Most Expensive Disasters EVER!

With 4 months to go on 2023 we’ve already broken the record for most expensive weather disasters in a year.  Floods, droughts, hurricanes, earth quakes, tornadoes.  All the godless folks are positive it’s all related to man-made climate change.  All the Bible believers know something else is happening.  The earth is groaning for its redemption.

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WASHINGTON — The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia's watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there's still four months to go on what's looking more like a calendar of calamities.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that there have been 23 extreme weather events in America that cost at least $1 billion this year through August, eclipsing the year-long record total of 22 set in 2020. So far this year's disasters have cost more than $57.6 billion and claimed at least 253 lives.

And NOAA's count doesn't yet include Tropical Storm Hilary's damages in hitting California and a deep drought that has struck the South and Midwest because those costs are still be totaled, said Adam Smith, the NOAA applied climatologist and economist who tracks the billion-dollar disasters.

“We're seeing the fingerprints of climate change all over our nation,” Smith said in an interview Monday. “I would not expect things to slow down anytime soon.”

NOAA has been tracking billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States since 1980 and adjusts damage costs for inflation. What's happening reflects a rise in the number of disasters and more areas being built in risk-prone locations, Smith said.

“Exposure plus vulnerability plus climate change is supercharging more of these into billion-dollar disasters,” Smith said.

NOAA added eight new billion-dollar disasters to the list since its last update a month ago. In addition to Idalia and the Hawaiian firestorm that killed at least 115 people, NOAA newly listed an Aug. 11 Minnesota hailstorm; severe storms in the Northeast in early August; severe storms in Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin in late July; mid-July hail and severe storms in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia; deadly flooding in the Northeast and Pennsylvania in the second week of July; and a late June outbreak of severe storms in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

 https://www.kare11.com/article/news/nation-world/billion-dollar-weather-disasters-record-2023-months-to-go/507-b07ee11d-0315-47c6-aeb4-f45f3e43beb4

Mexican Congress Holds Hearings on UFO's With "Alien Bodies"

 These are the types of headlines we are seeing on a regular basis.  You just can't make this stuff up.  It would seem to be one other topic that points us to the near return of Christ.

MEXICO CITY, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that "we are not alone" in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country's first congressional event on UFOs.

In the hearing on Tuesday on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what are usually now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), politicians were shown two artifacts that Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed were the corpses of extraterrestrials.

The specimens were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said.

The two tiny "bodies," displayed in cases, have three fingers on each hand and elongated heads. Maussan said they were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017. He said that they were about 1,000 years old, analyzed through a carbon dating process by Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM).

Similar such finds in the past have turned out to be the remains of mummified children.

Maussan said it was the first time such evidence had been presented.

"I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that all possibilities are open for any scientific institution... to investigate it," Maussan said.

"We are not alone," he added.

Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, said X-rays, 3-D reconstruction and DNA analysis had been carried out on the remains.

Here;  Mexican Congress holds hearing on UFOs featuring purported 'alien' bodies | Reuters

"We are not alone!"  

Nope!  Our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces in the heavenly realms.

There can be no further doubt that the world is being prepped for a massive deception.  Stay tuned and keep looking up!

Air Force Secretary; China Preparing for War With USA

Of course we file this under “wars and rumors of war”.  We know China and Russia cooperate.  Add North Korea and Iran to the list of dark nations that would love to topple USA.  What if these nations all team up to make a run?  We all know the game, King of the Hill?  Would our nation of obese 18-25 yr old youth, many who don’t know their gender, be able to combat a multi-front war?  There is a reason America isn’t found in Last Days prophecy.  We hope rapture but that’s not guaranteed.

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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a Monday speech that China is preparing for war with the United States.

“Today the intelligence couldn’t be clearer. Whatever its actual intentions may be I could not say, but China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States,” Kendall stated at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space, and Cyber Conference.

Kendall went on to say that China for the last two decades has been “reoptimizing its forces” to compete with the United States in the Western Pacific.

The Air Force secretary’s comments come in the wake of President Joe Biden’s Vietnam visit, during which the president said that China’s economic problems make the country less likely to invade Taiwan.

Republican congressman Mike Gallagher (Wis.), by contrast, said Monday that China’s internal problems could cause Chinese president Xi Jinping to become even more aggressive.

Xi told the Chinese military last month to speed up its modernization and combat readiness following several months of intensified military exercises.

https://worldisraelnews.com/air-force-secretary-says-intel-couldnt-be-clearer-china-is-preparing-for-war-with-us/

New Railway that May be Bringing Millions to see Third Temple

 The Bible is clear that Israel will be at the center of it all during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and also during the Millennial reign of Christ.  So we should expect headlines that point to this fact, and for sure we see them.  Tiny Israel with 7 million people is in the global headlines every single day.

Note the last sentence in this article about a new railway that will deliver travelers to the Donald Trump Station by the Western Wall.  Still gotta drive Leftists crazy to see Israel named a train station after Trump.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday hailed the US-led initiative to create a rail and shipping link that will connect India with the Middle East and Europe as the start of a “unique and unprecedented era of global and regional cooperation.”

The ambitious project, which Western leaders officially announced during the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, is part of a pioneering initiative to foster economic growth and political cooperation, building on the new possibilities created by the 2020 Abraham Accords and the normalization in relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel hoped for in early 2024.

“This link will also realize a multi-year vision that will change the face of the Middle East and Israel, and will affect the entire world,” Netanyahu said in a video statement. “Its vision reshapes the face of our region and allows a dream to become reality.”

Israel will be a “central junction” in this economic corridor, with Israeli railways and ports part of this new gateway, which will run from India, through the Middle East to Europe and back, the prime minister said.

“This is a big deal,” US President Joe Biden said. “This is a really big deal.”

The proposal to create the link, which would start in India and pass through the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel before reaching Europe, is also seen as the latest indication that a historic peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is likely in the months ahead.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Saturday that the transportation project is not seen as a “precursor” to a normalization deal but he characterized Israel’s inclusion as “significant.”

“The participants in this effort are focused on practical outcomes that deliver for their people,” Sullivan said. “And a corridor of this kind by dint of geography works best having Israel in as opposed to out and the countries participating prioritized that.”

The Biden administration initiative, set to cost around $20 billion according to Saudi estimates, would boost trade, transport, energy resources and digital connectivity. It would include the construction of railways, a hydrogen pipeline, fiber-optic communications and electricity cables.

The news of the project, released jointly by the United States, India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the European Union, France, Italy and Germany, is also meant to counter Chinese inroads in the region.

These locomotive aspirations raise redemptive thoughts. Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, a leading rabbi in Jerusalem in the late 19th century, heard the whistle of the first train to arrive in Jerusalem in 1892, and said, “They are clearing the way for Moshiach (Messiah) and the geula (redemption) is on the way.”

Similarly, Rabbi Yekutiel Fish, who writes a geula and Kabbalah blog in Hebrew called Sod HaChashmal (the secret energy), linked the train system to the Third Temple. 

“For 2,000 years, the Jews were living in a reality prophesied by Balaam as a ‘people that dwells apart,’” Rabbi Fish said. “As long as Israel is a nation apart, we can never fulfill our role as a nation of priests in a House of Prayer for all nations.

“Becoming part of a transportation network will help this happen. Hashem (God, literally ‘the name’) is preparing the way for the pilgrims from around the world to arrive at the Temple,” Rabbi Fish said.

“Practically, a train is the best means to serve the Templs since it can carry many more people without the dangers or traffic jams associated with highways,” Fish said. “In Gematria (Hebrew numerology), ‘rakevet’  (train) equals 622, precisely the same as ‘har HaBayit’ (the Temple Mount).”

A high-speed rail system connecting Ben-Gurion Airport to Jerusalem was completed, with additional branches planned, including one that will take travelers to the Donald Trump Station at a Western Wall station.

https://www.israel365news.com/375414/world-leaders-announce-railway-that-may-bring-pilgrims-to-third-temple/

Libya Flooding-1000 Bodies Recovered and Thousands Still Missing

Every day is another extreme example of the earth groaning.  The Left will say its all because of man-made climate change.  Bible believers will say it’s caused by the weight of sin and the nearness of the Great Tribulation.  Of interest is that what we call Libya today was called Put in the Bible.  She is mentioned as a nation who will one day gather with Russia, Turkey, Iran and others to plan the demise of Israel in Ezekiel 38.

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NEAR DERNA, Libya, Sept 12 (Reuters) - At least 10,000 people were feared missing in Libya on Tuesday in floods caused by a huge storm, which burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern city of Derna.

More than 1,000 bodies had already been recovered in Derna alone, and officials expected the death toll would be much higher, after Storm Daniel barrelled across the Mediterranean into a country crumbling from more than a decade of conflict.

A Reuters journalist on the way to Derna, a coastal city of around 125,000 inhabitants, saw vehicles overturned on the edges of roads, trees knocked down, and abandoned, flooded houses.

"I returned from Derna. It is very disastrous. Bodies are lying everywhere - in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings," Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation and member of the emergency committee in the administration that controls the east, told Reuters by phone.

 "The number of bodies recovered in Derna is more 1,000," he said. "I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed."

Abu Chkiouat later told Al Jazeera that he expected the total number of dead across the country to reach more than 2,500, as the number of missing people was rising.

Tamer Ramadan, head of a delegation of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunisia: "We can confirm from our independent sources of information that the number of missing people is hitting 10,000 so far."

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/more-than-1000-bodies-recovered-libyan-city-after-floods-minister-2023-09-12/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDQgAKgYICjC3oAwwsCYw4b3HAg&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AfHvTEs704XcnbY5DKJ9ogHRM1d8ytVQNm8Xt-06cUlOl11JXq4_0qfequdDJD1DybT7bg2bBOxYWBQUMvMVLxmVPSLs&gaa_ts=65006680&gaa_sig=cTemNtBN9muCMtEAdEgfks67dKYeu7kWbpl-kVJOWhUN_1Hg2EC077OTPnAzA-O9-y11g-jEIi-VqDyxnp853A%3D%3D

2500 Dead in Earthquake

 We know there will be the worst earthquakes ever during the great Tribulation.  So what we are seeing now is the foreshadowing of these massive quakes.  “There will be earthquakes”, said Jesus when asked about the Last Days.  It’s also a reminder to us all how quickly death can come to any of us.  One 8 year old boy went into the house for a knife to cut a melon.  He died and his family survived.

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• Summary

• Morocco suffers most lethal quake since 1960
• Extent of damage yet to become clear
• Man recounts death of son under rubble
• Rescue teams from Spain, Britain, Qatar arrive
• Morocco may accept aid offers from other countries -TV

IMGDAL, Morocco, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Rescuers on Monday searched villages reduced to rubble for any survivors of Morocco's deadliest earthquake in more than six decades, in a desperate race against time as the death toll rose to almost 2,500 and the scale of destruction became clearer.

Search teams from Spain, Britain and Qatar were joining efforts to find people buried under debris after a 6.8 magnitude quake struck late on Friday night in the High Atlas Mountains, with the epicentre 72 km (45 miles) southwest of Marrakech.

In the village of Tafeghaghte, Hamid ben Henna described how his eight-year-old son died under wreckage after he had gone to fetch a knife from the kitchen to cut a melon as the family were having their evening meal. The rest of the family survived.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rescuers-race-find-survivors-over-48-hours-after-morocco-quake-2023-09-11/

Will September be a Month to Remember?

 I plucked this article from the Nearing Midnight section in Rapture Ready.  They have 2 new articles for it every Monday morning and it reflects what’s on the minds of the two guys who are in charge.  It would appear that September is going to be a month where the globalists are going to get together a lot and decide the fates of everyone else when it comes to climate change, farming, eating meat, driving cars, carbon credits and how best to worship Mother Earth.  Of course there will be zero conversation about worshiping  the Creator but only on worshiping the created things.

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A glance at the UN calendar for September clearly reveals their agenda. I took the following from https://www.un.org/events/81993:

September 7, 2023: International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies

September 16, 2023: International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone layer

September 18-19, 2023: SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Summit

September 20, 2023: Climate Ambition Summit

The quote below is taken from the UN’s website regarding the upcoming SDG Summit, September 18-19, during which time the globalists at the UN will ask the leaders of the world to commit to a seven-year initiative to achieve all the SDG goals of Agenda 2030:

The SDG Summit in September 2023 must signal a genuine turning point. It must mobilize the political commitment and breakthroughs our world desperately needs. It must deliver a rescue plan for people and planet.

At the center of this rescue plan, Heads of State and Government must recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained, and transformative action, both nationally and internationally, to deliver on the promise of the SDGs. Leaders can show their resolve by adopting an ambitious and forward-looking political declaration at the SDG Summit and presenting global and national commitments for SDG transformation.

I know the readers of the Nearing Midnight column recognize the agenda behind the UN’s call to action regarding the so-called climate emergency. It’s all about the formation of a one-world government on the wings of crisis, which the globalists claim requires their solution. But it’s all a ruse.

Is it not also revealing that they are thinking in terms of a “seven-year initiative”? Since it doesn’t involve Israel, it’s not the covenant that will start the Tribulation. But wow, they are thinking in terms of a seven-year agreement!

It’s nothing short of prophecy coming to life. The SDGs go far beyond their contrived climate emergency; they point to a world where a totalitarian government enslaves people under a communist regime. The Bible says this will happen during the Tribulation.

Here are just a few of the fallacies that lie behind the power-hungry oligarchs at the World Economic Forum (WEF), UN, and many other organizations telling us that a one-world government is the only answer to the current climate emergency.

They are the ones damaging the environment. The last phrase of Revelation 11:18 aligns well with the deception agenda of the climate alarmists that call for draconian measures to avoid certain doom.

“The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” (Emphasis added)

The globalists are themselves damaging the environment with fires and train derailments spilling hazardous materials. The frequency of these things suggests that an evil motive lies behind most, if not all, of these catastrophes. They start the fires and then tell us that “climate change” is the culprit.

The sight of chemical trails in the sky is not the illusion of conspiracy theorists. One day this past summer, I looked up to see at least fifteen trails left by planes all bunched together in the western sky. They couldn’t be contrails because we never have so many planes flying that close to our home in such a short time, and the pattern in the sky was larger and lasted much longer than with contrails I had seen in the past.

In his book, Spirit of the Antichrist, Volume One, pastor and prophecy speaker J.B. Hixon devoted an entire chapter (pages 111-129) to evidence regarding the geoengineering of weather by the government. He listed fourteen articles from Popular Science magazine from 2005 to 2021, all dealing with the science of changing weather patterns through geoengineering.

Those warning us of the changing weather patterns are the very ones manipulating them so they can claim that they are evidence of the “climate emergency.”

Scientists don’t agree that a climate emergency exists. Just last month, a group of 1,609 scientists from all around the world, including 321 such U.S. professionals, signed a statement stating that there “is no climate emergency.” They said, “The coalition pointed out that Earth’s climate has varied as long as it has existed, with the planet experiencing several cold and warm phases.” (https://www.ntd.com/over-1600-scientists-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration_938916.html)

The promoters of the climate emergency fraud know it’s a lie. The behavior of those shouting the loudest for drastic action betrays their words. Many of them own multiple mansions (some at sea level), possess multiple cars and yachts, and fly all over the world in private jets. Their multiple failed predictions of doom fail to wake up those deceived by the fallacy of their repeated warnings of doom.

The world leaders who will agree to the seven-year plan of the UN at their meeting later this month are also well aware that there’s no crisis; it’s all about a quest for power and riches. They believe their obedience to the agenda will be rewarded in the future.

This great deception of our day, and it’s certainly not the only one, reminds me of the first words Jesus spoke when asked about the last days. “Take heed that no man deceive you” (Matthew 24:4). Even the lies of globalists reveal that we live in the last days.

The sad reality for this world is that Satan’s deception will get a whole lot worse after Jesus takes us to Heaven, although it’s difficult for me to imagine a greater acceptance of outright lies than what we already see happening today. How close must we be to our homegoing if we are already witnessing such mass deception on such a vast scale?

Will September be a month to remember with the UN furthering its one-world government agenda on the road to unwittingly fulfilling more prophecy? That’s likely to happen.

Could this be the month of our homegoing? Only time will tell. But if our calendars should turn to October and we are still here, please know that Jesus is coming for us very, very soon. He will keep His promise to take us home before His wrath descends on the world.

Maranatha!

-Jonathan

Details of Saudi Plan to Divide the Holy Land

We already know that things don’t go well for those who would divide God’s Holy Land. This article is interesting in that it has the Saudis (Sheba and Dedan) involved in a plan that USA is mediating.  Look for earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods for any nation that starts carving up the Holy Land.  Or maybe look for America to have Left and Right become so divided that Washington DC ceases to function because there is no common ground to be found. “You divide my land and I will divide your land.”

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As I discussed the other day, the United States is the mediator for these negotiations, and it is being reported that the Biden administration wants to get an agreement finalized “before the end of the first quarter of next year”.

Joe Biden is quite concerned about his legacy, and he knows that there is no guarantee that he will win in 2024.

The Saudis are also quite motivated to get a deal done, because they realize that a deal may not be possible once a Republican enters the White House.

So the clock is ticking, and even though the “major elements of a potential normalization agreement” have been hashed out, we are being told there is still much work to be done…

On June 8th, 2022 an article that was authored by a very close confidant of Mohammed Bin Salman named Ali Shihabi set forth the details of this plan.

According to Shihabi, this new entity “would include present-day Jordan, Gaza, and the West Bank”…

This proposed enlarged kingdom would include present-day Jordan, Gaza, and the West Bank (areas populated by Palestinians attached in a contiguous manner and physically connected to Jordan, i.e., not broken up into islands). Israeli arguments as to the need to retain the Jordan Valley become moot since the valley will now be controlled by a Jordanian government with a reliable record of maintaining peace with Israel. The convenient argument that Israel has no “peace partner” will now also be eliminated.

Shihabi seems to think that Israel would agree to this if the Palestinians were to relinquish all claims to the city of Jerusalem…

Jerusalem, despite the fact that neither Arabs nor Muslims have a hope of dislodging Israel from it, is, given its symbolism, a key bargaining chip in Palestinian hands. The formal relinquishment of any claims to Jerusalem (with an appropriate arrangement for the holy places) can be an important concession used to secure the foregoing terms. The Palestinians, after all, are the only party who can do this and, hence, completely legitimize Israel in the eyes of the region and the world.

 https://endoftheamericandream.com/details-of-saudi-arabias-shocking-plan-to-divide-the-holy-land/