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Carter says Hamas leader committed to peace, Netanyahu
not
Former IDF chief Gantz: Hezbollah turned living rooms into
missile rooms
Israel veterans group alleges Israeli misconduct in Gaza war
Kerry on Ethiopian protests: I am confident of Israel's
handling of the matter
In assuring Israel on Iran, Kerry references upgraded
bunker-buster
France, Saudi Arabia: Iran nuclear deal must avoid
destabilizing region
Russian Missile Sale to Iran Involves Unseen Deals With
Israel
Russian Jewish leader: Increased authoritarianism a cause
for aliya
Russian stores pull Holocaust graphic novel ahead of WWII
anniversary
French politician suspended over anti-Semitic comments
40 Percent Rise This Year in Global Immigration to Israel,
Report Shows
Palestinians seek to expel Israel from FIFA
Hamas, Saudi rapprochement worries Fatah
Heavy clashes in Aden airport, alliance accused of cluster
bomb use
France, Saudi Arabia say Iran nuclear deal must not
destabilize region
US warships accompany British commercial vessels in
Strait of Hormuz
Syria conflict: Suicide blast rocks central Damascus
Despite Iranian-Hezbollah support, 'in the long run it is hard
to see how Assad can survive'
Faced with ISIS successes across Mideast, Al Qaeda grows
stronger
Nigeria's Boko Haram in disarray as government forces
advance
New offensive frees captives from Boko Haram; exposes
group's bloodlust
South Sudan: World's Youngest Nation Is 'at Grave Risk,'
Kerry Warns
Burundi crisis: Top judge flees country as violence
continues to erupt over upcoming elections
Baltic military shadow-boxing said to reach Cold War levels
Did Kim Jong-un snub Putin because Russia refused to sell
him anti-aircraft missiles?
Korean Christians Want 'Unification Through Gospel,'
'Willing to Become Martyrs' for Worship in North Korea
China's Xi Jinping and Taiwan's Eric Chu in high-level talks
Experts warn 'EMP' attack could cripple infrastructure
Military eyeing former Cold War mountain bunker as 'shield'
against EMP attack?
ISIS-linked Twitter accounts reportedly claim responsibility
for Texas shooting
Texas Prophet cartoon attack: Gunman was previous terror
suspect
How Texas "Terror" Shooter Elton Simpson Avoided Prison
In 2011
Danish editor slams US 'political correctness' on cartoons
Obama blasts media coverage of Baltimore riots
CBS News/New York Times Poll: Race Relations Worst In
Over 2 Decades
Batman gunman: Were children hurt?
Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, emails this month
Clinton refuses to testify twice on Benghazi attacks
Extreme secrecy eroding support for Obama's trade pact
Trade Deficit Stifles U.S. Growth, China's Yuan at Center of
Controversy
Fed not likely to increase US rates until September
The sun is now virtually blank during the weakest solar
cycle in more than a century
7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Papua New Guinea,
Tsunami alert issued
5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Kokopo, Papua New
Guinea
5.9 magnitude earthquake hits near Kokopo, Papua New
Guinea
5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Kokopo, Papua New
Guinea
Earthquake Swarm, Including Magnitude 3.6, Shakes East
Bay Cities
Small Earthquakes Rumble Near Meeker and Stillwater, OK
Texas: Bill Stops Cities From Banning Fracking
Klyuchevskoy volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to
25,000ft
Turrialba volcano in Costa Rica erupts to 16,000ft
Budding Tropical System May Lash Southeast US Coast
With Wind, Rough Surf
Australia deadly super storm kills destroys homes
Death toll rises to six in Australian floods
Global Warming Skepticism On The Rise In Europe
40 Years Since Climatologists Blamed California Drought On
Global Cooling
Bird Flu Could Be In A Quarter Of Iowa Hens
Public Health Officials Know: Recently Vaccinated
Individuals Spread Disease
'No room' for gays in Kenya, says deputy president
NFL linebacker's case brings attention to growth of laws to
prevent online revenge porn
Iran bans 'devil worshipping' haircuts
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Iran's Military Chief Says No Inspection of Military
Sites under Any Nuclear Deal
North Korea Submarine Missile Allows Covert
Nuclear Strike on US
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Nearing Midnight: Listening for the Midnight Cry
From Kathmandu to Kalamazoo!
Transhumanism: An Attempt to Use Technology to
Turn Men into Gods
The Mark of the Beast Is Closer Than We Think
Islamic attack in Texas will impact free speech
Daily Devotion: "What Are You Doing Here?"
Featured Article: This Means War
Iran's Military Chief Says No Inspection of Military
Sites under Any Nuclear Deal - By Patrick Goodenough http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/irans-military-chiefsays-no-inspection-military-sites-under-any
Iran will never give international inspectors access to its military facilities under
a negotiated nuclear accord, the country's military chief declared at the
weekend, underlining the regime's rejection of what the Obama administration
portrays as a core element of a proposed agreement.
"Iranian military officials are not allowed to let the foreigners go through the
country's security-defense shield and fence," Major General Hassan
Firouzabadi, commander of Iran's armed forces, wrote in a message to Iran's
nuclear negotiators.
Official media quoted him as saying Iran would not allow its military progress
to be stopped, under the pretext of nuclear supervision and inspection,
alluding to earlier comments by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In Iran's military hierarchy, Firouzabadi is second only to Khamenei, the
commander-in-chief, who has himself already declared military sites off-limits
to foreign inspectors.
The semi-official Fars news agency depicted Firouzabadi's message to the
negotiating team as a reiteration of Tehran's "red lines" in the ongoing talks,
heading for a June 30 deadline for a final deal.
Firouzabadi said the U.S. could not be trusted.
He pointed to a White House fact sheet on a "framework agreement"
announced at the talks in Switzerland on April 2, and challenged the U.S.
interpretation of what had been agreed upon in that framework, calling it "a
ploy against Iran's national security."
The fact sheet states that Iran must allow International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) inspectors "regular access to all" of its declared nuclear facilities, and
must moreover grant access to the IAEA to investigate suspicious sites or
locations of suspected illicit nuclear activity, "anywhere in the country."
The framework agreement is meant to form the basis of a comprehensive final
agreement due for completion by June 30, but Iran and the U.S. disagree over
what some of its parameters are, including the key inspection element.
In his April 2 response to the framework understanding, President Obama said
Iran had "agreed to the most robust and intrusive inspections and
transparency regime ever negotiated for any nuclear program in history."
One month into the three-month final negotiating period, the gap between the
U.S. and Iran over inspections shows no sign of narrowing.
In his message to the negotiators, Firouzabadi said that IAEA inspectors would
not be given any exceptional authority to visit Iranian nuclear sites, beyond
those applicable to other countries under Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) rules
- again contesting the administration's depiction of an inspection regime
unprecedented in its toughness.
In a speech Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden again emphasized the U.S.
stance on inspections, saying that under the proposed agreement Iran will
allow "IAEA inspectors to visit not only declared nuclear facilities, but
undeclared sites where suspicious, clandestine work is suspected."
"Folks, let me tell you what this deal would do in relation to intrusive
inspections," he told a Washington Institute for Near East Policy event. "Not
only would Iran be required to allow 24/7 eyes on the nuclear sites you've
heard of - Fordow and Natanz and Arak - and the ability to challenge suspect
locations, every link in their nuclear supply chain will be under surveillance."
Reid accuses GOP critics of wanting to see Iran deal 'crash and burn'
Differences between Iran and the U.S. over inspections and another key issue,
the timing of sanctions relief, remain front and center as the U.S. Senate
wrangles over amendments to bipartisan legislation that would give Congress
the right to review, and potentially vote on, any negotiated nuclear deal.
The administration threatened to veto the bill, then reluctantly acquiesced after
several contentious measures were removed or revised. The Senate Foreign
Relations Committee approved the revised text by a 19-0 vote, and it has been
debated in the full Senate over the past week.
On Monday Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused Republican
Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Tom Cotton (Ark.) of trying to
"ruin" the bipartisan legislation by submitting what he called "poison pill after
poison pill to what was a noble compromise between the leaders of the
Foreign Relations Committee."
He urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to shut down debate, saying the
work done by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker (RTenn.) and ranking member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in crafting a compromise bill
"is too important to be undone by senators who are putting politics before
national and global security."
Among the proposed amendments that have threatened bipartisan support for
the Corker-Cardin bill are one submitted by Rubio, which would require Tehran
to recognize Israel's right to exist; and one by Cotton requiring Iran to take
specific steps including giving international inspectors full access to suspicious
sites, before getting sanctions relief.
Reid was particularly critical of Cotton, accusing him of trying to undermine
Obama.
"The junior senator from Arkansas has been on record for months stating his
desire to see this negotiation fail," he said. "The junior senator from Arkansas
and other Republicans want to see any potential agreement with Iran crash
and burn, even before we know what's in the final agreement."
On Thursday Cotton challenged senators reluctant to vote on his and Rubio's
amendments, saying if they did not want to vote they "shouldn't have come to
the Senate."
North Korea Submarine Missile Allows Covert Nuclear
Strike on US - By Ari Yashar http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/195013#.VUjocpt8POV
Regime tests nuclear-capable missile from underwater for first time, as officials
blame Obama for allowing 'tragedy.'
In a worrying step showing North Korea's rapidly expanding nuclear strike
capabilities, the Communist regime recently held a test of a new submarinelaunched ballistic missile (SLBM), the first time it has launched a missile
capable of carrying a nuclear warhead from underwater.
According to US defense officials cited by the Washington Free Beacon on
Tuesday, the test took place on April 22 from an underwater test platform near
the coastal city of Sinpo in the southeast of the country, and tested what the
US is calling a KN-11 missile.
The test appears to have been successful, and is the third KN-11 test showing
the high-priority of the nuclear missile program for North Korea. Previous tests
in January and last October were from a sea-based platform not underwater
and a land-based platform.
The KN-11 joins the KN-08 mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as
being part of a varied North Korean missile arsenal on platforms that would be
hard for the US to detect, and consequently allow a strike that would be
difficult to shoot down.
Admiral Bill Gortney, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command, admitted last month that
North Korea could hit the continental US with a nuclear strike. That admission
accompanied the announcement that NORAD is reopening its nuclear-EMPproof Cheyenne Mountain bunker, apparently amid renewed concerns of an
EMP attack by which a nuclear weapon would be detonated over the US,
knocking out all of its electronic devices, and thereby rendering it defenseless
to secondary nuclear strikes.
The latest launch test also comes after Chinese experts warned the US last
month that American estimates are wrong and North Korea actually has 20
nuclear weapons, with that arsenal to double next year thanks to the regime's
higher than anticipated advanced enrichment capabilities.
Nuclear strikes the US won't see coming
Admiral Cecil D. Haney, commander of the Strategic Command, confirmed the
SLBM launch test in comments to the Senate on March 19, reports the
Washington Free Beacon. The program is in violation of UN Security Council
resolutions.
Regarding the UN, it was reported last month that US President Barack
Obama hid intel from the UN about North Korea transferring rocket
components needed to create a nuclear missile to Iran even during the nuclear
talks, to try and prevent the UN from acting on the information with increased
sanctions.
Former US Defense Intelligence Agency official Bruce Bechtol, Jr. told the
paper that North Korea's SLBM program is meant to give it the ability to strike
the US, and to not have the strike be detected in advance.
"With an SLBM they get both," said Bechtol. "The submarine can get the
platform to launch the missile within range of the continental United States,
Alaska, or Hawaii. Thus, once operational, this immediately brings key nodes
in the United States within range of what would likely be a nuclear armed
missile."
He noted that once the KN-11 and mobile KN-08 "systems go operational, it
potentially gives North Korea a dual threat for attacking the United States with
nuclear or chemical weapons - a threat generated from difficult to detect
mobile platforms on both land and sea."
Obama is bringing the US to "tragedy"
A number of American officials responded sharply to the KN-11 test, placing
the blame squarely on Obama's shoulders.
"This missile, along with the KN-08, happened on Obama's watch and nothing
has been done," one US intelligence official told the Washington Free Beacon.
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton added his criticism, saying, "by
utterly ignoring North Korea's growing missile threats, Obama has allowed the
threat of rogue state proliferators to fall out of the center of the national political
debate."
"This is a potential tragedy for the country," Bolton warned.
Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas McInerney said that the KN-08 and KN-11
programs constitute "threats to the continental United States and have been
developed under the Obama administration's leadership."
"Leading from behind is a failed strategy as evidenced by this very dangerous
strategic threat to the continental United States of nuclear attack by a very
unstable North Korean government," said McInerney.
The general also spoke about Obama's admission that the nuclear deal being
formed with Iran will allow it to obtain a nuclear weapon in under 15 years if it
doesn't breach conditions and obtain it sooner, noting that the deal "puts the
United States in the most dangerous threat of nuclear attack since the height
of the Cold War but from multiple threats - North Korea, China, Russia, and
Iran."
Opponents of the nuclear deal being formulated with Iran ahead of a June 30
deadline have warned it follows in the footsteps of the failed deal sealed by
then-President Bill Clinton with North Korea in 1994.
Despite the deal, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon in 2006, just over
ten years after the agreement.
Nearing Midnight: Listening for the Midnight Cry - Terry
James - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
This section of Rapture Ready is termed "Nearing Midnight." Our purpose is
to chronicle issues and events of the current times in order to forewarn that the
call of Christ to His Bride, the Church (all those who are born again --John 3:3)
is near.
We can say this with certainty because of the many signals given off by those
issues and events. These look to be the prophetic signs of the coming
Tribulation period--human history's last seven years leading to the return of
Christ to planet earth at the time of Armageddon. Jesus said: "And when you
see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your head
for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21: 28).
Paul the apostle wrote about this moment of redemption: "For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and
with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1
Thessalonians 4: 4: 16-17).
John, "the beloved disciple," wrote from his exile on Patmos about his vision of
that moment of redemption:
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first
voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,
Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
(Revelation 4: 1)
This shout from Christ, Himself, is likened to the moment when the midnight
hour of human history has been reached. The black, boiling clouds of the
Tribulation will have shrouded the whole planet in a veil of God's wrath
because of man's rebellion. We see that moment as represented in the
parable of the ten virgins.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye
out to meet him. (Matthew 25: 6)
Despite all the seminary-degreed protests to the contrary, this is the same
moment Jesus prophesied in the Olivet Discourse, in what I believe is the most
profound declaration about this midnight hour at which time He will next
catastrophically intervene into man's history. I refer to the Lord's foretelling the
coming judgment at the time of the Rapture, as given in the following. Note
that Jesus prefaces His prophecy by saying:
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but
my Father only. (Matthew 24:36)
The Rapture is an unknown time; it is imminent-can happen at any moment.
The Second Advent can be counted down, because a precise number of days
are given to the time Christ returns at Armageddon. The Lord then gives a
description of what the world will be like at that unknown hour--unknown by
anyone but His Father.
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,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall
be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your
Lord doth come. (Matthew 24: 37-42)
Most of my theologically degreed friends--and I love them as my Brothers in
Christ--say that Jesus was addressing the Jews, not the Church. This,
therefore, has to be His addressing the time of His Second Advent at the end
of the seven years of Tribulation. However, I believe, as did my good friend
Dave Hunt, that the Lord would not speak confusion into prophecy. At the time
of the Second Advent at Armageddon, as many as three-fourths of the world's
population will have been killed through the terrible judgments given for that
era. People will not be doing the things people in societies and cultures do
during normal times. And, the time of Tribulation will be by far the worst in
human history, according to the Lord's own words (Matthew 24:21).
Dave Hunt spoke to these matters many years ago at a forum I attended. He
started his presentation by talking about the title of the topic he was assigned.
[My] topic is "Is the Rapture in the Olivet Discourse?" Well, I'd like to talk on
the topic "The Pre-Trib Rapture in the Olivet Discourse." I couldn't quite handle
that question. I couldn't justify why there ought to be any question at all. Why
the Pre-Trib Rapture, or the Rapture, or the Church, or anything else was in
the Olivet Discourse. ("The Pre-Trib Rapture: Is It in the Olivet Discourse?"
Dave Hunt, Pre-Trib Study Group, Dallas, Texas, December, 1998)
Dave Hunt, one of the most thorough and brilliant students of the Bible of my
acquaintance, talked then about how the Olivet Discourse is declared by the
seminary doctoral hierarchy to not address the Church or the Rapture in any
way whatsoever. He went on to say that the Olivet Discourse, as he
understood it, came about in response to specific questions the disciples
asked Jesus. They wanted to know when the destruction of the temple and city
would take place, and what would be the signs of His coming, and of the end
of the age. Dave said Jesus responded with the many signals He gave. Jesus
didn't say that He was referring to His Second Coming at the time of
Armageddon. Dave asked: Why is it necessary to adamantly say that it
couldn't be the Rapture Jesus was talking about in answer to their questions?
A common reason given for the Rapture not being referred to in the Olivet
Discourse, Dave Hunt said, was that the disciples there with Jesus couldn't
understand about the Rapture, because they didn't understand about even the
Church at that point.
Dave reminded that Jesus told the disciples at another time that He would go
away, but would come again and receive them unto himself, and take them to
Heaven, where He will have prepared dwelling places (mansions) for them
(John 14: 1-3). The disciples didn't understand this, either, but it was about the
Church, and Jesus told them about it. Dave said this coming for the disciples
(the Church) couldn't be the Second Advent, because He will return at that
time of Armageddon with the saints--including the disciples to whom He was
speaking. The disciples didn't understand that, it is true, Dave said. But, Jesus
was nonetheless speaking about the Rapture. The common sense of the
things Jesus was saying fit perfectly--as Jesus' teachings always did.
Dave Hunt concluded:
I don't believe that His response had to be limited to what they understood. But
I think He could tell them things that they didn't understand, and not
necessarily in a way that they would understand... I can't think of any reasonrule of logic or exegesis-that would say the rapture can't be in the Olivet
Discourse." (Ibid.)
Jesus expanded on His "days of Noah" analogy to the time when He would
return at the Rapture:
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went
out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17: 2930)
Be alert! Keep your head up and senses attuned to what the headlines are
saying to your spiritual ears. The midnight cry might be the next words you
hear.
***Midnight Cry -You must hear this!***
Perhaps no other song more reflects the Glorious Rapture of the Church than
does The Midnight Cry". We have put a link to what we believe is the most
thrilling rendition of that song we've heard (although all renditions are great.)
Shawn Crane is the singer. Shawn and his family are part of Terry's family, in
his heart. We hope you will enjoy Shawn's version of this tremendous song.
Send it as you wish throughout your various social media outlets.
Link to: Midnight Cry - https://soundcloud.com/todd-strandberg/09-midnightcry-demo
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From Kathmandu to Kalamazoo! - A. V. Rauf http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/05/05/from-kathmandu-to-kalamazoo/
Mark 13:8-For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines
and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows
As Nepal is still trying to recover from the massive earthquake that struck
Kathmandu last week, seismic activity has continued to be on the uptick.
Did you know that Michigan was just hit by the worst earthquake the state has
seen in over 60 years? The earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was measured
around 12:23 p.m. about nine miles southeast of Kalamazoo, near Galesburg.
michigan quakeDozens of residents in several different regions beyond
Kalamazoo - from Mount Pleasant and Sterling Heights to Lansing and even
as far as Cleveland, Ohio.
All over the planet, seismic activity is increasing. North Texas was rattled once
again with an earthquake last Sunday morning, measuring at 3.2 magnitude.
Even Mississippi was just hit by two of them. According to the USGS, a
magnitude 3.0 earthquake and a magnitude 3.2 earthquake shook up the
residents of Canton, Mississippi over the weekend. Two earthquakes - a
magnitude 4.1 and a 4.2 - jolted north Idaho last week. Folks, these are
quakes that are happening in diverse places.
As a matter of fact, even the number of volcanoes erupting right now is greater
than the 20th century's average for an entire year.
It is being reported that lava is flowing on the floor of Halema'uma'u crater in
Hawaii. This is one of the largest volcanoes in Hawaii and is spewing lava for
the first time in more than 30 years...
An undersea volcano situated 300 miles off the coast of Oregon is thought to
be erupting after signs of magma were spotted near its deep sea vent. For the
last week the region has experienced thousands of tiny earthquakes - a sign
that magma is moving towards the surface.
Geologists predicted the volcano, called Axial Seamount (a sign that magma
is moving toward the surface.) The seafloor has also reportedly dropped by
almost 8 feet!
At the same time, the surface of the sun has become very quiet.
It is believed that times of very low solar activity have something to do with a
rise in seismic activity, and there is one scientist that is claiming that solar
activity is declining faster "than at any time in the last 9300 years" right now.
So what does this mean for the future of our planet?
Scientists have known that there is a link between activity on the sun and
seismic activity on our
planet.
A 1967 study published in the Earth and Planetary Science journal, stated:
"Solar activity, as indicated by sunspots, radio noise and geomagnetic indices,
plays a significant but by no means exclusive role in the triggering of
earthquakes."
A 1998 report by a scientist from the Beijing Astronomical Observatory...
"Earthquakes occur frequently around the minimum years of solar activity."
As reported on NewScientist.com and numerous other science sites, including
Space.com, the sun has recently entered into its lowest (minimum) actively
levels in four centuries, coinciding with an increase in global seismic activity.
"Solar activity is declining very fast at the moment," Mike Lockwood, professor
of space environmental physics at Reading University, UK, told New Scientist.
"We estimate faster than at any time in the last 9300 years."
The book of Revelation foretells five specific powerful earthquakes preceding
and surrounding Christ's Return. Each is unique, and occurs at a particular
juncture of God's final prophetic timeline. (Please see my previous post
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On") Here is the link:
http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/04/25/whole-lotta-shakin-goin-on/
So where and when in the Bible do we see a change or reduction in solar
activity? I am glad you asked........
Revelation 8:12-13-And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun
was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so
as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part
of it, and the night likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through
the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the
inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three
angels, which are yet to sound!
If we have indeed entered a time of decreased solar activity, that could mean
that seismic activity on our planet will continue to increase.
Could what we are witnessing be a prelude to what is to come in the very near
future when the Seal, Trumpet and Bowl judgments are to be released on this
earth?
The time to know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior is now. The time to get
saved is now. Again I urge you to receive the free gift of salvation that awaits
you.
John 3:16-18-For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Transhumanism: An Attempt to Use Technology to
Turn Men into Gods - By Michael Snyder http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/transhumanism-an-attempt-to-use-technology-toturn-men-into-gods
Did you know that the word "transhuman" literally means "beyond human"? All
over the world, scientists and intellectuals are joining the transhumanism
movement. Those that adhere to this philosophy believe that the time has
come for us to use technology to take control of our own evolution. By doing
so, they believe that we can give ourselves superhuman powers and radically
extend our lifespans. Right now, the most popular movie in America is
"Avengers: Age of Ultron", and in recent years we have watched films about
"mutants" and "superheroes" become some of Hollywood's biggest
moneymakers. But transhumanists believe that we will soon be able to literally
turn ourselves into such superheroes as technology continues to increase at
an exponential rate. And once we have superhuman powers and superhuman
intelligence, they are convinced that we will eradicate all sickness, disease,
poverty and war. Many of them actually believe that we will be able to achieve
immortality and establish a utopia on Earth just a few decades from now. In
other words, we won't need a "God" because we will have become our own
gods.
At the core of the transhumanist movement is an unshakable faith in the
inevitable technological progress of humanity. Yes, there are some
transhumanists that have doubts, but for most transhumanists the solution to
all of our problems is more technology. If you are not familiar with
transhumanism, the following is a really good definition that I recently came
across...
Transhumanism is a cultural and intellectual movement promoting the aim of
transforming the human condition fundamentally by developing - and making
available - technologies to enhance human intellectual, physical, and
psychological capabilities. Transhumanist thinking studies the potential
benefits and hazards of emerging technologies that could overcome basic
human limitations. It also addresses ethical matters involved in developing and
using such technologies. Some transhumanists predict that human beings may
eventually transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded
abilities that they justify a state of being known as 'posthuman'.
Transhumanists want to help humans live much longer, and they also want to
dramatically increase the quality of those lives. Ultimately, most
transhumanists are fully convinced that they will be able to defeat death
altogether. The following is a short excerpt from an ExtremeTech article...
One of the core concepts in transhumanist thinking is life extension: Through
genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning, and other emerging technologies,
eternal life may soon be possible. Likewise, transhumanists are interested in
the ever-increasing number of technologies that can boost our physical,
intellectual, and psychological capabilities beyond what humans are naturally
capable of (thus the term transhuman). Transcranial direct current stimulation
(tDCS), for example, which speeds up reaction times and learning speed by
running a very weak electric current through your brain, has already been used
by the US military to train snipers. On the more extreme side, transhumanism
deals with the concepts of mind uploading (to a computer), and what happens
when we finally craft a computer with greater-than-human intelligence (the
technological singularity).
So would you like to live forever armed with superhuman powers?
The most famous transhumanist in the world, Ray Kurzweil, actually believes
that he is going to be able to do that. But first he has to stay alive long enough
for the technologies that he believes are coming to be developed. So Kurzweil
takes 150 supplements a day in an attempt to keep his body in peak
condition...
The youthful 65-year-old currently takes 150 supplements a day, which he
argues is the first bridge.
The idea is to build enough bridges to ensure the body holds out long enough
for life-lengthening technology to come into its own.
He has likened the biology of the body to computer software and believes we
are all 'out of date'.
Kurzweil is absolutely convinced that if he can just stretch his life out long
enough that technologies that will enable him to achieve immortality are right
around the corner. In fact, in a piece that he wrote for CNN he expressed his
belief that our medical technologies will be "a million times more powerful"
than they are today just two decades from now...
Health and medicine is now an information technology and is therefore subject
to what I call the "law of accelerating returns," which is a doubling of capability
(for the same cost) about each year that applies to any information technology.
As a result, technologies to reprogram the "software" that underlie human
biology are already a thousand times more powerful than they were when the
genome project was completed in 2003, and will again be a thousand times
more powerful than they are today in a decade, and a million times more
powerful in two decades.
So will he be right?
We will just have to wait and see.
For a long time, many in the transhumanist movement (including Kurzweil)
have been pointing to a time period between 2030 and 2050 during which they
believe something remarkable will happen. They believe that during that time
period something known as "the singularity" will occur. As technology
increases at an exponential rate, they believe that artificial intelligence will
begin to greatly surpass human intelligence at some point, and that humanity
will merge with this new super intelligence. Once that happens, they believe
that the world will change in ways that we cannot even comprehend today...
Kurzweil and his followers believe that a crucial turning point will be reached
around the year 2030, when information technology achieves 'genuine'
intelligence, at the same time as biotechnology enables a seamless union
between us and this super-smart new technological environment. Ultimately
the human-machine mind will become free to roam a universe of its own
creation, uploading itself at will on to a "suitably powerful computational
substrate". We will become essentially god-like in our powers.
Does that sound good to you, or does it sound frightening?
Other transhumanists are not quite as optimistic as Kurzweil and his
followers. Just consider what Max Tegmark, the author of Our Mathematical
Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, had to say about what
life will be like after "the singularity"...
After this, life on Earth would never be the same. Whoever or whatever
controls this technology would rapidly become the world's wealthiest and most
powerful, outsmarting all financial markets, out-inventing and out-patenting all
human researchers, and out-manipulating all human leaders. Even if we
humans nominally merge with such machines, we might have no guarantees
whatsoever about the ultimate outcome, making it feel less like a merger and
more like a hostile corporate takeover.
Even some of the most prominent scientists in the world are skeptical of what
an ultra-powerful artificial intelligence would mean for the future of
humanity. The following is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Stephen
Hawking...
Looking further ahead, there are no fundamental limits to what can be
achieved: there is no physical law precluding particles from being organized in
ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements
of particles in human brains. An explosive transition is possible, although it
may play out differently than in the movie: as Irving Good realized in 1965,
machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design
even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a "singularity" and Johnny
Depp's movie character calls "transcendence." One can imagine such
technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers,
out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even
understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it,
the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.
But despite these reservations from many in the scientific community, many
transhumanists are pushing ahead as hard as they can. Many of them are
absolutely convinced that what they are doing will bring a new golden age to
this planet. Just consider the words of transhumanist Zoltan Istvan...
Despite this, people continue to worry that technology and science that make
our species more transhuman will be used to create a deeper divide in society
for the haves and have-nots. Those worries are unfounded. A close
examination of the issues show that transhumanist technology and science
liberates us, brings us better health, and has improved the living standards of
all people around the world. If you value liberty, equality and progress, it
makes sense to embrace the coming age of transhumanism.
Doesn't that sound wonderful?
And there are even some transhumanists that couch their hopes and dreams
for the future in religious terminology. For example, transhumanist Mark
Pesce is fully convinced that transhumanism will allow ordinary humans "to
become as gods"...
"Men die, planets die, even stars die. We know all this. Because we know it,
we seek something more-a transcendence of transience, translation to
incorruptible form. An escape if you will, a stop to the wheel. We seek,
therefore, to bless ourselves with perfect knowledge and perfect will; To
become as gods, take the universe in hand, and transform it in our image-for
our own delight. As it is on Earth, so it shall be in the heavens. The inevitable
result of incredible improbability, the arrow of evolution is lipping us into the
transhuman - an apotheosis to reason, salvation - attained by good works."
That is some pretty strong stuff.
The Mark of the Beast Is Closer Than We Think - Belle
Ringer - http://www.salvationandsurvival.com/2015/05/the-mark-of-beast-is-closer-thanwe.html
I know that there are those out there in the blogosphere who reject the idea
that technology is bad for us. They will point to the added convenience and
"instant" communication aspects of all of our technological gadgets. And I
realize that I will be called a dinosaur and "out of touch" for not embracing
every new app or innovation that comes down the pike.
I may not be the most savvy techie or eager to be the first in my crowd to
own the latest version of anything that begins with an "i", but there's a very
good reason. You see, I can tell where this is all headed, and it's a place I
don't want to go. And you don't even have to be a "conspiracy nut" to get a
pretty good picture of what our future holds.
Great Britain's The Telegraph recently printed a news story by Sophie
Curtis about the direction that PayPal wants to take us. Ever heard of "Natural
Body Identification"? Apparently, it is "a new generation of embeddable,
injectable and ingestible devices that could replace passwords as a means of
identification." If you believe the tech giants, there is a massive problem of
compromised passwords; with naive and unsophisticated tech users still
employing easily hacked passwords such as "123456", or "letmein".
Slide taken from Jonathan LeBlanc's presentation, "Kill All Passwords"
But Paypal's global head of developer evangelism (that's rather strange
terminology, don't you think?), Jonathan LeBlanc, thinks monitoring internal
body functions like heartbeat, glucose levels and vein recognition can
eliminate the need for people to come up with the perfect unhackable
password. It's just the way he wants to do it, that has me creeped out.
He wants to consider developing devices such as brain implants, waferthin silicon chips that can be embedded into the skin, and ingestible devices
with batteries that are powered by stomach acid. Now, he's quick to point out
that by talking about new biometric verification technologies, PayPal is not
necessarily signaling that it's thinking about adopting them. Rather, it hopes to
position itself as a "thought leader". Is that supposed to comfort us?
They want us to think that it is all about the "evolution" of the
password; that concept will be changing, and all PayPal wants to do is be at
the forefront of the developments for that change. After all, PayPal was a
founding member of the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance, which is an
industry consortium launched in February 2013 to address the lack of
interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users
face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.
PayPal also wants you to know that they were the first to implement
fingerprint payments with Samsung ... it's all about removing "the friction" from
shopping and making it easier and safer for consumers. If you believe that,
I've got the proverbial beachfront property in Arizona that you might be
interested in.
By now, it should be quite clear that we are edging closer and closer to
being controlled as to how we buy and sell. And if that doesn't ring a bell, then
please rush to your nearest Bible and read Revelation 13:16-17.
Furthermore, there are tech users that are far more savvy than me and
they point out the obvious flaw in biometric security devices, namely "there is
no advantage whatsoever to using a biometric signal. In fact, it's easier to
make a secure key from a series of random numbers and letters because
those can be changed. Biometrics CANNOT BE CHANGED - once
compromised, they are forever useless. It's like having one password for
everything that is the same --- how does that increase security? It doesn't --- it
lessens the security."
Another person showed the flaw in PayPal's argument with this
comment: "This is about tagging you with a tracking device so that the powers
that be can better analyze your movement and behavior. It has nothing to do
with security or verifying your identity when it actually counts, as in a financial
transaction."
Even I can see the logic in these two arguments against so-called "natural
body identification" and biometric verification technologies. Not that I think it
will slow down the "evolution" of ID Security devices. The time is coming for
"the Mark", folks, whether we like it or not. Just stay alert and aware of the
latest innovations, and resist the temptation to bow down at the altar of
technology.
Revelation 13:16-17 "And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich
and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their
right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy
or to sell, except the one who has the mark,"
Islamic attack in Texas will impact free speech - Bill Wilson www.dailyjot.com
It's already happening. People are blaming the American Freedom Defense
Initiative (AFDI) for baiting the Islamic State (IS) terrorists into the Garland, Tx
attack by the AFDI using cartoons of Mohammad and posting billboards and
ads condemning Islam. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist "civil rights"
advocacy organization, designates AFDI as a hate group, although Southern
Poverty Law Center spreads its own brand of hate against Christians and
conservatives. Even the LA Times, supposed guardian of free speech, has
written: "The Garland attack refocused public attention on the fine line
between free speech and hate speech in the ideological struggle between
radical Islam and the West."
There is no fine line between free speech and hate speech where Islam is
concerned. The West is where guaranteed free speech was invented. Telling
the truth about a vicious and brutal death cult is not hate speech. Let's get real
here. Every year, the US State Department releases a report on human rights
practices. And every year, Islamic nations are an overwhelming majority when
it comes to practicing human trafficking and violating human rights. Sex trade,
slave trade, drug trade, and crime are hallmarks of Islam. The rights of women
and children are trampled. There is no freedom of speech or of religion. This is
documented and one doesn't have to look far to find it. And that's the easy
stuff.
Where around the world can you find systematic and brutal murdering of
anyone who disagrees with a religion, other than Islam? Where? Islam's holy
book, the Koran, instructs its disciples to kill infidels, namely Christians and
Jews. Anyone who refuses to submit to Islam is to be killed, according to the
Koran. There is no better representative of this theology than the selfproclaimed Caliphate, Islamic State. The IS is marauding across the Middle
East burning alive, crucifying, burying alive, and beheading anyone and
everyone who disagrees with them, including women and children. Telling the
atrocities of Islam is not hate speech, it is the truth. It's no fine line, it's a wide
one drawn in blood with the pen of atrocity.
You cannot appease the bloodthirsty and expect peace. Speaking of the peril
of false teaching and sin, Jeremiah 8:11 says "For they have healed the hurt of
the daughter of my people slightly, saying Peace, peace; when there is no
peace." Verse 15 says, "We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a
time of health, and behold terror!" The tolerance and appeasement of evil will
lead to destruction. Christians must stand strong and not allow evil Islam and
its minions to make truth as hate speech. The tweets from Islamists in the
Garland incident that drove those two terrorist wannabes to their death was
the real hate speech. Free speech is the hedge that stands between Islam and
carnage. Americans would do well to recognize this and vehemently resist the
appeasers who would sacrifice truth for a false peace.
Daily Devotion: "What Are You Doing Here?" - Greg Laurie www.harvest.org
So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and
went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him,
and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" -1 Kings 19:13
It was a glorious day of victory for Israel and the Lord. Elijah had faced off with
the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, where God sent a stream of fire from
Heaven and consumed Elijah's sacrifice. At God's command, Baal's prophets
had been slain, and Jezebel, the wife of wicked King Ahab, wanted Elijah
dead.
So inexplicably, the courageous Elijah, having just faced all those prophets,
ran in terror and hid himself in a cave. Then the Bible tells us there was a
mighty, rushing wind, followed by an earthquake and a big fire. After that, God
asked Elijah a question: "What are you doing here, Elijah?" (1 Kings 19:13).
I wonder if the Lord would say that to some of us sometimes. Maybe it's when
you're in a group of people and things are happening that you shouldn't be
around. Maybe people are doing drugs or getting drunk. And the Lord says,
"What are you doing here?" Or maybe you're in a movie and a scene comes
on that is not the kind of scene you should be watching. Everyone is enjoying
it, and you are feeling a little uncomfortable. The Lord whispers, "What are you
doing here?"
When Judas came to betray Jesus, He said, "Friend, why have you come?"
(Matthew 26:50). Did Jesus know why Judas came to the garden with a bunch
of soldiers and the temple guard? Of course Jesus knew. However, Jesus
wanted Judas to say he was there because he had been planning to betray
Him, but he wanted to repent. But Judas didn't repent.
God knows everything that we have done, and He wants us to admit our sins,
to confess them. Sometimes God will ask us a question designed to do that.
So what question is God asking you today?
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Featured Article: This Means War - Wendy Wippel http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=8038
The Hebrew Mazzeroth (Job 38:32) began in September (the Jewish New
Year) with Virgo, presenting the God/man to come. Libra, next, gives us the
reason He was needed. Scorpio brings us to the meat of the story: the central
truth of human experience: God has an enemy. And the heavens are at war.
Which shouldn't really be a surprise, because we are told that from the very
beginning of the scriptures.
The enemy entered the creation that God had provided for man, and man's
experience in paradise came all too quickly to an end. Mankind was expelled
from Eden and the conflict between God and Satan for control of man's fate
began. Genesis records God's first prophecy, describing both the conflict to
come and the end result: "And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you
shall bruise His heel."
God purposed, as described by Virgo that His own Son, without the taint of
human sin, would redeem His people by paying, as described in Libra, the
price sufficient (the sacrifice of a perfect, sinless lamb, human and yet
simultaneously God) which we, as corrupted and sinful beings, could not pay.
But Satan, in his pride; "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be
like the Most High" (Isaiah 14:14). This defiance purposed to do everything in
his power to prevent that sacrificial lamb from ever existing.
And boy, has he tried. He tried when the children of Israel were in Egypt,
convincing Pharaoh to kill every male Hebrew child.
But God rescued Moses.
He tried when Ahaziah king of Judah died, and his mother Athaliah purposed
to kill all of the royal line. She almost succeeded. But God made her
accidentally miss one.
Joash survived.
He tried when Haman enacted laws in Persia intended to put to death the
whole Jewish citizenry. But God had sleeper agent embedded in the Persian
Empire, a young Jewish girl named Esther. And Esther told by her uncle, that
she had become the king's favorite "for such a time as this", turned the tables
on Haman. Her story ends with Haman being hung on the same gallows,
which he purposed for the Jews.
He tried when the wise men told Herod that the one born king of the Jews was
in their midst, prompting the perennially paranoid Herod to order the death of
every male Hebrew child. God, however, had warned one particular child's
parents, in a dream, and the baby promised in Virgo escaped to Egypt.
Jesus escaped.
He never quit trying, but ultimately God triumphed in completion of the first part
of our redemption: the sacrifice lamb was, on a hill called Calvary, slain for our
sins.
Doesn't really seem like a triumph, but it was. It was the perfect execution
(pun really not intended) of God's perfect plan.
Jesus, as the time of the crucifixion approached, told His disciples, "Now My
soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? ... for
this purpose I came to this hour." I never saw the flipside till this weekend. The
second witness: (Luke 22:53) Jesus told the Pharisees, "when I was with you
daily in the temple, you did not try to seize me. But this is your hour, and the
power of darkness."
Jesus' hour at the cross was also the hour that the powers of evil were given
the power to kill Him. The powers of evil did reign at His crucifixion, but they
had no power that was not given to them. And that power was only given so
that God's ultimate purpose-our salvation-would come to pass.
The age-old conflict with Satan over man's salvation had come to an end, and
it was the death of Christ that won the victory. God, who loved mankind, gave
His only begotten son so that whoever believed on Him could have eternal life.
For Satan however, who hates mankind, as Peter warned us: Be sober, be
vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour", it hasn't ended. Though he lost the war, he's
still looking to maximize the casualties.
And all of this is exactly what the sign of Scorpio portrays.
The name for Scorpio, in both Hebrew and Arabic, is kerav. Fortunately, The
Bible itself tells us what that word means, in Psalm 144: 1: "Blessed be the
Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for battle". Battle is the word kerav. In
Scorpio, it is the age-old battle of the ages that is depicted.
Like all zodiac constellations, Scorpio has three decans (sub-constellations)
that fill in the whole picture for us. The first decan, called Ophiuchus (meaning
"the serpent-holder,") is pictured as a man holding a serpent in two hands,
restraining the snake from snatching his crown, which the serpent is gazing at
as in envy. This man is simultaneously standing on the heart of the scorpion
(the very bright, very red star Antares, which means wounded). The second
decan, Serpens, is the covetous snake being held, the serpent pictured as
seemingly writhing in frustration, intent on exacting man's destruction but
thwarted from his desire by his restraint by the serpent- holder Ophichius.
(As he has been, through all of earth's history, and still is. And will be until the
"one who restrains him is taken out of the way", allowing the devil is to reign
on earth once more. Again, only for God's own purposes, and only for an
appointed time.
The third decan, Hercules, shows us the certainty of the final outcome--that
predicted in God's first prophecy. Satan and the powers of darkness, with the
hour given them, did bruise the Savior's heel when He was crucified dead and
buried. But He arose. And, ultimately, the devil will be crushed by that Savior,
sacrifice lamb himself.
In the third decan, the mythological hero Hercules, considered the son of God
(in Roman imagination the son of the God, Jupiter), a mythological figure,
known in ancient cultures as the strongest mortal alive and the greatest hero
ever known, reigns triumphant. Scorpio's third decan shows the hero-- one
knee down with his foot in the air as if nursing a wounded heel but nonetheless
holding aloft proof of his victory, with his other foot firmly planted on the head
of the enemy, the dragon (the constellation Draco).
As promised, in Psalm 91:1-16; "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the
most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ...7 A thousand shall
fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh
thee.9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most
High, thy habitation... the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.15 He shall call
upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him,
and honor him.16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation."
One star in the third decan is Guiam, which means treading under foot-a clear
reference to the timing of the Lord's final victory, "The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at my right hand, till I make Your enemies your footstool." Psalm 10:1
Aristotle wrote that the original religion of the Greeks had been lost and
transformed into Greek mythology. Neander wrote that that mythology
contained the fragments of a tradition, which transmitted the knowledge of the
divine things, i.e., religious truth, of earlier ages.
Scorpio clearly transmits the promise from God of final victory. Though the
serpent bruised the Messiah's heel, in the end Satan will certainly be
vanquished.
"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the
works of the devil." I John 3:8
That's the theme of Scorpio. Amen?
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