What's All This Talk About the "God Particle"?

You haven't been able to turn on the computer for the past week without seeing an article about Higgs boson discovery. This discovery of the Higgs boson is helping scientist hone in on mass that they KNOW has to be there.  This mass is more commonly referred to as the "God particle."

So what's all the fuss?

When scientists look into the cosmos, they see the stars and planets and observe how they behave.  After observing them close up with telescopes for the past decades they have come to realize that just the gravitational pull of the the planets and stars in the universe CAN NOT explain how everything spins, rotates and orbits.  There HAS TO BE some other unseen mass out there that holds all the heavenly bodies from flying apart.  They have referred to this unseen mass as "dark matter" because it can't be seen with the naked eye.  This unseen matter is what is referred to as the "God particles".

Dark matter is basically a bunch of stuff, likely exotic physics particles, that we can't really see (hence its name) but we know is out there. Astronomers realized a few decades ago that galaxies should be spinning faster than they are if the stars within them were the only things providing the gravity that holds them together. So, their theories go, there must be something — dark matter — slowing them down.

It turns out that stars are just the shiny hubcaps on each galaxy, outweighed by a factor of nearly 6-to-1 by all the dark matter out there. Dark matter even pulls itself together through gravity. For example, the journal Nature last week reported that a dark matter cloud gravitationally connects two clusters of galaxies, called Abell 222 and Abell 223. This cloudy filament stretches over 11 million light years between the clusters and weighs 98 trillion times as much as our sun.

Here;  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-07-15/god-particle-higgs-boson/56210952/1

Now, let's put on our biblical goggles to see what this might all mean.  Remember when Elisha and his servant were surrounded by enemy forces and Elisha prayed that God would open the eyes of his servant?  What did the servant see?  Angelic forces riding in chariots with horses of fire FILLED THE SKY and were protecting them. 

How much did all these angels, horses and chariots weigh?  Why couldn't anyone else see them?

2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

The book of Daniel tells us that in the Last Days knowledge will increase.  When you realize that in the last 10 years, knowledge has quadrupled and we can now keep track of every human being on earth using a $900 laptop purchased at Best Buy....when you realize that we now ALL carry phones that will ring anywhere on earth if we have the right service....when you realize that those same phones can pull up videos, news articles and photos and have them beamed through the air to the palm of your hand...and when you realize that the GOD PARTICLE has been discovered by digging a 16 mile long tunnel under the ground of Switzerland and shooting atoms at each other and exploding them at the speed of light in hopes of seeing into God's realm.......you really have to wonder if we are in the Last Days.

Science is finally fixing its eyes on the unseen things....something that Paul told us to do over 2000 years ago.

Funny how that is....

Syria Moving its Chemical Weapons

The civil war in Syria is serious.  The destruction of Damascus is even more serious.  What might lead to the destruction of Damascus??  Israel deciding that it can't tolerate its chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands.

WASHINGTON – US officials said that Syria has started to move part of its chemical weapons arsenal out of storage facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The country's undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide have long worried US officials and their allies in the region, the report said.

Western nations have looked for signs amid the rebellion against President Bashar Assad's government of any change in the location of those weapons, believed to be the world's largest stockpile.

American officials are divided on the meaning of the moves of the arsenal. Some fear Assad may want to use the weapons against rebels or civilians, while others said perhaps he is trying to safeguard them from his opponents, the WSJ reported.

Some US officials fear Damascus intends to use the weapons against the rebels or civilians, potentially as part of a targeted ethnic cleansing campaign. But other officials said Mr. Assad may be trying to safeguard the material from his opponents or to complicate Western powers' efforts to track the weapons.

Whatever the motivation, the evidence that the chemical weapons are coming into play could escalate the conflict in Syria, the report said. "This could set the precedent of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) being used under our watch. This is incredibly dangerous to our national security," a US official told the paper.

Here;  http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4254982,00.html

Isaiah 17 sure seems to be in the cross hairs of prophetic fulfillment.  I hope the rapture happens first, but we don't know for sure.  Either way, 'When these things BEGIN to happen, then lift up your heads for your redemption is near.'

Largest Natural Disaster Area EVER!

U.S. declares drought-stricken states largest natural disaster area ever

The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever.

The declaration—which covers roughly half of the country—gives farmers and ranchers devastated by drought access to federal aid, including low-interest emergency loans.

"Agriculture remains a bright spot in our nation's economy," U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday while announcing the assistance program. "We need to be cognizant of the fact that drought and weather conditions have severely impacted farmers around the country."

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than half the country (56 percent) experienced drought conditions—the largest percentage in the 12-year history of the service. And according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the period from January through June was "the warmest first half of any year on record for the contiguous United States."

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/us-natural-disaster-area-drought-150130308.html

The amazing signs continue coming.  God wants NONE to perish.  The salvation of Jesus Christ is available to EVERYBODY.  If you haven't grabbed on Jesus Christ to protect you from the coming storm...TODAY is the day of salvation.  "Seek and ye shall find."

Corn Curve

They say a picture is worth a thousand words;

Corn prices surged 44% from 6/15/12-7/9/12 on fears that drought conditions in the Midwest could cause a reduction in output. Some fear it could be the worst showing since 1988, when output fell 31%. (WSJ)

The Department of Agriculture just reported that in the span of one week the amount of U.S. corn acreage experiencing moderate to extreme drought rose from 49% to 60%.

Remember friends, if the Lord wants to shut down the rain for 3 years like He did during the days of Elijah...then He will.  The people of Elijah's day were worshiping the false god of Baal.  Today the people of America are worshiping the false god of Mammon.

Since God is NEVER CHANGING...why WOULDN'T He shut down the blessings on this nation?...which has been given SO MUCH but has been disobedient with SO MUCH.

Corn is in EVERYTHING THAT AMERICANS CONSUME....so if you say to yourself, "Well, I'm not a farmer so I could care less about corn prices"....you had best wake up.  Your grocery basket is about to cost 44% more. 

I wonder how many Americans got 44% raises in income in the last year?

Wow....our standard of living just keeps getting hammered away.  I wonder how many years this hammering can continue until the foundation actually gets weakened?

Chinese Apocalypse Coming?

We all know that the Western economies of the world have been in a prolonged recession.  Many have been reliant of the great economy of China and its 1 billion consumers, to pull the world out of that recession.

But what happens if even China is sitting on the edge of the financial abyss?

From shrinking trade to stalling factories to surprise rate cuts, signs are mounting that China is headed for a hard landing.

Tuesday investors fretted as China’s imports in June grew at half the expected pace, entrenching concerns that domestic demand in the world’s second-largest economy is cooling quickly.

The news was also not a good harbinger for China first-half GDP data to be released later this week.

About 30 people were hurt and two police cars were smashed last month when a riot broke out in Shaxi township in Guangdong province — known as the ‘world’s factory floor.’

As exporters go bust and factories cut shifts, tensions between migrant workers and locals over layoffs and wage cuts are mounting. Migrant workers are the elbow grease of China’s growth and their disaffection could be its undoing, writes Moss.

Last year pork prices skyrocketed 57% in response to the growing Chinese appetite for meat, but over the past four months that demand has slipped. So much so that the hog-to-corn price ratio which measures whether rearing pigs is profitable dipped into the red and the government had to step in. At the same time the price of eggs has shot up so quickly that shoppers now call them ‘rocket eggs’ and Chinese consumers, shaken by the faltering economy and food safety scares, are opting to grow their own food.

Here;  http://business.financialpost.com/2012/07/10/5-real-world-signs-of-the-coming-chinese-apocalypse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FP_TopStories+(Financial+Post+-+Top+Stories)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Uh-oh.  Unrest, skyrocketing food prices, power shortages, millionaires exiting the country....this all sounds like signs that China might be getting ready for a big bust.  What happens to America if the Chinese aren't around to loan us $5 billion per day to keep our economy afloat?

Throw in the fact that they have aborted all the baby girls and you have millions of Chinese men who have no hope of finding a bride...so you have intense sexual frustration and little hope for the future.

Remember what history shows us about nations who have huge imbalances between the populations of young men and young women....they go to war.

Remember what the Bible has to say about the "kings of the East" arising in the Last Days and marching on Jerusalem?

The Fall of Our Democracy?

Voters are a funny bunch.  As we have said all along, which candidate would YOU vote for;

Candidate A)  "Vote for me and I will restore fiscal sanity by slashing social security, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, student loan programs and school lunch programs."

Candidate B)  "Vote for me and I promise you free food, free education, free medical care and early retirement with increased Social Security benefits."

Sadly, 90% of voters will vote for the guy who promises them a free lunch....and that's how democracies come to an end.

This history lesson takes us full-circle to ancient Greece, the cradle of democracy. In 1787, Scottish history professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy.”

Wow....loose fiscal policy...that sure seems to describe what the USA has been embarked on for the past 40 years.

VICTORIA, BC, Jul 3, 2012/ Troy Media/ – That Germany is almost singlehandedly providing the funds to bailout their bankrupt country didn’t deter angry Greeks from burning its Chancellor in effigy during last month’s Greek election campaign.

And for a few hours after that election returned parties in favour of staying in the Eurozone, financial markets cheered the news. Then reality set in as investors, realizing that continuing to pour cash into hopelessly dysfunctional Greece would only diminish the Eurozone’s chances of saving other beleaguered members, drove Spain’s borrowing rates to record highs.
The European situation is so bad that near zero yield US Treasury Bills, issued by a country whose debt clock is registering US$15.8 trillion and spinning ahead at over US$1.3 trillion per year, are viewed as a safe haven.

And the chances of slowing down the U.S. debt clock are small indeed. As social program entitlements make up half of expenditures balancing the budget would mean cutting all other expenditures by a staggering 70 per cent. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek summed up the entitlements problem in his famous book The Road to Serfdom, “If you guarantee to some a fixed part of a variable cake, the share left to the rest is bound to fluctuate proportionally more than the size of the whole”.

Here;  http://www.troymedia.com/blog/2012/07/03/the-rise-of-the-entitlement-class-and-the-fall-of-democracy/

I'm pretty sure Obama does not have a solution, that voters will enjoy, to get us out of $17 trillion of public debt and $50 trillion of unfunded promises made over the past 40 years.

I'm pretty sure that Romney does not have a solution, that voters will enjoy, to get us out of $17 trillion of public debt and $50 trillion of unfunded promises made over the past 40 years.

So who can save us then??  ONLY the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  And what percentage of voters in the USA do you think actually FEAR the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?

Exactly.

Bad News for Muslim Brotherhood in Libya

According to news coming out of Libya, the Muslim Brotherhood is a distant 2nd in the elections held there.  After their recent wins in Egypt and Tunisia, their momentum appears to have been slowed down.

I believe that we should be able to label this is "good" news...for the time being anyway.

Remember that it is important to watch Libya because they are a NAMED PLAYER in the Ezekiel 38 coalition...and will be joining ranks with Russia, Iran, Turkey and a few other North African nations, that come up with a plan to destroy Israel in the VERY LAST DAYS.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Nijad Sharfeddin was the face of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya's historic parliamentary elections. Featured prominently on campaign posters in her hijab and glasses, sans makeup, she was the image of both modernity in Arab politics and conservative Islamic values.

But voters suspicious of the Brotherhood, which has no real history in Libya, often asked her to name a Libyan on her ticket whom they would have heard of. She couldn't. Those suspicions and a lack of an identity in the Libyan street were some of the many factors that led to the Brotherhood slate's distant second-place finish in Saturday's vote, experts and everyday Libyans said.

The official election results may not be announced until next week, but the Brotherhood is already absorbing its biggest loss of the Arab Spring, having earned, according to projections, as little as 3 percent of the vote in some cities. While Brotherhood members lead in Tunisia and Egypt, and have made a strong showing in Yemen, Libya brought the electoral momentum of the world's largest Islamic party to a screeching halt.

Mahmoud Jibril - former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's foreign minister and the head of the interim government after the Gadhafi state collapsed last fall - already has taken a commanding lead even as election workers continue to count ballots. Jibril, a former professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is generally popular despite his former ties to Gadhafi, led a pro-Western coalition called the National Forces Alliance.

"I don't know the Brotherhood politics but I know Jibril's. We don't need someone telling us how to practice Islam," explained Walid Omar Regabi, 26, a government worker, while sitting outside a mosque where Jibril campaign posters hung inside. "We didn't see the Brotherhood during the revolution."

One Libyan, while smoking a water pipe in Tripoli's old city, near the Roman-built arch that defines the city landscape, put it more bluntly: "We are smarter than the Tunisians and Egyptians."

Here;  http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/11/2890698/muslim-brotherhood-runs-out-of.html

This is really interesting.  Of course Iran's leadership is made up of Shiite Muslims, so maybe we should be watching for extreme Shiite Muslim terrorist parties to start making inroads into Libya?  Remember the Muslim Brotherhood is made up of Sunni terrorists...and they don't always like Shiite terrorists...unless they are both cooperating to kill Jews or wipe out Israel.

Or maybe it won't be Muslim extremists at all that end up winning the leadership of Libya?  Maybe something totally different will come out??

Did you see that the dude who is in the lead as the votes are counted, went to the University of Pittsburgh??  How interesting is that??  And his party is PRO-WESTERN....meaning they kind of like America.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/11/2890698/muslim-brotherhood-runs-out-of.html#storylink=cpy

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Fears of New Dust Bowl Hit USA

We already know that 2012 has been the hottest year EVER....so how is that working for the corn and bean crop this year?  Remember, corn is in 95% of everything we eat and drink in the form of corn starch, corn flower, corn sweetener, cattle feed, chicken feed, and hog feed...so if corn prices go up then ALL FOOD PRICES are going up.

Oh yeah...and let's not forget that we BURN MILLIONS OF BUSHELS of corn to produce alcohol to mix with our gasoline to burn in our cars and trucks.  Wouldn't it be interesting if we were the first society who burned all their food and then starved to death? 

HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — Across a wide stretch of the Midwest, sweltering temperatures and a lack of rain are threatening what had been expected to be the nation’s largest corn crop in generations.
   
Already, some farmers in Illinois and Missouri have given up on parched and stunted fields, mowing them over. National experts say parts of five corn-growing states, including Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, are experiencing severe or extreme drought conditions. And in at least nine states, conditions in one-fifth to one-half of cornfields have been deemed poor or very poor, federal authorities reported this week, a notable shift from the high expectations of just a month ago.

“It all quickly went from ideal to tragic,” said Don Duvall, a farmer in Illinois who, in what was a virtually rainless June, has watched two of his cornfields dry up and die as others remain in some uncertain in-between.

“Every day that passes, more corn will be abandoned,” Mr. Duvall said. “But even if it starts raining now, there will not be that bumper crop of corn everyone talked about.”

“You wake up every morning with that churning in your stomach,” said Eric Aulbach, a farmer here in central Indiana, who gazed out across a field of corn he ought not to be able to gaze across by now.

John Hawkins, a spokesman for the Illinois Farm Bureau, said those in the southernmost sections of his state “are close to or past that point of no return,” while elsewhere, “there’s a lot of praying; it’s hanging on by a thread.” 

“These 100-degree temperatures are just sucking the life out of everything,” he said.

Here;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48076883/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/#.T_WfTPVnWGA

Yep, I bet there has been a lot of praying.  But will the prayers of a few farmers work for whole nation?

I can't imagine the stress of being a farmer and seeing your beautiful corn crop just shrivel up and die...knowing that you invested a whole bunch of money to put the crop in...and now you are going to get nothing out.  All of your hard work just dries up and blows away.

Remember what the Bible says in Revelation 6:6, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine."  So we know from this verse that during the Tribulation many men will be working all day long just to get money to buy enough food to survive for another day.

If 60-70% of the U.S. corn crop fails...we may be a lot closer to those days than anyone realizes.

Lord, have mercy.

Israel Will Attack Iran If Obama Election Likely

Charles Krauthammer has said that Israel will attack Iran once they believe Obama's re election is likely.

On Friday’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer warned that Americans should expect Israel to attack Iran if President Barack Obama’s re-election appears likely.

Krauthammer explained that there could be a punitive response from the Obama administration, which would be less likely before he is re-elected.

“If they think Obama will win reelection I think it’s likely they will attack before, because afterwards there is no way to tell how Obama would punish Israel and they would be vulnerable to sanctions and other measure of the United States,” he said.

Krauthammer reminded viewers of the time frame advanced by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta earlier this year, and explained how that is a sign that “the clock is running.”

“The window is between now — remember, the Secretary of Defense said earlier in year that Israel would have attacked by now, attack in April, May, June,” he continued.

“The clock is running. They are simply waiting to make sure that the sham negotiations are declared over, rather than put on life support — to say all options have been tried and now we have to defend ourselves.”

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/08/krauthammer-israelis-will-attack-iran-if-they-think-obama-will-win-re-election

We have said in the past that we believe Obama is only cordial to Israel because he knows he HAS TO BE if he wants to be re elected.  However, once he is re elected, we believe that his mask will come off and he will play much harder with Israel.  It appears that Israel believes this as well...which is why they may attack now KNOWING that the American people will demand American involvement to aid Israel.

Also notice how Krauthammer used the phrase, "Obama would punish Israel".  This seems to me to be more talk about USA cursing Israel.  Is this what's coming?

Obama Invites Islamists to White House

As we all know by know, Egypt has elected a President from the Muslim Brotherhood party.  Here is what the Muslim Brotherhood has listed as it's charter;

"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way.
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar!”

Sounds like these dudes are nasty animals who want to kill all Jews and any other infidels who disagree with their version of perverted history and perverted religion.

So with that as the facts...what is Obama doing about these goof balls who are trying to usher in sharia law all over the world?

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has invited Egypt's newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, to visit the United States in September, an Egyptian official said on Sunday, reflecting the new ties Washington is cultivating with the region's Islamists.

"President Obama extended an invitation to President Mursi to visit the United States when he attends the U.N. General Assembly in September," Egyptian aide Yasser Ali said after Mursi met U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in Cairo.

Israel has watched with growing concern the political gains of the Brotherhood, an inspiration for the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The 84-year-old Brotherhood renounced violence as a means to achieve political change in Egypt decades ago.

Analysts say that one way the United States could influence the direction of policy in Egypt, a nation at the heart of Washington's regional policy since a peace treaty was signed with Israel in 1979, would be through economic support.

Washington provides $1.3 billion a year in military aid as well as other assistance and could help mobilize other donors, lenders and investors. Those could prove vital as Egypt tries to stave off a balance of payments and budget crisis.

Here;  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/08/us-egypt-usa-idUSBRE86708820120708

Hey...I'm all for talking to your enemies through back door channels, but seriously?...inviting them to the White House?  Can't imagine this is going to play well in Israel...that Obama is going to have tea with some of their worst enemies.

I wonder when this falls into the realm of "cursing Israel."?

Strange Flood in Russia Kills 150

The extreme words like, 'never' and 'ever' continue to be used everyday as strange events just keep coming. 

Today we are hearing the news of rain that came to hard and fast in Russia that it made a wall of water that ripped through cities and has killed over 150 people.

Moscow (CNN) -- Raging floodwaters that tore through the streets of southern Russia's Krasnodar region in the middle of the night are responsible for killing at least 150 people and displacing thousands, Russian media reported Sunday.

"The scale of it is spectacular, to be sure, and very tragic. The water came with such force that it tore up the asphalt," regional Gov. Alexander Tkachev said on Saturday via Twitter after seeing pictures of the flood damage in Krymsk, according to RT.

The floodwaters followed heavy rains that began Friday, pushing rivers and streams over their banks overnight. The waters rose 7 meters (23 feet) in Krymsk, striking while most people were asleep, Itar-Tass reported.

"People just ran from their homes because there was a huge wall of water," one woman told the Russian News Service, a Moscow-based radio station.

The worst hit areas were along the coast of the Black Sea, which RT reports "bore the brunt of the deluge as it rushed out to sea."

The fierce floodwaters destroyed homes and carried trucks out to sea, RT reported.

Here;  http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/08/world/europe/russia-floods/index.html

It does make one wonder if Almighty judgment has started....not Almighty wrath, but Almighty judgment...as God simply begins to withdraw his hand of protection.