A MOST SOLEMN CALL [FASTING FRIDAYS AGAINST TERRORISM N ALERTS RE NYC ATTACK LOOMING]

The following call is a very serious one and right on, I want to add again the call to pray for New York as this City represents by my understanding the main target of the next attack in the US, also as until recently it had the largest concentration of Jewish People in the world.

They call it the "Big Apple" and the Jewish people are the "Apple of God's Eye". I really felt that was a lot of the reason that it became already the target on 9/11, and it will be the again the next one also, it has been prophetically said many times, specially during the past 12 months.....!

Message: 1 A MOST SOLEMN CALL TO BELIEVERS WORLDWIDE TO FAST ON EVERY FRIDAY TO CONTAIN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Christine Darg

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? (Isaiah 58: 6)

Early in the morning before the July 7 bombings in London, sleep eluded me. The Lord said solemnly, ‘I am calling you to call my people to fast and pray every Friday to contain Islamic terrorism.’ The same morning, a brother in Baghdad who is translating into Arabic my book,

‘The Jesus Visions: Signs and Wonders in the Muslim World,’ emailed me concerning Islamic terrorism.

He quoted Jesus in Matthew 17:21: ‘This kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.’ We covenanted to obey the heavenly call and to add regular fasting to our prayers on Fridays.

Within a few hours the call to fast was confirmed by the coordinated attacks on London transport; the subsequent failed attempts of similar coordinated attacks in London encourages us that disasters can be diverted through prayer and fasting.

For many years many of us have been praying and fasting individually for the Moslem people, but the Islamic world is no longer a ‘special interest group’ of concern to just some believers in the Church. The threat of Islamic terrorism has now become the concern of every true worshipper of the God of Israel. In Derek Prince’s book, Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting, he stated that there are some answers we never obtain until we add fasting to our prayers.

Friday is the day that much hatred, violence and blood-thirsty rhetoric is fomented in fundamentalist mosques around the world. The Lord’s solemn call to fast and pray is not intended to extend into the Sabbath day of rest, which begins Friday evening at mealtime, but is intended to consist of afflicting our souls with fasting during breakfast and/or lunch on Fridays as a way of humbling ourselves and to entreat His mercy corporately. Islamic terrorists crave an ‘Hiroshima’ upon their enemies.

In Israel, a fence can deter some terrorism, but in most nations we cannot build a wall to protect ourselves from sleeper cells. Nevertheless ‘The weapons of our warfare are not physical but are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds.’ The weapons of corporate prayer and fasting can bring victory and delay divine judgments in this time of great peril. Corporate fasting is part of the process of humbling ourselves that is being required by Heaven.

‘If My people who are called by My name [YHVH, not Allah] shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’ (2 Chronicles 7: 14)

As we gave this solemn call first in England at an ‘Open Heaven’ conference July 9 and also in churches in Virginia and in the Washington, D.C. area this past weekend, many have responded to the Spirit’s call and have asked what is involved in this fast. Some say they are not able to fast because of sicknesses. (Be healed!) But this call is not intended to be a ‘religious’ fast.

Ask the Holy Spirit to show you how to participate in this Prophetic Summons during these strategic hours on Fridays: perhaps forfeit one meal, two meals, perhaps a partial fast. But do something by faith to be a part of this corporate response to Heaven.

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. (2 Chronicles 16:9)

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. (Amos 3: 7)

We humbly implore you not to disregard this call. Many of us for many years in Jerusalem have faithfully banded together to pray specifically for the irreversible overthrow of the Anti- Christ Pharaoh-like principality of Islam that is holding a billion souls captive.

Therefore this call from Heaven was not given to us by chance but because in some measure we have gained a place in intercession concerning this grave issue. Therefore the Lord says, ‘Be not distracted nor indulgent but put your hand to this plough of fasting and prayer and you will be numbered among those who stand in the gap and build up My hedge to avert many calamities and disasters.’

As you fast, pray: --that we will be forgiven for our gross national sins (bullying Israel, abortion, same sex marriages, euthanasia, pornography, sexual predators on children, playing God in laboratories yet denying God and his commandments in schools, courthouses).

As we humble ourselves Heaven may decide not to allow the Islamic terrorists to scourge us with weapons of mass destruction. God who is plenteous in mercy may leave behind a blessing and stay his Hand on ripe judgments. --that the hatred and curses hurled from fundamentalist mosques will be bound and nullified --that sleeper cells will be exposed and all military intelligence will be accurate to avert many national disasters --that our political and religious leaders will cease being politically correct and will deal decisively with Islamic terror in a bold, courageous manner --that the terrorists will be miraculously converted for ‘they know not what they do’ and in their misguided zeal believe they are doing their god a service --pray for many of the terrorists to have dreams and visions and to repent --that misguided suicide bombers and all terrorists will receive a vision and understanding that they are indeed dupes, pawns, murderers and not martyrs and that the reality of their destiny is eternal damnation unless they repent

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast. . . . Let the priests, the ministers of YHVH, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O YHVH. . . . (Joel 2:15-17)

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? (Isaiah 58: 6)

(Christine Darg, an author and broadcaster who ministers in Israel and the nations, received this call. Her contact is info@exploits.tv)

Al-Qaida's U.S. nuclear targets Captured documents, terrorists reveal bin Laden's preferred dates, places for 'American Hiroshima'

Al-Qaida's prime targets for launching nuclear terrorist attacks are the nine U.S. cities with the highest Jewish populations, according to captured leaders and documents.

As first revealed last week in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by the founder of WND, Osama bin Laden is planning what he calls an "American Hiroshima," the ultimate terrorist attack on U.S. cities, using nuclear weapons already smuggled into the country across the Mexican border along with thousands of sleeper agents.

The series of attacks is designed to kill 4 million, destroy the economy and fundamentally alter the course of history.

At least two fully assembled and operational nuclear weapons are believed to be hidden in the United States already, according to G2 Bulletin intelligence sources and an upcoming book, "The al-Qaida Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse," by former FBI consultant Paul L. Williams.

The cities chosen as optimal targets are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston and Washington, D.C. New York and Washington top the preferred target list for al-Qaida leadership.

Bin Laden's goal, according to G2 Bulletin sources, is to launch one initial attack, followed by a second on another city to simulate the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The optimal dates for the attacks are Aug. 6, the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Sept. 11 and May 14, the anniversary of the re-creation of the state of Israel in 1948. No specific year has been suggested, however, this Aug. 6 represents the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack.

Amid the conflict in Iraq and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, this is a side of the war on terrorism you rarely hear about: the drive to prevent terrorists from acquiring the ingredients for a nuclear bomb. In recent years, operations similar to the one in Uzbekistan have been conducted in Libya, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. These efforts reflect an intense and growing concern within the U.S. government about the specter of nuclear terrorism.

It is one of the few issues on which President George W. Bush agreed with his former rival, John Kerry, who called nuclear terrorism the greatest threat that we face in the world today.

That threat comes not just from suspected weapons programs in Iran and North Korea, but also from Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Last year Michael Scheuer, who ran the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit for several years in the late 1990s, wrote a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee warning of the "careful, professional manner in which al-Qaeda was seeking nuclear weapons . . . in deadly earnest." More than a decade ago, bin Laden allegedly tried to buy a canister of uranium in Sudan for $1.5 million. (He appears to have been scammed.)

In August 2001, he met with two Pakistani nuclear scientists. And later that year, crude sketches of nuclear weapons were found in Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Scheuer told CBS's 60 Minutes last year that bin Laden even sought a religious edict from a Saudi cleric on whether he could use a nuclear weapon against America. The cleric's answer: Go for it.

Intent isn't the same as capability, of course. But of more than a dozen nuclear-arms experts I interviewed, almost all agreed that assembling a crude nuclear bomb, though extremely difficult, is by no means impossible.

Just ask Graham Allison. In his recent book Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, he concludes that a terrorist nuke attack is "inevitable" unless the U.S. works much harder and faster to safeguard nuclear material. A former assistant secretary of defense who served under President Bill Clinton and now teaches government at Harvard University, Allison is actually taking small bets from colleagues that terrorists will detonate a crude nuclear bomb in a U.S. city within a decade. "If this happened tomorrow," he says, "I could almost explain it more easily than I could explain why it hasn't happened."

Yeah, I know.

I've tried to get him to write Jim Rob and he's willing but hasn't felt led to do it, yet. I think he feels that Jim Rob would just turn a deaf ear to his message even though he's donated from his meager cash while being banned with no evident hope of being reinstated.

I think he believes that naysayers have so poisoned Jim Rob's attitude toward him that there's no point in him pesonally saying anything to Jim.

I don't think theres a great risk in folks posting related to Quix as long as they don't stir the ire philosophically of certain mods and forum "pets" who are most rabid against his strongly stated philosophical views.

To me, it's particularly sad at this time with all the Al Qaeda, prophecy, Hillary etc. stuff flying around so freely and complexly. To even imply that Quix's values are askew from the core FREE REPUBLIC values is sheer silliness or cluelessness. No one is more functionally, faithfully, rationally patriotic about the USA than Quix.

And, I think his capacity to brainstorm practical ideas is virtually unparalleled on FR though he rarely to never was noted for that. And, his analysis of complex situations with a variety of slants was uncommonly good. He at least spoke well and vividly from the particular Christian group he's a part of. That very patriotic perspective has been missing from FR ever since he was banned. I consider that a serious loss given the battles we are all in.

I should hush or I'll rant more and more. I feel so strongly about it.

IF ANYONE WANTS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH QUIX, PLEASE let me know. He's happy to share his email addy.

[Permission granted by the author of this, a believer and a person of prayer, to forward this.]

24 January 2006
To Forum Member: Thanks for your input. Am
responding below to the group on the thread, and
not just to you. There is that curious Scripture
about the demon (I think it was) answering God
that the demon would go and do the requested
deed.

But The Almighty God of The Bible is not a god
that he would lie.

As Spock articulated in the alternative universe
show -- a universe based on evil would
self-destruct in Stardate Umpteeump.

Life and reality are complex. There seem to be an
infinite number of facets on the diamond.

It is easy to assume that the facets in our view
are on one side or the other of OUR line or
criteria on this or that issue. We may not see
*our* error until we see the whole diamond.

It's easy for me, as well, to shake my head in
puzzlement about the non-event following the
prophecies.

However, it still remains that I have no
explanation for the children's visions and other
factors with this packet of prophetic inputs. You
folks who are posting on the forum here think
your explanation that it's all hogwash, silly,
deluded, evil, etc., is valid. I can understand
your positions and feelings. Very understandable
-- especially from your perspectives.

But I'm not at all willing to take a meat axe in
judgment to arrive at a seemingly tidy (but
inadequate) explanation.

I shall continue to consider the jury still out
until and unless God Himself helps me understand
all the above FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE because HIS
PERSPECTIVE is the only one that counts.

You are framing all this from your perspective
and your standpoints. Understandable. We all do.
You conclude that you have all or sufficiently
close to all the information necessary for such a
stance. I don't.

FRAMING -- Framing an issue, situation or reality
is crucial. We can frame a picture and see only a
tiny pine tree. We can frame the same picture and
see a mountain. We can frame it again and see a
range of mountains, or even a continent ... a
globe, a solar system. The larger-scoped frames
do not alter the truth of the lone pine tree. But
it sure does bring a host of other factors into
the picture.

I don't think we know much more about the
situation with the prophecies and the non-events
than maybe an acre's worth of facts around the
lone pine tree. That's likely too few facts to
form the hard rigid judgments that are being made
on this forum.

I do know that more disturbing times in my life
than I like to remember, God has done some very,
very, very curious things to get me into the kind
of space that was necessary to deal with this or
that aspect of my psyche or spirit or person or
maturity (rather lack of). In my younger years
I'd have declared that God would never do such a
thing. But whether one says He allowed it or did
it, He brought it about. And, the result was
beneficial. And, it was true to His righteous
character all along the way whether I thought so
at the time, or not.

Not one of us is in a position to judge God
whether we think we are, or not.

There are many paradoxes in life. Some look like
blazing, brazen contradictions. In my experience,
that's usually because we cannot see the whole
picture. Some facets of the diamond look blue and
others red because of our perspective. God's
perspective is very different.

That does NOT mean we end up with a rubber Bible.
It does mean we ought to maintain some serious
humility whenever we feel inclined to judge God.

I would be quick to judge some of the prophetic
folks if I felt it were warranted. Many of my
close friend believers I've fowarded such to have
certainly already judged them as you folks have
done. I personally don't feel that's called for
in this situation. I have detected no conscious,
deliberate or even deluded hoakiness.

That does not mean I understand or know how to
explain how things turned out. It merely means I
have no need to come down in a black/white harsh
way on the issue at present. I don't know enough.
You think you do. I can understand that. But for
myself, I just don't know enough so I will
withhold judgment.

I'm certain that God WILL HAVE the LAST WORD on
the matter and IN HIS TIME and IN HIS
WAY--whatever that will be.

There are certainly secular news items which
still indicate that the world is getting locked
more and more fully into a situation that only
great trauma will relieve. I'll post shortly in
this thread a doc about Iran threatening to SEAL
OFF THE PERSIAN GULF.

There are other reports of deepening,
intensifying moves by Russia, China, etc., which
clearly are along lines of Biblical prophecies
headed toward a major conflagration.

The non-events of 23 January do not at all
indicate that we should go back to naive
lullabies. Doing so would be very ill-advised.

Somehow I'm reminded of the curious Scripture
about Moses changing God's mind. That's somewhat
of a mind-bending, mind-boggling thought in and
of itself -- that God would change His mind for
any reason and that a man could influence God's
mind to change is a whole 'nother level of
boggling.

I don't know for certain that such happened here
with the intercessory prayers. However, I do know
that the Dallas area sure had a lot of prayer
going up. I do know that such earnest, heart-felt
prayers do change things.

My personal perspective had been and remains that
the bulk of the things predicted were to be
spread out over the next however many months AND
that no amount of prayer would more than moderate
or delay them. That, essentially, sooner or
later, they will transpire.

I still feel that way. I really do not doubt
that, at all.

I have felt for several years that I wanted to
get back to [xxxx] before the world started falling
apart, and then I couldn't get back there due to
circumstances beyond my control. I still feel
that's valid -- especially from a natural
perspective.

Alongside of that, I've begun to feel that God
will get me back there in His ways and timing for
His purposes which may be different than I
imagined them to be. He's certainly capable of
transporting me there any number of ways in any
kind of situation or condition.

At the moment, if I HAD to guess, I'd guess that
God was somewhat moved by prayer and somewhat has
decided to do things a bit differently because of
unknown factors on the geopolitical, spiritual
world stage. I don't know how to explain that.
Wouldn't God have known what was going to change
and what prayers were going to go up? Certainly.
I don't know how to explain it. It's just a mild
to moderate conjecture.

Sometimes I want to yell at God about "2,000
years soon" is rather ridiculous; and that, given
His timelessness, He must not understand our
perspective on time if He can write in His Word
that Jesus is coming back -- essentially 2,000
years -- soon.

But I know in my heart it's a somewhat silly
thought. God understands us thoroughly -- even
about our perspective on time versus His.

At this point, I remain convinced that the bulk
of those sources heard and heard accurately from
God. Something happened or there was "something"
about the timing. Seems wrong. Looks wrong.
Sounds wrong. Feels wrong from a certain type of
reasonable, normal perspective. Easy to label it
"false prophet-ish". But I don't believe that's
so. I don't know how to explain that.

I still choose to 'allow' God to be God. He's God
and I'm not. He owns everything. I don't. He has
all the power. I don't. He knows what He's doing.
I occasionally think I do.

*** +++ ***
Written by a believer and person of prayer
USA

It's not my perspective. And, I think your understanding of the traditional meaning of prophet in Hebrew literature and culture is more narrow than was the reality. I think it was a much more robust, rich term than you seem to think it was.

Perspective has nothing to do with it, unless you are going to 'spiritualize' the non-literal fulfillment away. They spoke forth an unconditional and literal judgment from God, by God. It didn't occur. As far as my understanding of the term goes, the prophets (and prophecy) of the new testament are under the same legitimate requirement (although being stoned is not one of them). If you want to blow off the old testament because it is Hebrew in cultural origin, you do so at great risk. Furthermore, the new testament writers were either Hebrews or supervised by them (Luke). Their relation of the term 'prophet' would naturally be within the cultural understanding of the old testament. My review of that term in the new testament show that the definition tends to be the same.

We are warned in the new testament to avoid false prophets. Therefore there has to be a standard of what 'true' is. Taking the instruction of the Bible as a whole, that 'true' is still the factual and actual fulfillment of the prophecy. Again, perception has nothing to do with it, proper biblical evaluation and accountability does. Continued false prophetic utterances given credence harms the body of Christ, not edifies it. And for you information, I am a pentecostal, I believe in the prophetic word and the richness thereof.

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