Dark Clouds Over Europe

Just because the media is done talking about Greece doesn't mean things are all better in Europe.  We still have Spain, Italy and Portugal to dwell on...and I doubt there are enough trillions of Euros to go around.

This weekend's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are overshadowed by "dark clouds on the horizon" that threaten the "light recovery blowing in a spring wind," according to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF.

The main source of the dark clouds is Europe, where recovery remains weak.

More than three years into the crisis, policy options in Europe are limited; fiscal stimulus is out of reach for many countries, and recent efforts by the European Central Bank provided only a temporary respite.

Here;  http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/21/markets/europe-germany-imf/index.htm

This thing called the European Union will be coming apart...we just don't know when and we don't know what it will mean to the rest of us.

Doomsday Alert!!

This article is about as serious as you can get.  I wonder if ANY of the national news outlets will report on how close we are to extinction....or will Melissa Gilbert hitting her head on Dancing With The Stars take up all the time?

Pay ATTENTION to this statement;

April 20, 2012

Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earthquake, there’s a 70 percent chance that “the entire fuel pool structure will collapse” and massive doses of lethal nuclear radiation will be released into the atmosphere. The disaster would release approximately “134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at Chernobyl as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP).” Experts believe that the amounts are sufficient to “destroy the world environment and our civilization”, which makes containment “an issue of human survival.”

The structural integrity of Unit 4′s cooling pool was greatly compromised by the earthquake and following tsunami which struck the facility over a year ago. At present, the pools are not adequately protected or reinforced, which means that a sizable tremor could “cause a disaster worse than the three reactor meltdowns.” If such a disaster were to occur, “people should get out of Japan, and residents of the West Coast of America and Canada should shut all of their windows and stay inside,” says nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen.

While the danger to life and the environment pose the greatest single national security threat the United States has faced since WW2, the Obama administration has provided little aid to the emergency effort. Japan is largely “going it alone” trying to cobble together a plan to safely store the spent fuel and minimize the risks to public safety.

Here;  http://www.eurasiareview.com/20042012-is-fukushimas-doomsday-machine-about-to-blow-oped/

Friends....think about it...can you imagine if all of Japan had to evacuate?  They are the 2nd largest economy and manufacturer in the world.  Do you think that happening could collapse the global economy?  Now imagine if the radiation DOES get released and it is enough to, "destroy the world environment and our civilization."

Where the heck is Al Gore and his movie making team?????   Do you think all the nations of the world should drop whatever they are doing and get their butts over to Japan and help them fix the ELE (extinction level event) swimming pool on Unit 4?  HELLO?!?!  Is anybody out there?!?!

We now return you to our regularly scheduled show...Dancing With the Stars.

India Launches ICBM

ICBM stands for Inter Continental Ballistc Missile....and India just shot one off.  Of course this shows China, Pakistan and everyone else that India doesn't like (or that doesn't like India) that India can deliver one of it's nuclear warheads into anyplace in China.

I would now expect that China might choose to launch an even bigger ICBM in the coming weeks.

India has successfully launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead, officials say.

The Agni-V was launched from a site off India's east coast and took about 20 minutes to hit its target somewhere near Indonesia in the Indian Ocean.

The missile has a range of more than 5,000km (3,100 miles), potentially bringing targets in China within range.

India said the launch was "flawless" and the missile had reached its target.

"The ships located in mid-range and at the target point have tracked the vehicle [missile] and witnessed the final event," Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) spokesman Ravi Gupta said.

With this, India joins an elite nuclear club of China, Russia, France, the US and UK which already have long-range missiles, although with a much greater range. Israel is also thought to possess them.

Here;  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17765653

Holy missile test!  Isn't it interesting that North Korea tried to launch a really big ICBM last week but failed?  And now we have India joining the "elite" nuclear club that includes China, Russia, France, the U.S., the UK and Israel.  But of course Israel has kept their mouth shut...so they just make everyone guess...and every one's guess is that those smart Jews have the whole "missile thing" figured out.

Also watch for Pakistan to try and launch a really big missile so that they can add their name to the elite club.  Remember that India and Pakistan have been in a continual war since 1948...so this big missile launch by India puts them a step up on Pakistan...and Pakistan has nuclear warheads, they just lack a big missile to launch them.

Can you feel the world getting hotter everyday?  And no, I am not talking about Al Gore hotter.

Government to Know Your Every Move

I live in Wright County, Minnesota.  Last week I got my packet of information to be a test subject for a new MN transportation funding idea.  You see, for years the current system of paying for roads and bridges is done through a gasoline tax...meaning you pay about $.26 of tax built in to every gallon of gas that you buy.

Now here is what my letter from MNDOT said;

"MNDOT is conducting this research to learn more about new revenue sources to help build and repair roads in Minnesota.  Ten to twenty years from now, the number of fuel efficient and hybrid cars is likely to increase, and the gas tax may no longer produce enough revenue to support our roads."

So I will now drive my car to the local MNDOT office and they are going to fit it with a GPS monitor that tracks my car everywhere that it goes.  At the end of the month the GPS will add up all the miles I traveled on county roads, state roads, federal roads and out of state roads and send me a bill.  I will have the option of having the bill be paid automatically by signing up for them to take the money DIRECTLY from my checkbook. (see the cashless society coming too?)

So yes, I am a guinea pig of things to come.

Do you understand what is happening here folks?  The government is soon going to require a "MARK" on every vehicle and you will need that mark to be part of THE SYSTEM in order to drive anywhere.  Of course they will know exactly where you have been....and it will soon be impossible to buy or sell ANYTHING (if you plan on using your car) without having that MARK on your car. (for now it is a GPS box)

Now check out this headline from today;  Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015

A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.

Here; http://www.infowars.com/mandatory-big-brother-black-boxes-in-all-new-cars-from-2015/

Now understand that it is just a teeny-tiny jump to go from every one's car being required to have a mark to be part of the system....to having every human being having a mark in order to be part of the system.  Of course all followers of Christ will NOT BE HERE DURING THE TIME OF THE MARK....but doesn't this news make you really wonder how close we must be to hearing the final trumpet and the voice telling us to "Come up here!"?

Friends, we have a lot of work to do.  I still have lots of my friends and family who don't know the Lord.  We need to be telling everyone that calamity is coming and to grab onto The Rock if they hope to be saved.  Will they laugh at us?  Probably.  Are we ashamed of the Gospel?  NEVER!

If Sex Won't Sell....Try Satan

We all kind of know how this works...first you show some cleavage, and when that doesn't shock anyone you show some girls in a thong, and when that isn't cutting edge enough you show people copulating on a music video...and when SEX doesn't sell anymore you pull out all the stops and use Satanic themes to sell your stuff.  NICE!!  Certainly more evidence we ARE in the Last Days.  Do you really think Satan is going to go back in the bag once he has been introduced by all the most famous pop acts??

NEW YORK – It’s an age-old saying in Hollywood that sex sells, but with consumers finding themselves oversaturated with sexual imagery, today’s top acts are turning to something even more sinful to get our attention: Satan.

Performer Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded” is getting a lot of buzz this month, due in large part to her infamous Grammy performance earlier this year, where she acted out scenes from an exorcism onstage. While critics, particularly religious groups, blasted the imagery in that performance as ill-timed and awkward, there is no denying that Minaj garnered the attention she was looking for with her antics.

"Like sex, provocative subject matters and whatever is perceived to be forbidden intrigues the human psyche,” explains Kelly Brady, a partner in Brandsway Creative, a marketing and public relations company. “Nicki Minaj's performance, although criticized, created an intrigue and it kept her fans wanting to know what's next.”Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/19/music-artists-turning-to-satanic-imagery-to-drum-up-controversy-sales-experts/?intcmp=features#ixzz1sVwrkHEp

"...kept her fans wanting to know what's next."  You want to know what's next?  It will just get darker and darker.  The themes will get more shocking as blood drinking and/or animal/human sacrifices will be acted out on stage.  Temple prostitution will then be acted out on stage where they will show women having sex with devils, vampires or other strange flesh.

Of course this is all just a prep so that when the Antichrist, the beast and the false prophet all show up and they call down fire from the sky...people will fall right in line to follow him.  Why not?  They already saw it all at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Lord, forgive us.  God, have mercy.

More UFO Talk...BIG Deception Coming?

I have had some friends tell me, "Dennis, you are either ON something...or you are ONTO something."  They tell me this because of some of my observations about UFO's, "aliens", crop circles, cattle mutilations, and alien abductions, that I have had over the past years

Just so you all know, there are LOTS of prophecy watchers who are on the exact same page as I am...including Chuck Missler...when it comes to "aliens" and UFO's.

Today we find one more.

Most people believe we humans are separated from the realm we refer to as Heaven (the domain of the angels and of God) by some huge span of space, possibly even millions or billions of miles. But dimensions are not separated by miles or even feet, but only by humanity’s lack of ability to see.

Dimensional trekking has always been part of the makeup of angels as they’re sent by God to bring messages to mankind. However, the appearing and disappearing of angels has not been solely limited to God’s holy angelic forces but has actually been a supernatural highway of late, traveled incessantly by malevolent supernatural beings bent on the destruction of mankind. This is more evident now that we are in the last days just prior to our Lords return.

These interdimensional activities are increasing as never before. The UFO activity is astounding. Even if you believe they represent travelers from distant galaxies or parallel universes you must admit the sightings are becoming an everyday event. Why? Why do we see this phenomenon increasing so dramatically? What has happened to mankind’s way of thinking that would favor this increased activity into our dimension? It’s a fact that the super majority of the earth’s inhabitants now believe UFO’s are real. With that premise in mind, could it be that mankind is being setup for the next incursion by fallen angels?

Now that most believe in UFO’s, and most of those folks believe they are extraterrestrial travelers, the enemy’s next big deception is ready to be unveiled. What that deception is, is only known to him but it has been building to a crescendo for thousands of years. It is a lie that the enemy will focus the world’s attention on just as soon as Christ removes His “ekklesia”.

The supernatural realm is extremely active in these last days. There is no doubt that they know something most of earth’s population hasn’t a clue of. As followers of Jesus Christ we do know what’s coming and we would be remiss as true believers and bondservants of Jesus the Christ to simply sit idly by watching while the signs of the birth pangs spoken of by our Lord increase. There must be a sense of conviction on the heart of every believer in Christ—a conviction that we might not have done everything we could for God, and that time is running out.

Here;  http://raptureready.com/featured/graham/g227.html

Crazy stuff friends!  As it was in the days of Noah when Nephilim were running all over the world...those also would have been crazy times.  When Jesus says, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man."....could He be hinting that there could be "strange flesh" running around on planet earth again?...flesh that the humans left on earth actually believe are "aliens" from another planet....when in reality they are Satanic beings and/or demons in disguise?

"The Spirit clearly says that in later times (Last Days) some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons."  1 Timothy 4:1

Getting Ready to Blow?

Have you noticed all the volcanic activity and headlines lately?  Is something big getting ready to pop?  Below are headlines from just the past few days.

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

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

Mexico’s sleeping Popocatépetl volcano awakens again
Popocatépetl, the nearly 18,000 foot volcano that hovers like a sentinel on the southeastern fringe of Mexico’s capital, awakened again Sunday, punctuating an especially shaky seismic season. Popo, as the mountain is widely called, spewed at least seven exhalations overnight Saturday and through the day Sunday, sending vapor, smoke and gas billowing into the clear sky. The most serious occurred just after 9 a.m. Sunday, sending a vapor cloud a mile into the air.  

Two volcanoes in Costa Rica now reporting increased activity
Thursday last the Turrialba sent experts scurrying to analyze the recent activity at the colossus southeast of San José. On Saturday, however, the Volcán Rincón de la Vieja, decided on a rumble of its own. It was around 2pm when residents heard the rumbles from the volcano located north of San José in the province of Guanacaste. Maria Martinez, volcanologist from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), explained that the phreatic eruption occurred at the lake and spewed water and sediment over the outer edge on the north side of the volcano.

Italy’s Mt. Etna volcano rocked by 6th eruption in 2012
Mount Etna is erupting for the sixth time this year with lava and plumes of smoke and ash from a new crater on the volcano’s southeast side. The new activity was preceded by new phase that began last night and that, according to experts from the INGV in Catania, has the same characteristics as the one before this one.  

Icelandic Volcanoes Said to Be Growing Restless
Two years ago, the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused havoc across Europe, with airborne ash grounding flights for six days. Eyjafjallajökull may be quiet now, but, according to The Telegraph, activity has been increasing in the volcano belt that stretches diagonally across the middle of Iceland from the Westman Islands in the south to the Lake Mývatn area in the north, along the line of the American and Eurasian geological tectonic plates.   

 Iceland volcano: and you thought the last eruption was bad...
alarmingly, there are signs of high activity beneath the much larger, neighbouring Katla caldera in Iceland – a possible sign of an impending eruption. This should prompt extensive high-level contingency planning across Europe, as Katla has the potential to be much more damaging than Eyjafjallajökull. Since Iceland was settled in the ninth century, Katla has erupted on average every 60 years, but has not had a significant eruption since 1918.  

Also remember that a huge magma dome has raised the earth all over Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana.  If that ever erupts it could decimate the entire Western United States. 

If Al Gore thinks he has problems with climate change now....just wait until 100 trillion tons of ash get shot into the atmosphere and block the sunlight for a few years.  That would get us all dreaming of the good ol' days of Global Warming.

They Will Choose Dishonor

Below is a link to an 11 minute video from a debate at Cambridge University.  Author, Douglas Murray, makes the debate FOR Israel and he says, "You'll have a choice between war and dishonor.  You will choose dishonor and you will get war!"

He also reminds the Europeans how they refused to even let US Military planes land anywhere in Europe when they were coming to Israel's aid during the war of survival in 1973.  He reminded them that they cared more for their Arab oil deals than they did the survival of Israel.

If you have 11 minutes...I highly recommend you spend it watching this video.

War is coming.

Here;  http://www.levitt.com/news/2012/03/20/douglas-murray-on-israel-and-nuclear-iran-video/

Christian Evangelicals Lumped with Extremists

There is an article on MSNBC today that is talking about groups of people that are anti-Islamic.  Now notice who the "Christian evangelicals" got lumped together with.

"They are neo-conservatives. They are Christian evangelicals. They are hardline racists. They are football hooligans. They are nationalists. They are populists. They are hardline Zionists. They are former leftists. The 'counter-jihad' movement comes in all shapes and sizes but they are united in a common loathing of Islam," according to the report, compiled by the London nonprofit Hope not Hate.

Generally, these groups maintain that there is an Islamic plot to take over the Western world, and that there is little difference between the hardline Islamists and the majority of Muslims, according to the report, "Counter-Jihad," published to coincide with the start of Breivik’s trial in Oslo.

"We mustn’t allow the extremists from the anti-jihad movement the opportunity to stage their own 9-11. If we lower our guard they will do."

Here;  http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/16/11230654-report-threat-from-anti-jihadist-extremists-grows?lite

So let me paraphrase what is subtly thrown together here.....Christian evangelicals are the SAME AS soccer hooligans and hard line racists.  Christian evangelicals must be watched closely or WE may stage our own 9-11 by blowing up a bunch of Muslims someplace.

Friends, this is how it all starts.  We who believe the Bible, and I do mean all of the Bible, not just the parts YOU like...are going to be increasingly looked at as idiots.  Once we can be looked at as idiots, we can then be shoved to the corner of the room where our opinions will not be valid anymore.  Once our opinions aren't valued, then we can be trampled.  Once we can be trampled then we can be persecuted.

Lest you think this will NEVER happen in America....you better think again.  It is GOING to happen...we just don't know when.  We also don't know for sure if the rapture of the Church will precede it...or if we need to begin to reconcile ourselves and decide now whether we will stand for the Truth of Scripture and the Truth of the Gospel...or if we will fold and deny Christ to save ourselves and/or our families.

Serious stuff, huh?

Hat tip to Tom F.

Earthquake Surprises Scientists

The weird news just continues to keep rolling in...baffling scientists.

The massive earthquake off Indonesia surprised scientists: Usually this type of jolt isn't this powerful.

The biggest earthquakes tend to occur in subduction zones where one plate of the Earth's crust dives under another. This grind produced the 2004 magnitude-9.1 Indian Ocean disaster and the magnitude-9 Japan quake last year.

Wednesday's magnitude-8.6 quake occurred along a strike-slip fault line similar to California's San Andreas Fault.

Scientists say it's rare for strike-slip quakes, in which blocks of rocks slide horizontally past each other, to be this large.

"A week ago, we wouldn't have thought we could have a strike-slip earthquake of this size. This is very, very large," said Kevin Furlong, a professor of geosciences at Penn State University.

So large, in fact, that the main shock went into the history books. Record-keeping by the USGS National Earthquake Information Center ranks Wednesday's shaker as the 11th largest since 1900.

Here;  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4215425,00.html

Hmmmm.....a REALLY big earthquake along a fault that scientists hadn't figured was possible....I wonder if we can file this one under, "There will be earthquakes in various places..."

Also, it sure sounds like this could be a rather large birth pang.

Hat tip to Julie E.

UFO's Going Mainstream

Of course the idea that fallen angels and/or demons are running around the atmosphere pretending to be "aliens" from other planets...is more than a little disturbing.  It's shocking!  And quite honestly, once you start looking into it, your worldview can be put on its ear.

But we are all going to need to have some answers as to what these millions of sightings actually are.  Now that EVERYONE has cell phones with built in video cameras, it is getting much harder to just dismiss them all as fake or weather balloons or birds. 

And now the talk of UFO sightings is going more mainstream every day, as evidenced this report on The Today Show;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=v5ZW8aoAR9o&feature=endscreen

Or this one on Fox News;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNA3iNiPxfA&feature=related

Remember friends, the Bible tells us in 1 John that, "the whole world is under the control of the evil one."  It also clearly tells us that Satan is, "the prince of the powers of the air."  Ephesians also warns us that our battle is not with flesh and blood but with the evil forces in the heavenlies.

So...what kind of a Biblical answer are you going to give to a scientist or to a 16 year old boy who is wondering what all the UFO sightings are all about?  Are the "aliens" getting ready for a grand deception?  If they are....most earthlings are going to be woefully ill prepared to give ANY explanation.

Satan is a master deceiver...and I believe he has cooked up a doozie that is unfolding before our very eyes.

Mother Nature on a Roll

Unless you were under a rock this weekend, you certainly were aware of the hundred+ tornadoes that ran all across the Midwest on Saturday and Sunday.  Thankfully the death toll was relatively small.  The weather service had done something very rare in advance of the storms....they issued tornado warnings a day in advance!

That's just crazy.

In Sunday's Minneapolis Star Tribune we had a commentary by their weatherman whose name is Paul Douglas.  Here is some of what he said;

One outspoken radio-curmudgeon likes to call local TV meteorologists "weather terrorists". Funny, huh? I've been called worse. I'm flapping my arms in front of red, pulsating blobs on Doppler; a bewildered spectator, like everyone else.

Mother Nature is on a roll. Or rampage. It's not your imagination: severe weather is on the rise. More tornadoes, more floods, more fire; more extremes. The Weather Underground's Jeff Masters says America's weather the last 2 years has been the most severe since 1816. I feel like a tour guide in the Book of Revelations. When you don't see a 7th day on my 7-Day Outlook it's time to head for the hills. The storm that spawned 122+ tornadoes Saturday, another outbreak uncomfortably close to home Sunday, is pushing east. Cold exhaust whips up sprinkles, maybe a lonely flurry Monday morning. No worries: nothing will stick on your neon-green lawn.

Here; http://www.startribune.com/blogs/147525435.html

Wow!  Now we even have the local weatherman referencing the book of  Revelation!  Of course he is doing it with tongue in cheek but still, we have watched enough weathermen in the past year and they simply are at a loss to explain what is going on.  All they can do is shake their heads in wonder just like the rest of us.

The people of planet earth are certainly in for a big surprise...when the Creator of weather and the Creator of all things returns...and men will faint with fear for what is coming upon them.  But for now they just joke about things like Revelation and Armageddon.

Thank you Jesus that there is no condemnation for those who have put their trust in you.

Hat tip to Dianne B.

The Downside of Cohabitation

So let's see what the New York Times has to say about the problems of couples living together before marriage.

Cohabitation in the United States has increased by more than 1,500 percent in the past half century. In 1960, about 450,000 unmarried couples lived together. Now the number is more than 7.5 million. The majority of young adults in their 20s will live with a romantic partner at least once, and more than half of all marriages will be preceded by cohabitation. This shift has been attributed to the sexual revolution and the availability of birth control, and in our current economy, sharing the bills makes cohabiting appealing. But when you talk to people in their 20s, you also hear about something else: cohabitation as prophylaxis.  

In a nationwide survey conducted in 2001 by the National Marriage Project, then at Rutgers and now at the University of Virginia, nearly half of 20-somethings agreed with the statement, “You would only marry someone if he or she agreed to live together with you first, so that you could find out whether you really get along.” About two-thirds said they believed that moving in together before marriage was a good way to avoid divorce.   

But that belief is contradicted by experience. Couples who cohabit before marriage (and especially before an engagement or an otherwise clear commitment) tend to be less satisfied with their marriages — and more likely to divorce — than couples who do not. These negative outcomes are called the cohabitation effect. 

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-downside-of-cohabiting-before-marriage.html?_r=1  

So even the super liberal New York Times has recognized that there are NEGATIVE OUTCOMES when couples decided to live together, have sex together and act like husband and wife even though they aren't.

Funny...if the New York Times had checked the words of Jesus, who is the creator of mankind, they would have found out His perfect plan for marriage...and then they would have concluded that whenever we choose to go outside of God's plans...bad things happen.

As Jesus told us clearly in Matthew 19:  ⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ ⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

So the plan is for a man to find a woman, leave his family and live with his wife til death parts them.  Consummating the marriage is the "special" gift that God gives married couples. 

But of course mankind has come up with his own plan and our society will continue to crumble right before our eyes as the perverted plan continues to bear it's fruit of broken families and broken children.

Also notice that Jesus didn't say that marriage consisted of any two people who love each other...so clearly was not endorsing homosexual marriage and/or gay sex.