Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus
"The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is currently showing an exhibition that features images of an ant-covered Jesus"

If it were Mohammed portrayed in this junk, Muslims would be taking to the streets, burning flags, churches, and Christians. Christians follow an entirely different example. Plus, if you need to come to your "god's" defence - is that really much of a God?


Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, "I will take revenge; I will pay them back," says the LORD.
- Romans 12:19

⁸ But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
- 2 Peter 3:8-9

Sodom and Gomorrah: Did it really happen?

Major Wiki-leakage - Saudi king urged U.S. to attack Iran
Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran's nuclear program and China directed cyberattacks on the United States, according to a vast cache of U.S. diplomatic cables released on Sunday in an embarrassing leak that undermines U.S. diplomacy.

Just another quiet Sunday morning?

North Korea "readies missiles" as China seeks talks - Yahoo! News: "North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap news agency said, as the United States and South Korea began military drills and China called for emergency talks."

Seoul Rejects China's Call for Emergency Talks to Defuse Korean Tension "Diplomatic efforts are underway in Asia to defuse tension on the Korean peninsula. But South Korea is rejecting China's call to quickly convene multi-national talks to discuss North Korea. This comes as the United States and South Korea begin four days of naval drills seen as a show of strength to dissuade Pyongyang after last Tuesday's attack on Yeonpyeong island."

China Protests U.S.-South Korea Exercises - WSJ.com: "Beijing on Friday lodged its first official protest of a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise planned for Sunday, even as the aircraft carrier USS George Washington steamed toward the region."

Lebanese prime minister arrives in Iran for two-day visit

Abandoned by the West, Lebanon's Hariri turns to Iran
Hariri walks into the Iranian web abandoned by US, Israel, Saudi Arabia

Isaiah 14:

 ¹ The LORD will have compassion on Jacob;
   once again he will choose Israel
   and will settle them in their own land...

 ³ On the day the LORD gives you relief from your suffering 

and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, 

⁴ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon...

⁸ Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon
   gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
   no one comes to cut us down.” 

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Mullen: Engagement with Iran must be realistic: "Head of US Joint Chiefs of Staff tells CNN Iran is lying about nuclear program being 'peaceful'"

Jerusalem Post | Iranian official: First nuclear power plant fueled up: "Bushehr reactor will begin pumping electricity to Iranian cities as early as next month, says Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi."

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I wonder if 19 year old "Mohamed Mohamud from Somolia" is motivated by Islam?

When will the West wake up to the enemy and stop groping everyone at the airports?

FBI Arrests Man Who Tried to Bomb Tree-Lighting Event in Portland, Oregon
“Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Oregon, was arrested after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van"

Jerusalem Post: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Portland: "Yelling 'Allahu Akbar!' — Arabic for 'God is great!' — Mohamud tried to kick agents and police as they closed in, according to prosecutors."

Israeli air security is easy on most, intrusive for a few
"'The security here is far more professional,' said Sandy Kornhauser, who arrived with her daughter at Ben Gurion from Philadelphia on Wednesday to attend a wedding. 'I think they know who they are looking for,' she added. 'In the States, they don't know.'"

Mubarak warns of wave of global terror
"Egyptian president meets with king of Bahrain, says if Palestinian issue is not solved, terror will spread throughout world against Israel and its supporters"

Joel 3:10

Syria warns Israel: Evading peace will lead to Mideast war - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "Syrian FM Walid Moallem says window of opportunity for Mideast peace is slowly closing, warns that new war could cause great damage due to advanced military technology."

US warns Israel of WikiLeaks release - Yahoo! News UK

 This thing could explode at any time - time to pick sides

Gaza Arabs fired three mortar shells at the Kerem Shalom area on the Gaza border Thursday.

Erdogan: Turkey 'will not remain silent' if Israel attacks Lebanon
"Turkey will not remain silent if Israel attacks Lebanon or Gaza, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Beirut on Thursday, as ties between the longtime allies remained at an all-time low."

Palestinians evicted from East Jerusalem home claimed by Israelis
"Israel Police forces on Tuesday evacuated a Palestinian family from their home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, after right-wing activists claimed to have purchased the building."

Isaiah 63
"1 Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?

“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”

2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?

3 “I have trodden the winepress alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;
their blood spattered my garments,
and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance;
the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.
6 I trampled the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk
and poured their blood on the ground.”"

Korea crisis: How will China respond? - CNN.com
"All eyes are on China after North Korea provoked threats of 'enormous retaliation' from South Korea by firing artillery rounds at Yeonpyeong Island."

Full-scale war on Korean peninsula 'unlikely'
"Yesterday North Korea bombed South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, killing two marines and two civilians.  The prevailing analysis is that Kim Jong-il wants to send a message to Seoul that Pyongyang is the superpower on the Korean peninsula."

Harry Potter, Twilight, Halloween and Hollywood - they aren't innocent

The Pro-Life Leader Who Is Also an Exorcist
"Harry Potter and these Twilight vampires glamorize the power of evil,' Father Eutenener explained, 'and this has lead to many, many cases of possession among young people.' It may begin with a child or teenager simply 'playing around' with the occult, but that seemingly harmless act is 'opening a window' to possession."

 3 John 1:

¹¹Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Experts: Mystery contrail was from Chinese missile

Although the U.S. Defense Department and North American Aerospace Defense Command have speculated publicly that the unidentified contrail of a projectile soaring into the skies off the California coast – and recorded by a KCBS television crew – came from a jet and posed no security threat to the U.S., several experts are raising provocative and disturbing questions about the government's official response.

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North Korea’s new uranium facility raises atomic arsenal fears
"“Instead of seeing a few small cascades of centrifuges, which I believed to exist in North Korea, we saw a modern, clean centrifuge plant of more than a thousand centrifuges, all neatly aligned and plumbed below us,” Dr. Hecker, a Stanford University professor, wrote.

Dr. Hecker described the control room as “astonishingly modern,” writing that, unlike other North Korean facilities, it “would fit into any modern American processing facility.”"

BBC News - Germany says Namibia package was security test dummy
"'The outcome is that the luggage turned out to be a so-called real-test suitcase made by a company in the United States. This company is a manufacturer of alarm and detection systems and these real-test suitcases are built to test security measures,'"

Islam is winning
Invasive Searches

Al Qaeda eyes more Mumbai-style attacks - CNN.com: "The revelation is the most concrete indication yet that al Qaeda is planning mass casualty gun attacks on U.S. soil."

Germany warns of imminent terror attacks
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on Wednesday warned the government had indications Islamists were planning terrorist attacks in Germany later this month.

What about recognition?
"Without Palestinian recognition of Jewish state, what’s the point of negotiations?"

DEBKAfile, Obama to present US Israel-Palestinian border map within 3 months

"Our sources disclose that the boundaries the US map will adhere a lot more closely to Palestinian territorial aspirations than to Israel case. While no one is talking about imposing it on Israel, a rejection by the Netanyahu government would place it on a collision course with the Obama White House."

The Plot Thickens - Why would the US send an aircraft carrier to rescue a cruise ship?

"Did A Chinese EMP Attack Cripple US Cruise Ship?" A Comment
"The “immediate effect” of the Chinese Navy’s firing of their EMP missile, this report continues, was the “catastrophic crippling” of the US based cruise ship Carnival Splendor that stranded its nearly 4,500 passengers and crew in a “dead in the water” boat, prompting the Americans to send the US Navy’s Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, warplanes, and supply aircraft to protect it from further attack after all of its electronic systems were destroyed."

Ariel Sharon: Former Israeli prime minister moved home: "The 82-year-old has been in a coma since 2006, when he suffered a massive stroke [right after he gave up Gaza to the Palestinians]."

Jet Plume or Chinese ICBM?

Did I mention that we live in interesting times?

 

Experts agree that this was a ballistic missile being fired off of Los Angeles. Pentagon insists it was a jet aircraft or model rocket.

China Fired Missile Seen In Southern California

"Missile experts, including those from Jane’s in London, say the plume was definitely from a missile, possibly launched from a submarine. WMR has learned that the missile was likely a JL-2 ICBM, which has a range of 7,000 miles, and was fired in a northwesterly direction over the Pacific and away from U.S. territory from a Jin class submarine. The Jin class can carry up to twelve such missiles."

Jpost | Netanyahu, Clinton meeting ends after 7 hours
"Clinton also reiterated the US position that negotiations can reconcile 'an independent and viable state, based on the 1967 lines"

One can only guess what they have devised for the City of David. I'm firmly convinced that the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled and Jerusalem will not again be ransacked by her enemies. Look for God's hand to work mightily in Jacob's land, in our time.

Time, times, and half a time = 2,500 years [link]

Luke 21:
 "23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled."

Isaiah 66:

⁶ Hear that uproar from the city,
   hear that noise from the temple!
It is the sound of the LORD
   repaying his enemies all they deserve.

 ⁷ “Before she goes into labor,
   she gives birth;
before the pains come upon her,
   she delivers a son.
⁸ Who has ever heard of such things?
   Who has ever seen things like this?
Can a country be born in a day
   or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
   than she gives birth to her children.
⁹ Do I bring to the moment of birth
   and not give delivery?” says the LORD.
“Do I close up the womb
   when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
¹⁰ “Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
   all you who love her;
rejoice greatly with her,
   all you who mourn over her.
¹¹ For you will nurse and be satisfied
   at her comforting breasts;
you will drink deeply
   and delight in her overflowing abundance.”

Shopping
Way beyond the materialism

Isaiah 62:
⁶ I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;
   they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the LORD,
   give yourselves no rest,
⁷ and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem
   and makes her the praise of the earth.

 

Isaiah 54

Future Glory for Jerusalem

 ¹ “Sing, O childless woman,
      you who have never given birth!
   Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem,
      you who have never been in labor.
   For the desolate woman now has more children
      than the woman who lives with her husband,”
      says the Lord.
 ² “Enlarge your house; build an addition.
      Spread out your home, and spare no expense!
 ³ For you will soon be bursting at the seams.
      Your descendants will occupy other nations
      and resettle the ruined cities.

 ⁴ “Fear not; you will no longer live in shame.
      Don’t be afraid; there is no more disgrace for you.
   You will no longer remember the shame of your youth
      and the sorrows of widowhood.
 ⁵ For your Creator will be your husband;
      the Lord of Heaven’s Armies is his name!
   He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
      the God of all the earth.