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The Time of Terror and Violence
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Violent protests (G8 summit)
  • Headline
  • Police arrest 82 in G8 protests
  • Headline BBC online July 6
  • Event
  • Police have arrested 65 people, mainly for breach
    of the peace, in G8-related incidents in central
    Scotland. Five officers were injured when about
    300 protesters from an eco-village camp damaged
    business premises in Stirling and attacked
    police.
  • The protesters then caused chaos on the transport
    network, bringing the M9 to a standstill for a
    period.
  • In Edinburgh, where a protest was held on Princes
    Street, 17 people were arrested during the day.
  • Comment
  • And so as the leaders of the most powerful 8
    nations on earth met in Scotland, hundreds of
    people went rioting. Car smashed, businesss
    damaged, shops vandalised. It is the behaviour we
    expect to see in the last days. Protesting and
    using violence to bring about what they want are
    definite signs of our times. The world in Noahs
    day was full of violence. So are ours. The
    amazing thing is, is that they called the march
    A Carnival for full enjoyment. They promise
    enjoyment and yet there is violence. This is
    precisly the picture we are given in the
    scriptures. Just read the verses below.
  • Bible Quote 2 Timothy 3 1 in the last days
    perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be
    fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4
    Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures
    more than lovers of God

3
Terror in London (event)
  • Headline
  • Al Qa'eda brings terror to the heart of London
  • Headline DT July 8
  • Event
  • Three terrorist bombs ripped through London
    Underground trains during the morning rush-hour
    yesterday and a fourth destroyed a double-deck
    bus, killing at least 37 people and wounding more
    than 300 others.
  • The Tube was shut down and bus services in the
    centre of the city halted, causing widespread
    travel disruption. Mainline stations were also
    closed for much of the day.
  • Last night Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary,
    said the explosions "bore all the hallmarks" of
    al-Qa'eda.
  • The co-ordinated attacks were being compared
    to the
    train bombings in Madrid last year
    which killed 190
    people.
  • There were fears that the bus explosion, which
    left
    two people dead in Tavistock Square,
    was the work
    of a suicide bomber.
  • If so, it would be the first such incident in
    Britain
    and Europe, indicating that
    vigilance by transport
    staff and passengers
    could be no defence against
    outrages.

4
Terror in London (comment)
  • Comment
  • Britains pride and celebration over the Olympic
    bid win turned over night into despair and fear
    with the terrorist attacks in London.
  • We surely in live unprecedented days. There has
    never been a suicide attack in Britain before (or
    for that matter Europe) but that has now changed
    with the likelihood that at least one of the
    explosions was caused by one.
  • It is worth remembering how we got to this time
    of terror. We need to think of Israel.
  • Israel is the root cause of the problem and more
    specifically Jerusalem. We need to go back to the
    talks in Camp David (about Jerusalem) in July
    2000 which failed. The failure of those talks led
    to the current Palestinian uprising. The
    Palestinian uprising which began in September
    2000 led to this time of terror. Jerusalem was
    therefore the catalyst. Read these words from
    Time magazine October 2000..
  • Just when the world was beginning to feel like a
    safer place.the
    unholy struggle in the
    Middle East looked, for a few moments at
    least, as
    if it was being narrowed mainly to semantic
    nuances about
    control and sovereignty over a
    mere 14-hectare mount of land in
    Jerusalem. Then came
    the explosions and mutilated bodies.In the
    span of a
    few hours last Thursday, Middle East gun fighting
    and
    terrorism burst back into our lives with
    split-screen bulletins and
    double-deck headlines
    that hammered home again both the volatility
    of that
    region and the vulnerability of the entire
    world.
  • Bible Quote Isaiah 23 6 Pass ye over to
    Tarshish howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 7 Is
    this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of
    ancient days?

5
10 suicide attacks in one day - Iraq
  • Headline
  • Ten suicide bombers in one day bring
    more
    death to Baghdad streets - DT July 16
  • Event
  • Suicide bombers struck 10 times in Baghdad
    yesterday, killing at least 25 people.
  • Thirty-two people, most of them children, were
    killed the day before when a suicide bomber
    exploded his car beside a convoy of American
    soldiers handing out sweets in a Baghdad suburb.
    The blast left the street covered in pools of
    blood, mangled bicycles and the corpses of the
    young, many still clutching blue-wrapped
    chocolate bars.
  • Comment
  • The death, destruction and sheer horror of the
    daily attacks in Iraq is shocking. Iraq is the
    home of ancient Babylon, the even more ancient
    Babel and the even more ancient Garden of Eden.
    It was where sin and therefore death entered the
    world. It was where the first kingdom of men (see
    Genesis 1010) was established. It was where
    Abraham was called out from (Ur of the Chaldeas).
    It cannot be coincidence that in the last days
    this literal area of Babylon is suffering such
    destruction. It portends the greater destruction
    of spiritual Babylon and in fact all the kingdoms
    of the earth which shall be replaced by Gods
    kingdom.
  • Bible Quote Jeremiah 51 54 A sound of a cry
    cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from
    the land of the Chaldeans Jer 5046 At the
    noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is
    moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

6
Chinese threaten nuclear attack on USA
  • Headline
  • Chinese general threatens nuclear attack on US
    in
    war of words - Headline DT July 16
  • Event
  • A Chinese general has threatened to launch
    nuclear missiles at the United
    States, warning that hundreds of
    American cities could be destroyed.
  • In an unusually forthright briefing to foreign
    journalists, General Zhu Chenghu speculated on
    what the response would be if the United States
    attacked China or its military in a war over
    Taiwan. "If the Americans draw their missiles and
    position-guided ammunition on to the target zone
    on China's territory, I think we will have to
    respond with nuclear weapons," he said, making it
    clear he was speaking in a personal capacity. "We
    Chinese will prepare ourselves for the
    destruction of all of the cities east of Xian.
    "Of course the Americans will have to be prepared
    that hundreds of cities will be destroyed by the
    Chinese."
  • Comment
  • At 052945 in 1945 (60 years ago today) the
    first atom bomb was tested in the New Mexico
    desert. The test was codenamed Trinity after a
    poem by John Donne which begins Batter my heart,
    three persond God. The false doctrine of the
    Trinity will bring destruction. 60 years later
    the Chinese threaten the USA with nuclear attack.
  • Bible Quote Joel 3 9 Proclaim ye this among
    the Gentiles Prepare war, wake up the mighty
    men, let all the men of war draw near let them
    come up

7
Terror in Turkey
  • Headline
  • Holiday bus ride to beach ends in bloody
    slaughter
  • Headline DT July 17
  • Event
  • Yesterday looked like the perfect day to head for
    the beach in Kusadasi. It was 31C under a
    cloudless sky and holidaymakers who boarded an
    early-morning minibus taxi to the nearby Ladies
    Beach probably had little more on their minds
    than what factor sun cream to apply.
  • Then came the carnage. At 10.30am, just as the
    minibus was approaching its final stop in Ataturk
    Square, central Kusadasi, a blast ripped through
    the minibus, blowing off its roof and scattering
    metal for yards around.
  • Comment
  • Kusadasi is surrounded by long stretches of
    powdery beach and is reputed to be one of the
    most attractive cities on the Aegean. And yet in
    this uncertain world, even paradise cannot
    escape the grip of the suicide bomber. At least
    six people died - a British woman, two Turks, one
    Irish national and two others.
  • Like Bali and Egypt - both of which have
    experienced similarly devastating bomb attacks in
    the past three years - Kusadasi has embraced the
    western tourist trade.
  • Turkey of course is the route by which Russia
    will come down. It may destabilise further before
    that happens. The paradise of Turkey will soon
    become a battlefield.
  • Bible Quote Daniel 11 40 and the king of the
    north shall come against him like a whirlwind,
    with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many
    ships

8
Extremist cleric - views
  • Headline
  • Extremist cleric puts terror laws to the test
  • Headline DT July 19
  • Event
  • A planned visit to Britain next month by a Muslim
    cleric who has praised suicide bombings against
    Israel will become the first test of the
    Government's promised clampdown on extremist
    preachers after the London terrorist attacks.
    Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 79, who is due to speak at a
    conference in Manchester, is banned from visiting
    America because of his links with the
    fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.
  • Last year he told the BBC's Newsnight "It is not
    suicide it is martyrdom in the name of God. I
    consider this type of martyrdom operation as an
    indication of the justice of Allah almighty.
    Allah is just.
  • "Through his infinite wisdom he has given the
    weak what the strong do not possess and that is
    the ability to turn their bodies into bombs as
    the Palestinians do."
  • Comment
  • Note what this Muslim cleric says. He has given
    the weak what the strong do not possessthe
    ability to turn their bodies into bombs. In last
    weeks WWW we compared the verse below to suicide
    bombers. This week a Muslim cleric confirms that
    this is how they see it as well. It might be this
    very threat that brings all the heathen together
    that causes the mighty ones to come down. See
    Joel 311
  • Bible Quote Joel 3 10 Beat your plowshares into
    swords, and your pruninghooks into spears let
    the weak say, I am strong.

9
25,000 civilians killed in Iraq
  • Headline
  • Fighting in Iraq 'has cost 25,000 civilian lives'
  • Headline DT July 20
  • Event
  • Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians have died in the
    two years since US and British troops invaded
    Iraq - an average of 34 people a day - according
    to figures published yesterday by British
    academics.
  • They estimate that about four out of five Iraqi
    civilians killed were men, while nearly one in 10
    were children.
  • According to the survey by the Oxford Research
    Group and a website called Iraq Body Count,
    US-led coalition forces are responsible for about
    37 per cent of these deaths, mostly during the
    initial invasion phase when about 7,000 civilians
    were killed.
  • Comment
  • Babylon was situated in modern day Iraq. It is
    hard not to read the prophecies in Isaiah and
    Jeremiah without seeing a latter day fulfilment
    of modern day Iraq. In no way does it take away
    from the political aspect (Europe) and religious
    aspect (Rome)
  • Bible Quote John 12 2 Declare ye among the
    nations, and publish, and set up a standard
    publish, and conceal not say, Babylon is taken,
    9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up
    against Babylon an assembly of great nations from
    the north country22 A sound of battle is in the
    land, and of great destruction.23 How is the
    hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
    how is Babylon become a desolation among the
    nations!

10
London hit again
  • Headline
  • London hit again
  • Headline DT July 22
  • Event
  • Police were hunting four would-be suicide bombers
    last night after
    they set off devices on three Tube
    trains and a London bus in an
    apparent effort to repeat the
    deadly attacks of a fortnight earlier.
  • The terrorists escaped after their devices failed
    to detonate properly.
  • Unlike the events of July 7, when 52 people and
    four bombers died, the explosions were weak,
    apparently the result of malfunctions. Police
    were hopeful that forensic evidence from the
    scene would lead them to the cell behind the
    attacks.
  • Comment
  • The terror is not stopping. The fear is growing.
    The more I consider the verses below, the more I
    am convinced that London is one of the daughters
    of Tyre. Tyre the merchant city of Phoenicia. The
    great city that traded across the known world.
    And yet when it was destroyed God says clearly
    that Tyre would pass over to Tarshish. This
    crowning city, full of pride, whose inhabitants
    are merchants, is to have its pride stained.
  • Bible Quote Isaiah 23 8 Who hath taken this
    counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose
    merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
    honourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts
    hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all
    glory, and to bring into contempt all the
    honourable of the earth.

11
Dozens killed in Egyptian blasts
  • Headline
  • Dozens killed in Egyptian blasts
  • Headline DT July 23
  • Event
  • At least 49 people have been killed and more than
    130 wounded in a string of bomb attacks in the
    Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The
    first explosion took place in the Old Market
    area, popular with tourists.
  • At least two more blasts followed in the busy
    Naama Bay area, where a car bomb tore off the
    front of the four-star Ghazala Gardens hotel.
  • Britons, Dutch, Qataris, Kuwaitis and Egyptians
    were among those killed and wounded, police
    sources said.
  • Comment
  • Sharm el Sheikh is the resort where often Israel
    and the Palestinians meet to discuss the peace
    process. It is in the Sinai Peninsula. The Sharm
    el-Sheikh area is popular with tourists from
    Israel. It is a major holiday resort for them.
    The most numerous foreigners are Israelis, and
    they flock to the Sinai in larger numbers than to
    any other destination. The Israelis have
    traditionally enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of
    the Sinai. And so even on holiday Jews are being
    targeted. When you add all the terror that is
    happening together we surely must be in the time
    of trouble such as never was.
  • Bible Quote Daniel 12 1 and there shall be a
    time of trouble, such as never was since there
    was a nation even to that same time

12
Pakistan tests cruise missile
  • Headline
  • Pakistan tests cruise missile
  • Headline DT August 12
  • Event
  • President Pervez Musharraf received an unusual
    birthday gift yesterday
    - the successful
    test-firing of Pakistan's first nuclear-capable
    cruise
    missile.With a range of more than
    300 miles and able to evade
    Indian radar by
    hugging the ground, the Hatf VII Babur missile is
    designed to match India's BrahMos missile, tested
    in 2001.
  • Pakistan state media said the launch was "a gift
    of the scientists on the birthday of President
    Musharraf and Independence Day".
  • The launch comes just five days after India and
    Pakistan agreed to alert each other before all
    ballistic missile tests and set up a hotline to
    reduce the risk of accidental nuclear war.
    However, Pakistan gave no warning of yesterday's
    test to India.
  • Comment
  • For a birthday present the President of Pakistan
    is given the test firing of a nuclear-capable
    missile! Another nation that is a nuclear power
    developing more deadly delivery systems. Surely
    the words of Joel ring true as we watch nations
    developing weapons of war. They do so to be
    gathered together for judgement.
  • Bible Quote Joel 3 9 Proclaim ye this among
    the Gentiles Prepare war, wake up the mighty
    men, let all the men of war draw near let them
    come up 10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and your pruninghooks into spears

13
Suicide bomber in Israel
  • Headline
  • Rush-hour suicide bomber wounds 50 in
    IsraelHeadline DT August 26
  • Event
  • A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in
    the southern Israeli city of Beersheba yesterday
    during the morning rush hour, wounding 50 people.
    The attack was the first since Israel withdrew
    from 25 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza
    Strip and followed warnings by Palestinian
    extremists that violence would continue despite
    the disengagement.
  • Just minutes before the attack, Mahmoud Abbas,
    the Palestinian leader, had made clear his
    commitment to sustaining the de facto ceasefire
    with Israel. He later denounced the bombing and
    called for "everyone to refrain from
    retaliation".
  • Comment
  • The attacks have not stopped. The ceasefire is
    not holding. There can be no true peace until
    Christ returns. The Hamas Charter and the PLO
    charter still call for the destruction of Israel.
    Israel we know will not be destroyed but the Jews
    will be brought to their knees before
    acknowledging Jesus with holes in his feet and
    hands.
  • Bible Quote Zechariah 12 10 And I will pour
    upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants
    of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
    supplications and they shall look upon me whom
    they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him,
    as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in
    bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness
    for his firstborn.

14
Al Queda kill 152 in Baghdad
  • Headline
  • Al Queda kill 152 in Baghdad
  • Headlines DT September 15
  • Event
  • At least 152 people died and 542 were wounded as
    11 suicide bombers struck across Baghdad
    yesterday in the second most deadly day of
    insurgent violence Iraq has witnessed since the
    fall of Saddam Hussein.
  • The worst incident was in the north of the
    capital where a car carrying 500lbs of explosives
    drove into a crowd of unemployed labourers
    killing 114 and injuring 156.
  • Comment
  • Iraq (ancient Babylon) is in trouble. In the
    verse below it talks of fanners coming into the
    land. This word fanners means strangers. It is
    interesting that most suicide bombers are
    strangers to the land. They are pouring in from
    over the borders - from Iran and Syria. There
    seems to be an unlimited supply of those willing
    to kill themselves and kill as many others as
    possible. It is interesting that the physical
    land of Babylon is in such distress and
    destruction. Spiritual Babylon (Rome) and
    political Babylon (Europe) will also end in
    distress and destruction. The city of man in all
    its forms will be removed from the earth to be
    replaced by Gods kingdom.
  • Bible Quote Jeremiah 51 2 And will send unto
    Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall
    empty her land for in the day of trouble they
    shall be against her round about. 4 Thus the
    slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
    and they that are thrust through in her streets.

15
Al Qaeda bombers return to Bali
  • Headline
  • Al Queda bombers return to Bali

    Headline DT October 2
  • Event
  • Western tourists were among at least 32 people
    killed and more than 100 injured yesterday by
    terrorist bomb blasts at two resorts on Bali.
  • Three explosions took place almost three years to
    the day since Muslim extremists killed more than
    200 people in a similar attack. Al-Qaeda
    sympathisers are suspected of carrying out the
    latest bombings at destinations popular with
    Britons.
  • The bombs went off seconds apart shortly after
    7.30pm local time, two in Jimbaran, where a
    crowded seafood restaurant was the target, and
    one in Kuta, where a three-storey noodle and
    steak house was attacked.
  • Comment
  • Terrorism continues. The unprecedented time of
    fear is still here and will only continue to get
    worse until our Lord returns. The so called war
    on terror also continues. How one can have a war
    on a verb is beyond me! It can never be won.
    George Bush has warned this week of a war on
    humanity. He said radical Muslims wanted to
    establish a Muslim empire. The Muslim religion is
    essentially an Arab religion (although other
    nations have adopted it). This age of terror is
    essentially Jew v Arab.
  • Bible Quote Genesis 16 12 And he Ishmael will
    be a wild man his hand will be against every
    man, and every mans hand against him and he
    shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
    Arabs are descended from Ishmael.

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200 Chechen gunmen launch assault
  • Headline
  • 200 Chechen gunmen launch assault on city
  • Headline DT October 14
  • Event
  • Chechen rebels attacked police and army buildings
    in south Russia yesterday in a brazen operation
    that killed dozens and challenged Kremlin claims
    that it controls the Caucasus. Up to 200
    guerrillas launched an audacious assault on
    symbols of the Russian state, from the local
    airport to the security service's headquarters,
    in Nalchik, capital of the mainly Muslim republic
    of Kabardino-Balkaria.
  • Russian soldiers fought to regain control,
    arresting several rebels. At least 49 people, 25
    of them militants, were killed in the fighting,
    the worst to hit the region since Chechen
    terrorists seized a school in Beslan in nearby
    North Ossetia a year ago.
  • Comment
  • Many ancient sources have clearly identified
    "Magog" as referring to the "Scythians"
  • which were the ancestors of the Russians. A well
    known source is Josephus Flavius, who records
    that the Magogians were called "Scythians" by the
    Greeks.
  • "Magog founded the Magogians, thus named after
    him, but who were by the Greeks called Scythians.
    But even the Scythians, who delight in murdering
    people and are little better than wild beasts,
    nevertheless think it their duty to uphold their
    national customs." - Josephus Flavius, 1st
    century A.D. The area of Magog is around Southern
    Russia and especially the Caucasus region. It is
    here that Russia is having great trouble with
    Muslim extremists who want to break away. However
    we are told that Gog is of the land of Magog.
    Russia will be in control of this area and will
    almost certainly descend through it on the way to
    Israel.
  • Bible Quote Ezekiel 38 set thy face against Gog,
    of the land of Magog (RSV)

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Bomb blasts in Delhi
  • Headline
  • Bomb blasts leave 50 dead and hundreds
    injured in
    Delhi - Headline DT October 29
  • Event
  • Up to 50 people were feared dead and hundreds
    more injured in a wave
    of bomb attacks in
    the Indian capital, Delhi, yesterday. At least
    three
    terrorist bombs exploded within minutes of each
    other. Two
    were at busy markets, the other in an industrial
    area. The blasts
    are believed to have been the work of Kashmiri
    terrorists. "There
    was a big explosion and
    suddenly there was smoke everywhere," said Billa
    Devinder, a local rickshaw driver who witnessed
    the blast in the marketplace of the Paharganj
    district. "The market was packed with women and
    children and all I could hear was people
    screaming and crying for help. There just seemed
    to be blood wherever I looked."
  • Comment
  • Terror now in India. Investigators are struck by
    features of the attack that are strangely similar
    to elements of the first round of bombing attacks
    that struck London on July 7. There are links in
    the Bible between India and Britain. We see India
    as being one of the young lions of Britain as
    mentioned in Ezekiel 38. India might possibly be
    Tharshish mentioned in 1 Kings 1022. We might
    think of Britain as being a Western Tarshish and
    India being an Eastern Tarshish. We expect India
    (as a member of the Commonwealth) and a key
    country of the former British Empire to remain
    close to Britain and be an ally to her at the
    time of the end.
  • Bible Quote Ezekiel 38 13 the merchants of
    Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall
    say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil?

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Riots in Paris
  • Headline
  • French riots spread beyond Paris
  • Headline BBC online November 4
  • Event
  • The violence that has wracked Paris suburbs over
    the past week has spread to new areas and outside
    the French capital for the first time.
  • Youths burned buildings and more than 500
    vehicles in the eighth consecutive night of
    rioting. Nearly 80 arrests were made in Paris.
  • Cars were torched in the eastern city of Dijon,
    and sporadic unrest broke out in southern and
    western France.
  • Comment
  • Last night French police arrested more than 250
    people following fresh riots in and around Paris
    and other parts of France. Nearly 900 cars were
    burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in
    immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a
    heavy police presence.
  • We live in a world of rioting and violence. It is
    interesting that this violence is happening in
    France and that it appears to be spreading. The
    French are descended from the barbarian tribes of
    the Franks. The Franks (meaning Freemen) loved
    liberty, personal freedoms and individual rights.
    In 1789 the French Revolution produced the
    Declaration of the rights of man. In Larousse
    Modern History we read, In a political sense it
    is still proper to date the age in which we live
    from the French Revolution. The shock carried by
    that Revolution and THE SPREAD OF ITS PRINCIPLES
    has produced repercussions ever since. This
    false promise of Liberty brings only corruption,
    destruction and moral decay. We witness the
    repercussions.
  • Bible Quote 2 Peter 2 19 While they promise them
    liberty, they themselves are the servants of
    corruption NB corruption destruction and
    moral decay

19
Leaders fiddle as France burns
  • Headline
  • Leaders fiddle as France burns
  • Headline DT November 8
  • Event
  • France was struggling to overcome one of its
    gravest post-war crises
    last night as every major city faced the
    threat of fierce rioting that began 12 nights ago
    and now seems to have spun out of control.
  • Despite an assurance from Philippe Douste Blazy,
    the foreign minister, that France was "not a
    dangerous country", the spread of violence
    prompted the Foreign Office in London to warn
    travellers that trouble could break out "almost
    anywhere".
  • Comment
  • The headline above is an obvious reference to
    Rome. Nero was supposed to have sat playing his
    lyre and singing while all around him Rome burnt!
    As we witness the violence in France some are
    looking back to riots in France in 1968 and even
    to 1848. But this is different many say. This is
    violence for violence sake. Over 5000 cars have
    been destroyed. Schools, sports centres, shops
    all destroyed by fire. Perhaps Noah in his days
    looked at similar scenes of gross violence. We
    know that God judged the world then because of
    the violence he saw. We know that Rome in all
    its aspects will also be judged. This world too
    is heading for judgement. That great city Rome
    (associated with Babylon -Revelation 1718) that
    rules over the kingdoms of the world will burn
    and be replaced by Gods city Jerusalem. Jesus
    tells us that the world will be as it was in the
    days of Noah before he returns.
  • Bible Quote Genesis 6 11 The earth also was
    corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
    violence. A description of the world in the days
    of Noah

20
Copycat arsonists strike Brussels
  • Headline
  • Copycat arsonists strike in Belgium and Germany
  • Headline DT November 8
  • Event
  • Brussels police ordered extra patrols on to the
    streets last night after cars were set alight in
    the Belgian capital in copycat attacks following
    the riots in France.
  • Five cars were set alight late on Sunday night
    around the Gare du Midi, well known to British
    travellers as the Eurostar's Belgian terminus.
  • At first the police denied any link to the French
    unrest, noting that by the time their officers
    reached the burning cars they found each scene
    deserted. This was in sharp contrast with the
    confrontations between French police and large
    gatherings of young, disaffected locals. But by
    yesterday afternoon police acknowledged that
    there was almost certainly a link with the French
    events.
  • Comment
  • And so the violence begins to spread.
    Interestingly to Brussels and Germany. Brussels
    is of course is seen as the capital of the
    European Union. It was where William Tyndale was
    strangled and burnt at the stake for translating
    the Bible into English! It was a total
    disregarding of Gods Word and the inventing of
    the theories of Human Rights that bring the
    very violence and burning that we see happening.
    Interesting then that the very man that was so
    instrumental in bringing us the Bible we have
    today was burnt in Brussels. And just as the
    wicked and godless teachings that came out of the
    French Revolution have spread to all corners of
    the earth - so we see the violence and
    destruction beginning to spread as well.
  • Bible Quote Revelation 16 14 For they are the
    spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
    forth unto the kings of the earth and of the
    whole world, to gather them to the battle of that
    great day of God Almighty.

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Terror cells plotted attack in Australia
  • Headline
  • Terror cells 'plotted devastating twin attack
    in
    Australia - Headline DT November 9
  • Event
  • Chilling details of an alleged plot by Islamist
    radicals to carry out a "catastrophic" terrorist
    attack in Australia emerged yesterday. Police
    arrested 17 suspects during dawn raids involving
    450 heavily armed policemen backed by
    helicopters. Authorities alleged that the
    suspects were members of a terrorist cell
    committed to "violent jihad" on Australian soil.
  • Among those detained was a trainee electrician
    allegedly impatient to carry out a suicide
    bombing in retaliation for Canberra's support for
    the war in Iraq.
  • Comment
  • Apparently terrorism suspects have previously
    been caught carrying out surveillance on the
    Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge and the
    Melbourne stock exchange.
  • How much longer before we do see another
    catastrophic terrorist attack? It is not a
    matter of if but when. We live now in
    unprecedented times of fear and terror. Never in
    the history of the world have people had the
    ability to cause so much death and destruction
    and the willingness to do it.
  • Australia is of course one of the offsprings of
    Britain or as the Bible puts it a young lion
    of Tarshish. Again we expect Britain and her
    allies (young lions) to be together at the time
    of the end. United in the opposition to the
    invasion of Israel. But they are also united in
    being the target of terrorism as the US the UK
    and Australia are major supporters of the war in
    Iraq.
  • Bible Quote Job 4 11 The old lion perisheth for
    lack of prey, and the stout lions whelps are
    scattered abroad. The old lion (British Empire)
    did perish and its offspring (US, Australia,
    Canada etc) are scattered around the world.

22
Suicide bombers hit Jordan
  • Headline
  • Suicide bombers hit hotels in Jordan's capital
  • Headline DT November 10
  • Event
  • At least 57 people were killed and more than 300
    injured last night when al-Qa'eda suicide bombers
    attacked three hotels in Amman in a devastating
    attack on the Jordanian capital. The carefully
    co-ordinated blasts, which came within minutes of
    each other shortly before 9pm, represented the
    first major terrorist strikes on the West's key
    ally in the Middle East.
  • At least two of the attacks were the work of
    suicide bombers, who targeted international
    hotels popular with Western and Israeli tourists
    and businessmen.
  • Comment
  • Modern day Jordan incorporates the areas once
    occupied by Moab, Ammon and Edom. We expect
    Jordan as one of the southern Arabian powers to
    be aligned with Britain in the last days. They
    will also be one who questions the motives of Gog
    when it invades Israel. Note the phrase above
    Wests key ally in the Middle East.
  • This attack appears to have backfired to some
    extent as 57 innocent Jordanians were killed.
    Yesterday angry Jordanians demonstrated
    condemning the hotel bomb attacks. Headline in
    todays newspaper reads Jordanians turn against
    al-Qaeda leader over bombings.
  • Amman where this happened is mentioned in the
    Bible. It is known in the Bible as Rabbah or
    Rabbath. See verse below it may have current
    and future fulfilment.
  • Bible Quote Jeremiah 49 2 Therefore, behold, the
    days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an
    alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the
    Ammonites and it shall be a desolate heap, and
    her daughters shall be burned with fire then
    shall Israel be heir unto them that were his
    heirs, saith the LORD.

23
Mobs riot in Sydney
  • Headline
  • Mobs riot again as Sydney race tensions explode
  • Headline DT December 13
  • Event
  • Racial violence flared in Sydney yesterday in
    apparent retaliation for earlier clashes in which
    a mob of 5,000 white youths chanted abuse and
    attacked people of Middle Eastern origin. The
    second night of violence brought terror to one of
    the city's best known beaches. It flared when
    young men of mostly Lebanese background clashed
    with police, throwing stones and other missiles.
  • Witnesses reported several gun shots and one
    woman was said to have been stabbed. Police
    reinforcements were drafted in as thugs attacked
    cars and shops with baseball bats and threatened
    to do battle with rival white gangs with guns and
    crowbars.
  • Comment
  • Emergency measures to prevent civil unrest have
    been passed in the Australian state of New South
    Wales, following a wave of racial violence. We
    saw a few weeks ago night after night of violence
    in France. We now see on the other side of the
    world huge numbers of young people in Australia
    also engaged in violence. There can be no doubt
    these terrible scenes will only continue to
    become more frequent and get worse before our
    Lord returns from heaven.
  • We get some idea of what scenes Noah must have
    witnessed in his day. For before the flood
    (approx 4500 years ago) the world was full of
    violence as well. Violence comes as a result of
    godlessness it is a fruit of sin. Jesus told us
    that just before he returns the world would be
    very similar to the days Noah lived in. How true
    he was.
  • Bible Quote Genesis 6 13 And God said unto
    Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me for
    the earth is filled with violence through them
    and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

24
2005 review
  • Comment
  • And so another year draws to a close. But what a
    remarkable year in terms of prophecy fulfilled!
  • At the beginning of each World Watch it says that
    time and again the following would keep cropping
    up as we journey towards the coming kingdom.
  • Israel Middle East the growing conflict
  • This year has seen Israel become ever more the
    focus of the worlds attention. Iran has called
    for Israel to be wiped off the map. Israel has
    withdrawn from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. A
    wall almost surrounds the entire nation now.
  • Europe the developing union / political and
    religious
  • A new Pope is elected Cardinal Ratzinger. He
    named himself Benedict after the patron saint of
    Europe. He is calling for Christian Unity! In his
    Christmas speech he called for Middle East peace.
    He means Israel should give up East Jerusalem.
    This will bring war. Europe has rejected the
    constitution but continues to hang together as
    divided nations exactly as Revelation 17 and
    Daniel 2 show us.
  • Russia continued turning back to anti west ways
  • Russia is increasingly in the news for doing arms
    deals with those the US considers to be the Axis
    of Evil i.e. Syria and Iran. Under Putin the free
    press has been shut down, nuclear programmes have
    been developed and a new Cold War may have
    started.
  • The development of King of South US UK
  • Tarshish and her young lions continue to be
    locked in a war in Iraq. This area of ancient
    Babylon where sin and death entered the world and
    the first kingdom of men began is a scene of
    death and destruction. Remember Abraham was
    called out of this area.
  • Declining moral standards and increasing
    violence.
  • The UK introduces gay marriage. Violence
    increases remember the scenes in France! We
    have seen unprecedented natural disasters with
    Tsunami, hurricanes and earthquakes. Let us pray
    that 2006 finally brings relief with the return
    of our King.
  • Revelation 22 20 Surely I come quickly. Amen.
    Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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