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White Robed Believers

Great Tribulation Chaos

Sword, Hunger, and Death

Is Preparing to come on Man

Mankind is not prepared for It

Fourth Part of Earth to Know It

But Martyrs Go up to be Out of It

To join Souls in Heaven Awaiting It

April 28, 2008

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One of the terrible things associated with the great tribulation period,

preparing to eventually come on the earth in full force, is the dreaded third rider of the black horse of famine, who brings great hunger to the earth. I first began to warn of this future event in the seventies, a time of financial prosperity and full stomachs for most of mankind, but the Scriptures indicated mankind was headed for a time when no matter how much money you had to place on one side of the scale to pay for food, it would not be enough, because there simply would not be enough to feed an ever increasing population.

Revelation 6:5,6 – And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

We are now slowly entering a time when there will not be the very great prosperity and full stomachs of the final forty years of the last century, but rather ever declining prosperity and empty stomachs. We earn more money per unit time than at any time in history, but the interest rates and high taxes make it seem as if we have pockets with holes in them, and the money disappears as fast as we put it in them. It requires more and more to pay for the identical weight of food on the other side of the balance than it did the month before. As in the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, Zerubbabel (the governor of Judea), and the two post exile prophets Zechariah and Haggai, our labor will reach the point when it can no longer feed and clothe us.

Haggai 1:5-7 – Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. [6] Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. [7] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

A Great Tribulation Is Coming On Earth As Martyrs Wait In Heaven!

Once it begins many martyrs, their fellow servants, will be martyred on the earth in the great tribulation period.

Revelation 6:8-12 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. [9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: [10] And they cried with a loud voice, s

aying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] AND WHITE ROBES were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. [12] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

This group in Chapter Six represents the martyrs of all the ages “that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony they held.” There are countless numbers of men and women who have been martyred for this from the cross until now, particularly in the dark ages, and a vast number will be martyred for the same thing during the great tribulation period, perhaps more than in the dark ages. They represent the fellow servants who will “be killed as they were” in the great tribulation period that is about to come on the earth. We find the fellow servants of verse 11 in heaven in Chapter Seven, after they have suffered their martyr’s deaths during the great tribulation period. They also have received the white martyr’s robes like those received by the martyrs in Chapter Six.

The fellow servants in Revelation 6:11 are martyred in the beginning of the great tribulation period in Revelation 6:12, and we find them joined in with the martyrs of all the ages in Revelation 7:9, which is a countless number of martyred saints with white robes.

Revelation 7:9-14 – After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which NO MAN COULD NUMBER, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, and palms in their hands; [10] And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. [11] And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, [12] Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. [13] And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? [14] And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Their souls will be martyred to heaven as they physically die for their testimony up to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, at which time all the remaining saved will be caught out before the seven vials of God’s wrath are poured on the earth.

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International Herald Tribune

Dying waves of grain

By Norman E. Borlaug

Sunday, April 27, 2008

DALLAS:

With food prices rising drastically throughout most of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and shortages threatening hunger and political chaos, the time could not be worse for an epidemic of stem rust in the world’s wheat crops. Yet millions of wheat farmers, small-scale and large, face this spreading and deadly crop infection.

The looming catastrophe can be avoided if the world’s wheat scientists pull together to develop a new generation of stem-rust-resistant varieties of wheat.

But scientists must quickly turn their attention to replacing almost all of the commercial wheat grown in the world today. This will require a commitment from many nations, especially the United States, which has lately neglected its role as a leader in agricultural science.

Stem rust, the most feared of all wheat diseases, is capable

of turning a healthy crop of wheat into a tangled mass of stems that produce little or no grain.

The fungus spores travel in the wind, causing the infection to spread quickly across national borders.

It has caused major famines since the beginning of history. In North America, massive grain losses occurred in 1903 and 1905 and from 1950 to ’54.

During the 1950s, I and other scientists, first in North America and later throughout the world, developed high-yielding wheat varieties that were resistant to stem rust and other diseases.

These improved seeds not only enabled farmers around the world to hold stem rust at bay for more than 50 years but also allowed for greater and more dependable yields.

Indeed, with this work, global food supplies rapidly increased and prices dropped.

From 1965 to 1985, the heyday of the Green Revolution, world production of cereal grains (wheat, rice, corn, barley and sorghum) nearly doubled, from 1 to 1.8 billion metric tons, and cereal prices dropped by 40 percent.

Today, wheat provides about 20 percent of the food calories for the world’s people. The world wheat harvest now stands at about 600 million metric tons.

In the last decade, global wheat production has not kept pace with rising population, or the increasing per capita demand for wheat products in many newly industrializing countries.

At the same time, international support for wheat research

has declined significantly. And as a consequence, in 2007-08, world wheat stocks (as a percentage of demand) dropped to their lowest level since 1947-48. And prices have steadily climbed to the highest level in 25 years.

The new strains of stem rust, called Ug99 because they were discovered in Uganda in 1999, are much more dangerous than those that, 50 years ago, destroyed as much as 20 percent of the American wheat crop. Today’s lush, high-yielding wheat fields on vast irrigated tracts are ideal environments for the fungus to multiply, so the potential for crop loss is greater than ever.

If publicly funded international researchers move together aggressively and systematically, high-yielding replacement wheat varieties can be developed and made available to farmers before stem rust disease becomes a global epidemic.

The Bush administration was initially quick to grasp Ug99’s threat to American wheat production. In 2005, Mike Johanns, then secretary of agriculture, instructed the federal agriculture research service to take the lead in developing an international strategy to deal with stem rust. In 2006, the United States Agency for International Development mobilized emergency funding to help African and Asian countries accelerate needed wheat research.

But more recently, the administration has begun reversing direction. The State Department is recommending ending American support for the international agricultural research centers that helped spark the Green Revolution, including all funding for wheat research. And significant financial cuts have been proposed for key research facilities, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s essential rust research laboratory in Minneapolis.

This shocking short-sightedness goes against the interests not only of American wheat farmers and consumers but of all humanity.

It is tantamount to the United States abandoning its pledge to help halve world hunger by 2015.

If millions of small-scale farmers see their wheat crops wiped out for want of new disease-resistant varieties, the problem will not be confined to any one country. Rust spores move long distances in the jet streams and know no political boundaries.

Widespread failures in global wheat production will push the prices of all foods higher, causing new misery for hundreds of millions of the world’s poor. Ug99 could reduce world wheat production by 60 million tons.

But a global crop failure of this magnitude can be avoided. Before it is too late, America must rebuild, not destroy, the collaborative systems of international agricultural research that were so effective in launching the Green Revolution.

Norman E. Borlaug, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006, is the distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University.

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Israel Has Peace and Safety with Syria Now,

More So than She Would Ever Have by Treaty!

Israel Would be Crazy to Mess up A Good Thing

By Giving away the very Thing Producing a Peace!

Golan Heights Prevents Syrians from attacking Israel!

If Israel gives it back and begins to say Peace & Safety,

They will suddenly find themselves in a woman’s Travail!

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I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

[4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

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We already have peace with Syria

Quiet that has prevailed on Syria-Israel border for years may be better than peace

Guy Bechor

There is not much difference between the peace we have

with Syria today and the peace with have with Egypt, with the exception of the written agreement whose exact details nobody remembers.

Bashar Assad has not traveled to Jerusalem, but when did Hosni Mubarak visit Israel

? Only once, for the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, when the Americans forced the Egyptian president to do so.

Moreover, our border with Syria is quiet and stable and no clash has taken place there for dozens of years, as opposed to the “border of peace” with Egypt, which is replete with criminal and terror infiltrations, as well as other troubles. Compared to Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq, its border with Israel is an asset: Damascus is enjoying the quiet and security too.

Syria lost its hold on the Arab world, most of which boycotted her by not sending top leaders to the last summit meeting in Damascus. Today, Syria is isolated, lacks legitimacy, and a peace treaty with Israel would only serve to isolate it even more and further reinforce the Syrian leadership’s illegitimacy among Arabs.

A peace agreement with Israel will turn Iran into Syria’s greatest enemy: A dangerous enemy that has a hold on Iraq and Lebanon, Syria’s neighbors. Syria lost Lebanon, and therefore a peace treaty with Damascus does not mean a peace deal with Lebanon as well.

On the contrary, there will be elements in Lebanon that would do everything to undermine an agreement between Syria and Israel.

On the Golan Heights, IDF and Syrian forces are separated by a buffer in the form of UN forces.

Each side knows its place, while an effective and powerful Israeli deterrence system exists. It must remain powerful in the future has well.

Both our prime minister and the Syria president admitted in recent times they made a system of signals, clarifications, and possibly even deterrence, for fear of misunderstandings.

The Syria front is again stable, after a period of disquiet in the wake

of the Lebanon War.

What else can we ask for

?

Peace threatens Assad regime

And no less important: As opposed to the old model of peace with Arab states, Israel continues to hold on to territory here, that is, the Golan Heights. This is the only case of “peace” between us and our neighbors where we hold on to both territory and stability. This is a much more advanced model for us than the Egyptian or Jordanian model.

Paradoxically, at this time it appears that the only element the Syrian regime can rely on may be Israel. As opposed to the hatred it faces in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, quiet with Israel is a supreme interest for Damascus.

When will we realize that the peace we seek threatens the Syrian regime

? Just like we frighten it with war, we do the same inadvertently

with our desire for peace. This peace phantom threatens to sink Assad’s regime.

Yet our media outlets have continued to numb us with this conditioned peace reflex for dozens of years now, and the sense around here is that absolute happiness is right around the corner.

If only we cede the Golan Heights, the Mideastern heaven will open its gates to us.

Today, the Golan Heights stabilizes the Galilee and northern Israel in an existential manner. What will be our fate should we make the mistake and evacuate the Golan? The peace will end, the stability

will end, and the quiet will end. Moreover, the Syrians will immediately dispatch a million Syrians to settle the area, just as they did in Lebanon, and with the option of a “resistance movement” just like in Lebanon.

And what will happen should the minority regime in Syria be toppled and replaced by a radical Islamic state that would be situated deep in our Galilee region

?

Instead of lamenting our absence of peace with Syria, perhaps we need to understand that we already have peace with Syria, and possibly a situation that is even better than peace.

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OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE,

WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE,

FOR THERE IS NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES,

AS EXPERIENCE INDEED MAKES MEN BELIEVE!

April 27, 2008

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The intrigue, cunning, dece it,

and betrayals that have been occurring in the ungodly union of Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, and Hamas, have revealed

the identical internal sinister character of the Nazi monster as it rose to power, eventually producing the greatest holocaust in the history of mankind. They have been murdering not only their enemies, but those who are their own leaders, which is exactly what Hitler and his cronies did. This is the enemy America, Israel, and the free world is facing.

We must realize that our enemy perfectly matches the characteristics Paul described as existing in the last days in unbelievers. It is impossible for us to have peace with the four I mentioned in the first sentence. We are in the “last days” and headed for the end of the “Age of the Gentiles.”

II Timothy 3:1-5 – This know also, that IN THE LAST DAYS perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a FORM of GODLINESS, but denying THE POWER thereof: from such turn away.

“FORM” – morphosis – without substance – Bullinger

“GODLINESS” – eusibeia – It relates to real, true, vital, and spiritual relation with God: while threskeia relates to the outward acts of the religious observances, which can be performed by the flesh – Bullinger

They have a form of religion, but it is without substance, because it denies THE POWER OF CHRIST as the Son of God, crucified on the cross

as the full atonement for all their sins.

The Islamic faith does not believe God (Allah) had a Son, or that Jesus died on the cross for all their sins. They have not, and will not, testify that Jesus is the Son of God, nor will they acknowledge that He has the power to save their souls.

I Corinthians 1:18 – For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

I John 4:14,15 – And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

[15] Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

The doctrine of Islam has its own form of godliness, but it has absolutely no substance, and is the spirit of antichr

ist.

1 John 4:1-5 – Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. [2] Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: [3] And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

[4] Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is

in the world. [5] They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

Begin DEBKAfile Article

Exclusive: Closest aide of Hamas hard-line Khaled Meshaal dies in suspicious “accident”

April 25, 2008, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00)

Mysterious death in Damascus of his top aide

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that Hisham Faiz Abu Libda, Khaled Meshaal’s chef de bureau, was killed in Damascus by a hit-and-run car.

Syrian authorities have ordered a blackout on the incident. His was the second mysterious death of a high-profile terrorist in the Syrian capital in recent weeks after Hizballah’s military chief Imad Mughniyeh was blown up in a high-security district on Feb. 13.

His boss was in Doha at the time, closeted with the emir of Qatar.

Our sources note that Abu Labda’s death the day after the Syria’s North Korean nuclear reactor and its destruction by Israeli raiders were exposed in Washington, will serve as a warning to Damascus. It is Bashar Assad’s second reminder that his undercover agencies are seriously penetrated.

Abu Libda organized Meshaal’s contacts with Hamas operations chiefs in Gaza and other places and his regular meetings with Syrian and Iranian officials.

DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources also reveal that Assad has decided not to publish the findings of the inquiry into Mughniyeh’s death.

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FALSE CRISIS IN GAZA PROVES

BLEEDING HEART GULLIBILITY

TO HAMAS, MASTER OF DECEIT

AMIDST LIBERAL PEACENICKS!

April 26, 2008

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Genesis 3:13 – And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

The God of this world has been beguiling man and woman with lies ever since the garden of Eden. The followers of Islam the Jews face today in the Middle East are the seed of the serpent, the Devil, and we are trying to find a way to trust the word of these children of the Devil. It is quite impossible for them to keep their word and, like it or not, we are now heading for an inevitable war that will end this age.

Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

America and Israel are dealing with fanatics, which are no more or less than the seed of the Devil. They are extremely religious, as were the extremist keepers of the Old Testament Law in their day. They are the extremist keepers of Koran Law, and follow its doctrines of the Devil, teaching salvation of the soul by works. Even though Islamic belief did not come into existence for some 500 years after the crucifixion of God’s only begotten Son, the following description in John 8:44 certainly is an apt one to illustrate the character of these lying sons of the Devil.

John 8:44 – Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

THESE HAMAS CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE MASTERS OF A POWER TO BEGUILE BY DECEIT. THEY ARE BEGUILING THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD INTO BELIEVING THEY ARE THE ONES BEING VICIOUSLY PERSECUTED AND SLAUGHTERED BY ISRAEL, WITHOUT CAUSE. THEY DO INDEED FOLLOW THE PATH OF BEGUILING BY LIES AS DOES THEIR FATHER.

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Hamas Fabricating Fuel Crisis in Gaza

(M&C)

April 24, 2008

Israel Thursday accused Hamas of causing a “fabricated crisis” by refusing to distribute one million liters of fuel delivered

to Gaza.

Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said the million liters of fuel, which he said was enough for humanitarian needs, that Israel transferred three weeks ago, is still waiting to be collected on the Palestinian side of the Nahal Oz fuel crossing terminal.

“Hamas can take the fuel but doesn’t,” he charged, accusing Hamas of deliberately wanting to claim there is a crisis.

Gaza residents said Hamas officials have taken fuel for their own purposes and given it to high-ranking officials, government employees and its own students, but has not distributed the remainder to the population at large.

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Fuel Delivered to Gaza Via Nahal Oz Crossing

20 Nissan 5768, 25 April 08 04:34

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli officials announced Wednesday that trucks would attempt to deliver one million liters of diesel fuel to Palestinian Authority residents of Gaza through the Nahal Oz Crossing, even as Hamas officials in Gaza pledged to resume their attacks on the crossings when the shipments

resume.

Defense officials have said they need to reassess the security situation at Gaza crossings following a series of attacks in recent weeks, but the government has remained firm on its commitment to continue deliveries of fuel and other humanitarian aid to the region.

Asking for Help, Vowing Attacks

Earlier Wednesday, Hamas terrorists complained that the only power plant in Gaza would be forced to close without Israeli-supplied diesel fuel. The plant provides approximately 20 percent of the region’s electricity.

Hamas’ plea for Israeli assistance came on the heels of a promise Monday to continue to infiltrate and hit all crossings used to supply food and humanitarian supplies to Gaza residents and expressed their intent to escalate their attacks.

The terminal has been closed three times in the past month as terrorists have sabotaged Israeli efforts to supply fuel to Gaza every time Israel has attempted to renew fuel delivery to the region.

There have been two terror attacks at the crossing in as many weeks.

An attack on the Kerem Shalom Crossing over the weekend that wounded 13 IDF soldiers was stopped in the midst of what could have become a mass casualty event and kidnap operation.

Two weeks ago, terrorists infiltrated the Nahal Oz Crossing and murdered two workers at the fuel depot under cover of a barrage of mortar fire.

They escaped back into Gaza through the crossing. Just a few days ago, three soldiers were killed while thwarting a similar attack in the same vicinity.

Within minutes, an elite IDF tank unit and IAF pilots tracked down and killed at least two of the terrorists.

Begin Two Excerpts from an April 25 Article by Moshe Elad titled “Hamas hasn’t Changed” in YNet News.

Hamas hasn’t changed

(Excerpt 1) Recent declarations by Hamas leaders no more than Arafat-style manipulations.

(Excerpt 2) As it turns out, not only is the distress faced by Gaza residents worsening, but also the distress of Hamas heads in the Strip.

The economic siege is indeed taking its toll, the public is impatient and conveys dissatisfaction with its leaders, yet Hamas heads are the ones who need the lull more than anyone. When he appeared before hundreds of graduates at Gaza’s Islamic University, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was asked whether “you need the lull with Israel in order to protect us, or yourselves?” The outbursts of laughter and embarrassed stares among the crowd came in place of the real answer.

Hamas leaders fear for their lives

Yes, Haniyeh, al-Zahar and their comrades need the lull in order to be spared an assassination and in

order to stop seeing their loved ones dying as martyrs every day. Hamas leaders have been seeking for a while now a shortcut that would safeguard their lives and put an end to IDF strikes in the Strip, as long as this path comes with a different codename. “They are fed up with the need to be walking in tunnels stopped over while constantly staring at the sky,” a Hamas opponent in the Strip explained recently, “so they decided to refer to the solution as a process of national self-examination.”

Meanwhile, Khaled Mashaal’s declaration regarding “recognition of the 1967 borders” without recognizing the State of Israel and a “10-year hudna” is no more than a cynical manipulation that is reminiscent of Yassar Arafat at his best.

We should note that Arafat claimed that “it is permissible to lie for the sake of the Palestinian people” and did so often with amazing bluntness. For example, after he was caught secretly declaring jihad against Israel a week after signing the peace agreement, he argued that there is such thing as “jihad of peace!” – Now Mashaal seeks to outdo Arafat.

Mashaal’s latest declarations are not a sign of maturation or pragmatism, and certainly not an indication of changed positions. What we see is the best of the manipulation entrenched within the Islamic tradition, which allows jihad fighters to declare a lull in the fighting under certain conditions – a sort of truce in the war against the “infidels.” This happens when the war goes awry or when assessments show that the enemy is more powerful or capable and will prevail should the fighting continue.

The ceasefire’s purpose is to prepare for the continuation of the struggle and boost the capabilities of the fighters. We should re alize th

at once Hamas abandons the ideology of a Sharia state in favor of a secular political agreement that the Jewish State is a party to, it will no longer be the same Hamas.

So those who in recent days were amazed or raised a puzzled eyebrow in the face of what’s going on with Hamas should come back to their senses so

on. This movement will not be undergoing a meaningful change. The only thing we may see is the sight of Hamas leaders holding their heads up high: Mashaal was the first to do it following the Carter visit in Damascus, while Haniyeh and his comrades may do it next thanks to yet another phony ceasefire.

Moshe Elad served in various posts in the territories and currently researches Palestinian society at the Shmuel Neeman Institute at the Technion. He also serves as a lecturer at the Western Galilee Academic College

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France, U.S., UK Walk Out at UN After Libya’s Comparison of Gaza to Nazi Death Camps

(Los Angeles Times)

The U.S., France and Britain walked out of a Security Council debate on the Middle East on Wednesday after Libya compared the situation in Gaza to that of Nazi “concentration camps.”

French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert plucked off his translation earpiece and walked out, followed by his two colleagues, after Libyan Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi made the statement.

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HORSEMEN NOW WE HEAR,

A ‘MRSA’ BUG IS NOT HIDING,

HORSE OF DEATH IS ARRIVING!

END TIME SORROWS DO ABOUND,

THE DOLLAR VALUE GOING DOWN,

WORLDWIDE PRICE OF RICE ARISES,

A BLACK HORSE RIDER NOW ASTRIDE,

TO SOON BEGIN A LONG SORROWS RIDE

THE EARTH ENDURES BUT CANNOT HIDE!

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Revelation 6:8 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

The beginning ingredients for two of the signs of the last days are now beginning to fully expose their ugly heads, and two of the four horsemen of Revelation will soon be going at full stride. The fact that my wife was diagnosed with MRSA on April 24 has personally brought home the full reality of what I have taught for more than 30 years about earthquakes, famine, and particularly about pestilence. Pestilence is the Koine Greek word “loimos,” which means “any deadly infections disorder.” It is one of the five signs we are given prophetically to let us know we are in

the last days of the Age of the Gentiles.

The first part of this particular Blog begins with material from our Prophecy Update Archives on pestilence (loimos), followed by articles on interrelated dollar decline and worldwide famine from two different articles.

Begin Excerpt from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It may also be referred to as multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). The organism is often sub-categorized as Community-Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) or Hospital-Associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) depending upon the circumstances of acquiring disease, based on current data that these are distinct strains of the bacterial species.

MRSA is a resistant variation of the common bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. It has evolved an ability to survive treatment with beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, methicillin, and cephalosporins. MRSA is especially troublesome in hospital-associated (nosocomial) infections. In hospitals, patients with open wounds, invasive devices, and weakened immune systems are at greater risk for infection than the general public. Hospital staff who do not follow proper sanitary procedures may transfer bacteria from patient to patient.

MRSA/ Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus was discovered in 1961 in the UK. It is now found worldwide. MRSA is often referred to in the press as a “superbug.”

In the past decade or so the number of MRSA infections in the United States has increased significantly. A 2007 report in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimated that the number of MRSA infections treated in hospitals doubled nationwide, from approximately 127,000 in 1999 to 278,000 in 2005, while at the same time deaths increased from 11,000 to more than 17,000.[3] Another study led by the CDC and published in the October 17, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that MRSA would have been responsible for 94,360 serious infections and associated with 18,650 hospital stay-related deaths in the United States in 2005 These figures suggest that MRSA infections are responsible for more deaths in the U.S. each year than AIDS

ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 19

ISSUED INITIALLY IN LATE 2000

PESTILENCE ARTICLE

Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.

The word translated “sorrows” is “odin.” It refers to “sorrow” like that experienced during a woman’s birth pangs. It is the same as the “sorrow” travail of a woman with child identified in I Thessalonians 5:3,4.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

[4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

But what about Matthew’s “pestilence” – Is it following the pattern of a woman’s birth travail for the first time since Jesus prophesied it would? Absolutely! The basic root meaning of the word “loimos,” translated “pestilence,” is simply “any deadly infectious disorder.” Many plagues have passed through mankind since the fall, but none have generated a massive epidemic that was continuously accelerating over a long period of time.

These “loimos” have never been able to follow the pattern of a woman’s birth pains for very long on a worldwide basis. Cholera, small pox, typhoid, bubonic plague, and so on, have appeared in short spurts like false labor, but none has ever maintained a persistent, ever increasing, epidemic characteristic with seemingly no end. But now, for the first time, we have a “loimos,” a deadly infectious disorder, that has portrayed these characteristics from its inception. The HIV virus is the first to perfectly match the pattern of a woman’s birth pangs, and it will continue to do so until the travail of the woman Israel ends,

and the Son she rejected arrives. HIV is a virus that has swept across the globe like wildfire. HIV cases worldwide increased from a trace in 1980 to more than 5 million in 1985, to more than 10 million in 1990, to more than 20 million in 1995, and to a whopping 35 million in 2000. AIDS, the dreadful blossom of HIV, was first reported in a British sailor, who died in England in 1959. HIV has hardest hit Africa up to this point, but it is poised to spread into Asia and the former Soviet Union as an ever-increasing storm. And, in truth, medical researchers seem no closer to fining a cure than they were twenty years ago.

Are there other “loimos” infections that have also started to demonstrate the patterns of a woman’s birth pangs? Yes! The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that tuberculosis may kill 30 million worldwide during the next decade. The emergence of drug-resistant strains, and the spread of HIV have both hampered efforts by health agencies to slow the renewed spread of the consumptive illness. Another sort of “loimos” is malaria, which is on the rise around the world, and once curative treatments are losing their effect. It is a pestilence of global dimensions, and new strains are evolving that scientists fear will be untreatable.

But what about all the microbes generating all this pestilence, this “loimos,” these deadly infectious disorders, what are they doing, how are they behaving

? Are they doing something that will make the pestilences continue to act like a woman’s birth pangs through the tribulation period? Yes! A leading national magazine cover, back in the last century, carried the bold print title: “REVENGE OF THE KILLER MICROBES – ARE WE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASES?” Tuft’s Levy answered the question in Newsweek Magazine by stating: “The rise of drug-resistant germs is unparalleled in recorded biologic history.” Because of this contributing factor, pestilence will become more and more widespread in its acceleration until the second advent

of Christ.

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China’s yuan hits new high against US dollar

Xinhua

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

China’s currency, the yuan, was set to trade at 6.9837 yuan against the US dollar on Wednesday, a new high since the government unpegged it from the dollar in 2005.

The yuan has risen almost 4.6 percent against the dollar so far this year.

Market analysts attributed the rise to the continuing weakening of the dollar, led by a fall in confidence in the US currency and sell-off activity.

China ended the currency’s peg to the dollar in July 2005, and since then the yuan’s reference rate has been set against a currency basket that also includes the euro, yen, won and British pound.

The value of the Chinese currency stayed above eight to the dollar for many years before the 2005 regime reform. The yuan broke the 8-yuan threshold on May 15, 2006, and the 7-yuan mark on April 10 this year.

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Bowring: The price of rice will rise

By Philip Bowring

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

HONG KONG: Rice prices may have moved in the same trajectory as other grain prices, but the equation of production, consumption and trade of Asia’s leading staple is actually quite different from other grains.

Its characteristics suggest that rice’s relative value will increase, forcing many poorer consumers with no choice but to rely on alternatives like wheat, corn, sorghum, cassava or potatoes.

Some of the immediate causes of the price spike for rice are similar to that of other crops. The cost of fertilizer, closely related to energy, is the most obvious. Futures speculation by financial intermediaries may also have played a part – though rice futures trading is small compared with other major crops.

But biofuels cannot be blamed because rice is not used for them. Nor has there been any major harvest setback among the top Asian producers. Inste ad, we

are now seeing the impact of a series of longer term trends, some of which probably cannot be reversed. In no particular order these are:

Almost zero growth in land suitable for rice production. Soybeans, corn and wheat acreage can expand in South America or in North America and Europe. Rice – which ideally requires flat land, lots of water and a warm climate – has no equivalent.

Indeed, rice bowl areas of China, South Asia and Southeast Asia are losing land to urbanization and in some cases to salination caused by dams built for hydroelectric purposes and other reasons.

Rising sea levels would compound this problem for countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam. Australia’s water shortages are likely to permanently end its role as a significant exporter.

Consumption subsidies by governments

Subsidies in countries as diverse as India and Malaysia divert money from agricultural investment while discouraging consumption of alternative foods. The assumption that cheap rice is a necessity everywhere has led to rice becoming the norm in areas, like eastern Indonesia, where other crops more suited to the conditions were once the staple. This problem may now be compounded by governments subsidizing rice production at the expense of more suitable crops.

The narrow base of world trade in rice. The world trade in rice is less than 10 percent of global production. For only two countries, Thailand and Vietnam, is rice export a key business. China and India have small export surpluses but policy in both countries is focused on self-sufficiency.

Although in theory both countries could produce bigger surpluses, they, like consumers, are likely to be reminded by the current situation of the importance of keeping large stocks and avoiding domestic price spikes.

Production subsidies by the United States, and to a lesser extent the European Union, for long helped depress international prices. Meanwhile consumer-country complacency led to a 50 percent fall in global stocks over just four years.

Rapid growth of demand in countries with big oil revenues and huge rice production deficits – Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. – which can afford rice at almost any price. At the same time, rice has become widely consumed in countries in Africa like Ghana which were lulled by years of low rice prices and U.S. subsidized exports to become import dependent, or which saw a consumption shift from traditional local crops to easy-to-prepare rice.

Low growth in productivity, now running at around 1 percent. This has a variety of causes ranging from inadequate investment in irrigation (for example in India) to insufficient attention to new varieties. Productivity growth in rice has long lagged that of wheat and soybeans. The Green Revolution is now a distant memory. High fertilizer prices are exacerbating the problem.

The high labor content in rice production – a seldom acknowledged factor. The back-breaking work of rice production is a disincentive in countries like China where new urban job opportunities are opening up or there is a market for higher value-added farm products like vegetables and poultry. Advanced Asian countries like Japan and Korea can achieve high yields with mechanized systems and huge inputs of fertilizer and pesticide. But the cost is enormous and requires huge subsidies to producers and import restraints which have discouraged competitive exporters.

The situation is not all gloomy. Per capita rice consumption tends to fall as societies get richer and diets more diverse. High prices will stimulate production.

One day Myanmar will reemerge as a major exporter. But the current hand-wringing by international agencies and grandstanding by politicians is worthless without a better understanding of the factors behind the rice situation and the anti-market forces that have held back production and enhanced consumption.

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