Just in case you are new to Bible prophecy I wanted you to know that earthquakes are just one of the many last days signs Jesus told us to look for. The key to the last day signs is that all of the signs would be taking place all at the same time. Yesterday I witnessed to two young men at a store and neither one of the men knew about the last day signs. For all those who don’t know the Bible you need to understand that their was one special generation that has been chosen to see the return of Jesus Christ. That generation is the one who would witness all the signs at the same time. Guess what? No other generation has ever seen all the signs together which include the rebirth of the nation of Israel. So when you see the sign of great earth quakes alone you should be to concerned however, when these great earthquakes are accompanied with all the rest of the signs that is the time you really need to examine your life for without Jesus Christ as your Lord you will never see heaven. Of course if you are not in heaven your eternal state will be hell and the one person who is trying his best to make people think there is no such place as hell Satan. You would be wise to believe in Christ! If you download my prophecy book and read the section on earthquakes you will see for yourself the great quakes Jesus warned us about are here and coming faster and faster as with the last days birth pain Jesus warned us about in Mark 13:8. There were two more great quakes already today one in Russia and the other in Japan!
Luke 21:11 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and Pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signsfrom heaven.”
TOKYO: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property. The quake hit at 2.10pm (0510 GMT) with its epicentre off the eastern coast of Hokkaido, about 1,300km north-east of Tokyo, at a depth of 20 kilometres, the agency said. http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1482590
“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 9:27).
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)” (Matthew 24:15).
“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
In my March 16, 2015 I posted a YouTube video entitled: “Jewish Third Temple is going to be rebuilt”. In that post I warned again that the Jews would be rebuilding the Third Temple soon and we needed to pay attention to the news concerning the Jews making their way up to the Temple Mount where the 1st and 2nd Temple once stood. The reason I am giving you this information now is there was an important announcement via the Temple Mount Institute leaders which may turn out to be a game changer concerning the 3rd Temple prophecy. Below is the Headline from the Temple Mount Institute.
Here is a short clip from the news released by the Temple Mount. Please read this info and then I will connect the dots.
I quote, “TEMPLE MOUNT In an interview with Israel National News, Temple Institute founder Rabbi Yisrael Ariel called upon all Jews to make their way to the Temple Mount.
“We must repent. The situation is difficult. The Mount is under the rule and control of various Islamic groups, and the police rush Jewish visitors in and out in order not to interfere with the Muslim sovereignty of the holy site.”
“The Hamas thugs – ostensibly members of the Waqf – are the bosses of the Israel police. They do as they are told. Recently it was reported that ISIS activists are present on the Mount, and that is even more worrying.”
INN adds: “The time has come, he added, for the Chief Rabbis to embrace the notion of Jews ascending the Temple Mount – a move the rabbis have refused for decades, claiming that Jews are unable to do so lest they enter holy areas that ritually impure individuals are not allowed to tread. ‘It’s very sad,’ he said. ‘There is a small minority of us that are visiting the Mount against the wishes of the rabbis, of ISIS, and of the government. The proper way to repent would be for all of us to rise up and declare that we are visiting the Mount freely. That is one of the greatest of deeds we can accomplish today.'”
The question is what does the Temple Mount Institute have planned? Will they be able to entice enough Jews to march up to the Temple Mount in show of force to the Muslims that they mean to soon take over the Temple Mount area in order to allow the Jews the same rights on the Mount as the Muslims? If the Temple Mount Institute does manage to pull this off I am sure you will see riots on the Mount like we haven’t seen in a very long time. One thing is for sure. I will be watching the news out of Israel on July 12, 2015! No matter if the people at the Temple Mount are successful or not on the 12th, one way or another the Jews will begin to rebuild that 3rd Temple as prophesied by Christ.
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Headline: School teachers working in Israeli schools supported ISIS, Shin Bet says
Security forces have arrested six Israeli Beduin men from the Negev town of Houra, four of whom work as school teachers, for allegedly supporting the Islamic State terrorist organization. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Monday that the men were arrested over the past two months. They allegedly took part in secret meetings in which they discussed Islamic State doctrine, and spread the group’s propaganda among their family members and associates. Some of the suspects planned to join the ranks Islamic State in Syria. Those who worked as teachers at schools in the Negev used their positions to spread Islamic State propaganda among students and teachers, according to the Shin Bet. As part of the investigation, additional school personnel were investigated including a school principal on suspicion that he knew of his colleagues’ involvement with the Islamic State and failed to report the fact to authorities. The Shin Bet stated that members of the same Negev Islamic State cell had previously left Israel to fight for the organization in Syria’s civil war.
July 6, 2015
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Jordan
Headline: Jordan ‘foils Iranian-backed terror plot’
Jordanian security forces have foiled a terror plot by a member of an Iranian-backed group, local newspaper Al Rai reported on Monday. The report states that the suspect belongs to the Iranian Bayt al-Maqdis group and holds Iraqi and Norwegian citizenship. The suspect was found to be in possession of large amounts of explosives and was arrested in northern Jordan, the newspaper added. Jordan’s state security court was set to hold its first hearing on the case on Monday. Despite similarities in the name, the Iranian-backed group is reportedly unrelated to Egyptian militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which recently changed its name after pledging allegiance to ISIS. A source familiar with the investigation told Al Rai that 45 kilograms of explosives were found in the suspect’s possession. “This is the most serious case in a decade in terms of the quantity of explosives discovered and their quality,” said the source, adding that a major terror operation had been averted.
July 6, 2015
House-to-house pitched gunbattles raged all day Sunday as the Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters marched into Zabadani, the last rebel-held town in the Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border, inflicting heavy casualties on the militants, security sources said. The news came on the second day of a major offensive to capture the border area around the Beirut-Damascus highway as allied forces pounded rebel positions with rockets, mortar bombs and barrel bombs. Backed by warplanes and helicopters, Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters Sunday broke through four axes in Zabadani, battling a coalition of Islamist militants defending the town, a security source told The Daily Star. An air raid entirely destroyed a building in central Zabadani used by rebels as a military operations room and killed at least 12 militants, the source said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said scores of militants were killed in fierce clashes that raged over the weekend, while nine militants have surrendered to the Syrian army. Three Syrian soldiers and two Hezbollah fighters were also killed in the fighting, the source said. Noting that the offensive in Zabadani was going on to clear the town of militants, the source said: “The Syrian army and Hezbollah are cautiously advancing in the town because there are many booby traps planted by the militants.”
July 6, 2015
Headline: Egyptian army backed by Apaches kills 63 Islamists in broad area between Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah
An immense stretch of Sinai desert populated by half a million people is under siege, as the Egyptian army fights off a major offensive by the Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate, the Sinai Province, against its positions in northern Sinai. The battle, which Monday, July 6, went into its sixth day, is being fought in an area bounded by the northern town of Sheikh Zuwaid, Rafah on the Gaza border, and up to Kerem Shalom and Nitzana on the Israeli border to the south. debkafile’s military sources report a news blackout on the ongoing warfare except for Egyptian army handouts. Egyptian security sources reported Monday that the latest round of helicopter strikes and ground operations had killed 63 Islamists in villages between Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah, where four of their hideouts had been located. Our sources add that these air strikes are directed against civilian dwellings, especially in farming districts, where ISIS fighters are suspected of hiding out. No figures have been released by Cairo on civilian or Egyptian army casualties. In a new message released Friday, July 3, a number of radical Islamist leaders, including the ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, told their followers that the destruction of Egypt’s national monuments, such as the pyramids and the sphinx, was a “religious duty” that must be carried out by those who worship Islam, as “idolatry is strictly banned in the religion.”This message has sharply ratcheted up the jihadist element of ISIS military confrontation with Egypt to a higher, more inflammatory level.
July 6, 2015
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syria rebels take army center in regime-held Aleppo
Syrian rebels have seized a strategic military center in government-held western Aleppo city, as fierce battles rage between opposition and regime forces, a monitor said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a coalition of rebel groups had taken the Scientific Research Centre, which was being used as a military barracks. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said that opened potential lines of attack against several other government-held neighborhoods. The alliance of rebels is one of at least two coalitions of opposition fighters that have begun a major operation against government-held districts in Aleppo in recent days. The grouping that captured the military barracks includes various largely moderate rebel factions. A second coalition fighting in western Aleppo calls itself Ansar al-Sharia and includes Al-Qaeda’s local affiliate Al-Nusra Front.
July 4, 2015
Syria Headline: ISIS attacks power plant in Hasakah
Syria Headline: ISIS sends another child to his violent death: Suicide bomber, aged just FOURTEEN, kills 50 Kurdish fighters’ in Syria
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bombers on Sunday blew up an explosive- laden truck near a power plant that serves the northeastern city of Hasakah, the latest attack after their expulsion from most parts of the city, the Syrian army said. State television said a second attack, against a power plant that serves the southern districts of the city, was prevented, but the first had caused “material damage” and led to “casualties”. It did not elaborate.
July 6, 2015
Iraq Headline: ISIS suicide bombers strike in Iraqi refinery town
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria suicide bombers and fighters attacked the centre of Iraq’s northern oil refinery town of Baiji overnight, forcing the army and Shi’ite fighters to pull back, military sources and the local mayor said on Sunday. The militants attacked around 8 pm (1700 GMT) on Saturday with two suicide car bombings. The blasts were followed by fierce clashes that lasted until midnight and drove the army and mainly Shi’ite Hashd Shaabi forces from the centre of town, two army colonels said. Baiji mayor Mahmoud al-Jabouri said there had been a pattern of withdrawals by ISIS fighters in the town followed by counter-offensives. “Their lethal weapons are suicide attacks and snipers, and this is why we have fighting back and forth.” Army officers said the army and Hashd groups were preparing a response. “ISIS fighters are still holding positions in three neighbourhoods in Baiji and they are still receiving reinforcements,” said one of the army colonels.
July 5, 2015
Iraq Headline: ISIS target Iraq’s Haditha town with vehicle bombs
An ISIS militant blew up an explosive-laden bulldozer near Haditha, killing seven Iraqi soldiers in one of a wave of bomb attacks on the northwestern town Monday, a police source said. Haditha and its nearby dam lie in one of the few parts of the huge western province of Anbar still under the control of Iraq’s Shiite-led government forces, which were driven out of the provincial capital Ramadi in May. Security services said they fired on and destroyed four other vehicles believed to be rigged with explosives near the town, before they could reach their targets. The coordinated assault reflected an escalation of ISIS operations in the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Also in Iraq: A car bomb also exploded Monday in the town of Jubba; seven soldiers were killed. A security source in Anbar said security forces recaptured a bridge north of Ramadi Monday in an attack which killed 14 ISIS fighters. In northeast Iraq, ISIS fighters launched an attack early Monday against Kurdish peshmerga forces in the village of Murah, near the city of Kirkuk.
July 6, 2015
An Iraqi Russian-made fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, killing at least 12 people on the ground, Iraqi officials said. The plane — one of several Sukhois used by Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State group — was returning to base when the accident happened. Military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim, told The Associated Press that a technical failure caused the Sukhoi jet to malfunction and drop the bomb, which hit a number of houses in the Iraqi capital’s eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad. Three children and two women were among the 12 killed, a police officer at the scene and a medical official at a nearby hospital said. At least 25 others were wounded, the two officials added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.
July 6, 2015
Kurdish Headline: Islamic State takes ground from Syrian Kurds after air strikes
Islamic State fighters stormed a Syrian town held by Kurdish-led forces near Raqqa city on Monday, part of a wider offensive by the militants two days after their de facto capital was hit by some of the heaviest U.S.-led air strikes in the conflict. The Kurdish YPG militia said it was fighting to expel Islamic State fighters who had attacked the town of Ain Issa, which was only captured from them two weeks ago with aerial support from the U.S.-led military alliance. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reports on the war, said Islamic State forces had taken the town and areas around it some 50 km (30 miles) north of Raqqa city. Air strikes at the weekend destroyed seven bridges over waterways in Raqqa, which is bordered to the south by the Euphrates river, it said. Monday’s attack on Ain Issa was part of a coordinated Islamic State offensive on YPG positions that also targeted the northeastern province of Hasaka, bordering Turkey to the north and Iraq to the south, YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said.
July 6, 2015
Kurdish Headline: ISIS launches major offensive south of Kirkuk
Hundreds of Islamic State militants launched several attacks on Peshmerga-controlled villages in the south of Kirkuk province Monday morning. Peshmerga forces claim to have foiled and beaten back the attacks. Rudaw video from today’s battles shows an intense gunfire exchange between Peshmerga and ISIS militants. A Peshmerga officer who spoke to Rudaw said ISIS was defeated and did not capture any territory in the battles. “More than 600 ISIS fighters launched an attack on Talwra, Big Homeyra, Small Homeyra, Al-Murra and Shahid villages, but they were defeated by the Peshmerga,” said a Peshmerga officer who gave his name only as Rasul. Rasul said the Kurdish forces with the aid of US-led airstrikes were able to defeat the ISIS attacks, but heavy fighting is still going on in Murra village. Kurdish estimates indicated that more than 100 ISIS fighters have been killed and injured in Monday’s battles. ISIS forces attempted to take control of the Syryani oil refinery in southeastern Kirkuk, but the Peshmerga were able to destroy two ISIS Humvees and defend the cluster of villages around the refinery.
July 6, 2015
Headline: EU Receives Warning ISIS Infiltrating Among Migrants
The European Union is being warned by international security personnel that there may be terrorists infiltrating among the migrants who flock to the continent. Smugglers’ boats sailing the Mediterranean Sea and carrying migrants to Europe may present a risk to the European Union, according to the warning received by Michele Coninsx, head of Eurojust, the EU judicial cooperation agency. The agency, which is tasked with helping EU nations respond to illegal immigration, terrorism and cyber crime, warned that some of the migrants may actually be fighters with Da’esh, the ISIS terrorist organization. In addition, Da’esh and similar groups are using funds obtained from human trafficking to fund their terrorist activities, according to a report by The Associated Press. Coninsx told reporters on Monday that although she could not share specific information provided by EU nations to Eurojust, the agency’s efforts are ongoing. She added that the scope of the infiltration by Da’esh terrorists now facing EU law enforcement officials is not yet clear.
July 6, 2015
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkish Army Chiefs Meet to Discuss Syria Invasion: Report
Headline: Turks, Kurds in Syria border clash, NGO says
The Turkish army has called a meeting of troop commanders stationed along its fortified border with Syria to discuss a possible intervention in Syria, the Hurriyet newspaper reported on Sunday. Turkey has boosted its military defenses on the volatile border over the past week, stationing tanks and anti-aircraft missiles there as well as bolstering troop numbers, as fighting between Islamist-led groups and Syrian regime forces in the northern city of Aleppo has intensified. The Turkish build-up has fed speculation that the government is planning to intervene in Syria to push ISIS jihadists back from the border and halt the advance of Kurdish forces who have made gains against the extremists in the area. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday ruled out any prospect of an immediate intervention in Syria. But Hurriyet said on Sunday that the Turkish Armed Forces had ordered all commanders of troops stationed along the border to attend a meeting at military headquarters in Ankara next week to discuss the details of such an operation. The deployment of over 400 armored vehicles, which would carry military personnel and be protected by jammers against mines laid by ISIS terrorists, would be on the agenda at the meeting, Hurriyet reported on its website. The role of the Turkish Air Force in supporting such an operation is also expected to be discussed, it added.
July 6, 2015
Headline: Iranian official: US will remain our enemy despite emerging nuclear deal
A senior Iranian military official said Sunday that despite the emerging nuclear deal between Iran and the US-led P5+1 group of world powers, America will remain Tehran’s enemy. Iranian Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said that even if a nuclear deal comes to fruition in Vienna, where Iranian and western negotiators are currently trying to reach an agreement by a Tuesday deadline, Tehran and Washington will not become friends. “The US might arrive at some agreements with us within the framework of the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), but we should never hold a positive view over the enemy,” Iran’s Fars News Agency quoted Pourdastan as saying. “Our enmity with them is over the principles and is rooted because we are after the truth and nations’ freedom, but they seek exploiting nations and putting them in chains,” he explained further.
July 6, 2015
Headline: Bomb attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, kills 3 and wounds 13
An improvised explosive device attached to a motorcycle in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed a police officer and two civilians on Sunday, according to reports. Thirteen people, including two police officers and 11 civilians, were injured in the blast, Xinhua news agency reports. The bomb went off as a police unit patrolled by at 6:45 p.m., Zia Durrani, police spokesman of Kandahar province, told Xinhua. The attack, which remains unclaimed, comes amid an increase in militant assaults on Afghan security forces. According to U.S. and Afghan officials, about 330 Afghan soldiers and police are killed or wounded each week in Taliban attacks, and the level of casualties among those forces in the first 15 weeks of 2015 was 70 percent higher than during the same period last year. The militants claimed to have killed up to 25 police officers in raids against checkpoints — some manned by two to three officers — in remote areas of Helmand province last month.
July 5, 2015
Headline: South Sudan army retakes town from rebels
South Sudan’s army said Monday it had retaken the strategic northeastern town of Malakal from rebels, the latest time the ruined state capital has swapped hands. Rebels led by ex-government general Johnson Olony – accused by aid agencies of forcibly recruiting hundreds of child soldiers – seized Malakal, the state capital of Upper Nile, in late June. The town is the gateway to the country’s last remaining major oil fields and has been repeatedly fought over during the 18-month long conflict. The army late Sunday launched an assault to retake the town. “The rebels fled to different directions,” army spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP Monday, saying the government was in “full control.” South Sudan’s civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings across the country that has split the poverty-stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines. Aguer also dismissed the rebel’s claims to have shot down a helicopter gunship on Sunday as a “fabrication.” Thousands of Ugandan troops backed by helicopter gunships are fighting for Kiir.
July 6, 2015
Headline: Car bombs explode in Libya’s Derma, at least six killed
At least six people were killed and 10 others wounded when several car bombs exploded in the Libyan city of Derna, a medical source said on Friday. Derna has been caught in fighting between Islamic State militants, rival Islamist fighters and armed forces with the country’s internationally recognized government. The eastern port city is just one front in a multi-sided conflict in the North African country, where two rival governments and various armed groups are fighting for control four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Russia Offers Another Concession to Armenia: Advanced Ballistic Missiles
Russia is negotiating with Armenia to supply the latter with advanced Iskander-M missiles, a potentially substantial boost to Armenian defenses against a potential Azeri attack. News about the ongoing negotiations was leaked to both the Armenian and Russian press, and the timing of the leak suggests an effort to tamp down anti-Russian sentiment in ongoing street protests in Yerevan. “The contract isn’t signed yet, negotiations are still continuing,” a source “in the military-technical cooperation sphere” told Russian news agency TASS. A source “close to the ruling Republican Party of Armenia” told the same thing to Armenian newspaper Zhamanak. The missiles could be acquired under a $200 million loan for arms purchases that Russia offered to Armenia last week and which Armenia’s parliament ratified in an extraordinary session on July 2. “We are going to acquire weaponry of a new type, which until now has not been seen in the Armenian armed forces,” said Ara Nazarian, Armenia’s deputy defense minister, in reference the loan. That loan was part of a series of concessions that Russia made to Armenia, including ceding to Armenian jurisdiction the case of a Russian soldier who killed seven members of an Armenian family. The news of the Iskander-Ms would seem to be yet another element of this effort to appease Armenian public sentiment.
July 6, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: VIDEO: ‘Black lives matter’ protesters burn American flag
To the Tampa protesters who turned out to “end racist violence,” the American flag is nothing more than a “piece of sh*t.” “To us the Confederate flag and the American flag, those represent the same thing which is that this country, this social system was built on slavery and genocide,” said protester Jesse Nevel, who represented the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Video captured the protesters burning the American flag while chanting “black lives matter.”
July 4, 2015
Headline: 5 killed in northeast Nigeria church bomb attack
At least five people have been killed in a bomb attack that targeted a church in the volatile northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum. According to a police officer and witnesses, the attack took place on Sunday when an assailant blew up his explosives inside an uncompleted church in the Jigawa area on the outskirts of the city in Yobe State. “Four worshipers died instantly while the fifth victim gave up shortly after she was taken to hospital,” a police officer said. The unnamed officer, who was involved in the evacuation operations, added that a woman and her two children were among the dead. Meanwhile, a witness said that the attacker was disguised as a worshiper and detonated his explosives as soon as he entered the church. “I saw when the bomber alighting from a motorized rickshaw and entering the church and as soon as he entered a loud explosion ripped through the church which is under construction,” the witness said.
July 5, 2015
Headline: Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis: Jos blasts kill scores
Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say. A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night. No-one has claimed responsibility but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate. The blasts are the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent days which have seen more than 200 people killed. The attacks came shortly after the Ramadan fast was broken, with both sites full of people. Of the 44 dead, 23 were killed at the restaurant and 21 at the mosque, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) says. There are also 47 people being treated for injuries, but emergency officials are still gathering information, so the figures may rise.
July 6, 2015
Headline: Islamist group Ansar Dine claims multiple attacks in Mali
The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine claimed it carried out a series of attacks against U.N. peacekeepers and Malian army targets in the country’s capital, Bamako, and border areas near Ivory Coast and Mauritania. A statement sent to the Mauritanian website Alakhbar, which frequently publishes messages from Islamist groups, said that Ansar Dine claimed responsibility for an attack on the western Malian town of Nara on June 27. Mali’s Defense Ministry said 12 people were killed in the attack. “God helped Islam’s youth to carry out several actions in 2015 against the Malian army,” the statement said. It was published Sunday. Ansar Dine also claimed responsibility for attacks in Misseni and Fakola in southern Mali in June and July, near vast mining reserves and the border with top cocoa producer Ivory Coast. It also said it had attacked U.N. peacekeepers in Bamako, an apparent reference to a May incident where U.N. vehicles and a house were targeted. The statement added that its two katibas, or brigades, named “Katiba Khalid Ibn Walid” and “Katiba Massina” had led the attacks.
July 6, 2015
Headline: 7 Pakistani Troops Killed in Bomb Attack, Firefight
Military officials in Pakistan say a firefight with Islamist militants near the border with Afghanistan Sunday left four soldiers and 12 insurgents dead. The army’s media wing says “fleeing terrorists also left behind 3 of their dead bodies.” The fighting occurred in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan, a semi-autonomous tribal region where major counter-militancy army operations are under way. Earlier, a roadside bomb in the same region killed three paramilitary soldiers and wounded six others. Officials say the attack in Raghzai village targeted a military convoy. Pakistan’s military says the year-long counter-militancy campaign in Waziristan and surrounding areas has so far killed nearly 3,000 insurgents while more than 350 troops also died.
July 5, 2015
Headline: Yemen’s Houthis attack Saudi border towns
Headline: Airstrike hits market north of Yemen’s Aden, over 45 killed
Yemen’s Houthi militias on Saturday shelled various areas in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan and Najran, according to Reuters news agency citing Houthi sources. Thirteen shells had been launched on Friday, targeting several areas including Jizan’s airport, the report stated, adding that military equipment had also been destroyed. It is yet unknown whether there are casualties. Meanwhile, Monday, Yemen security officials and eyewitnesses say a massive airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting rebels has hit a marketplace north of Aden, killing over 45 civilians.
July 6, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43– Decline of the Euro“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Greece votes ‘no’: Now what?
Greece’s voters have returned a resounding 61% “no” in a historic referendum on whether to accept the austere bailout terms offered by the country’s international creditors. The vote only extends Greece’s financial crisis, with no clear outcome on the horizon. Here’s what is likely to happen next: (the predictions made by USAToday are followed by headlines confirming what has already happened)
1) Greek Prime minister to outline new bailout strategy
2) Search for a new Greek finance minister
Headline: Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis resigns
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: The Chinese government just took drastic steps to save the stock market
China is stepping in to try and save its flailing stock market. According to a Bloomberg report on Saturday, officials are suspending Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) – as many as 28 on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges – to deal with the tumble in stocks. Stopping new companies from going public in IPOs may reduce the flow of cash from existing stocks, Bloomberg notes. There was no information on how long this ban would last. An earlier report indicated that Chinese officials also created a “market-stabilization fund” that will be supported by about 21 Chinese brokerages, who have pledged to buy at least 120 billion yuan ($19.3 billion) in shares. But as Bloomberg notes, that amount is small when compared to the $2.4 trillion that vanished from Chinese stocks in the last three weeks. Senior government, central bank, and regulatory officials met Saturday to discuss how to address the stock market crash.
July 4, 2015
Asian stock markets headed lower after Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected austerity demands from creditors in Sunday’s referendum. The euro fell across the board after Greece rejected the conditions of a bailout package, increasing the odds of the country’s exit from the eurozone. It was at $1.1014 against the dollar in Asian trade, having recovered slightly from one-month lows hit earlier. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed down 3.2% at 25,236.28 – leading Asia’s losses. Japan’s Nikkei 225 ended 2.1% lower at 20,112.12. The yen – often viewed as a haven currency in times of uncertainty – rallied against the dollar and euro. The euro fell 1.5% to a six-week low of 133.70 yen, but then recovered some losses to trade at 135.45. However, it is still down from Friday’s rate of 136.185 yen. Major commodities such as oil were also down, with the price of Brent crude falling more than 1% to $59.56 a barrel in Asian trade.
July 6, 2015
Pestilence & PlaguesLuke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: Six new coronavirus cases detected in Saudi Arabia
Headline: Second MERC case reported in Phillippines
The Ministry of Health has confirmed six new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus infections in the Kingdom last week, the Saudi Press Agency reported Sunday. In its weekly bulletin on MERS, the ministry said six new cases were confirmed in Riyadh, Dammam and Turbah, out of 644 samples tested in laboratories all over the Kingdom. The ministry’s rapid response team for combating infections in healthcare facilities carried out four visits during the week while public health teams paid six visits to people who had mingled with confirmed cases. The Ministry of Agriculture carried out two visits. The Health Ministry bulletin said 578 patients from a total of 1,045 confirmed coronavirus cases have recovered while seven people are still under treatment.
July 6, 2015
Scorching SunIsaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: DroughtJeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)
Headline: Germany hit by record-setting heat, severe thunderstorms
Headline: Wildfires break out in Spain, Portugal; 1,350 evacuated
Germany’s weather service has reported the highest temperature on record. At least 12 have drowned in mishaps as people sought to escape one of the worst heat waves to hit central Europe in years. The DWD German weather service reported on Sunday that it had recorded a temperature of 40.3 degrees Celcius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Bavarian town of Kitzingen. This was the highest temperature measured in Germany since the widespread recording of temperatures began in 1881, just slightly above the previous record of 40.2 degrees. In a country in which rain and chilly temperatures are often the norm in summer months, many people struggled to endure the hottest weekend that Germany has experienced in years. This led many people to try to cool off in public swimming pools and natural bodies of water. This ended in tragedy for some, with the authorities reporting at least 12 swimming-related deaths over the weekend. The high temperatures also contributed to severe thunderstorms in many parts of Germany on Sunday, uprooting trees and blocking some major train lines and autobahns.
July 6, 2015
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Three Systems Over the Western Pacific
As of Monday morning, EDT, Tropical Storm Chan-hom is located approximately 1,170 miles southeast of Kadena Air Base. Chan-hom is moving to the northwest at 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds are 65 mph with gusts to 80 mph. Chan-hom is forecast to intensify and become a significant typhoon as it moves northwestward across the Philippine Sea. This storm will eventually pose a threat to the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and eastern China later this week. Also, Tropical Storm Linfa is located approximately 310 miles north-northwest of Manila, Philippines. Linfa is moving north-northwest at 7 mph. Maximum sustained winds are 45 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
July 6, 2015
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I have warned you at this site to which for this and I am not the only one who has given this warning. Take a look at what Mike D. wrote me today.
A few weeks ago I warned the class about the concept of “bail-ins” as solutions to economic crisis. Bail-outs place the taxpayer in line to pick up the tab. On the other hand, bail-ins require bank account holders (you and me) to surrender money to banks and the government to solve a country’s financial ills. Now “bail-in” appears on the front page of the London Financial Times as the best solution to solve the huge crisis developing in Greece. Today it was announced that cash deposits are so low in Greece that many banks will NEVER reopen. Sounds like 1932. When the debt bubble pops here in America, be prepared to have some of your money taken in a bail-in. It’s already started in Europe. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9963b74c-219c-11e5-aa5a-398b2169cf79.html#axzz3estiwZ8t
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“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
(Isaiah 53:5)
Matthew 24:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.”
One step at a time the Government in America is taking freedoms away. Below is a clear cut example of what I am talking about. If you are a Christian in America you had better put it in your mind that you are going to have to take a stand as to how much you really love Jesus Christ! The couple in the report today is already facing what is no doubt going to befall even more Christians.
Oregon imposes gag order on Christian bakers in gay wedding case
I don’t know if you’ve followed the case of Sweet Cakes by Melissa. This is the now-closed bakery in Oregon that has become a target of state officials because its Christian owners declined to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding.
Not only has the business been forced to close, the state has fined the Kleins $135,000. But it gets worse. Much worse. Now that state has responded to a radio interview the Kleins gave by ordering them to no longer talk publicly about why their faith compels them to decline such business.
We’ve been telling you for some time now that this gay wedding business is little more than a cover for Fascism. Some of you thought that was way overblown. Can you still doubt itafter this?
In the ruling, Avakian placed an effective gag order on the Kleins, ordering them to “cease and desist” from speaking publicly about not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian beliefs.
“This effectively strips us of all our First Amendment rights,” the Kleins, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which has since closed,wrote on their Facebook page. “According to the state of Oregon we neither have freedom of religion or freedom of speech.”
The cease and desist came about after Aaron and Melissa Klein participated in an interview with Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins. During the interview, Aaron said among other things, “This fight is not over. We will continue to stand strong.”
Lawyers for plaintiffs, Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, argued that in making this statement, the Kleins violated anOregon lawbanning people from acting on behalf of a place of public accommodation (in this case, the place would be the Kleins’ former bakery) to communicate anything to the effect that the place of public accommodation would discriminate.
On March 2, 2012 I proposed we watch what Assad does in Syria if he is attack and knows he is about to lose his power. You can read that warning at my old post which, was name the following: Prophecy Signs with Frank DiMora for March 2, 2012 – BibleProphecyMan.com I copied a section of that post for you.
I quote myself. “It is my hope that any of you who do not believe in the Word of God yet will run to Christ when you see this prophecy come to pass. Exactly how this prophecy will go down is unclear because there are many scenarios that could bring this prophecy to fulfillment. One such scenario is that Syria will atttack Israel to try and bring back the Middle East focus on Israel. This is the leading scenario. One reason why this is number one is Syria’s President Bashar Assad has stated that if any outside force attacks him, he will attack Israel.” In many of my past posts I warned if Syria were to use chemical weapons Israel may attack Syria to make sure in a prelude to Assad’s fall he won’t be able to harm Israel with those weapons. It appears at this point we have come to the point where Assad may make his move on Israel if ISIS gets any closer to Damascus. Take a look at the headline below!
“Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has produced new chemical weapons that U.S. intelligence officials he might use in a last-ditch effort to save his own neck, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Islamic State (ISIS), Al Qaeda and rebel forces have taken over most of Syria.” “The American intelligence information on Assad’s chemical weapons is “being taken very seriously because he’s getting desperate,” according to officials quoted by the Journal.”
Of course ISIS doesn’t care if Syria attacks Israel or not because the ISIS’ plan from day one was to first get rid of Assad and then turn to Israel. How ever it end one thing has always been clear from the Psalm 83 war prophecy and that is Syria will attack Israel with the rest of the nations listed in that Psalm.
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Headline: Rocket from Egypt Hits Southern Israel
Headline: Israel prepares for an attack as militants close in on its borders
Headline: Expert: Arab Armies ‘Falling Apart,’ IDF Will Have to Fight ISIS
A rocket fired from Egypt exploded in southern Israel’s Gaza belt region Friday afternoon. Residents of the area were forced into rocket shelters after sirens sounded at approximately 4:20 p.m. local time. No damage or injuries has been reported. The IDF temporarily closed Route 12 as a “security precaution.” Unlike other recent rocket attacks, which have broken the relative calm since the truce signed between Israel and terrorist groups in Gaza, this attack did not come from the Gaza Strip but from within Egyptian territory. Although there has been no official claim of responsibility, the likely culprit is ISIS’s Egyptian branch, known as “Sinai Province.” The terror group has been escalating its attacks against the Egyptian authorities, assassinating Egypt’s chief prosecutor and carrying out a massive assault which left some 100 people dead this week. The group has also in the past vowed to attack Israel, though it has largely been focused on fighting the Egyptian army.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Israel accuses Hamas of aiding Islamic State in Egypt
Headline: Palestinian ISIS Fighters in Aleppo Threaten Hamas: Gaza Shall Witness Blood and Torn Body Parts –VIDEO
An Israeli general has accused members of Hamas in Gaza of providing support to militants linked to Islamic State in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, where the Egyptian army has fought deadly battles with Islamist insurgents in recent days. Major-General Yoav Mordechai, who oversees Israel’s civilian policy towards Gaza, named members of Hamas’s military wing he said were involved in training fighters of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and smuggling wounded from Sinai into Gaza for treatment. “We know that Hamas, and I have verified information, that Hamas in Gaza is assisting ISIS Sinai Province both in organization and armaments,” Mordechai told Al Jazeera in an interview, speaking in Arabic. He named two Hamas members, saying Abdallah Qishta was involved in training Islamic State members in Sinai and Wael Faraj, a battalion commander, had “smuggled terrorists from Sinai into Gaza Strip hospitals for medical treatment”. It is not clear how the militants would have been moved into Gaza as Egyptian forces control the border, but there are believed to be tunnels that Egypt has not yet found and destroyed.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Israeli policymakers’ alarming over-reliance on Egypt to grapple with Hamas and ISIS
The statements coming from different Israeli spokesmen this week were not just at dangerous variance with the actual events but with one another, when it came to Egypt’s massive confrontation this week with ISIS close to Israel’s border, a fresh round of Palestinian West Bank anti-Israel terror and the ambivalent role played by Hamas extremists in all these events. Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said in an Al Jazeera interview Thursday, July 2, that Israel had “clear evidence” of Hamas aiding the offensive the Islamic State’s Sinai affiliate launched against Egyptian positions in northern Sinai Wednesday. The Israeli commander accused Hamas of giving “weapons and logistical support to the ISIS affiliate.” All three officials were doing their best to put a good face on the Egyptian army’s reverses in its largest battle yet with ISIS, say debkafile’s military sources. No one was ready to admit that the Islamic State’s Sinai branch had won this confrontation on points.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Netanyahu: The UNHRC Isn’t Interested in the Facts
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denounced the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, following its decision to endorse the report accusing Israel of war crimes during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. “The UN Human Rights Council is not interested in the facts and is not really interested in human rights,” Netanyahu charged in a statement. “On the day on which Israel was fired at from Sinai, and at a time when ISIS is committing vicious terrorist attacks in Egypt, as [Syrian President Bashar] Assad slaughters his people in Syria and as the number of arbitrary executions per annum climbs in Iran – the UN Human Rights Council decides to condemn the State of Israel for no fault of its own, for acting to defend itself from a murderous terrorist organization,” he continued. “Israel is a stable democracy in the Middle East that upholds equal rights for all its citizens and acts in accordance with international law. “Those who fear to openly attack terrorism will – in the end – be attacked by terrorism,” Netanyahu said. “The council that has hitherto adopted more decisions against Israel than against all other countries cannot call itself a human rights council. “The State of Israel will continue to defend its citizens against those who call for its destruction and take daily action to achieve this goal,” he concluded.
July 3, 2015
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Lebanon
Headline: Hezbollah, Syrian army bombard Zabadani
Hezbollah and the Syrian army Friday struck at militant positions inside the Syrian town of Zabadani at the southern end of Qalamoun, a security source told The Daily Star. The town was bombarded with heavy artillery and rockets, and a Syrian fighter jet carried out two airstrikes on central Zabadani. Warplanes also dropped barrels rigged with explosives over the area, according to the source. The Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah, also pounded militant positions in the village of Bloudan, which overlooks Zabadani, after warning the residents to evacuate it, the source said. A separate security source told The Daily Star that Syrian helicopters dropped leaflets over Zabadani with maps that outlined escape routes for rebels who wanted to flee the town. Other leaflets cautioned residents against approaching militant positions and urged them to stay clear of their supply routes. On Thursday, Hezbollah engaged in fierce clashes with Syrian rebels in Zabadani in a fresh push to seize the last militant stronghold along Lebanon’s eastern border.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Saudi policeman killed in raid, ISIS flags found
A Saudi policeman was shot dead on Friday during a raid in which three people were arrested and flags of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group were found, the interior ministry said. The killing came with the Gulf region on alert against attacks by ISIS, which has been blamed for killing other Saudi policemen and has claimed three deadly mosque bombings in the kingdom and Kuwait. The ministry said security officers came under fire as they searched for a suspect at a home in Taif, a mountain city about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Jeddah at 4:30 am (0130 GMT). A sergeant died “as a result of the exchange of fire,” said a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. “They arrested three suspects, confiscated Daesh flags, silencers and personal laptops,” the ministry added.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Muslim Brotherhood calls for Egypt ‘rebellion’
The Muslim Brotherhood says its leaders killed in a Cairo apartment were murdered in “in cold blood,” calling for a rebellion against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who it calls a “butcher.” “Come out in rebellion and in defense of your country, yourselves and your children,” it said in a statement issued in English Wednesday. “Destroy the citadels of his oppression and tyranny and reclaim Egypt once more.” It called the killings “a turning point that will have its own repercussions… el-Sissi is initiating a new phase during which it will not be possible to control the anger of the oppressed sectors who will not accept to be killed in their own houses and in the middle of their families.” It says the men were from a Brotherhood committee that supports the families of the group’s detainees and “martyrs,” and were “rounded up inside the house and then were murdered in cold blood without any investigations or indictments.”
July 1, 2015
Headline: Egypt military pounds Sinai militants, kills 23
The Egyptian military pounded Islamist militant positions and killed 23 extremists in dawn raids in Sinai Thursday, a day after an unprecedented assault by ISIS-linked extremists in the restive peninsula that undermined government efforts to stem an insurgency in the area despite a two-year crackdown. The fighting heightened tensions across Egypt following the assassination this week of the country’s chief prosecutor in a car bombing in Cairo. President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi Wednesday vowed to step up the legal battle against Islamist militants. In Sinai, security officials said airstrikes killed 23 extremists in dawn raids just south of Rafah, a key border town near the Gaza Strip. The officials also said the army was searching for extremists house to house in the town of Sheikh Zuweid – where the militants attacked a string of army checkpoints the previous day – and was demining roads in and around the area that militants had booby trapped with mines and improvised explosive devices.
July 3, 2015
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Rebels Launch New Offensive in Southern Syria
Rebel forces in Southern Syria have mobilized for what they hope will be the final phase of a major campaign to force the regime to withdraw from Southern Syria. Should they succeed, they may achieve enough momentum to advance to Damascus and may force the Assad regime to contract from outlying areas, including southern, eastern, and northern Syria where the regime is also challenged. A successful operation by rebels in Southern Syria could therefore alter the stalemate of the Syrian war even though rebels across northern and southern Syria are not coordinated. Rebels in Southern Syria represent a strong potential partner for the U.S. not only to end the Syrian war, but also to limit the expansion of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria. The moderate rebel Southern Front coalition has played a leading role in Southern Syria since the summer of 2014, a distinction from other fronts on which moderate rebels play a minimal role. Islamists brigades have fought alongside them, however, and Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) has supported their effort, indicating that the influence of moderate rebels in Southern Syria is vulnerable. While their tactical cooperation may improve their chances of driving pro-regime forces from southern Dera’a province, it may also limit future opportunities for the U.S. to capitalize upon their success if moderate rebels are not empowered to remain in the lead through increased international support.
July 2, 2015
Syria Headline: Syria military resists major rebel assault in Aleppo
The Syrian military has carried out a series of air strikes after rebel forces launched a major assault to take control of the northern city of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels fired hundreds of rockets and shells into at least seven government-held areas late on Thursday. By Friday morning, they had made small advances, the monitoring group added. But the Syrian state news agency Sana said the assault had been repelled and more than 100 “terrorists” killed. On Thursday, 13 Islamist fighting groups and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, came together to launch a co-ordinated assault on several fronts. A statement said the aim of the new coalition, called Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), was “the liberation of Aleppo and its countryside”, after which they would work with other groups to govern the city according to Islamic law. Western-backed groups also said they were taking part in the offensive, organised through a joint operations room called Fatah Halab (Conquest of Aleppo), the New York Times reported. The rebels launched simultaneous attacks on western districts of the city controlled by government forces, firing hundreds of rockets and shells, the Syrian Observatory reported.
July 3, 2015
Iraq Headline: Bombings in Baghdad, Town South of Iraqi Capital Kill 8
Iraqi officials say bombings in Baghdad and in a town south of the Iraqi capital have killed eight people. Police officials say a bombing Friday near shops in the town of Madain, just south of Baghdad, left three people dead and wounded eight. Also in Madain, a bomb struck a checkpoint manned by pro-government Sunni militiamen, killing two fighters and wounding five. The officials say a bomb blast in a commercial street in eastern Baghdad killed three people. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters. Police said two bodies with gunshot wounds to the head and chest were found in eastern Baghdad. Dead bodies left in the street were a common occurrence during the sectarian violence that engulfed Iraq several years ago.
July 3, 2015
Kurdish Headline: US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State
The United States has blocked attempts by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, The Telegraph has learned. Some of America’s closest allies say President Barack Obama and other Western leaders, including David Cameron, are failing to show strategic leadership over the world’s gravest security crisis for decades. They now say they are willing to “go it alone” in supplying heavy weapons to the Kurds, even if means defying the Iraqi authorities and their American backers, who demand all weapons be channelled through Baghdad. High level officials from Gulf and other states have told this newspaper that all attempts to persuade Mr Obama of the need to arm the Kurds directly as part of more vigorous plans to take on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have failed. The Senate voted down one attempt by supporters of the Kurdish cause last month. The officials say they are looking at new ways to take the fight to Isil without seeking US approval. “If the Americans and the West are not prepared to do anything serious about defeating Isil, then we will have to find new ways of dealing with the threat,” said a senior Arab government official. “With Isil making ground all the time we simply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face.”
July 2, 2015
Kurdish Headline:Kurds intent on carving new state out of Iraq after ISIS fight ‘whether the US likes it or not’
Kurdish fighters and leaders are intent on carving an independent state out of Northern Iraq after they wrest back vital territory from the Islamic State “whether the U.S. likes it or not,” according to American and international security forces on the ground. Kurdish forces, whose commanders say they aren’t getting enough help from the U.S. and other allies, have been making headway against ISIS. But while re-taking Mosul from ISIS was seen as a key achievement by the U.S., the new focus is squarely on holding Kirkuk, a northern Iraqi city claimed by many to be the cultural Kurdish capital. “They are pushing hard in Kirkuk to hold Kirkuk and keep ISIS out and once that is done, they will move forward with plans for their country,” one operator on the ground with direct connections to Kurdish leaders told Fox News. Another source, who is directly advising Kurdish leaders, said “they have only one goal, whether the U.S. likes it or not.” Lahur Talabani, head of the Kurdistan Intelligence Agency, acknowledged his interest in making an independent nation a reality. “Everybody’s dream, every single Kurd, wants to have a free independent Kurdistan.” At the same time, he said surrounding nations that have Kurdish immigrants “will do everything within their power to stop us.” “Of course we want to be free. It will be difficult, but we would love for it to happen right now,” he said.
July 3, 2015
Headline: ISIS foils attempt to depose Baghdadi: report
ISIS has foiled a serious coup attempt aimed at deposing its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a report published after the extremist group allegedly executed a top official in Mosul. “For the first ever there has been an attempt to depose Abu Bakr al-Baghadi,” Alaraby Aljadeed quoted corroborative Syrian and Iraqi sources as saying. The London-based daily reported that as a result of the attempted coup, thirteen prominent commanders in ISIS have been executed for their role in the conspiracy, including five high-ranking military officials. “Most of the executed commanders were Arabs from the Arab Maghreb [northern Africa] region, Syria, Yemen and Kuwait. One Kurd and one Chechen were also executed,” the article said. The newspaper added that the aborted coup “took place after harsh disputes over the course the group’s military operations were taking and their expansion to include jihadist factions that opposed the group, especially in Syria, Libya and Afghanistan.” The Alaraby Aljadeed report comes on the heels of earlier accounts that ISIS had executed a top official in Mosul “on charges of conspiracy” amid rifts between foreign and local jihadists in the group. A well-informed source in the Iraqi city of Mosul told Alaraby Aljadeed that a plot had been drawn up to kill Baghdadi near the group’s stronghold in Syria. “The coup, which was aborted a short time before it came to fruition, would have targeted Baghdadi’s convoy with IEDs on a farm road south of the Syrian city of Raqqa.” According to the source, the exposure of the coop and subsequent executions, which took place between June 10 and 13, came as “a powerful shock — the most violent that group has seen internally.”
July 3, 2015
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkey reinforces Syria border as fighting in Aleppo intensifies
Turkey has deployed additional troops and equipment along part of its border with Syria as fighting north of the city of Aleppo intensifies, security sources said, but Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said there were no immediate plans for any incursion. Ankara has mooted the creation of a “secure zone” on Syrian territory due to concerns about Syrian Kurd advances and the presence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, as well as the possibility of a fresh wave of refugees fleeing conflict. Security sources and officials in the capital Ankara said the Turkish army had stepped up security, also sending in special forces, due to the heavy fighting.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Iran takes hard stance on key provisions in nuke deal
Iran took a hard stance on two of the biggest demands of world powers in a final nuclear deal Thursday, rejecting any extraordinary inspection rules and warning that if the U.S. and other countries re-impose sanctions after the deal is done, it will ramp up enrichment of bomb-making materials. A senior Iranian negotiator told reporters outside Vienna the U.N. nuclear agency’s standard rules governing access to government information, sites of interests and scientists should be sufficient to ensure that Iran’s program is solely for peaceful purposes. Anything beyond that would be unfair, he said. However, the U.S. and some other countries want Iran to take the extra step. “We should be realistic,” said the Iranian official, who briefed members of the news media on condition he not be quoted by name. The man also questioned the legitimacy of countries that don’t accept the International Atomic Energy Agency’s jurisdiction demanding that Iran be subject to tougher requirements than any other nation. RIA-Novosti reported that Russia also backed Iran’s position that additional inspection guidelines for Iran weren’t necessary.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Taliban attack kills 7 policemen in central Afghanistan
A nighttime Taliban attack on security checkpoints has claimed the lives of at least seven policemen in east cental Afghanistan, security sources say. The deadly attack was carried out on Wednesday night in Jalrez District of Maidan Wardak Province, south of the capital, Kabul. Zakir Hussain Sultani, the deputy provincial governor, said the Taliban militants captured at least five checkpoints in the fatal assault across the troubled region. Local Afghan media reports said that intense fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban militants was still underway in the area on Thursday. The Taliban militant group in a statement claimed responsibility for the latest attack on Afghan forces.
July 3, 2015
Headline: The dramatic rise of the Islamic State in Tunisia
On 18 May, a little known Tunisian militant organisation calling itself Mujahedeen Tunisia Kairouan took to Twitter to declare its allegiance to the Islamic State group. It took IS three days to acknowledge the message. Few others paid much attention. One month, eight days and 39 lives later, that situation appears unimaginable. Last week’s deadly attack on tourists at a beach resort in Sousse by a Mujahedeen Tunisia Kairouan-linked gunman appeared to confirm the group’s ascendancy, and the ability of IS to outmanoeuvre al-Qaeda in wielding local influence. The appeal of IS among some sections of Tunisian society, especially in the country’s economically deprived hinterland where anger and disaffection is most widespread, was already well entrenched. Tunisia has contributed about 3,000 fighters to the war in Syria and Iraq. Less well known is the fact that the Tunisian interior ministry says it has prevented a further 12,490 people from joining the conflict. While that figure has been disputed, it offers a yardstick of the groundswell of resentment that the Tunisian state is facing.
July 3, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Boko Haram guns down 97 people praying in mosques in Nigeria
Boko Haram extremists gunned down nearly 100 Muslims praying in mosques in a northeast Nigerian town during the holy month of Ramadan, a government official and a self-defense fighter said Thursday. The attack Wednesday night on the town of Kukawa came the day after the Islamic extremist group attacked a village 35 kilometers (22 miles) away and killed another 48 men and boys, according to witnesses who counted the dead. The people of Kukawa were in several mosques, praying ahead of breaking their daylong fast, when the extremists attacked. They killed 97 people, mainly men, said self-defense spokesman Abbas Gava and a senior government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters. Gava said his group’s fighters in Kukawa said some militants also broke into people’s homes, killing women and children as they prepared the evening meal. Kukawa is 180 kilometers (110 miles) northeast of Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria and the birthplace of Boko Haram.
July 2, 2015
Headline: US Cancels Assistance to Burundi Over Flawed Election
The United States says it is suspending some security assistance programs to Burundi because of abuses committed by police during political protests and the government’s decision to proceed with what the U.S. says were “flawed” parliamentary elections. The State Department said late Thursday that Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term in office “has resulted in dozens of deaths, the exodus of over 144,000 Burundians to neighboring countries, and a freefall for the Burundian economy.” It said the government’s decision to push ahead with June 29 parliamentary elections despite the “complete absence” of the necessary conditions for free and fair elections has “exacerbated an already dire situation.” The State Department urged Burundi to heed numerous calls from the international community to delay the July 15 presidential election.
July 3, 2015
Headline: US, UN Condemn Mali Attack Claimed by Al-Qaida
Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed and five others were injured Thursday in an attack on their convoy in the West African nation of Mali, the United Nations said. All 11 peacekeepers were from neighboring Burkina Faso. Details about the attack, which happened in central Mali’s Timbuktu region, weren’t immediately available, and the United Nations didn’t say who was behind the assault. The attack brings to 42 the number of peacekeepers killed in Mali since their mission began in 2013. The United Nations sent peacekeepers to Mali in April 2013 to guard against militant Islamists who threatened to move on the West African nation’s capital, Bamako. “These attacks will not alter the determination of the United Nations to support the Malian people and the peace process,” the office of the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a news release Thursday.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Clashes, strikes kill 21 in Yemen’s Aden
Saudi-led air strikes and clashes in Yemen’s second city of Aden killed 13 Shiite Houthi rebels and eight pro-government fighters Friday, military sources said. War planes struck Houthi positions in the north of the port city, killing six fighters, after fighting killed seven rebels and eight soldiers loyal to exiled President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi, the sources said. The clashes followed Houthi advances in west Aden, backed by renegade troops, that saw the rebels take control of a military base late Thursday. Fighting continued Friday around the base, according to military sources. Rebel shelling of several residential neighborhoods overnight killed at least five people, including a child, city health chief Al-Khader Laswar told AFP. Another 89 civilians were wounded.
July 3, 2015
Headline: Evidence shows buildup of Russian tanks, generals in Ukraine
Headline: Ukraine Crisis Update: July 2, 2015
New evidence is exposing Russia’s deepening role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, suggesting Vladimir Putin may be preparing to gobble up more territory undeterred by NATO — as a new U.S. military document highlights the extent of Moscow’s aggression. Bloomberg View reported that Ukraine security officials have found five Russian generals are playing a lead role commanding separatist units inside the country, despite Kremlin denials. This comes as aerial video shot by a drone — and provided by pro-Ukraine fighting units — depicts the build-up of a Russian military base with tanks and other gear in eastern Ukraine. “We see a more assertive Russia trying to intimidate neighbors and change borders,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently said. The NATO secretary general spoke after inspecting one of six new forward bases the alliance is building in Romania and the neighboring Baltics — a response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. It’s the biggest reinforcement of NATO’s collective defense since the end of the Cold War. Whether it will be enough remains to be seen. Retired Maj. Gen. Bob Scales, a Fox News military analyst, said that western action may be no more than a “pinprick” at this stage and that Putin’s got five or six “modernized divisions” on the Ukrainian border.
July 3, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43– Decline of the Euro“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Greece Referendum: What Happens If They Vote ‘No’
Headline: Greek banks down to €500m in cash reserves as economy crashes
Headline: Greek bank closures may deplete supermarket shelves
Headline: Greek solidarity protests across Europe ahead of referendum- LIVE UPDATES
Greeks are being asked to vote on whether to accept a proposal by the country’s creditors for more austerity to keep aid flowing. Voters have received a clear message from the euro area: vote “Yes” in the July 5 bailout referendum. But Greece’s Syriza-led government is pushing the other way. “Greek people are hereby asked to decide whether they accept a draft agreement document submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, at the Eurogroup meeting held on on June 25 and which consists of two documents:
‘‘The first document is called Reforms for the Completion of the Current Program and Beyond and the second document is called Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis.
‘‘- Those citizens who reject the institutions’ proposal vote Not Approved / NO
‘‘- Those citizens who accept the institutions’ proposal vote Approved / YES.’’
With polls showing a tight result, the only thing certain about the referendum is the timing: polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and the result may be known before midnight. Either way, what follows are emergency negotiations, the outcome deciding which side feels it has the upper hand.
July 3, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: China’s stocks hit critical low despite government lifelines
A series of lifelines from Beijing failed to stop the slide in the mainland’s stock market on Thursday, with the key Shanghai Composite Index closing below the critical 4,000 mark for the first time in almost three months. Analysts warned that the nation’s leadership would pay dearly if it failed to stabilise the market and prevent millions of small investors from losing their life savings. “The government’s response to the fall confirms that it will use all the resources at its disposal to influence the market when things do not go the way it wants and potentially puts its legitimacy at risk,” said Steve Tsang, chair of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said last night that the stock market had recorded a significant drop, and the commission would launch an investigation into suspected market manipulation.
July 3, 2015
Pestilence & PlaguesLuke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: Ebola crisis: Liberia’s new outbreak spreads
Two more cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Liberia following the death of a teenager from the virus on Sunday, officials say. The country had been declared Ebola-free more than seven weeks ago. Both of the new cases were in Nedowein, the same village where the boy died, the ministry of information says. Liberia’s authorities quarantined the area after the teenager’s death and said his funeral was carried out safely. Health official Cestus Tarpeh told AFP news agency that the pair had been in physical contact with the 17 year old before his death. He added that a herbalist who had treated the boy had evaded the authorities and was on the run. It is not clear how the teenager who died was infected. There has been some confusion about whether one or two extra cases have been confirmed.
July 1, 2015
Headline: 29 die in South Sudan cholera outbreak as cases continue to increase in the capital
At least 29 people have died in South Sudan’s latest cholera outbreak, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday. Cholera had sickened 484 people by the end of June and the number of cases continues to rise in the nation’s capital of Juba, according to UNICEF. Children under 5 comprise 13 percent of the cases, UNICEF said, adding that funding is needed as the agency has been using its flexible internal resources to meet critical needs. In addition to Juba, cholera cases have also been reported in Bor, Jonglei state, as well as Torit in the state of Eastern Equatoria. Last year a cholera outbreak in South Sudan infected more than 6,000 people and killed 167, according to World Health Organization figures.
July 3, 2015
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Quake in rural China kills three, damages thousands of homes
A strong earthquake hit a rural part of China’s far western Xinjiang region on Friday, killing three people, injuring dozens and destroying or damaging thousands of homes, the government and state media said. Many traditional houses in the mainly ethnic Uighur region collapsed when the shallow 6.4 magnitude quake struck about 160 km (100 miles) northwest of the southern city of Hotan, emergency officials said. The dead included a father and son, the government-run China National Emergency Broadcasting said on its website. The Ministry of Civil Affairs added that at least 3,000 homes either collapsed or were seriously damaged and 1,000 tents were being sent to the region. Late on Friday, state news agency Xinhua put the number of injured at about 43 and revised down death toll to three from six.
July 3, 2015
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Little by little ISIS is moving in on their target Israel! As you can see from the photo Egypt is one of the nation that is mentioned in the Psalm 83 war against Israel. If ISIS is not stopped they will no doubt begin their assault on Israel. The only remaining question to be asked is this. Will ISIS take Egypt and Hamas and in the process bring them all against Israel. At this point no one nation has been able to stop ISIS from advancing into the bordering nations of Israel. Here is the bottom line. At the end of the day every nation in the photo above will attack Israel. Weather all these nations will be controlled by ISIS or not I can not say but, they will all attack Israel soon. Israel is getting ready for the next war!
The Jewish Press » » All-Out War South of Israeli-Sinai Border
The northern Sinai Peninsula south of the border with Israel is engulfed in an all-out war. Egyptian F-16 warplanes attacked Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihadists’ positions for several hours Wednesday afternoon and killed more than 90 jihadists following massive ISIS attacks. Most of the 70 Egyptian casualties were soldiers and policemen, and the death toll is not final. Egypt retaliated immediately and fiercely, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said: Terrorism is knocking on our borders. ISIS is not only across from the Golan Heights, it is also in Egypt, across from Rafah…And we are together with Egypt and other states in the Middle East and the world in the struggle against extreme Islamic terror. Look what God said in Psalm 83:4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.” Now look at the following quote from the same news article. “ISIS declared yesterday that it will wipe out both Hamas and Israel. Who do you think is going to destroy ISIS? The only nation with the true guts at this point who can stop ISIS in their tracks is the smallest nation of all, Israel and, soon ISIS will see just how strong and determined the Jews are.
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Headline: ISIS Vows to Conquer Gaza, Israel & Palestinian Authority
Headline: ISIL’s genocide threat against Christian Arabs in Jerusalem ignored by Palestinian Authority
It had to happen sometime. ISIS (Da’esh in Arabic) – not satisfied with the way Hamas terrorists have governed the Gaza region – has decided to seize control of the enclave itself. And the terrorist organization says it does not plan to stop there, either — the group apparently issued a video statement Tuesday warning of its intent to conquer the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority as well, according to the Reuters news agency. The video has been removed from the Internet, however. “We will uproot the state of the Jews and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be overrun by our creeping multitudes,” a masked member of the terror group proclaimed in a message addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas,” according to Reuters. “The rule of Shari’a (Islamic Law) will be implemented in Gaza in spite of you,” he went on. “We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp (the Palestinian settlement in Damascus), will happen in Gaza.” Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz accused Hamas on Tuesday of partnering with ISIS affiliates in the Egyptian Sinai – a charge long denied by Hamas.
July 1, 2015
Headline: Netanyahu: We are partners with Egypt in the fight against ISIS that has reached our borders
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the four Israelis at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem who were injured in two separate terrorist attacks over the last two days, and from near their beds sent condolences to Egypt for the terrorist attacks that rocked that country on Wednesday. “Terrorism is knocking on our borders,” he said. “Islamic State is not only across from the Golan Heights, it is also in Egypt, across from Rafah, in other words across from our borders,” he said. “And we are together with Egypt and many other states in the Middle East and the world in the struggle against extreme Islamic terrorism.” While the terrorists have managed to hit inside Israel over the last few days, Netanyahu said that the IDF and the security services have “thwarted more than 200 terrorist attempts from the start of last year.” He pledged that Israel would apprehend those responsible for the recent attacks and “extract a heavy price from the terrorists and those who dispatch them and support them.”
July 1, 2015
Headline: Hamas Claims Responsibility for Shvut Rachel Shooting
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian terror group Hamas, has claimed responsibility for the shooting attack near Shvut Rachel on Monday night. Four Israeli civilians were injured in the terror attack, with one, Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, a 25-year-old resident of Kochav Hashachar, succumbing to his wounds on Tuesday evening. The Al-Qassam Brigades asserted the attack was part of “a series of quality operations” carried out by the group’s members in recent months, and that the attackers opened fire at point-blank range on a car of “settlers” before managing to escape safely. On Tuesday, sources in the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) admitted that a terror cell appears to be at large in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem, although they did not say if the cell had any connection to Hamas. Sources credit the cell with firing at a civilian vehicle and an ambulance on Saturday evening, as well the murder of Danny Gonen, near Dolev, 12 days ago. Meanwhile, Hamas spokesman Husam Badran called ongoing attacks against Israelis “an important quality development,” whether it be shooting at “settlers or soldiers” or stabbing attacks carried out by lone-wolf Palestinian terrorists. Badran urged Palestinians to continue escalating attacks against Israelis in order to return to a situation of confrontation with the Jewish state as well as to “revive the Al-Aqsa Intifada” to end the “occupation.”
July 1, 2015
Headline:Op-Ed: The Vatican Wants the Temple Mount Taken From the Jews
In 2000, speaking in a mosque in Palestinian-held Ramallah, Yasser Arafat declared, “No one will succeed in removing us from our land, including Jerusalem, and the Palestinian flag will fly from the Temple Mount and from the churches in Jerusalem.” Arafat could say that because he had won the Vatican’s support for his terroristic strategy. On June 26th, 2015, the Vatican signed its first treaty with the “State of Palestine”. It is the logical conclusion of a long path. When the pontiff John Paul II ascended to the Temple Mount in 2000, Judaism’s most holy site, he wasn’t welcomed by Israeli officials, but by representatives of the Palestinian Authority, and the holy complex was bedecked in Arab flags. It was the Pope’s implicit recognition of Islamic hegemony. It was taken to mean that Islam and Christianity superseded Judaism and have the right to “inherit” its holy places. Since then, the Holy See’s taking a stance as the ally of the heads of the Palestinian Authority in the place most holy to the Jewish people, became almost a fait accompli.
June 30, 2015
Headline: Israel, Jordan may open Dome of the Rock to non-Muslims
Israel and Jordan are discussing opening Temple Mount sites, including the Dome of the Rock, to non-Muslims, after 15 years of restrictions, the Haaretz daily reported Tuesday. The negotiations between Israel, which handles the security of the holy site, and Jordan, which has influence over the religious management of the site, have been going on for months, the Belgian International Crisis Group said. Increased tourism — and the revenue from it — would encourage the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the religious body that formally runs the Temple Mount’s day-to-day operations, to maintain the peace, the NGO said. Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, which controlled the Waqf until recently, are hoping to stave off violence of the sort that rocked the Temple Mount last year, culminating in a murder attempt against Jewish activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick in October 2014 and the temporary closure of the site to both Muslims and Jews, the International Crisis Group said. The Prime Minister’s Office denied the existence of the talks, however. “There are no negotiations and no change in the status quo at the Temple Mount,” a representative told Haaretz.
July 1, 2015
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Lebanon
Headline: Hezbollah prepares all-out attack on Syria’s Zabadani
Hezbollah is set to wage an all-out offensive on one the largest towns in the Qalamoun mountain range this week, in a push to seize one of the Syrian militants’ last strongholds along Lebanon’s border. Hezbollah reinforcements and large quantities of weapons and ammunition are being transferred into Lebanon’s eastern mountain range ahead of an offensive on the Syrian town of Zabadani at the southern end of Qalamoun, a security source told The Daily Star. Hezbollah’s determination to push ahead with the attack, according to the source, comes after negotiations with rebels failed to secure militants’ withdrawal from the area. The offensive, which is expected to start in the coming days, seeks to clear the area of Syrian rebel factions who have maintained control of the town despite being surrounded by Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters.
June 30, 2015
Headline: Lebanese army says kills five militants at Syria border
Headline: Sectarian Shooting Wounds 7 People South of Lebanese Capital
The Lebanese army said on Wednesday it had killed five militants in a clash at the border zone with Syria, the second such confrontation in less than a week. A security source identified the militants as members of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, one of the insurgent groups fighting in the Syrian civil war. An army statement said they were targeted as they attempted to cross between the Lebanese town of Arsal and the nearby border zone and identified one of the dead as a Syrian. The army said on Friday it had killed two militants who were trying to reach the town of Arsal from the border zone. Meanwhile, Supporters of rival Lebanese factions clashed early on Wednesday in a coastal town south of Beirut, leaving several people wounded, the country’s state news agency and a security official said. The National News Agency said the fighting in the town of Saadiyat was between supports of the Sunni Future Movement and the Resistance Brigades, which is close to the Shiite Hezbollah group. Sectarian tensions have increased in Lebanon since the start of Syria’s crisis four years ago. The civil war has spilled over into Lebanon in the past, killing and wounding dozens. According to a Lebanese security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, seven people were wounded. The Lebanese army said one soldier was lightly wounded in the shooting, adding that troops are patrolling the area.
July 1, 2015
Headline: Three killed in car bomb in suburb west of Cairo: sources
Three suspected militants were killed in a car explosion in the October 6 suburb of the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, police said.The blast came a day after the top prosecutor was killed in a car bombing in Cairo, prompting President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to pledge tough new laws to fight Islamist militants. Police officials said they believed the blast occurred when explosives the militants had been transporting went off accidentally.
June 30, 2015
Headline: ISIS Attacks Kill 64 Egyptian Soldiers in Sinai, 42 in El Arish
Headline: Israel closes crossings with Egypt, Gaza, following ISIS Sinai terror attacks
Headline: Sinai: Egypt Air Force Hits ISIS Positions After Deadly Assault
Approximately 64 Egyptian soldiers and police officers have been killed in a multi-prong attack at five checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula, according to international media sources. Clashes first erupted Wednesday between Da’esh (ISIS) terrorists and security personnel in the northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, according to Daily News Egypt. According to the Egyptian Army spokesperson, the numbers are quite different, with approximately 70 terrorists were involved in five ambushes in northern Sinai. “Our forces returned fire, killing 22 terrorists and destroying three land cruiser vehicles loaded with 14.5mm anti-aircraft weapons. Ten of our valiant armed forces were martyred thus far. Our forces continue to comb the areas around the site of the attacks in order to eliminate what’s left of the terrorists. Clashes are continuing,” he said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page. The attack came as a follow-up to Monday’s assassination in Cairo of Egyptian chief prosecutor and Attorney General Hisham Barakat. Nine other people died in the car bombing which wounded dozens of others. A separate car bombing and mortar attack in the city of El Arish has left at least 32 people dead as well, according to The Guardian newspaper, which reported that ISIS terror group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis — now known as “Province of Sinai” — has taken responsibility for the attack on an army barracks, an army-owned hotel and a polcie headquarters. DEBKA military sources also report that US Middle East forces located in Jordan and at Sharm el-Sheikh are on the ready in case the Islamic State decides to attack the US officers and men at the Multinational Force facility in Sinai, which is located near the Sheikh Zuwaid battlefield.
July 1, 2015
Syria Headline: Fresh violence hit Homs as clashes intensified between Syrian army and ISIS militants
At least 10 people, including two children, were killed in Syrian government airstrikes on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma Tuesday, an activist group monitoring the war said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said another 50 people were injured in the strikes, adding the death toll was likely to rise because a number of the wounded were in serious condition and other residents missing under rubble.
July 1, 2015
Syria Headline: Syrian Government Airstrike Kills 17 in Insurgent-Held Town
Activists say a Syrian government air raid has killed at least 17 people and wounded many others in a northwestern town. The Local Coordination Committees says the attack on the town of Ihsim killed 17 people and wounded dozens. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 18 were killed, including four members of the same family. Ihsim is in Idlib province, where an alliance of Syrian rebels and Islamic militants has made major gains in recent months, including capturing the provincial capital.
June 30, 2015
Syria Headline: Islamic State retakes key weapons supply route on Turkish border in blow to West
Syria Headline: Syrian Kurds say thwart big Islamic State attack on border town
According to the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights (SOHR), armed militias have already captured an entire district in the east of Tal Abyad. The town serves as a key supply route for ISIS and many Western fighters use the crossing to enter the group’s territory on their way to their self-declared capital in Raqqa. ISIS rebels took control of Tal Abyad last year but Kurdish forces had declared just days ago that the town was back in their hands.
July 1, 2015
Syria Headline: Hasakah under fire as clashes continue between Syrian forces and Islamists
On Tuesday, Syrian regime forces renewed shelling on locations of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) in the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, with heavy artillery and warplanes, local activists reported. Regime forces pounded IS strongholds in the Villat Homr district and Geweran neighborhood in Hasakah. Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, civil rights activist Raman Hassan reported that the regime forces targeted IS-held neighborhoods with heavy artillery and airstrikes. The source pointed out that IS militants resumed bombing the Kurdish neighborhoods of Mufti and Salihiya with mortar shells, causing substantial damage. No casualties were reported among civilians –most of whom evacuated their houses, according to local activists.
July 1, 2015
Iraq Headline: Bombs inside, around Baghdad kill at least 8 civilians
Iraqi officials say a series of attacks in Baghdad and in two towns near the capital has killed at least eight people. Police officials say the deadliest among Tuesday’s attacks was in the town of Mahmudiyah, about 18 miles south of Baghdad. They say a bombing there killed three civilians and wounded 10. The officials say two bombs went off in Baghdad’s northern Hurriyah and western Ghazaliyah neighborhoods, killing a total of three civilians and wounding 15. And in the town of Madain, about 14 miles southeast of Baghdad, a bomb killed two civilians and wounded six. In Baghdad, officials found two bodies with shots to the chest and head. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters.
June 30, 2015
Headline: Clarion Project Claims 42 Million Muslims Support ISIS
Headline: New ISIS Video: The Reward for Jihad Is Doubled in the Month of Ramadhan
The Clarion Project, a neocon nonprofit that has produced videos warning of the dangers of Islam, has released a study claiming 42 million Muslims support the Islamic State and its brutality. Ryan Mauro told the Daily Express “ISIS is only a fraction of what it could potentially become.” If we don’t act quickly, this is still going to grow – and what we’re looking at today is going to look like the good old days compared to the future,” he said. The Clarion Project report is based on figures from a March 2015 poll by the Iraq-based Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies, a November 2014 poll by Zogby Research Services, a November 2014 poll by the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and an October 2014 poll by the Fikra Forum commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, according to Fox News. In October, David Horowitz’s Freedom Center claimed 80% of Muslims in London support ISIS. “Good luck with your integration and your moderate Islam,” wrote Daniel Greenfield.
July 1, 2015
Headline: FBI sets up 56 centers to monitor Fourth of July terror threat
Headline: ISIS Publishes Map of July 4th FBI Command Centers
The FBI is setting up command centers at all of its 56 field offices across the country ahead of the July 4 weekend, to monitor any potential terrorist threats, law enforcement sources have revealed. Sources told Fox News that local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. will be reporting any information about possible attacks to these command centers – where officials will decide how to respond. The move comes amid growing fears that the terror group ISIS is working to awaken sleeper cells in Western nations, after sympathizers were linked to three back-to-back attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia last Friday. While the FBI says there has been no specific credible threat so far, it seems to be more active in its warnings and actions ahead of Independence Day this year than previously.
July 1, 2015
Headline: ISIS-Linked Regional Activity in June 2015
ISIS’s affiliates gained new terrain in Libya and Afghanistan, while launching significant attacks in Yemen, Egypt, and Kuwait. ISIS also declared a new governorate in Russia’s North Caucasus. These gains allow the organization to offset territorial losses in Libya and northern Syria and maintain its claim that it is “Remaining and Expanding” a year after the a year after the declaration of the Caliphate.
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Syria’s Kurds warn Turkey not to intervene militarily
Syria’s main Kurdish party warned Turkey on Wednesday that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country’s main Kurdish militia is ready to face any “aggression.” The statement by the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, comes as Turkish media is abuzz with talk of a long-debated military intervention to push the Islamic State group back from the Turkish border — a move that would also outflank any Kurdish attempt to create a state along Turkey’s southern frontier. “Any military intervention in Rojava will have local, regional and international repercussions and will contribute to complicating the political situation in Syria and the Middle East and threaten international security and peace,” the PYD statement warned. Rojava is a term that refers to Syria’s predominantly Kurdish region. The PYD called on NATO members to prevent Turkey from carrying out any “reckless” intervention. It added that Syria’s Kurds want good relations with their neighbors and have no intention to set up an independent state.
July 1, 2015
Headline: Iran nuclear talks: Deadline extended to 7 July
Iran and six world powers have extended into next week their talks on finding a comprehensive agreement of Tehran’s nuclear programme. The deadline for reaching an agreement was 30 June, but all parties agreed to extend it by another week, to 7 July. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that a deal was now “within reach”. But US President Barack Obama has said he will still “walk away from the negotiations if… it’s a bad deal”. And Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned: “If the other side breaches the deal, we will go back to the old path, stronger than what they can imagine.”
July 1, 2015
Headline: Suicide bomber targeting American forces convoy blows himself up in Kabul
A suicide bomber blew himself up in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul Tuesday, within 500 meters of the American embassy and reportedly targeting an American forces convoy, a source tells Fox News. There were no reports of injuries or casualties, an Interior Ministry official tells Fox News. An American Humvee was partially affected by the blast, according to witnesses. The attacker was driving an explosives-packed vehicle, the Associated Press reported. Police on the scene said casualties were expected. “It was a suicide car bomber, there are casualties but it is too early to know the extent of the damage,” said Kabul deputy police chief Sayed Gulagha. A spokesman for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, US Army Col. Brian Tribus, said that a coalition convoy had been attacked. “We can confirm there was an attack on coalition forces. We are gathering information,” he said. The explosion happened at 1.20 p.m. on the main airport road in eastern Kabul. The blast sent a huge plume of black smoke over the city. It happened as government employees were leaving their offices and roads were choked with vehicles as the working day is shortened during the Ramadan fasting month.
June 30, 2015
Headline: Fighting between Afghan, Pakistani forces on border kills one
Border clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces broke out Wednesday morning, officials said, killing at least one person and potentially undermining efforts by both sides to improve relations. One Afghan border policeman was killed in the fighting near the border town of Angoor Adda, Afghan Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said in Kabul. Pakistan’s military said two troops were injured and none were killed. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has tried to improve relations with his nuclear-armed neighbor to the east, saying unless the two sides work together, they will never end the war with hardline Islamist Taliban insurgents who threaten both countries. His overtures have drawn criticism among Afghan critics, and border clashes such as the one Wednesday threaten to raise tensions. Afghan spokesman Sediqqi indicated that the fighting started when Pakistan attempted to build an illegal structure on the border. “Afghan border police intervened and exchanged fire. As a result, one Afghan border policeman was killed,” he said. The Pakistani military said in a statement that the clashes were touched off by Afghan firing.
July 1, 2015
Headline: South Sudan Military Is Accused of Widespread Abuses
South Sudan’s army has burned people alive, raped and shot girls, and forced tens of thousands from their homes, according to interviews with survivors by The Associated Press and corroborated by human rights groups. The scorched earth campaign is apparently aimed at driving civilians out of the rebel-controlled parts of an oil-rich state, according to Human Rights Watch. South Sudan’s military is trying to depopulate the rural areas of Unity state through violence and hunger, said the group. The tactics, which include the alleged burning of grain stocks and the looting of life-sustaining property like cattle, are believed to be part of efforts to drain the rebels of their support base. “They are trying to destroy our lives,” said survivor Angelina Nyaboth Chap Tang, who fled to a U.N. base in the state capital of Bentiu. “I lost my son. I lost my grain. I lost my cattle. Everything has been destroyed.” Tang said armed men killed her son in an attack two weeks ago in which her village was torched, grain stocks destroyed and cattle looted. Another survivor, Theresa Nyakama, said she lived off wild plants for a month before seeking shelter with the U.N. in Bentiu, where some 28,000 civilians have fled since the start of the offensive in May. Although both warring factions in South Sudan’s current conflict are accused of carrying out widespread abuses against civilians, government troops are increasingly reported to have committed large-scale atrocities in conflict zones where the rebels are perceived to have support.
July 1, 2015
Headline: Tunisia terrorist cell promises more attacks in video
For the security services of Tunisia and those connected to them, this latest atrocity not only marks the arrival of the Islamic State (IS) on Tunisia’s shores, but it also carries with it the sure promise of further violence to come from sources they are not equipped to predict. Since December 2014 and with increasing frequency since, IS has been making its ambitions for Tunisia ever clearer. On May 18, hitherto unknown Tunisian terrorist cell, the Mujahideen Tunisia Kairouan, declared both its presence within Tunisia and fealty to IS, giving the terror group its first tangible foothold within North Africa’s most celebrated democracy. On June 28, it published a further video featuring Rezgui and footage of an attack it claimed was aborted due to the presence of good Muslims, a distinction echoing that of Rezgui’s on Friday. Chillingly, the video promised more attacks. “I think we can assume that Rezgui was one of the ‘lone wolves’ of the Mujahideen Tunisia Kairouan,” Tarek Kahlaoui, a researcher on jihad and ex-director of the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies said.
July 1, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Bombers attack Nigeria’s Maiduguri while vice president visits camps
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a hospital in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, shortly after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo arrived in the city to visit camps for people fleeing a militant Islamist insurgency. The blasts injured two people and happened at about 11.30 a.m. (1030 GMT) near the gates of a hospital where suicide bombers killed three people and injured 16 last Saturday, a military source and a witness told Reuters. “The second blast occurred two minutes after the first one, killed the bomber and injured two other people nearby,” said Mohammed Haruna, who helped to evacuate people from the scene. Maiduguri has been the target of several attacks since Muhammadu Buhari, president of Africa’s most populous nation and biggest economy, made it the command center for the campaign against Boko Haram militants after being inaugurated on May 29. It was not immediately clear whether the bombers had been targeting the hospital again or whether the bombs had gone off accidently.
July 1, 2015
Headline: Six Burundians killed in Bujumbura clashes
Clashes between Burundian police and an “armed group” in the capital city of Bujumbura have left at least six people dead, including one officer. Police sources said at least three grenades exploded and gunfire was used in the Cibitoke district, which is the opposition stronghold. The incident is the latest in weeks of unrest, and comes as the country awaits the results from the June 29 elections that were boycotted by the opposition and widely condemned. The election commission claimed a huge turnout in the local and general elections, despite many polling stations seeming to be quiet. Despite international outcry, Monday’s elections will be followed by the presidential vote slated for July 17.
July 1, 2015
Headline: Protests Mark Handover Anniversary in Hong Kong
Hundreds of pro-democracy activists took to the streets of Hong Kong Wednesday as the city marks the 18th anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule. Thousands of police were on standby for the annual march, the first large-scale protest since police forcibly cleared pro-democracy demonstrators from the streets late last year. The protest comes less than two weeks after pro-democracy legislators blocked a China-backed proposal that would have let a committee of elites screen candidates for the city’s first leadership election. Around 500,000 pro-democracy protesters joined the July 1 march last year, when police arrested more than 500 people who blocked a road in the financial district, in what was seen as a prelude to the massive 79-day Occupy movement of civil disobedience that kicked off in September. The protesters decried Beijing’s reform proposal as a plan for “fake democracy,” saying it did not fulfill a promise to hold democratic elections by 2017.
July 1, 2015
Around 1,200 prisoners, including al Qaeda suspects, escaped during clashes at a jail in central Yemen on Tuesday, officials said. The incident is the biggest in a series of prison breaks that have freed Yemeni militants in recent years and signals the further erosion of the state amid a raging civil war. “Groups of al Qaeda supporters … today attacked the central prison in the city of Taiz and more than 1,200 of the dangerous prisoners escaped,” state news agency Saba quoted a security official as saying. Another local official told Reuters some of the escapees were “suspected of belonging to al Qaeda” but said they left amid heavy clashes between warring militias in the city.
July 1, 2015
Russian gas purchases have been suspended by Ukraine after a breakdown in talks aimed at keeping supplies running for three to six months. The Ukrainian state energy company, Naftogaz, said it would continue transporting Russian gas supplies to other European customers. It will be the second time in less than a year that Russian fuel supplies have stopped running to Ukraine. Russian energy minister Alexander Novak called the decision “unfortunate”. Moscow hiked prices after Kremlin-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February 2014. It cut off gas supplies in June 2014 as the conflict between the government in Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in the east escalated. Since then, the European Union, which mediated at the price negotiations in Vienna, has forged a series of temporary agreements that need to be renewed every three months.
June 30, 2015
The Coming One world government -Anyone who read chapter 13 of the book of Revelations should understand that the Antichrist will be running a One World Government during the seven year tribulation. The Prophet Daniel in chapters 2 and 7 show us that the last world empire directed by the Antichrist will not be America, but a revived Roman Empire.
Headline: Obama signs trade bills into law, says tough battle still ahead
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law legislation that gives him “fast-track” power to push ahead on a Pacific Rim trade deal that has been the subject of intense debate in Congress and across the nation. Flanked by some of the lawmakers who supported the bill through a six-week congressional battle, Obama acknowledged that his fight to secure the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership was far from over. “We still have some tough negotiations that are going to be taking place,” Obama said at a signing ceremony. He noted that lawmakers and the public will be able to scrutinize the trade deal before it is finalized. “The debate will not end with this bill signing,” he said. The package also included aid for workers who lose their jobs as a result of trade, and an Africa trade preferences bill. Obama wants the trade deal to be a central part of his administration’s foreign policy pivot to Asia and to help serve as a counterweight to the economic might of China. He also hopes to complete an ambitious trade deal with the European Union.
June 29, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43– Decline of the Euro“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Greece Defaults on IMF Debt
Headline: No negotiations until after Greek referendum, Merkel says
Headline: Tsipras Tells Voters Rejecting Austerity Will Yield Better Deal
Headline: Turkey ‘ready to help’ Greece out of economic crisis
Greek leader Alexis Tsipras made a last ditch attempt to reach a deal on Tuesday (30 June) by offering to accept most of creditors’ demands in return for a new €29 billion loan but Germany’s Angela Merkel has said there will be no negotiations until Greece’s referendum on 5 July – a referendum that it is itself clouded in confusion. Tsipras’ letter to the EU commission, European Central Bank, and IMF said he would accept proposals laid out by creditors with amendments that included a reduction on VAT for Greek islands and maintaining some pension supplements. It came as Greece’s second bailout expired at midnight on Tuesday along with a deadline to pay back a bill to the IMF – with its default putting it in a small club of nations that include Zimbabwe, Somalia and Sudan. It also means the country is without an international financial lifeline for the first time since 2010 – bringing more uncertainty for the Greek people who are already faced with closed banks and a €60 cap on daily cash withdrawals. However an evolution in the process is set to come only after Sunday’s referendum.
July 1, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: Puerto Rico governor calls for bankruptcy; adviser says island ‘insolvent’
Headline: Puerto Rico poses bigger threat to U.S. investors than Greece
Puerto Rico’s governor on Monday called for the commonwealth to be allowed to restructure its debts under U.S. bankruptcy code, while a newly appointed adviser to the U.S. territory said it is “insolvent” and will soon run out of cash. Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, in a televised address, said sacrifice must be shared by bondholders, as he called for Washington to allow a bankruptcy debt restructuring. The Caribbean island is struggling to relieve a $73 billion debt burden. It came to a crunch point on Monday – ironically at the same time as did debt-laden Greece – after a dire report on its stability by former International Monetary Fund economists was released ahead of key deadlines on Wednesday to repay debt. Steven Rhodes, the retired U.S. bankruptcy judge who oversaw Detroit’s historic bankruptcy and has now been retained by Puerto Rico to help solve its problems, gave a blunt assessment on Monday. Puerto Rico “urgently needs our help,” Rhodes said. “It can no longer pay its debts, it will soon run out of cash to operate, its residents and businesses will suffer,” he added. Puerto Rico’s bonds skidded on Monday as investors sought greater compensation amid the heightened risk. Puerto Rico is not eligible for debt restructuring under the U.S. bankruptcy code because it is not a municipality.
June 30, 2015
Pestilence & PlaguesLuke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: Ebola crisis: Liberia quarantine after death
Liberia’s authorities have quarantined the area where a 17-year-old boy died of Ebola. This is the first reported case of Ebola in Liberia since it was declared free of the disease seven weeks ago. Deputy health minister Tolbert Nyenswah said tests confirmed that the teenager from Nedowein village, near the international airport, had died of the disease on 28 June. Officials are investigating how he contracted Ebola, Mr Nyenswah said. More than 11,000 people have died of the disease since December 2013, the vast majority of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The countries had largely curbed the spread of the disease – but the number of new cases has risen recently, with the start of the rainy season in West Africa.
June 30, 2015
Apostasy & Alternative LifestylesAmos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)
Headline: Mozambique decriminalizes gay and lesbian relationships
Mozambique has decriminalised homosexuality in its new penal code, making it one of a few African countries where same-sex relationships are legal. The revised code, in force from Wednesday, drops a colonial-era clause outlawing “vices against nature”. There were no prosecutions under that clause but rights activists have said this change is a symbolic victory. It comes as other African countries have moved to tighten anti-gay laws. In Nigeria, a law that came into force last year banned same-sex public displays of affection and introduced a possible 14-year prison sentence for gay sex. A study released on Tuesday found that 87% of Nigerians supported a ban on same-sex relations. In Uganda, the government has pledged to introduce a new restrictive law after the last law which criminalised homosexuality was successfully challenged in the constitutional court. Mozambican rights activists say that the changes in their country could have an impact elsewhere on the continent.
July 1, 2015
Godlessness 2 Timothy 3:1-5 & Matthew 24:12–“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold”
Headline: Teen Leads Mob In Ransacking Of Georgia Walmart
Led by a teenage boy throwing gang signs, a mob of vandals descended on a Walmart store in Georgia early Sunday and trashed the business in a reported attempt to “see how much damage they could cause,” police allege. During the 1:45 AM ransacking of the Walmart in Macon, rioters pulled a patron from an electric wheelchair and dragged him to the floor, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office report. As seen below, a Walmart surveillance camera recorded the vandals racing through store aisles. Investigators say that a “crowd of 40-50 individuals consisting of black males and females” were led into the store by Kharron Green, 17, who can be seen on surveillance video “presenting gang signs in the air with his hands.” For about a minute, Green & Co. ran through store aisles “destroying merchandise and vandalizing the property,” cops reported. Upon arriving at the trashed Walmart, a deputy noted that one aisle was “destroyed and coated with broken merchandise” and that the “length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about.”
June 30, 2015
Persecution Matthew 24:9 & Revelation 6:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)
Headline: Now’s the Time To End Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions
The Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage makes it clearer than ever that the government shouldn’t be subsidizing religion and non-profits. Two weeks ago, with a decision in Obergefell v. Hodges on the way, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced the First Amendment Defense Act, which ensures that religious institutions won’t lose their tax exemptions if they don’t support same-sex marriage. Liberals tend to think Sen. Lee’s fears are unwarranted, and they can even point to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in Friday’s case, which promises “that religious organizations and persons [will be] given proper protection.” But I don’t think Sen. Lee is crazy. In the 1983 Bob Jones University case, the court ruled that a school could lose tax-exempt status if its policies violated “fundamental national public policy.” So far, the Bob Jones reasoning hasn’t been extended to other kinds of discrimination, but someday it could be. I’m a gay-rights supporter who was elated by Friday’s Supreme Court decision — but I honor Sen. Lee’s fears. I don’t, however, like his solution. And he’s not going to like mine. Rather than try to rescue tax-exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step. It’s time to abolish, or greatly diminish, their tax-exempt statuses.
June 28, 2015
Headline: Pentagon urged to boot chaplains who oppose ‘gay’ marriage
Headline: Christian Preachers Brutally Beaten at Gay Pride Festival
Headline: Ten Commandments monument must be removed from grounds of state Capitol, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday
Activist Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is demanding the U.S. military conduct a purge of chaplains who holds to the traditional teaching of homosexuality and marriage espoused by the first commander in chief, George Washington. Weinstein claims chaplains who are “maintaining the state of antagonism between their religion and the sexual/gender identities of service members” have no business serving in the military. “Nobody is arguing that these losers don’t have a right to their religious beliefs,” wrote Weinstein in an op-ed. “At this stage, the only honorable thing that these losers can do is to fold up their uniforms, turn in their papers, and get the hell out of the American military chaplaincy. If they are unwilling or too cowardly to do so, then the Department of Defense must expeditiously cleanse itself of the intolerant filth that insists on lingering in the ranks of our armed forces.” Meanwhile, Two street preachers were brutally beaten — punched and kicked — by a crowd at a gay pride festival in Seattle and the entire melee was captured on video. The preachers were holding signs reading “Repent or Else” and “Jesus Saves From Sin.” The video shows a group of people initially screaming and threatening the men during Pridefest at the Seattle Space Needle.
June 30, 2015
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Explosive helium is leaking from massive earthquake fault under Los Angeles
A huge fault in the Earth’s crust near Los Angeles is leaking helium, researchers have found. They say the unexpected find sheds new light on the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin. It reveals the fault is far deeper than previously thought, and a quake would be far more devastating. It follows a report from the U.S. Geological Survey has warned the risk of ‘the big one’ hitting California has increased dramatically. UC Santa Barbara geologist Jim Boles found evidence of helium leakage from the Earth’s mantle along a 30-mile stretch of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin. He claims the results show that the Newport-Inglewood fault is deeper than scientists previously thought. Using samples of casing gas from two dozen oil wells ranging from LA’s Westside to Newport Beach in Orange County, Boles discovered that more than one-third of the sites show evidence of high levels of helium-3 (3He). ‘The results are unexpected for the area, because the LA Basin is different from where most mantle helium anomalies occur,’ said Boles, professor emeritus in UCSB’s Department of Earth Science.
June 29, 2015
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Headline: 5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Felt Throughout Israel
Tremors from a 5.2 magnitude earthquake were felt throughout Israel Saturday, at around 6:30 p.m. The earthquake’s epicenter was some four kilometers southeast of Nuweiba, in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula which borders southern Israel. But the tremors were felt throughout Israel as well, from Be’er Sheva, Arad and Eilat in the south, to Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Rehovot in central Israel, and even as far north as Nahariya, Acco and Afula. No damage or injuries were caused. Flights from Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport were halted for ten minutes, due to the tremors which were felt there as well. After a series of checks on runways and technical equipment, flights were quickly resumed.
June 27, 2015
Headline: IDF Ready to Use Force – If Need Be – Against Flotilla
Headline: Flotilla MK Ghattas: Don’t Try And Stop Us
The IDF is scrambling to face the threats of another “Freedom Flotilla” arriving in Gaza Sunday, security officials revealed – and may have to use force. As of Sunday morning, the ‘Freedom Flotilla III’ is comprised of 47 people on 4 boats – Marianne with 18 people, the Rachel with 12 people, Vagoliano with 12 people, and the Vitrio with 9 people. Tens of activists are rumored to be attempting to join; a fifth ship is due to join as well, but as of Sunday morning has not. A security official explained Saturday night to Walla! News that the IDF is prepared to act with this flotilla as they did in the past – and hinted to the Mavi Marmara incident of 2010, where Shayetet 13 stormed the vessel after the flotilla ignored several demands to stand down. Israeli authorities discovered the vessel to be carrying no humanitarian aid – in fact, no aid supplies at all – indicating how the true goal of the provocative move was to open Gaza to free naval access, which it has consistently used to smuggle in weapons to be targeted against Israel.
June 28, 2015
Headline: Israeli navy peacefully intercepts Gaza-bound vessel
Israel’s navy intercepted a vessel attempting to breach a naval blockade of Gaza early Monday and was redirecting it to an Israeli port, the military and the activists said. The military said that after exhausting all diplomatic efforts the government ordered it to block the Swedish vessel. Israeli naval forces visited the Marianne ship and searched it in international waters without needing to use any force, the military said. The ship was carrying about 20 activists, including Israeli Arab lawmaker Basel Ghattas and former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki. The Freedom Flotilla group posted a photo on Twitter apparently showing a group of its activists onboard a ship. It said in the post that Israeli forces intercepted the Marianne and it was currently en route to Ashdod port. Calls to Ghattas and his assistant rang unanswered.
June 29, 2015
Headline: Islamic Jihad Threatens to End Gaza Ceasefire
Headline: Palestinian Arab Hunger Striker to be Released
Israel last August 26 ended Operation Protective Edge by sealing a ceasefire agreement with a confederation of terrorist organizations in Gaza, foremost among them Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but that deal now appears to be on the brink of collapse. Khaled Al-Batash, a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, announced his organization may soon breach the agreement, in statements made during a speech to Islamic Jihad members at an event showing support for Khader Adnan, a jailed Islamic Jihad leader hunger-striking in an Israeli prison. Al-Batash said that if Adnan dies as a result of his hunger-strike, the ceasefire with Israel will end, and “the enemy, the security of its settlers and cities, will be the target of the Islamic Jihad.” “Khader Adnan may suddenly die at any moment, doctors have confirmed to me,” Jawad Boulos, legal counsel for the Ramallah-based Prisoners Club of the Palestinian Authority (PA) told AFP on Saturday. In 2012 Adnan was released from prison after a 66-day hunger strike.
June 29, 2015
Headline: France Pushes New Plan for Israel-PA Talks
France wants a new international group made up of the United States, European powers and Arab countries to be set up to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday. “It could be a sort of Quartet-plus,” Fabius told reporters, according to AFP, referring to the foursome led by former British prime minister Tony Blair that included the United States, Russia, the European Union. Fabius said including Arab states “makes sense” because they have a role to play in the peace process and have put forward a plan in 2002 that the foreign minister described as “interesting.” The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative calls for an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria in exchange for full normalization of ties between Israel and the Arab world. “It will be necessary to have an international accompanying body,” Fabius told reporters in New York where he was to attend a United Nations meeting on climate change.
June 29, 2015
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Lebanon
Headline: Syria, Hizballah torpedo understanding between Druze and Syrian rebel Nusra Front near Israeli border
Syrian ruler Bashar Assad and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah have gone all out to stir up adversity between the Druze communities of the Golan and Israel, and the Syrian rebel Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. To torpedo the armistice deal brokered between them earlier this month by the US, Jordan and Israel, 200 Syrian and Hezbollah troops were pumped into the Druze village of Khader on the Syrian Golan, 3 km from the Israeli border. Since Friday, June 26, these troops have been attacking Nusra and the other Syrian rebel groups fighting to capture the Golan town of Quneitra. This has stalled the rebel operation for taking control of the highway to Damascus. Rockets from this battle strayed over to the Israeli side of Golan Sunday. debkafile’s military sources reveal that Nusra hit back over the weekend. They warned Druze leaders that if they don’t stop cooperating with Assad and Nasrallah, “their blood will be on their heads.” Fighters of this Islamist group then surrounded another, smaller Druze village, Skaska, on the western slopes of Jabal Druze and threatened to go in and massacre its inhabitants. The Nusra ultimatum, posted Saturday, June 28, made it clear that since Syrian and Hezbollah are firing against them from a Druze village, the Druze are held responsible for getting it stopped. Otherwise, they will be deemed collaborators of the Assad regime and in violation of the non-belligerence deal struck between them earlier this month. Our sources add that Syria and Hezbollah accompanied the 200-man force which infiltrated Khader, with Iranian and Syrian television crews and a group of Lebanese Druze members. The footage they showed was intended to demonstrate to the world that Lebanese Druze strongly challenged the Syrian rebel takeover of southern Syria including the Golan, and sided with Bashar Assad. ***See ETRM Facebook or Twitter page regarding the weekend rocket attacks in Golan
June 28, 2015
Headline: Car bomb attack kills Egypt’s top public prosecutor
Egypt’s top public prosecutor died of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his home on Monday, the most senior state official killed in militant violence since the toppling of an Islamist president two years ago. Monday’s attack stirred fears of yet more turmoil in Egypt, which has been struggling since the 2011 popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak to regain full-fledged stability and revive the economy of the Arab world’s most populous country. The bombing also showed the risk of militant Islam threatening the Egyptian state leadership as it did in the 1980s and 1990s.
June 29, 2015
Syria Headline: Islamic State uses US-made anti-tank missiles in Hasakah offensive
An Islamic State (ISIS) group suicide bomber killed at least 20 regime troops in Hasakeh city in northeast Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said, according to the AFP news agency. “The attack by a booby-trapped car targeted the criminal security service headquarters in the south of the city” where deadly clashes have been under way since Thursday, the Britain-based monitor said. The attack came hours after the Observatory said ISIS had killed 164 civilians in its offensive on the Kurdish town of Kobane, describing it as one of the jihadists’ “worst massacres” in Syria. The killing spree, which took place mostly inside Kobane itself, was widely seen as vengeance for a series of defeats inflicted on the jihadists by Kurdish militia in recent weeks. At least 120 civilians were killed in a 24-hour rampage on Kobane, and another 26 were executed in a nearby village, the Observatory said.
June 27, 2015
Syria Headline: ISIS raids kill 40 Syrian troops in central Syria: activists
ISIS militants have killed at least 40 Syrian government forces in consecutive attacks on three checkpoints in central Syria, activists said Saturday. In less than two hours of clashes on Friday, ISIS seized the checkpoints near Sheikh Hilal, a village in Syria’s Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The clashes killed 40 government loyalists, including soldiers and members of the National Defense Forces,” a local pro-government militia, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. He told AFP that the ISIS militants later withdrew from the checkpoints when it appeared that government forces in the region had called for reinforcements. “There’s fighting almost every day in this area, but usually the toll is two or three people. Forty is very high,” he told AFP. The checkpoints lie along a road used by government forces to dispatch reinforcements to Aleppo in the north, where the regime has been battling rebel groups since 2012. “If they seize control of this road, they’ll cut off the regime forces in Aleppo, since the government won’t be able to send reinforcements or supplies there,” Abdel Rahman said.
June 27, 2015
Syria Headline: Three killed in mortar attack on Damascus: Syrian state TV
A mortar bomb killed three people and wounded 12 more in a market place in northeast Damascus on Sunday, Syrian state television reported, after months of relative calm in the capital. The bomb exploded in a market in Saroujah district just northeast of the city center, the report said, citing a source in the capital’s police headquarters. It described it as a “terrorist attack” without giving further details. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but insurgents based in the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus have carried out rocket and mortar bomb attacks on the capital in the past.
June 28, 2015
Iraq Headline: Bomb blasts in Iraqi capital leave 12 dead, dozens wounded
Iraq Headline: Attacks inside, around Baghdad Monday kill at least 7 people
A series of attacks targeting public places killed 12 people in Baghdad on Saturday, said Iraqi authorities, as the prime minister announced the arrest of an aide to Saddam Hussein. Police officials say a car bomb went off about noon Saturday near shops selling car parts in southeastern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 13 others. Another bomb blast at an outdoor market killed three shoppers and wounded eight in the city’s eastern suburbs. Also, police said a bomb exploded near a row of shops in the capital’s western neighborhood of Baiyaa, killing two and wounding 10. Later on, a bomb blast near a vegetable and fruit wholesale market in southern Baghdad killed two people and wounded three others. Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
June 29, 2015
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkey looking to construct more walls on Syrian border – officials
Headline: Erdogan Vows Turkey Will ‘Never Allow’ Kurdish State in Syria
Headline: Turkey readies Syria ground incursion
Turkey wants to construct more walls along its border with Syria to strengthen security against Islamic State militants and crack down on illegal border crossings, senior officials told Reuters on Saturday. Turkey shares a more than 900 km (560 mile) border with Syria, and much recent fighting has taken place on its doorstep. On Saturday Syrian Kurdish fighters secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border, two days after Islamic State launched a deadly attack in the area. Turkey has already erected more than 10 km of walls along its borders, supported by additional measures such as thermal cameras. Now, the government wants to add to that and is considering adding portable concrete walls in some locations, two officials told Reuters. The portable walls, which are made up of concrete slabs, can be taken down and reassembled in different locations. Ankara decided that constructing a wall along the length of the border would be too costly. The officials declined to say how long a wall the government was looking to build, or where it would put it. ***The second headline : “Erdogan Vows Turkey Will ‘Never Allow’ Kurdish State in Syria”; we’ve been seeing almost daily news stories about Turkey ‘warning’ the US and everyone else that they won’t allow a Kurdish nation. Why do you think we’ve been seeing this so much? Please re-read what I posted on Sept. 6, 2014
Headline: Deadline likely missed in nuclear deal – Hayden says Iran has ‘upper hand’
Headline: On eve of Iran deal, US retreats on inspections of nuclear past, speeds up sanctions relief
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said Sunday that the United States has lost its edge going into the final days of a nuclear negotiation with Iran. “I would actually fear that the Iranians have the upper hand right now,” Hayden said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I actually fear we have painted ourselves into a corner where we believe that any deal is better than no deal at the present time.” Hayden said the framework of the deal doesn’t go far enough in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear arsenal in the future. On Sunday, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News that world powers meeting in Vienna to hammer out the nuclear deal will miss their June 30 deadline. Iran’s foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif’s returned home for consultations on Sunday. Zarif is expected to return to Vienna to join counterparts from other countries at the negotiating table to push for a breakthrough on the talks. U.S. officials said they are “unconcerned” about the pace of talks and that Zarif’s trip home had been scheduled in advance.
June 28, 2015
Headline: Islamic State Seizes Territory in Afghanistan from Taliban, Threatens Stability
Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability. Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province told Reuters that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Islamic State pushed out the Taliban, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban’s campaign to overthrow the Afghan government.
June 29, 2015
Headline: S Sudan government forces, rebels clash over key town
Government forces and rebels in South Sudan have resumed battling over a key northern town after the collapse of the latest peace talks. Fighting between the two sides was reported in the city of Malakal located in the Upper Nile State, in the northeast of South Sudan, close to the international borders with the Republic of Sudan. South Sudanese government and anti-government rebels claim full control over Malakal, a strategic area known as the gateway to South Sudan’s oil fields. Over the past 18 months, Malakal has changed hands a number of times in the conflict.
June 28, 2015
The United States supported the secret supply of weapons to Libyan rebels while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State according to federal court documents obtained by Fox News. In a sworn declaration to the District Court of Arizona May 5th 2015, a career CIA officer David Manners said, “It was then, and remains now, my opinion that the United States did participate, directly or indirectly, in the supply of weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council.” The timing matters because in the Spring of 2011 the Libyan opposition was not formally recognized, and the direct supply of arms was not authorized. At that time, the CIA Director was David Petraeus.
June 27, 2015
Headline: Armenians continue protest despite suspension of power price rise
Thousands of Armenians launched a second week of protests on Monday against a hike in electricity prices, rejecting the government’s concession to suspend the increase temporarily. The government decided on Saturday to cover the price rise out of state funds, rather than increase customers’ bills, until an independent audit of the electricity supply company is completed. But thousands of protesters remained at their sit-in on an avenue near the presidential palace in the capital Yerevan, while hundreds moved to nearby Freedom Square. “We will stay here until our demand is fulfilled … Electricity tariff rises will lead to rises in all other prices,” activist Hmayk Mkrtchyan told Reuters. The crowd, which has tended to dwindle during the day but swell again at night, has made barricades of rubbish bins and carries posters with slogans like “I’m not going to pay! Will you?” and “Stop robbing people!” The rally has been peaceful since last Tuesday, when police used water cannon against demonstrators and detained about 200 but were unable to break up the rally.
June 29, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Suicide bombers kill at least three in northeast Nigeria
Two suicide bombers killed at least three people and injured 16 in the capital of the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno on Saturday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks by suspected Islamist militants. The two women tried to get into a hospital but were stopped by security guards at the gate and blew themselves up, witnesses said. “We evacuated the charred bodies of the two security guards, another civilian and the two bombers,” said Auwal Mohammed, a member of the community in Molai, where the hospital is situated. Muhammadu Buhari, the new president of Africa’s most populous nation and biggest economy, made Maiduguri the command center for the military campaign against Islamist militant group Boko Haram after being inaugurated last month. More than 100 people have been killed in northeast Nigeria in the past few weeks in a spate of bombings, mostly in Maiduguri.
June 28, 2015
Headline: Suicide blast in Chad capital kills 11 during police raid
Suspected Boko Haram fighters blew themselves up during a police raid in Chad’s capital early on Monday, killing five officers and six militants, police and government officials said. The raid of an illegal arms cache was part of a security operation aimed at dismantling a network of Boko Haram militants blamed for twin suicide bombings in N’Djamena on June 15. The apparently synchronised attacks were the most deadly that Western ally Chad has known and killed 34 people.“After an interrogation, a suspect showed us a house for building bombs,” said interior minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid. “When we arrived on the scene at 5 a.m. our forces came across the…terrorists who blew themselves up.”A police officer who participated in the raid said one of the militants was wearing an explosive belt and detonated it as police arrived.A Reuters witness outside the house in N’Djamena’s eastern neighbourhood of Diguel saw Red Cross workers load at least four white bodybags onto a truck. The torso of one of the dead lay in the sand outside the house.Prosecutor Alghassim Khamiss said the house was an arms cache and that authorities had seized a large number of home-made explosives and eight mortars there.
June 29, 2015
Jihadists have attacked, and briefly held, the small Malian village of Fakola, just miles away from the border with Ivory Coast on Sunday. The attack marks the second time in a month that jihadists in Mali have attacked close to the West African country. It is also the second jihadist assault in two days in the lower half of the country. The Associated Press, quoting a local Malian official, said “armed individuals identifying as jihadists today attacked the village of Fakola. They came on motorcycles.” A Malian military police official said that the attackers carried the “black jihadist flag” and exclaimed “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is the Greatest,” during the attack. The AP also reported that the jihadists burned down many administrative buildings, and a building being used as a headquarters for the military police in the area. However, no military police personnel were in the city when the attack began. No casualty numbers have been given at the time of this writing, however, the AP notes that the Malian army was able to regain control of the town after arriving on scene and driving the jihadists out. This is the second attack this month to have taken place near Ivory Coast.
June 29, 2015
Headline: Bahrain hit by fresh anti-regime protests
Bahraini protesters have held fresh demonstrations against the ruling Al Khalifa regime in different parts of the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom. Anti-regime protesters rallied in the towns of Nuwaidrat, Eker, and Bilad al-Qadim on Sunday. Security forces attacked the protesters, who were demanding the release of all political prisoners, including the main opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman. On June 16, a Bahraini court sentenced Salman, who is the secretary general of Bahrain’s main opposition party, al-Wefaq, to four years in prison on charges including insulting the Interior Ministry and inciting others to break the law. He was acquitted on charges of seeking regime change.
June 29, 2015
Headline: Houthis attack Aden refinery, fire starts
Headline: Houthis shell Aden refinery for second time: official
Headline: Saudi soldier killed in cross-border shelling from Yemen
Yemen’s Houthi fighters fired missiles at storage tanks at an Aden refinery on Saturday, starting a large fire, and 14 people were killed in clashes between the Houthis and Saudi-led forces near the southern port city, witnesses and residents said. The attack on the refinery in the Buraiqah area sent black smoke billowing into the sky. After months of conflict, Yemen is suffering from severe fuel shortages and its oil and gas industry has all but ground to a halt. Industry sources said in April that the 150,000 barrels per day refinery had shut its operations and declared force majeure on its imports and exports due to the war. In northern Aden, medical sources reported eight civilians were killed, including a woman and her three children, in random shelling by Houthi fighters on residential areas in the al Mansoura and Sheikh Othman districts. Four people from the Yemen’s southern resistance movement and 10 Houthis were killed in clashes early on Saturday near Aden, sources from the resistance movement and residents said. The fighting took place in Ja’wala and Bir Ahmed, north of Aden.
June 29, 2015
Headline: 60,000 military involved in E. Ukraine op
The number of government troops deployed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached 60,000 troops, according to President Petro Poroshenko. The statement comes as the total of Ukrainian refugees has exceeded 900,000 people, according to UN. On Thursday, the Ukrainian president signed amendments allowing the presence of foreign troops in Ukraine, as part of an international peacekeeping force. The law also has the provision to let the country have weapons of mass destruction stationed there. At present, 380 American and 75 British troopers are training Ukrainian soldiers, but in the autumn members of the Canadian military could join their ranks. The two-year agreement was reached at a meeting of Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak and his Canadian counterpart Jason Kenney on Saturday, RIA Novosti reported. British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said on Wednesday: “We are doubling up our training of Ukrainian forces. We’ve already trained around 650. By this autumn we will have trained nearly 1,000,” as cited by Reuters. “We’ve already been training in battlefield medicine, infantry skills, logistics, in tactical intelligence,” Fallon added.
June 27, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43– Decline of the Euro“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Austrians launch petition to quit EU
Austrians have launched a petition to quit the EU, arguing that the nation will be better off economically if it leaves the union. To force the national parliament to consider the initiative activists need to have gathered 100,000 signatures by July 1. The petition was started by a retired 66-year-old translator, Inge Rauscher, who has collected enough signatures to launch an official campaign. The plea seeks to request that the national parliament debate the idea of a referendum on quitting the EU. However, to get that issue even discussed, the petition must gather 100,000 signatures. “We want to go back to a neutral and peace-loving Austria,” Rauscher said at the start of the campaign this week. Austrians have until July 1 to sign the petition which they can do in municipal or district offices.
June 27, 2015
Headline: World markets plunge, bank lines grow as Greece financial crisis deepens
Headline: Gov’t Official: Default Tomorrow…
Long lines formed at ATMs and bank branches across Greece Monday as the nation’s financial crisis worsened, limiting cash withdrawals and causing global markets to plunge. Senior citizens looking to collect their monthly government benefits swarmed closed bank branches Monday in the hope of getting their checks, and lines formed at ATMs as bankers gradually began dispensing cash again following the imposition of strict controls on capital. Greece has imposed restrictions on money withdrawals and banking transactions to keep its financial system from collapsing due to a run on the banks. The government has imposed a stringent daily limit of 60 euros ($67) on cash withdrawals from ATMs this week. The banks and the country’s stock market have been closed for the week after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ surprise call for a referendum next Sunday on creditor proposals for reforms Greece should take to gain access to blocked bailout funds. Tsipras is advocating Greeks reject the creditor proposals, in the popular vote, which increasingly has the look of a vote on euro membership itself.
June 29, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: U.S. Stocks Retreat Amid Concern on Fallout From Greek Crisis
Headline: The world is defenseless against the next financial crisis, warns BIS
U.S. stocks retreated, with the biggest drop in two months, amid mounting concern about fallout from a potential Greece exit from the euro area. Financial shares in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 1.8 percent as Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. slipped at least 1.8 percent. The KBW Bank Index declined the most in more than three months. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, which makes about a quarter of its sales in the region that includes Europe, retreated 6.7 percent. National Bank of Greece ADRs plummeted 23 percent, and the Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF tumbled 17 percent. The S&P 500 Index sank 1.4 percent to 2,071.63 at 1:44 p.m. in New York, the biggest drop since April 17. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 240.22 points, or 1.3 percent, to 17,706.46 and erased its gain for the year. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 1.6 percent. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index surged 26 percent to 17.71, its biggest increase of 2015. “We finally reached the breaking point,” said Michael James, a managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities Inc. in Los Angeles. “With so much uncertainty around a potentially negative outcome, the knee-jerk reaction will be to reduce risk assets. You have a potentially very ugly situation this week.”
June 29, 2015
Wars & Rumors of WarsMatthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 “ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass DestructionZechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: North Korea on missile cruiser deployment to Japan: U.S. ‘will burn’
North Korea threatened the United States on Monday after a guided missile cruiser arrived at Yokosuka Naval Base. Pyongyang’s state-controlled media outlet KCNA said the Aegis cruiser USS Chancellorsville was being deployed in Japan in response to North Korea’s nuclear threat, Yonhap reported. The move was not welcomed by North Korea, and KCNA said in a statement the United States had “better heed past warnings.” “The cloud of flames of a nuclear war is finally gathering en masse,” KCNA stated. “But the U.S. should heed the truth: We already have strategy and tactical missiles capable of a strong offense.” South Korean news network YTN reported KCNA also denounced U.S. plans to dispatch four drones to Misawa Air Base in Japan in July. “The U.S. imperial invasion has undoubtedly revealed its true colors,” North Korea said in statement. “From the fire they start, they themselves will burn as a result…and their ruin would only be accelerated,” Pyongyang said in reference to the “U.S. nuclear fanatics” fanning “nuclear war’s flames” on the Korean peninsula.
June 29, 2015
Scorching SunIsaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: DroughtJeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)
Headline: Week-long heat wave kills 1,233 people in southern Pakistan
A devastating weeklong heat wave in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi killed 1,233 people, an official said. Nazar Mohammad Bozdar, operations director at the Provincial Disaster Management Authority, said about 65,000 heatstroke patients were treated by doctors at all of Karachi’s hospitals since June 20 when the heat wave struck Sindh province, where Karachi is the provincial capital. He told The Associated Press that 1,923 patients with heat-related ailments were still being treated. “The government quickly responded by making arrangements for the treatment of heatstroke patients and the situation has improved now,” he said. Pakistan’s deadliest heat wave on record coincided with the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, when Pakistan’s Muslim majority observed a dawn-to-dusk fast. The temperatures in Karachi came down to 93 degrees Fahrenheit after reaching 113 degrees Fahrenheit a week ago amid chronic power outages, which forced many residents to spend nights outdoors. The heat wave shocked many Pakistanis just weeks after soaring temperatures caused nearly 2,200 deaths in neighboring India.
June 27, 2015
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Egypt sees sandstorm and earthquake on the same day
Egypt faces treacherous weather conditions as a sandstorm blanketed the north of the country and a 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered in the Sinai peninsula shook buildings more than 200 miles away in the capital, Cairo.Airports near Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh, along the Mediterranean coast, closed and diverted flights to Cairo due to poor visibility from the day’s sandstorm, Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamel said.In the Red Sea town of Dahab, near the epicenter of the quake in the Sinai peninsula, the tremor shook loose clouds of dust that enveloped nearby mountains, according to a witness. The quake appeared to startle local residents and tourists. Fierce winds whipped through the capital as many residents took cover from the sand by staying indoors.
June 27, 2015
Headline: Floods kill at least 82 in western India
At least 82 people have been killed in widespread flooding in the western Indian state of Gujarat, in the past three days alone, officials say. Thirty-three people have been killed in Amreli, the district worst-affected the state disaster management authority said on Friday. At least 4500 people have been affected in the district and another 4121 in Rajkot, it added. Gujarat’s Minister of Water Resources, Vijay Rupani said 13 victims in Amreli died when two houses collapsed due to the flood, reported the Indian Express newspaper. The Indian army and air force troops are involved in relief operations.
June 28, 2015
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Headline:The U.N.’s Treatment of Israel Summed Up in One Stunning Graphic
Headline: UN Chief Urges Israel to Restore Travel Permits to Gazans
It probably won’t come as a shock to know that since its formation in 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than any other country. But more eye-opening is that it’s condemned Israel more times than every other country combined. The Geneva-based U.N. Watch counted all of the resolutions out and summed up the findings in one stunning table:
Headline: PA Officially Submits Case against Israel at ICC
The Palestinian Authority has officially submitted the first batch of legal documents to the International Criminal Court in its attempt to have Israel prosecuted for “war crimes.” The Palestine Liberation Organization’s official Twitter feed posted pictures of some of the hundreds of documents it said were “just submitted” to the ICC at around 4 p.m. Thursday. It said the documents were concerning “settlements, Gaza and prisoners.” Earlier Thursday, the PA’s ambassador to the Netherlands told the Bethlehem-based Maan news agency that PA foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki was set to lead a delegation to the Hague to personally submit the documents at around 3 p.m., while acknowledging it could still be many years before the case was actually heard even if it is accepted. “It will take the ICC a long time to take action, possibly 5-10 years as this is one out of a hundred steps,” Nabil Abu Zneid said. The PA’s legal case is being drafted by “five senior international lawyers,” according to Maan. Ahead of the move, on Wednesday morning Palestinian National Initiative party head PLO Central Council member Mustafa Barghouti said the PA’s goal “is to prove war crimes were carried out so the chief prosecutor will launch an investigation.”
June 25, 2015
Headline: Vatican Signs Historic First Accord with ‘Palestine’
Headline: Vatican formally recognizes Palestine as a state
The Vatican on Friday signed an historic first accord with “Palestine,” two years after officially recognizing the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a state. The accord, a treaty covering the life and activity of the Church in Judea and Samaria, was the first since the Vatican made the controversial step of recognition in February 2013. It also recognizes the PA as having authority in eastern Jerusalem, the undivided capital of the Jewish state. The treaty, which took 15 years of negotiations to complete, was agreed in principle last month and condemned by Israel as a setback for the peace process. Signing international treaties unilaterally is a breach of the 1993 Oslo Accords which created the PA. Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded to the move, expressing its “regret regarding the Vatican decision to officially recognize the Palestinian Authority as a state, in the agreement signed today,” spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement. “This hasty step damages the prospects for advancing a peace agreement, and harms the international effort to convince the PA to return to direct negotiations with Israel,” he said. “We also regret the one sided texts in the agreement which ignore the historic rights of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and to the places holy to Judaism in Jerusalem.” “Israel cannot accept the unilateral determinations in the agreement which do not take into account Israel’s essential interests and the special historic status of the Jewish people in Jerusalem,” he added. “Israel will study the agreement in detail, and its implications for future cooperation between Israel and the Vatican.” The Vatican’s recognition of “Palestine” followed a November 12 vote in favor of recognition by the UN General Assembly, although the Vatican is supposed to be an apolitical religious body.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Gaza Flotilla NGO Funded by French Government
Headline: First ship in Gaza-bound flotilla sets sail from Crete
One of the NGOs behind the latest anti-Israel flotilla to Gaza is funded by the French government, Arutz Sheva has learned. The Platform of French NGOs for Palestine (Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine) is among the groups supporting the Freedom Flotilla III, which seeks to directly defy the Israeli government’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled enclave. On Friday the Platform announced that the latest boat to join the flotilla, The Marianne of Gothenburg, had set sail from Sicily and was set to join four other vessels carrying some 70 anti-Zionist activists en route for Gaza. Among those on board will be former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki, Spanish MEP Ana Maria Miranda Paza and Arab-Israeli MK Basel Ghattas (Joint List), whose planned presence has triggered widespread controversy in Israel. But another potentially controversial aspect of the flotilla that has been largely overlooked is the role played by European government-funded NGOs. The Platform of French NGOs for Palestine is an umbrella organization for more than 40 anti-Israel groups, and is very active in the so-called BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel. Among other things, the Platform demands an end to all agreements and relations between the European Union and Israel. It is also a regular recipient of French taxpayers’ money, via the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement or AFD), a public aid agency which works on behalf of the French government to carry out “sustainable development programs” around the world.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Israel Freezes Defense Aid Talks with US Pending Iran Deal
A joint meeting of senior representatives in the Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister’s Office resulted in the decision to temporarily suspend dialogue with the United States regarding defense aid to the Jewish state. The freeze will remain in place until the conclusion of talks between Iran and P5+1 world powers on Tehran’s nuclear program, if not later. The main reason for suspending the dialogue, officials told Walla! News, is the mounting tension between the White House and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government. According to a senior defense official, who confirmed the report, freezing talks now will allow Israel to present a new request for defense materials after a deal with Iran has been finalized. The official asserted that Israel is waiting for negotiations between Iran and Western powers to conclude, to see what exactly the US signs, and from there make demands for maintaining Israel’s security in the region. Other officials though have suggested Israel may prolong the freeze until a new US president is inaugurated in early 2017, thereby avoiding contact with current US President Barack Obama, whose relationship with Israel has been contentious. The pressure of a looming nuclear deal with Iran has also begun to affect US officials.
June 25, 2015
Headline: Terrorist Killed in Gun Battle with IDF Soldiers
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Gaza, apparently belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization that rules the coastal enclave, breached Israeli airspace on Thursday afternoon. The drone crossed over the security border in southern Gaza, but soon thereafter fell to the ground even before the IDF decided whether or not to shoot it out of the sky. IDF engineering corps forces retrieved the vehicle in order to inspect it and investigate its capabilities. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) emphasized that throughout the security incident the drone was being closely monitored and posed no direct threat. Fighter jets were launched and rushed to the area out of fear that the drone may have been armed and intended to conduct an attack, or else was conducting surveillance and gathering information in preparation for an attack. However the drone fell to the ground without a shot being fired. Meanwhile, An Arab terrorist tried to conduct a shooting attack on an IDF checkpoint in the Jordan Valley region on Friday. The terrorist was shot by IDF forces soon after he pulled out his weapon and started firing, and he was seriously wounded. The terrorist later died of his wounds. No wounds were reported among the IDF forces. An initial investigation of the incident reveals that the terrorist got out of a vehicle and opened fire at the IDF troops, although miraculously none were wounded.
June 26, 2015
A flier published by in the name of the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization was put up around eastern Jerusalem on Thursday, in what is thought to be the first such announcement in the Israeli capital. The flier threatens Christians in the area with “revenge,” and is signed by the organization “ISIS Palestine,” reports Channel 10. ISIS does not have an operational presence in Israel, but support for the group among Islamists is on the rise, with dozens of Arab citizens leaving for Syria and Iraq to fight for the jihadist organization after ISIS members took part in Hamas’s terror war against Israel last summer. An ISIS-inspired cell was nabbed in Hevron in Judea last November, while in Gaza an affiliate of the group has clashed with Hamas and repeatedly fired rockets at Israel to spark fighting between Israel and Hamas.
June 26, 2015
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Jordan
Headline: One dead, four injured after stray shell from Syria hits house in Ramtha
One person was killed and four others were injured on Thursday after “a stray bomb shell” from Syria’s Deraa town hit a house in the northern city of Ramtha, an official confirmed. Ramtha district governor Bader Qadi told The Jordan Times that a 23-year-old resident of Ramtha died after the shell hit his family home, adding the man died in hospital suffering from injuries. The health conditions of the injured are fair, according to Qadi, who noted that the house is in the centre of the main market of Ramtha. Ramtha is some 90 kilometres north of Amman and is just a few kilometres from the Syrian border.
June 25, 2015
Headline: Hezbollah attack kills 9 militants outside east Lebanon border town
Hezbollah-planted land mines and mortar attacks left at least nine Nusra Front militants dead outside an east Lebanon border village Friday, a source close to Hezbollah told The Daily Star. The incident occurred on Syrian territory on the eastern outskirts of Maaraboun, which is southwest of the border enclave of Tfail, in southern Qalamoun. Media reports said militants from Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate were attempting to carry out an attack on Hezbollah positions in Maaraboun when they passed through a minefield. The mines managed to kill and wound a number of militants. The sound of the blasts alerted nearby Hezbollah fighters of the ambush attempt. Hezbollah then shelled the area of the militants, killing and wounding several other militants.
June 26, 2015
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: IS makes deadly return to Kobane
Syria Headline: Car bomb explodes in Syria’s Kobani
Syria Headline: ISIS Massacres 120 Civilians in Kobane in a Day
Islamic State fighters have attacked the Syrian city of Kobane, months after being driven out in a symbolic battle that made international headlines. They detonated car bombs and launched an assault. Kurdish media say at least 50 civilians have been killed, including 20 in a nearby village. The IS attack on Kobane began with militants detonating a car bomb, followed by an assault from dozens of fighters from a number of directions. There are reports that some may have hidden themselves among returning refugees, and disguised themselves by wearing Kurdish militia uniforms. A reporter with the privately-owned Kurdish television station NRT said they infiltrated the city at dawn “and then went on a killing spree”, targeting people in their homes as they slept. Hours later two more car bombs exploded. In the nearby Kurdish village of Bakha Botan, at least 20 civilians – among them women and children – were reportedly shot dead by IS fighters. At least eight IS militants and a number of Kurdish fighters have been killed in the fighting in Kobane, activists say. One senior local official told BBC Persian that the situation in Kobane itself was now “under control” but clashes were continuing on its eastern and northern outskirts.
June 26, 2015 ****SEE TURKEY BELOW
Syria Headline: Islamic State launches 2 major attacks in northern Syria
Syria Headline: ISIS seizes large swathes of Syrian city of Hasaka
Syria Headline: ISIS Syria attack displaces 60,000 from Hasaka: U.N.
On one front, Islamic State fighters advanced early in the morning into the northeastern city of Hassakeh, long split between Syrian Kurds and government forces, capturing parts of it. The other push was into the Syrian border town of Kobani. In Hassakeh, Khalil said IS militants attacked government-held neighborhoods on the southern edge of the town, capturing some areas. Syrian state TV reported intense clashes inside Hassakeh’s southern neighborhood of Nashawi. According to the report, IS fighters killed several people they captured in the city, including the head of a military housing institution. It said the militants sustained many casualties, including the commander of the group, who is a foreign fighter. An activist group said many people in neighborhoods engulfed in the fighting fled to safer areas in the city.
June 26, 2015
Syria Headline: Military Situation in Northern Syria
ISIS launched a series of spectacular counterattacks on June 24-25 in a two-pronged line of effort targeting Kurdish and regime forces in northern Syria. ISIS conducted a wave of suicide attacks in Hasaka City in northeastern Syria on June 24, detonating two SVBIEDs as well as three or four SVESTs targeting Kurdish internal security and regime-held checkpoints in a move likely intended to soften the city’s defenses. ISIS later launched an offensive against Hasaka City on June 25, detonating at least one VBIED and seizing the regime-held southwestern neighborhoods of the city. ISIS’s advance allegedly received support from tribal fighters previously aligned with the Assad regime. Simultaneously, approximately thirty to forty ISIS fighters disguised in Kurdish YPG and Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel uniforms infiltrated the Kurdish border town of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) on June 25, detonating twoSVBIEDs at the border crossing to Turkey and clashing with YPG forces.
June 26, 2015
Syria Headline: Rebels Launch Attack on Daraa City
A rebel alliance, including Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front, attacked government-held parts of the southern city of Daraa on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The alliance, also involving powerful Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, bombarded loyalist positions with mortar and artillery fire, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syria’s official SANA news agency said “terrorists hit neighbourhoods of Daraa city with mortar rounds and gas canister bombs,” adding that there were reports of casualties. “Army units foiled attempts by terrorist groups to attack several military positions in Daraa province destroying several armoured vehicles and killing dozens of terrorists,” state television said. It made no mention of fighting inside Daraa city, parts of which are already under rebel control.
June 25, 2015
ISIS militants detonated a car bomb and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said. Iraqi government forces and their Shiite militia allies are hoping to recapture Anbar’s provincial capital Ramadi, which was seized by the ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents last month. Twenty seven soldiers were also wounded in Thursday’s attack in Anbar’s Nadheem al-Taqseem region. In the town of Hit, west of Ramadi, artillery fire and rocket attacks targeted the local irrigation department, killing nine people and wounding 13.
June 25, 2015
Security and medical officials in Iraq say at least eight people have been killed and 25 others injured in five separate bomb explosions and a shooting incident in and around the capital, Baghdad. A police source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two civilians lost their lives and eight others sustained injuries when a bombing attack struck the Sha’ab neighborhood of northern Baghdad on Thursday, Arabic-language satellite television network al-Baghdadia reported. Security forces immediately cordoned off the site of the attack, and ambulance workers ferried the wounded to a nearby hospital. Elsewhere in the capital’s western neighborhood of Baiyaa, an improvised explosive device exploded near car showrooms, killing one person and injuring seven others. Two people were also killed and five others wounded when a bomb placed inside a garbage can went off in the industrial park of Bismayah, situated about 10 kilometers (six miles) southeast of Baghdad. Also on Thursday, a bomb detonated in the capital’s southern neighborhood of al-Mahmoudiyah, killing a child and injuring two passersby. A civilian was also gunned down during a drive-by shooting in the al-Baladiyat neighborhood of eastern Baghdad. Additionally, one person was killed and three others injured when a bomb exploded close to a fish farm in the town of Madain, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southeast of Baghdad.
June 26, 2015
Headline:Bloody Friday: ISIS Celebrates Terror Attacks In France, Tunisia, Kuwait
Headline: Tunisia attack on Sousse beach ‘kills 37’
Headline: Muslim Terrorist Beheads Man in France Attack
Headline: Kuwait Shia mosque blast death toll ‘rises to 25’
ISIS extremists celebrated terror attacks today in France, Tunisia and Kuwait, heralding the killings as “Bloody Friday” in discussions across secretive online forums and social media, a Vocativ analysis reveals. “This Friday is a holiday for the Muslims,” one ISIS supporter wrote, while many others used a hashtag praising the “lone wolves” around the world and celebrating the day as “Bloody Friday.” ISIS did not claim responsibility for all of the attacks. The worst unfolded at a luxury resort in Tunisia where an attacker blew himself up at the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in the city of Sousse. Gunmen also opened fire on guests of the hotel, killing several and leaving others face down in the sand near their lounge chairs. At least 27 were killed at the resort and officials cautioned the number could rise, according to the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior. In recent months ISIS increased its activities in Tunisia and claimed responsibility for several attacks there, including the assault on the Bardo Museum last March that killed 22 people, most of them European tourists. In southeast France, two people entered a factory of a U.S.-owned gas company and detonated gas containers by ramming a car into them, leaving one dead and several wounded. Local reports say a decapitated head was found at the entry to the factory, covered in Arabic script. A suspected ISIS flag also was reportedly found at the scene. At about the same time, an ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, killing at least 15 people according to local reports. ISIS released an official claim of responsibility for the Kuwait attack, and social media users uploaded graphic images of dead bodies and victims were wounded in the attacks. As many as 2,000 people were thought to be in the mosque at the time of the explosion. The attacker in France is still unknown, and ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the attack in Tunisia. Regardless, its supporters began to celebrate the three attacks on forums and social media.
June 26, 2015
Headline: ISIS dinar exchange rate is equal to $ 139
Social networking sites published pictures of a coin attributed to the ISIS where the latter has previously announced its intention to create its own currency in November of last year in order to be free from “satanic global economic system,” as it mentioned. The pictures showed the currency, which ISIS plans to use, with a design showing “a succession on a platform of prophecy,” another image showed a picture of the map of the world. The organization announced the exchange rate of its currency, saying that” 1 Golden Dinar is equal to $ 139, and it is expected that the dinar will be officially used by June 29, 2014.
June 26, 2015
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkey Rejects Allegations that ISIS Raided Kobane from its Soil
Headline: Kurds, Ankara trade accusations after Kobane massacre
Turkey on Thursday rejected as “black propaganda” claims that Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists crossed from Turkey to carry out deadly bombings and raids on the Syrian town of Kobane, AFP reports. Dozens of civilians and fighters on both sides were killed in a day of violence as ISIS launched car bomb attacks on the Turkish border crossing adjacent to Kobane and battled Kurdish fighters in the city. Turkish officials said four victims had died in Turkish hospitals while 135 injured received treatment on the Turkish side of the border. Claims circulating on the Internet suggested several cars loaded with ISIS members passed through the Mursitpinar border crossing in Turkey to make their way into Kobane. “The claim that Daesh militants passed through the Turkish border is entirely a lie and part of a black propaganda,” Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said in a message on Twitter, using an Arabic term for ISIS. The governor’s office in the border region of Sanliurfa said its information “proves” ISIS members infiltrated Kobane from Jarablus in Syria. “Turkish armed forces are monitoring our borders 24 hours as part of security measures,” it added, according to AFP. The Turkish government said video footage taken from Turkish border security units and broadcast by the state-run Anatolia news agency showed a bomb-laden car did not pass through the Turkish border crossing. Kurdish activists, however, accused Turkey on social media of assisting the IS group, with the hashtag #TerroristTurkey becoming a trending topic on Twitter. The accusations come amid growing tensions between Syrian Kurds and Turkey, the report noted.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Taliban overrun Waygal district in E Afghanistan
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have gained control over a restive district in the country’s eastern province of Nuristan, local reports say. The restive district of Waygal reportedly fell to the militants on Friday, after two days of fighting with Afghan forces. An unknown number of casualties among Afghan forces have been reported. According to local officials, government troops had no choice but to retreat from the area after they did not receive reinforcement. Reports say the Taliban have also gained control over 16 checkpoints surrounding Waygal.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Libya rivals back in Morocco for fresh peace talks
Libya’s warring factions arrived Thursday in Morocco for a fresh round of U.N.-brokered peace talks aimed at putting an end to months of fighting in the stricken North African state. The talks involving rival parliaments are expected to begin on Friday, as U.N. envoy Bernardino Leon struggles to bring the factions to agree steps aimed at forming a national unity government.The U.N. has tried for months to broker a compromise in Libya, which descended into lawlessness after the 2011 NATO-backed overthrow of veteran autocrat Muammar Qaddafi.The oil-rich nation has rival governments and parliaments, and jihadist groups and militants have seized on the chaos to make strategic gains. The Tripoli-based parliament was set up by the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) militia alliance that seized the capital last year to contest the legitimacy of the Tobruk-based internationally recognized legislature.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Protesters in Armenia remain on capital’s main avenue as standoff with government continues
Headline: Russian Officials See ‘Color Revolution’ in Armenia
Demonstrators protesting against a hike in electricity prices are dancing and singing on the Armenian capital’s main avenue, maintaining pressure on the government. Hundreds of protesters gathered on the road for a fifth straight day Friday behind a barricade of large trash containers separating them from police. Others were hiding from sweltering heat under roadside trees and umbrellas. Following Monday’s unsuccessful attempt to end the protest by force, authorities have taken a wait-and-see approach and police didn’t interfere with the protest. There was no end in sight, however, to the worst unrest the ex-Soviet nation has seen in years as the government rejected the protesters’ demand to annul the price hike. The country’s power grid is controlled by a Russian electricity giant, and Moscow watched the protest with concern.
June 26, 2015
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Somalia attack: Al-Shabab ‘kills 30’ at AU military base
At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen attacked an African Union military base in southern Somalia, witnesses say. A suicide car bomber drove into the main gates of the base in Leego, along the main road connecting the capital, Mogadishu and the city of Baidoa. The militant Islamist group al-Shabab says its fighters have taken control of the base but this is not confirmed. Al-Shabab is battling Somalia’s government for control of the country. The base is manned by Burundian soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), which has more than 20,000 troops in the country. Amisom confirmed on its Twitter account that an attack was ongoing, but has not given any details on casualties. Leego residents have seen militants burning vehicles, carrying off weapons and removing the bodies of their fighters killed in the attack, reports the BBC’s Mohamed Moalimu from Mogadishu.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Shelling by Yemeni group kills four soldiers on Saudi border
Headline: Gunmen kill Houthi chief in Sanaa
Shelling by Yemen’s Houthi militia killed four soldiers from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates stationed on Yemen’s border with the kingdom, Saudi state media reported on Thursday. The Houthis have stepped up attacks on Saudi border posts in recent weeks, despite three months of bombardment by a Saudi-led coalition intent on restoring Yemen’s government in exile. Two soldiers from the Royal Saudi Land Forces, one from the kingdom’s Border Guards, and a UAE officer were killed on Wednesday in three incidents along the border, a mostly mountainous area. The Houthis and their allies in Yemen’s army have managed to hold most of the populated western part of the country against armed groups in Aden, Taiz, Dhalea and Marib backed by coalition air strikes. But a spate of bombings in the Houthi-controlled capital continued on Thursday, as a remote controlled bomb detonated outside the state news agency according to residents, killing a Houthi fighter and wounding two others.
June 26, 2015
Economic collapseRevelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43– Decline of the Euro“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Greek talks postponed to Saturday as crisis builds
Headline: Greece must agree to bailout terms Saturday to get funds
Eurozone finance ministers will meet for the fifth time in ten days on Saturday after the latest talks aimed at sealing a Greek debt deal were hastily aborted on Thursday (25 June). It was the second false start in as many days, despite a morning of feverish negotiations between Greece and its creditors in the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters. “The institutions informed us that on a number of issues there is still a wide gap with the Greek authorities,” Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs the Eurogroup, told reporters. Greece’s creditors – the European Commission, ECB and the International Monetary Fund – will now be tasked with assessing the latest offer from Alexis Tsipras’ government which had been tabled just moments before the start of the meeting. “In the meantime, the door is still open for the Greek authorities to accept the proposals tabled by the institutions,” he added.
June 26, 2015
Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)
Headline: Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide
In a landmark opinion, a divided Supreme Court ruled Friday that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, establishing a new civil right and handing gay rights advocates a victory that until very recently would have seemed unthinkable. In a 5-4 ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority with the four liberal justices. Each of the four conservative justices wrote their own dissent. Nearly 46 years to the day after a riot at New York’s Stonewall Inn ushered in the modern gay rights movement, the decision could settle one of the major civil rights fights of this era. The language of Kennedy’s opinion spoke eloquently of the most fundamental values of family, love and liberty. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family,” Kennedy wrote. “In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.” “Their hope,” Kennedy wrote, “is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.” Kennedy has written the opinion in significant gay rights cases and when he uttered the key sentence that same-sex couples should be able to exercise the right to marry in all states, people in the Court’s public gallery broke into smiles and some wiped tears from their eyes.
June 26, 2015
Scorching SunIsaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: DroughtJeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)
Headline: California wildfires force residents from homes in two towns
Residents of two California towns were under mandatory evacuation orders on Thursday as a burgeoning wildfire swept through drought-parched mountains, officials said. The fire in the mountains of San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles was among scores of wildfires raging along the U.S. West Coast, from Alaska through California, in areas hit by drought and suffering record-low snowpack. In Idaho, officials issued a health advisory tied to extreme heat, as weather forecasters predicted record-breaking highs. The northern end of the Sacramento Valley in California was also unusually hot with 111 Fahrenheit (43.9 Celsius) reported in Redding. In Southern California, firefighters were losing ground to the long-burning San Bernardino County blaze. It swelled to 23,199 acres (9,388 hectares) in the face of gusting winds, according to fire-tracking website InciWeb, which pulls information from multiple agencies. The blaze, now nine days old, prompted evacuation orders late on Wednesday for the towns of Burns Canyon and Rimrock and a voluntary evacuation for Pioneertown as containment dropped to 21 percent. The fire had been about one-third contained the day before. In Los Angeles County, roughly 1,000 residents in Santa Clarita were ordered from their homes late on Wednesday as a hard-charging fire spread across some 350 acres (140 hectares) in a matter of hours, the county fire department said. Those evacuation orders were lifted on Wednesday night and the fire was about 60 percent contained by Thursday morning, the department said. In southern Oregon, firefighters had contained 60 percent of a 5,341-acre (2,161-hectare) fire in Cave Junction that has closed forest lands but not damaged property. Another 21 fires in Alaska ignited overnight, making a total of nearly 300 active blazes, according to the state’s Division of Forestry.
June 25, 2015
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Gigantic Black Hole Wakes Up After 26-Year Sleep
A supermassive black hole that was dormant for 26 years has once again begun devouring material from other the star in its binary system, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). V404 Cygni, a system in the Milky Way galaxy comprised of a black hole and a star orbiting each other, has again started emitting X-rays and gamma rays after a 26-year sleep, ESA reported. Erik Kuulkers, a project scientist at ESA, explained that “the behavior of this source is extraordinary at the moment, with repeated bright flashes of light on time scales shorter than an hour, something rarely seen in other black hole systems.” “In these moments, it becomes the brightest object in the X-ray sky — up to fifty times brighter than the Crab Nebula, normally one of the brightest sources in the high-energy sky,” he said. The V404 Cygni system is located almost 8,000 light years away in the Cygnus (Swan) constellation of the Milky Way. The black hole’s sudden awakening activity was first spotted by the Burst Alert Telescope on board NASA’s Swift satellite on June 15. The gamma ray burst from the black hole was automatically detected by Swift’s X-ray optics, something that was also tracked by MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image), a sensor on the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station.
June 26, 2015
Headline: Indonesian volcano spews towering gas cloud
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung spewed searing ash and gas 4 kilometres into the sky Thursday, officials said, as the number of people displaced by the latest round of eruptions exceeded 10,000. “There were two strong eruptions today and the ash travelled far to the east,” said Subur Tambun, chief of the disaster management agency in Karo district in North Sumatra province, where the volcano is located. The volcano erupted 11 times on Wednesday, sending ash to the provincial capital Medan. There have been no fatalities since the volcano began its latest period of activity early this month, he said. Indonesian President Joko Widodo this week arranged 6 billion rupiah (US$450,000, RM1.6 million ) to help local authorities cope with the displaced. The National Disaster Management Agency said more than 10,000 had fled their homes and more than 6,000 of them have to be relocated for good because they live too close to the volcano. The relocation is estimated to cost around 600 billion rupiah, said agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
June 25, 2015
Luke 21:11 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and Pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” 
TOKYO: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property. The quake hit at 2.10pm (0510 GMT) with its epicentre off the eastern coast of Hokkaido, about 1,300km north-east of Tokyo, at a depth of 20 kilometres, the agency said. http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1482590
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