The Obscenities of Israel in the Holy Land

So-called fundamentalist Christians are the greatest perpetrators of the myth that the Jews (who have for decade’s illegally occupied Palestinian Land) are God’s chosen people and so have a divine right to act in the most obscene and vile manner possible in the Holy Land by butchering unarmed and defenseless Palestinian men, women and children and then go about creating further obscenities by stealing their land.

The US and Britain has a consistently pro-Israeli policy and that the occasional gestures made toward the PA regime are meant only to cover up the long-standing British acceptance of Israeli criminality. Britain does give the PA regime some aid in the form of training the PA police force. However, it is very clear that the British aid is not conditional on an undertaking by the PA to respect the human rights and civil liberties of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank. Hence, one can claim safely that Britain is effectively helping the PA to torment its citizens and violate their human rights, a fact corroborated by many human rights organizations, including the London-based Amnesty International.

Palestinians, along with many honest and conscientious people around the globe, including many British citizens, have hoped that successive British governments would one day try to atone for Britain's grave sins against the Palestinian people. After all, it was Britain which gave Palestine to the Zionist movement through the infamous Balfour Declaration in 1917.

However, to the chagrin of many, Britain has shown consistently that the same criminal mindset that gave Palestine to Zionism on a silver platter remains alive and well in London. In fact, one could cite hundreds of examples showing that Britain is not really sincere about reaching a just peace in Palestine.

For example, the decision by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to prevent the issue of arrest warrants for suspected Israeli war criminals, such as Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni, Gabi Ashkenazi and Ehud Olmert, to name but a few. Under the new proposal made by Brown less than two weeks ago, the Crown Prosecution Service will take over responsibility for prosecuting war crimes and other violations of international law. Bowing to Zionist pressure and utterly ignoring the massacres Israel carried out in Gaza last year, Brown wrote in the Daily Telegraph, "As we have seen, there is now significant danger of such a provision being exploited by politically-motivated organizations and individuals who set out only to grab headlines knowing their case has no realistic chance of a successful prosecution".

This ill-advised proposal by Brown should be viewed as a blunt betrayal of the thousands of Palestinians killed, maimed and incinerated by the Israeli war machine during Israel's genocidal onslaught against the people of Gaza. It should also be viewed as a tacit encouragement to Israel to keep up its militaristic approach toward the Palestinians. In the final analysis, crime unpunished is crime encouraged. The proposal also shows that the British decision to back the Goldstone Report at the UN was no more than a PR exercise intended to maintain a semblance of credibility among Britain's Arab friends.

This duplicity on the part of the British government is further underscored by the virtual British silence in the face of the latest provocative decisions by the Israeli occupation authorities to build tens of thousands of additional settler units for Jews in East Jerusalem.

The feeble and certainly ineffective British stand in the face of Israel's determination to destroy every chance for peace proves that Britain is actually a hindrance to, rather than a facilitator of, peace in the Middle East. Indeed, since British Ambassador to the UN Lord Caradon drafted the Resolution 242 in November 1969, Britain has been pandering to the whims of the Zionist regime in a manner that is only outmatched by America.

Some Palestinians and Arabs had thought naively that the exit of the certified war criminal Tony Blair from the British government would restore some balance to British foreign policy toward the Muslim world, especially Palestine. However, with a gung-ho approach towards Iran, the murderous intervention in Afghanistan and the nefarious connivance with the Israelis, Britain is riding roughshod over all Arab and Muslim sensibilities. This more or less strengthens the arguments of extremist groups like al-Qaeda, which say that the West will not behave justly and decently toward Muslims unless it is forced to do so. While the British government is certainly to blame for its hypocrisy and duplicity toward the Palestinians' plight, for which it must shoulder some responsibility, Palestinian and Arab officials should always challenge British diplomats and officials to act on their criticism of Israel. It is unacceptable to criticize Israeli settlement expansion in the morning while assuring Israel in the evening that relations with Britain will remain exceptionally strong and be unaffected by any differences over the settlement issue. Britain is the mother of all the calamities that have befallen the Palestinian people since 1914. Hence, a British discourse toward the Palestinian people that is based on deception and dishonesty can never be accepted, even if British diplomats claim it is based on good will.

The False Rapture Doctrines of Alan Franklin and Terry James

Alan Franklin has co-authored another book with Terry James of Rapture Ready fame and those two with a couple of other False Prophets have written a book about a counterfeit doctrine called the Rapture of the Church; both of these men and the others involved in this satanic work have been deceived by lying spirits with their soul motivation involved obviously being money.

The Bible speaks of the resurrection of the dead and yet these cowards who choose to twist the word of God around for their own benefit by saying that God has written a so-called Rapture into his word that simply isn’t there may be in for one huge shock very soon when the treaty of Daniel is confirmed very, very shortly.

That is not to say if they manage to publish the book very quickly it may do quite well for the facts of the matter are that the backstabbing hypocrites that inhabit the Whore Babylon/Laodicean Churches have been fully indoctrinated into believing the Rapture garbage and will more than likely rush out and buy this piece of trash.

There is another book that has also been brought out called “There is no Rapture”. Even as the title suggests the author of this book is correct but sadly I would expect this book to would as well as the one mentioned above simply because 95% of the so-called Christian church has been brainwashed into something that is not even in the Bible.

The Great Big Rapture Lie

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I have found the following remarks on a post tribulation blog

Quote: Don’t beat yourself up - you both made valid points, I can see both sides of the debate and am undecided myself, but really need to hear this information. As you both said, its not a salvation issue, it should motivate us to study the scriptures more for ourselves. Well done to both of you. And yes, it would have been great to have a longer debate. End of quote

The timing of the Rapture is one of the greatest scams and frauds that has ever infiltrated the Christian movement; there is no point whatsoever in going into the entire history of it but I have done a little research on the subject matter and it seems that it does not go back hundreds and hundreds of years, but is only a very recent invention of about 150 years ago.

Right from the book of Genesis to the book of the apocalypse, the Revelation, the facts of the matter are that there is no where in the Bible that even mentions the word Rapture.

Those two facts alone should be enough to start bells ringing, but obviously it doesn’t.

All of this time I wondered what was wrong with the churches and those that make comments here and why can’t they see what is wrong. But now I have a finger on it it’s as clear as daylight -- Satan has designed a so called Rapture of the church to blindfold Christians to the real truth so that instead of looking for the day of the Lord, as they should be, they are looking for a Rapture that is never ever going to happen, not now or not ever. There will be no Rapture.

Those that are perpetrating this satanic handiwork known as the timing of the Rapture cannot be operating under a true Holy Spirit but can only operating under a form of sorcery that has been clearly designed to lead Christians astray.

That is why we are told in the book of the Revelation that in these last days men will be neither hot nor cold and for that reason I will spew them out says the Lord.

Common sense would dictate that if a so-called Christian is not prepared to stand up for the Lord at the end of the age and at the same time be martyred for his name but is instead is looking for  a way out through a Rapture, Christ is not going to stand up for them on the judgment day.

So our friend above is totally wrong when he says the Rapture debate does not have anything to do with salvation, it has everything to do with salvation. Even though I really do regret having to say this but those that have fallen for this one big Rapture lie may not inherit the Kingdom of God for the reason I have stated above.

So to those that are reading this who claim to be saved are you really as sure on your salvation as what you think you are? I really would hate to see you close your eyes after having had the death experience and then open them again to find out you are in Hell.  The very same verses that describe the resurrection of the dead are being used by those that are pulling off the Rapture lie and in most cases mainly for there own financial benefit.  

There are only 5% of Christians who do not believe in the Rapture. How easy is it going to be for the Antichrist to come forth and deceive the nations, certainly the Christians are not going to stop him when all they are thinking of is escaping?  

The doctrine relating to the Rapture of the Church is nothing but pure witchcraft, sorcery or another form of occultism and those that believe in it and preach it are nothing more than False Prophets and liars doing the works of Satan and may go to where they belong, Hellfire. 

There never has been nor will there ever be a taking away of the church so through that garbage out and concentrate on what the Bible really teaches, the resurrection  of the dead, but do not mix the two up together as the hypocrites and the harlot churches do.

So my message to anybody that reads this that your simply wasting your time and energy by even thinking of a pre, mid or post tribulation let alone bothering to waste time and energy arguing amongst each other about something the scriptures do not even teach at all.  

       

The War Within the EU

The newly elected EU president Herman Van Rompuy. Note his right eye it looks very similar to the eye of Satan atop the pyramid on the American dollar bill, extremely scary stuff?

I know what my thoughts are on the end times but to put those thoughts into words that everyone who reads my postings can understand is an entirely another matter.

I made attempt to do so above but I feel that I have really succeeded, and so for the purpose of another shot at it I am submitting this revamped attempt. So basically just ignore most of the last effort as I have tried to simplify things a little better so that everyone can understand my point of view.

Basically all that I am saying is that I think Sarkozy maybe the False Prophet because he seems to fit the following verse to a tee. Also remember that it was Sarkozy and Merkel who choose the newly appointed EU president and so it looks as if Sarkozy has been supporting him all along even before he came to power. Also remember that Sarkozy does not have seat of power but has two horns like a lamb, therefore he may be fulfilling two jobs?

The verse I am referring to is Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

There have been so many that have been saying that Sarkozy could be the Antichrist because he has been acting in a manner similar to how we would expect the Antichrist to act.

However the verse above tells us as the False Prophet acts in a manner not dissimilar to the Antichrist as he exercises all of the authority of the first beast (before he even came to power) and causes the earth and those who dwell on it to worship the first beast, even though he does not seek authority for himself.

Sounds very much like Sarkozy to me?

I have now learnt that Van Rompuy is making a play for power within the EU with some even calling him the quite assassin. What is going on now within the EU is being called “a war in the EU” and that sounds to me very much like the rise and rise of the Antichrist - although I may be wrong?

National leaders are concerned Mr Van Rompuy, who had been expected to take a back seat role, is attempting to expand his position.

Germany and France backed his candidature on the understanding he would act as an EU “chairman” rather than a high-profile leader.

But the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty has triggered bitter in-fighting between Mr Van Rompuy, Baroness Ashton, the foreign minister, and the Commission over who is in charge of representing Europe on the global stage.

Diplomats are increasingly worried that amid the turf wars there is a danger of Brussels “mission creep” as squabbling EU chiefs try to enlarge their empires at the expense of each other and national sovereignty.

National governments, led by Germany, are incensed by an attempt by Mr Van Rompuy to take on new powers he claims were agreed at an informal summit two weeks ago.

There has been particular anger over a letter he sent to EU leaders following the chaotic Feb 11 meeting in Brussels that was dominated by the economic crisis in Greece and talk of a European bail-out.

Despite the fact that the meeting only lasted three hours, with Greece the main topic of discussion, Mr Van Rompuy insisted that eight to ten specific points were agreed, a view that has been disputed by most EU leaders.

One of the points of the classified letter, seen by The Daily Telegraph, gives Mr Van Rompuy the right to lead the EU’s negotiating team at G20 summits, usurping the role of national governments and the Commission.

“There was agreement to take better account of the international dimension. This includes a thorough preparation of the EU position for G20, allowing me to effectively and forcefully represent the EU’s positions in this important forum,” said the letter. End of quote

When I have the time to do so I will say more on the earthquakes at a later date, but they do tie in more than most realize with the end times. Your friend

Who are Herman Van Rompuy and Nicholas Sarkozy?

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How strange it is how some of the Bible prophecies eventually pan out. Christians for centuries have been awaiting the arrival of the Antichrist thinking there was going to be some sort of a grandiose fanfare when he was finally appointed as the EU president.

Nonetheless it may have happened and yet most of Christendom has hardly blinked an eyelid. Even a UK Independence Party MEP Nigel Farage has shocked the European Parliament with a savage personal attack on the EU's new full-time President Herman van Rompuy. Mr Farage slammed the former Belgian Prime Minister's appearance, personality, pay packet and country, and accused him of plotting the overthrow of the nation state. Mr. Van Rompuy, who had just made his first speech to MEPs since being appointed by EU leaders to the newly created top job, sat in amazement and obvious discomfort, settling for a half-grin and grimace as the tirade went on. To gasps from other MEPs in the less-than-full chamber, Mr. Farage told Mr. Van Rompuy that he possessed "all the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk". Afterwards the Socialist leader in the Parliament, Germany's Martin Schulz, condemned Mr. Farage for "trampling on the dignity of the House". And Mr. Van Rompuy, low-key and notoriously camera-shy, responded that he held Mr. Farage's remarks "in contempt", and refused to say more. Mr. Farage declared: "We were told that when we had a president, we'd see a giant global political figure, a man who would be the political leader for 500 million people, the man that would represent all of us all of us on the world stage, the man whose job was so important that of course you're paid more than President Obama." He continued: "Well, I'm afraid what we got were you... I don't want to be rude but, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk and the question I want to ask is: who are you? - I'd never heard of you, nobody in Europe had ever heard of you." Mr. Farage went on: "I can speak on behalf of the majority of British people in saying that we don't know you, we don't want you and the sooner you are put out to grass, the better." End of quote

As we can see by our friend above remarks when we saw the appointment of the EU president the EU did not receive the president they had bargained for.

However let’s go back to the Bible for a minute and take another look at Revelation Chapter 13. We know the Beast out of the sea is the Antichrist while the Beast out of the earth is the False Prophet.  In some senses both Beasts are really as bad as each other. Nonetheless, the scriptures tell us that both Beasts do certain things.

But does the Antichrist really hold the reigns of power within the EU as for so long so many people believed he would, or does the False Prophet really hold the reigns of power?  Even though he is not actively seeking authority himself, instead he hands his authority over the first Beast. When the Bible says he hands his authority over to the Antichrist does that really mean that he is controlling the first Beast?  

Because he has been acting in a manner that would be comparable to the way the Antichrist there have been many of this blog that have suggested that the current French president Nicholas Sarkozy maybe the Antichrist. However as Sarkozy does not hold the reigns of power to be the Antichrist is he not the Antichrist but could be the False Prophet?

Therefore the analogy that I had suggested above could apply to him even though it is the Antichrist who confirms the seven year Middle East peace treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 or is it the False Prophet; after all two horns like a lamb suggests he is a peace maker see Revelation Chapter 13.  

Even if you were to look at other portions of the Bible does the scripture really mean the Antichrist or the False Prophet?  Take for example Daniel Chapter 7, Verse 8:  I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. This could refer to either the Antichrist or the False Prophet but not necessarily to the Antichrist as both have ten horns. 

The first ever EU president Herman Van Rompuy

Now consider the second horsemen of Revelation Chapter 6 the Red Horse.  Clearly that means a World War and yet were are told in Revelation Chapter 13 that the False Prophet causes fire to come from the sky in full view of men – that sounds very much to me like a nuclear war. The list goes on and on. Now can you see the cleverness of Satan and the game of deception he may have been playing all along?

Is the World Economy on the Brink of Collapse?

Even though the world greeted his appointment as the first ever full time president with slight misgivings Herman Van Rompuy may not be the non starter we originally thought him to be.

Alan Franklin of the freepressonline.co.uk website has said their will be an economic global collapse in 2011, and just yesterday while watching Sky News I had learnt that California is absolutely broke, and that if Barak Obama continues on with his uncontrolled spending the whole of America is also set to collapse.

Now look what is also happening in Europe and Greece in particular.

BRUSSELS – Will the European Union use Greece's debt crisis to claw more economic power away from its member governments?

With the euro shaken by fears of a possible Greek default, the European Union's new president is seeking more authority over the economic sovereignty of its 27 members — which could limit member's spending on welfare and curb worker protection.

Such a push, eating into the economic sovereignty of its 27 members is sure to draw opposition.

It is a bold move for the unprepossessing President Herman Van Rompuy, a relative unknown whose ascension to the post last year was widely greeted with a yawn and as a signal that Europe was not prepared to choose a major figure who could outshine French, German or British leaders on the world stage.

The world economy is on the verge of disintegrating and isn’t a global economic collapse a perfect formula for the AC to gain the power to needs as he is able to claw the sovereignty and independence away from respective member nations by finding a solution to their economic woes just as Van Rompuy is trying to do at the moment?

The first ever full time EU President Herman Van Rompuy

I am not saying that Van Rompuy is the AC but Barry R Smith may have been right when he said the AC was the EU president, time will tell.

Remember Van Rompuy was chosen as the first ever EU president simply because of his genius in lifting Belgium out of the economic crisis that it had fallen into, and all in just 12 months, food for thought at least?

Iran's Nuclear Capabilities

-->I find it to be incredibly curious that at almost precisely the same time as Iran has announced it now has nuclear capabilities the US has launched its biggest offence ever in the eight year long war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Even though this may be a fair amount of conjecture at this stage It looks very much to me like the US is planning to complete their now looks like to have been a deliberately protracted war in Afghanistan so they can now move into Iran and attack the dictatorial reign there. Both the EU and Russia are very heavily back Iran and if what I have mentioned above ever does take place, batten down the hatches, because the result can only be a conflict of massive proportions and may even result in the Russian lead attack against Israel has been prophesied.

What Now For Tony Blair?

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Even though Tony Blair did not win the approval of both France and Germany when it came to choosing the EU president there still remains some thing that is very out of the ordinary about Blair.

To be perfectly frank I am not entirely convinced that the French president Nicholas Sarkozy is the AC, and I still do not count Blair out of contention when it comes to correctly identifying the AC.

Even though I am now a middle aged man (and am now facing up to old age at a very rapid rate) I still tend to stick to the way I have been brought up in an ancient system of belief when it comes to the fulfillment of the Bible prophecies, and that is that we shall only know the correct identity of the AC by his confirmation of a seven year Middle East peace treaty.

I still believe that I am going to see that take place within my own lifetime and even though I cannot foretell the immediate future I still live in vain hope that we may see it take place very, very shortly.

The Middle East Peace Envoy for the Quartet (United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia) Tony Blair is optimistic. The former British Prime Minister said there is a great sense of hope and expectation in the Middle East after United States President Obama’s recent outreach to the Islamic world.

Blair says that if everyone would commit themselves to a two state solution, this peace deal could be in place within the year.

That Blair says there could be peace in the Middle East within the year is a page out of Bible prophecy for the end times”.

AN URGENT MESSAGE

As the owner of this Blog I am not a prophet but this man (David Wilkerson) is of God and is able to see things happen before they do. He is constantly being revealed of future events so that he can warn people what is going to come to pass in the near future so that they may prepare a way out. That being the case it may be good to head his warnings before it is too late.

I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING; WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting—including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written,“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (v. 3).God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart” (Jeremiah 18:11-12).In Psalm 11:6, David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.” Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment—just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s generation.WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. If possible lay in store a thirty-day supply of non-perishable food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven—his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (v. 4). “In the Lord I take refuge” (v. 1).I will say to my soul: No need to run...no need to hide. This is God’s righteous work. I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take—trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.
Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.God bless and keep you,In Christ,DAVID WILKERSON

THE EU BEGINS ITS SELECTION PROCESS TO SELECT A FULL TIME PRESIDENT

The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by default has created a position for a full time president of the European Council of Ministers.

There have for many years been numerous students of Bible prophecy that have said that whoever is appointed as the full time president of the EU will be the Biblical Antichrist (including this blogger)

Up until recently the former British Prime minister was the former favourite to fulfill that role. Up until recently that is, until the German Chancellor Angela Merkel set about to persuade the French president Nicholas Sarkozy to deny Blair the role.

Any candidacy for the EU presidency must be approved by both France and Germany. As the selection process is to take place by the 27 member nations of the EU on the 12th of this month the official results of just who is going to be the EU president should be known by the middle of the month.

As it is still too early to predict the outcome of the selection process it will be at that time and only at that time we will get a clear picture of just who the Antichrist is going to be.

Tony Blair’s lead as the favourite to take the presidency of the EU has now been replaced by another character that seems to be more devious than what Blair could have ever been. He is the current Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy

Mr. Van Rompuy, who enjoys writing Japanese-style poetry, is regarded as the "safe" anti-Tony Blair choice for Germany and the smaller "dwarves gang" of EU countries.

He has discussed taking up the post with his family over Sunday lunch this weekend and appears to be on course to be picked as the least controversial candidate.

One European diplomat said: "There is a consensus around his name, which is rare among the 27 EU governments.

"No one is opposed to him and many are asking him to accept. Nobody else has unanimity."

Mr. Van Rompuy, 62, a Flemish Christian Democrat, is a reluctant Belgian leader who had to be persuaded by the country's King Albert II to become prime minister 10 months ago after the government collapsed amid the financial crisis and scandal.

After having only been in office for only 10 months as the Belgian Prime Minister for a very short period of time if he were to be selected as the President of the EU Council of Ministers his appointment would fulfill the criteria for correct identity of the Beast of Revelation when we are told in Revelation Chapter 13 that the Beast has 10 horns and 10 crowns. He has been in office 10 years and is of the inner tier of the governing nations of the EU Council of Ministers.

Unknown to many Christians, a 10-nation military alliance appeared in Europe in 1995, called the Western European Union (or the Brussels Treaty Powers.)

These 10 nations are members of both NATO and the European Union. What binds them together is a mutual defense obligation under Article Five of the modified Brussels Treaty, which means that an attack against one is an attack against all. They hold the rein of Europe’s growing military.

The 10 nations are: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom
Although not short in statue Mr. Van Rompuy would be the most impish looking man that I have ever laid eyes upon., if he is appointed as the full time president of the EU then it will only go to reinforce what I had believed would be the case for many years, that we would not really know who was going to be the Antichrist right up until almost the last minute, and that to keep on guessing his correct identity would be nothing more than an exercise in futility.

Netanyahu bows to Clinton and Obama

So much happening it makes your head spin. Is this the reason America is in so much trouble? You touch Israel and divide God's land the almighty will react. From ISRAEL TODAY Headline NewsTuesday, August 18, 2009 Israel Today StaffNetanyahu to freeze Jewish construction, settlers furiousIsrael's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have reached an agreement to halt all Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and the eastern half of Jerusalem in compliance with the demands of US President Barack Obama. The freeze will last until 2010, and will be presented to the Americans as a gesture of goodwill and a test to see if the Palestinians are willing to live up to finally their peace obligations.The decision sparked immediate outrage among right-wing Israelis, who said the move was reminiscent of Netanyahu's ideological collapse during his first term as prime minister in 1996. Then, just as during his current term, Netanyahu entered office vowing to never give up Israel's right to the land, and to not make any serious concessions until the Palestinians reciprocated previous concessions. Months later, Netanyahu was strong-armed by then-US President Bill Clinton into surrendering nearly all of the ancient Judean city of Hebron. The decision to halt Jewish construction on the eastern side of Jerusalem came as a particular surprise to those who believed Netanyahu was the only candidate that would preserve the capital's unity under Israeli control. Right-wing Israeli leaders said that if Netanyahu continues with the policies of his rival, Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, there will be no reason to keep him in office, and he will find himself facing a no-confidence vote just as he did during his first term.

Can It Get Much Worse?

BB&T Acquires Colonial as Regulators Close Five U.S. Lenders
By Alison Vekshin, David Mildenberg and Dakin Campbell

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Colonial BancGroup Inc., the Alabama lender facing a criminal probe, had its banking operations closed by regulators and taken over by BB&T Corp. in the biggest failure since Washington Mutual Inc. collapsed last year.

Regulators also shut two companies in Arizona, one in Las Vegas and one in Pittsburgh yesterday, pushing the tally of failed banks this year to 77.Branches and deposits of Colonial Bank, ranked second in its home state, were turned over to BB&T in a deal brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the regulator said in a statement. The failure of Montgomery-based Colonial followed a Florida expansion that left the company with more than $1.7 billion in soured real-estate loans.

“We’re gaining solid market shares in great markets in Alabama, Florida and Georgia,” Kelly King, chief executive officer of Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based BB&T, said in a statement. “It comes with minimal asset risk to BB&T because of our loss-sharing agreement with the FDIC.”

Regulators are closing banks at the fastest pace in 17 years. The Sept. 25 seizure of Seattle-based Washington Mutual was the biggest bank failure in U.S. history; its branches and assets were sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Colonial is the sixth- biggest, FDIC spokesman David Barr said.

Colonial had assets of $25 billion and deposits of about $20 billion, the FDIC said. BB&T will buy about $22 billion of the assets and the FDIC will dispose of the rest later. The FDIC and BB&T signed a loss-sharing agreement on about $15 billion of assets, the regulator said. The failure will deplete the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund by $2.8 billion, the agency said.

Criminal Matters BB&T won’t assume any assets or liabilities “related to fraudulent, criminal or inappropriate activities of Colonial,” the North Carolina bank said. BB&T also won’t take assets or liabilities related to Taylor Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Corp., the Florida-based lender that stopped making loans this month after being suspended by U.S. agencies and Freddie Mac.

Colonial provided financing for Taylor Bean and dozens of smaller mortgage firms.Colonial said last month there was “substantial doubt” it could survive and on Aug. 7 said part of its mortgage-lending business was the target of a U.S. criminal probe. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued subpoenas for documents related to accounting for loan loss reserves and participation in the U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program, the bank said.

The Colonial takeover will make BB&T the ninth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, moving it from 11th ahead of McLean, Virginia- based Capital One Financial Corp. and Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc. BB&T said it will rank eighth by deposits. The biggest lender based in Alabama is Regions Financial Corp.New Markets “It’s a good acquisition geographically for BB&T,” Chip MacDonald, a partner specializing in financial services at law firm Jones Day, said in a telephone interview. “It complements their Florida operations and gets them into Texas.”Colonial’s 346 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas will reopen as outlets of BB&T, the agency said. Colonial employs about 4,500 people, BB&T said, adding that it may sell 44 branches in Nevada and Texas.

“This is the time when smaller banks can take advantage of the weaker banks,” said Ken Thomas, an independent bank consultant in Miami. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair “has had a lot of sleepless nights, but this is one headache gone.”Colonial posted a $606 million second-quarter loss, its fifth straight, mostly because of soured loans to developers and home builders in Florida.

A planned $300 million injection by an investor group led by Taylor Bean collapsed and the bank hasn’t met capital requirements to qualify for money from TARP, the $700 billion U.S. bailout program for troubled financial firms.Other BiddersLosses under BB&T’s agreement with the FDIC are likely to be “very minimal,” Daryl Bible, BB&T’s chief financial officer, said in an interview. “It’s a very low-risk acquisition from a credit perspective.”The FDIC told BB&T that “up to four people were looking seriously” at Colonial, Bible said. At least one other bid was received and it was very close to BB&T’s, he said, adding he didn’t know who made the competing offer.

BB&T has 450 people working on the acquisition this weekend, Bible said. BB&T is considering continuing Colonial’s so-called warehouse mortgage program that helps finance other home lenders, he said.

Something of Historic Proportions is happening?

By Tim Wood
I am a student of history. Professionally! I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back. Why? We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has 'loaned' two trillion dollars (that is$2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine! And that is three times the 700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us?Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of 'we the people,' who loaned our powers to our elected leaders, Apparently not? We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago? We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are infree fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare andour entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about) the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary. Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders. No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important. Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: CHANGE. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now! This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning. And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his 'brown shirts' would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department-by-department, person-by-person, bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media. Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . .. Change. And the people surely got what they voted for.(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe.. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities, and in less than six years 'a shorter time span than just two terms of the US. presidency' it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors, all with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them. As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me. Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am.But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe, and why I believe it.I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Note by Robert J Muir: Just in case Mr. Wood is not aware of what is happening, as I am sure he is , it's called New World Order

US President Barak Obama set to announce a Middle East peace plan within a few weeks

There have been a lot of quotations made on this blog relative to the signing of seven year covenant by the Antichrist. The covenant is re-quoted below.

The signing of the covenant is quite significant as it not heralds the return of the Lord Jesus Christ back onto the earth, but also it heralds the beginning of seven years of tribulation spelling the end of mankind’s existence here on the earth as we know it. This information is not intended to frighten but only to inform!!!

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27.

There is news now starting to emerge that a peace plan will be announced in a few weeks by the US president Barak Obama. At this stage I do not know any of the details of the plan, BUT, if it were to be seven year Middle East peace treaty between Israel and all of the Arab states in the region then that is the one we have been looking for.

No I am NOT saying President Obama is the Antichrist.

However news reported by the Times on line (here) suggest we may be on the verge of an historic, and perhaps prophetic, step forward in the preparation for the appearance of the Antichrist; that is if he has not already been revealed in the form the previous British Prime Minister and current head of the international quartet of four towards Middle East peace -- Tony Blair

Times online announced Obama is close to revealing the Middle East peace plan within weeks.

What makes this peace plan different from the rest that have gone before is the suggestion that this plan will include / involve not only Israel and the Palestinians but Syria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon, see the aforementioned

Thus Daniel 9:27 takes on even more significance when we read "......he shall confirm the covenant with the many...."

Now this does not mean Obama is the Man of Sin but if he isn't then he is paving the way for the coming Antichrist to "confirm" (rubber stamp) the covenant with the "many".

The word "confirm" in the Old Testament is an interesting one. Because it not only can mean to strengthen the covenant but it also means to "act insolently".

Sort of conjures up the picture of Antichrist Chuck Misler gives when he calls this coming evil person "Mr. Big Mouth".

Another interesting development along the same lines is the recent UPI news (here) of a report outlining the details of a future Palestinian State.

We know the Antichrist will base himself and his forces in Israel so the fact that the above report mentions 3 times the deployment of a "multinational force" on the borders, in the Old City of Jerusalem and (now get this, prophecy buffs) they will also be stationed on the Temple Mount, could also be very significant.

Remember the word "could". This means we take note but do not shout to the world that this is it.
Things are moving very fast and we can only do as I always say, do as the master said and "Watch".

May Messiah bless you until next time?

A Letter to Obama

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM LOU PRITCHETT

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Sanities, O'Kelly and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

Israeli occupation is a hurdle to peace

By Marwan Al Kabalan

The 1967 Arab-Israeli war was a watershed event in the Middle East.

Its repercussions have shaped the history and politics of the region ever since. The war has also transformed the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, rendering it from an existential question into mere dispute over territories.

During six days of almost one-sided hostilities, Israel captured a huge portion of Arab territories, including the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank of the River Jordan, and the Syrian Golan Heights. The status of these occupied territories has subsequently become the title of the conflict.

Initially, Israel thought that it could keep a good part of these territories after forcing hundreds of thousands of its rightful owners to flee. It, hence, tried to change the demographic and geographic status of the captured land.

Israel's thoughts proved illusions. Following the Camp David Accord of 1978, Israel evacuated 10,000 colonists from the Sinai Peninsula, returning the 70,000 square km desert to Egypt.

After the war of attrition in 1974, Israel was also forced to give back a small portion of the Golan Heights to Syria. In 2005, Israel withdrew unilaterally from the Gaza Strip, evacuating another 4,000 colonists. The rest of the occupied territories remained in Israeli hands.

Since the US was and remains Israel's main backer, the Arab world relied on Washington to retrieve the occupied territories. But, the US, which considered Israel as a "strategic asset" following its 1967 victory, showed no real interest in pursuing peace in the Middle East.

Throughout the Cold War era, the US was single-mindedly preoccupied with the "Communist threat", and had subsequently pursued a policy of containment rather than resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The end of the Cold War presented a golden opportunity to resolve the generations-old conflict. The Bush Sr administration pressured Israel to participate in the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991. The right wing Yitzhak Shamir government, dragging its feet to the conference, declared that it would negotiate for decades with no real substance.

Fearing further US pressure to implement UN resolutions 242 and 338, Israel accelerated the building of colonies. Israel's main objectives were to create new facts on the grounds, allowing it to permanently annex more Arab land, and keep Palestinian territories divided and surrounded by Israeli colonies.

Throughout the past two decades, Israel's policy was to eat up more Palestinian land while negotiations were under way. This went against the very logic of the Oslo Accords of 1993.

According to Oslo, Palestinians agreed to defer all difficult issues, including colonies, refugees, water resources and the final status of occupied Jerusalem to a later stage in exchange for an Israeli commitment to freeze the building of new colonies and preserve the territorial integrity of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel violated its commitments.

According to UN, Palestinian and Israeli sources, Israel has built more colonies in the occupied territories between October 1991 (Madrid Peace Conference) and 2000 (when the peace process collapsed following the Camp David summit between Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton) than in the previous years since 1967.

Following the Al Aqsa Intifada of 2000, Ariel Sharon came to power in Israel. Supported by the Bush Jr administration, he dropped the peace process all together and initiated a new policy of unilateral disengagement. He proposed a fence to separate Palestinian towns and cities from Israel. He offered to return 42 per cent only of the West Bank - reduced later to mere 29 per cent - to the Palestinian National Authority, while annexing the rest.

Having lost the moral high ground that it once enjoyed in the Arab world, the US under President Barack Obama chose to revive the Middle East peace talks. Both Palestinians and Syrians decided that there will not be peace talks unless Israel freezes its activities of building colonies in the occupied territories.

Clearly, the more land confiscated by Israel the more distant a peaceful solution for the conflict becomes. It is feared that when Israel realizes that peace is the only feasible option for it to live in a secure environment, there will be no more land for peace.

Dr Marwan Al Kabalan is a lecturer in media and international relations at the faculty of Political Science and Media, Damascus University, Syria. End of quote

I have just watched a mind boggling documentary entitled “Occupation 101”

The movie exposed the absolute myths that have been perpetrated for decades now by the media over the Middle East conflict.

The Palestinians have been constantly blamed for the dozens of acts of violence that have inflamed the region now for as many years. In reality they have been nothing more than innocent victims of deliberate acts of violence perpetrated by Israel!

This conflict does not go back hundreds of years as so many have supposed but only commenced after Israel became a nation in 1948 and began stealing Palestinian land to establish illegal settlements.

The Jews (not the ordinary Jews but the Zionist Jews) have illegally occupied and stolen Palestinian land now for decades and decades, and all of this skullduggery very heavily backed by the US - more than likely in the name of oil.

There can never ever be a peace treaty while the current attitude of the Israeli government remains.

The illegal occupation of Palestinian land will continue and the wall that divides Israel and what is left of Palestine will not come down.

For that reason there can be no two-state solution - nor can there be a peace treaty under those circumstances.

The best part is that there can be no one more to blame for the acts of violence that are committed against completely unarmed Palestinian citizens than the American fundamentalist Christian lobby who mistakenly call the Jews Gods chosen people and stolen Palestinian land - the Jews promised land.

The Jews are not God’s chosen people; certainly, no more than what the Palestinians are!!!

The Antichrist has been revealed and we should know (by the end of October) his identity for certain as he is appointed as the first ever full time president of the EU.

Yet, even he cannot ever hope to achieve a Middle East as the Bible has said would be the case unless there is some form of outside interference from Russia in the Magog battle and Israel is brought to her knees to force her to stop stealing Palestinian land. Only then can there ever be hope for a seven year Middle East peace treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 heralding the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.