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ANOTHER STALIN RIDES AGAIN!

MAGOGITES ADDICTED TO NEW LEADER!

November 22, 2007

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A leader has arisen in the land of Magog, who is setting the stage for the modern descendants of

Magog living in Russia, to eventually fulfill the role of the land of Magog in Ezekiel 38. According to the writings of Josephus, the famous Jew who wrote history for the Romans, the quote from Antiquites of the Jews, Book I, Chapter 6, Paragraph 1, has the following to say about Magog’s descendants – “Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites, but who are by the Greeks called Scythians.” At the time of Ezekiel’s writings the land of Magog was centered in Russia with tentacles that stretched across

the northern part of the Black Sea eastward to extreme western China.

This is the area from which the Assyrian Antichrist of Micah 5 will request assistance to finally eliminate Israel at the last battle of Armageddon, after she has been confined to the Negev Wilderness for more than three years.

For a description of the land of Magog attack against Israel see Archive Prophecy Updates 27 and 28 under “Prophecy Update” on our Web Site Menu.

For a description of Gog, the Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal, the Assyrian Antichrist, see Archive Whole Number Prophecy Updates 62 to 69 under “Prophecy Update” on our Web Site Menu.

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Putin attacks ‘jackal’ opponents

BBC NEWS

November 21, 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused opposition politicians of scavenging like jackals for funds from foreign embassies.

He also accused the West of meddling in Russian politics, saying: “Those who confront us need a weak and ill state.”

Mr Putin was addressing a crowd that carried banners praising him and urging him to continue leading Russia.

Though he quits the presidency next year, Mr Putin has indicated he will stay in politics – possibly as PM.

He has said he will head the list for the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in December’s parliamentary polls, though he is not a party member and will

not be obliged to take a seat in parliament.

His party has widespread support and is expected to win a huge majority.

Opposition and human rights groups have, however, accused Mr Putin of resurrecting Soviet-era practices to build an authoritarian, one-party state.

‘Dirty tricks’

Thousands of Mr Putin’s supporters p acked

a sports stadium on Wednesday to hear him speak.

Their banners praised the president and demanded Russia continue following his policies, while the venue’s loudspeakers played patriotic songs from the Soviet era.

Mr Putin attacked Russia’s opposition politicians, saying they were effectively

the agents of foreign governments.

“Unfortunately there are still those people in our country who act like jackals at foreign embassies… who count on the support of foreign funds and governments but not the support of their own people,” he said.

In an apparent reference to popular pro-Western movements in Ukraine and Georgia, he added: “They want to go out into the streets, they’ve learnt from Western specialists. They’ve trained in neighbouring republics.”

Mr Putin said the opposition wanted to create a “disoriented, divided” Russia that would be vulnerable to “dirty tricks”.

‘Total renewal’

“In the months to come we will have a total renewal of the top leadership of the state,” he said.

He also criticised those who had governed Russia during the 1990s, and who he said were now seeking to return to power to “restore an oligarchic regime, based on corruption and lies”.

Their names could be found among candidates and sponsors of some parties and “they will again cheat everyone” if they come to power, he said.

An audience member interviewed by the AFP news agency said: “It’s painful to imagine life without Putin.”

“We fear that without him it will be chaos,” Kristina Rastvorova, a member of a pro-Putin youth movement said.

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Attempting to Divide Jerusalem will bring Judgment!

Attempting to Divide God’s Jerusalem with the Palestinian Canaanites Will Precede His Judgment in a War of Some Three and one-half years, Ending in the Final Battle of Armageddon, Followed by the Reign of Israel’s Messiah.

November 21, 2007

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God gave Israel and her City of Worship Jerusalem to the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, the man God renamed Israel. To divide Jerusalem with Canaanites from Ham who mingled with the seed of Ishmael is to have so little regard for God’s inheritance, it compares with Esau’s act of indifference to his birthright by selling it to Israel, his brother, for a bowl of red pottage, because he was faint.

A terrible war looms in Israel’s future, but it will be followed by the full restoration of Israel as the apple of God’s eye in His Holy Temple City of Jerusalem, when “there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.”

Zechariah 14:21 – Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

Please read the two articles which follow from the Jerusalem Post and the Scriptures with follow it.

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E. Jerusalem development plan unveiled

Etgar Lefkovits, THE Jerusalem Post

November 21, 2007

As the government talks about dividing Jerusalem, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski on Wednesday proposed a NIS 200 million ‘Marshall Plan’ for east Jerusalem, in an eleventh-hour attempt to improve the infrastructure and living conditions in east Jerusalem in order to keep the city united.

The building and development proposal, which is pending municipal and state approval, comes as the government is openly discussing the possibility of ceding Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem as part of a future peace treaty with the Palestinians, and less than one year before mayoral elections.

“While many are busy talking about Jerusalem, we act,” Lupolianski said at a city hall press

conference announcing the major development plan. “Our goal is to set facts,” he said in rare, albeit brief, remarks in English geared for the international press.

Despite massive city development projects initiated in east Jerusalem during the tenure of former Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert, the long-neglected predominantly Arab half of the city still lags far behind the rest of Jerusalem in terms of infrastructure, roads, garbage collection, housing, and green areas, following four decades of uncertainty over the political future of east Jerusalem.

Lupolianski said that in order to maintain Jerusalem as a united city under Israeli sovereignty, it was incumbent upon Israel to bridge the gaps in the conditions between the Jewish and the city’s Arab sections.

“The city will be united when we remove the gaps that exist between west and east Jerusalem,” Lupolianski said.

The proposal, which is part of the city master plan, would see the construction of housing, schools, gardens public buildings and hotels throughout east Jerusalem, in coordination with the government.

Seventy-three percent of east Jerusalem residents are Arab Muslims, while 19% are Christian, and 9% are Jewish, according to city statistics.

In all, Arabs make up one-third of the city’s 750,000 residents.

The proposal was discounted by Jerusalem opposition leader Nir Barkat as a “media spin” ahead of next year’s mayoral elections and amid the continuing departure of Israelis residents of the city seeking better quality of life elsewhere.

“I am amazed that Lupolianski remembers just before the elections to strengthen [Israel’s] sovereignty in all parts of Jerusalem, after 4.5 years in which he neglected east Jerusalem and its holy sites,” Barkat said in a written response.

“All that is left to be seen is if this is another gimmick bereft of content from the ensemble of city gimmicks which never received funding for development and fruition, or for the first time this a real concrete plan which will strengthen Jerusalem,” he said.
Barkat, who has launched a public campaign to keep Jerusalem united under Israeli sovereignty in what was widely seen as an effort to court hawkish voters in the city, added that it was never too late to strengthen Jerusalem, the timing of the move notwithstanding.

Palestinians claim all of east Jerusalem – including the city’s holy sites – as the capital of their future state.

The Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Adnan Husseini on Wednesday called the mayor’s announcement “ridiculous nonsense” and pure electioneering.

“This is the first time we hear that the mayor is planning to do something for east Jerusalem,” Husseini said.

“The people are intelligent enough to understand what is going on,” he added.

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I lived through this era of Israel’s return to her God given land the next article describes, and I very much appreciate what Eliezer Whartman has written concerning Israel and the Holy City of God. Please take the time to read the Scriptures I chose to follow it.

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A letter to the world from Jerusalem

Eliezer Whartman, THE JERUSALEM POST

November 20, 2007

The following op-ed was adapted from one first written for the ‘Times of Israel,’ a fledgling weekly established shortly after the Six Day War. After the war, the Israeli government announced preparations to return all the captured territories except for Jerusalem, in exchange for peace.

The response came at the Khartoum Arab Summit Conference that year, at which it was announced that there would be no negotiations and no recognition of Israel.

Israel came under tremendous international pressure to re-divide Jerusalem, which caused the author to sit down in a “white heat of anger” and write this piece.

I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe. I am a Jerusalemite – like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.

I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you, or even persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city; you do not live in it; you did not defend it when they came to destroy it. And we will be damned if we will let you take it away.

There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin, Moscow, London and Paris were forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves – a humane moral code.

Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning.

Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning Temple rather than surrender; and when finally overwhelmed by sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their right arms wither.

For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned the Almighty: “Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us upright to our land; return in mercy to Jerusalem, Thy city, and dwell in it as Thou promised.”

On every Yom Kippur and Pessah we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem. Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the Holocaust (and worse, your terrifying disinterest in it) – all these have not broken us.

They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed, but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now, after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after Auschwitz we are frightened of your threats and blockades and sanctions? We have been to hell and back – a hell of your making.

What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?

I HAVE watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I saw women and children blown to smithereens, this after we had agreed to your request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination that did the job: British officers, Arab gunners and American-made cannons.

And then the savage sacking of the Old City; the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school; the desecration of Jewish cemeteries; the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps – even latrines.

And you never said a word. You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shut off the holiest of our holy places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges they had made after the war – a war they waged, incidentally, against a decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the legionares in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our citizens from behind the walls.

Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your airlift “to save the gallant Berliners.” But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem. You thundered against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the German capital – but not one peep out of you about the other wall, the one that tore through the heart of Jerusalem.

And when the same thing happened 19 years later, and the Arabs unleashed a savage unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again, did any of you do anything? The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of “justice” and the need for the “Christian” quality of turning the other cheek.

The truth is – and you know it deep inside your gut – some would prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the old-age prejudices seep out of every word.
If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you had better re-examine your catechisms.

For the first time since the year 70 there is now complete religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans put the torch to the Temple everyone has equal rights. (You preferred to have some more equal than others). We loathe the sword – but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace – but we are not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to.

We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We have redeemed the pledge made by our forefathers; Jerusalem is being rebuilt. “Next year” – and the year after, and after, and after until the end of time – in Jerusalem!

In memory of my son Moshe who fell in a clash with terrorists in 1975 in Lebanon.

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The following Scriptures describe the future events that will transpire in Israel and her Holy City of Jerusalem.

Zechariah 14:1-3 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people

shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name

one.

Zechariah 14:16 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Isaiah 2:1-5 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

[2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. [3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [5] O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Isaiah 62:1-12 – For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. [2] And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. [3] Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand

of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. [4] Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. [5] For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice

over thee. [6] I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, [7] And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. [8] The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: [9] But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. [10] Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out the stones; lift up a st

andard for the people. [11] Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. [12] And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

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2008 – Year of Stalled US Economy

Dollar will Hit Bottom, then go through Up and Down Cycles in 2008 to stall US Economy and generate uncertainty in World Markets.

November 21, 2007

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Although I do not believe the US Economy will reach the grim scenario pictured in ARTICLE 2, I do expect it to stall. The dollar’s world status as the currency by which all others are rated, will be under attack from an increasing number of nations.

ARTICLE 1

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Dollar slides to record low after Fed forecast Published:

21st November 2007

NEW YORK: The dollar slid to a record low versus the euro yesterday after the Federal Reserve said a housing slump, tighter credit conditions and high oil prices would likely slow US economic growth next year.

The forecast was released along with minutes from the Fed’s policy meeting last month, which revealed officials’ decision to cut rates was a close call following a debate on whether

to await more evidence that a housing slump was curbing growth.

The Fed’s forecast for US. growth to slow next year to between 1.8 per cent and 2.5pc, sharply down from the 2.5 to 2.75pc forecast in June, suggested to some investors that the Fed will have to cut benchmark lending rates again in December or earlier to prevent the economy from stalling further.

“Whether it happens tonight or at the next meeting, the Fed looks set to cut rates,” said Michael Malpede, a senior currency strategist, at Man Global Research in Chicago.

“I think that means the euro is probably headed to $1.50 by year end.”

The euro extended gains, pushing to a record $1.4819, according to Reuters data. The euro was on track for its biggest one-day gain versus the greenback in a year.

The dollar erased earlier gains versus the Japanese currency and last traded down 0.1pc at 109.68.

The Fed’s next policy meeting is on December 11.

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The great depression of 2008 – the mother of all depressions

Article by Pascal Molliere

Saturday 17th November 2007, 01:46

2008 is set to be the darkest ever year in financial history according to Goldman Sachs – a new report claims.

The Times reports that the credit crunch is so serious that it may force the US banking system to cut lending by as much as $4,000 billion, prompting a “substantial recession” in the US.

As much as $400 billion could be wiped out from the US banking system prompting fears that the knock-on effect could spell an economic catastrophe on both sides of the Atlantic.

The mass of defaults on high-risk home loans in America has emerged in greater detail over the last 3-4 months but more and more banks and lending institutions are having to own up to the full extent of their losses as the financial world is being rocked to it’s core with the sheer scale of the financial melt-down.

Mr Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs estimates that with every $1 dollar in losses, equates to the inability of highly leveraged Wall Street lending by $10, as they typically aim for a so-called capital ratio of 10 per cent.

“If leveraged investors see $200 billion of the $400 billion aggregate credit loss, they might need to scale back their lending by $2 trillion,” Mr Hatzius said.

Mr Hatzius’s actual prediction of a $400 billion write-off would reduce lending by $4,000 billion.

“The likely mortgage credit losses pose a significantly bigger macroeconomic risk than generally recognised.

It is easy to see how such a shock could produce a substantial recession,” Mr Hatzius said.

“While the uncertainty is huge, the associated downward pressure on lending raises the risk of significant weakness in economic activity.”

Goldman’s forecast predicts further disastrous consequences for global economy, sighting numerous factors such as the cost of the war in Iraq, record oil prices, sub-prime defaults and growing unemployment.

“The potential for an economic implosion and subsequent world recession is huge and could surpass the biggest financial crash in history of that of the Great Depression”.

Billions were wiped off the world financial system in the 1920’s / 30’s. This period was known as ‘The Great Depression’ (also known in the U.K. as the Great Slump). This was the most dramatic of worldwide economic downturns in history.

It all started with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday.

The depression had devastating effects in both the industrialised countries and those which exported raw materials.

With similar beginnings to the current crisis, the Great Depression was not a sudden total collapse but more of a slow burning fuse that sparked a sequence of major financial catastrophes across the US and subsequently around the globe.

The stock market had suffered losses due to the October 1929 crash – not too dissimilar to the Northern Rock and the Sub-Prime mortgage crisis of today.

Having faced severe losses from the initial crash, consumerism plunged dramatically and a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the USA beginning in the summer of 1930.

Credit was ample and available to sub-prime borrowers at low rates and few were reluctant to avoid borrowing. By May 1930, vehicle sales had declined

to below the levels of 1928.

Oil prices had risen sharply while retail values in general began to decline.

Wages began to drop in 1931. Conditions were worst in farming areas where commodity prices plunged, and in mining and logging areas where unemployment was high and there were few other jobs. The decline in the American economy was the motor that pulled down most other countries at first, then internal weaknesses or strengths in each country made conditions worse or better. By late in 1930, a steady decline set in which reached bottom by March 1933.

Many experts and scholars believe that it was the fault of governments and the banking institutions who were to blame for the great depression. It was said that the problems began with excessive lending and a blatant disregard for cheap loans.

Massive bank failures were largely to blame for the great depression and the stock market crash of the 1930’s, huge layoffs occurred, resulting in unemployment rates of over 25%. Banks which had financed a lot of bad debt began to fail as debtors defaulted on debt and bank depositors became worried about their deposits and began massive withdrawals.

Government guarantees and Federal Reserve banking regulations to prevent these types of panics were ineffective or not used. Bank failures led to the evaporation of billions of dollars in assets. Up to 40% of the available money supply normally used for purchases and bank payments was destroyed by all these bank failures.

By 1933, depositors saw $140 billion of their deposits disappear due to uninsured bank failures. Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers tried calling in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay. With future profits looking poor, capital investment and construction slowed or completely ceased. In the face of bad loans and worsening future prospects, the surviving banks became even more conservative in their lending. Banks built up their capital reserves, which intensified deflationary pressures.

The vicious cycle developed and the downward spiral accelerated.

This kind of self-aggravating process may have turned a 1930 recession into a 1933 great depression.

There are frightening similarities in the current situation in the US and in Britain. Once again, a banking crisis is threatening to undermine a global economy.

Banks are too late in tightening the credit purse strings. There will be no more easy money, on the contrary, there will be very little money at all – and even the regular credit cards, bank overdrafts and small loans will be harder to get hold of as there simply is no money to lend out.

In addition to making it much harder to secure a mortgage or loan, such a dramatic decline in lending would hamper the ability of consumers to borrow money to finance smaller purchases such as cars, televisions and washing machines.

Since two-thirds of the US economy is driven by consumer spending, this will hit retailers and other companies particularly hard. Businesses will also be deterred from borrowing money to invest and will

be less able to stave off looming redundancies, putting further pressure on the US economy.

Goldman’s prediction comes after Wall Street firms such as Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley have collectively reported more than $50 billion in losses on investments related to sub-prime mortgages.

It follows the US Federal Reserve’s second cash infusion of the month on Thursday, when it injected $47.25 billion into the financial system, the largest since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 .

The latest injection was administered two weeks after the Fed injected $41 billion, as the fallout from the housing crisis gathered momentum.

There is no end in sight and with other countries economies clearly suffering in tandem with the US, there is growing fear that this could be the mother of all recessions.

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U.S. Headed for Possible Oil Dollar Bankruptcy in 2008 and Magogites Headed for Future Destruction at Armageddon after Israelites spend Three and One-Half Years in the Negev.

November 20, 2007

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I warned in no uncertain terms in my first published book, “Tectonic Chaos,” more than thirty years ago, that Middle East oil profits would cause the dollar to be replaced as the base for currency price evaluation. I stated: “Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance, and soon Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth.”

The full paragraph quote from my middle seventies book is carried in the following blog we issued on September 24, 2007.

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Russia’s Putin heads to Iran to Placate the Golden Goose!

September 24, 2007

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I retired from the USAF Branch of the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade in 1971, and began work on my first book, “Tectonic Chaos,” in the early seventies while still a student at the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas. I am certainly not one of the “Johnnie Come Lately” boys in bringing the Antichrist out of the Middle East Arab World.” I have believed he would come out of Syria or Lebanon from my youth. The following is a quote from my first book, which was published in the mid-seventies, more than thirty years ago.

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“Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will soon form the nucleus of the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the kings who will rule then. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a rather comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance, and soon Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – And the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. The world power block will block itself while the Arab nations prosper in their midst.”

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I watched the above scenario begin in the late sixties while still in the NSA, and knew it would continue until the ten Arab nations attacked Israel, which would be followed some three and one-half years later by China, and what was then the Soviet Union, coming down to join the Antichrist at the final battle of Armageddon.

I wrote my second book, “Tribulation Triad,” through encouragement by Dr.

J.B. Powers, to whom I dedicated my third book, “Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit,” which was published in the early eighties.

Sure enough, the Golden Goose Middle East Arab countries have been protected from a take-over of their Golden Egg resources by the United States, Russia, and China not daring to take over the Golden Egg laying resources. They feared what the other two would do, if one attempted to do so. But Russia has indeed been on a Golden Egg Easter hunt since the Soviet Union economy went to ground zero as the Union splintered into many countries. Russia rushed into the Middle East to offer all sorts of high tech military weapons, scientists, and builders to get the golden eggs, which they desperately needed to build up a non-existent Russian economy – and Iraq and Iran made it happen. North Korea and China did the same, but not on the same grand scale as Russia.

There are several reasons that Putin, as indicated in the article which follows from the DEBKAfiles, is heading for an October 16 meeting in Iran, but the main reason is to exercise damage control on the complete failure of the supposedly invincible Russian aircraft & missile detection & destruction system that was pawned off on Iran and Syria for a large number

of golden oil revenue eggs. He wants more golden eggs from the Arab oil producing revenues.

The very strong ties between Russia, China, and North Korean with the fanatical factions of the Islamic nations of the Middle East world, will be made very plain at the final battle of Armageddon, when they all come down to get a piece of the possum oil pie.

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Putin Turns His Face to Tehran, His Back to Bush and Sarkozy

September 23, 2007, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

Iran’s suspect nuclear program is further polarizing the big powers.

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Gog and Magog in the Koran Prophecies

Since we, as a nation, have become so politically and economically pushed onto the world stage in an entanglement with the culture of Islam, what they think of us, and how they see our prophetic future in the Koran, is worth considering. What the Old Testament Bible teaches, concerning our prophetic future with Gog and Magog, is vividly outlined above in our Prophecy Update Archives in Numbers 27 and 28. The Koran shows a different picture in the following direct quote:

The Prophets 21:92-97 – Your religion is but one religion, and I am your only Lord. Therefore serve only me. Men have divided themselves into schisms, but to Us they shall all return. He that does good works in the fullness of his faith, his endeavors shall not be lost: We record them all. It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again. But when Gog and Magog are let loose and rush headlong down every hill; when the true promise nears its fulfillment; the unbelievers shall stare in amazement crying: ‘Woe to us!

Of this we have been heedless. We have done wrong.’

According to the prophecies in the Koran, as shown above, the forces of Gog and Magog are victorious over Israel, but the Old Testament says just the opposite. The Magogites (from the land we now call Russia), will not come down against Israel until the final battle of Armageddon.

Some three and one-half years before the Magogites come down, Gog, the Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal (The Assyrian of Micah 5) will have driven south out of Syria and Lebanon to push Israel into the Negev Wilderness. At the end of Israel’s three and one-half years stay in the Negev, Gog will invite China and Russia to come down and help him to utterly destroy the Israelites forever. All of the armies coming against Israel at this final battle

of Armageddon will be destroyed by the power of God.

What happens, according to the Jewish Old Testament, when “Gog and Magog are let loose and rush down every hill” is graphically covered in Prophecy Updates 29 to 36 in our Archives.

Ezekiel 38:1-6 – And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [4] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: [5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

Before they do let loose and run southward down the hills, eventually to come up on Israel, the land of unwalled villages, they will devise an evil plan to lull it into a false sense of security.

The Palestinians should be “walled-in” by 2010, but the Israelis will be outside the Security Wall in “unwalled” villages and cities.

Ezekiel 38:8-11 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. [10] Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Ezekiel 38:14-16 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: [16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

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Putin: Russia will respond to NATO “muscle-flexing” near borders

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

November 20, 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in a key arms control treaty was a necessary response to NATO “muscle-flexing” near its frontiers.

The statement, which came amid simmering tensions between Moscow and the West, reflects the Kremlin’s assertive posture less than two weeks before Russia’s Dece

mber 2 parliamentary elections.

“In violation of previous agreements, military resources of NATO members are being built up next to our borders. Of course, we cannot allow ourselves to remain indifferent to this obvious muscle-flexing,” Putin said in televised remarks at a meeting of top military

officials.

Russia has fiercely opposed US plans to establish missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, and the deployment of US and other NATO forces on the territory of former Soviet republics and satellite states in Europe.

Putin said that the suspension of Russia’s obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, a key pact limiting the deployment of tanks, aircraft and other heavy conventional weapons across the continent, was part of Russia’s response.

Both houses of the Russian parliament have endorsed Putin’s call for the suspension. Putin justified the decision, which is slated to take effect Dec. 12, by pointing to NATO nations’ own failure to ratify an amended version of the treaty.

“We won’t observe any obligations unilaterally,” Putin said. “Our partners haven’t ratified the amended version of the treaty, and some haven’t even signed it. Shall we do it unilaterally for years?”

He said Russia would consider resuming its obligations under the treaty only after Western nations ratify it.

The 1990 CFE treaty, which originally set limits on weapons of NATO and Warsaw Pact countries, was revised in 1999. Russia says the old version has lost relevance since former Soviet satellites have joined NATO.

Russia ratified the updated treaty in 2004, but the United States and other NATO members have refused to follow suit, saying Moscow first must fulfill obligations to withdraw forces from Georgia and from Moldova’s separatist Trans-Dniester region.

As a counterproposal to the US missile defense plans, Putin earlier this year offered the United States joint use of a Soviet-built, Russian-operated radar in Azerbaijan. Washington said it was studying the proposal, but US officials said the radar couldn’t be considered as a replacement for the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.

“Regrettably, Russian proposals about the creation of a joint missile defense system with equal access for all its participants have remained unanswered,” Putin said Tuesday.

Putin also warned that Russia also would increase the combat-readiness of its strategic nuclear forces to ensure a “swift and adequate response to any aggressor.”

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Annapolis Conference labeled as Failure before It Starts!

November 20, 2007

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

The Annapolis Peace Conference was called as a face saving attempt to justify a long string of efforts to create two states alongside each other in the old British Protectorate, now called Israel by the Jews, and Palestine by the Arabs. In Hollywood and TV series, the “Mission Impossible” flicks always have the male or female champion accomplish what is seen as “impossible,” but the real life scenario in Israel is truly an unsolvable problem. True peace cannot exist until the Second Advent of Israel’s Messiah occurs at the final battle of Armageddon.

The very best one could hope to see come out of the Annapolis Farce is a false peace somewhere on down the line involving a return to the United States old Road Map Peace Plan, as well as a return to peace talks later between Israel and Syria on the return of the Golan Heights

to Syria.

The first article from the Jerusalem Post involves the latest reports of Syrian involvement in it, and their version of what should come out of it. The other four articles describe the hopelessness of its inability to produce a true peace.

The US has forced Israel to release more Palestinian prisoners, to which the IDF and right wing Knesset members are objecting, and last minute compromises are being used to induce more nations to participate in the soon coming conference of smoke and mirrors. All this rates as a return to the days of the Keystone Cops silent films.

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Analysis: Syria becomes the Annapolis prize

Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST

November 20, 2007

Ostensibly, the Annapolis conference is about Israel, the Palestinians and efforts to bring about peace between them.

But Annapolis is about much more than just that. From the very beginning, Annapolis has also been about a key US interest: forming a coalition of “moderate” Sunni states to serve as a bulwark against rampaging Shi’ite extremism after the US leaves Iraq, or if Washington decides to move into Iran.

And in recent days the Annapolis conference has also turned into a meeting that is to a large degree about Syria.

Regarding the formation of a moderate Sunni coalition, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is betting that showing progress on the Israeli-Palestinian track will go a long way toward cementing together a moderate coalition willing to stand up to Iran and Shi’ite extremism.

Therefore, despite all the problems in pulling the meeting off, despite the failure up to this point to get Israel and the Palestinians to agree to a joint statement, despite a realization in Washington that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does not have the ability to carry out an agreement and that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may not be able to carry it off politically, the US is dead set on going ahead with the meeting.

The reason: US President George W.

Bush announced in July that such a meeting will be held in the fall, and – as a result – such a meeting will be held in the fall, ready or not.

Bush cannot afford to be seen now as someone who cannot even succeed in bringing two parties heavily dependent on the US to a US-sponsored meeting. That would be a huge slap in the face, and another sign of US weakness

in the region.

And this is where Syria comes in. While there is no love lost in Washington for Syrian President Bashar Assad, Syria’s presence at the meeting is something that in a matter of months has gone from something that the US indicated it would tolerate, to something that the US now wants badly.

And not only the US. Jordan’s King Abdullah II made a rare trip to Damascus Sunday

to try and get Assad on board.

As odd as it may sound, Syria is the prize.

The US wants to see Syria at Annapolis because its presence there will be proof that it may very well be possible to peel Syria out of Iran’s orbit and into the warm embrace of the “normative” Arab world. Iran, obviously, is pulling Syria in the other direction.

Washington is so keen on seeing some kind of Syrian presence at Annapolis that it has apparently given assurances that “Syrian issues” will be addressed there in some fashion.

And Syrian issues in this context means only one thing: the Golan Heights. Syria has made it clear that it would not show up in Maryland unless the Golan was on the agenda.

It is clear that Assad will not be sending a representative to Annapolis to grant legitimacy to a bilateral Israeli-Palestinian process

that is meant to end up with an agreement between Israel and the Fatah-led PA. Keep in mind that Damascus houses and fully supports Hamas, which is ideologically opposed to any such process.

Rather, Assad has a price for his attendance and

for moving away from Iran, a price that – sooner or later – Israel will be asked to pay.

Jerusalem Center for Public Information – Daily Alert – Excerpt 2

Begin Baltimore Sun Article

Hopes Fall for Mideast Peace Talks

David Wood and David Nitkin

November 16, 2007

With a proposed Mideast peace conference in Annapolis only weeks away, the lofty goals outlined by President Bush seem to be fading beyond reach, with the meeting likely to be scaled back to a single day, according to senior U.S. officials and outside analysts.

The conference, originally expected to be set for late November, might not be held until mid-December, a State Department official hinted Wednesday. Bush’s spokeswoman called preparations for the conference “tenuous right now.” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack would not confirm that the conference will take place in November. “Look for something before winter – which means Dec. 21,” he told reporters.

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Three Excerpt Reasons Why No TRUE Peace is Attainable!

The three excerpts, which follow, came from the Jerusalem Center for Public Information – Daily Alert. They were first issued by Haaretz, the New York Sun, and the Jerusalem Media Communications Center. They give just a few of the reasons that a true peace between Israel and Islam is not attainable.

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Chief PLO Negotiator: Palestinians Will Not Accept Israel as “Jewish State”

Barak Ravid

November 13,2007

Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization, rejected on Monday Israel’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Olmert said, “We won’t have an argument with anyone in the world over the fact that Israel is a state of the Jewish people.

Whoever does not accept this cannot hold any negotiations with me,” Olmert said. “This will be a condition for our recognition of a Palestinian state.” (Ha’aretz)

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What Most Palestinians Believe

Rick Richman

November 13, 2007

In a joint Palestinian-Israeli public opinion poll in June, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace found that only 60% of Palestinians agreed that, after reaching a permanent agreement on all issues of the conflict, there should be recognition of Israel as the state for the Jewish people.

In other words, about 40% opposed the recognition of a Jewish state – even after a resolution of “all issues of the conflict.” (New York Sun)

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November 13, 2007

Palestinian Poll: Most Support Right of Return to Israel, Want Jerusalem as Muslim Capital

According to a Palestinian poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center on Nov.

3-6, 67% favor the return of all Palestinian refugees to their original homes and not just to a Palestinian state.

53% see the best solution for Jerusalem as being a capital of the Muslims. (JMCC)

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