World focus continues to be on LBL territory...

The 'leopard' of the Lion-Bear-Leopard beast was Alexander the Great, whose ancient empire is illustrated below:


Obama's new focus in fighting al Qaeda falls within LBL territory - just as the Bible said 2,000 years ago the world is preoccupied with fighting Islam (sorry "insurgents who happen to be Muslim") in the Middle East.



Obama makes Pakistan center of Al-Qaeda War
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President Barack Obama Friday put Pakistan at the center of the fight against Al-Qaeda in unveiling a new strategy to commit thousands more troops and billions of dollars to the Afghan war.

Obama vowed to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" Osama bin Laden's group, which he said was plotting deadly new assaults against the United States more than seven years after the September 11 attacks.

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California quake swarms
A swarm of more than 250 earthquakes have hit close to the southern San Andreas Fault since Saturday, ranging in magnitude from 0.8 to 4.8.

An earthquake swarm near a section of the notorious San Andreas Fault that has not ruptured in more than 300 years has prompted some people 150 miles away to take action.

⁷Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

-Matthew 24

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Forget mortgage fraud - Keep your eyes on the center of the universe

Israel's next government - a real hodgepodge (but God will work through them too)

If the March 2006 elections reshuffled the political deck in Israel, the February 2009 elections reshuffled it again. One of the biggest shockers three years ago this week was the collapse of Likud. Winning only 12 seats that year, Likud dropped to a dismal fourth place. No one could have imagined then that, three years later, Netanyahu would be forming the next Israeli government.

the God of Jacob says:

³ All you people of the world,
everyone who lives on the earth—
when I raise my battle flag on the mountain, look!
When I blow the ram’s horn, listen!
⁴ For the Lord has told me this:
"I will watch quietly from my dwelling place—
as quietly as the heat rises on a summer day,
or as the morning dew forms during the harvest.”
5 Even before you begin your attack,
while your plans are ripening like grapes,
the Lord will cut off your new growth with pruning shears.
He will snip off and discard your spreading branches.
6 Your mighty army will be left dead in the fields
for the mountain vultures and wild animals.
The vultures will tear at the corpses all summer.
The wild animals will gnaw at the bones all winter.

Isaiah 18:3-6 [NLV]