Perilous Times

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. (2 Timothy 3:1-9)


Since Rosh Hashanah (Sept 13-14, 2007) the beginning of the New Year 2008, everything both spiritual and natural has intensified greatly.

Natural disasters:

On September 12th, 2007, a powerful magnitude 8.4 earthquake hit near southern Sumatra. This was followed by numerous other quakes and aftershocks with magnitudes up to 7.4. Homes, shopping malls, and especially Moslem mosques were heavily damaged. Tall buildings as far as twelve hundred miles away swayed dramatically. Ten people were known to be dead, but the injuries were numerous.(Associated Press, Sep. 12, 2007, by Robin McDowell, Jakarta, Indonesia.)

As of October 1st, 2007, there had been 356 major earthquakes in the past thirty days with a magnitude of 4.0 or greater. The quakes seem to be getting stronger and more frequent, especially in the Pacific Rim area.

U.S. - world quake activity unusually high

On September 30th, 2007, an island in the Red Sea was ripped apart and destroyed by a powerful volcano. The island of Jazirt Mount al-Tair, about 80 miles from Yemen, collapsed as lava spewed hundreds of feet into the air, and volcanic ash reached levels of over one thousand feet above the Red Sea. The lava gave off an eerie green glow as the ground opened, and soldiers who were stationed there were burned alive. The eruption was preceded by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake two days before. (The Daily Main, Oct. 1, 2007, London, England, U.K.)

Droughts and Severe flooding at the same time!

Fifty percent of the contiguous United States is in a condition of severe drought. (Associated Press, Oct. 9, 2007, Dept. of Commerce & NOAA) Recent reports have indicated that thirty-six states now face water shortages. (Associated Press, Oct. 26, 2007, by Brian Skoloff, West Palm Beach, FL.) In Georgia, lakes are drying up, and the large city of Atlanta now has less than a ninety-day water supply and no plan for solving the problem. Officials have specifically stated that there is no backup plan if the faucets run dry! (Associated Press, Oct. 19, 2007, by Greg Bluestein, Atlanta, GA.)

There was severe flooding in parts of Mexico at the beginning of November 2007, which displaced nearly a million people. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 3, 2007, by Antonio Villegas, AP Villahermosa, Mexico.) In Bangladesh, an unusual cyclone hit a heavily populated Moslem area and almost instantly killed 15,000 people. (London Daily Telegraph, Nov. 18, 2007, by Peter Foster, Bangladesh.)

Troops use rafts to evacuate flooded Oregon town

Flooded Interstate 5 shut down - truckers wait it out at a cost of $4M per day

Washington Governor: Flood Damage Will Be Costly

ABC News: Ice Storm Approaches 'Biblical Proportions' 12/11/2007 A massive storm that dropped sleet and freezing rain across the nation's midsection, leaving nearly a million utility customers without electricity, finally tapered off, but another wintry blast was forecast to develop Wednesday over the southern Plains. The new system was expected to bring more sleet and freezing rain to Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas, but not nearly as much as the previous storm, according to the National Weather Service.

God has been exposing many of the Apostate leaders for what they are.

On November 8th, 2007, televangelist Pat Robertson rejected the Christian candidate and Minister Mike Huckabee and endorsed the "pro choice", "pro sodomite" candidate Rudy Giuliani for President of the United States(Cox News Service, Nov. 8, 2007, Washington, D.C.).

John Hagee Denies Jesus is the Messiah (video)

11/24/2007 Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts resigned Friday following nearly two months of allegations that he and his family misused university and ministry resources.

Nov. 6, 2007 Senate Panel Probes 6 Top Televangelists
Half of those — Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar and Benny Hinn — serve as Oral Roberts University regents. The remaining three are Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Eddie Long.

UPDATE 12/11/2007 Creflo Dollar resigned from the regents, and Benny Hinn is now a "regent emeritus" with no voting power.
The evangelist Creflo Dollar has resigned from the Oral Roberts University board of regents, and another evangelist, Benny Hinn, has lost his status as a voting member of the board. ORU's spokesman Jeremy Burton confirmed Wednesday that Dollar had resigned and that Hinn had been named a "regent emeritus" without a vote on the board. Both refused last week to respond to a Senate inquiry into lavish spending by evangelists.


Nine shot in two Colorado church related attacks (the church Ted Haggard started)

Attacks Force Churches to Boost Security
"Some of the nation's estimated 1,200 megachurches—places where more than 2,000 worshippers gather each week—have been quietly beefing up security in recent years, even using armed guards to protect the faithful. At Potter's House, a Dallas mega church led by star pastor T.D. Jakes, a private security company employs a team of armed, unarmed, uniformed and plainclothes guards that keep watch over crowds in the thousands."

(Makes you wonder what the apostles who willing gave their lives would think of that. Christians, who are suppose to do like Jesus did and "not resist even to death".
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Are there any real Christian witnesses out there?)
(Acts 8:3) But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison. What if the first Christians defended themselves against Saul (who became Paul) and in doing so, killed him? Even if they saved a few Christians at the time, we would not have more that half the New Testament today!

UPDATE Dec. 14, 2007
Fundamentalist Christian Bob Jones University using RFID spy-chips to track vehicles
Dec. 13, 2007 - With some creative engineering and brick-building from within its own ranks, a few RFID readers and a couple thousand decals with embedded EPC Gen 2 RFID tags, Bob Jones University (BJU), located in Greenville, S.C., is tracking vehicles as they enter and leave the campus' main parking lot.

See HERE what was happening behind the scenes to unite the world religions. Also take note of the dates (10/13/06) of the original start of these signed peace agreements and the later date (10/12/07) with the Christian response A Common Word Between You and Us

Also note that on 10/12/07 this article was published. "A Common Word Between You and Us" is a letter signed by hundreds of Christian leaders including Rick Warren. Not long after fires broke out in southern California not far from Rick Warren's Saddleback church. Also see Rick Warren asks for Allah's forgiveness

On October 23rd, 2007, fires began to break out in southern California. Soon there were twenty fires burning, and they produced an inferno that would stagger the imagination. Dry winds of over eighty miles per hour fed the flames and spread them everywhere. Rich and lavish homes burst into flames and sent movie stars running to evacuate the area. It was like a blowtorch hitting Malibu. (Associated Press, Oct. 23, 2007, by Lynn Elber, Los Angeles, CA)

One of the twenty fires was called the witch fire, and the winds were called the devil winds. As many as 350,000 homes were evacuated, and more than one million people were forced to evacuate and escape the walls of roaring flames. Many hundreds of lavish homes were reduced to ashes. (Associated Press, Oct. 23, 2007, by Allison Hoffman and Gillian Flaccus, San Diego, CA.)

Newspaper headlines from coast to coast and even overseas declared: End of the World, Armageddon, and Hell on Earth! (New York Daily News, Oct. 23, 2007, New York, NY.)

Economy: (note: I posted an update on 7/16/07 that included what we felt the Lord was showing NL about the stock market, that it would fall and become unstable.)

On July 28th, 2007, the Associated Press reported that the Dow and S&P had their worst week in five years, losing 208 points in two days. (1) Two days later, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stated that the national debt ceiling would have to be raised beyond the current 8.965 trillion dollars. (2) This is an astronomical amount and it keeps getting worse.

On August 9th, 2007, the Dow Jones industrials sunk by 387 points and precipitated a worldwide reaction. (3)

On August 15th, 2007, the Associated Press reported that existing home sales were falling in forty-one states. (4) There are now 5,100,000 homes for sale in the United States, which is an average of 102,000 per state. One of every six home owners in America is now facing potential foreclosure!

On September 6th, 2007, the Federal Reserve turned on the money pump and injected 31.25 billion dollars into the markets to keep them from drying up. (5)

Then, on September 21st, 2007, the sheiks of the United Arab Emirates bought twenty percent of Nasdaq. (6) This is a huge percentage of that market to be bought by foreign interests. On September 22nd, 2007, the U.S. Federal Government suspended the sale of Treasury notes, because they cannot afford to pay the interest with the current debt ceiling. (7)

In other words, as the saying goes, they are robbing Peter to pay Paul. The sad fact is that the United States of America is hopelessly bankrupt, and the truth of that fact is becoming increasingly obvious. We must remember that when the supply of money is increased, it diminishes the value of all existing money.

1. Associated Press, Jul. 28, 2007, by Tim Paradis, New York, NY.
2. Associated Press, Jul. 30, 2007, by Jeannine Aversa, Washington, D.C.
3. Associated Press, Aug. 9, 2007, by Tim Paradis, New York, NY.
4. Associated Press, Aug. 15, 2007, by Martin Crutsinger, Washington, D.C.
5. AFP News, Sep. 6, 2007, New York, NY.
6. WorldNetDaily, Sep. 21, 2007, by Jerome R. Corsi, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/.
7. West Bend News, Sep. 22, 2007, AP, Washington, D.C.

UPDATE: December 12, 2007
Central banks pumping billions into world financial system
NEW YORK:
Central banks in Europe and North America moved Wednesday to increase the amount of money they could lend to banks and to make it more readily available in an attempt to ease the credit squeeze.
It was the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon that these central banks have coordinated their support of financial markets.

Government mortgage lender Freddie Mac facing another record loss


Goverments:

On September 15th, 2007, the London Times featured a story which shook the White House. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan openly declared that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was not terrorism, but oil. (The London Times, Sep. 16, 2007, by Graham Peterson, London, England, U.K.)

More trouble in the Whitehouse as God is exposing there as well. We learn of C.I.A video tapes that have been destroyed. And now learn that Iran may have stopped nuke program years ago. Who is lying….someone is?

Also.....it seems America was making deals with Iran (apart from Israel). See this article "Bush Embarks on Saudi-Brokered Deal with Tehran"also this article Could this be why America is now saying Iran is not developing nuclear weapons?

Everything is moving so quickly now as governments and religions unite. On October 18th, 2007, the New European Treaty was approved at Lisbon, Portugal. It is scheduled to be signed on the 13th day of December 2007, and it is to take effect and be in force as of January 1st, 2009. The treaty for this United States of Europe calls for: 1. One President over all twenty-seven nations of the European Union to be elected every two and one-half years. 2. One minister for all external affairs. 3. One universal police and justice system. (ERT News, Oct. 20, 2007, ERT Radio, Athens, Greece)

And….consider this Is this the making of Daniels covenant with many? - Annapolis participants included many nations

UPDATE 12/12/2007
Palestinians want 'low-key' peace talks
Negotiations on permanent agreement to begin Wednesday at King David Hotel in Jerusalem; PA asks that talks be kept on low profile due to IDF operation in Gaza
Israeli officials said the negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent agreement will commence as scheduled on Wednesday, in accordance with the understandings reached at the Annapolis summit 15 days ago.