[LoisFaith2000]

23 Dec 08

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Christmas in Bethlehem to stream live on internet
Israel launches PR blitz ahead of Gaza operation
Hamas threatens suicide attacks against Israel
Israel's Livni, Netanyahu vow to topple Hamas rule
Obama to push Israel over its nuclear arsenal
Syria: direct peace talks with Israel possible
Iran sends warship to fight Somalia pirates
Report: Russia Begins Supplying Components for S-300 to Iran
Get ready for a 'Greater Israel' dominating Mideast

Nationwide Winter Blast Strands Holiday Travelers
The weather outside was frightful from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., on Monday, with last-minute holiday shoppers shivering and stranded travelers hoping for the best as Christmas rapidly approached. The little town of Eustis, Maine, got nearly 3 1/2 feet of snow.

Pakistan Christians 'go missing'
Three Pakistani Christians have gone missing from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area, their families say. All three worked in Afghanistan and were returning home for Christmas. The families say they may have been taken by Taleban militants in the area.

Pope 'to visit Holy Land in May'
Pope Benedict XVI is to make his first visit to the Holy Land in May, Jerusalem's Latin patriarch has said. The Pope wanted to "acquire first-hand knowledge of the hard conditions in our region", AFP news agency quoted Fuad Twal as saying.

Putin says 'cheap gas era' ending
The era of cheap gas is coming to an end, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told ministers from the world's major gas-exporting countries. Iran and Libya are among the countries attending the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Moscow.

France backs Brazil UN ambition
Brazil should have a greater role in international affairs and a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, says French President Nicolas Sarkozy. On a visit to Rio de Janeiro Mr Sarkozy said Brazil and the EU would adopt a common position on the global financial crisis at the next G20 meeting.

Sudan 'has 6,000 child soldiers'
There are as many as 6,000 child soldiers, some as young as 11 years old, in the war-torn region of Darfur, the head of Unicef in Sudan says. Ted Chaiban said some children were linked to rebel movements, others to government-backed militia and some were fighting alongside the Sudanese army.

Sarkozy fears spectre of 1968 haunting Europe
As disparate but linked militant youth protests simultaneously erupt in a number of countries across the continent, French President Nicholas Sarkozy has retreated on two controversial pieces of domestic legislation out of fear that a spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of 1968.

Venezuela denies helping Iran ship missile parts to Syria
Venezuela's foreign minister on Monday dismissed a published report claiming that Iran has been shipping missile components to Syria on Venezuelan flights. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro strongly denied Sunday's story in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, which cited intelligence sources.

Malaysia Islamic party revives contentious plan
Malaysia's Islamic opposition party scrambled Tuesday to heal a potential rift with its non-Muslim allies after creating an uproar by saying it still supports imposing strict religious laws in a theocratic state.

US: 5 Muslim immigrants guilty of conspiracy to kill soldiers
Five Muslim immigrants accused of scheming to massacre US soldiers at Fort Dix were convicted of conspiracy Monday in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11 strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist plots in their earliest stages. The men could get life in prison when they are sentenced in April.

'I warned Jews to convert to Islam or leave'
The suspected murderer of Yemeni Jew Moshe Yaish Nahari told a court on Monday that he had warned Jews to convert to Islam or leave the country and that if they didn't, he would kill them.

UNRWA: Escalation is a 'recipe for disaster' in Gaza
An escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip would push more families in Gaza under the poverty line and put them in need of food and cash assistance from the already resource-strained UNRWA, officials from the agency warned Monday.

Gaza terrorists fire three rockets at w. Negev after brief hiatus
Gaza terrorists fired three Kassam rockets at the western Negev on Tuesday, the first attacks after a day-long informal cease-fire.


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Obama to take oath of office using Lincoln Bible

Obama to take oath of office using Lincoln Bible
Posted: 07:09 AM ET

Obama will be the first president since Lincoln's first term to be sworn in using the Lincoln Bible.
The Obama transition team announced Tuesday morning that the president-elect would be sworn in with the Lincoln Bible, used by 16th president when taking the oath of office in 1861 (Full statement released Tuesday follows):

"Washington, D.C. - On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible upon which President Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration. The Bible is currently part of the collections of the Library of Congress. Though there is no constitutional requirement for the use of a Bible during the swearing-in, Presidents have traditionally used Bibles for the ceremony, choosing a volume with personal or historical significance. President-elect Obama will be the first President sworn in using the Lincoln Bible since its initial use in 1861.

'President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in,' said Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau. 'The President-elect is committed to holding an Inauguration that celebrates America's unity, and the use of this historic Bible will provide a powerful connection to our common past and common heritage.' "


"The Lincoln Bible will be available for a press viewing between 11:00 AM and Noon today in the Members' Room on the first floor of the Library of Congress' Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First St. S.E. in Washington, D.C. Video and still cameras are permitted. Media should allow 10-15 minutes to clear security at the First Street entrance to the Jefferson Building. Clark Evans, who heads the Reference Services Section of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, will also be available at that time to answer questions about the Lincoln Bible and the Library. High-resolution photographs of the Bible are also available upon request. RSVP is not required. Please contact the PIC Communications Office with questions.

The Bible was originally purchased by William Thomas Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, for use during Lincoln's swearing-in ceremony on March 4, 1861. The Lincoln family Bible, which is also in the Library of Congress's collection, was unavailable for the ceremony because it was packed away with the First Family's belongings, still en route from Springfield, IL, to their new home at the White House.

The Bible itself is bound in burgundy velvet with a gold-washed white metal rim around the three outside edges of both covers. All its edges are heavily gilded. In the center of the top cover is a shield of gold wash over white metal with the words 'Holy Bible' chased into it. The book is 15 cm long, 10 cm wide, and 4.5 cm deep when closed. The 1,280-page Bible was published in 1853 by the Oxford University Press.

Annotated in the back of the volume, along with the Seal of the Supreme Court, is the following: 'I, William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the said court do hereby certify that the preceding copy of the Holy Bible is that upon which the Honble. R. B. Taney, Chief Justice of the said Court, administered to His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, the oath of office as President of the United States …'

The Lincoln Inaugural Bible will be on display at the Library of Congress February 12th to May 9th, 2009, as part of an exhibition titled "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition." The exhibit will then travel to five other American cities. The Library is planning several other events and programming in commemoration of the bicentennial of the birth of the nation's 16th president, who was born on February 12th, 1809.

On March 4, 2009, the 147th anniversary of Lincoln's first inauguration, the Library of Congress will also be convening an all-day symposium with several renowned Lincoln scholars."

[LoisFaith2000]

Putin: no more cheap gas


MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the world financial crisis and rising costs mean the price of natural gas is going to rise.

"Costs of exploration, gas production and transportation are going up — it means the industry's development costs will skyrocket," he said. "The time of cheap energy resources, cheap gas is surely coming to an end.

Russia's economy is already suffering as crude oil prices — the backbone of the country's economy — have spiraled down in the past months.

Putin spoke at a meeting of a dozen leading natural gas exporters who convened in Moscow to strengthen cooperation amid consuming countries' concerns that they might turn into an OPEC-style cartel.

Members of the loose grouping of about a dozen gas producers from around the world known as the Gas Exporting Countries Forum are planning to sign a joint charter at the meeting.

The body has been meeting since 2001, but has no formal membership or management.

Earlier this year, Russia, Iran and Qatar, which together account for nearly a third of world natural gas exports, agreed to form a "gas troika" for joint exploration and production.

Putin said the organization will work "perfectly in line with international norms."

Earlier in the day, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin brushed off suggestions that Russia would dominate the gas exporters' body.

"All member countries have equal powers," Sechin said quoted by the Itas-TASS news agency. "It would be wrong to say who would be the leader."

The meeting was held a week away from a deadline for Ukraine to repay its gas debts to Russia. Russia's state-controlled gas company Gazprom has warned that it would cut gas supplies to its neighbor on Jan. 1 if it fails to pay off a $2 billion gas debt, raising the stakes in a dispute which could send shock waves across Europe.

Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko urged European countries to apply pressure on Kiev to make sure that Russian natural gas supplies to European consumers flow uninterrupted across Ukraine.

[John Prewett]

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Annotated in the back of the volume, along with the Seal of the Supreme Court, is the following:
'I, William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the said court do hereby certify that the preceding copy of the Holy Bible

is that upon which the Honble. R. B. Taney, Chief Justice of the said Court,

administered to His Excellency,
Abraham Lincoln, the oath of office as President of the United States …'
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Roger Taney was the author of the "Dred Scott" supreme court decision that upheld slavery.

Roger Taney was a Roman Catholic.

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Roger B. Taney
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5th Chief Justice of the United States
In office
March 28, 1836 – October 12, 1864
Nominated by Andrew Jackson
Preceded by John Marshall
Succeeded by Salmon P. Chase
Born March 17, 1777 (1777-03-17)
Calvert County, Maryland, U.S.
Died October 12, 1864 (aged 87)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party Federalist, Democrat
Spouse Anne Arnold Phoebe Charlton Key Taney
Alma mater Dickinson College[1]
Profession Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Religion Roman Catholic
Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced /ˈtɔːni/ "tawny"; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office. He is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, that ruled, among others, that African Americans, being "of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race", could never be citizens of the United States.

[End-Time Calling]

Well I can't say I like that fella to much, mr. Taney

[LoisFaith2000]

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Things Will Escalate
Dec 23 2008 03:06PM




Early the other morning, I woke up and began my routine of praying and thinking about God. In my conversation that morning, I heard these thoughts in my mind, ADRIAN, IT'S GOING TO ESCALATE. Just as if it was a new thought, I began to weep in the Presence of God and told Him, I FEEL LIKE I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW OR FEEL ANY MORE RIGHT NOW. I NEED CONFIRMATION. I CANNOT KEEP SEEING THINGS IN MY SPIRIT AND THEY ARE CONTRARY TO WHAT MOST PEOPLE ARE THINKING OR SENSING. I NEED TO KNOW OR ELSE I AM AT A PLACE I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW ANY MORE FOR NOW. And as I was speaking it, I began to weep in repentance.

President-elect Barack Obama is five minutes away from our school in Kailua right now. Since his arrival, I have been in intense prayer and highly sensitive in my spirit. I am praying for his true salvation and for God to intervene to place truth in his spirit and heart. I know many people think he is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and even Jesus Christ. Strangely, many Christians are not discerning things about this election. For me, it has gone way past politics and into intense prophecy. Yet, because he is so nearby the school where for thirty years I have taught my students to not be deceived by the popularity of this world and I see a man most all of us never knew before 2004 hailed with such "hosannas," I know that if Obama does not work the Messianic miracles that this vulnerable and gullible world so desperately wants that he will be spit out just like any other person. And I am praying intensely for him that God will get a hold of his heart and speak directly to him. Anytime Hollywood finds you within their philosophical grasp, I would run. This is not just a philosophical difference, this is a philosophical war. And I am grateful, although not deceived, that Rick Warren is involved at the inauguration. The Lord spoke to me and said, TO THE MILLIONS WHO WILL THERE, THERE WILL BE A TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS AND DECEPTION WILL HEIGHTENED FROM THAT DAY ON. Whether we agree with Rick Warren or not, I am asking God to use "strange bedfellows" to work His divine plans and to weave something contrary to what is being woven right now.

God also showed me that the inclusion of many good people within the cabinet is a weaving of a co-existence that will futher deceive the church into believing that hope and change are coming. CHANGE IS COMING, the Lord said, CHANGE THAT WILL BE THE FOUNDATION FOR THE RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST.

So I am praying for Obama as he is vacationing and staying five minutes away from the school. I weep for him, not because I agree with him, not because I believe he is GOD'S CHOICE (yikes, who can say that?), BUT BECAUSE I AM ASKING GOD TO SPEAK TRUTH TO HIS SPIRIT AND RESTRAIN THE FLUENCY OF ERROR UNTIL THAT WHICH RESTRAINS IS TAKEN AWAY. I am praying for favor from God to these generations. . .

In my prayer time, I do not pray for reversals, because the inevitables are manifesting right now. But, I pray for RESTRAINING. I call on the RESTRAINING SPIRIT to dilute, diminish, interfere, obstruct, and limit the impact, to whatever extent that can be done, as we begin our journey into the endtimes . . . It has been the "endtimes" for a long time now, but now we will see the manifestations of many antichrists (I John 2) who will go out from "among us" and be identified with the SPIRIT OF THE ANTICHRIST THAT WILL USHER IN THE BODY OF THE MAN OF SIN, THE SON OF PERDITION, THE ANTICHRIST.

As I was weeping, I kept saying to Jesus, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS, and I felt like a helpless child weeping before God. I kept saying, MERRY CHRISTMAS, JESUS, and as I was saying those words I began to ask God to please "lessen these intense feelings" so I can really pause and enjoy this needful season. I make no apologies for what I am sensing in my spirit. I would rather be wrong, it is a lot better thinking all is well rather than all is coming to the manifestation of the MAN OF ERROR.

This is what I see . . .

I see a major terrorist event coming, one will come in the expected sense . . . a physical attack that will cause our nation and all other nations to change the mobility and freedoms of the populations and increase government access and control. In some paranoid sense (hmmm), the Bush administration and the Obama administration are a continuum of the change of our country. Bush never advocated for change, but in his administration, change came and came in reaction to unexpected to the American people (so we think). Now in antithesis to the polarization of politics, economics, philosophy of goiverning, reactions to war and uncertainties and in light of the pending expectation of further and worse terrorist attacks, we as a people are looking for a MESSIAH to bring us peace, hope, and change. Obama is a set-up from a psychological perspective. Everybody is putting all of their hopes in him as the panacea to all of our woes and foolishly even Christians buy into this deception. That is why we need to pray for Obama that God will intervene quickly and re-direct us from idol-worship to critical thinking. One administration (Bush) creates the intense psychological hunger for the contrast not as an enemy or contradiction to the subsequent (Obama), but as a pre-requisite and foundation for the follow-up and subsequent. I may be wrong, but put this thought under the microscope in your scrutiny and objectivity and see if this has validity or not. Maybe not, I hope I am wrong.

I see another terrorist strategy from within government and not just within our domestics.

Is this a political statement? No, it is not. This is a prophetic statement and unless we pray and seek God's face, we will not see these things out of our own emotional desperation for the conditions that prevail on planet earth today.

In my weeping, I ask God to help me not to see anymore as enough has been said already, almost to a divisive point. I beg Him to release me from this insights that I know come from my reading of the Scriptures and praying in the Holy Spirit.

In 1978, the Lord spoke to my heart (in the absence of internet, smile) and shared with me that the spirit of the Antichrist will manifest near us. I was living in Kailua and I thought that the thought came out of an exaggerated ego on my part and even though I have kept this thought quiet over the years and only sharing it in limited ways and to a few of my colleagues and friends, I know they must chuckle to themselves and think that I am narcissistic (spellcheck). But, I am emerging to a different level in my relationship with the Lord. I find so many Christians so out of touch with what God is saying and can easily be prey to deception out of their own emotional and psychological reactions to their own situations in life. Even now as I am going to be spending the evening in Kailua, I am asking God to really speak truth to the next President of the United States. I believe that God can do anything and I am asking Him to restrain the negative flow until Jesus returns.

In my prayer time, the Lord has identified several events that have released unusual intensity of evil spirits into this world, unleashed to add to the density of things.

Remember Jim Jones and Guyana in the 70s?

I will never forget that. . . I felt like their deaths released many things into the atmosphere. I was in my 20s then so I was not as aware of the way the enemy operates and works. I wept for the deaths of so many people in Guyana, but I was aware that something was released and for days, my spirit at that young age went into high alert.

During the first Persian Gulf War in the early 90s, I was on high alert then too. Not knowing much about Saddam or the real facts about his evil, I remember being glued to the television set, not only because of my own political interest or concerns as an American, but from a prophetic perspective. And when we did not "finish the deal" as some would say, I prayed for God to please lead our great nation into what is right. I was impacted as I sense in my spirit that Saddam's continued leadership would create another war. Yet at the same time, i felt like spirits were being stirred in Iraq (read Revelation 17, 18 and Babylon). The four angels locked into the river Euphrates and the demons that live in Babylon (read Revelation 18:1ff) would be stirred up to battle, spirits that govern the regions and eventually create world conditions.

Ironically, during the OJ Simpson trial, my spirit went into high alert as well. Not only because of the heinous evil of the crime itself, but because the hate and rage that motivated the killing as suspected by some was also released into the atmosphere in unbridled levels.

In the early 90s, my first seminar at Walden University included the subject of nanotechnology. In the discussions with a few of the students who themselves were studying psychology as I was, there were comments about the new warfare which would be fought through minute technology. As a result of that, I joined the World Futures Society to try to locate any additional futures studies on how technology will be used in the ultimate war (I am not a member of that currently, will join again next year). And every time I read Revelation 18:23, it states, AND BY WITCHCRAFT WERE ALL THE NATIONS DECEIVED AND LED ASTRAY.

When 9/11 happened, the weekend of September 11, 2001, I was on high alert. I spoke to my wife, Pamela, Wendy Barros, Stacey Mamiya, Lori Siri, and one or two others and said, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN NEW YORK. I SENSE DANGER. I had a dream of buildings falling in New York City, but New York City was in a valley. I also saw a little child cut up into pieces and put in a apple crate box. When I got up on Saturday morning, I was on high alert. I knew it was involving New York and a horrific experience. But, when Lori Siri called me up early Monday morning and told me to turn the television on, I stayed in a locked position and could only weep. IS THIS THE DREAM, JESUS, IS THIS THE DREAM? Greater than that, I believe that demonic spirits were released during that time to both control human behaviors and to lay the foundation for our reactions against such a horrific evil. And today, as the result of 9/11 and expected terrorist threats and attacks, our great nation has greatly given access to government to the privacy of our interactions initially for a justifiable reason and cause.

When George Bush called us into war, even though I had mixed feelings and respected him in that decision, on the very next Sunday, I told the congregation at His Highest Praise that I saw angels flying over Iraq as if they had “webs of curtains” and putting shields over that nation. I did not know why I saw that in my thoughts, but they were pressing. I began to weep before God and I remember the congregation began to sing and travail.

When our President (and George Bush did a lot in my opinion that prevented another terrorist attack against our nation and time will better evaluate his legacy) said to the effect, BRING IT ON while standing on a ship and when Rumsfeld and some of the American leaders (in government and military) held a press conference of a conference in one of Saddam’s palaces, my spirit went into high alert. NO, NO,NO, I prayed.

When Bush said, BRING IT ON, I believe that challenge unknowingly stirred up more than a physical and military battle. When Saddam was hung, I asked God to please protect our people and the peoples of Iraq as I sensed that more spirits would be added to the density of the battle. When a man is possessed by demons and he dies or is put to death, those spirits are now released with more vengeance into the atmosphere. That is my opinion, and not a Biblical fact necessarily.

Do all of these comments sound “too mystical?” I hope they do then if they do they are not true and things did not happen this way. But, I know that things are escalating.

The election of Barack Obama did the same thing to my spirit. Not because I have my own politics that differ with Obama on abortion (partial birth abortion as one example), or with his political leanings to the left. I find Obama to be a very impressive person as I do with Bill Clinton. As a citizen, laying aside the political philosophy and politics, I need a leader who can talk, think, and explain himself (or herself) to the people. I find it easy to listen to Obama although I find that he is crafty and knows how to say two things opposite of each other in the same sentence so that all of us feel an identification with him and his many positions and promises to solve our problems with such strokes of programs. Wow, how impressive is that! Watch the news and how they are trying to reduce the expectations now that the election is over. Interesting!

I am praying for this inauguration. Perhaps, I will soon stop all of this writing and wait for the manifestations before I begin identifying what the Spirit is provoking in my thoughts. I do not want to become divisive in my writings so I am asking God to release the urgency in my spirit and renew me for when things begin to manifest again in a “I TOLD YOU SO” syndrome and now we can perhaps discuss some of the plausibilities of these comments, construed by some people as being way over the top and beyond logic and possibility. Again, I hope I am wrong, I want to be wrong. THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO THE GENERATIONS OF MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL OF US.

Things will escalate.

God is moving, calling His true church to a quickened state of alertness. THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, YOU MUST HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST AND BE READY TO READ, HEAR, AND KEEP (Revelation 1:3).

Satan is moving, more demonic releases into the atmosphere. . . seducing spirits, alluring spirits gone out into the world to deceive, if possible, the very elect. . . An army of 200 million is being made ready for the final battle, ARMAGEDDON IS COMING SOON,

The Antichrist is ready to be revealed. . . Even now are there many antichrists who have gone out from us because they were not part of us . . . but when the RESTRAINER leaves (the Holy Spirit and the Bride of Jesus Christ), then the full order of evil will manifest and THE SPIRIT OF DELUSION WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE A LIE, THE LIE, THE LIE OF THE MAN OF SIN AND THE SON OF PERDITION EMBODIED IN THE ANTICHRIST, yet for a limited season, praise God.

DO WE PANIC, DR. YUEN? NO, WE PRAY.

DO WE WORRY, DR. YUEN? NO, WE WORSHIP.

DO WE HIDE, DR. YUEN? NO, WE WIN THE LOST, SHARE OUR FAITH, AND PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL IN THE MOCKING FACE OF SATAN HIMSELF. . .

JESUS IS LORD, BOTH NOW AND FOREVER.

PRAY FOR THE WORLD!