Posted on 09/10/2005 9:23:00 PM PDT by Blogger
25 Warnings in Ten Years to the United States - Bill Koenig
In John McTernan's and my book, "Israel: The Blessing or the Curse," we showed how the Lord over ten years has given the United States 21 warnings the same day the U.S. has pressed Israel to give up their land. There were record-setting earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical storms, floods and stock market corrections. I have also included 4 more since President George W. Bush took a more active role in the Middle East talks.
October 30, 1991 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Michael Gorbachev begin the Madrid Conference. The Perfect Storm (a movie and book were written about it) begins forming in the Atlantic. It develops into the largest Atlantic waves in history.
October 31, 1991 - Syria and the Palestinians say Israel must give up their land for peace. The Perfect Strom hits the New England coast causing $1 million in damage to President George H.W. Bush Kennebunkport home.
August 23, 1992: The Madrid talks move to Washington. The day the conference begins Hurricane Andrew, the most expensive storm in U.S. history, clobbers Southern Florida and Louisiana.
September 13, 1993: Israel and the PLO sign a joint agreement; the same day Hurricane Emily hits the North Carolina coast.
January 4, 1994: U.S. Clinton and Assad meet in Geneva, Switzerland calling for Israel to leave the Golan Heights. Within hours the 6.9 Northridge earthquake rocks Southern California, the second most expensive national disaster in history.
March 1, 1997: Arafat arrives in Washington to discuss the Har Homa Housing project in Israel. The Israeli government had started buidling 6500 housing units in East Jerusalem. Arafat leaves on March 2 for a U.S. speaking tour against Israel. On the day Arafat begins his speakig tour powerful tornados devastate huge sections of the nation, tornados hit Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. While Arafat continued his speaking tour storms stalled over Ohio and caused serious flooding. The tornadoes destoyed Arkadelphia, Arkansas, while the flooding destroyed Falmouth, Kentucky. The storms did over $1 billion in damage. Also, heavy snow fell in March and April causing the worst flooding in a century in the Dakotas. This too was a billion dollar disaster. (Note: March 1 was also the day President Clinton signed into law a bill that would release $385 million to 100 countries for family planning, some of the money could be used for abortion.)
July 2, 1997: Thailand devalues currency which helps begin world economic destabilization. July 15, 1997 the UN votes to condemn Israel's housing construction.
January 21, 1998: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is pressured to give up land by Clinton and Albright. They refuse to have lunch with him. That afternoon the Monica Lewinsky case breaks.
September 24, 1998: Clinton announces Arafat. Netanyahu comes to the UN to discuss stalled peace talks. Hurricane George builds and zeroes in on Key West.
September 27, 1998: Albright working out final details: Georges slams Gulf Coast - 110 mph, gusts up to 115 mph and flooding.
September 28, 1998: Clinton meets Arafat and Netanyahu at White House to finalize land giveaway. Hurricane George lingers. Arafat speaks to rousing and sustained ovation at the United Nations. George smashes Gulf Coast, Arafat leaves the storm dissipates.
October 15, 1998: The Wye River talks begin. Heavy rain and tornado hits Texas. San Antonio receives 20 inches and experiences major flooding. On October 21, Clinton declares disaster. On October 23, the Wye meetings end.
November 23, 1998: Yasser Arafat comes to the United States to raise money. The U.S. provides $400 million and the Europeans $1.7 billion. Dow tumbles 217 points. European markets experience worse drop in history.
December 1, 1998: The U.S. House deliberates articles of impeachment on Dec. 12 four articles are approved. Clinton meets with the Palestinians in a controlled section in Israel at the same time the impeachment newsbreaks. Clinton calls for statehood status for the Palestinians and for a capital to be in Jerusalem. Clinton becomes the first President to be impeached in 130 years.
December 15, 1998: Clinton arrives home. Four days later the U.S. House accepts two articles of impeachment. Two weeks before there were not enough votes, Clinton commits $300 to $500 million to the Palestinians, and at the exact time there was a heart change in the House and he was impeached.
March 23, 1999: Arafat meets Clinton in Washington on Israel land giveaway. Dow tumbles 219 points. The next day Clinton authorizes a Serbia attack. Russia becomes very angry and World War III almost begins. Russia and China are brought together due over the Kosovo incident.
May 3, 1999: Arafat is prepared to declare Jerusalem the capital of his new state. Clinton sends Arafat a letter encouraging aspirations of his own land and the right to determines their own future the right to live in freedom today, tomorrow and forever. Record breaking tornadoes hit Oklahoma and Kansas, the 316 mph winds are the highest wind speeds in history.
August 30, 2001: Hurricane Dennis lingers on the East Coast. Sept. 1, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets with Arab leaders and Barak. On Sept 3 Hurricane Dennis continues to linger and drops enormous rains.
September 13, 1999: Israeli Foreign Minister and Arafat's Deputy workout a final status deal on Israel's land giveaway. Hurricane Floyd, a Category 5 storm, becomes a monster storm and slams into the North Carolina coast dropping 20 inches of rain killing 100,000 hogs; 2.47 million chickens; and 500,000 turkeys.
September 21, 1999: Arafat comes to Washington and visits the UN to discuss Wye. From Sept. 21-23 the Dow drops 524 points. This was a very destructive month.
Week of October 11, 1999: Jewish Settlers from 15 West Bank settlements evicted. While Israel was forcing the settlers off the covenant land, the stock market was melting down. On October 15, the market lost 266 points! Also on October 15, Hurricane Irene hit North Carolina, and on the morning of the 16th, a powerful 7.1 earthquake rocked the Southwest.
January 3-4, 2000: Barak agrees to hand over 5% of its territories to the Palestinians, with complete transfer by the end of the week. Dow drops 359 points, NASDAQ 229 points, and the worst drop ever, with over $600 billion in market capitalization wiped out. Barak has a Golan Heights meeting.
April 12-13: Barak arrives in Washington. Clinton says he want to be more involved in the peace talks. NASDAQ collapses, it falls over 600 points its worst week ever.
June 16, 2000: Arafat and Clinton meet. Clinton wants to finish business by September 13, 2000, which is the seven-year anniversary date. Dow falls 265 points in its final hour.
July 12, 2000: Barak, Arafat have a meeting at Camp David. Talks continue to July 26. Talks collapse over Jerusalem over Muslim and Jewish sections of the Old City. Fires begin in Western United States; 7 million acres burn some of the worst in history. Montana and Wyoming declared disaster areas. Dan Glickman the Secretary of Agriculture reported that the winds were equivalent of the Perfect Storm because there was high winds, high temperatures, lightning and no rain.
July 28, 2000: Texas declares 195 counties disaster areas due to a drought, the worst in history for that region.
March 31, 2001: On the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek arrived in Washington, a Chinese fighter jet "bumped" into one of our EP-3 reconnaissance planes, forcing it-along with the 24-person crew-to make an emergency landing in China. The resulting crisis completely overshadowed the visits of Mubarek and King Abdullah II.
April 10, 2001: Jordan's King Abdullah II arrived in Washington earlier in the week to speaks with Christian leaders, members of Congress and others to get behind the initiative. He visits the White House on April 10 and then returns home to Jordan. The next day China agrees to release the "detained" airmen from the downed plane. The extremely valuable aircraft remains behind in China, evidently to be shipped home in pieces.
May 22, 2001: President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell publicly endorse the Mitchell Report. Concurrently, Vermont Senator James Jeffords is rumored to be leaving the Republican Party. Vermont-already a pro-choice state-becomes the first to approve same sex-unions. That same day, the Dalai Lama arrives in Washington. This visit angers China, and the Chinese Premier calls Bush "unfit" to be President.
May 25, 2001: Senator Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, becoming an Independent, allowing the Democrats to obtain a majority in the Senate, throwing judicial and diplomatic nominations into question. On the same day, Daniel Kurtzer is nominated for Ambassador to Israel and endorsed by pro-land giveaway Reform and Conservative Jews, making up 85% of American Jewry.
June 8, 2001: Reuters News Service reports that United States CIA director George Tenet and a special envoy from Washington have spearheaded an international effort on Friday "to strengthen a fragile Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire" plagued by fresh violence. The Central Intelligence Agency director hosted talks between senior Israeli and Palestinian security officials in Ramallah, while Assistant Secretary of State William Burns met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the West Bank.
June 8, 2001: Catastrophic flooding overnight brings the Houston area to a near standstill, with nearly 10,000 people left homeless and 3,000 homes and businesses affected, Gov. Rick Perry declares a state of emergency in the Houston area and 28 southeast Texas counties. More than two feet of rain fell at Bush Intercontinental Airport causing flights to be cancelled until early Sunday morning.
September 11, 2001: The greatest attack ever on American soil occurred. The hijacking of four airplanes and the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC)in New York City and the Pentagon left upwards of 6,000 dead and thousands injured. These suicide attacks by Muslim terrorists caused over $100 billion in damage and financial losses and stunned the country.
The attack was aimed right at the financial heart of the United States. The effect of this attack on the stock market was devastating. The week after the attack was one of the worst ever for the stock market. It may be the catalyst for an economic depression that could affect the entire world.
President Bush refused, when asked, to say whether he had been prepared to announce his support for a Palestinian state prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
A CNN article stated that State Department and other senior administration officials have told CNN that drafts of a major policy speech on the Middle East, to be delivered by Secretary of State Powell, had been circulating within the State Department for review.
These officials said the speech was to "clarify its [U.S.] views on an end result" of the (MidEast) peace process, which would lead to the eventual "creation of a Palestinian state."
Powell had expected to deliver the speech on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that began on September 23, but that plan was put on hold after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A future address to the UN was postponed because security couldn't be guaranteed for UN members. This was not just a coincidence.
"It will go farther than we have ever gone," one official said of Powell's speech. "There is an awful lot more that we view as being the end result than what we have said so far."
One point being hotly debated is whether to "call for ending all settlement activity," including so-called natural growth of existing settlements—something previous U.S. administrations have come close to doing, but have never done.
The same official said that such a speech would be a powerful palliative" to the Arab world. "It eases the pain," the official said. "It would end the perception we only move against Islam."
"We are getting hammered in the Arab world," this official said. "And it is not a mystery that one of the ways to diffuse this" is to see some movement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Printer friendly version
Have all the dogs Dad will tolerate here, too. And a friend with 23 others needing homes from the Dine/Navajo reservation and she's functioning at a poverty level caring for them.
I'd help her, first, if I could. Can't do much of that either.
Uhhhh . . . perhaps some will have to go to doggy heaven and help feed some VietNamese?
Dreadful situation. I applaud all efforts to help the poor creatures.
Ah well, all God's creatures are worth caring.
Though I'm not at all sure of that regarding mosquitoes.
Until then, we are subject to the ongoing harassment of evil in a fallen world, but we have the utmost of helps and that's Jesus Christ and faith in God the Father with the helps of the Holy Spirit. Have faith and never ascribe disasters to God, who is most holy and most completely good.
Do you only eat on one side of your mouth? Use only one side of your brain? My point being your answer is a decent thought but, God is multifaceted. He is just and holy. Acts of God in nature is one more aspect of our holy and righteous judge. 1Peter5:17: For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And if it first begin at us what shall the end be that obey not the gospel of God? Sin cannot go unpunished. It is a cancer that calls for serious action. When God judges the wicked it is a warning to those that remain to fear God and obey him and to turn to him. Perhaps cleaning out NO will prevent or slow down the serious infection of sin and filth that is a big part of that cities makeup in our country. Maybe your son or daughter or a neighbors will have been spared being shot up with heroin and ending up on the streets as a prostitute or saved from being murdered. We do not know all the events that God spared us from by this city being almost wiped out. What we do know is that the whole counsel of God is the Bible. Both OT and NT rightly divided and understood. We know that judgment serves as a warning to those who live to fear God and turn from their wicked ways. God's judgments are mercy. It is hard but we serve a powerful and mighty God.
I believe our society is suffering in their sin and degradation because the Church as a whole is not out preaching in the marketplace/streets. Calling out to people to repent and be saved. For the most part the Church has failed miserably in this country for the last 75 years or so. God help America. God save Americans.
watchin: I don't think I understand. How could you not have the "luxury" of saying "I don't know" about something you couldn't possibly really know? Who is it that's demanding that you know the unknowable?
It was a deep conviction in my spirit birthed as best as I can discern from Holy Spirit.
It was of sufficient intensity for me to be willing to bet . . . probably even my life on it, so to speak.
"What does God's Word say?"
"No one knows the time"
Too true. Too sadly true.
OK, I will try to be serious. What in your opinion US government should do for Israel to avoid natural disasters in the future ?
It's a translation of a translation of a translation etc. Mine is as accurate as any.
Perhaps I didn't say it well, so I will try again.
If you look throughout history you will find lots of disasters, so what does that prove, except that there are lots of disasters?
I didn't mean to imply that everyone's lives are disasters 24/7.
What should the USA do? I think the President needs to put on sackcloth and ashes and seek God's face with prayer and fasting for a week to 10 days--at least 3--and ask God. I think it would take the wisdom of God to do the God pleasing thing and survive.
Any God pleasing strategy, course he would take would inflame the Arabs to the max. He would need to have God's protection and direction whatever he did at this point.
AT LEAST HE MUST STOP PRESSURING THEM TO GIVE UP LAND TO THE ARABS AND PROTECT JEWISH SITES IN JERUSALEM, PARTICULARLY THE TEMPLE SITE from the Arab usurpers and destroyers.
The Palestinians actually were legally Jordanians way back at the end of WWII. Until the Arabs realized they could play manipulative games with them. I think all the Arabs on the west bank should be forcefully returned to Jordan or absorbed by Saudia Arabia with an effective border watch to insure they didn't return.
Alas, I suspect God is setting the Arabs up and the world up to show forth His glory by pouring water in the trench dug deep around the altar on Mt Carmel. I suspect He's going to set Israel up so that there's no possible way that even the USA IF THE USA WANTED TO could save, protect Israel. Then he's going to insure that the USA doesn't want to. And at a key dramatic moment, GOD HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS ANGEL ARMIES BUT ESSENTIALLY GOD MIRACULOUSLY ALONE WITHOUT ANY SIGNIFICANT HUMAN HELP WILL RESCUE ISRAEL AND SET IT UP AS THE SUPREME NATION IN ALL CREATION.
At that point, the USA option will be to pay homage and probably tribute to be allowed back into God's good graces as a nation.
But that's all mostly speculation based on my reading of God's tendencies and various Scriptures.
Wrong. The NT is NOT a translation based on a translation based on a translation based on a translation based on a translation . . .
Read Josh McDowell's THE NEW EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT--the section on the historicity of the NT. We have quite a number of portions of the text from within 30-50 years of the events--well within the lifetimes of the witnesses. The portions we have from that era do NOT differ essentially, if at all, from the best translations we have.
You might check your assumptions and your facts a bit better.
Have always loved that map.
It shows the utter murderous, insecure GREED of the Arabs.
It also gives the lie to their demonic moon god as being generous, kind, benificent etc. What a crock.
I don't care what the Arab's think of us, unless it is fear. I want them to fear the wrath of the USA.
I understand your perspective and why it seems logical to you.
I disagree with it strongly.
I would prefer that God did things more obviously as you suggest with Mecca.
HE HAS PERSISTENTLY DONE OTHERWISE AND SEEMS set to continue on that track for at least the near future. It may well be during the dramatic Revelation described END TIMES that He will become enormously more OBVIOUS. I believe He will. But not yet.
He keeps His own counsel about His reasons for such. I've speculated on them somewhat.
I suppose I could add my own additional speculations.
I believe that He does things with a heavy coarse meat-axe/hammer approach because THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
He seems to be the ultimate SHOCK AND AWE author.
And, as I've said, He hides Himself from the evil-doers and reveals Himself to those who seek Him and His Kingdom.
Therefore, those who seek Him will see His hand in Katrina and those who don't, won't.
Certainly He has treated the Jews according to their own evil over the centuries and will be doing so for their current Godlessness and forsaking Him in this era before He turns their hearts again to Himself.
He will bring Glory to Himself out of all this.
He does all things well.
Thankfully I'm not remotely close to God in position, power, or anything else. I just try to walk close to Him.
It is also interesting to me that 'simple' tribal peoples see God's hand in nature and natural events far more than 'civilized' people do. And, I've come to the conclusion that perhaps it's much more than superstition. They seem to have an understanding and respect that God has an affinity for using such events as communications events.
I believe another reason God does things that way IS THAT IT FORCES THE DISCERNING SEEKERS AFTER HIM TO SEEK HIS FACE MORE DILIGENTLY AND URGENTLY ABOUT JUST WHAT !IS! THE MESSAGE God intends by the dramatic event.
God loves us to SEEK HIS FACE. Disasters trigger that much more than potatoe chips for couch potatoes in front of the Plasma screen do.
My facts are not based upon a silly hopeful belief in an old superstition.
My facts are not based upon a silly hopeful belief in an old superstition.
Well, based upon that randy response, I now see very clearly why others here had no idea what you were talking about. I strongly doubt that you are a Christian, since what side of my mouth I "eat out of" and "talk out of" is none of your business and certainly no aspect to this discussion for anyone of faith. Or anyone else of reason otherwise, now that I think of it.
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