17/04/2012

                 Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

Hamas War on Israel: 1,100 Missiles a Year

Hamas’ missile and rocket war on southern Israel is 11 years old today (Tuesday), 12,500 rockets later. More than 40 people have been killed, thousands have been wounded and property damage and economic losses has been immeasurable. Since the beginning of 2012, terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza have attacked Israel with 269 rockets and missiles – a rate of more than two a day, according to the IDF.

Palestinian Prime Minister to meet with Netanyahu Tuesday

A delegation headed by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon and will present the Israeli premier with a missive from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the stalled peace talks.Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator, who is expected to attend Tuesday meeting, told the United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Robert Serry, that the meeting’s goal is merely transferring Abbas’s message and that what is important is what happens afterwards.
 
                 Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

At least 3 killed in shelling, clashes in Syria as UN observers prepare mission

Violence gripped areas across Syria on Tuesday, with at least three people killed, as a United Nations advance team in charge of monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the country started to prepare logistics for their observer mission.Government forces shelled areas in the central province of Homs from the early morning, while clashes took place between troops and rebels near the Syrian-Jordanian border, opposition activists said. 

U.S. ambassador to U.N.: Syrian regime has no crediblity  

(CNN) -- While U.N. monitors try to observe a so-called cease-fire in Syria, the U.S. ambassador the United Nations said President Bashar al-Assad's regime has lost all credibility."They have lied to the international community, lied to their own people. And the biggest fabricator of the facts is Assad himself," Susan Rice said Monday night. "His representatives are merely doing his bidding and under probably some not insignificant personal duress."

 

                  Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

Israel: Obama’s secret dealings with Iran conflict with US-Israeli understandings 



The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran on April 14.Behind the show biz of Istanbul, they charged, the US and Iran had reached secret agreements in clandestine bilateral contacts channeled through Paris and Vienna

Iranian Army invincible due to strong faith in God: Ahmadinejad

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has praised the Iranian Army’s strong faith in God, stressing that such an army is invincible and will bring shame and disgrace to any aggressor.The Iranian army relies on the Divine One and as such remains invincible, and will bring bitter regret and utter disgrace to any aggressor seeking to trespass on its homeland, said Ahmadinejad during the opening speech at a ceremony...

Iran Army, IRGC set to stage joint maneuvers: Cmdr.

The Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) are set to stage joint drills in the second half of the Persian calendar year (started March 20), says the commander of the Army’s Ground Forces.The military maneuvers, in which state-of-the-art equipment will be employed, are slated to be held either in the southeastern or southwestern regions of the country, said Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan in a Tuesday interview with Mehr news agency.

                    The Rise of the East

U.S. looking at "all options" on North Korea as nuclear test looms

SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is looking at "all options" as it seeks to discourage North Korea from conducting a third nuclear test, a senior U.S. military officer said on Tuesday, days after a failed long-range rocket launch by the North that drew international condemnation.The U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned reclusive North Korea for Friday's rocket launch and warned of further action if Pyongyang carries out a nuclear test, reflecting concern that it may follow a pattern it set in 2009 during its second nuclear test.

                 Decline of United States (Hosea 4-14) 

 25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been Targeted For Extinction

The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening. Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government. The United States once had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world,

       Famines, Drought, Floods, Earthquakes & Pestilences (Matthew 24:7-8) (Luke 21:11; 25) (Rev 6:5-8)

Strong earthquake shakes central Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A strong magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook central Chile late Monday, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of a stretch of coastline and causing hundreds of people in the capital to flee buildings in panic.There were no reports of major damage, but authorities in the port city of Valparaiso said a 72-year-old man died of a heart attack during the quake. The earthquake was felt for almost a minute in Valparaiso and the capital, Santiago.The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the quake's magnitude at 6.5 but later raised it to 6.7....

 49th volcano erupts in 2012: Ecuador’s Sangay volcano unleashes 2 km ash cloud

April 17, 2012 – ECUADOR - During an over-flight on 13 April, an explosion from Sangay volcano was observed at 08:25 local time. It generated an ash and steam column of 2 km above the summit crater. A new vent was detected; both on visible and thermal images, located next to the active dome on the SE flank (Ñuñurqu). The activity in this area has intensified since October, when the last aerial survey had taken place.


Russia’s Shiveluch volcano spews ash up to 9,500 meters (31,000 ft) – its most powerful eruption this year

April 17, 2012 –RUSSIA – Russia’s northernmost active volcano is churning out ash to a height of 9,500 meters (over 31,000 feet) in the country’s Far East, local scientists reported on Tuesday. The 3,283-meter (10,771-foot) Shiveluch volcano increased activity in May 2009 and has been periodically spewing ash from three to ten kilometers. “A powerful eruption of ashes took place 05.59 a.m. local time [17:59 GMT on Monday], a source at the Far Eastern Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.


Moderate 5.5 earthquake and aftershocks rattle southern Greece

April 16, 2012 – GREECE – A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted southern Pelopponese in Greece on Monday noon, local media cited the Euromediterranean Seismic Institute as saying. The earthquakes were followed by 4.8 and 4.7 aftershocks. No injuries or major material damages have been reported by local authorities. The epicenter of the quake was traced at a distance of some 19 kilometers off the coast of the city of Methoni at a depth of about 40 kilometers, according to seismologists.

Are earthquakes destabilizing tectonic plates across the globe?

 April 16, 2012 – WORLD – A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours. Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu – from Romania’s National Institute of Earth Physics – says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days. The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours. “There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong.

                    Preaching the Gospel (Mat 24:14)

New English Translation of Bible Omits 'Jesus Christ,' 'Angel'

A new translation of the Bible into English does not contain the name "Jesus Christ" nor the word "angel." It also prefers the word "emissary" over "apostle." The Voice, a Bible that replaces "Jesus Christ" with terms like "Jesus the Anointed One," had its complete edition released by Thomas Nelson Publishing last month. Frank Couch, Thomas Nelson's lead editor on the project, told The Christian Post that the purpose of The Voice was to make the Gospel message easier to understand for modern audiences.