Jesus Would Be So Proud of Us!

So most of us could barely get our turkey digested in our guts following the Thanksgiving feast but yet we had to run to the stores to start shopping for Jesus' birthday...and what a shopping day it was!!  Pepper spraying, fist fights, stampedes, riots and anarchy ruled the day as people looked to save money and buy more crap that most of us don't need....all in the name of Jesus?

The start of the US holiday shopping season was marred by shootings and pepper-sprayings as bargain-hunters stampeded stores.

The violence gave a whole new meaning to Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many retailers move out of the red and into the black.

The incidents, including at least two robberies, mostly took place at branches of the store chain Walmart.

Half of the entire US population is expected to hit the shops this weekend.

Many stores had crowds rushing in as they opened at midnight - several hours earlier than they usually do - on the busiest shopping day of the year.

A man was reportedly detained for resisting arrest after a fight at the jewellery counter in the early hours at a Walmart in Kissimmee, Florida

Police are looking for two suspects after gunfire erupted early on Friday at a shopping centre in Fayetteville, North Carolina; there were no reports of injuries

Security workers reportedly used pepper spray on shoppers who began grabbing at goods before they were unloaded from pallets at a Walmart in Kinston, North Carolina

A woman was shot in the foot by a robber as she loaded her purchases into her car in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; the gunman fled as one of the victim's companions brandished a revolver and fired warning shots

Here;  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15879139

Let's remember that when Jesus was here He didn't own anything.  This appears to be one other example of how Satan has perverted the birth of our Savior by turning it into a feeding frenzy of gift buying for people...most of whom probably don't even know who Jesus truly is.

One Day in the Middle East

As I turned on the headlines this morning using Google News, notice the number of articles that are directly related to the Middle East....and then notice how they all affect Israel in some way.

Protesters Dig In as Egypt’s Generals Install Politician
Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/world/middleeast/egypt-military-and-protesters-standoff-in-tahrir-square.html

And of course the Eyptian people will elect the Muslim Brotherhood whose main charter is the destruction of Israel.

Arab League Deadline Passes, No Response from Syria
Here;  http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Deadline-Looms-for-Syrian-Government-134485268.html

Syria is close to civil war and have threatened to unleash all it's missiles on Israel.  Plus Isaiah 17 seems to be primed to take place...and they refuse to cooperate at all with their Muslim cousins.

Hamas: Israeli threats won't stop unity gov't
Here;  http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=246978

Hamas is a terrorist organization whose main charter is the destruction of Israel and yet the world seems content to let these clowns have power in Gaza and beyond.

Yemenis stage rival Sanaa rallies amid violence

Here; http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jhEzhRKRvl1GcfM8Q6J4VRrl-Juw?docId=CNG.3bc4edeb01a68a004d32cc6af01d2cf8.61

Yemen will be the next country caught up in the Arab Spring who has thrown out it's government and the people will insist on electing some Islamists (like Al qaida) whose main charter is the destruction of Israel.

Iran raises stakes with claims it has netted 12 US spies               
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/iran-raises-stakes-with-claims-it-has-netted-12-us-spies-20111125-1nz6g.html#ixzz1ej1JorNG

Of course Iran is on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons and seeks to use them to destroy Israel.

Moroccans hold Arab Spring-inspired election

Here;  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hG5Woi941B0jZqjVGWrn_UAZKIlQ?docId=ae94d0b0ae284259b3ef182fe6b64125

And of course the people of this North African nation will elect an Islamist party to rule them.  And yes, it's true....by definition, Islamists want Israel destroyed and the world ruled by Islam.

So these are just sampling of articles from just one morning...and many of them point to Israel.  Does Israel seem to be a "cup of trembling" that the world is choking on just like Zechariah said they would be in the last days?

As you carved your turkey yesterday in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner....did the thought float through your head that maybe this will be our last Thanksgiving on earth?

Stress Tests

So what happens if the Euro fails and the shock waves hit the U.S. banks?  Do they have the mustard to keep going or will it also drag us into some sort of quasi-collapse?

That question has been asked and now the Federal Reserve is going to have a war game scenario imagining just such a thing may happen.

BRUSSELS - US banks are to be subjected to stress tests on the scenario of a sudden shock to the American economy if the eurozone crisis significantly deteriorates.

The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday (22 November) announced that it would hold the tests, the third round of such trials since the start of the economic crisis, to measure which banks would be able to keep their heads above water if worst comes to worst.

The tests will assume a rise in US unemployment to 13 percent up from the current nine percent and a fall into recession for the US economy beginning at the end of this year.

The Fed said the tests will involve measurements against similar price and rate movements as happened in the second half of 2008, when the crisis erupted, but also on "potential sharp market price movements in European sovereign and financial sectors."

Here;  http://euobserver.com/19/114368

Of course it is good that they have these stress tests...just like it is good that the Pentagon plays war games.  We HOPE that we won't go there, but we need to think through the possibilities if we do.

We know the Euro and the U.S. dollar WILL FAIL.  It has to in order to usher in the new currency system that the Antichrist will use.  We just don't know exactly when.  Hopefully it won't happen until AFTER the rapture of the church.  Of course many believe that the rapture WILL BE the trigger that pushes the world into the arms of the Antichrist.  I tend to agree with that thought.

Disastrous Bond Sale in Germany

Quick review;  when governments need money they can either sell bonds (IOU's) or collect taxes.  The bonds are sold at auction with the bidder who bid the lowest interest rate getting that paper.

So what happens if you have a bond auction and few people show up because the interest is low on what it is you are selling?

The result is higher interest rates.  And those rates can spell disaster for a country who lives on borrowed money....as most of The West does.  Think about what will happen when the USA goes to sell bonds and few people show up and the rate goes to 7% like it has in Italy?  We can't pay the interest on $15 trillion at 7%.

So look what happened in Germany when they had an auction yesterday.

(Reuters) - A "disastrous" German bond sale on Wednesday sparked fears that Europe's debt crisis was even starting to threaten Berlin, with the leaders of the euro zone's two biggest economies still firmly at odds over a longer-term structural solution.

Investors were also unnerved by reports that Belgium is leaning on France to pay more into emergency support for failed lender Dexia under a 90-billion-euro ($120 billion) rescue deal that had appeared done and dusted.

A special report by Fitch Ratings suggested France had limited room left to absorb shocks to its finances like a new downturn in growth or support for banks without endangering its cherished AAA credit status.

After one of the least successful debt sales by Europe's powerhouse economy since the launch of the single currency, the euro fell to 1.336 to the dollar and European shares sank to 7-week lows.

See it here;  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/us-eurozone-idUSTRE7AM0VR20111123

Can you see now how this whole system could unravel?  If the confidence in governments evaporates...no one will buy the IOU's.  And if no one buys the IOU's....the governments will come to a screeching halt.  And if the governments come to a screeching halt....social unrest will blanket the land like a fresh snow.

As Easy as an EMP

A few years ago we posted an article from the WSJ written by the top missile defense expert in the USA.  He said VERY CLEARLY that an EMP attack on the U.S. would most likely wipe out the USA as we know it....and that the economic collapse here would most likely spread to the rest of The Western nations.  And life as we know it would be over.

When the article was published, no one talked about it because it was totally ignored in favor of Brittney Spears announcing her new world tour.

Today we find this article repeating much of the same information.

WASHINGTON -- Pentagon estimates show that Iran could have missiles capable of reaching the East Coast of the United States by the year 2015.

If the Iranians acquire a nuclear bomb, they might be able to cripple their "Great Satan" even sooner through an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack off America's coastline.

"Within a year of an EMP event, at least two-thirds of the American population would perish from starvation, disease, and societal collapse. It's a high-tech means of killing people the old fashioned way," Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, president of EMPact America, explained.

A nuclear weapon detonated above the U.S. would emit powerful electromagnetic pulses, frying America's electrical grid and shutting down necessities from cars to computers to airplanes and refrigerators.

Iranian military handbooks point out the benefits of such an attack. Russia, China, and North Korea also possess EMP technology.

Pry, a member of the congressional EMP Commission, said America could plunge back into the 19th century, with Katrina-like chaos nationwide.

"A single nuclear weapon will cause the collapse of the electric power grid, all the critical infrastructures and other electronic systems across the entire continental United States and basically cause a permanent blackout," he told CBN News.

Here; http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/November/Intel-Shows-Iran-Nuke-Attack-on-US-Easy-as-EMP/

Remember that Jesus told us that if the days of The Tribulation were not cut short by His return to earth that NO FLESH would survive the carnage.

It appears that humans are getting the stage set to make Jesus prove those words.

Our blessed hope is that we will be CAUGHT UP IN THE CLOUDS to meet Him in the air before these tragic events unfold.

Come Lord Jesus!

One World System Marches On

Are their shadowy power brokers in place all over the world that are secretly joined together by cabal names like "Bilderberg" or "Trilateral Commission" or "Skull and Crossbones"?  I believe that there are.

One article is reporting that Italy's new leader is actually part of the Bilderberg organization.  These organizations seem to have one thing in common....and that would be the attempt to bring the world together under a One-World-Government which of course would require a One-World-Financial system.

Italy’s new Prime Minister Mario Monti (with wife at left), who rose to power in what critics called a “coup d’etat,” is a prominent member of the world elite in the truest sense of the term. In fact, he is a leader in at least two of the most influential cabals in existence today: the secretive Bilderberg Group and David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission.

On November 16, the new Prime Minister — who will also serve as Italy’s “Economy Minister” — announced that he was appointing an array of bankers, technocrats, and lawyers to lead the emerging government. After unveiling proposed reforms later this week Monti and his unelected team will face Parliament in a confidence vote.

Some of the nation’s political parties have already said they support the new leadership. But others, including loyal members of Berlusconi’s party, complained of a “coup d’etat” engineered by bankers and the European Union.

Monti is also the European Group chairman of the infamous Trilateral Commission, according to the organization‘s website. The secretive group, which also lists among its members some of the most influential members of the world elite, was supposedly founded to bring about closer “cooperation” between North America, Europe, and Japan.

The Commission was founded in 1973 by the infamous banker and power-broker David Rockefeller. "Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will,” Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 autobiography. “If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”  

Here;  http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/9802-bilderberg-leader-mario-monti-takes-over-italy-in-coup

Friends, it appears that this system is close to completion.  All we need are a few more financial disasters and the people of the world will start to demand a new system....and of course a financial disaster of epic proportions could literally happen any day now.  All it will take is for Israel to invade Iran, Iran to close the strait of Hormuz, oil prices to spike to $250 per barrel flattening the so called economic recovery that we are told about because gasoline would be about $7.50 per gallon....and then the rapture of the church.  This would seal the deal.

Let's remember what the word of God clearly tells us about who is in control on this earth for this period of time;  "We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one."  1 John 5:19

I have an idea that the very people we truly believed were "helping us" (politicians, business leaders, financial leaders) may have actually been setting us up all along for this Tribulation system.  Furthermore, it is becoming more and more unlikely that they were simply unwilling pawns in the big Satanic plan....but were actually willingly working for the Prince of the Earth.

Alien Skull of Nephilim Skull?

In the headlines today, some scientists are saying that they found the skull of an alien.  Could it actually be the skull of a Nephilim that are mentioned in Genesis 6?

Davila Riquelme said three anthropologists, from Spain and Russia, arrived at the museum last week to investigate the findings and agreed it was ‘not a human being’ and would conduct further studies.

He added: ‘Although the assessment was superficial, it is obvious that its features do not correspond to any ethnic group in the world.’

The remains of an eyeball in the right socket will help determine its genetic DNA - and clear up the controversy if it is human or not.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063486/Is-alien-skull-Mystery-triangular-shaped-head-Peru.html#ixzz1ePHkKcPY

You can see the photos at the above link.  What is this thing?

Enter Russia

It appears that Russia can smell blood in the water around Syria....and they are going to be there to make sure no one eats their fish.

Remember that Russia put HUGE money into a deep water naval port in Syria about 4 years ago...so they have an interest to protect....and they aren't going to let some stupid, Arab Spring rain on their military plans.

Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating that the move represented a clear message to the West that Moscow would resist any foreign intervention in the country's civil unrest.         

Here;  http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-russia-warships-to-enter-syria-waters-in-bid-to-stem-foreign-intervention-1.396359

The fact that Syria has killed 3500 citizens is of no concern to Russia....let's remember that Mother Russia killed millions of it's own citizens in the past century.

Also Russia is in the news because they are condemning Israel for what they are calling "revenge" on the Palestinians.

Russia is worried with Israel’s plans to build new houses for Jews in East Jerusalem, which is populated mainly by Arabs.

The Israeli government is intending to hold tenders for building over 800 houses in East Jerusalem.

“Israel doesn’t even conceal that this step is sort of a punishment for Palestine’s joining the UNESCO and its attempts to join the UN,” a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

Moscow believes that building Israeli houses on occupied Palestinian territories contradicts international laws and must be stopped.

Here;  http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/11/16/60515985.html

Is it just me...or does it kind of make you laugh when you see Russia faking concern for some poor Arabs in Palestine?...and quoting things like "international law"?

I think it has more to do with the fact that Russia will one day put together a coalition of countries who will all agree to destroy Israel and take their stuff....and what we are seeing is just one step closer to that day.

Did we mention that Putin is going to be the Supreme Leader of Russia after the 2012 elections?  Do you think it possible that Putin will be Gog of Magog?  He sure looks the part.

If You Have Any Doubt

We all remember that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia.  We were hopeful that it may lead to some human rights reforms and after the people were freed from their repressive regimes that peace, love and hope would be the result.

Lest you have any doubts about how wrong this hope was....lets got to back to Tunisia and see what some of the leaders are saying.

Notice that the focus is now EVEN MORE on Jerusalem.

What??  What the heck do these poor folks in Tunisia care about what is going on in Israel.

Simply put, Satan wants it for his own....and worshipers of Allah have a supernatural covetousness for the city that God called His own.

Watch video clip here;  http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3203.htm

Remember friends...this in only going to get worse, not better.  The Arab Spring is now going to be the Arab Winter.  The unrest is only going to grow.  Many Muslims in these lands believe that now is their time to soon rule the world....and followers of Jesus or the Jews will have no part in their planned kingdom.

Hat tip to Tom F.