The 'man of the common people' chooses private school
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty of Washington strongly lobbied the Obamas to consider a public school, but that was apparently never an option.

Soon, everybody will be working for uncle Sam - Obama outlines rebuilding plans to create jobs
I wonder who's going to pay for all that?

America's Future is in the Red

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Iran will have fuel for 3 A-bombs by end 2009, US nuclear experts
Will bring new meaning to the term: "Happy New Year" (only if you're a reborn Christian, otherwise things look pretty dismal in this rapidly deteriorating world)

Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
A burst of U.S. cross-border attacks from Afghanistan has killed dozens of suspected militants since August but has drawn angry protests from Pakistan, an uneasy ally in Washington's war on terrorism facing a wave of destabilizing violence.

IAEA: Iran has enough enriched uranium for a single A-bomb
...Tehran has thus jumped three months ahead of US and Israeli intelligence estimated timeline of February 2009 as the timeline for a sufficiency of enriched uranium to build a bomb. The experts ask how long until Iran has the know-how for further purifying the fuel and perfecting the design for an atomic warhead. DEBKAfile’s sources report that Tehran acquired this technology some years ago from the Pakistani nuclear smuggler Dr. A.Q. Khan.

Obama's first fatal mistake

Obama supports 2002 Arab Peace Initiative
The Arab Peace Initiative, based on the Saudi peace plan of February 2002, calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories taken in the Six Day War, including east Jerusalem, in exchange for normalizing ties with the Arab world.

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God's judgment is about to rain down. Only Christ can save you!

Al Qaeda says order given for US attack “far bigger than 9/11”

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that US president-elect Barack Obama, European and Russian heads of state in Washington for the G20 conference over the weekend were briefed about a probable early al Qaeda attack.

Obama and his team have been advised that a new al Qaeda strike is highly probable in the United States or against a key US target in Europe, North Africa or the Middle East.

Note to Legal Sodium regarding our discussion on the last post: If this "bigger than 9/11 strike" is a nuclear strike on America (which has been widely speculated), then I will completely agree that the Revelation 17 Whore of Babylon is America, and we are living in the very midst of unfolding end-time, Biblical prophesy.

Christ is coming soon. Be found ready.

Why the Bible?
Ravi Zacharias at the University of Illinois

There's no other book in the world with as much documented support than the Bible. Unfortunately the vast majority of people today ignore this fact at the cost of their eternal soul. What a horrible thought! The God of Israel is a merciful God, wanting none to face eternity in hell, but sadly most alive today are headed for exactly that.

2 Peter 3:
9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.


2 Corinthians 6:
1 As God’s partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God’s kindness and then ignore it. 2 For God says,
“At just the right time, I heard you.
On the day of salvation, I helped you.”
Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.

Luke 18:
6 Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge.
7 Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
8 I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”

At least 8 Sderot civilians injured by 11-missile salvo from Gaza Friday

Joel 3:

4 “What do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and you cities of Philistia? Are you trying to take revenge on me? If you are, then watch out! I will strike swiftly and pay you back for everything you have done. 5 You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples. 6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, so they could take them far from their homeland.

7 “But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the people of Arabia, a nation far away. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

9 Say to the nations far and wide:
“Get ready for war!
Call out your best warriors.
Let all your fighting men advance for the attack.
10 Hammer your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
11 Come quickly, all you nations everywhere.
Gather together in the valley.”

And now, O Lord, call out your warriors!

In the following videos, a man facing eternal damnation, accepts Christ and passes from eternal death to eternal life. It's a beautiful thing to watch. Praise Jesus Christ who makes it possible. Amen!

Osama - Obama’s First Test?

Warning of new bin Laden attack on America

Bin Laden is working on another 9/11 - Is Barack Obama listening?

To begin with, the Obama administration will move to shut down Guantanamo Bay as soon as possible. Should things work out as the new president has planned, terrorists from Guantanamo should be released just in time to join Al-Qaeda in new terrorist attacks within the United States.

Of course American intelligence will no longer know for certain what Al-Qaeda is up to (have they ever?), because under Obama U.S. intelligence agencies will be prohibited from eavesdropping on telephone conversations between potential terrorists and their counterparts in America. In addition, the Democrats will surely work to gut the Patriot Act to make sure that America is completely vulnerable to terrorism...

More to pray about (it breaks your heart) -- "Child witches" of Nigeria seek refuge

Mary is a pretty five-year-old girl with big brown eyes and a father who kicked her out onto the streets in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. Her crime: the local priest had denounced her as a witch and blamed her "evil powers" for causing her mother's death.

This Sunday, as most of us can freely attend the church of our choosing - please pray for Orissa, India

Gospel for Asia Update

Email sent to me this morning...

This is a request for prayer for YWAM missionaries and their churches in Orissa, India. The request came from her friend, Mable Hurst, an associate of HCJB Global. Please read and make this a matter of urgent prayer.

Dear beloved sponsors and friends of Good News India.

We have never seen anything like this. We knew that Orissa was the most resistant and hostile State in India as far as the Gospel is concerned. And we brushed off the continuous threats and harassment we faced as we went about His work. But none of our staff imagined that they would see this kind of carnage.... And it seems to be totally under the radar of the Western Media .... Let me explain.... A militant Hindu priest and 4 of his attendants, who were zealously going around the villages of Orissa and 'reconverting' people back to Hinduism, were gunned down by unknown assailants in Central Orissa last weekend. Immediately the Christians were blamed. The cry rose up...'Kill the Christians!' And the horror began.... In the past 4 days, we have first hand witness to hundreds of churches being blown up or burned and many, many dozens of Christian tribals have been slaughtered. For no other reason than they bear the name of Christ.

Night and day I have been in touch with our Good News India Directors spread across 14 Dream Centers in Orissa... they are right in the middle of all this chaos. In Tihidi, just after the police came to offer protection, a group of 70 blood-thirsty militants came to kill our staff and destroy the home. They were not allowed to get in, but they did a lot of damage to our Dream Center by throwing rocks and bricks and smashing our gate, etc. They have promised to come back and 'finish the job.'

Our kids and staff are locked inside and have stayed that way with doors and windows shut for the past 3 days. It has been a time of desperately calling on the Lord in prayer.
More police have come to offer protection. In Kalahandi, the police and some local sympathizers got to our dream center and gave our staff and kids about 3 minutes notice to vacate. No one had time to even grab a change of clothes or any personal belonging. As they fled, the blood thirsty mob came to kill everyone in the building. We would have had a mass funeral there, but for His grace. In Phulbani, the mob came looking for Christian homes and missions. The local Hindu people, our neighbors turned them away by saying that there were no Christians in this area. So they left. We had favor. The same thing happened in Balasore. All our dream centers are under lock down with the kids and staff huddled i nside and police outside.

The fanatics are circling outside waiting for a chance to kill. Others were not so fortunate. In a nearby Catholic orphanage, the mob allowed the kids to leave and locked up a Priest and a computer teacher in house and burned them to death.

Many believers have been killed and hacked into pieces and left on the road.... even women and children. At another orphanage run by another organization, when this began, the Director and his wife jumped on their motorbike and simply fled, leaving all the children and staff behind. Every one of our GNI directors that I have spoken to said: 'We stay with our kids.... we live together or die together, but we will never abandon what God has called us to do.'

More than 5000 Christian families have had their homes burned or destroyed. They have fled into the jungles and are living in great fear waiting for the authorities to bring about peace. But so far, no peace is foreseen. This will continue for another 10 days.... supposedly the 14 day mourning period for the slain Hindu priest. Many more Christians will die and their houses destroyed. Many more churches will be smashed down.

The Federal government is trying to restore order and perhaps things will calm down. We ask for your prayers. Only the Hand of God can calm this storm. None of us know the meaning of persecution. But now our kids and staff know what that means. So many of our kids coming from Hindu backgrounds are confused and totally bewildered at what is happening around them. So many of their guardians have fled into the jungles and are unable to come and get them during these trying times.

Through all this, I am more determined than ever to continue with our goal: the transformation of a community by transforming its children. Orissa will be saved... that is our heart's cry. If we can take these thousands of throw-away children and help them to become disciples of Jesus, they will transform an entire region. It is a long term goal, but it is strategic thinking in terms of the Great Commission.

What can you do? First, please uphold all this in fervent prayer. Second, pass this e-mail on to as many friends as you can. We must get the word out and increase our prayer base for this is spiritual warfare at its most basic meaning. We are literally fighting the devil in order to live for His Kingdom. The next 10 days are crucial. We pray for peace and calm to pervade across Orissa. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please pass it on and help us to get as many people to partner with us on this cutting edge effort to fulfill His mandate: Go and make disciples of all nations.... Prayer works!

Blessings, Chip & Sandy Wanner Col 2:2 MBI Team Facilitators to YWAM frontlines

The God Factor and why the next administration is doomed

Obama: 'I have a deep faith'

"So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God.

That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard.

How many different ways can Jesus' words "...no one comes to the Father but by me" be twisted?

Wanted: Suicide bombers to attack the US

"The Iranian regime has tried to present the martyrdom movement as a voluntary enterprise independent of the state," MEMRI reported in May. "However, the presence of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) representatives at the movement's registration ceremonies suggests that it is endorsed by the regime."

In July 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly endorsed suicide missions, asking, "Is there an art more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal than the art of martyrdom?"

And the US president-elect wants to use "tough diplomacy" on Iran? Been there, done that!



Ahmadinejad congratulates Obama on election win
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election win – the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

God has indeed blessed His people - Record number of Jews elected to Congress

"Change we need"? Canada quietly adjusts to Obama's agenda
Ottawa must focus on finding shelter from a wave of protectionism expected in Congress

Iranians welcome Obama as a sign of Bush defeat
Iranians have welcomed Barack Obama's victory as the next US president as a triumph over the unpopular policies of President George W. Bush.

Washington Post (free registration required) - US efforts divert Iran-bound cargo
U.S. officials suspect the North Korean plane, an Ilyushin-62 jet owned by the North Korean state airline, was carrying sophisticated technology -- such as ballistic missile parts -- that could be used in a program for weapons of mass destruction.

The United States thwarted a suspected shipment from North Korea to Iran...back in August (and we finally hear about it now)

Shattered Peace: Violence erupts in Gaza
Israeli troops and Palestinian militants clashed in a fierce gunbattle along the Israel-Gaza border late Tuesday.

Whenever there are 'earth-shaping' events, like the American election today , I can't help but watch Israel more closely. I imagine Christ's coming could very much be under conditions just like today: when people are completely distracted with something else...He comes.

1 Thessalonians 5:

1 Now concerning how and when all this will happen, dear brothers and sisters, we don’t really need to write you. 2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. 3 When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape.

4 But you aren’t in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won’t be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief. 5 For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night.

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Decision Day

DEBKAfile: America elects its 44th President

Obama tells Abbas: I support dividing Jerusalem

If Obama wins today, as the American media is already telling us, Israel will have more to worry about in a less supportive president. It will seem like the whole world is against little Israel in a Zechariah 12:3 kind of way. Not to worry, if Obama wins it will only be because the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob allows it. HE is bringing this age to a conclusion and we are privileged to have the hindsight of fulfilled prophesy to rest assured that God is completely in control. Is Israel going to be wiped off the map again like Ahmadinejad would like? We can be absolutely sure that Israel is safe.

Isaiah 46:
9 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.

10 I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.

11 From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that will I bring about;
what I have planned, that will I do.

12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
you who are far from righteousness.

13 I am bringing my righteousness near,
it is not far away;
and my salvation will not be delayed.
I will grant salvation to Zion,
my splendor to Israel.

Must be election week - Huffington Post says: "Sarah Palin reveals McCain will launch an early war against Iran"

Not so Hallow Halloween

Why my family doesn't participate in Halloween...at all

Relevant scripture on the issue of Halloween:

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ("Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.") James 1:27 ("keep oneself from being polluted by the world") 3 John 1:11 ("do not imitate what is evil") Romans 12:9 ("abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.") Deuteronomy 18:9-14 (do not learn to imitate detestable ways, including spiritists, sorcerers and witchcraft) Ephesians 5:11-12 ("Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness" / "live as children of light") 1 Timothy 4:1 (don't "follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons") 1 Corinthians 10:21 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 ("what fellowship can light have with darkness?") Philippians 4:8 (think about pure, lovely, noble things) 1 Corinthians 11:1 ("follow the example of Christ") 1 Corinthians 10:31 ("whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God")

James 4:7-8 (submit yourselves to God / resist the devil / purify your hearts) Ezekiel 44:23 ("…teach my people… to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.") Proverbs 22:6 ("train a child in the way he should go") Matthew 18:6 ("if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin…") Hosea 4:6 ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.") John 3:19-20 (people love darkness instead of light) Romans 13:12 ("put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.") Ephesians 6:11-18 ("take your stand against the devil's schemes.") 1 John 5:19 2 Chronicles 7:14

Testimony of a former witch:

As a child of four, I contacted the first of many spirit guides (read: demons) while playing with a Kindergarten classmates' ouija board at a chaperoned Halloween party. This spiritual assault ignited an intrigue with the supernatural that culminated in my lifestyle as a practicing witch: divination, necromancy, channeling, astrology, psychic ability, and spell working. It wasn't until I was twenty that I met the real Jesus Christ, and was released from the trap that Satan had set for this young prisoner of war sixteen years earlier.

There are too many casualties on Halloween and far too few troops fighting the enemy. Instead of partying on Halloween, teach your children how to fight. Keep them aware that the fight isn't against witches, non-Christians, Christians who feel differently than we about Halloween, or institutions that promote Halloween, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" (Ephesians 6:12).

Halloween encourages experimentation in and increases insensitivity to what God wants us to have nothing to do with. Why expose your kids to that?

Iran testing ways to recover weapons -grade uranium from spent nuclear fuel
In a Kol Israel radio interview this week, Martin Indyk, former US ambassador to Israel and member of Barack Obama’s Middle East team, disclosed that US intelligence now reckons Iran will have between one and three nuclear bombs by the end of 2009.

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Marching toward the unavoidable war (Revelation 16:13-16)

Barak slams Russian ties to Iran

Barak lashed out against Russia, India and China for continuing to do business with Tehran at a time when most of the West is seeking to further tighten the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.

"So long as Russia, China and India do not join the nations imposing sanctions on Iran, it will have allies to do business with," said Barak.

Praise God Almighty we could be closer to Gog U Magog than most think!

Iranian source: "Quake" Saturday was nuclear bomb test

Flashback: Biden - "Mark my words: Obama will be tested in the first 6 months"
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking," Biden said.

"Remember I said it standing here. if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough -- I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen," Biden continued.

Ezekiel 38:
17 “This is what the Sovereign Lord asks: Are you the one I was talking about long ago, when I announced through Israel’s prophets that in the future I would bring you against my people? 18 But this is what the Sovereign Lord says: When Gog invades the land of Israel, my fury will boil over! 19 In my jealousy and blazing anger, I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day. 20 All living things—the fish in the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people on earth—will quake in terror at my presence. Mountains will be thrown down; cliffs will crumble; walls will fall to the earth. 21 I will summon the sword against you on all the hills of Israel, says the Sovereign Lord. Your men will turn their swords against each other. 22 I will punish you and your armies with disease and bloodshed; I will send torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur! 23 In this way, I will show my greatness and holiness, and I will make myself known to all the nations of the world. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:
21 “In this way, I will demonstrate my glory to the nations. Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the power of my fist when I strike. 22 And from that time on the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.

Gulf Times - Warning on Jewish temple plan
King Mohamed VI of Morocco urged Israel yesterday not to press ahead with plans to build a Jewish temple in the Muslim area of East Jerusalem.

Netanyahu: Palestinians should not dream about Jerusalem

Israeli military accuses Syria of arming Hezb'allah
A senior Israeli military official yesterday accused Syria of arming Hezbollah in violation of a UN Security Council resolution which ended the 2006 war between Israel and the Lebanese militia.

Iraq denounces US raid on Syria

Iranian official calls for an attack on the UK

Iran opens naval base at Straight of Hormuz
25-30% of the world's oil flows through the Straight of Hormuz

Based on what I know about Islam, and if the following article's allegations are true, the US (and consequently the world) is in a whole heap of trouble!

Barack Obama's Anti-Israel Alliances

Obama +7.7


List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months



I don't hate Muslims - I pray for the salvation of their souls and that God would remove their spiritual blindness before it is too late.

Matthew 7:

15 “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. 16 You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. 19 So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. 20 Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.

Forget about your declining 401(K)

Life's biggest question is...

Make sure you're comfortable with your answer because the consequences last forever.

Greenspan: 'I made a mistake'



By year end, 1/3 of all homes for sale in the US will be foreclosures
Nearly 12 million of the 52 million Americans with a mortgage — that's 23 percent of them — owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to Moody's Economy.com.

Some people got incredibly rich prior to this mortgage crisis, encouraging others to live way beyond their means.

Proverbs 23:
4 Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich.
Be wise enough to know when to quit.
5 In the blink of an eye wealth disappears,
for it will sprout wings
and fly away like an eagle.

1 Timothy:
9 But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction...

17 Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.

The Economic Recession - what to expect in the next 3 years

Why anyone would want to be President of the United States at this point in history is beyond comprehension. The government is no longer trusted. Our country is undergoing a paradigm shift. No one is sure what type of country we will be when this crisis subsides. It appears that we are headed towards a socialist state with less personal liberty and control of our lives. Government will attempt to take Americans further under her ever expanding wing. Founding Father, John Adams was not optimistic when he wrote these words in 1814:

“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

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US intelligence indicates Iran will be able to build first nuclear bomb by February 2009
Top Iranian officials recommend preemptive strike on Israel

Warning: Rob Bell of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, is a false teacher

When the Holy Spirit burns the Word into our hearts

1 Peter 1:

13 So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. 14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. 15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. 16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”

17 And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as “foreigners in the land.”

The Russian navy back in the Med
Are happy days here again – for the Russian navy? The Russian Federation is redeploying a part of the Black Sea Fleet to its Cold War hunting grounds in the Mediterranean. Returning to bases and anchorages in Syria and Libya is a top priority for the Russian admirals.

Report: Bush offers quick Golan withdrawl
I didn't know Bush invaded the Golan and it was his to give? For a Christian, this Pres' is pretty ignorant encouraging a "two-state" solution.

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Wanted: a new financial order
It was during their stroll, and over lunch afterward, that these two often-feuding leaders arrived at another conclusion: Nothing would be truly fixed, they believed, until there was a new world financial system in place, a new economic watchdog supervising the world's economies.

Change we can believe in, or not
An author takes a look at Obama's promised "change"

From the UK Sunday Times: Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran
Some key decision makers in Israel fear that unless they attack Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in the next few months, while George W Bush is still president, there will not be another period when they can rely on the United States as being anywhere near as supportive in the aftermath of a unilateral attack.

James 4:

7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. 9 Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

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Massive dirty bomb attack thwarted?

Somali pirates die a strange death after hijacking Iranian ship

The Iranian mystery ship: death from the sea

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Saber Rattling

Just in case somebody is napping out there...

Large-scale Iranian Air force exercise simulates attack on Israel
Tehran has timed this large-scale drill for just three weeks before the US presidential election on Nov. 4, in response to speculation rife in the West that Israel may use the window between the US election and the swearing-in of the new president in January for an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.

Intelligence report: Pakistan on the edge
A growing al Qaida -backed insurgency, combined with the Pakistani army's reluctance to launch an all-out crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America's key ally in the war on terror deeper into turmoil and violence, says a soon-to-be completed U.S. intelligence assessment.

Dow plunges 733 on new disheartening economic data

Medvedev, Putin

Russia conducts ballistic missile tests

Independent military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said the exercises reflected Russia's determination to prepare for major military conflict.

"This was a dry run for a war with the United States," Felgenhauer said of the missile launches, part of major military manoeuvres billed "Stability 2008" involving all military branches.

Russia's Global War Games
...the Stability 2008 exercises seem to be mostly publicity stunts to boost anti-Western propaganda at home and send a clear message to Washington.

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Thanks to Legal Sodium for this one...

Nuclear aid by Russian to Iranians suspected
...When the Iranian envoy at the briefing called the charges “groundless” and protested that the tests were for conventional arms, Mr. Heinonen replied that the experiments were “not consistent with any application other than the development of a nuclear weapon,” two participants said. He called the shape and timing involved in the firing systems and detonators “key components of nuclear weapons.”

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Could Iran, Hizbullah And The Israeli Arab Sector Be In Cohorts, Israeli Security Forces On High Alert

Obama or McCain, Iran stance won't change
Dialogue may sound good in theory, but the diplomacy taught in Western academies and that taught in Iranian seminaries bear no resemblance to each other. While diplomats in the US, Europe, and Australia seek compromise, Iranian diplomats learn taqiyya, religiously-sanctioned lying...

Only the most naive Democrat or isolationist Republican can ignore Iranian statements promising not only the acquisition of nuclear weapons but their use. On December 14, 2001, for example, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, perhaps Iran's second most powerful man and one often labelled a pragmatist by Western journalists, suggested that it may not be far-fetched to envision use of nuclear weapons against Israel.

Amid chants of "death to Israel", he declared: "The use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything ... It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality."

Yes, but God has completely other plans. Only He could have predicted 2,500 years ago that the world is going to war over a re-gathered Israel in the time of the end.

The Islamic beast is calling all 'infidels' to war.

Revelation 16:
12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River, and it dried up so that the kings from the east could march their armies toward the west without hindrance. 13 And I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs leap from the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. 14 They are demonic spirits who work miracles and go out to all the rulers of the world to gather them for battle against the Lord on that great judgment day of God the Almighty.

15 “Look, I will come as unexpectedly as a thief! Blessed are all who are watching for me, who keep their clothing ready so they will not have to walk around naked and ashamed.”

You know we're in a financial crisis when...

The National Debt clock runs out of digits
Can you spare an extra $86,017?

Military in motion on the Syrian border
Washington, Jerusalem and Beirut are bracing for the possibility that Damascus will seize the moment of the total shutdown in Israel for 25 hours from Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 8, to Thursday night, Oct. 9, for Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and launch its military forces against northern Lebanon or the Golan.

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S&P, Dow Stock Indexes Post Worst Annual Decline Since 1937

AIG Exec's $440,000 junket AFTER the taxpayer bailout

Ahmadinejad threatens Israel again - MEMRI TV

Ahmadinejad quotes Psalm 83:4

4 "Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation.We will destroy the very memory of its existence."5 This was their unanimous decision.They signed a treaty as allies against you-6 these Edomites and Ishmaelites,Moabites and Hagrites,7 Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites,and people from Philistia and Tyre.8 Assyria has joined them, too,and is allied with the descendants of Lot.

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Yet another spark that could ignite it all

Major powers warn against any Syrian move into Lebanon
Bombings, border deployment have raised suspicions

US will intervene militarily if Syria invades Lebanon
...but Russia would also intervene "to any outside interference" (in their words)

Isaiah 10:
27 In that day the Lord will end the bondage of his people.
He will break the yoke of slavery
and lift it from their shoulders.

28 Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath.
They are passing through Migron
and are storing their equipment at Micmash.
29 They are crossing the pass
and are camping at Geba.
Fear strikes the town of Ramah.
All the people of Gibeah, the hometown of Saul,
are running for their lives.
30 Scream in terror,
you people of Gallim!
Shout out a warning to Laishah.
Oh, poor Anathoth!
31 There go the people of Madmenah, all fleeing.
The citizens of Gebim are trying to hide.
32 The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day.
He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.

33 But look! The Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
will chop down the mighty tree of Assyria with great power!
He will cut down the proud.
That lofty tree will be brought down.
34 He will cut down the forest trees with an ax.
Lebanon will fall to the Mighty One.

Are hooks in Russia's jaws turning her around?

Another day, another military build up reported

DEBKAfile: Russia docking nuclear missile cruiser at Syrian port...on the 35th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war.

Israel is distracted by a leadership vacuum; the US is paralyzed by the election and pending financial disaster - hmm, I can't think of a better time for Russia and allies to instigate a war against Israel. I'd call it Ezekiel 38 (or perhaps a prelude to Ezekiel 38), which incidentally orthodox Jews call "the last war".

Daniel's prophesy points to 1967, add a generation is 2007. The parable of the wedding feast illustrates that the groom is slightly delayed, so ya I definitely say we should be ready and watching for what happens.

The apple of God's eye (re-gathered Israel) is under duress. Watch for something supernatural (divine) to happen soon, while 98% of the world sleeps.

Russian warships plan Mediterranean show of strength en route to Caribbean
Russian navy ships to visit Libya and Syria
Syria is amassing its troops

Syria restarted its nuclear program'
Israeli sources to London paper: Damascus adopted Iranian model and is building in multiple sites.