25 Warnings in Ten Years to the United States

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

What I told my Sunday school class is that we could say categorically YES that this was judgment from God in that it reflects the condition of the world after the fall- under a curse. People die because sin came into the world, but that wasn't God's original design. And, it won't always be this way.

I told them, probably, it had something to do with Israel. Regardless of her spiritual state, we need to love and support her. Not necessarily always agree with everything she does, but I believe God's covenant to Abraham was everlasting.

I also said, it was probably allowed by God either as a wake up call or judgment because of the sinfulness of that city and of this nation. But also, I told them, lets not get too smug. Our own community has its own issues as well.

Every day there are 20,000 thunderstorms on earth. Every day tons of ice and rock rain onto the earth from space. Every day there are measurable seismic events all over the globe and practically every minute there is a lightning strike somewhere on earth. I can tie a naturally occuring destructive event to the purchase of ice cream, the playing of polkas or the birth of zebras.

It means nothing, IMHO.

I think Jesus came and died for our sins in between those times. That changed everything. Including and eye for an eye.

Then how was the earliest teaching, say around the first Pentecost after Christ ascended into heaven NOT horribly flawed, since they had only the Old Testament?

Can you give me a verse where he does, either during, or after Jesus' testament short of his second coming?

Read Revelations and pay attention to the end times when even though the wrath of God is shown in plagues. More than once you read "But they still would not repent of their sin."

Rev 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

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?

Or, perhaps you're saying that you can't say "I don't know" and be honest about it, because you feel that you really DO know the cause of the storm?

If that's what you're saying - did God tell you His reasons directly, or do you "know" because of the explanation in the original post?

I think I meant

Who are you to say God couldn't/can't do it HIS WAY--not making things crystal clear, precise, individualized etc. in all cases . . . stamping out masses of people for collective individual sins etc?

I think you meant who are either of us to say what a given event meant.

Not that you ought to care what I think, but:

What I told my Sunday school class is that we could say categorically YES that this was judgment from God in that it reflects the condition of the world after the fall- under a curse. People die because sin came into the world, but that wasn't God's original design. And, it won't always be this way.

Good job. All true.

I told them, probably, it had something to do with Israel.

The "probably" helps, but make sure you let those who you teach know when you are sharing God's Word, and when you are merely speculating.

Regardless of her spiritual state, we need to love and support her. Not necessarily always agree with everything she does, but I believe God's covenant to Abraham was everlasting.

Agreed. We're on the same page, here.

I also said, it was probably allowed by God either as a wake up call or judgment because of the sinfulness of that city and of this nation.

You're speculating again. I'll agree that NO was sinful, but it doesn't prove the cause of the storm.

But also, I told them, lets not get too smug. Our own community has its own issues as well.

Good.

I did let them know that this was my opinion. Short of God sending a reputable prophet to send warning of judgment, it can only be informed speculation based upon the nature of God in the Bible.

"How about those wanting to save all the animals in NO go to their Local Animal Shelter and adopt one of the pets they have available TODAY!

A wonderful way to pay homage to those pets that will have been unfortunately lost to Hurricane Katrina in some form or another.

BET YOU DON'T DO IT!"

I am all maxed out at my home right now with lots of adopted animals. Good idea though. Perhaps all of us animal lovers could try to do something. Like take vans, trucks down there and bring back animals to our local pet stores and they could each all over the country find a couple homes for some little critters found in NO. They could even make some money selling them to the kindhearted and sympathetic American public. Really good idea I think because many of the big pet food chains and the smaller private stores do take lots of cats and dogs in and selling them find homes for them from out of area Humane Societies and private people helping critters.

"Cease Fire on Animals Streets of New Orleans (Please Sign Petition)"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482147/posts

I am truly sorry for getting this message posted on the wrong thread. Not liking to cause any more confusion in this world than is already here. However, perhaps some animal lover will read this post and go to the above thread. :)

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