....however long that is.

Even so, Come Lord Jesus.

China Will Attack India in 2012

2012-01-25T15:47:00.000-06:00

Now here is a "rumor of war" that hadn't even been on our thermometer, barometer or tachometer....it just came from out of the blue.

The good news found in this article is that the attack will not be an all out war or invasion....but the expert says he is expecting China to come over and "slap" India. Of course we all know that a big fight usually commences with a slap.

Former Indian Army Officer Col. Dr. Anil Athale Warns: Expect a Chinese Attack Against India by 'June/July 2012'

In a recent article, former Indian Army officer Dr. Anil Athale warned that China is carefully orchestrating security-related incidents against India. Such incidents include Chinese military incursions into Indian territory in the Western and North-Eastern border regions of India, recent mistreatment of Indian diplomats and businessmen in China, recurring disputes on the issuance of visas, and diplomatic rows involving Chinese attempts to question Indian sovereignty in Jammu & Kashmir.

Colonel (retired) Anil Athale, who is an author of the official history of the 1962 India-China conflict and now coordinator of the Indian Initiative for Peace, Arms Control & Disarmament (a think tank based in the city of Pune), warned that the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is failing to prepare the country's armed forces to fight a likely war against China, which he warns could come as early as June/July 2012. He said that such a war could be like Pakistan's Kargil war, the 1999 conflict which originated after Pakistani troops and jihadists marched into Kashmir.

"It is time India woke up. Luckily, we do have some time. At the moment the Himalayan passes are frozen and no military operations are possible. The likely threat will only emerge in June/July 2012. It must be made clear that one is not talking of an all-out war. What we must accept is a short, sharp, attack by the Chinese, more in the nature of a slap!" he wrote in a recent article.

Here; http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6009.htm#.Tx9_1HCjgLc.gmail

We aren't sure how this news ties into the detail of Last Days prophecies other than it is news about the "Kings of the East" and also it is simply hearing of more wars and rumors of war.

Iran Preparing Now for Armageddon

2012-01-25T15:08:00.000-06:00

Pretty amazing how the world has been throwing around the word "Armageddon" in the past few years. It seems that everywhere we look that Hollywood, Media, Mayans, European Union, International Monetary Fund,....they are all preparing for Armageddon!

Now here is one more to add to the pile...and this one is a doozie.

Iran preparing now for Armageddon

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has held several secret meetings with his economic and military advisers in recent days to prepare for the possibility of war with the United States.

Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime.

Khamenei has been heard to say that the coming of the last Islamic Messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that specific actions need to be taken to protect the Islamic regime for upcoming events.

Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime.

Selected forces within the Revolutionary Guards and Basij reportedly have been trained under a task force called “Soldiers of Imam Mahdi” and they will bear the responsibility of security and protecting the regime against uprisings. Many in the Guards and Basij have been told that the 12th Imam is on earth, facilitated the victory of Hezbollah over Israel in the 2006 war and soon will announce publicly his presence after the needed environment is created.

Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, an influential cleric and a radical Twelver, previously had stated that Khamenei ascends to the sky every year to take direction from Imam Mahdi, and sources close to the cleric have disclosed that Khamenei has been ordered by Imam Mahdi to continue with the nuclear program despite worldwide objection as it will facilitate his coming.

Last March, a Iranian secret documentary, “The Coming Is Upon Us,” was revealed to depict Khamenei as the mythical figure who creates the environment for the reappearance of Mahdi by leading Iran to destroy Israel.

Here; http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/iran-preparing-now-for-armageddon/

Did you catch that passage, "...after the needed environment is created"? And what is that environment?....GLOBAL CHAOS! And who has been given the task to create that environment?....IRAN!

Show of hands now....how many people in The West are listening?!?!

Some of my liberal friends would tell me that Islam is a religion of peace and has been hijacked by a few extremists....and these dudes running Iran are an example of who these hijackers are.

OK...so let's assume you are right and that it is only a few million who would die, kill and destroy all in the name of Allah...still, it doesn't take too many millions of people who have access to a nuclear weapon and high-tech war tools to usher in a whole lot of chaos.

And remember, the 12th Imam prophecies say that global chaos is the conditions necessary for him to reveal himself....and Iran seems to have it's finger on the button that says, "Global Chaos".

How much longer Lord?

Please help us to help You with the harvest.

We now return to our regular news....Demi Moore is in the hospital for being too skinny. It seems she hasn't been eating properly since her divorce with Ashton Kutcher. Stay tuned for the 15 minute news report including photos!

Jordan Considers Sanctions on Israel

2012-01-25T08:06:00.000-06:00

Remember that what we call "Jordan" today was where the Ammonites and Moabites dwelt during Old Testament times. We keep a close eye on Jordan today because the Bible makes reference to that land area in yet to be fulfilled prophecies.

Also remember that following WWI when the Ottomans (Turks) were defeated, the victorious allies carved up the old Ottoman empire (to the victor go the spoils) which included Palestine, and they carved it into their idea of what would become a two state solution. To the west of the Jordan river was supposed to be where the Jews were to dwell and to the east of the Jordan river was where the Arab state was supposed to be... first called Transjordan.

Of course this is a VERY simplified explanation as the borders and boundaries shifted and changed over the next 30 years before Israel ultimately declared themselves a nation in 1948 and the Arabs have been fighting them on it ever since.

And today we find that the relations between Israel and Jordan may be about to sour even more.

Jordan's King Abdullah alluded to a possible deterioration in Amman's relationship with Jerusalem if unless Israel will "demonstrate it is willing to make considerable moves" to reignite the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to the London-based Arab publication, Abdullah expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to "make significant concessions which will allow the Palestinian leadership to justify their return to the negotiating table."

The papers sources said that the king has "three aces up his sleeves," which he may choose to use if Israel proves "stuborn," including the possible reduction or suspension of the diplomatic ties between Israel and Jordan, while possibly bolstering ties with both the Jordanian Opposition and even Iran.

Here; http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4180692,00.html

What a mess! If the Jordanians start boosting their ties with Iran and publicly throw in with the Iranian regime who almost daily threatens the destruction of the Jews and Israel.....we could be moving into "Defcon 10" territory...and the drums of war will start beating even louder than they already are.

¹ O God, do not remain silent;
do not turn a deaf ear,
do not stand aloof, O God.
² See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
³ With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish. ⁴ “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
⁵ With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you—
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
⁸ Even Assyria has joined them
to reinforce Lot’s descendants. Psalm 83

Wow....looks like all the named players of Psalm 83 have come on stage and now the pressure is building as they all conspire with one mind to figure out how to get rid of Israel.

Stay tuned for the finale.

Quakes Rumble

2012-01-24T15:17:00.000-06:00

We seldom report on the earthquakes because of their daily frequency, but will take a minute to give you headlines about 3 quakes today...

Fiji
http://news.yahoo.com/magnitude-6-3-quake-hits-pacific-no-tsunami-014958724.html

Chile
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/23/world/americas/chile-earthquake/index.html

Dominican Republic
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/earthquake-north-dominican-republic-capital-15423460#.Tx6Vr_mXvDc

And of course Hawaii a few days ago reported a rather large shaker.

And now scientists are telling us that Tokyo is due for a REALLY BIG ONE.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/16681136

We now return you to our regularly scheduled news....SuperModel Heidi Klum and her husband, Seal, are getting a divorce.

World Remains Silent

2012-01-24T15:05:00.000-06:00

When Germany started killing Jews by the thousands...many in the West remained silent. Some simply refused to believe that a story of that magnitude could be possible.

And as long as the world remained silent, the Nazis continued to ramp up their plans of a world free from Jews.

It makes one wonder if history is beginning to repeat itself.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took advantage of a special plenary meeting to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day to address the threats to Israel's existence.

"70 years after the Holocaust, much of the world remains silent in the face of Iran's declared intent to wipe Israel off the earth," Netanyahu said.

"Much of the world are silent in the face of calls by Hizbullah for the destruction of Israel, and its continued murderous activities. Many remain silent in the face of calls by Hamas to kill Jews wherever they are.

"These are days when most of the governments of the world remain silent in the face of cries of Palestinian Muftis to kill Jews wherever they are. Where is the condemnation of the Mufti? Not the Mufti of history, but the Mufti of today?

"The Iranian regime openly calls for Israel's destruction, is planning the destruction of Israel, and is working daily to destroy Israel. The lesson says should spur the world to action," Netanyahu said.

Iran has referred to Israel as "a one bomb state"

Here; http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/152067#.Tx8IpMiX8uF

Of course Bible readers realize that what is happening is just one more Satanic plan to kill God's Holy people....hoping he can derail God's prophetic word regarding the future of Israel and the Jews....but since the vast majority of the world refuses to fear the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...they will find it simply impossible to connect the dots of what is happening.

Strait of Hormuz and All Out War

2012-01-23T14:24:00.000-06:00

Here is some more "all out war" headlines to consider.

Iran is saying it definitely will close the Strait of Hormuz. Of course they understand what this would do to oil prices and what affect it would have on an already problematic global economy.

But let's also remember that about 80% of the income collected by the Iranian government is the result of their oil sales flowing through that strait.

Tensions in the Gulf could reach a breaking point as a senior Iranian official said Iran would “definitely” close the Strait of Hormuz if an EU oil embargo disrupted the export of crude oil, the semi-official Fars news agency reports.

The announcement came in response to a decision by the European Union on Monday to impose an oil embargo on Iran over the country’s alleged nuclear weapons program.
“The pressure of sanctions is designed to try and make sure that Iran takes seriously our request to come to the table,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.
However, with Washington’s decision to deploy a second carrier strike group in the Gulf, the EU’s attempt to pressure Iran economically could greatly increase the likelihood of all-out war in the region.

The Strait of Hormuz is the vital link between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

It is also one of the most strategic chokepoints in the world when it comes to oil transit.

With world oil output estimated at some 88 million barrels per day in 2011, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that some 17 million of those barrels passed through the Strait.

Here; http://rt.com/news/iran-close-strait-hormuz-embargo-455/

Some people have told me, "Iran would never close that strait because it would kill their economy."

Now ask yourselves....isn't it Muslims that have perfected the suicide bomber over the past decade? Don't you think it possible that they would be willing to die if they believed that their death may also cause the collapse of The West?

Also please remember that this Iranian regime believes that the 12th Imam is soon going to reveal himself on earth.....and a time of extreme chaos is needed for the 12th Imam to come out of hiding.....so just maybe they believe a collapse of the world is exactly what is needed to usher him in.

Think about it.

Preparing for Civilization's Collapse

2012-01-23T08:01:00.000-06:00

Interesting article today coming from Reuters News about a group of people who sense that something has gone dreadfully wrong in our society and on earth....so they are preparing for the collapse of civilization. This group of people now has been given a name. They are referred to as "preppers".

Are you a prepper?

Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as "preppers." Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers' message when he tells listeners: "It's never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it."

"Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year," said author James Wesley Rawles, whose Survival Blog is considered the guiding light of the prepper movement.

"We could see a cascade of higher interest rates, margin calls, stock market collapses, bank runs, currency revaluations, mass street protests, and riots," he told Reuters. "The worst-case end result would be a Third World War, mass inflation, currency collapses, and long term power grid failures."

"With our current dependence on things from the electric grid to the Internet, things that people have absolutely no control over, there is a feeling that a collapse scenario can easily emerge, with a belief that the end is coming, and it is all out of the individual's control," she told Reuters.

NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH;

She compared the major technological developments of the past decade to the Industrial Revolution of the 1830s and 1840s, which led to the growth of the Millerites, the 19th-Century equivalent of the preppers. Followers of charismatic preacher Joseph Miller, many sold everything and gathered in 1844 for what they believed would be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Here; http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/21/us-usa-civilization-collapse-idUSTRE80K0LA20120121?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Isn't that interesting how all of our grandparents were prepared to care for themselves for a long winter...but now if we prepare for a long winter we are compared with some idiotic cult that sold everything because they believed some Jesus is returning-date-setter!

Libya Heads Towards 'Bottomless Pit'

2012-01-22T10:08:00.000-06:00

The leader of Libya, Qaddafi, is now dead and in the ground. He was a madman and few people question that. Simply one more example of how Islam seems incapable of electing or having any decent governments that produce anything of global value.

So it appeared to be good news when he was routed and killed....and a few days of hope sprung up as we watched the people throw off their shackles....but it was only for a few days.

And now we have this.....

The deputy head of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Sunday he was resigning after a series of protests against the new government which the country’s leader warned could drag Libya into “bottomless pit.”

On Sunday, around 4,000 students protested against the deputy head of the NTC, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, at the University of Ghar Yunis in the former rebel stronghold, an AFP correspondent reported.
Speaking to reporters at a hotel in Benghazi, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of Libya’s NTC, warned the protests risked undermining the country’s already fragile stability.

“We are going through a political movement that can take the country to a bottomless pit,” he said. “There is something behind these protests that is not for the good of the country.”

“The people have not given the government enough time and the government does not have enough money. Maybe there are delays, but the government has only been working for two months. Give them a chance, at least two months.”

Here; http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/22/189872.html?PHPSESSID=aeki1e28eu08kllv8a7vt687u3

We will continue watching this fragile country because they are one of the main players in the Ezekiel 38 coalition.

'Mass Hysteria' Outbreak in New York

2012-01-22T09:32:00.000-06:00

So what could it possibly be when 12 unrelated, healthy, active girls all in the same school suddenly break out with uncontrollable movements, ticks and outbursts? I wonder what Jesus, the Great Phycisian, might call it?

See article and video here from The Today Show; http://gothamist.com/2012/01/18/upstate_teens_girls_doctor_insists.php

The "mass hysteria" diagnosis was mentioned last week, with some experts saying that stress might have a basis in the symptoms, but parents are not convinced. They haven't been shown any data and Sanchez's mother, Beth Miller, wants the state to turn over information that's been collected "so I can proceed in finding a cure for our daughters." Watch the segment, which features Sanchez suffering some intense sudden movement.

Whew!....I'm glad a doctor and science could give us a logical explanation for what this is! Forget about the fact that the diagnosis of "mass hysteria" is about the most ILLOGICAL explanation imaginable...and that it means NOTHING.....at least we can all forget about it and go home and pretend that nothing supernatural is happening and rest easy in the knowledge that science has it ALL FIGURED OUT.

Watch the video and tell me what YOU think might be causing this.

Angry Muslims Kill 178 in Nigeria

2012-01-22T08:16:00.000-06:00

Of course we know that many Muslims are angry. This is evident by the fruit Islam is bearing all over the world. Hundreds of folks have been killed in Iraq in just the last few weeks when angry Muslims strap bombs to themselves and step into a marketplace and blow themselves up.

Egypt just used the people's vote to elect a wide majority of angry Muslims to high office.

Afghanistan is full of angry Muslims called the Taliban who are doing the worst stuff to each other all over the country.

Syria is full of angry Muslims who have randomly shot over 5000 people in the past few months simply demanding a little better treatment. But of course this is child's play compared to an entire city that was murdered by poison gas in 1982 by the father of the guy who is currently in charge of the killing.

The list goes on and on and on.

Today the angry Muslims have struck again....and this time it's in Nigeria.

Islamist insurgents kill over 178 in Nigeria's Kano

(Reuters) - Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the daunting challenge President Goodluck Jonathan now faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.

A coordinated series of bomb blasts and shooting sprees mostly targeting police stations on Friday sent panicked residents of Nigeria's second biggest city of more than 10 million people running for cover.

The scale of the carnage makes this by far the deadliest strike claimed by Boko Haram, a shadowy Islamist sect that started out as a clerical movement opposed to western education but has become the biggest security menace facing Africa's top oil producer.

Here; http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/22/us-nigeria-violence-idUSTRE80L0A020120122?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71

So now we have another name of another angry Muslim group....this one is called Boko Haram. What are they so mad about? The same thing as the Taliban.....they don't want anyone in Nigeria to get a western education....which is Reuters-speak for "they don't want anyone to learn how to read."

You see, much of Islam is so contradictory of itself that if Muslims learn how to read, they may find out for themselves how bogus the religion is....so it's important to keep the majority ignorant and illiterate. That way the Imam can simply TELL everyone what Allah has demanded. And if you have been brainwashed into believing the lies that tell the tales of Allah and Muhammad since you were a little kid....you have no way to question anything because you can't read for yourself.

How different from what the Apostle Paul told us. He told us listen to what our teachers and preachers tell us and then go home and study the scriptures ourselves to verify that what we were told lines up with the Word of God.

Jesus told us, "You will know them by the fruit they bare." Isn't it becoming obvious what the fruit of Islam is?....and who it is who powers this religion of contradictions and lies?

Friends, these people are lost in lies. We need to pray like never before for that the Truth of Jesus Christ will find them and tear them off the current road they are on...."Wide is the road that leads to destruction and MANY will be on it."

I know it is hard to read headlines like this one and NOT start to feel anger towards the people that are doing these heinous things...but please remember that ALL HAVE SINNED and fall short of the Glory of God. We were also enemies of God until Christ chose US to deliver from the wide road of destruction that we were running on. So hate Satan who is the father of all these lost souls but don't hate the people who are simply operating as children of the devil.

Muslim Extremists Win 70% of Egypt's Parliament

2012-01-21T19:01:00.000-06:00

A few weeks ago we thought it was bad news that the Muslim Brotherhood and their more extremist cousins, the Salafists had won 60% of the votes.

Today we find out it is 70%.

CAIRO — Egyptian authorities confirmed Saturday that a political coalition dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, the 84-year-old group that virtually invented political Islam, had won about 47 percent of the seats in the first Parliament elected since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. An alliance of ultraconservative Islamists won the next largest share of seats, about 25 percent.

The tally, with the two groups of Islamists together winning about 70 percent of the seats, indicates the deep cultural conservatism of the Egyptian public, which is expressing its will through free and fair elections for the first time in more than six decades.

Here; http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/world/middleeast/muslim-brotherhood-wins-47-of-egypt-assembly-seats.html

This should go well for peace with Israel.

Iran Confiscates U.S. Dollars

2012-01-21T11:11:00.000-06:00

The value of Iranian currency is plummeting against the U.S. dollar. Of course if you were an Iranian citizen sitting with a savings account holding Iranian money you would have seen the value of your savings go down by over 30% in just the past few months....which isn't good.

So the prudent Iranian would attempt to swap his Iranian money for U.S. dollars...the value of which isn't falling as fast.

The problem is that the Iranian government may now confiscate those U.S. dollars and you may be imprisoned if you are found to have "too many" of those dollars.

See this interesting video here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16623747

You can start to see the problem with paper currency. It begs the question that one day when the U.S. dollar starts plummeting against the Swiss Franc or the Chinese Yuan and Americans start trying to hold those currencies instead of U.S. dollars.....could the U.S. government employ the same tactics as Iran...and simply start confiscating them.

Of course the reason that will be used will be "national security concerns." The U.S. government did it once before in 1933 when they confiscated every one's gold....so I'm guessing that one day they will do it again.

Hat tip to Tom F.

The Great "Falling Away"

2012-01-20T09:51:00.002-06:00

Apostle Paul tells us that in the Last Days there will be a great falling away from the faith of Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians) Many interpret that to mean that many who call themselves Christians and maybe even have sat in Christian churches most of their lives....will really have no concept of the power of God, will simply be practicing a form of religion, and many may not even be saved.

Today we find this headline:

Nearly Half of Churchgoing Americans Say Church Doesn’t Have an Effect on Their Lives

Church is widely regarded as a regular action that can assist one in cultivating his or her faith, while subsequently experiencing personal benefits. While this characterization may hold validity for some, there’s a new study out that shows that, for nearly half of attendees, church isn‘t doing anything to impact or change individuals’ lives.

According to the Barna Group, an evangelical company that studies faith in America, nearly half (46 percent) of churchgoing Americans report that their lives have not changed at all as a result of attending church. While this is startling, 26 percent of individuals who reported having been to church before said that their lives had been changed or impacted “greatly” by the experience; 25 percent said that church was “somewhat” influential.

Here; http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nearly-half-of-churchgoing-americans-say-church-doesnt-have-an-effect-on-their-lives/

Holy apostasy!! How many are just going through the motions? Paul goes on to tell us in 2 Timothy;

¹ But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

Not gonna lie....as we look at that list and take note of EVERYTHING on his list....it sure appears we are there. And of course a "form of godliness" sure seems as if it could be the people sitting in the thousands of churches across the nation....just sitting there going through the motions...counting the minutes until they can get out of there and get on with their shopping and football.

So what do you suppose it means when Paul goes on to finish his warning with, "Have nothing to do with such people."? Are we supposed to separate ourselves from our local churches if we find that the majority are just going through the motions?

The Return of the Hybrids

2012-01-19T16:30:00.000-06:00

Many of you have heard my thoughts on Genesis 6, when the fallen angels abducted human women (took them) had sex with them and the resultant offspring were corrupted flesh called the Nephilim. Hybrids...you might say.

Crazy, right?

I also believe the reason for Noah's flood...was not just because man was 'sinful' (that's obvious that all men have always been sinful) but that flesh on earth had all been polluted with seed of Satan. Only Noah and his family were still 'pure' (uncorrupted?)...meaning that they were still 100% human DNA.

Like I said....crazy, right?

Just today the top prophecy site in the world published an article by one of the top prophecy writers and let's look at some of what he said.

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5. Humanity is moving through a period of increasingly deteriorating moral behavior. Today wickedness among earth’s inhabitants has grown to a fever pitch. When we study our Bibles what becomes evident is the fact that between the antediluvian world, known as the days of Noah, and our present world there is a shocking similarity unfolding before us.

Keep in mind that Jesus was referring to similarities between the antediluvian era and the last days before His return. Remember, the reason God (Jesus) sent the deluge was because of all the abominable unions (marriages) between fallen angels and human women, and the progeny these unions brought forth. Evil was spread over the antediluvian world exactly the way it’s overtaking ours today. Jesus referred to marriage in those days before the flood because that’s exactly what we read in the Genesis 6 account. “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose” Genesis 6:2 (emphases mine). Jesus isn’t being coy; He’s laying out the future. One that involves the worst possible scenario, the re-incursion of fallen angels into our space/time continuum for one purpose, the corruption/destruction of the human race – just as they did in the days of Noah.

“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men:” Daniel 2:43.

“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark” Matthew 24:37-38. Obviously those of Noah’s day were eating and drinking to sustain themselves, although we’re not told what they were eating and drinking. Some in-depth study I’ve done shows a corruption even in their diet. But my question here is – why would Jesus speak of marriage or giving in marriage during those days? To the casual reader marrying and giving in marriage is seen here as simply going about business as usual, they see nothing out of the ordinary about this verse. But to the studied reader what Jesus is alluding to is that just prior to His return to earth the world will be experiencing an all consuming evil corruption of the genes of humans through the cohabitation of fallen angels and human women just like the people of Noah’s day were, which was the reason God destroyed the antediluvians with a worldwide flood. Think about it this way, who in their right mind will be thinking about their white wedding dress or their black tuxedo at a time when the world will be crumbling around them? The world, just prior to His return, will be filled with the violence, wickedness, and mayhem that Noah witnessed in his day. Jesus lays out precisely for His disciples the full picture of those last days. Jesus wasn’t referring to normal marriage plans, but to very abnormal and abominable copulations between two distinct groups of beings. If we misinterpret the verses in Genesis 6 most of the rest of the Bible will never make sense.

Here; http://raptureready.com/featured/graham/g213.html

So check out the whole article. If the crazy bin needs some more members...it appears we have just found another one. : )

Russia Warns of 'Very Big War'

2012-01-19T12:14:00.000-06:00

The rumors and talks of war have been increasing.

Question; Does it seem that long ago when the world had NOTHING to talk about except Bill Clinton having oral sex with Monica Lewinsky and tech stocks were up 40% per year, people were retiring at age 50 if they played their bonuses and stock options right, two homes were all the rage with massive home equity in both to use as piggy banks....the world seemed like a perfect consumer paradise!! We were SO ENJOYING our peace dividend brought to us courtesy of the Soviet Union collapse.

What the heck happened? Has our god of Mammon fallen down on the job?? How come he hasn't come back to fix all the things that are troubling Western civilization? Doesn't he care that we are all still upside down on our houses?! And all this money strife is making us restless!

And now Russia says this;

Western intervention in Arab Spring could end in 'very big war,' Russia warns

MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warned Wednesday that outside encouragement of antigovernment uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa could lead to “a very big war that will cause suffering not only to countries in the region, but also to states far beyond its boundaries.”

Mr. Lavrov’s annual news conference was largely devoted to a critique of Western policies in Iran and Syria, which he said could lead to a spiral of violence.

Mr. Lavrov said foreign governments were arming “militants and extremists” in Syria, and he gave a bristling response to Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, who on Tuesday expressed concern about possible Russian arms shipments to Syria.

“We don’t find it necessary to explain or justify anything,” Mr. Lavrov said. “We are only trading goods with Syria that are not prohibited by international law.”

Relations between Moscow and Washington have worsened over the past year, as the cordial tone of the “reset” between President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev has been replaced by a drumbeat of criticism. Mr. Lavrov said that Russia and the United States were not adversaries, and that “the cold war ended a long time ago.” By contrast, however, he was glowing about Russia’s cooperation with China, which he said was “the highest in the history of our bilateral relationship.”

Here; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46051679/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

Dang reset button! I know Obama told us he was going to push it with EVERYONE who had come to dislike the United States....and after three years in office he can't seem to find that elusive button!

In fact I'm beginning to wonder if he didn't actually hit the 'respect' button and accidentally turned it off so that the whole world is beginning to question our integrity, resolve and power....and so rumors of war are everywhere as the nations of the world are now realizing that there is a new world order looming...and they better get ready to kick some butt to claim their desired piece of the pie.

A new sheriff is coming to town....and it's not going to be the USA.

Iran War Could End Life on Earth

2012-01-18T23:43:00.000-06:00

This is an awesome headline to be added to the Armageddon file.

'Iran war could end life on earth'

A former American official has warned that the United States wants to blame Israel for Washington's possible war on Iran that could end life on earth.

US warnings to Israel for not attacking Iran is to avoid responsibility for the war Washington has prepared, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts wrote in an article on Global Research.
"If the war gets out of hand, and if Russia and China intervene or nukes start flying, Washington wants the blame to rest on Israel, and Israel seems willing to accept the blame," Craig Roberts said.

The US analyst also used a few examples to show that the White House has prepared for an all-out war against Iran.

"If Washington did not want war with Iran it would not have provided the necessary weapons to Israel. It would not have deployed thousands of US troops to Israel," he argued.

"Washington would not have built a missile defense system for Israel and would not be conducting joint exercises with the Israeli military to make sure it works," Craig Roberts added.

He said, "Washington won't prevent the war that it so fervently desires. Neither will Washington's NATO puppets."

"'Great' Britain does as it is told, subservient and occupied Germany, bankrupt France, Italy occupied with US air bases with a government infiltrated by the CIA, bankrupt Spain and Greece will all, in hopes of an outpouring of US dollars and devoid of any dignity or honor, support the new war that could end life on earth," Craig Roberts added.

Here; http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221754.html

Rest easy friends....and Iran war WILL NOT end life on earth because we know the rapture has to happen first and then the Great Tribulation where about 2/3 of life will end on earth before Jesus returns. "If those days were not cut short no life would survive."

However...a war with Iran could really mess up this nice little life we have had going on in America.

Do we have enough oil in our lamps for whatever may be coming?

Hat tip to Tom F.

First the Bees....Now the Bats?

2012-01-18T23:17:00.000-06:00

You guys remember a problem with the honey bees all disappearing? It's called colony collapse. Also remember that Albert Einstein predicted that if the bees disappeared that humans would starve to death in 4 years. Of course this is due to the fact the bees pollinate so many of our food crops.

Today we see news that millions of bats are dying in North America due to some type of fungus.

U.S. scientists are estimating that between 5.7 million and 6.7 million bats in Canada and the United States have succumbed to white-nose syndrome, a fungus spreading in eastern North America.

The mortality figures were released Tuesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

"White-nose syndrome has spread quickly through bat populations in eastern North America, and has caused significant mortality in many colonies," said Dr. Jeremy Coleman, co-ordinator of the U.S white-nose syndrome program. "Many bats were lost before we were able to establish pre-white-nose syndrome population estimates."

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe said the "startling " figures illustrate the severity of the threat facing the animals.

"Today's new mortality estimates are a wake-up call that we need to do more, and fast," said Mollie Matteson with the Center for Biological Diversity.

Here; http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/17/bat-fungus.html?cmp=rss

I wonder how many strange things need to happen for people of planet earth to realize that God is up to something really big?

Africa Drought Looming

2012-01-18T15:19:00.000-06:00

Here in Minnesota we are enjoying a very strange winter. We have had no snow and warm temperatures. This comes on top of having no measurable rain since last July...meaning the driest fall EVER!

Of course if this doesn't change in the spring we could be in for some trouble. Kind of strange in that last spring into early summer was the wettest spring EVER.

Jesus told us to watch for droughts and famines as one of the signs that will accompany all the other signs.

So today we have this headline right in the center of Google News.

Aid groups: With new Africa drought looming, donors must speed response

Scientists and aid organizations gave the world plenty of time to prepare, but a late response by the world’s donor nations cost 50,000 to 100,000 lives during last year’s drought in the Horn of Africa region.

That is the message of a joint report by Oxfam International, Save the Children and other charities, released today, during the global meetings at Davos, Switzerland, and at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Now, with a new drought looming in the West African nations of Mauritania, Niger, Mali, and Chad, the joint report, “The Dangerous Delay,” is calling for an overhaul of the world’s aid delivery system to avoid more preventable deaths from starvation.

Here; http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0118/Aid-groups-With-new-Africa-drought-looming-donors-must-speed-response

U.S. Treasury Dips Into Pension Fund

2012-01-18T12:44:00.001-06:00

Yesterday we posted on how Americans were dipping into their savings and pensions to keep their bills paid and to buy more crap they still can't afford.

Today we find an article that says the Treasury is also dipping into retirement funds to keep the bills paid.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.

"I will be unable to invest fully" the federal employees retirement system fund beginning Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday on the Obama administration's request to raise the country's legal debt limit to $16.394 trillion.

However, unless the lower chamber and the Senate are able to shore up enough votes to block the White House request, the debt limit will be increased by $1.2 trillion next Friday and a repeat of last year's debt ceiling debacle will be averted.

Here; http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-debt-treasurytre80g20r-20120117,0,3458470.story

As we look at the news of American consumers running out of money they never had in the first place....and the U.S. Government doing the same, we think of how few in this nation truly fear the Lord. And of course without fear there can be no wisdom. We then read Proverbs 17:16 which tells us; "Of what use is money in the hand of the fool, since he has no desire to get wisdom?"

Isn't that the truth?! Its like a big circle of truth....no fear, no wisdom....no wisdom means you're a fool and fools won't have money for long. That about sums up the American condition.

Israeli Cyber War Heats Up

2012-01-17T19:48:00.000-06:00

Yesterday we posted how an Arab computer hacker had disrupted the Israeli stock market and the airlines. Today we are hearing that Israeli hackers have hacked into some Arab sites.

Let the cyber wars begin??

Hackers in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries are in the middle of a cyberwar that has led to disruptions of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, several Israeli banks, and an airline. As a result, some Israeli banks have blocked or are threatening to block international access to their sites to avoid attack.

Hackers identifying themselves as "Israel Defense Forces" threatened in a Pastebin post to attack three Arab Emirate banks, two government sites, Saudi Airlines, and an airport site today, but the sites were accessible midday. However, other sites were inaccessible, including sama.gov.sa in Saudi Arabia.

OxOmar has threatened to publicly reveal credit card data for 200 Israelis every day, if the attacks on Israeli sites don't stop, according to Ynet. He also has called on Arab hackers to unite in attacking Israeli sites.

Meanwhile, Israel will respond to cyberattacks the way it does violent "terrorist" acts, by striking back with force against attackers, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Dany Ayalon said January 7, following the release of the credit card data, according to Agence France-Presse.

Here; http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57360584-245/middle-east-cyberwar-hits-israeli-banks-stock-exchange-airline/

Where is this all heading?? If nations can hack into and disrupt other nations commerce and attack their financial life blood...when could this turn into a shooting war?

Ultimately, we know where this is heading....it's heading to a place where there will be a one world government and and one world Internet system...where everyone will need to take the mark of the beast to buy or sell anything on the coming global cyber system.

Pray that we can escape that coming day.

Americans Raid Savings

2012-01-17T19:29:00.000-06:00

I have been a financial consultant for about 25 years so have seen lots of balance sheets of family households for lots of years....and I can testify that Americans are raiding their savings and many young folks have totally raided some, or all, of their retirement accounts...just to keep the bills paid.

This is not a good sign.

NEW YORK — More than four years after the United States fell into recession, many Americans have resorted to raiding their savings to get them through the stop-start economic recovery.

In an ominous sign for America's economic growth prospects, workers are paring back contributions to college funds and growing numbers are borrowing from their retirement accounts.

Some policymakers worry that a recent spike in credit card usage could mean that people, many of whom are struggling on incomes that have lagged inflation, are taking out new debt just to meet the costs of day-to-day living.

American households "have been spending recently in a way that did not seem in line with income growth. So somehow they've been doing that through perhaps additional credit card usage," Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Friday.

"If they saw future income and employment increasing strongly then that would be reasonable. But I don't see that. So I've been puzzled by this," he said.

Here; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46025535/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

There is nothing to be puzzled about, Mr. Federal Reserve President....you are simply seeing the reality that I have been watching for 4 years now...mainly that people are cashing in their financial futures simply to keep their heads above water today.

So yes....as the article correctly states, this is an "ominous sign for America's economic growth prospects."

No wonder that Bible warns us so much about the love of money and the dangers of materialism.

Let the Hacking Begin!

2012-01-16T16:11:00.000-06:00

Most of the world's computer geeks are pretty sure that the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear facility computers was the work of Israeli computer hackers.

Earlier this year it was revealed by the CIA that Chinese hackers had hacked into some major systems within the USA....even possibly our power grids?

Today we find out that hackers have been messing with the Israeli stock market and also Israel's national airline, El Al.

The distributed denial-of-service attacks, which also targeted three Israeli banks, were the latest salvo in a month-long offensive between Arab and Jewish hackers determined to give the Middle East conflict an online dimension.

Monday's hacking incident caused the stock exchange's website to perform slowly, while El Al's online services were unavailable for more than an hour.

Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a group of hackers, claiming to be based in Saudi Arabia, which identifies itself by the name "Nightmare".

It came days after a rival Israeli hacking group called "Israel Defenders" published what it said were the credit card details of hundreds of Saudis. Nightmare had carried out a similar stunt after hacking an Israeli sports website.

The self-proclaimed head of Nightmare, who identifies himself as "0xOmar", boasted on the microblogging website Twitter that he would never be caught.

Here; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9019204/Hackers-disrupt-Tel-Aviv-Stock-Exchange-and-El-Al.html

Not sure if you guys are all aware of this but a computer hacking group that calls itself "anonymous" are anarchists who claim to have the capability to bring down the entire global system....banking, military, electric power, food distribution, etc....

Don't have any idea if the angel Gabriel hinted at this day with the prophet Daniel, but he did tell him that in the last days, "Knowledge will increase". When you look at the last 5000 years of mankind they have been riding horses pulling wagons. My grandparents rode horses pulling wagons as their ONLY means of transportation. And now today we have satellites beaming images, videos and conversations to hand held computers called SMART PHONES.

In one man's lifetime we have gone from horses and wagons to remote controlled buggies landing on Mars and sending back high resolution pictures. Also we have gone from not having the word "computer" to a time when hackers could literally disrupt life as we have come to know it simply by sitting at their computer and hacking into the system.

Wow!! What an exciting time to be alive!!

Russia Talks Tough if Iran is Attacked

2012-01-16T14:52:00.000-06:00

We all know by now that we are watching for a coalition to form that includes Russia, Turkey, Iran, Libya and a few other lesser Islamic states in North Africa. We also know that when that coalition does form in the Last Days they will come up with an evil plan to destroy Israel....they won't be successful, but that won't stop them from coming up with the plan.

Today we have some headlines that seem to be showing Russia and Iran drawing closer.

Russia has given Iran its bear hug and warns Israel and the West that an attack on Tehran would be considered an attack on Moscow. The threat heightens the prospect of World War III in the event of a military strike on Iran.

“Iran is our neighbor,” Russia's outgoing ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters in Brussels. “And if Iran is involved in any military action, it’s a direct threat to our security.”

Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev accused Israel of provoking the United States towards war against Iran, the Russian Interfax news agency reported Friday. “But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have what it needs to feel comfortable, including Iran," he added.

Rogozin warned on Friday that more attacks on Iran could cause "a scorching Arab Summer."

Russia also has come to the defense of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning Western nations not to intervene in Syria with military forces. Russia is a major arms supplier to Syria and has a heavy investment in Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Here; http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151739#.TxQBLvmXuHs

Does it appear to anyone else that the Iranian situation seems to be a "checkmate" deal? If the U.S. and or Israel attacks Iran....it sounds like it could ignite WWIII. If they don't attack Iran then the whole Middle East will end up in a nuclear arms race and you'll have even more crazy Muslims running around waving nuclear missiles in every one's face....threatening to cause chaos which will lead to WWIII.

So it sure appears we are heading for WWIII no matter what we do. I guess the question comes down to who wants to light the match that will actually start it?

After watching footage last week of the Jews being rounded up by the Nazis and gassed at concentration camps....I know that Israel will not just sit idly by and let their ancient Persian enemies threaten them with annihilation....but what if the fear of Russia's military makes Israel stand down and hope for some other solution?

Holy quandary!! I'm sure glad we know how the story ends and that God wins!! Otherwise this would not be interesting to watch unfold...it would be TERRIFYING!

Hat tip to Tom F.

Fears Rise Israel May Attack Iran

2012-01-14T21:53:00.000-06:00

The rumors of war continue to build. Now we have U.S. army chief heading to Israel....maybe to try to stave off an imminent attack?

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday for talks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, and other senior defense and intelligence officials.

The visit comes as the United States attempts to coordinate with Israel on the issue of Iran's nuclear capabilities, and to determine Israel's intentions with regard to a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Ahead of Dempsey's visit, the Wall Street Journal published statements by senior American officers who said the United States had increased preparations for a possible Israeli attack on Iran. They also said the United States has refreshed plans for defending American installations in the Middle East in the event of a retaliation by Iran.

One senior officer told the Wall Street Journal that the United States' concerns regarding a possible Israeli attack on Iran were increasing.

According to the Wall Street Journal, both U.S. President Barack Obama and Panetta have conveyed messages through quiet channels to senior Israeli officials regarding the serious implications of an Israeli attack on Iran. They also reportedly told Israel it should allow more time for sanctions on Iran to take effect.
In the meantime, the United States is preparing for various scenarios following an Israeli attack on Iran, senior American officials reportedly told the Wall Street Journal. These include an attack by Shi'ites in Iraq on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. There are currently 15,000 U.S. citizens in Iraq.

Here; http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-army-chief-heads-to-israel-as-fears-over-attack-on-iran-mount-1.407342

Pretty serious stuff...no doubt.

Remember to keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem.

Nine Nations Downgraded

2012-01-14T10:33:00.000-06:00

As you recall in 2011 the USA lost its AAA credit rating. But because of all the bad news coming out of Europe the USA was deemed the "least-worst" place to invest...so money kept pouring into U.S. Treasuries. The bad news for USA seemed to run off us like water off a duck's back.

But how long will that continue? Who knows....but with nine nations getting further downgraded in the past few days, maybe the USA will continue to benefit from being the "least-worst" place to park your cash.

The Standard & Poor’s rating agency downgraded nine European countries Friday, confirming that the continent’s efforts to contain a debt crisis that also threatens the fragile U.S. recovery have come up short.

What began as excessive debts in countries such as Greece steadily evolved into concerns about unsustainable spending in Italy and the financial strength of France, spawning a contagion that threatens to unravel the eurozone and could hit American exports and the financial sector.

S&P concluded that the political agreements and combined $1 trillion in potential bailout funding reached at a December summit were not of “sufficient size and scope to fully address the eurozone’s financial problems.”

Just as it stripped the United States of its top AAA rating in August, the credit agency knocked France and Austria one notch to AA-plus.

Ratings for Italy, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus tumbled by two grades. Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia were also downgraded, but, in a positive sign, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands kept their triple-A ratings.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71427.html#ixzz1jRzsCTDV

One thing we know for sure...when this whole system of debt comes tumbling down, the world will have no choice but to come up with a global currency which will need to be administered by a global central bank. When that happens, we know the Antichrist can't be too far behind.

Our blessed hope is that all of us who have the Holy Spirit indwelling us since accepting Christ's offer of salvation...will be gone from earth before all this happens.

How much longer Lord?

Tim Tebow's Role Model

2012-01-13T17:36:00.000-06:00

There was a great article in the Wall Street Journal about one of Tim Tebow's role models. For those of you who don't follow sports, Tim Tebow is the quarterback for the Denver Broncos and is very vocal about his relationship with Jesus Christ.

Have you heard about the quarterback who won the Heisman trophy and led his University of Florida Gators to a national championship? The multisport athlete, Florida's USA Today Football Player of the Year as a high-schooler? The son of a pastor who always put his faith before football, even while playing in the National Football League?

Of course we're talking about Danny Wuerffel, who has served as a powerful role model for a certain Denver Broncos quarterback currently making news.

Mr. Wuerffel and Tim Tebow didn't know each other well growing up 13 years apart, but Mr. Tebow's parents made it a point to introduce the two more than a decade ago, while Mr. Wuerffel was still playing at Florida. Both players' families understood that football provided a platform that could be used to talk about the most important thing in their life—their faith. Their attitudes mirrored that of C.S. Lewis, who reasoned that "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

Such mentoring by Christian men is one of the most inspiring and least understood stories in sports. Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy has been lauded—and criticized—for his work with individuals like Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback jailed for running a dog-fighting ring. Yet Mr. Dungy, the author of a book on mentoring, realizes that he gets just as much benefit from the experience. As the Proverb says, "Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

This week all eyes will be on Tim Tebow in the AFC divisional playoffs. Few will be watching Danny Wuerffel, though, as he continues to fight for the disenfranchised in pockets of poverty in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida. But the crowds are irrelevant: Both men have always played for an audience of One.

Must read article here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409004577156544191436170.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Remember friends, people don't dislike Tim Tebow because he gives thanks to God...because god can truly be anything you want him to be. They dislike Tim Tebow because he gives thanks to his savior Jesus Christ....and that offends lots of folks.

Marines Urinate on Dead Taliban

2012-01-13T15:40:00.000-06:00

Of course the headlines are all a buzz about the video that shows U.S. Marines peeing on some dead Taliban fighters. The morning news shows seemed excited to show the video.

I wonder why the morning news shows aren't as excited to show the Taliban executing women for learning how to read? Or why they don't show the Taliban beheading anyone who doesn't subscribe to their religious beliefs? Or why didn't they publicize the story about how the Taliban chained a man to 4 motorcycles and ripped him into quarters right in front of his family and dragged his body all over town? Why?? Because he was teaching women to read.

Do you think it would make any difference if we learned that these dead Taliban fighters were responsible for killing these Marines friends one day earlier? Or what if they had raped some little girls or boys before the marines took them out and sent them directly to meet Allah??

I watched a WWII documentary last night that talked about how the Russians gang raped thousands of Polish women, then saw the horror of concentration camps where millions were tortured and killed, then watched how U.S. soldiers executed German soldiers who were caught wearing U.S. uniforms....

But we are going to have a conniption fit about urination??? Did you know that urine is sterile?? That's right...it is cleaner that drinking water!!

Here is some of the nonsense; http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57358864/marines-reluctant-to-talk-in-video-probe/

Those of us who want to sit on our easy chairs back in Minnesota and cast judgment on the men who are in the front lines of war...should really think long and hard before we do.

If these soldiers, who are reportedly highly trained special forces soldiers, are brought up on charges of war crimes...I hope that all of us get out of our easy chairs and protest.

Persecution is Coming

2012-01-12T15:46:00.000-06:00

Many of us are aware that persecution of Christians is on the increase all over the world. They are being harassed and killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Egypt, China, North Korea, etc.... But will this persecution ever come to America?

We don't know if persecution will ever reach that level here in America before the rapture. But we do know that signs of persecution are coming...and they may start with people harassing us because of their claims of our intolerance of sexual actions and religious beliefs. Specifically, they want us to embrace the gay lifestyle....and if we won't, then we may be singled out for not jumping on the bandwagon of celebrating gay perversion....or be labeled as "homophobes"... which will certainly one day be a criminal offense.

Check out what I just received on the prayer request of our local church;

1/12/2012 The senior high students will be up against a very difficult situation next week. There will be a day of celebration for the RAVE (which stands for respect, value, everyone) group and one of the events will be for all of the students to show their support for all of the homosexual students by wearing rainbow ribbons. So, are they gay haters if don’t wear the ribbons, and… if they do… Your youth staff needs wisdom and prayer from our Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. A good portion of our youth staff and sr. high students will be at Adventurous Christians on retreat this weekend, so ask God to use this time to prepare the kids for His glory.

SO maybe this is how it all begins?

Bethlehem to Host Anti-Israel "Christians"

2012-01-12T08:51:00.000-06:00

Here is a disturbing article that shows you just how clueless some who profess Christ really are.

Next March, the Bible College in Bethlehem will host dozens of US theologians, activists and ministries for the “Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 Conference”.

It is to be a major religious and political event meant to demonize Israel and to support the Palestinian Intifada against the “ethnocentric” Jewish State.

The impressive range of Christian theologians and pastors from many churches located in the United States make the gravity of the upcoming conference clear.

Samuel Rodriguez, President of the US National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, is a speaker.

Also attending are popular US preacher and “spiritual adviser” to Bill Clinton, Tony Campolo, and President of the World Evangelical Alliance and Asia Evangelical Alliance, Sang-Bok David Kim.

Two of the conference organisers, Stephen Sizer and Sami Awad, adamantly defended the Gaza flotilla sent in May 2010 by the Turkish terror group IHH.

Another speaker, Ben White, has shared a political platform with Azzam Tamimi, who has endorsed suicide bombings against Jewish civilians in the past.

In the last few months we have seen an increase of attacks on Israel by many Christian denominations. While the United States is home to millions of Christian supporters of Israel, these are anti-Jewish Churches which are more closely attached to global public opinion, European bureaucracy, the media industry, the United Nations and various legal forums.

In fact, the “Bethlehem Call” manifesto, which serves as platform for the Bethlehem 2012 Conference, has just been published on the websites of the Would Council of Churches, the Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ.

The Bethlehem Call defines Israel as an “illegal regime” and a “crime against humanity”, it promotes “international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns” against Israel, labels the more neutral Churches as “accomplices in crimes against humanity” and attacks Christian Zionism as “a crime and sin as defying the core of the Gospel”.

Here; http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151576

Many will ask, "How could this be possible? How could Bible reading self-proclaimed Christians not understand that Israel is a key player in the Last Days and that blessings and curses still apply?"

The answer is really quite simple. If you are a person who believes that the entire Bible is true including even the difficult parts that are hard to understand....then you are a "literalist" and you will understand the significance of Israel and the major role they play in God's plan of working salvation.

On the other hand, if you believe that the Bible has large parts of it that are made up by men or are simply analogies meant to help us understand the mindset of these ancient people....then you can dismiss all the parts about Israel, blessings and curses and you can firmly begin to believe that any blessings reserved for Israel are really meant for all people on earth....it's that old, dangerous belief called, "replacement theology"....dangerous to Jews, Israel and to Christ followers who believe this false doctrine.

And there are a bunch of these folks who are soon meeting in Bethlehem.

Let's be in prayer for these folks that the God of Israel, Isaac and Jacob will reveal the Truth of His Word to this entire conference.

Hat tip to Tom F.

Another Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assasinated

2012-01-12T08:30:00.000-06:00

In a move right out of a James Bond movie....a black motorcycle pulled alongside a car carrying nuke scientist involved with Iranian program, stuck a magnet bomb to the side of the car then sped off and detonated it using a remote control killing the scientist and passengers. This was not the first time this method had been used.

Of course you have to wonder if Israel is behind this?

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran's atomic program.

The attack in Tehran bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program. It is certain to amplify authorities' claims of clandestine operations by Western powers and their allies to halt Iran's nuclear advances.

The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, state TV reported. State news agency IRNA said Roshan had "organizational links" to Iran's nuclear agency, which suggests a direct role in key aspects of the program.

On Tuesday, Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a "critical year" for Iran — in part because of "things that happen to it unnaturally."

"Many bad things have been happening to Iran in the recent period," added Mickey Segal, a former director of the Israeli military's Iranian intelligence department. "Iran is in a situation where pressure on it is mounting, and the latest assassination joins the pressure that the Iranian regime is facing."

Defiant Iranian authorities pointed the finger at archfoe Israel.

Here; http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-kills-iranian-nuclear-expert-122304552.html

Of course if I was a betting man I would also bet that Israel is behind this. And why not?? Isn't this a better way to wage war against a regime that has announced it's plans to destroy you?? Isn't a few guys on a motorcycle killing a few key players A LOT less invasive than flying hundreds of bombers dropping hundreds of bombs and igniting a full on war??

Implosion or Revival?

2012-01-10T21:39:00.001-06:00

Author Joel Rosenberg sent out this email today. Pretty serious stuff. He seems to agree with what we have been saying...mainly that there isn't a politician in either party that is going to be able to save us. If America is going to be saved it will take the supernatural hand of God. We need a Holy Spirit revival.

(Washington, D.C., January 10, 2012) -- Are you praying (even fasting) today for America, for Israel and for the nations of the epicenter? Are you praying specifically for the Lord to raise up leaders who will get America back on the right track economically, spiritually and morally?

I just finished writing and editing a new non-fiction book entitled, "Implosion: Can America Recover From Our Economic and Spiritual Challenges In Time?" Lord willing, it will be published in June. But I need to begin talking about the message now because the issues are too important to wait. In the book, the most difficult I've ever had to write, I argue that America is not simply in decline; we are actually headed for collapse -- an implosion -- unless we make fundamental and sweeping changes soon.

Yes, we need strong, principled leaders with deep convictions who will return us to the Biblical principles that our Founders wove into the Constitution. But even in the best case scenario, even if we elect the right people who are serious about making major reforms in Washington and have a track record of results, they will not be able to save this country alone. We need so much more -- we need the Lord to rescue us, to have mercy on us, before it's too late. We need a series of spiritual revivals to break out in every region of the country to wake up a slumbering Church and reinvigorate pastors and lay people to preach the Gospel, make disciples, plant new churches, and care for the poor and needy with great boldness, courage and compassion. We saw God do this in America in the early 1700s with the first Great Awakening. We actually saw God do this again in the early 1800s with the Second Great Awakening. Now is the time to plead with the Lord for a Third Great Awakening.

USDA Closes Hundreds of Offices

2012-01-10T07:53:00.000-06:00

It's a conundrum....on the one hand we want to REDUCE GOVERNMENT and cut spending....but on the other hand we want the government to guarantee that EVERYTHING IS SAFE.

Think about it....we want to make sure that Ford Fiesta cars don't blow up...and we want someone to check it out when they do. We want to make sure there are no terrorists on airplanes, no guns in schools, no dangerous pesticides on our apples, no feces in our fish, no worms in our burgers, no lice in our sweaters, no stink bugs in our basements, no hoodlums on our corners, no prostitutes standing on our corners, no oil companies drilling into our ground water supply, no pornography piped through the TV and radio airwaves, no rabies in dogs, etc., etc...... In short we want our world to be safe, but we are sick of paying for the millions of people that are required to check all this stuff out.

Today the headlines are telling us that the USDA is closing 200+ offices. I will put some of the major info in bold and you see if this doesn't point to some foreshadowing of future "issues".

DES MOINES, Iowa – The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Monday it will close nearly 260 offices nationwide, a move that won praise for cutting costs but raised concerns about the possible effect on food safety.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the goal was to save $150 million a year in the agency's $145 billion budget. About $90 million had already been saved by reducing travel and supplies, and the closures were expected to save another $60 million, he said.

"They wiped out the entire Midwest," said Lorenz, whose office handles all federal inspections of meat, poultry and egg products in Minnesota, Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming.

"Our workload is at record highs, we have less money and fewer people and work to do and we tried to address how do you do that without interrupting service," Vilsack said in a phone call from Honolulu, where he was speaking to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Colin Woodall, a spokesman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, which represents more than 147,000 ranchers nationwide, applauded the USDA for trying to save taxpayers' money in tight economic times but also expressed concern about food safety.

"We can't say this is all great news because some offices will be closed," he said. "We have to make sure we have the process in place to keep food safe."

"Over the long haul, we believe farmers and ranchers across the country will be better served by the choices we made," he said.

But that was of little consolation to California cotton growers mourning the loss of the 80-year-old agriculture research station at Shafter, which solved many of the industry's pest and fungus issues.

Calcot, a growers' co-op that sells more than a million bales annually, had lobbied officials to keep the center, which lately has been working to address fusarium wilt, a soil-dwelling fungus that attacks cotton plants.

"This is going to be to the detriment of the U.S. cotton industry and ultimately the world because so much research there has benefited growers everywhere," Calcot spokesman Mark Bagby said.

So when the cotton crop gets over run with some new fungus....who do we want to fix it?....THE GOVERNMENT.

And when an E Coli outbreak kills 5 people eating ground beef...who do we want to solve it....THE GOVERNMENT.

And when the wheat crop begins to fail from some strange pest.....THE GOVERNMENT.

And when a jet falls from the sky and we want an answer....THE GOVERNMENT.

Friends, I will remind you that farming is VASTLY different that it was 50 years ago when everyone had an uncle or brother who was farming a few hundred acres and had 40 cows, 20 hogs, and 50 chickens. Today's agriculture operations are thousands of hogs, turkeys, cows, chickens and fish all raised in very tight quarters that rely on antibiotics being pumped into them 24 hours per day just to survive. The crops that we raise are all genetically modified to produce the most bushels with the least amount of rain and require enormous amounts of fertilizer....but they are also VERY susceptible to some strange fungus blowing in and wiping everything out.

The Bible tells us clearly to expect famine in the Last Days. So who will be around in the USDA to solve the next huge fungus outbreak or swine flu outbreak that will threaten the nation's food production and safety?

Good question.

It's Becoming a 'Fat Tail' World

2012-01-10T06:42:00.000-06:00

The world is becoming more volatile. It is becoming more difficult for folks to make normal calculations about what to expect in the near future. The investment world has a name for the possibility of experiencing extreme outcomes...they are called 'Fat Tails'.

Such unpredictability speaks to an uncomfortable possibility of extreme events. "Fat tails"—the technical term for the extremes of an outcome distribution—are risks for any global system that loses its anchors. Economies and markets function differently, companies and households feel unsettled, and policy measures become; less effective.

He goes on to say;

Every year has elements of unpredictability, but what's in play in 2012 goes far beyond the usual risk of policy slippages, unexpected election outcomes and geopolitical hotspots. This is also about the global economy losing important anchors.

With European economic fragmentation no longer totally unthinkable, expect even more people around the world to opt for "self insurance," thereby sucking growth oxygen from the global economy. We already see this in companies' preference for holding record levels of cash on their balance sheets, not because they like earning virtually no interest income but because they want lots of assurances of safety and freedom of action.

In such a world, prudence is the name of the game, and patience will likely be rewarded. To paraphrase Will Rogers, investors are well-advised to worry first about the return of their capital and second about the return on their capital. In doing so, they should exploit the flexibility that comes with cash and make prudent allocations to instruments that pay positive real returns, including high-quality municipals, bonds issued by countries with solid balance sheets, and the debt and equity of global companies with iron-clad cash flows and debt dynamics.

Here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140431509989506.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I believe it is pretty interesting that this article talked about the global system losing it's anchors.

Bible readers know that the ONLY force that is holding this entire system together is the restraining power of Jesus Christ. Without that...the whole thing would fling apart.

So as the world draws closer to The Great Tribulation it would make total sense to start seeing more "fat tails"....and even the secular authors writing in the Wall Street Journal seem to sense that SOMETHING IS GOING ON....fat tails seem to be happening every single day.

More Extreme Weather

2012-01-09T23:19:00.000-06:00

The national news tonight was talking about more extreme weather. In Alaska one town has had 20 feet of snow in the last 3 weeks and the national guard just showed up to help. Also a massive, and unusual, amount of snow has shut down parts of Austria. Next they had had video clip of snow flurries in India in a town that has never seen snow. Meanwhile it was 50 degrees and sunny AGAIN in Minnesota which us allowing for unheard of golfing in January.

And in Texas they have been suffering through the worst drought in recorded history and today they finally got some rain in Houston....but it was TOO MUCH rain that came TOO fast. The news showed video of cars floating down the roads in downtown Houston.

Houston roads were flooded and thousands of residents lost power on Monday after powerful thunderstorms plowed through the area, with a possible tornado damaging and shutting down a nearby mall. Several inches of rain fell in the drought-stricken area over a two-hour period. Roads rapidly flooded and drivers became stranded on major arteries that connect the city’s sprawling neighborhoods and suburbs. In Texas City, about 40 miles southeast of Houston, a possible tornado damaged the roof and wall of the Mall of the Mainland. The building was evacuated and shut. In North and West Texas, the National Weather Service said, a steady downpour will drop an inch or two of much-needed rain. Texas got an estimated 14.89 inches of rain in 2011, compared with a normal average of 29.39 inches.

Here; http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/us/texas-much-needed-downpour-comes-with-a-downside.html

The weather folks seem to be at a loss to explain all the strange happenings that seem to be happening almost every single day.

What's going on?.....Must be global warming...oops...sorry.....meant to say climate change.

Strong Economic Data for USA

2012-01-08T19:42:00.001-06:00

We have posted in the past about the USA being the "least worst" place to invest in this very volatile world and currently we are benefiting from this.

The headline today is that there is so much demand for U.S. Treasury bonds that the Federal Reserve will not have to go to the auction this week and "buy" anymore.

In the past few years with the federal deficit at $15 trillion plus, and no spending cuts in sight....if the U.S. Treasury needed to come up with cash for Uncle Sam's checkbook, they sold IOU's called Treasury bonds. If there weren't enough buyers to satisfy the supply, or if interest rates were deemed "too high" by the powers that be....then the Federal Reserve would step in with fake money and "buy" up the slack.

Now today we find out that the rest of the world can't buy U.S. Treasuries fast enough...because they are so scared of what's going on in Europe that everyone is fleeing for the safety of the USA.

Why do I have a sinking feeling that this may not end well?

Strong data damps Fed need to buy bonds: Bullard

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Signs the recovery is gaining strength suggest the Federal Reserve may not need to buy any more bonds to spur growth, a top policymaker said on Saturday.

"I don't think it's very likely right now because the tone of the data has been pretty strong" through the end of 2011 and up to now, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard told reporters after a speech at an economics conference. "We can probably wait and see for now."

The Federal Reserve cut benchmark rates to near zero more than three years ago and has bought $2.3 trillion in bonds to boost growth.

While the Fed has left the door open to further accommodation, the U.S. economy has shown signs of accelerating growth in recent months, leaving many to wonder whether the central bank needs to do any more.

Adding to a sense of pickup, the government said on Friday that employers added 200,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate eased to 8.5 percent, near a three-year low.

Here; http://news.yahoo.com/strong-data-damps-fed-buy-bonds-bullard-015447697.html

I'm going to ask you a question; When real estate in the USA went up by 15% in 2001 and seemed to do it every single year....was that "good" news for everybody?? Then everyone flooded into real estate and seemed convinced that it would NEVER go down. We had people buying condos in MN for $230,000 and they are now selling for $60,000. So when did the "good" news of the real estate boom turn into "bad" news?

In the same way, if the world seems convinced that the U.S. Government is the least risky place in all the world....is that "good" news or should this be labeled as "scary" news since you and know dang well how poor the U.S balance sheet truly is.

Is it possible we are witnessing a big MONEY TRAP that will be the final straw and the world floods into U.S. Treasuries believing they are safe (just like they did real estate) only to have something calamitous happen to the U.S. Treasury market?

I guess we better keep watching....but for now I am going to label this article "good" news.

Men Are Born to Cheat

2012-01-07T09:39:00.000-06:00

The Bible says that all humans are born with sin embedded into our very cores. We are born that way. Some are born with a bend towards gluttony, some towards idolatry. Others are born with a bend towards perversion...which may include homosexuality, bestiality, etc... And I believe it is safe to say that just about ALL MEN are born with the desire to have sex with multiple women.

The gay agenda has been to convince society that since gays are born that way...then to deny them their desires is tragically wrong. And now that this argument has caught speed in society....we knew it would only be a matter of time until someone pointed out the obvious that men are born with the desire to have sex with MORE THAN ONE WOMAN...and to deny them this is like putting us in a cage that can lead to anger, frustration and contempt...and who wants that??

Monogamy is failing men.

Not only is it failing them, but it's a "socially compelled sexual incarceration" that can lead to a life of anger and contempt, or so says Eric Anderson, an American sociologist at England's University of Winchester and author of the provocative new book, The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating (Oxford University Press, $49.99).

Cheating, however, serves men pretty well. An undiscovered affair allows them to keep their relationship and emotional intimacy, and even if they're busted it's a lot easier than admitting that they wanted to screw someone else in the first place, he writes.

In his study of 120 undergraduate men, 78 percent of those who had a partner cheated, "even though they said that they loved and intended to stay with their partner." Contrary to what we may think, most men aren't cheating because they don't love their partner, he says; they cheat because they just want to have sex with others. And society shouldn't pooh-pooh that.

Monogamy's stronghold on our beliefs -- what he calls monogamism -- brings ostracism and judgment to anyone who questions or strays from its boundaries. That doesn't make sense to Anderson, who wonders why we stigmatize someone who has a fling more than couples who divorce -- throwing away a marriage rich in history and love, upsetting their kids' lives -- over something like sex.

Monogamy isn't the only "proper" way to be in a relationship, and he says it's time that society finds "multiple forms of acceptable sexual relationship types -- including sexually open relationships -- that coexist without hierarchy or hegemony." It's especially important for today's young men, for whom monogamous sex seems more boring than in generations past because of easy premarital sex and pornography.

Here; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-larson/why-men-need-to-cheat_b_1170015.html

Of course it is Satan who has always been out to destroy God's stated plan to have one women leave her family and be united with one man so that the two should become one. He realizes that if he can tear this fabric apart that society won't last long and that pain, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, fatherless children, crime rates and ultimately anarchy will be the result.

If he can get society to believe that gay sex is OK and shouldn't be restrained...then it can't be long until society is FORCED to accept bi-sexual sex and marriage, bestiality, multiple wives...and ultimately some woman is going to want to marry chimpanzee...and who will have any right to stop her?? Why should marriage be confined to two humans when orangutans hold 99% of the same DNA as humans? After all...how do you TRULY define what is human?

Friends, I think it is becoming painfully obvious that we ARE ALREADY ON the slippery slope. And once you are on that slope and sliding towards the abyss there is really nothing you can do to stop the slide and reverse course.

Of course our God is a God of miracles so can certainly pull us up out of the miry clay and set us on a the straight path.....but it will take the nation to repent like they did in Nineveh when Jonah warned them to repent or be destroyed...and I simply don't see any signs of a great Holy Spirit revival yet happening in America.

Biggest Defense Drill EVER!

2012-01-06T18:32:00.001-06:00

I just got done posting on the most evers...EVER!....and turn to the Israel news and see this:

U.S. and Israel Preparing for ‘Biggest Defense Drill Ever’

IDF and U.S. forces will team up soon for a major missile defense exercise, “the biggest one ever” according to military sources.

The Israeli military is gearing up together with U.S. forces for a major missile defense exercise, the IDF announced Thursday.

The Associated Press reported that the “Austere Challenge 12” drill is designed to improve defense systems and cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli forces.

“Defending against an attack is not something that you improvise from today to tomorrow,” Van Creveld told AP. “It’s something you have to prepare, you have to rehearse, you have to prepare for. This, among other things, is an exercise to show Iran, the people in Tehran, that Israel and the United States are ready to counterattack.

Here; http://thelandofisrael.com/blog/u-s-and-israel-preparing-for-biggest-defense-drill-ever/

How is a guy supposed to keep up on all these EVERS!!

Most "Evers"...EVER!

2012-01-06T16:36:00.000-06:00

The global extremes just continue rolling along. Ever since we started watching for the word "ever"....we have not been disappointed, and yesterday's incredibly hot weather across the upper Midwest gave us a whole slough full of "evers".

It was 68 degrees in Mitchell, South Dakota yesterday. That didn't just break the all time high for January 5th....it SHATTERED it by 17 degrees. As our local weatherman said, "We are witnessing a once in a lifetime weather event!"

More than 300 record high temperatures were set in 21 U.S. states Thursday. But the heart of the unusual warmth concentrated in Plains, where some areas experienced temperatures 40 degrees above average.

Several locations set all-time January record high temperatures, including Huron (65 degrees) and Mitchell (68 degrees) in South Dakota (SD) and Minot (61 degrees), Fargo (55 degrees) and Jamestown (56 degrees) in North Dakota.

What distinguishes this warm spell is the amount by which some records were broken. Consider Rapid City, SD hit 73, obliterating the old record by 13 degrees. (That 73 degree high temperature was 4 above the high temperature of 69 in Miami, Fl). Aberdeen, SD reached 63, smashing the old record of 46 by 17 degrees and setting a new monthly record.

AccuWeather highlighted the following incredible record: “...in Philip, S.D., the mercury reached a balmy 74 degrees, which absolutely obliterated the old record of 46 set back in 2002.”

Across the U.S., almost one thousand high temperature records have been broken or tied this January, and more than 1,400 in the last week.

Wunderground’s Jeff Masters led his daily column this way: Flowers are sprouting in January in New Hampshire, the Sierra Mountains in California are nearly snow-free, and lakes in much of Michigan still have not frozen. It’s 2012, and the new year is ringing in another ridiculously wacky winter for the U.S.

Here; http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/plains-bask-in-historic-record-warm-weather/2012/01/06/gIQAZleBfP_blog.html

I don't know if this is God's way of paying back us Minnesotans for last years MOST MISERABLE WINTER ON RECORD....but if it is then I say "Thank you, God!"

However, lets remember the potential HUGE downside to all this warm weather with NO SNOW....no crops will grow next spring unless we get some rain...and here in MN it hasn't rained since August, which means we are currently experiencing the driest fall and winter EVER!!

No crops=Famine....which Jesus clearly told us was one of the conditions to watch for.

The End of Arab Christianity

2012-01-05T14:09:00.000-06:00

I think many of us believed that if the West took out Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Mubarek, and the Taliban that just MAYBE the small piece of decency that is present in humanity would be given a chance to break out and shine! And if it could shine for a while then those folks would elect some decent leaders and just MAYBE they could start living in peace with their neighbors.

Of course this isn't happening. In fact the exact opposite is happening and the Arabs are turning on each other and electing even MORE severe governments than those who we helped overthrow...as in Egypt electing the Muslim Brotherhood.

So what happened?

First off we need to remember that there IS NOT even a tiny piece of decency in human beings....we are all evil from the time of our birth, and our marching orders are given to us by our father, the devil. That's what the Bible tells us. The ONLY thing that changes this is when Jesus transforms us into "Children of the Light."

Second off, Jesus came to bring light into the totally dark world. Without light there is nothing but darkness...and in MOST of these Arab/Muslim countries there is not much light because there are VERY FEW Holy Spirit filled people shining the light into these dark lands.

And now, it appears, that even that tiny, dim light may quickly be snuffed out.

Welcome to a Christians-free Middle East. Arab Christianity is near its extinction everywhere. “Christianity in Iraq could be eradicated in our lifetime, partially as a result of the US troop withdrawal,” declared Leonard Leo, chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Up to 900,000 Christians already fled the country since 2003, according to a recent study by Minority Rights Group International. Benjamin Sleiman, archbishop of Baghdad, also spoke of “the extinction of Christianity in the Middle East.”

In Egypt, 100,000 Christians already left the country after Hosni Mubarak’s fall earlier this year. The Egyptian Union of Human Rights is denouncing this “mass exodus.” This week Egyptian authorities arrested Gamal Massoud, a Coptic Christian student accused of posting a drawing of Islam’s prophet on Facebook that triggered two days of violence in southern Egypt; meanwhile, Muslims were attacking Massoud’s house and chanting “Allahu akbar” or “God is Great.”

For the first time in Syrian history, the current Minister of Defense, Dawud Rajha, is a Christian. Yet this is not a sign of power, but rather, of desperation. Adnan al-Aroor, the Syrian sheikh who has become the religious voice of the uprising against Assad, is urging his followers to “tear apart, chop up and feed” the meat of Christian supporters of the regime “to the dogs.”

Elsewhere, in Gaza, the 3,000 Christians who remain are subjected to persecution and death. Meanwhile, every year some 1,000 Palestinian Christians are leaving their citadel Bethlehem. In a recent Christmas celebration hosted by the Fatah movement, Mohammad Shtayyeh, a central committee member, appealed to Christians to “remain in the land.”

Nonetheless, the Islamic tiger is now devouring the Christian lamb. Indeed, the Christian era in the Middle East is coming to an end.

Here; http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4171336,00.html

It's kind of funny how we humans like to think in two-part sequences. For instance, "If we over throw Iraq...it will be a better place." Or, "If we we give people democracy....then the world will be more peaceful." Or, "If we are nice to the Muslim countries....then they will ultimately come to love us."

The problem is that the world is MUCH more complex than that. It's more like a three dimensional chess game than it is a game of checkers. If you bomb a terrorist in Pakistan...that event can affect about 5 different levels on the world game board...where as we in America would be more prone to think, "We killed a terrorist...so world is now a better place."

And then when you throw in our Adversary, Satan, into the mix who is prowling around like a lion looking to seek and destroy everything....we silly humans are simply over matched and outwitted...but we have too much pride and arrogance to ever admit it...which keeps us from submitting to our Creator.

And if we won't submit to our Creator and Fear the Lord....we will never have any wisdom....and with out any wisdom the problems of the earth will multiply....and ultimately the whole thing will tip over.

I wonder if it will tip over in 2012?

More Evidence

2012-01-05T10:26:00.000-06:00

It seems that almost every month there is new evidence surfacing that proves that the Bible is true...and that the Jews are in fact exactly who they say they are and that they lived in the Holy Land exactly as the Bible promises.

This is in spite of what all the Muslims are saying...who deny that the Jews ever had a temple in Jerusalem and that the Jews are simply squatting on Arab land.

Today we have more evidence emerging.

Second Temple Seal Found in Jerusalem Excavation

Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of a rare clay seal – likely used to certify the purity of ritual objects used in the Second Temple – at an excavation site under the Old City of Jerusalem.The coin-sized seal, measuring about two centimeters in diameter, bears two Aramaic words meaning “pure for God.”

It is the first “direct archaeological evidence of activity on the Temple Mount and the workings of the Temple during the Second Temple period,” according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The rare seal was unearthed at the City of David excavation site just outside the Temple Mount compound. Last month, archaeologists found four bronze coins stamped around 17 A.D. by the Roman official Valerius Gratus during an excavation at the site.

Here; http://thelandofisrael.com/blog/second-temple-seal-found-in-jerusalem-excavation/

I almost get the idea that God, in His infinite mercy, is saying, "Even though I have given you plenty of evidence to believe, I will continue giving you even more right up until the time I send my Son to collect his bride. That way NO MAN will have an excuse on judgment day."

Culture Crisis

2012-01-04T19:24:00.000-06:00

Of course one of the categories we have been watching is the collapse of the U.S. culture. Our forefathers warned us 200 years ago that when the majority of voters discover they can vote themselves healthy benefits from the public treasury....they will proceed to vote the whole country right into bankruptcy.

The whole nation has been talking about the health care crisis ever since Obama was elected and pushed through free health insurance in an attempt to "fix" the hopelessly broken system.

I received this email that probably some of you also have recieved which is supposedly written by a doctor who works in the emergency room of his local hospital. Whether it's written by an actual doctor really doesn't matter because as you read it you will understand that our health care crisis is really a culture crisis....and we all know that we are currently on an unsustainable path.

Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ring tone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"!
During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses.
Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."

Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

If You Can't Beat Them....Join Them!

2012-01-04T16:19:00.000-06:00

Here's a great article for the, "We Must Be Idiots!" file.

Since the Muslim Brotherhood seems to be taking over Egypt...and their number one goal is the destruction of Israel and America....let's send TEAM OBAMA over there to see if we can make friends!!!

US seeks closer ties with Islamists in historic shift in Egypt policy

CAIRO — With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests.

The administration’s overtures — including high-level meetings in recent weeks — constitute a historic shift in a foreign policy held by successive American administrations that steadfastly supported the autocratic government of President Hosni Mubarak in part out of concern for the Brotherhood’s Islamist ideology and historic ties to militants.

The shift is, on one level, an acknowledgment of the new political reality here, and indeed around the region, as Islamist groups come to power.

Here; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45867719/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

Holy waffle!! What kind of message does this send to Islamist freaks all over the world?!?! The Satanic horde is gathering to destroy God's Holy people....and us....and all we can think to do is set up meetings to drink tea and smoke the peace pipe?!

Really?

History should show us that appeasing radicals ONLY serves to empower them.....but maybe this time things will be different?? Really??

The definition of insanity; doing the same thing over and over and each time expecting a different result.

Hat tip to Tom F.

Dreaming of a One-World Currency

2012-01-03T16:50:00.000-06:00

The debt bomb financial situation of the world continues to grow. Bible readers know that ultimately the current system of numerous currencies will ultimately fail and will be replaced by a global financial system that the Antichrist will take control of...and require the "mark of the beast" in order to access it.

So we continue to watch for movement towards that inevitability. Today we have this;

Dream of Universal Currency Just Won’t Die

The euro zone maelstrom refuses to end. Thanks to the debt crisis, some Greek officials are contemplating dumping the common currency for the drachma. Meanwhile, Italy and Spain teeter. A decade after the shared currency was heralded as a 21st-century tool for peace and prosperity, it turns out that currency unions aren’t such a hot idea.

Not so fast, though. This is undeniably a period of epic turmoil, and many economists will tell you that sovereign states need sovereign currencies—full stop. But this notion ignores a fundamental truth: Countries with their own currency may have monetary independence, but in reality—as gun battles in Libya, CDOs in the US, and tsunamis in Japan have taught us—we are only becoming more economically intertwined, regardless of what our coins look like.

Step back from the current crisis to consider the long view, and currency unions—or even a single global currency—have a fair share of appeal. A universal medium of exchange could eliminate currency risk and jack up trade. It would mean speculators couldn’t short an individual country’s currency. Exporters wouldn’t have to fret over the gap between a price on a contract and the value of the payment. A single currency could halt spastic swings in prices and end conversion fees, leaving more of the pie for little stuff like R&D and employee health insurance. Oh—and it could put an end to international disputes over currency manipulation. Hello? China?

The fact is, the modern economy and monetary system are too damn precarious for us not to examine every possible way to protect against future shocks—including going all in on a universal currency. It’s a bit like geoengineering: radical and outrageous at first blush but, given humanity’s current predicament, not as outrageous as dismissing it out of hand.

Here; http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/st_essay_globalcurrency/

So you see, when the global currency is proposed it won't be something that people will be dragged into kicking and screaming. It will be something that people will be ASKING FOR...because they want to avoid the shocks to the financial system that we have all been experiencing over these past 4 years.

People won't be FORCED to take the Mark of the Beast....they will be asking for it because they will all want to be part of the latest and greatest plan to save the economies of planet earth.

As many have already said...when the rapture of the church happens and the massive financial shock of their absence kicks in....someone really smart will come up with the plan for a single currency....and articles like those referenced above are preconditioning people to expect it.

Thankfully we won't be here during this coming incredible time of deception.

Tri-Faith Project Being Built in Omaha

2012-01-02T14:08:00.000-06:00

So what do you get when you cross some Episcopalians, some liberal Jews and some Muslims?

Answer; a Tri-Faith Project campus being built in Omaha Nebraska whose vision is: "Our vision is to build bridges of respect, acceptance and trust, to challenge stereotypes, to learn from each other and to counter the influence of fear and misunderstanding," the project posted on its website as its mission statement.

Yes!! And of course their theme song will be Kum-ba-yah...where the word "Lord" can mean anything you want it to mean!!

OMAHA, NE — The similarities between the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are well known to those who study each religion, but many people practicing these faiths are not quite as aware.

A new project that its creators call the first development of its kind in the world hopes to shed light on those similarities with the building of the new Tri-Faith Project, a large privately-funded development in Omaha on a former country club and golf course that spans 35 acres and will comprise three sites: Temple Israel, the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska (including a church) and the American Institute of Islamic Studies and Culture (which includes a mosque), as well as the large central Tri-Faith Center connecting the three religious centers for common events and meetings.

The main building will use a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) structure and will house an auditorium and briefing room for conferences, lectures, symposiums and film screenings, coffee shops and gathering spaces, kitchen and dining facilities, space for traveling exhibits and more. Included on the site will be educational and social facilities to be used by all of the religious groups sharing the campus.

Here; http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article&cat=Community&article=5102

Holy One-World-Religion!! Did you catch all that crap about using an Energy and Environmental Design so that, of course, the whole thing can be a "green" project?? Did you catch the drivel about the "similarities" between the 3 Abrahamic faiths?? Give me a flippin' break!!! The Koran says right in it that the Jews and infidels should be killed so the whole world can submit to Islam. How do "tolerate" that?

I have an idea that soon they will open their doors to others like the Hindus, Buddhists, Mother Earthers, etc....because they will also find "similarities" with those folks probably claiming that, "They all have a deep yearning for peace."

I'm sure Satan is clapping his hands together with joy over this project....a whole boat load of people doing NOTHING to gather themselves closer to Christ and the Truth He came to bring.

"Wide is the road that leads to destruction and many will be on it."

All Religion is True

2012-01-02T09:35:00.000-06:00

This tiny article caught my eye this morning and falls into the "sign of the times" category.

A major pop star named Cee Lo Green, sang John Lennon's famous song, "Imagine". In that song there is a verse that talks about a time on earth when there would be no wars and also "no religion too." Cee Lo made a big mistake and changed the words...which made lots of Lennon fans upset...as he changed that passage to "and all religion is true."

Cee Lo Green upset John Lennon fans on Saturday night by performing a soulful version of the songwriter's classic "Imagine" with the lyrics changed from "nothing to kill or die for / and no religion too" to "nothing to kill or die for / and all religion's true." According to some fans, Green changed the meaning of the song by switching out the line. "The whole point of that lyric is that religion causes harm," tweeted someone with the handle @geekysteven. "If 'all religion's true' it would be a pretty bleak place.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cee-lo-green-outrages-john-lennon-fans-by-changing-lyrics-to-imagine-20120102#ixzz1iJaHWlan

How lost people are....believing that it is religion that causes all the harm on the world. Don't they understand that atheists like Stalin and Pol Pot have been responsible for the deaths of million?? Of course they don't.

Now that being said, it is the exclusivity of Christ's words, "I came to bring Truth," that so offends the Lennon followers and even Cee Lo Green.

Green, who sang the song on NBC's New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square, responded to criticism about the alteration by tweeting "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all."

Yes of course....wouldn't it be NICE, Cee Lo, if you could believe whatever you wanted and it would ALL BE TRUE!!!....and EVERYONE GOES TO HEAVEN....and HELL DOESN'T EXIST!!! Wouldn't that be FUN?!?!

50 Reasons that Today is Different

2012-01-01T14:17:00.000-06:00

For all those folks who believe that there is nothing different about the American condition today...here are 50 reasons why you may not want to hang all your hopes on the USA.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-economic-numbers-from-2011-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe

As 2012 begins rolling along let's remember that the Bible tells us to have faith in God...and God alone.

Israeli General Hints at Another Gaza Campaign

2011-12-30T14:53:00.000-06:00

The missiles are still sailing out of Gaza and into Israel on almost a daily basis. Let's ask ourselves how long the U.S. military would allow missiles to sail out of the Pine Ridge Indian reservation and into Rapid City, South Dakota before they would respond.

A retaliatory Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian militant today amid a gradual resurgence of fire across the Israel-Gaza border that has prompted discussions in Israel about an effort to reestablish "deterrence."

This week marks the third anniversary of the swift, devastating 2008-09 Israeli incursion into Gaza that was intended to cow Hamas into ending its rocket campaign in southern Israel. Although the ceasefire that ended Operation Cast Lead has largely held, there has been occasional fire, including this week.

On Dec. 28, Israel killed one Islamic Jihad operative and wounded 10 "global Jihad operatives" in two strikes, Haaretz reports. The following day, Gazan militants launched four rockets into southern Israel's Negev desert, causing no injuries.

The head of Israel's Southern Brigade said yesterday that preparations for another "large-scale" Israeli incursion into Gaza are underway "to renew our deterrence," Haaretz reports.

Here; http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/1230/Israeli-general-hints-at-another-Gaza-campaign

Wars and rumors of war continue to surround God's Holy Land.

Muslim Extremist Gives Christmas Message

2011-12-30T11:50:00.000-06:00

Lest you had any doubts about what Islamists believe about Jews, Christians and Jesus....we have a video Christmas message given to us from a Muslim in the UK. I will post some of the transcript below;

Hello to all of the non-Muslims. Christmas is a period when many events and many views are heard. In particular at this time of the year people think about Jesus – 'Issa (peace be upon him). Jesus was not a Christian, and, in fact, if Jesus was alive today he would be following the Muslims and Islam. Indeed, 'Issa (peace be upon him), said that the messenger Muhammad (SAW) would come after him, and he gave him one of the names which Allah has mentioned in the Koran – Ahmad. And indeed 'Issa was a Muslim. There are many people who want to attribute things which are not correct to 'Issa (peace by upon him). For example, that he believed in confession – confessing to a person to be forgiven for your sins. That he believed in Original Sin – that you are born sinful. That, in fact, they say that he allowed to eat and drink whatever you wish; and, in fact, he said: 'Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and give unto God what is God's,' whereas we know about the life of Jesus – 'Issa (peace be upon him) – that he rose against the Roman emperor in his time. He forbade cheating in the market. He forbade the promiscuity, and he forbade the Jewish judicial system in his own era.

"And, in fact, he said that you worship, and you obey, and you follow none but Allah. And that is the true message of Jesus as found in the Koran and in the statements of the Messenger Muhammad (SAW). And in this spirit as well, the Muslims – those who had the attribute of commanding good and forbidding evil – should realize that Christmas has many evils associated with it. Every true Christian, as well, knows that this has nothing to do with Christianity. This pagan festival where there is promiscuity, the abuse of alcohol, domestic violence, and all kinds of crimes. Break up of families, which are associated with it, is something which the Muslims must put on their agenda to forbid, and to invite people away from this debauchery into Islam – the pure way of life. And, indeed, Jesus will return one day and he will break the cross and he will pray behind the Muslims and he will declare with them that indeed, he believes in the finality of the Messenger Muhammad (SAW) and in al-Islam."

You can read the rest here; http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5949.htm

Really?? Jesus would be a Muslim and wouldn't hang out with the Jews...even though he is one? And Jesus would come and confirm the message given by Muhammad?...who happens to be an illiterate pedophile who was inhabited by a false spirit sent from Satan in hopes to pervert the TRUE GOSPEL given on earth over 700 years earlier?? How could Jesus have been a Muslim when Islam didn't even exist until 700 years after Jesus left this earth?????

Holy jihad!! This whole Islam thing is not going to end well. For one thing I believe that they believe MORE STRONGLY IN MUHAMMAD than most people who call themselves Christians BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS GOD. So they have the power of conviction behind them. And when you stand that up against a bunch of lukewarm people claiming to be Christians....and then throw in a big dose of power given by the Prince of the Earth....you have a recipe for chaos.

Now, let's complicate things a bit further. What if you knew this guy who gave the message had has finger on the trigger to about 8 nuclear weapons that were mounted on missiles and pointed at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and 6 more were hidden on freighter ships on the high seas within a few hundred miles of the U.S. coast? What if you knew that he believed that the whole world needed to be engulfed in chaos to allow the 12th Imam to return to earth to rule...and that he will bring Jesus with him when he comes?

We don't need to pretend too much longer....because Iran's leaders may be days or months away from having the capability to bring global chaos....and THEY DO BELIEVE that the 12th Imam is already here and just waiting to be revealed when the chaos reaches a crescendo.

Even so....Come Lord Jesus! What an exciting time to be alive!!

Hat tip to Tom F.

8 Out of 10

2011-12-29T13:26:00.001-06:00

Our friends at Barna research have come up with another statistic and it's not a good one.

Barna: 8 out of 10 young Christians can’t apply their faith to everyday life

Eight out of ten young Christian adults in America have no idea how to apply their faith to their daily living, reports pollster George Barna.

His finding was announced as the Barna Group released its end-of-the-year top six trends in American faith for 2011.

One of the most favorable discoveries by pollsters was that three-quarters of Americans see churches as a positive factor in their communities. Only 5 percent consider the church’s influence to be negative. However, “Americans are struggling to determine how faith, Christianity and church fit into modern life,” reports Barna.

Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/12/barna-8-out-of-10-young-christians-cant-apply-their-faith-to-everyday-life.php#ixzz1hx95f3dU

I believe the Bible tells us that in the last days men will have a form of godliness but will deny it's power. This research would certainly confirm this prophecy. How many people do we have in our churches who sit in the pews on Sunday but have no concept of WHO JESUS CHRIST really is? How many of them have NO IDEA how the Holy Spirit works or WHAT their mission actually is?

Sadly most people who define themselves as Christians spend their lives trying to conform to the patterns of this world....rather than allowing the Holy Spirit to transform their hearts and minds.

Lord, please help us in our unbelief.

Alien Artifacts on the Moon?

2011-12-29T08:16:00.002-06:00

It seems that Hollywood and the media have been particularly enamored with the alien agenda over the past few years. Hollywood is kicking out alien movies and TV shows faster that you can say the word, "abduction". And now science seems to be joining the chatter that we are not alone in the universe and they we may soon discover the "Truth" of how humans actually made it to earth.

The headlines today are talking about how the moon is now going to be scoured for evidence of alien visits.

Hundreds of thousands of pictures of the moon will be examined for telltale signs that aliens once visited our cosmic neighbourhood if plans put forward by scientists go ahead.

Passing extraterrestrials might have left messages, scientific instruments, heaps of rubbish or evidence of mining on the dusty lunar surface that could be spotted by human telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.

Though the chances of finding the handiwork of long-gone aliens are exceptionally remote, scientists argue that a computerised search of lunar images, or a crowd-sourced analysis by amateur enthusiasts, would be cheap enough to justify given the importance of a potential discovery.

Here; http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/25/scour-moon-ancient-traces-aliens?newsfeed=true

And the follow up news is that NASA has two probes en route to the moon as we speak and they should start sending back information in a few days.

Officials at NASA say they are now entering a new stage of a mission intended to place a pair of probes around Earth’s nearest neighbor and only satellite.

NASA officials said Monday mission controllers are preparing for the twin spaceships, named Grail-A and Grail-B, to enter the moon’s orbit on New Year’s Eve. The pair of probes are tasked with measuring the uneven gravity field of the moon and determine what lies beneath — straight down to the core.

Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/nasa-continues-push-to-reach-moon-with-pair-of-probes/#ixzz1hvsrCx7X

Hmmmm.....I wonder why all this focus on the moon? Are they getting ready to "find" something?

Remember that we believe that any "aliens" that they find, or that reveal themselves to us, are not actual aliens but rather are demons in disguise who have an agenda to deceive humans in a grand Satanic scheme.

Strait of Hormuz

2011-12-28T17:54:00.000-06:00

There is a narrow little passage that about 40% of the earth's oil flows through called the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has been threatening to close it and mess with global oil markets. The USA has said that Iran will do no such thing. Tensions are building.

BEIRUT—Tensions between Iran and the U.S. rose Wednesday as the U.S. Navy warned it would prevent any attempt to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, as Iranian officials threatened to do in response to imposing sanctions on its oil exports.

A significant supply of the world's energy—about 15 million barrels of oil per day—passes through the strait, a narrow passage that connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman. A disruption of that flow would send higher the price of oil in an already fragile global economy.

Several Iranian officials over the past week commented on Iran's capability and willingness to choke off the strait if the West embargoes Iranian oil or takes any other hostile action.

Iranian Navy Admiral Habibollah Sayyari repeated Wednesday that it would be "very easy" for the country's naval forces to shut down the strait. Iran is conducting a 10-day naval exercise in and around the waters of the Persian Gulf.

A day earlier, first Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, said in a speech to Iranian students that "not even a drop of oil will flow through the Persian Gulf" if Iran's oil is embargoed.

"If our enemies in the West start conspiring against us, we'll take strong action to put them in their place," he added.

Here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204720204577126732090437136.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Most analysts don't believe Iran can afford to close the Strait since they depend on the cash coming in every day from oil sales and it would cripple their economy.

That sure makes sense from an economic point of view...but what if the country's leaders all believe that the 12th Imam is on earth already and is simply waiting for massive chaos to break out on earth so that he can grab the reins to usher in the 13th Caliphate where Islam will rule the world after killing all the Jews and Christians who refuse to bow to Allah...and that Iran's leaders believe they are the one's appointed by Allah to usher in the necessary chaos??

I sure hope we have some analysts who start thinking outside the box. I believe we also never thought it possible that angry Muslims would fly airplanes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon while screaming, "Allah Akbar!"

I do know that if Iran did decide to mess with the Strait of Hormuz that oil prices would sky rocket in the short term. And even if gasoline jumped to $6 gallon for even a few weeks here in the USA....it may really start to rattle people's confidence....which could be a trigger for the collapse of confidence in our paper money system the Western world is currently using.

0% Interest Paid on U.S. Bonds

2011-12-28T13:05:00.000-06:00

This information is simply quite amazing. In spite of the fact that the USA is on an unsustainable spending track....the world is still clamoring to loan us money!! So much so that at the recent U.S. bond auction there were people lined up to borrow our money even though we WON'T PAY THEM ANY INTEREST!!!

This morning, Bloomberg reported that investors' demand for Treasury bonds was the highest it's been since 1995. For taxpayers, the timing could not be better. The more banks, pension funds, and foreign countries clamor for Treasuries, the lower the interest rate our government has to pay. So in this age of gargantuan budget deficits, we're getting dirt-cheap loans to keep the lights on in Capitol Hill.

How cheap? According to Bloomberg, during an auction of short-term bonds last week, the Treasury received nine-times as many bids as it needed to sell off all its $30 billion worth of debt. The interest rate it offered: 0%.

Let me repeat that: The U.S. government can sell its debt without paying any interest at all. Zilch.

At Wonkblog, Ezra Klein says there's an obvious policy response in this situation: borrow more. He points out that once inflation is taken into account, Treasury yields are actually negative for five, seven, and ten-year bonds. In other words, investors are essentially paying the government to take their money. It's an ideal time to borrow and spend to put Americans back to work, while passing a deficit reduction bill that takes effect in a couple years.

And it's not clear the government will have a chance like this again any time in the near future. Treasuries have been buoyed by two powerful, but temporary, forces. First, Europe tumbled into crisis, which left U.S. government debt was as one of the last safe investments on the market. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve went on a buying binge, snapping up $600 billion worth of Treasuries in order to try and push investors into other kinds of assets. The Fed's purchases made American debt even more scarce, meaning private investors were willing to accept comically low interest rates in return for a safe harbor to dock their money.

Here; http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/if-our-debt-is-so-dangerous-why-are-people-begging-for-more/250550/?google_editors_picks=true

What's amazing is that for the past few years we have been looking at the USA financial condition and saying, "What happens when no one show up at our auctions because they don't want anymore USA paper debt?"....and in reality the USA is getting a HUGE BENEFIT from being perceived as the LEAST WORST place to park your "safe money"....and people are still flooding to our auctions snapping up every IOU that we print!!

Could this be God's sustaining hand for us?

Could this be the final LAST DAYS MONEY TRAP that pours $trillions of global investor's money into the USA and when the rapture happens the USA will collapse leaving the globe's investors unable to collect on our IOU's?

Something strange is going on. This condition IS NOT NORMAL. To me this is simply more evidence that a very dangerous bubble is building. The world is so desperate for safety and guarantees that they will PAY SOMEONE to simply hold their money....and that "someone" is the US Treasury.

Now maybe I am dead wrong. Maybe the world's investors are correct in believing that the USA is such an incredible country and they are so positive that she will ALWAYS be here to pay her IOU's....that we should lighten up on all the doom and gloom news coming for America. Maybe America's brightest days are ahead of her and everyone else realizes this...EXCEPT US!!!

Could be. But let's remember to take a look at legalized abortion, lawlessness, divorce, broken families, porn addictions, falling away from the Gospel, extreme weather, strange signs in the skies, outbreaks of paranormal activity, the news focused on Israel, the enemies gathering against Israel, Israel being isolated, coalitions building, earthquakes, wars and rumors of war....and then remember that the USA is not mentioned anywhere in biblical prophecy.

I guess we all need to make up our own minds in these VERY confusing times. Pray that the Lord Jesus will guide our hearts and minds during these strange times that he has blessed us to live in.

A Year for the Record Books

2011-12-28T12:21:00.000-06:00

2011 is a year that has gone into the record books. The USA had more $billion dollar plus natural disasters than any other year. Tornadoes, floods, droughts, quakes,...the list is long.

Watch this YouTube video from the director of NOAA explaining how in his 40 years of watching weather....he has NEVER seen anything like this.

Here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGsqnY9IFFU&feature=player_embedded#!

Bible readers will understand that while the USA was being put through the natural disaster ringer....the USA was putting Israel through the pressure ringer, exerting pressure on Israel to divide God's land.

Yes friends....this is not a coincidence. There is a direct correlation between God shaking us while we shake Israel. Simply more evidence that our God is an awesome God.

Crisis of Confidence in Public Debt

2011-12-27T16:19:00.000-06:00

Many financial market watchers are calling the last week of rising stocks the "Santa Claus Rally." But now the three wise men (actually 2 men and 1 woman) have spoken and it appears that they don't believe the upsurge in financial markets will hold for 2012.

Interesting that one of them is the leader of the IMF and she sees a real problem continuing to build in the area that is so vital for sustainability....CONFIDENCE!

Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who predicted the unraveling of the financial system in 2008, is calling for “a recession in Europe, anemic growth at best in the United States, and a sharp slowdown in China and in most emerging market economies.”

Kenneth Rogoff, the Harvard economist who has studied 800 years of financial crises, calls for a “second great contraction” caused by a badly over-leveraged global economy that requires deleveraging that “typically takes many years to complete.”

You want a more official rendering? I give you Christine Lagarde, who keeps warning that the world economy is in a “dangerous situation.” This past weekend she explained that the “Santa Claus rally” in the U.S. was due simply to “only temporarily calmed markets.”

Be forewarned: Ahead of us, predicts the IMF leader and gritty former French finance minister, is “a crisis of confidence in public debt and the solidity of the financial system.”

Here; http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/12/26/from-2011s-santa-claus-rally-to-2012s-perfect-storm/

OK....I may not be a wiseman, but you have to admit that when the leader of the IMF uses a phrase like "crisis of confidence in public debt and the solidarity of the financial system"....that sounds pretty serious.

If the public starts to realize that France owes Italy $billions, and Italy owes Greece $billions, and Germany owes France $billions, and the UK owes Germany $billions....and no one actually has any money to pay the $billions that they owe the other without borrowing it from someone else....the realization could really put people into panic.

On top of this news we have the U.S. government realizing that once again they need to raise the debt ceiling this week by another $1.5 trillion to keep things going along on all of our unsustainable programs that we indebted to.

I am seriously beginning to wonder if the ONLY reason that this whole house of cards has not already collapsed is because the retraining hand of God has been held up to stop it all from crumbling....until HIS perfect timing allows it to crumble.

Americans Say They are Better Off Than Their Parents

2011-12-26T12:25:00.000-06:00

I have an I Phone that has an app on it called Fluent News. It's a headline news service where I can check headline news.

The top headline when I just turned it on was this;
Poll: Americans Better Off Than Their Parents

A majority of Americans said they were better off financially than their parents were at the same age, although older adults were more positive about their wealth than younger people were, according to a Gallup poll.

Of 1,012 adults surveyed, 69 percent said they're better off financially than their parents, down from the 74 percent who said so in 1998, the last time Gallup asked this question.

"Most Americans still think they are doing better financially than their parents did when they were the same age," Elizabeth Mendes, deputy managing editor at Gallup, wrote in a blog post. "This is positive news, given the difficult state of the U.S. economy over the past several years -- with millions of Americans seeing their home values deteriorate and jobs evaporate."

Homes in the U.S. are expected to lose $681 billion in value in 2011, according to Zillow. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate is 8.6 percent, the lowest this year but still higher than many economists had hoped. Unemployment has remained persistently high since the recession began in 2008, with the country witnessing the longest stretch the jobless rate has stayed over 8 percent since 1948.

Here; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/americans-off-parents/story?id=15233913

Now let's imagine if Gallup took a poll and asked, "Spiritually speaking, are you better off than your parents?"

I wonder how the answers would differ? It certainly makes me wonder if it wouldn't be revealed that each passing generation has been turning away from the "fear of the Lord"....and so has been losing wisdom with every passing decade. We may have more technology than our forefathers and more material wealth....but I wonder if we aren't starving to death from Spiritual hunger...and only a hunger that the Holy Spirit endowed by Jesus Christ can satisfy.

Also notice the last sentence about how unemployment has been above 8% for the longest stretch since 1948. What happened in 1948 that rocked the world?? Israel became a nation!...and as long as we blessed her existence our economy has been blessed....but now that we may be turning against her and pressuring her to divide the land...our economy may also be losing it's blessing.

Just a coincidence?? You decide.

And the Government Will Be Upon His Shoulders

2011-12-25T09:45:00.001-06:00

Isaiah chapter 9 tells us;

⁶ For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
⁷ Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the LORD Almighty
will accomplish this.

Anybody who has ever been to a choir concert has probably heard these verses sung...but how many listeners realize that the ONLY part of the passage that has happened is that a child has been born?...that's it.

The government has never sat on Jesus' shoulders. Peace on earth between men has been non existent and has actually gotten worse as the population of earth grows. The world has never called Jesus "Wonderful Counselor". And of course justice and righteousness has also been in very short supply on planet earth....and as the greed of men seems to be getting worse, not better.

So friends, we have some great promises to look forward to! This is an exciting time! The nations are rising against each other, the love of many has grown cold, children have become ungrateful and disobedient, men have become brutal and lovers of themselves, even the women are turning into perverts as porn bathes our society. This can only mean one thing....the Lord is going to come and set all things straight! And we have a guarantee that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus!! WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD AND JESUS GAVE IT TO US!!

So today during this celebration of our Lord and Savior's birth, lets remember that the story only STARTED in Bethlehem 2000 years ago...and the best is yet to come.

Merry Christmas everyone! Jesus is coming!!

Russia and a Missile Named Satan

2011-12-24T09:36:00.000-06:00

The tensions around the globe continue to heat up. It's almost as if the nations can sense that something is getting ready to be shuffled...and they want to make sure they are ready to gather up their fair share of the pieces.

Today the headlines out of Russia are that they are not happy with the U.S. missile defense shield which we are working on to defend our allies and ourselves against an Iranian nuke. Russia doesn't quite see it that way and are a little upset that it could be used to shoot down Russian nukes as well.

So now we have the headlines out of Russia that they are working on a 100 ton monster missile and it's nickname is "Satan"...and it appears the Cold War may start heating up again.

During campaign season, it never hurts for a presidential candidate facing a frustrated public to display toughness and resolve in the face of an old and familiar adversary. And it also doesn't hurt to throw in some shock-and-awe--say, a ballistic missile nicknamed "Satan."

This appears to at least partly explain why on Monday Russia announced that it had successfully tested a short-range interceptor missile; part of its ongoing effort to develop a domestic missile defense system, according to Russia's RIA News Agency. (The Russian Defense Ministry has provided a video of the missile's launch on its website.) Russia also announced it is working on the development of a 100-ton ballistic missile slated for release in 2015, Pravda reports. Russia recently held contested parliamentary polls and is due to hold presidential elections in March. Russia watchers note the political backdrop to the announced plans and their part in the wider narrative agenda: resurgent Russia's determined opposition to American missile defense plans in Eastern Europe.

"In connection with the plans of the United States to develop the air defense system in Europe, in close vicinity to Russia's borders, and because of the unwillingness of the U.S. side to provide any guarantees, the Russian Federation continues to take measures to preserve parity in the field," Pravda reports.

Here; http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/moscow-eyeing-u-missile-defense-plans-announces-100-194904097.html

Remember that most prophecy watchers believe that the land of Magog mentioned in the Bible is today what we would call the territories that used to make up Soviet Union.

Also keep your eyes on what is happening with Putin over there. He may not be the automatic shoe-in for President that many had believed he would be as protests build against his political ambitions.

Christianity May Be Gone From Iraq and Afghanistan

2011-12-23T11:52:00.000-06:00

Jesus said he came to bring light into the darkness. Wherever his follower are endowed with the Holy Spirit on earth then there is a light the shines. The more followers there are...the brighter the light that shines.

So now that the USA has led a war in both countries hoping to allow freedom and human rights to ring...the exact opposite appears to have happened. The Light of Jesus Christ may be disappearing at a very fast pace.

I think one would refer to this as "unintended consequences."

(CNSNews.com) - Despite long-term U.S. military occupations aimed at establishing representative governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Christianity now faces the real threat of eradication in those countries because of severe and persistent persecution of Christians there, according to the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Similarly, despite the “Arab Spring” rebellion in Egypt earlier this year, the survival of Christianity is also threatened in that country because of the escalating persecution of Christians.

“We are looking at two different countries where the United States invaded, occupied, changed their governments in the last decade--Iraq and Afghanistan--where it’s possible Christianity might be eradicated in our lifetime?” CNSNews.com asked USCIRF Chairman Leonard Leo in a video interview.

“Yes,” said Leo, “and, unfortunately, that is sort of the pattern throughout the Middle Eastern region. The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year. It’s a very, very alarming situation.”

Here; http://cnsnews.com/news/article/christianity-may-be-eradicated-iraq-and-afghanistan-says-chair-us-religious-freedom

Isn't that ironic that the most "Christian" nation on earth may have used our military and diplomatic powers to overthrow Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt....and now the Christians are being chased out at an alarming level?

That Satan character is sure a sneaky dude. It makes one wonder if he knew all along that if the demons of war were unleashed in those lands that he would use the opportunity to drive all the Light out...so that darkness can reign.

1 John tells us clearly that the "whole world is under the control of the evil one"....so I guess it really shouldn't surprise us that the U.S. may have been used in this way.

Old Testament Prophecy Fulfilled Before Our Eyes?

2011-12-22T17:40:00.000-06:00

There is an obscure passage in Isaiah that talks about bricks coming down and a sycamore tree being destroyed and replaced by a different type of tree.

The Jewish author of a new book out titled The Harbinger is making the claim that the bricks coming down on 9/11 killed a sycamore tree that was replaced by type of cedar tree.

The "coincidences" get pretty eerie after that as two different U.S. Senators invoke the same obscure passage following 9/11.

If this story interests you, you can access the article here; http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=379829

What these Senators don't realize is that the passage they are reading is actually calling down judgment and not offering comfort and solace...which is what they believe they are invoking.

Pretty darn interesting...so I would suggest you take 5 minutes and read the article.

The passage is Isaiah 9:10 and the very next day was 9/11. Coincidence? You decide.

Pakistan Turns to Exorcism for Help

2011-12-21T16:25:00.000-06:00

How do you get rid of a demon inhabiting a person in Pakistan when the Holy Spirit is in VERY short supply...or even non existent?

A girl in a long black shirt screams incoherently, banging her head against a wall at a Sufi shrine in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Sania Haneef’s family says she is possessed by a demon.

Doctors could not help, so they brought the college student, kicking and screaming, to be exorcised by the spirit of a saint.

The West mostly associates Pakistan with Taliban militants who force women to cover from head to toe, blow up girls’ schools and carry out suicide bombings. But Islam in the South Asian nation of 180 million is far more diverse.

Many flock to shrines like the one where Haneef’s relatives seek solace in the Sufi strand of Islam abhorred by militants and considered more liberal in its philosophy than other branches followed by Shiites and Sunnis.

“Sania has been possessed since she was six years old,” her brother, Mohammed, said, describing how an evil spirit, known as a jinn, would speak through her in a man’s voice.

“The shrine has captured the spirit. Sania will be cured soon. None of us is leaving until that happens.”

Pakistanis are beset by problems -- violence, crippling power cuts, poverty and dilapidated hospitals are but a few.

The government, seen as inept and corrupt, offers little relief.

Here; http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/12/20/183549.html

One can't imagine that their attempts at using Satanic rituals will do much to cast out whatever demons may possess these people.

We need to continue to pray for these dark strongholds that have been in eternal darkness. Only the light of Jesus Christ can heal what ails them.

Hat tip to Tom F.

Investors Lose Faith

2011-12-21T15:23:00.000-06:00

Yesterday the stock market went up over 2.5% in one single day....but ironically billions of dollars has been pouring OUT of the stock market as investors are losing faith and confidence in they system.

Investors Lose Faith in Stocks As Billions Pour Out of Funds

Investors appeared to have lost faith in stocks this year.

Just over a week ago, equity mutual funds globally had the second-biggest one-day outflow of money in 2011, capping four straight weeks of net redemptions, according to data from EPFR Global.

Worldwide, investors have yanked $34 billion out of equity funds this year and put $75 billion into bonds.

here; http://www.cnbc.com/id/45741694

Let me be VERY clear when I say that I have NO IDEA what the stock market is going to to in the next months or years. However, there is plenty of evidence that the foundations of our entire financial system are being put to the test...or they are being shaken, whichever you prefer.

It's important to hold on to the promises of Jesus and our heavenly Father as the world shakes. It important to continue reading his word and it's important to meet more often with other believers to offer encouragement and to be encouraged.

Hebrews 10:25
not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

U.S. Crime Rate FALLS!!

2011-12-21T12:32:00.000-06:00

In our quest to bring you some "good new" happening on planet earth...we ran across this article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal.

Crime continues to fall in all major categories, a streak that has now hit 4½ years, according to data released Monday, but killings of police officers are on the rise this year.

Violent crime fell 6.4% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period last year, with declines seen in every region of the country, Federal Bureau of Investigation figures showed. The preliminary data were gathered from about 12,500 local law-enforcement agencies.

Police officials and some criminologists attribute the persistent crime drop to more-sophisticated policing methods, such as targeting hot spots with extra officers. James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, said the proliferation of technology—from security cameras to cellphones—has also played a large role, making it harder for people to commit crimes without being reported or recorded.

Mr. Fox, the criminologist, said public perception of crime is often sharply at odds with actual crime rates. Many Americans, he said, "simply won't believe" crime is falling. For one reason, there are still plenty of neighborhoods where shootings are common. Second, he argued, crime is such a huge part of news and television programming that many people don't realize the crime rate is roughly half what it was two decades ago.

Here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204879004577108403536584094.html

What?? The crime rate is HALF of what it was 20 years ago??!! If that's true, that is some REALLY good news!!

I would say I have to agree with his news and programming contents. We are simply bombarded with bad news 24/7 because that is more interesting to report and watch than good news. Imagine how long a show would last that showed some boy scout troops cleaning a stream or a show that follows people delivering meals on wheels. America want so to see guns blazing, cops running, criminals killing, etc....and the news wants to report on it. So when we watch a steady diet of this news....we can have the idea that crime is increasing since we were little kids.....but it appears that this might not be true in the USA.

Palm Sized Baby

2011-12-20T11:59:00.001-06:00

A teeny tiny baby was born and has survived evidently being the 2nd smallest baby in U.S.

This headline got me thinking about something I have always pondered but no one from the Pro-Choice side has been able to satisfactorily explain...and here is the scenario;

If a woman gives birth to a palm sized baby weighing just 9 1/2 ounces and the doctor puts it into an incubator where the baby is alive....and then the mother decides the next day that she really doesn't want the hassle and expense of caring for a preemie baby....so the mother goes over to the incubator next door to her hospital room and shoves a scissors into the baby's head killing the baby....the police would immedieately arrest the woman and charge her with murder....the media would be appalled and how any human woman could behave so mercilessly to a baby....and the public outrage all around would be severe.

Now let's back up the whole scenario 24 hours where that same woman is still pregnant so the same palm sized, 9 1/2 ounce baby is still safe in her womb....and she decides she doesn't want the baby so she pays a doctor to reach into her womb and stick a scissors into the baby's head, kills it and then vacuums it out of the woman. The woman goes home, the baby is thrown into a dumpster and the doctor collects $500 for his expertise.

The ONLY thing that changed is 24 hours....the result is still one dead baby. But in one case the woman is in prison and in the next scenario she might be patted on her back for having "courage".

Can ANYONE explain how this can be happening in a civilized, intelligent country?

At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces -- less than a can of soda -- she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don't survive, but doctors are preparing to send her home by New Year's.

Melinda was born premature at 24 weeks over the summer and spent the early months cocooned in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit in Southern California. Almost every day, her 22-year-old mother sits at her bedside and stays overnight whenever she can.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/15/palm-sized-baby-2nd-smallest-in-us-to-be-released-from-hospital-by-new-years/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz1h69cgXoK

I have read statistics that U.S. woman have aborted over 50,000,000 babies since abortion was legalized in the 1970's. I heard one sermon where the preacher said, "The blood of 50,000,000 innocent children of God is crying out from the ground demanding justice from their Creator!"

You just wonder how long it will be until justice rolls...

But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream! Amos 5:24

Massive Storm Hit Philippines

2011-12-19T15:45:00.000-06:00

Hundreds are dead and swept out to sea as a surprise storm bashed into the Philippine Islands. Check out some of the language used to describe this catastrophe;

The disaster area, located about 800km from the capital, Manila, is normally bypassed by the average of 20 typhoons that ravage other parts of the far-flung Philippine archipelago every year.

As a result, many residents were caught by surprise when floods suddenly hit their homes in the dead of night, before dawn on Saturday.

More than 88,000 people have been displaced by the storm with over half of them huddled in crowded, makeshift government evacuation centres, the disaster management council said.

The death toll is expected to rise even further as more floating bodies are recovered after sunrise, said Benito Ramos, head of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

He put the total of the dead at 927, adding that the council had lost count of all those still missing after tropical storm Washi brought heavy rains, flash floods and overflowing rivers to the southern island of Mindanao.

"They [the dead bodies] were washed out to sea. They were underwater for the first three days but now, in their state of decomposition, they are bloated and floating to the surface," Ramos said.

"The death toll will rise again [in the morning] when more bodies surface."

Here; http://m.smh.com.au/world/philippines-storm-death-toll-tops-900-20111220-1p2tb.html

It sounds like a scene out of some Armageddon movie. These scenes seem to be happening so fast that no one much pays attention anymore. Probably just the way that the Prince of this Earth would have it.

For those of us who are "awake" these headlines just confirm that something BIG is going on. For those who are "children of the darkness"....the increased frequency of catastrophic events just seems to make them fall further into a deep sleep...and further into denial.

They were caught by surprise when the flood came and took them all away.....sounds eerily familiar to as it was in the Days of Noah.

The Permafrost is Thawing!!

2011-12-19T15:30:00.000-06:00

Let's have a brief chat about global warming, shall we?

For the record, I am of the understanding that we are on an enormous rock (called earth) that is spinning around on it's axis at 1000 mph and hurtling through space as it makes it billions of miles annual march around the sun. No man is driving this earth....we are just along for the ride.

We also know that some thousands of years ago that a large part of this planet, including where I sit in Minnesota, was covered by up to one mile thick ice....and that the ice scratched out most of our 10,000 lakes here in Minnesota.

We also know that earth has been hit with some REALLY large meteors in the distant and not distant past...meteors so large that they could have wiped out huge amounts of life and forever changed the planet.

Is summation...I believe we are supposed to care for the earth around us as best as we can. But unlike many of my liberal neighbors here in Minnesota, I don't believe this earth is going to end ONE SINGLE DAY BEFORE GOD SAYS SO.

So back to global warming.....is the earth getting warmer? Maybe! I would hope it has gotten warmer because if it hadn't we may all be sitting under a glacier. But has earth also gotten colder in the not distant past? It appears so...because Greenland used to be farmed...and now it is sitting underneath lots of ice.

So what's going on? I believe it is just one more event that is being used by the Prince of this Earth to pit humans with a Biblical worldview against those without a Biblical world view. Personally, I have been ridiculed by some liberal friends for not buying into the theory of Man-Made-Global-Warming. How could I be so ignorant, they will ask me. We need to all come together all over the world to stop this warming or we will all die!!...they tell me. Or at the very least the sea levels will rise so far that all the billions of people now living along the ocean will have to relocate and the unrest will kill us all...or at least bankrupt us all.

The Bible tells us that this earth is passing away....because it WILL one day pass away...and the Lord Jesus Christ will remake it into an earth where the lion lays down with the lamb and the children will be able to play with poisonous snakes. Yep...that's what I believe. Can you imagine telling that to your college professor??

Now today we have a new terrifying headline that could really shake up the world's climatologists....The PERMAFROST IS MELTING!!! And when it does it could put so much carbon from the decaying plants locked under the ice...that we may all be doomed a lot earlier than anyone thought.

One of the least understood — and one of the more unnerving — facets of climate change is the question of what will happen as the Arctic region heats up and permafrost in places like Alaska and Siberia thaws out. There’s a whole lot of carbon locked up in all that frozen soil and organic matter. And, as the frost melts, that carbon will enter the atmosphere, most of it as carbon dioxide, but some of it transformed by bacteria into methane, an even more powerful heat-trapping greenhouse gas. That, in turn, will warm the planet further. It’s a potent feedback mechanism, and scientists still aren’t sure just how potent it might be.

So how worried should we be? Over the weekend, Justin Gillis had a beautifully reported piece in The New York Times on the permafrost question that summed up what scientists do and don’t know: “In the minds of most experts, the chief worry is not that the carbon in the permafrost will break down quickly — typical estimates say that will take more than a century, perhaps several — but that once the decomposition starts, it will be impossible to stop.” There’s no looming apocalypse, but melting permafrost could make it much harder to avoid setting the planet down a path of irrevocable warming.

Here; http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/just-how-scary-is-permafrost-thaw/2011/12/19/gIQAUE4j4O_blog.html

Here is an interesting question....how did all these green plants get locked under a sheet of ice and permafrost to begin with? Doesn't that mean that at one time the earth was so warm that it grew green plants way up past the Arctic circle? And if it was that warm thousands of years ago before humans were even burning fossil fuels....why can't they just accept that mankind has no control over volcanoes, meteors, ocean currents, el nino, la nina, cloud cover, jet streams, etc.... We have no control over anything!! Yet many of the world's "smartest" scientists are telling us we all better submit to some massive carbon scheme (which is ultimately a power grab of control) or else we will all be doomed.

The intelligence of the intelligent men on earth certainly appears to be waning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom....and without that fear there can be no understanding of what is going on.

Kim Jong Il is Dead

2011-12-18T22:05:00.000-06:00

Big news just coming out of North Korea is that their wacko leader is dead.

We need to be in prayer for this dark, poor country that the light of Jesus Christ may somehow be shined into the darkness of North Korea.

SEOUL—Kim Jong Il, the dictator who used fear and isolation to maintain power in North Korea and the threat of nuclear weapons to menace his neighbors and the U.S., has died, North Korean state television reported early Monday.

His death opens a new and potentially dangerous period of transition and instability for North Korea and northeast Asia. Mr. Kim in September 2010 tapped his youngest son to succeed him, though it isn't known whether the son will take control right away.

Here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576321193199255166.html

We have had fun over the years referring to this strange dude as the "Gopher in a pant suit"...and now that this dude is in the afterlife, it is terrifying to imagine the fear and pain that he is experiencing because he rejected Jesus Christ.