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Prophecy News Watch Newsletter
Prophecy News Watch Newsletter
For The Week Of October 6, 2008
Biblical Prophecy In The News
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com
Keeping You Informed of World Events From A Biblical Perspective
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"You can't imagine how I felt when I read the Bible and found so much that describes the Mahdi who I had learned so much about growing up. The shock to me was that, while a character identical to my Mahdi was seen throughout the pages of the Bible, the character was not called "the Mahdi", but rather "the Antichrist"
Walid Shoebat - Former Palestinian Terrorist & Author of God's War On Terror
God's War on Terror : Islam, Prophecy & The Bible (Hardcover Book)
- Does the Bible predict a final Islamic Empire and an Islamic Antichrist?
- How the Islamic End-Times mindset perfectly matches the spirit of Antichrist
- End time nations and coalitions that oppose God in the last days - all are Islamic today
-43 parallels that exist between the Biblical Antichrist and the Islamic Mahdi
- What is the Mark of the Beast and it's relationship to Islam?
Islam & The End Times 3 DVD Set:
In this three disc set, author and teacher Joel Richardson presents the Islamic End Time Theory that is now gaining a wide acceptance among the Body of Christ. This DVD set is a personal invitation from Joel to join the many who are examining this theory and discovering the Scriptural foundation for an Islamic Antichrist to be overwhelming.
- Introduction the The Islamic End-Time Paradigm
- Daniel 2 & The Islamic Empire
- Understanding the Theology of the Antichrist
- An Hour and a Half of Q&A
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Feds launch dragnet to stop 'October surprise' attack (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
As Pakistani investigators hunt the terrorists behind the massive Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad, FBI agents in the U.S. have begun aggressively hunting for Americans who have recently returned from trips to Pakistan where they may have trained at al-Qaida camps, WND has learned. A coast-to-coast dragnet has been launched partly in response to leads developed in the arrest of one of al-Qaida's "fixers" in the U.S., say FBI officials.
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Report warns of dangers to US with rise of China (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The United States needs new weapon systems, including missile defenses and other advanced military capabilities, to deter and counter China's steady buildup of nuclear and conventional arms, according to a draft internal report by a State Department advisory board. The report, by the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), is the first to recommend such defenses against China, including technology in space. The draft, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, said Chinese strategy goes beyond building forces capable of retaking the island of Taiwan.
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Russia Preparing For Confrontation with US & Nato? (Where is the United States in Prophecy?)
Russia announced an overhaul of its strategic nuclear forces and army yesterday, in the clearest sign yet that Moscow may be preparing for a possible full-scale military confrontation with the US and Nato. Speaking after Russia carried out its biggest military exercises since the cold war, Dmitry Medvedev, the president, said Russia would build a space defence system and a fleet of nuclear submarines by 2020.
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Preparing for financial apocalypse, Americans Stock up (Where is the United States in Prophecy?)
Some are hunkering down for the economic apocalypse. Others say they are merely stocking up on essentials for a worst-case scenario. In Marysville — and across the country — September's financial disasters have been driving Americans into survival supply stores for Meals Ready-to-Eat, and other emergency goods for long-term storage.
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Does Livni Share Olmert's Plan To Give Away Golan, Most of Eastern Jerusalem? (Israel - God's Timepiece)
Israel must give away the Golan Heights and most of eastern Jerusalem, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview with the Hebrew daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot on Friday. In the weekend interview the lame duck prime minister maintained, "One more hill, another 100 meters – this is not what is going to change the security of Israel." Olmert said that Damascus would be forced to end its ties with Iran in exchange for peace and Israel's relinquishing the Golan Heights. Olmert vowed exactly two years ago this week, "As long as I am prime minister, we shall not give up the Golan for all eternity!" His current statements, coming at the tail end of his reign while Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni tries to form a new government, now present the new Kadima party chairwoman with a policy she may have no choice but to accept.
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Hamas Awaiting Fatah's Collapse (Israel - God's Timepiece)
The Hamas chapter in Hevron (Hebron) - a city largely under the control of the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority - says that the Fatah government must "not be talked with, but rather gotten rid of." In a declaration issued by the terrorist organization branch office in Hevron, Hamas states that the collapse of the Fatah regime in Judea and Samaria is "just a matter of time." So reports the Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq al-Aussat. About 100 people were killed in June 2007 when Hamas took over control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah. Hamas has set the destruction of Israel as its goal, and has carried out some of the worst terrorist slaughters against Israel over the past 15 years.
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Egypt to host 'Annapolis 2' peace summit in November (Israel - God's Timepiece)
An international summit is to be held in Egypt in November, with representatives from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the members of the Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. According to a senior official in Jerusalem, the Israeli and PA participants will brief the Quartet over progress made in the ongoing peace talks. The gathering is said to be the result of a compromise between the U.S., Israel and the Palestinians. In recent months U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been urging both sides to draft a document detailing the points of agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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Russian nuclear stealth bomber was able to fly within 90 seconds of the British coast without being picked up by radar (The Gog/Magog War)
A Russian nuclear stealth bomber was able to fly within 90 seconds of the British coast without being picked up by radar, it was revealed today. The supersonic ‘Blackjack’ jet flew completely undetected to within just 20 miles from Hull in one of the worst breaches of British security since the end of the Cold War. RAF radar eventually picked up the plane, but the only two pairs of fighter jets used for air alerts were on other duties. The embarrassing breach late last year has called into question Britain's defence capabilities after four jet squadrons were cut from the RAF’s budget four years ago.
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Russia to deploy new nuclear missile (The Gog/Magog War)
Russia hopes to deploy a new nuclear missile next year designed to penetrate anti-missile defenses and will build eight submarines to carry it, defense officials said this week. The latest statements underline Moscow's determination to upgrade its nuclear strike forces on land, sea and air. They are regarded by Russian commanders as the cornerstone of the country's defenses. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have both pledged to extend Russia's recent military build-up with extra funds to buy new, high-tech arms. On Wednesday, Putin announced an extra $3.1 billion of spending next year, partly to replace equipment lost in the Georgia war.
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Russian nuclear missile cruiser to dock at Syrian port on Yom Kippur eve (The Gog/Magog War)
Russian Navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo has disclosed that a four-ship squadron led by the Peter the Great nuclear missile cruiser will call in at the Libyan port of Tripoli and “other Middle East ports” before heading out to the Caribbean for joint maneuvers with Venezuela. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that one of those ports is Tartus, Syria, where preparations are afoot to receive the visiting Russian flotilla. Peter the Great , one of the most advanced naval vessels afloat, may in fact anchor at the new facility the Russians are building at Syria’s second major port, Latakia, for its first visit to Syria; the rest of the squadron,
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Russia using food exports to expand influence (The Gog/Magog War)
The largest wheat harvest in 15 years is expected to yield 51 million tons, of which a record-breaking 15 million are earmarked for export. Only the US and Canada are expected to export more. The boom comes as the Kremlin’s influence in the Middle East grows, with trade volumes at record levels and increasing collaboration in the energy sector. Russia’s grain trade may prove as controversial as its involvement in energy markets, because it was announced in July that the industry, now mainly in the hands of private traders, would soon be amalgamated into one trading company under Kremlin control. Iraq has bought 200,000 tons of Russian hard milling wheat at $300 a ton. It is the second large sale of Russian wheat since July.
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Televangelist's ex-husband seeks new wife on Web (Apostate Christianity)
The ex-husband of national televangelist Juanita Bynum, who divorced after a parking lot fight between the two landed him in jail, plans to take his search for a new wife to the Internet with videos featuring dating tips and what he's looking for in a mate. Thomas W. Weeks III, a minister who runs an Atlanta-area church and is known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, said the 10-episode series will be available starting Tuesday on his Web site. Excerpts available Friday included Weeks, 41, discussing with aides what he should look for in his third wife.
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Presbyterian Church fails to enforce Church discipline, displaying "one of the most absurd decisions ever rendered by an ecclesiastical court" (Apostate Christianity)
Three years after conducting a wedding ceremony for a lesbian couple, the Rev. Janet Edwards was acquitted on charges of violating Scripture and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s constitution. The Permanent Judicial Commission (PJC) of the Pittsburgh Presbytery ruled unanimously 9-0 to clear the minister on the grounds that she could not have performed the ceremony since the church and state define marriage as between a man and a woman.
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U.K. Court Recognizes Threat to Christian Converts From Islam (The Rise of Islam)
A U.K. immigration court of appeals has for the first time recognized the life threatening circumstances of Muslim converts to Christianity by granting asylum to a Syrian evangelical Christian couple. In an unprecedented victory, the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ) helped a young couple (whose identity is being withheld for security reasons) gain refugee status in the United Kingdom. The court recognized that the couple would face real physical threats, including death, if they return to Syria, the country of origin of the husband. The appeal was granted on both asylum and human rights grounds.
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EU Pressures Iran to Drop Apostasy Bill (The Rise of Islam)
A Christian human rights group applauded the European Union for issuing a declaration to Iran that urged the repressive state to drop its draft apostasy bill and to release Christian converts from detention. “We warmly welcome this strong reaction from the EU to Iran’s proposed apostasy bill,” said Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s advocacy director, Tina Lambert, in a statement Tuesday. “If the legislation is passed by the Iranian parliament there will be dire consequences for thousands of Christians living in Iran.” In September, Iran’s parliament had overwhelmingly approved a bill, named the Islamic Penal Code, which would punish apostasy with the death penalty.
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Americans Clueless About Plans to Create New Life Forms (Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies)
If you've never heard of the exciting field of synthetic biology, you're not alone, but you might want to get wise to the field's controversial promise to create life from scratch. About two-thirds of U.S. residents are clueless as well, having never heard of the synthetic biology. Only 2 percent in a new telephone survey of 1,003 adults said they have heard a lot about the work, which crosses biology with technology and promises to create forms of life that Nature never thought of. Synthetic biologists engineer and build or redesign living organisms, such as bacteria, to carry out specific functions. The field is a scientific playground for the genetic code, where previously nonexistent DNA is formulated in test tubes.
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GPS 'spoofing' could threaten national security (Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies)
Computers have been hacked for decades. But now, scientists at Cornell University and Virginia Tech are now warning about the dangers of "spoofing," or hacking into the Global Positioning System (GPS) that controls everything from car navigation to national power grids. "The average person doesn't realize how much infrastructure is based on GPS and how vulnerable it is," said Brent Ledvina of Virginia Tech, who helped build a spoofer to show weaknesses in the system. "But the truth is that a lot can be done about these vulnerabilities."
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Evangelicals see moral decline in Wall St. woes (Christian Worldview/Issues)
Conservative U.S. Christians say the culture has gone to hell and it has taken the economy and Wall Street down with it. It is a view which outsiders may find puzzling but has wide resonance in the U.S. heartland: the notion that moral decay and a lost sense of responsibility has brought on the worst banking and credit crisis since the Great Depression. Mounting consumer and household debt as housing prices fall is one of the main reasons behind the current crisis -- a crisis that religious conservatives say has moral roots. The narrative goes roughly like this: the "collapse" of the traditional family, widespread divorce and a "permissive" culture have led to a disregard for personal responsibility. A culture focused on instant gratification -- through the overuse of credit cards to buy consumer goods, for example -- has also lost other "traditional values" such as thrift and hard work.
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Russia: 64% of Pregnancies End in Abortion, thousands left infertile from abortion complications (Christian Worldview/Issues)
Alarmingly high abortion rates in Russia are leaving an increasing number of women infertile, said Marina Tarasova, deputy head of the St. Petersburg Research Institute For Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at an international conference on Monday. The St. Petersburg Times reported that with 64 percent of Russian women procuring abortions, 200,000 to 250,000 women each year are stripped of their biological ability to procreate because of permanent effects from the procedure. "Over the past five years, female infertility in Russia has increased by 14 percent, and over 1.5 million Russians need advanced medical technology to become pregnant and maintain a healthy pregnancy," Tarasova said. She also mentioned that by the end of last year, there were 5.5 million infertile couples in the country.
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Why Sunday Remains The Most Segregated Day Of The Week (Christian Worldview/Issues)
The Rev. Paul Earl Sheppard had recently become the senior pastor of a suburban church in California when a group of parishioners came to him with a disturbing personal question. They were worried because the racial makeup of their small church was changing. They warned Sheppard that the church's newest members would try to seize control because members of their race were inherently aggressive. What was he was going to do if more of "them" tried to join their church? "One man asked me if I was prepared for a hostile takeover," says Sheppard, pastor of Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Mountain View, California. The nervous parishioners were African-American, and the church's newcomers were white. Sheppard says the experience demonstrated why racially integrated churches are difficult to create and even harder to sustain. Some blacks as well as whites prefer segregated Sundays, religious scholars and members of interracial churches say. Americans may be poised to elect a black man for president, but it's segregation as usual in U.S. churches, according to the scholars.
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The Trouble with School Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion (Christian Worldview/Issues)
A new study reveals that if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to criticize the nation of Israel before the United Nations, he could use American public school textbooks to do so. "It is shocking to find the kind of misinformation we discovered in American textbooks and supplemental materials being used by schools in every state in the country," said Dr. Gary Tobin, president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research and a co-author of the study. "Elected officials at every level should investigate how these offensive passages are creeping into our textbooks. Presenting false information in the classroom undermines the very foundation of the American educational system," he said. Tobin teamed with insititute research associate Dennis Ybarra for the study, titled, "The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion." The five-year effort, which looked at 28 prominent history, geography and social studies textbooks, reveals American public school students are being loaded up with indoctrination about Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Middle East, to the cost of Christianity and Judaism and the benefit of Islam.
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Foreign economists urge creation of new global financial system after US failures (Other World Events To Watch)
Leaders and economists from Western Europe to East Asia are urging the United States to go beyond the domestic bailout and start working on a new global financial system. "The Americans don't have a choice — they must absolutely have a global plan," Christian Noyer, head of the French central bank, said in Paris. David Smick, a global strategist and author of "The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers of the Global Economy," said the next U.S. president should immediately call for a second "Bretton Woods" conference to devise a new doctrine of international finance.
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