[Shekel]

lifeinhim61, on Sep 25 2005, 12:23 PM, said:

Thank you Shekel for the recent codes and explanation.  I know it must be very exhausting to bring forth the Word and I am praying for you every single day.  I know the Truth will set me free, and this forum is helping me get through some rough periods in my life.  In understanding the world around me and having faith in God and our Lord Jesus Christ, will I be saved.

Blessed be His Almighty Name forever... Amen.
May Shekel continue on in his commitment to bring forth the Truth.

Thank you for the encouragement.

[Shekel]

Leia, on Sep 25 2005, 06:09 PM, said:

wernotalone, on Sep 25 2005, 06:34 AM, said:

ll Power and Glory and Grace and BLESSINGS belongs to Christ our Lord, in him we pray and beleive.
And we shall have no other Gods before you.
He is the beginning and end the Alpha and Omega.
AND HEAVEN AND EARTH are his footstool....we worship you LORD Jesus, we come to your feet to worship your HOLY NAME.

To you ALL HONOR AND GLORY....and the HEAVENS DECLARE IT
SO SHALL WE ALL

NOT BY MIGHT, NOT BY POWER, BUT BY THE SPIRIT SAYETH THE LORD OUR GOD ALMIGHTY!

Wernotalone,

This feels so right to the soul. Perhaps it is the antichrist taking the glory for all the physical laws that God created in the first place. "See what I (we) can do?" rather than"See how God's laws and creations can be used?"

If it is the case that antichrist and the hurricanes are connected, wouldn't it just be so appropriate for God to hurl one at such a place using those huricane names at the time of the festival to the major God? Fire with fire.....snakes with snakes......?

But that is what continues to bother me about my Christian walk. If God says something, whether it is through the scriptures or through current events, am I not to take such statements to heart? Is He saying anything? If so, what? And then "Am I guilty too?" I believe the lesson here is "I created the elements" and "I AM the only God adn there shall be no others before me".

SO......these gods that He named through hurricanes, and these these festivals to the gods that He is throwing tornadoes at... are Christians being called to get rid of physical identification to them becausee we were freed from the bondage of them?

Leia

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If God says something, whether it is through the scriptures or through current events, am I not to take such statements to heart?  Is He saying anything?  If so, what?  And then "Am I guilty too?"  I believe the lesson here is "I created the elements" and "I AM the only God adn there shall be no others before me".

Yes, this is what God is saying. He is NOT saying that we should change our names that we were born with or anything like that. It is purely a heart thing. Some of the christians in the bible had pagan names, "One says I am of Peter, another I am of Apollos..." Apollo (Apollos) is a greek god, yet this great christians retained this pagan name. Even many of the names of our months and days are pagan gods, but we are wrong if we think we can't use these names to communicate with others in this world. It is a matter of the heart only! Moses was a pagan name, he was named by Pharoh's daughter. He didn't change his name, nor should we, unless God tells us otherwise for some reason.

What matters is the heart before God, and NASA and the scientific community in general are glroifying the gods of mythology as if to say that the bible itself is just a myth. This is what is so wrong, and this is what God will judge, for He is a jealous God! But to have a pagan name does not matter. It's whether one has a pagan heart that matters!

[Shekel]

Even though Rita was directed by God to land at the best spot for least damage --- still the storm will be in the top 10 or perhaps top 5 for damage. But it could have been much worse than Katrina had not God heard the cry of His people.

Yet, is this just another one-year warning?

Last year Ivan, too, looked like it might hit New Orleans with 100,000 dead, but it swerved to the right and spared them. But 360 days later Katrina finished the job. Ivan was a warning of what was to come in one year's time.

Is the pattern repeating itself?

Now Hurricane Rita swerved to the right and spared Houston. But will another hurricane form next year that will strike Houston Texas? (And NASA in Houston?) Was Rita a warning of this coming storm?

It seems this is what the Lord spoke to my heart yesterday, but I am not 100% sure yet. I am pondering if I heard Him right. Perhaps the time frame is wrong. But I do believe that hurricane Rita was the Lord's gracious warning of what will happen unless America repents of her Babylonian "we-will-ascend-to-the-heavens-and-dethrone-God" attitude!


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CNN
Rita could still prove costly
Significant damage expected, even though early loss estimates of up to $7B are lower than feared.
September 26, 2005: 7:25 AM EDT


A flooded refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, following the hit by Hurricane Rita. Insured losses from the storm could reach $7 billion, according to one

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Hurricane Rita apparently caused far lower insured losses than did Hurricane Katrina, but it may still prove to be one of the nation's most costly storms.

Early damage estimates from three major catastrophe risk modeling companies put insured losses at between $2.5 billion to $7 billion in eastern Texas and western Louisiana. That would be far less than earlier feared when Rita was a Category 5 hurricane headed towards the Galveston-Houston area last week. It came ashore as a category 3 hurricane in the less populated area near the Texas-Louisiana border.

Still one of the firms, Risk Management Solutions, put the insured losses at between $3 billion to $5 billion in onshore damage resulting from wind, storm surge, and rainfall-related flood hazards, with another $1 billion to $2 billion in damage to offshore oil platforms and lost production. Losses of $3 billion would be enough to make this the 10th most costly storm in U.S. history, when earlier storm damage is adjusted for inflation. A loss of $7.0 billion would be enough to make it the fifth most costly storm, just behind 2004's Hurricane Ivan.

RMS said the damage is comparable to Hurricane Charley, which generated an estimated $7.5 billion in insurance claims in August 2004, making it the second most costly storm at that time, behind only Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Since then, Hurricane Katrina may have produced insured losses of between $14 billion to $60 billion. The wide range of estimates is because the costs of Katrina are still being compiled.

"Hurricane Rita is comparable to last year's Charley in that its damage is spread across a low population density region of agricultural and fishing- related industries," said Kyle Beatty, a meteorologist with RMS. "There is also notable damage to offshore platforms, refineries and by-products industries of petroleum manufacturing."

One of the other firms that estimates insured losses, AIR Worldwide, said Saturday Rita costs will be in the $2.5 billion to $5 billion range.

"The heavy commercial and industrial areas of Port Arthur and Beaumont -- with their numerous refineries -- were to the left of the storm's track, where wind speeds are lower, so we do not expect to see significant structural damage to the refineries," Jayanta Guin, vice president of research and modeling at AIR Worldwide, said in a statement. (For more on damage to refineries, click here).

AIR also said the locations worst-hit by Rita had fewer insured properties in general than the areas ravaged by Katrina, contributing to the lower loss forecast.

There was still heavy damage, though, in communities like Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles, La., along with the prospect of flooding as Rita stalled and dumped heavy rains on the region.

Eqecat, another of the major catastrophe modeling companies, said Saturday Rita caused insured losses from wind damage in the neighborhood of $3 billion to $6 billion. Friday the firm had forecast that Rita could potentially be responsible for up to $18 billion in losses.

120 mph winds
Rita slammed into evacuated towns and oil-rich swamplands of the Texas-Louisiana border early Saturday, causing widespread damage and power outages. The powerful storm hit with 120 mph winds and punishing rains, then weakened slightly as it moved inland.

Houston, the fourth largest U.S. city, was spared a direct hit, which had insurers and reinsurers breathing a sigh of relief Saturday.

"I think for the complex in the Houston area, I would have to assume it is going to be minor if anything, just because the storm moved far enough east," said Bruce Jefferis, managing director of the natural resources unit at AON, the top global reinsurance broker.

But the oil city of Beaumont, Texas, and many of the largest U.S. refiners were in Rita's path, and the extent of damage was not yet known, nor was it clear how badly Rita damaged production in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.

"I'm fairly concerned right now about what's happened offshore, because Rita took a worse path for the offshore assets than Katrina did," Jefferis said. "The worst part of the storm would have been on the east side, which would have been right up the concentration of the assets."

Texas emergency management officials said they had airborne assessment teams ready to go out and inspect damages as soon as winds died down. At least one energy expert feared the worst, though, given Rita's track and previous intensity.

"It was right up production alley," said Harry Quarls, senior managing director of the global energy practice at Booz Allen Hamilton. "It was a Category 4 and 5 (storm) when it was going through."

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Update on NASA: The following news article from the Washington Post was inserted here on Oct. 14, 2005. The article has to do with NASA damaged by Katrina and Rita.

Damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita has cost NASA three months' work in getting the space shuttle ready for its next flight, but planners said yesterday that they should be able to launch next May........

Hale said the work was significantly hampered by Katrina and Rita. NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, which builds the external tanks, is in New Orleans, and while employees kept the installation free of flooding, the work schedule has been thrown into disarray.

"The plant came through very well," Hale said. "Our biggest problem is infrastructure." He said the hurricanes washed out roads into the facility and wiped out the homes of many Michoud employees.

Five hundred employees currently are working at Michoud, he said -- about one-quarter of the total. "We lost the equivalent of three months because of the hurricanes," Hale added, but the May launch window "is something we can work toward."

For upcoming shuttle flights, NASA has insisted on launching