We talked to Professor Hess about how slow light forms a 'trapped rainbow', and how the potential applications now extend to magnetic storage, lasers, biological imaging and even earthquake shields.
What is the 'trapped rainbow' and how does it work?
The process of creating a trapped rainbow relies on metamaterials or nanoplasmonic structures endowed with special negative properties, surrounded by 'normal' materials.
Often, because light travels so fast, it doesn't interact much with matter. By slowing it down, we can make these interactions stronger, manipulating matter in new ways.
As light moves through the special material, it is pushed backwards in small steps where the two materials meet. It's like walking up a steep, snowy slope – every step you take up, you slide back down a little way, slowing down your progress.
The difference in the material is that each time the light is pushed back it slows more and more. Eventually, as the white light slows, its different components – all the colours of the spectrum – stop at different points, creating a 'trapped rainbow'.
One way slow light is useful is in increasing interactions between light and matter. Often, because light travels so fast, it doesn't interact much with matter. By slowing it down, we can make these interactions stronger, manipulating matter in new ways.
The 'trapped-rainbow' concept of slowing waves has not just been applied to light though. It works also for electrons. And one really innovative idea, actually being tested by a team including Imperial researchers, is slowing seismic waves. By cutting large-scale metamaterial-style structures into the ground, or even into trees, they have shown it is possible to redirect seismic waves into the ground, protecting structures from earthquakes.
'Ultraslow waves on the nanoscale: Slow light meets nanotechnology' by Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Ortwin Hess, Robert W. Boyd, and Xiang Zhang is published in Science.


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Last Update November 23, 2019
Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for chills and fever, Supreme Court says
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital on Friday night after experiencing chills and a fever, the Supreme Court said Saturday night.
Ginsburg, 86, was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further evaluation and treatment of any possible infection, the Supreme Court said in a press release.
Her symptoms have abated after intravenous antibiotics and fluids and she is expected to be released from the hospital as early as Sunday morning, according to the release.
Ginsburg has suffered a number of hospital stints recently.
RUTH BADER GINSBERG MISSES SUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS DUE TO ILLNESS
She missed oral arguments before the high court on Nov. 13 -- which she almost never does -- due to a stomach bug.
Ginsburg has also had two separate bouts with cancer in the past year. Her recovery from lung cancer caused her to miss court sessions in January, her first time doing so in her quarter-century as a justice.
In August, she had radiation treatment for a tumor on her pancreas.

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Question I have several patients, mostly girls, who are living with Raynaud phenomenon. Does this condition appear in children, and what should be the course of action?
Answer Raynaud phenomenon, described in the 1860s, can present in children and even in the first decade of life. While most children will have primary Raynaud phenomenon, with no serious adverse consequences, in others it might be a sign of a pending systemic disease. Those children with a positive reaction to antinuclear antibody, specific autoantibodies associated with connective tissue disease, or nail fold capillary changes require referral to a pediatric rheumatologist and close follow-up.
Raynaud phenomenon is recognized today as a transient vasospasm of peripheral arteries and arterioles that classically results in triphasic colour changes in the affected region, and it is associated with a variety of medical conditions.3 The vasospasm causes pallor (white), followed by dilation of the capillaries and venous stasis resulting in cyanosis (blue), and finally the arteries and arterioles dilate, causing rapid return of blood flow and reactive hyperemia (red)4 (Figure 1). The fingers are the most commonly affected region, usually as a response to stressors such as cold exposure.
Most children (about 70%) present with primary RP, and secondary RP is associated with juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, juvenile systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, and rarely systemic sclerosis and Sjögren syndrome.5 These need to be ruled out in every child with RP.
Based on limited evidence in pediatrics, a European expert panel recommended testing antinuclear antibodies, more specific antibodies associated with connective tissue disease, and nail fold capillaroscopy in all children presenting with RP.11 The frequency of follow-up recommended depends on the presence of these risk factors, with the aim of detecting evolving connective tissue disease early in high-risk individuals. Those children with a positive reaction to antinuclear antibody, specific autoantibodies, or nail fold capillary changes need a pediatric referral and close follow-up.
Child Health Update is produced by the Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (PRETx) program (www.pretx.org) at the BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, BC. Dr Goldman is Director of the PRETx program. The mission of the PRETx program is to promote child health through evidence-based research in therapeutics in pediatric emergency medicine.
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The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War – The New York Times
With Russia trying to erase Ukraine's national identity, the fight to preserve, and build upon, Ukraine's artistic heritage has taken on new urgency.
Credit…Emile Ducke for The New York Times
By Jason Farago
Jason Farago, a critic at large, traveled to Kyiv, Lviv and several heavily damaged towns around the capital to explore the war's impact on Ukrainian culture.
KYIV, Ukraine — At the thousand-year-old Cathedral of Saint Sophia here, standing on an easel in front of a towering Baroque golden altar, is a new, freshly painted icon that's just a foot square.
It depicts a 17th-century Cossack military commander with a long gray beard. His eyebrows are arched. His halo is a plain red circle. He looks humble beneath the immense mosaics that have glinted since the 11th century — through Kyiv's sacking by the Mongols, its absorption into Poland, its domination by the Soviet Union.
No gold. No gemstones. This icon has been painted on three planks of knotty wood: the planks, I learn, of an ammunition box recovered from the devastated Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Out of Bucha's mass graves, in the wake of terrifying Russian atrocities against civilians, something new has come to Saint Sophia: an image of mourning and resolve, of horror and courage, of a culture that will not give up.
Why would a critic go into a war zone? Why should anyone care about a painting when cruise missiles are overhead? Because "this is a war about cultural identity," said the curator Leonid Maruschak — one of so many writers, musicians and scholars I've met here who make no distinction between the survival of Ukraine's people and land and the survival of its history and ideas. With Russia actively trying to erase Ukraine's national identity, this country's music, literature, movies and monuments are not recreations. They are battlefields. The true culture war of our age is the war for democracy, and Ukrainian culture, past and present, has become a vital line of defense for the whole liberal order.
Every war endangers cultural heritage. Walk through Kyiv or Lviv today, and on every other corner is a statue bundled in flame-retardant blankets. Hapsburg stained glass is sandwiched between particle board, and Soviet mosaics are overlaid with plywood. The appalling damage to theaters, libraries and religious sites (above all in Mariupol, the occupied city in Ukraine's southeast) in these past four months alone broadens a horrendous tide of cultural destruction this century, in Syria, Iraq, Ethiopia, Mali, Armenia and Afghanistan.
But the risks to Ukrainian culture are more than mere collateral damage. For President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, there is no Ukraine as such; he maintains that Ukraine is a Soviet fiction, that the Ukrainian language is a Russian dialect, that Russians and Ukrainians are "one people." And so since February — indeed, since 2014, when the war first began in the east of Ukraine — cultural manifestations of Ukrainian independence have been directly in the cross hairs.
"You see how many historical fake justifications there are in the Russian motivation for this war," the philosopher Anton Drobovych, one of Ukraine's brightest young scholars, told me when we met up near his barracks on an island in the Dnipro River. In peacetime, Mr. Drobovych led Ukraine's Institute of National Memory, an official institution tasked with re-examining the Communist era after years of whitewashes. Now he wears fatigues and combat boots, and takes Zoom meetings from the trenches with Western think tanks, as he works with the institute on an oral history of the invasion. "History is no less important than the army," he said. "If I felt that it was less important, I would deal only with my anti-tank affairs."
Despite the social-media propaganda, despite the missile warnings delivered via push notification, in cultural terms the war here is brutally old-fashioned. It's a straight-up imperial war, and it's turned contemporary Ukrainian culture into an archival enterprise — one in which preservation is everyone's job, and new creations are rooted in history the enemy would deny. The exhibition "Crucified Ukraine," at a museum in the shadow of Kyiv's stainless steel Motherland Monument, includes exacting replications of three underground shelters that housed 120 Ukrainians for more than a month this winter. Film archivists have become experts in explosion risks, and librarians are digitizing Soviet-era photographs that were spirited out of Mariupol at the last minute. Heritage authorities are tracing monuments with 3-D scanners, creating a record in case they need to be rebuilt — a technology developed too late for many treasures in Syria.
Lviv, an hour from the Polish border, has become a hub for displaced people and displaced culture, too. Viktoriya Sadova has been showing new arrivals to the city around the memorial museum in Lonsky Prison, which was a Polish, then a Nazi, then a Soviet detention center. (She became the museum's acting director after the war began on Feb. 24, and its regular leader was drafted.) Visitors from the occupied cities of Mariupol and Kherson scrutinize the exhibits of Soviet repression of Ukrainian partisans, and recognize the traumas immediately. "Eighty years have gone but nothing has changed," she told me. "We still have the same occupant."
Ms. Sadova has also been collaborating with museums in Kyiv and Kharkiv, exfiltrating their collections to safer locations west. There was no guidance from the culture ministry, no fuel, no cars; she thanked God for an emergency shipment of cardboard boxes from Poland. What makes her work? She glanced up at the sallow light of the former prison cell and, with a little laugh, quoted me a snatch of poetry Heidegger was fond of: "Where there is danger, there grows what saves."
Right now that danger is starkest away from Kyiv. In the occupied eastern cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, local history museums are presumed destroyed. The missiles come again and again in Kharkiv — the nucleus of the Ukrainian avant-garde in the early days of the Soviet Union. But no city can sleep easy, and no cultural institution is safe. On Thursday a barrage of Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia, a city west of Kyiv and hundreds of miles from the front. They blew up a music venue ahead of a pop concert; the performer Roxolana posted to Instagram that her sound engineer was among the dozens dead.
But with the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kyiv region in April, and the return of some citizens who'd sought refuge westward, cultural life has partially resumed here. At the opera they're performing "Nabucco," with Verdi's most stirring nationalist chorus, and buskers on the streets are singing "Stefania," the folk-rap mash-up that won the Eurovision Song Contest this year. The independent designers on Reitarska Street are meeting the demand for patriotic style: blue-and-yellow knitwear, T-shirts with Javelins. Even the renowned nightclubs — which led The New York Times Magazine, just a few months before the war, to christen Kyiv "the Pandemic's Party Capital" — are gingerly reopening for daytime dancing.
Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves. "I had the feeling in the first days, and even now, that there was sand in my mouth instead of words," said Olena Stiazhkina, a celebrated novelist and historian, when we met for Crimean Tatar food a few days after Kyiv's most recent bombardment. Ms. Stiazhkina was born in Donetsk, the largest city in the Donbas, and fled when Russian-backed separatists fought to take control in 2014. Her novels, like many conversations here before February, oscillate between Ukrainian and Russian — or they used to; she's done with Russian for now.
She has friends who fled Kyiv, but she couldn't bring herself to leave home, not a second time. When we met she felt strong and sure, but she wondered what might happen to her in a decade. She mentioned Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Jean Améry, writers who survived the Holocaust and then killed themselves years later, and her eyes welled up.
What pushes her on is that Ukrainian archival impulse. "As a witness, I can write. As a writer, I cannot," she told me. "I understood that I must be a witness, and that's why I write a diary every day. And this time, I have a strong intention to finish it on the day of our victory."
In 2014, after the Maidan revolution that brought down former President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine had a national rebirth, at least in part. The political revolution juddered, but the cultural explosion endured, producing a new generation of young filmmakers, photographers, designers and, especially, DJs and electronic musicians.
"After Maidan, the inability to channel that revolutionary energy into the state got redirected into music," said the curator and writer Vasyl Cherepanyn, who directs the Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv's boldest independent art institution.
The country's youthquake seemed more hedonistic than constructive, at least at first. ("Nightclubs," Mr. Cherepanyn conceded, "are not the best place for critical thinking.") Now, though, all of that cultural ferment is buttressing a season of unbelievable bravery. What Ukraine is proving, amid the slaughter, is that civil society can make a difference against a superior military force. Cultural power is real power. Ukrainian culture, as much as arms, is keeping all of our democratic dreams alive.
Mr. Drobovych described Ukraine's culture as an explicit military asset. "It is contagious, and it spreads to the rest of the world," he told me at the barracks. "It seems that this truth and justice, which is violated, simply explodes in people who create art. And I think that's a huge part of why we're going to win this war."
On the dance floor at Closer, one of the clubs that made Kyiv's reputation as a nightlife capital, I bumped into Serhiy Leshchenko, who before Maidan was an investigative journalist focused on corruption. After the 2014 revolution he entered Parliament; now he advises the Zelensky administration, though he still fits in among the club kids. No one was in the mood to let loose; phones pinged with Telegram notifications of attacks in the south of the country, and there's curfew at 11 p.m. But even at just 100 beats per minute, the young revelers of Kyiv are nowhere near surrender.
"We have to do this," Mr. Leshchenko shouted in my ear over the beat of the DJ. "War isn't about death, war is about life." The speakers thumped, the air alert app was silent; the blue and yellow flag fluttered above; the young Ukrainians in black held fast to each other, dancing in slow defiance. In danger there grows what saves.
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Q: String obfuscation using C++ standard ibrary I want to obfuscate some string data stored locally on iOS/Android device. Something similar to a high score in a game. My goal is to thwart only the laziest people, so encrypting the data really isn't necessary. What does the C++ Standard Library provide that can help?
I looked briefly at cryptopp.com and libtomcrypt but I think they're overkill for what I want to achieve.

A: Assuming the string to be "encrypted" is not terribly long, you can use a XOR cipher.
Generate a random string with the same length as your input string and xor your input with it to encrypt and decrypt.
void xor_strings (string& message, const string& key) {
    for (size_t i = 0; i < message.size(); ++i)
        message[i] ^= key[i];
}

If you save both strings in your file, it will just contain two random strings.

A: For your requirement you can use the string encryption offered by antispy C/C++ Obfuscation Library for all platforms.

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A leading rabbi in Jerusalem believes the Temple will be rebuilt in his lifetime
In a documentary produced by my son, Jim Jr., a leading rabbi in Jerusalem says that he believes the next Jewish temple will be rebuilt on the Temple Mount in his lifetime and he says everything is ready to build that temple today. Rabbi Nachman Kahane, the rabbi who has guided many Jewish students of the Scriptures on the subject of the temple has been the main source of serious study and preparations to build the Jewish temple basically because that is what the Bible calls for from the religious Jews.
In Rabbi Kahane's Yeshiva, which is a place of learning for Jewish young men, the rabbi trained all the leaders of this effort to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and it was his students that started the Temple Institute which has accumulated all the implements for the next temple and trained the men to operate that temple.
All the preparations have been made to rebuild the next Jewish temple in Jerusalem which is in essence a page out of Bible prophecy for the end of times. Twenty years ago I sat with Rabbi Nachman Kahane as he was beginning his quest to rebuild the Jewish temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. Now twenty years later the rabbi believes that the temple will indeed be rebuilt in his lifetime. That is a quote from the rabbi on a documentary released on the subject that shows the rabbi plus many others who also agree that the temple could be standing in Jerusalem in the very near future.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the former head of the Temple Institute, says even the priestly garments are ready and the temple will stand in full operation very soon. Rabbi Chaim Richman, who is the leading authority on the red heifer, says the temple will be built at the spot of the original site of the Garden of Eden which he says is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Rabbi Yoel Keren says that there will be a Jewish temple in Jerusalem that follows the details in Ezekiel 40-46 but first the Jewish people will build a less extravagant temple as they did when the Second Temple was rebuilt 2500 years ago. The priests have been trained, the implements made to operate the temple, even the Menorah, the seven branched candelabra, and there are ten stringed harps for the Levites to play as called for by King David in I Chronicles 23:5.
With all preparations made for the next temple, Bible prophecy is about to be fulfilled.
Posted by James at Friday, August 30, 2013
A high ranking Russian official says that the US and its allies with their threats to attack Syria is like attacking a monkey with a grenade
Russia is a steadfast supporter of Syria as Western powers including the US and its allies discuss and prepare for an attack on Syria. Russia in fact is doubling down. Russia has moved naval ships into the Mediterranean as Vladimir Putin warns Western powers not to attack Syria.
In fact one report says that the Russian leader has warned if the West does indeed attack Syria, Russia will attack Saudi Arabia. The world is now standing by to see if the Middle East will explode should the Western powers attack Syria.
Russia's support for Syria in the crisis in the Middle East is at this time in history setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
As Western powers discuss and prepare to punish Bashar Assad's government for the use of chemical weapons of mass destruction, Russia is steadfast in its defense of Assad on the issue of chemical weapons of mass destruction usage in Syria. This standoff between Russia and the West may well become a major conflict in the Middle East.
What the world sees unfolding today is a page out of Bible prophecy. The ancient Jewish prophet Ezekiel wrote in chapter 38 and verse 2 about Russia referred to as Magog in the passage, that Russia will lead the last days conflict in the Middle East with an attack on Israel as the end result. Daniel another ancient Jewish prophet, said in chapter 11 and verse 40 that Syria, referred to as the King of the North, will be aligned with Russia in this move against Israel.
Syria in fact has threatened to burn Israel if the West does attack its homeland and Russia stands ready to join forces with Syria in this explosive conflict. According to the prophetic scenario found in God's Word the ancient Jewish prophets indeed talk about an alignment of nations that will come against the Jewish state and Syria will make the first move to destroy the Jewish state of Israel.
These developments in the Middle East are indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Posted by James at Thursday, August 29, 2013
PM Netanyahu says that Israel will respond to an attack by Syria
With the threat of a strike on Syria by US led forces in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons of mass destruction the Syrian leader says that if attacked, they will strike Israel. I asked broadcast partner David Dolan if this threat from Syria was of a concern to Israel.
David Dolan: Well it is ultimately because they can be fitted chemical warheads on long range and medium range missiles of which Syria possesses hundreds if not thousands that can strike virtually every part of Israel, so certainly something that the Israelis think is a strong possibility and then we have reports that activists associated with the Syrian opposition have smuggled samples of soil and other contaminated clothing and other things to a team of UN experts and while there, this attack apparently took place.
I think the International Community will rise up, of course not with Russia, not with China, but the Western powers in particular and take some sort of action. That obviously interests Israel very much. This is all very worrisome. As PM Netanyahu said, Iran in particular is watching how the world responds, how the West responds and if they just sit back and do nothing, that will encourage them in their nuclear program and their goal to annihilate Israel he said.
As the world prepares to deal with the usage of chemical weapons of mass destruction in Syria, the stage is being set for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
It's undeniable that chemical weapons of mass destruction have been used in Syria. The only question is, who used them? Was it the Assad government or the opposition forces? However, the alarming thing is that Syria has said that they will attack Israel if the Western powers attack Syria.
This scenario is actually found in Bible prophecy. Daniel, the ancient Jewish prophet reveals that Syria is the nation that will make the first move against the Jewish state of Israel, Daniel 11:40. Isaiah, another of the ancient Jewish prophets also foretold of the destruction of the city of Damascus, Isaiah 17 and Isaiah revealed that this will happen at the same time in history when Syria does attack the Jewish state.
The crisis in the Middle East over the usage of chemical weapons in Syria is actually setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Posted by James at Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The Egyptian military has shut down the Muslim Brotherhood but these radical Islamists have started to attack churches in retaliation
The strong arm of the Egyptian military has pretty much shut down the Muslim Brotherhood protest in Cairo, but these radical Islamists have now focused their attacks on the Coptic Christians and their churches in Egypt. With more on that story, here's Prophecy Today broadcast partner Ken Timmerman.
Ken Timmerman: The Muslim Brotherhood's ideology is based on a hatred, a contempt, and an assault on all who are not Muslim. First, they turn against bad Muslims and then they turn against the Jews and the Christians and they blame others for their failures to lead or their failures to bring prosperity to their countries. The assault on Christian churches and on the Coptic Christian community in Egypt is absolutely mind boggling.
Hundreds if not thousands of Christians have been murdered. Mass graves have been discovered near Alexandria up on the coast of the Mediterranean where Coptic Christians have been found bound and tortured to death. Some of these very recently, the deaths are very recent. Some of them the deaths go back to a year or more. So, you you see that this is part of a concerted policy of the Muslim Brotherhood to target Christians, to drive Christians out of Egypt, and to reclaim Egypt as so-called Muslim land and this is the deep dark underside of this so-called Arab Spring is the expulsion of Christians from the Middle East.
Muslim Brotherhood attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt are only the precursor to future attacks across the Middle East according to Bible prophecy.
What is happening to Coptic Christians and churches in Egypt is actually only the tip of the iceberg as it relates to attacks and even martyrdom of Christians in the Middle East and in fact around the world.
The untold story in the Middle East is how Christians are being persecuted. Christians are being killed and their churches burned down in many of the different Muslim nations across the Middle East. Revelation 6:9-11 reveals how believers in Christ will be killed during the seven year period of time referred to as the Tribulation. Revelation 7:9 says a multitude that no man could number will be saved during that time and many of these Tribulation saints will in fact be killed.
What's happening to Christians in Egypt and the Middle East as I said is only a precursor to the events of the future. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
Posted by James at Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Less than ten percent of all born again Christians have a Biblical world view
George Barna, a pollster with an independent marketing research company, found in a recent survey that only 4% of the overall population of America and 9% of born-again Christians have a biblical world view, suggesting that many of the nation's moral and spiritual challenges are directly attributable to this fact.
For the purposes of the research, a biblical world view was defined as believing that absolute moral truth exists, that such truth is defined by the Bible, and that the Bible is accurate in all of its teachings.
A biblical world view based upon understanding Bible prophecy is essential for an understanding of the times we live in today.
Let's look at the provision in scripture for a biblical world view. All scripture is God breathed. That means it's inspired and is profitable for doctrine, for correction, and instruction in righteousness, that's II Timothy 3:16. God gave the scriptures to the Jew to preserve and communicate to mankind, Romans 3:1-2. And thus, we have His written Word for us today. Our blessings and understanding comes from God's provision of His heart, His mind, His thoughts in written form, the Bible.
Now, let's look at the priority for studying a biblical world view. The Apostle Paul wrote that we must study the Word of God, a workman that need not be ashamed, relying on God's Word for all of life's questions. We must rightly divide the Word of truth, the Bible, to ascertain its true meaning. These two principles, study and rightly dividing the Word of God, are instruction for the End Times and they come from Paul's exhortation to young Timothy found in II Timothy 2:15.
Finally, let's look at the prophetic scenario of a biblical world view. A study of Bible prophecy reveals the scenario for the Last Days with a seven year period of judgment in our world followed by the return of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, to establish His Kingdom here on earth. However, preceding that seven years of judgment, those who are true born again Christians will be taken out of this world to be with Jesus Christ, that's the Rapture.
Allowing the Bible to form our world view prepares us for these future events and gives us evidence as to how close they may be.
Posted by Shofar Communications at Monday, August 26, 2013
Syrian President Bashar Assad tells an international peace envoy to Syria that he will win even if Damascus is destroyed
As the Syrian civil war continues to intensify, Bashar Assad - the defiant Syrian president - continues to hold on to power and command his military to destroy the opposition trying to overthrow the Syrian government.
Syrians have been killed in this civil war and the opposition is moving closer and closer every day to Damascus, the stronghold for the Assad regime.
Bashar Assad said recently that even if Damascus is destroyed, he as president of Syria would continue to fight on and would eventually win out in the final solution.
The brash statements by Syrian President Bashar Assad that even if the opposition of his government destroys the city of Damascus that he would still win in the end which is in contradiction of Bible prophecy.
The civil war in Syria has seen people killed as they endeavor to bring down the Assad government which is a horrific price to bring down a man whose family has controlled Syria for over fifty years. With each and every day of fighting, the opposition forces draw closer and closer to Assad's stronghold in Damascus and these opposition forces are threatening to destroy the city of Damascus. Defiantly, Bashar Assad said recently that even if Damascus is destroyed, he would prevail and he would win the civil war. Assad's statement that he would win in the long run even if Damascus is destroyed is a contradiction to political wisdom and to the prophetic word.
The ancient Jewish prophet Isaiah wrote 2500 years ago that Damascus would be destroyed. The phrase in Isaiah 17, "in that day" indicates that the prophecy will be fulfilled in the last days, a period of time very close at hand. When you notice Daniel 11:40 where it mentions the King of the North, you can conclude from Daniel 11:5-20 that the King of the North is modern day Syria. Daniel 11:40 says at the time of the end, and that's our day, Syria will indeed be destroyed. Damascus is the major city of Syria and it could very well be destroyed by the Syrian opposition forces who want Assad out of power.
Politically, it looks as if Damascus is about to be destroyed, prophetically however it is absolute, Damascus will be destroyed.
The Iraqi people who were under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein believe their present prime minister is becoming another dictator
Key political factions in war torn Iraq have accused their present prime minister Nouri Maliki of becoming a dictator and setting in place a governmental system similar to that of the late Saddam Hussein who ruled the Iraqi people with an iron fist in a decade long dictatorship.
Anti US Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr who leads one of Iraq's political parties has accused Prime Minister Maliki of trying to either delay or actually cancel the next Iraqi election and lead the country under a dictatorship similar to the style of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
A return to an Iraqi dictatorship like the one under Saddam Hussein is a precursor for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
For over a decade, Saddam Hussein led the Iraqi people as a strongman dictator and he gave the orders for thousands of his own people to be killed because they refused his leadership. Muqtada Sadr, a radical Islamic cleric who has a large militia under his leadership as well as a political party that Sadr heads, wants to bring down the Maliki government thus the reason for accusing Maliki of being a dictator.
This scenario fits the prophetic passages in God's Word that reveal a period of time in the future when Iraq will once again be under a dictatorship according to Revelation 18 and 13:16-17. These passages indicate that dictator will be the Antichrist, the Satanically energized personality of the Tribulation Period. Modern day Iraq, a war torn nation today, will indeed rebuild and be known as Babylon, that's its biblical name, and it will become the economic, political, governmental capital of the world that rules under the dictatorship of the Antichrist. The ancient Jewish prophets reveal that after Babylon comes back to power it will be destroyed, Isaiah 13-14, Jeremiah 50-51 and Revelation 16.
A move towards a dictatorship in Iraq today is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Israeli officials are concerned that the Dead Sea could completely die
Because of the lack of water flowing into the Dead Sea, the misuse of development by businesses in this delicate area, and the improper management of the valuable natural resource, there is a threat that the Dead Sea could slip into a dangerous situation that would hinder the preservation of this most valuable piece of real estate in Israel.
One possible solution is the proposed Red-Dead Project that would pipe water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, a project that is now being studied by the World Bank for its feasibility.
The Red-Dead Project, one way to preserve Israel's greatest natural resource, the Dead Sea, is a good idea but not God's plan for this unique place that is according to Bible prophecy.
For a number of years now the water in the Dead Sea has been evaporating and has the water level at a very dangerous point. Industrial development in the area and the threat from tourism has only complicated the problem. There have been many studies to try and find a solution for this problem - the most interesting being the Red-Dead Project. This plan, now being considered by the World Bank as to its feasibility, was first introduce by Israeli President Shimon Peres. The Red-Dead Project would channel water from the Red Sea on Israel's southern border, down to the Dead Sea. If this actually worked, it would revitalize the Dead Sea and increase revenues from the Dead Sea industries and the tourism that would come about as a result of this project.
Bible prophecy has an interesting prospective on this major ecological problem. The ancient Jewish prophet Ezekiel wrote 2500 years ago that the Dead Sea will be revitalized and would no longer be the saltiest sea on the earth which is today 7 times saltier than any ocean. Ezekiel 47 speaks of a time in the future during the kingdom period when water will flow from the temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the Dead Sea and it will become a freshwater lake.
I say that this happens during the 1000 year kingdom on earth which will be headquartered in Jerusalem when a Jewish temple is built and in operation (Zechariah 6:12; Zechariah 14).
Salvation for the Dead Sea is on the way. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
A number of European Union foreign ministers want to create a super president for the European Union
A select group of European Union foreign ministers are working on a plan to create a super president for the European Union that would include merging the roles of the presidents of the European Union Council and the European Commission which would be a more legitimate democracy in the European Union because this super president would be elected by the members of the European Parliament.
This proposed new super president of the European Union would be the overall powerful leader of Europe with responsibility over Europe's economic matters, all foreign policy, and any European military operation.
The call for a super president of the European Union is a page out of Bible prophecy for the end of times.
The results of a meeting with a select group of European foreign ministers is the need for a super president to lead the United Nations of Europe into the future. This super president of the European Union would play the major role in economic policy for the 27 member states of the European Union and this leader would have responsibility for the direction of the European Union foreign policy as well. With plans in the EU for a military force in the near future would give leadership to this super president for military affairs as well in the European Union which would then become a major force in geopolitical events in our world today.
This report is almost like reading the prophetic scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy for the last days. The ancient Jewish prophet Daniel wrote 2500 years ago of the revival of the old Roman Empire (Daniel 7:7, 23-24). Daniel 7:8 reveals that a little horn which comes out of the ten horns of Daniel 7:7 will take control of the ten horns. Now this is a prophetic scenario of the Revived Roman Empire and its leader the Antichrist who will be indeed a super leader who comes to power.
The European Union is today at least the infrastructure for the Revived Roman Empire and there are a number of potential candidates to become the proposed super president. The political activities of the European Union and its potential super president are evidence that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
Al Qaeda is calling for a civil war in Iraq - that would be Muslim fighting Muslim
With the United States troop pullout from Iraq in December 2011, this war torn nation has been ripe for a civil war with the Sunni Muslims against the Shiite Muslims, a return to the days of Saddam Hussein and the time right after Saddam's fall which was a terrible time of sectarian violence in Iraq. Iraq is made up of three elements of the body politic with the Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the middle part of the state, and the Shiites in the south with the largest of these three being the Shiites with over 60% of the population.
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's coalition government is made up of a partnership between these three parties with al Qaeda leading the Sunni element which wants to control the entire nation of Iraq and make it a center of terrorism in the heart of this Middle Eastern region.
A civil war in Iraq will be a precursor for the end of times scenario for Iraq that is found in Bible prophecy.
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, who is a Shiite Muslim, has formed a coalition government working to rebuild his war torn nation, a project that has not advanced very quickly. This coalition government is made up of the three members of the body politic of Iraq, the Kurds, the Sunnis, and the Shiites. This Maliki government is a very fragile government that is being threatened by the terrorist element in Iraq led by al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's strategy is to divide and conquer thus the very viable possibility for a civil war in Iraq. During the reign of Saddam Hussein, this infighting was held to a minimum because Saddam was a very strong leader.
This scenario now unfolding in Iraq is setting the stage for what Bible Prophecy calls for in the last days. Iraq, which is Biblical Babylon, will come to power in the last three and a half years of the Tribulation Period and be led by the antichrist; that's Revelation 18 and also Revelation 13:15-17.
This revived world city will be the headquarters for a one-world political governmental economic power base that controls the known world at that time. The leadership of this world power will be, as mentioned, the antichrist, who will rule with an iron fist. Only when Jesus comes back to destroy this last days Babylon, will the world be free; that's Revelation16:17-20. Chaos and civil war in modern day Iraq ~ Biblical Babylon ~ is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The chaos in Cairo is a conflict within the Muslim world
As the Egyptian military forces move to put down the supporters of ousted President Morsi hundreds of people have been killed in the process. World leaders are calling for the end of bloodshed in Egypt which does not seem possible in the near future.
The Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to keep fighting until their leader, Mohamed Morsi is reinstated as president of Egypt. This prospect seems very unlikely in light of the chaos in Egypt today with the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood at the forefront.
The conflict in the Muslim world to set the agenda for world domination is actually setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring several years ago, there has been a fight for the leadership of Islam and the agenda for the Muslim control of the Middle East and in fact the entire world. Islamic eschatology calls for the Mahdi, the Muslim messiah to come to power and go to Jerusalem to setup a worldwide caliphate, a world dominion or kingdom. Mohamed Morsi while he was campaigning for presidency of Egypt even stated that Cairo would not be his political capital city, but Jerusalem would be the seat of his authority. With that agenda in mind, Mohamed Morsi was actually following a scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy.
The ancient Jewish prophet Joel stated that the largest military militia ever formed on the face of the earth would come together and go to Jerusalem to setup their worldwide dominion, Joel 2:1-3. Additional prophets, Daniel and Ezekiel also foretold that the Muslim world would come to power in the last days and move to take control of the entire world as they formed a coalition of Muslim and Islamic nations to destroy the Jewish state of Israel and indeed make the city of Jerusalem the capital of their worldwide dominion, Ezekiel 38, Daniel 11:40-43 and the focus on Jerusalem, Zechariah 12:2.
The conflict between moderate Muslims today and the radical Islamists is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Egyptian leaders call a national emergency as the Arab nation is on the verge of civil war
The streets of Cairo and other cities across Egypt are in chaos as security forces move to dismantle the strongholds of supporters for the deposed president Mohamed Morsi. Morsi supporters are calling for the ousted leader to be reinstated.
Egyptian government military forces confronted Morsi supporters killing over five hundred of them and wounding thousands.World leaders are calling for calm in Egypt which does not look possible in the near future.
Chaos in the streets of Cairo, Egypt is actually setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
With no resolution in sight, the showdown between Mohamed Morsi supporters and Egyptian military forces will only intensify in the very near future. The former Egyptian president's haste to establish an Islamic republic in Egypt actually led to his downfall and the situation today in Egypt, the largest of the Arab nations. This Middle East nation is included in the end of times prophetic scenario that is found in God's Word, Daniel 11:40-43. Referred to by the name, King of the South in verse 40 and mentioned by its name today, Egypt in verse 43, this Arab nation will be a key player on the alignment of nations that will form a coalition to attack the Jewish state of Israel in the early part of the seven year Tribulation Period yet in the future. This coalition of nations will be made up of the Arab world plus the additional Islamic nations who will form this coalition to try to destroy the Jewish state of Israel as called for in Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38, and Psalm 83.
Should the situation in Egypt today develop into a civil war between the two parties, the Morsi supporters and the temporary government backed by the Egyptian military, it could bring about the nullification of the Camp David Accords which is the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. That being the case then, the prophetic scenario that is found in God's Word would be in place for the move by the Egyptians at the head of this coalition of nations to attack the Jewish state of Israel.
As the world watches what's going on in Egypt and there are calls by world leaders to have calm in this the largest of the Arab nations it does not seem it is getting any better in the near future. The situation on the ground in Egypt today could indeed be the precursor to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
The US government says that Jewish settlements are illegitimate
The US government says that Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria which they refer to as the West Bank are living in settlements that are illegitimate and the settlements must be dismantled and the settlers removed. I asked my broadcast partner longtime journalist in Jerusalem David Dolan, "Is this a major break between the US administration and the Israeli government?"
David Dolan: Well, there is but again there has been. It's a similar situation. Really, no American administration from the time when Lyndon Johnson was president, when Israel captured Judea and Samaria in 1967, no US government has ever recognized Israeli activities there certainly community building, road building, that sort of thing, calling these occupied territories. That is the US official position and it has been. On the other hand, President George W. Bush gave Ariel Sharon a letter promising that the US administration would agree to Israel holding on to major settlement blocks, areas where there is heavy concentrations of Jewish communities.
These the US recognized would remain under Israeli control and in exchange, Israel would give the Palestinians equal amounts of territory somewhere else probably adjacent to Gaza, maybe adjacent to other portions of the West Bank. That was the understanding, that was what the Israelis were promised, so if the Obama administration is going back on that then it's a revoking of an earlier commitment made by the US government to the Israelis. Again, we'll see how concrete that action, those words are translated into by the government here.
As the US government takes on the promises of God to the Jewish people, the stage is being set for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Over the years, the US governments have had conflict with Israel over the issue of Jews living in what the US terms the West Bank and the Jews refer to as Judea and Samaria. Those Jewish settlers say that God gave this piece of real estate, Judea and Samaria to them, Ezekiel 34. They also say that the land is theirs forever, Ezekiel 36. The book of Ezekiel 35 says that the Palestinians also want that land and they will kill the Jews, verse 5 and take the land, verses 10-13.
US denial that the land does belong to the Jews is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The president of Turkey wants Egypt to reinstate Mohamed Morsi as president
President Abdullah Gul of Turkey wants the Egyptian military to release Mohamed Morsi from house arrest and then reinstate him as the president of the country. I asked Bob Maginnis our broadcast partner out of Washington, D.C. if that could happen.
Bob Maginnis: No it's not going to happen. The military is not about to put a Muslim Brotherhood leader back in there. They understand the ramifications are serious and I think it's foolish of us to send Secretary Burns and Mr. McCain and Mr. Lindsey over there to even try to suggest. The Egyptians have lost faith in the US because of the missteps of the Obama administration over the last couple of years so it doesn't really matter what Erdogan or any of the others say, the Egyptians are going to do what they want to do and I think that the chief of staff is probably going to continue what he's been doing for the last several months.
The strong military powers in Egypt and Turkey through their actions may well be setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The military coup in Egypt that took Muslim Brotherhood leader and president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi out of power may well have encouraged the strong military in Turkey to try to overthrow the Erdogan government as was the case in Egypt. The Turkish military, custodians of what they refer to as a secular Islam, has removed Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister of Turkey from political office before and may well do it again.
Any student of Bible prophecy knows that both Egypt and Turkey play key roles in the end times scenario that's found in Bible prophecy. For Egypt that would be Daniel 11:40-43 and for Turkey, Ezekiel 38:2, 6. These passages of Scripture lay out how a coalition of nations with these two major players, Turkey and Egypt participants as they attack Israel with the desire to totally eliminate the Jewish state from the Middle East and these prophecies say this will happen in the last days, Daniel 11 and Ezekiel 38.
Forcing Mohamed Morsi and Tayyip Erdogan out of office may well set the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The perception in the Middle East is that the American superpower status is in decline
The perception in the Middle East and the Arab World is that the United States of America, supposed leader of the free world and international superstar, is becoming weaker according to Avi Gil who is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, who also said that America no longer leads as it once did but now follows or leads from behind.
The United States has called for Israel to withdraw from land that is Biblically, historically, and strategically essential for the very existence of the Jewish state among the Arab-Islamic nations in the Middle East which would put the Jewish state in harm's way.
With America's superpower status in decline and the rising power of the radical Arab Islamic world, we can now see better the end of times scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy.
The America that we knew 10 to 15 years ago is no longer at the peak of the pedestal as a world superpower and even the Arab Muslim world recognizes this as the case for America politically and economically. Much of the way that Israel is perceived is directly dependent upon its relationship with America. This report begs the question, where is the United States in Bible prophecy? Is it a superpower in the last days or not there at all?
The United States is not mentioned by name anywhere in Bible prophecy but it seems to refer to the United States and in fact all nations in Zechariah 14:2 when the ancient Jewish prophet wrote that at the end of the seven year Tribulation period, all nations will gather in Jerusalem. But before that, the superpower will be the Antichrist, the world dictator who will control a one world economic, political, and governmental system from Babylon in modern-day Iraq.
This is foretold in Revelation 18. Under the leadership of Satan, Antichrist, and the False Prophet, this massive body of people will confront Jesus Christ as He returns to the Mount of Olives and then after the Battle of Armageddon, goes into the Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to set up His kingdom (Zechariah 6:12-13).
Perception has become fact as America continues to decline in leadership and character in our world today. The prophecies of God's Word will indeed be fulfilled.
A rabbi in Israel claims to be a descendant of King David and he wants to set up the Kingdom of Israel right now
Rabbi Yosef Dayan claims that he can prove he is from the lineage of King David, Israel's second king, and the rabbi wants to restore Israel from a state back to a kingdom, which he says the Lord has commanded in the Bible. This rabbi is joined by a number of Jewish scholars who say that God's Word does command the establishment of a kingdom in the land that God has given the Jewish people and Rabbi Dayan could be a candidate for the future king of Israel.
According to this group of Jewish scholars, God has commanded the Jewish people when they return to the land of their forefathers, to set up the kingdom, wipe out the seed of Amalek, and then build their temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
There are a number of Jewish scholars in Israel that believe the Lord wants them to set up the Kingdom of Israel today which is actually setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
For over two decades, there have been serious Jewish scholars that have been preparing to build a temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Now, many of those same Jewish scholars, believe their priority is to first establish the Kingdom of Israel, wipe out the seed of Amalek, and then build the temple. Among this group of scholars, is a rabbi who says that he can prove his claim to being in the lineage of King David and thus is a candidate to become the King of Israel.
This group of Jewish scholars are working hard to teach the Jewish people what God's Word does command them to do and then move ahead with this project. Interesting to me is the fact that God's Word does call for a kingdom in the land of Israel, that's II Samuel 7 which is the Davidic Covenant. Obadiah, an ancient Jewish prophet, wrote 2800 years ago that the descendants of Amalek would be destroyed and they would be as if they had never been (Jeremiah 49:18). The Jewish prophet Ezekiel gave a description of the temple that will be standing during the kingdom on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, that's Ezekiel 40-46, 202 verses of detailed information about that temple of the future.
These Jewish scholars are indeed involved in preparing for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Posted by Shofar Communications at Friday, August 09, 2013
Pope Francis is the most controversial pope in modern history
Since Pope Francis has come to power at the Vatican as leader of the Catholic Church, he has been very controversial. Prophecy Today broadcast partner Mike Gendron has more on this story.
Mike Gendron: He continues his role as probably the most controversial pope in modern history. He has made numerous statements that not only suppress the truth of God's Word, but also oppose many doctrines of the Catholic Church. If you remember Jimmy, the day he was elected pope he said he would pray to Mary for the protection of Rome and then later he contradicted himself by saying, "He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the Devil". While he was returning from Brazil he made a very startling statement.
He said, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge?" And yet, Catholics look to this man to be the judge of sin, the judge of what is right and wrong, the judge as far as true doctrine goes and so here he's pretty much giving homosexuals a license to continue in their sin rather than calling them to repentance and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ so they can be saved from the power of sin, he pretty much gives a stamp of approval that he's not going to judge that even though the Word of God has judged this sin throughout from Genesis all the way through the New Testament.
The absence of a Biblical stand on homosexuality coming from the Vatican and Pope Francis is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
There are many who believe that the church in Rome today is at least the forerunner for the false church of Revelation 17. I personally cannot exegete Revelation 17 and come to that same conclusion, however Pope Francis has from the start of his papacy been very, very controversial and now with his non-Biblical statement about homosexuality, it seems that the Roman church is moving closer to the church that is described in Revelation 17, a one world false religiosity. This false church will be led by the Antichrist, the Beast referred to eight times in Revelation 17 who is actually the representative of the Devil. Now, the Devil you must remember is the father of all evil.
As we observe this very controversial pope, Pope Francis, it seems that with his statements and his actions he is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is closed to all non-Muslims
The Israeli government closed down the Temple Mount to all non-Muslims which is contradictory to Israeli law. My broadcast partner in Jerusalem, Yoel Keren has that story for us.
Rabbi Yoel Keren: All non-Muslims are banned from the Temple Mount right now and this is a violation of Israeli law and it is becoming very openly and blatantly clear who's pulling the strings, that Netanyahu is pulling the strings here. It has nothing to do with police. It has nothing to do with concerns for safety or public order. It all has to do with politics and Netanyahu's politics. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad, but you know in history there haven't been that many people who outright made a decree against Jews going up to the Temple Mount and banning them from the place.
Someone had a large sign the other day that said no entry to Jews. They were at the Temple Mount with this large sign that said no entry to Jews, Titus Hadrianus Netanyahus. Of course, General Titus who destroyed the Temple and expelled the Jews and took them captive, Hadrian who took down the Bar-Kokhba Revolt and expelled Jews from Jerusalem and changed the name of the city and then now they said Netanyahus, the ideological heir of these Roman prosecutors.
The Israeli government closing down the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to all non-Muslims is setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The Temple Mount is the most sacred piece of real estate on earth for the Jewish people. This site was purchased by King David from Ornon the Jebusite 3000 years ago, I Chronicles 21:18-30. King Solomon built a temple right there on that sacred site, II Chronicles 3 and he did that 3000 years ago. That temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. and was rebuilt again to be destroyed in 70A.D. by General Titus, the leader of the Roman military might.
Zechariah, the ancient Jewish prophet foretold that the Messiah, Jesus Christ would one day return to build the next Temple on that very sacred piece of real estate, Zechariah 1:16 and 6:12. However until that time, this holy site will be the focus of much conflict.
The Israeli government closing down the Temple Mount at this time in history to all non-Muslims is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is as radical as the former president Ahmadinejad
With the installation of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, world leaders have been surprised to find out that he is as radical as former Iranian President Ahmadinejad only with a more pleasant approach. My broadcast partner Ken Timmerman says that people must understand that is the case.
Ken Timmerman: Well that's right and I think it's important that people understand that. He's being painted by some people in Washington, the Obama White House in particular, as some great new moderate, but as I have looked at his record and you and I have talked about this a little bit Jimmy on air, Hassan Rouhani is a member of the ruling clerical elite in the Islamic Republic of Iran. His views are not all that different from those of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini who also believes that Israel is a gaping wound in the fabric of the Muslim world. I'm just glad I suppose in a way to hear him actually say these things openly and publicly so hopefully folks will open their ears and they will hear.
How does Washington respond? Will the Obama Administration do as they have suggested they will do, open a new initiative, have a new opening towards Teheran with the new president under the guise that he's some great new moderate smiling mullah or will they look at his record, look at his past statements, look at the people that he's putting in power and recognize that he's simply the puppet of Ayatollah Khomeini who hasn't changed one iota in his determination to destroy Israel and to destroy America?
It doesn't really matter who the president of Iran is today because Iran will be a major player in the last days that is according to Bible prophecy.
When Hassan Rouhani was elected, world leaders thought that he was going to be a moderate Iranian president, however even before his installation, Rouhani was spouting radical rhetoric against the Jewish state of Israel calling Israel a wound on the Muslim world that must be removed. That's exactly what Bible prophecy calls for.
The Psalmist in Psalm 83:4 said that Israel wiped of the face of the earth and her name forgotten forever. Ezekiel 38:5 mentions Persia, modern day Iran will lead the way to eliminate the Jewish state in the Middle East.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is leading the way to set the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
The rabbi of the Western Wall in Jerusalem refutes the PA president and says that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people
The rabbi of the Western Wall at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz issued an unprecedented attack against the Palestinian Authority(PA) President Mahmoud Abbas following the statements by Abbas that Jerusalem will forever be Arabic, Islamic, and Christian.
Abbas made his comments at the 43rd anniversary of an Australian activist who attempted to set fire to al-Aqsa Mosque in an attack that only destroyed a pulpit that was installed by the famous Islamic leader Saladin.
The rabbi said that ancient coins, a wall built by Nehemiah, the prayers and hymns of people across the world, and the ancient Jewish prophets confirm the Jewishness of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and its future.
A denial of the Jewishness of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount by a Palestinian leader which has been refuted by the rabbi of the Western Wall is a precursor to the end times scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected the Jewishness of the city of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and has denied the presence of a Jewish Temple in the holy city throughout history. Abbas is in the face of all of history, even Islamic history that states the reality of a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem for hundreds of years. The rabbi responsible for the care and worship at the Western Wall Plaza area which includes the Temple Mount has rebuked the PA leader and said that evil spirits cannot appropriate for themselves and their faith, i.e. the Muslims and the Islamic faith, this sacred piece of real estate.
The Muslims claim that the Temple Mount, al-Aqsa as they refer to the site, will be the headquarters of their worldwide kingdom, a caliphate. The rabbi quoted from Isaiah 2:2-3 that the mountain of the Lord, the Temple Mount, shall be established as the location for the Messiah to rule and reign from in the last days. Micah 4:2, a similar prophecy, states that the word of the Lord will go forth from this Temple Mount to teach the world of peace. Zechariah 6:12-13 confirms a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and that the Messiah, Jesus Christ will not only build that Temple but rule and reign from that Temple forever.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas is incorrect. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
The president of the PA denies that there was a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and denies Christian theology
PA President Mahmoud Abbas in a recent speech denied that there was ever a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem which is part of a campaign to eradicate Jewish history at the Temple Mount as well as the rest of the land of Israel.
By Abbas' denial of the Jewish Temple at the same time he has undermined the teaching of the New Testament and the life of Jesus Christ because if there was no Temple in Jerusalem, the biblical account of Jesus chasing the money changers out of the Temple would mean that there would be no truth to biblical history and Christian theology.
Abbas has also stated that there will be no peace, security, or stability unless the Jewish occupiers, the settlements, and the settlers are evacuated from the Palestinian holy city of Jerusalem and its sacred site.
By denying that there was ever a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem the PA President Mahmoud Abbas not only denies Jewish history, Christian theology, but the truth of Bible prophecy as well.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas has been a person that stands in the face of history by first denying that the Holocaust ever took place. In recent years, Mahmoud Abbas has been leading the charge against biblical history in his denial of there ever being a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This denial contradicts both secular history and biblical history as well.
The Old Testament records the fact of the first Temple in Jerusalem being built by King Solomon, II Chronicles 3. Abbas contradicts the biblical account of the second Temple in Jerusalem built by Zerubbabel who led 50000 Jews back to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity in order to build the second Temple, Ezra 1-6. The Gospel of John tells us that Herod the Great took a number of years to refurbish the second Temple that stood in Jerusalem in the times of Jesus Christ, that's John 2:20.
In fact, the account of Jesus throwing the money changers out of the Temple found in John 2:13-16 took place at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus and a repeat of that same activity by Jesus at the end of His ministry, Matthew 21:12-13, proves that there was a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount and Jews were present there for over 1000 years. Zechariah 6:12-13 says that Jesus Christ, a Jew, will return to the earth and build another Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
PA President Abbas is wrong. Bible prophecy has been and will be fulfilled.
A terrorist group has warned Israel: Harm al-Aqsa Mosque and we will open the 'Gates of Hell'
The popular resistance, one of a number of Palestinian terror groups in the Middle East has threatened Israel that if there is any harm to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem they will open the 'Gates of Hell' against the Zionist enemy.
The terrorist group said that the Islamic nations have started waking up and are ready to meet their religious commitments towards Palestine and al-Aqsa. The former Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Sabri, says even the Western Wall is not Jewish but belongs to the Muslims and any attack by the Jews on the al-Aqsa Mosque will endanger the safety and stability of the entire Middle Eastern region.
A threat by a Palestinian terror group that if the Jews harm the al-Aqsa Mosque, they will open the 'Gates of Hell' against them is a page out of Bible prophecy for the end of times.
For over 1300 years the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has been a focus of the Islamic world. Though it is the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem is an honored site that the Muslims want as the location for their worldwide kingdom, a caliphate. However, the Palestinian terror group is warning they will open the 'Gates of Hell' against anyone who harms al-Aqsa. Muslims could put millions of martyrs on the Temple Mount to fight off any Jewish effort to remove al-Aqsa so they can construct a Jewish Temple on the site.
This scenario is foretold in Bible prophecy and will be played out in the future. Zechariah 12:2 reveals that the Temple Mount will be at the center of controversy in the last days. Malachi 1 reports that descendants of Esau, the Palestinian people of today, will try and rebuild their national power base in Jerusalem. Ezekiel 35:5, 10 speak of a time when the Palestinians will kill the Jews and take the land, i.e. the Temple Mount, that God has given to the Jewish people. Obadiah 18 foretells of the Jews defeating the Palestinians when the Messiah, Jesus Christ returns to Jerusalem.
Jesus Christ will build a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, Zechariah 1:16 and no Palestinian terror group will open the 'Gates of Hell'.


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I haven't dared make a pocket card yet- but this is so pretty... I just want to try! Thanks for all the beautiful details to share!
Pocket card - very good idea. Nice color choices.
What a beautifully simple card.
Fantastic and creative design - very clever!
What a cool pocket card!
Your pocket card is very pretty; I looked around your web site and your work is beautiful.
Such a pretty card, and the pocket is so cool!
I love the simplicity but the pocket makes it intricate! Wonderful!
Lovely card! Love the pocket.
Such an awesome idea of a pocket card!!
Oh how pretty! Love the note at the top!
Love how you slipped your note in!! Very clever!!
Love the colours you used and pocket cards are so sweet!
Such a sweet pocket card Laury.
Love the color combo and the watercolor background. With how many colors WOW makes you can always find a color to match your project. I really like the pocket cards, I usually stick a gift card in behind the insert. Thanks for sharing.
Love the colors of the embossing powders you chose to use! Very pretty card and nice change going with a pocket style card! Thank You for sharing along in this Fantastic hop!
Love the leaves and layers! Awesome pocket card!
Love the watercolor background and the CAS design! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card and I love the idea of the pocket.
Your card is so awesome.
Oh so sweet! Love that you can pull the sentiment out!
Fresh, clean, crisp with gorgeous colours!
Lovely, love the watercolour background!
A very clever pocket card!
How clever and adorable! Love the CAS design!
Love the colors you have used! Beautiful work!
What a fun card - such great colors. Thanks!
Sweet pocket card in some of my favorite colors! I love how you used "accent" pieces of the sets to make this card!
Wonderful card, love these fresh colours.
Oh, what a beautiful card and I love the design! I really like that you get a peek at the sentiment and that it's interactive. Thanks so much for sharing your creativity and for the chance to win!
Great choice of colours for your pocket.
Fun idea. Love the colors you used.
Such a beautiful and soft card!!Love the colors!! Very pretty!!
Superb card! I adore the colour scheme you used!
Beautiful card! I love the watercoloring and neat design. Thanks for sharing.
What a fun card and I love the turquoise you used.
cool, love the pull-out part!
Love this clean and simple card. It is so different and creative!
Perfect little pocket for a winning gift certificate!
Beautiful pocket card, love the brightly embossed leaves on the soft watercolor background!
Pretty colors and I like the pocket card design.
This is such a unique card with the pocket feature. I love the soft, pretty watercolor background!
Your card is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
I love your fresh colors and a unusual card. Thanks for inspiration.
what a fun card. I love the interactive nature of the pocket and those great colors you chose.
Very pretty, love the pastel colors!!
This is really a unique approach! I love the water color background and the simplicity. Very nice card.
Awesome card! Clean and simple but very pretty!
The colors and techniques make this card so simply sweet! Thank you!
What fun colors. I like pocket cards.
Love the card. The colors are warm and inviting. I always love a pocket card it is like getting an extra surprise.
beautiful card! Thanks for the inspiration! I love the colors!
Nice idea, love the colors.
Very pretty. Love those heat embossed leaves... great pocket card.
Love the soft color palette!
I love the color of that Wow! Bluegill embossing powder. It's gorgeous on your card!
Super card love the color background.
Celle-ci est vraiment très belle bravo !


Considering the recent information on the increase of Dirofilaria immitis antigen detection by rapid assays in canine blood samples after heat treatment, the proposal that immune complexes block D. immitis antigen detection and that macrocyclic lactone + doxycycline (alternative protocol) might lead to increased production of those immune complexes, resulting in the erroneous diagnosis of adult worm elimination, and that there is no recommended adulticide marketed in Brazil, a study was performed to evaluate the interference of moxidectin + doxycycline (moxi-doxy) on diagnostic procedures when heartworm positive dogs are treated with this alternative protocol. Twenty-two naturally infected pet dogs were treated monthly with topical 10% imidacloprid + 2.5% moxidectin and with oral doxycycline (10 mg/kg BID/30 days) (moxi-doxy). All the dogs had their microfilaremia level determined prior to the first day of treatment, and were tested every 6 months for microfilariae (Mf) detection prior to heating, and for antigen detection prior to and after heating, the sample.
The results indicate that the treatment protocol can eliminate adult heartworms as early as 6 months after the first dose, especially in low microfilaremic dogs (< 300 Mf/ml). In this study, all dogs were free of heartworm antigen after 18–24 months of treatment. In a comparison of pre-heated samples and non-heated samples, sample pre-heating increased antigen detection sensitivity, and non-heated samples tended to be antigen-negative earlier than the pre-heated samples, especially when dogs had low microfilaremia levels. These discrepancies were not present in a subsequent sample of the same dog 6 months later.
Two negative antigen test results 6 months apart can be recommended as the criterion to consider when a dog has been cleared of infection. The initial microfilaremia level of a dog can be used to estimate the necessary time frame to end the treatment period.
In Brazil, the prevalence of canine Dirofilaria immitis patent infections approaches 62% in some areas . Many owners of infected adult dogs seek treatment for these infections at local clinical practices. Although melarsomine dihydrochloride (Immiticide®, Merial or Diroban®, Zoetis), the internationally recommended treatment for such infections, was once available in Brazil, it is no longer marketed or registered. As the only option of adulticide treatment for dogs, a monthly macrocyclic lactone preventive associated with doxycycline , is largely used, even though it has been discouraged within guidelines [2, 3]. An alternative protocol (macrocyclic lactone + doxycycline) therapy is usually discouraged because it may take many months for adult worms to die, allowing the disease to progress during treatment , and there are macrocyclic lactone-resistant heartworm development concerns [5, 6].
Rapid antigen detection assays are the tests most practitioners rely upon for the clinical diagnosis of heartworm infections because they were believed to be highly sensitive (95.5–97% of sensitivity) and specific (100% specificity) . In clinical practices, the canine alternative protocol efficacy is also monitored by antigen testing, even though the test results appearing in earlier publications on the adulticidal effects of ivermectin have highlighted the interference of the alternative protocol . In the years following, samples of dogs that had been treated by general practitioners with monthly macrocyclic lactone chemoprophylactic medication and doxycycline were tested to compare antigen detection results before and after heat pre-treatment. This study suggested that the alternative protocol interferes with antigen test results, even though more than half of the dogs included had received an incomplete alternative protocol treatment with different drugs and different doxycycline regimens .
Heat pre-treatment of samples has been proven to unbind the blocked antigen in different research scenarios, and an increased antigen detection has been confirmed after heating . The most accepted mechanism to explain this heat treatment effect is through the disruption of antigen-sequestering immune complexes that may be caused by heating. Although an increase in antibody production by the hosts is considered likely, a decrease in the antigen production due to a reduction of their worm burden after treatment cannot be discarded. Therefore, additional data on blocking positive antigen results are needed to explain the effects of adulticidal treatment, with either alternative protocols or melarsomine dihydrochloride treatments, as the mechanism by which heat pre-treating samples enhances antigen detection is still to be completely elucidated [9, 11–14]. To determine how the antigen tests blockage was induced during alternative protocol therapy in clinical settings, pet dogs were submitted to controlled moxi-doxy treatment, and their samples were evaluated before and after heat pre-treatment to detect the elimination of the adult heartworms.
All the dogs that participated in this study were referred to the Instituto de Especialidades em Medicina Veterinária (IEMEV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, due to a presumptive or confirmed diagnosis of heartworm infection. Consequently, we could not estimate the infection date or worm ages at enrollment. To be included in the study, after the owner's agreement and consent, a blood sample was collected from each pet dog, and their infection was confirmed by D. immitis antigen testing according to manufacturer´s instructions (Snap 4Dx Plus Test, IDEXX Labs, Maine/USA) on day 0. The use of macrocyclic lactones or doxycycline during the prior 6 months was an exclusion criterion.
We tested 22 samples, all of which were positive for D. immitis antigen. The dog breeds included one Basset Hound, one Beagle, one Dachshund, two Golden Retrievers, one Labrador Retriever, three German Shepherds, one Miniature Pinscher, two Pugs, and ten mixed breeds. Eight dogs were males, and fourteen were females, with ages between 1 and 8 years and weights between 2.7 kg and 47.8 kg.
Prior to beginning the moxi-doxy treatment (day 0), each dog had an aliquot of the whole blood sample tested for antigen detection (Snap 4Dx Plus Test, IDEXX Labs), microfilariae detection by Knott's modified test , and counting .
On day 0, all dogs were administered a monthly topical 10% imidacloprid + 2.5% moxidectin (Advocate®, Lab. Bayer, São Paulo, Brazil), which was repeated every month by the same attending veterinarian. On the same day, all dogs were administered oral doxycycline hyclate at the dose of 10 mg/kg BID/30 days (Doxifin®, Lab. Ourofino, São Paulo, Brazil) by their owners and that was repeated every 6 months. All dogs were released from the study after they were amicrofilaremic and presented two consecutive negative antigen tests results with pre-heated samples.
Modified Knott's test  was performed every 6 months. Microfilariae counting was performed only on day 0. For microfilariae counting, two slides of each whole blood sample were prepared by spreading a mixture of the sample (20 μl) and water (5 μl) over a 375 mm2 area. Slides were dried, Giemsa-stained, and the microfilariae of each slide were counted by two independent technicians. The final microfilariae number was the mean of the four counting results. When no microfilaria could be located on the counting slides, and yet the sample showed microfilariae positive on Knott's test, the microfilaremia was assumed to be less than 300 Mf/ml .
Antigen testing was performed every six months according to manufacturer's instructions, and when the result was negative, 450 μl of the sample was heated to 104 °C for 10 min, and the resulting coagulum centrifuged . The supernatant was removed and tested according to the manufacturer's instructions.
A total of 22 pet dogs, naturally infected with heartworms, met the inclusion and exclusion criteria for enrollment. The dogs were aged from 1 to 8 years, and there were 14 females and 8 males.
At 6 months from the initiation of treatment, the antigen testing results of 14 of the 22 dogs were negative, and 6 of those tested positive after heat pre-treating of the samples. At 12 months, the results for these 6 dogs were before and after heating, and thus, they were released from further testing. At 12 months, 6 more dogs tested antigen-negative before and after heating, and 1 dog tested negative before heating and positive after heating. At 18 months, these 7 dogs tested negative before and after heating, and one additional dog also tested negative before and after heating. Therefore, all 8 of these dogs were released from further testing. The last 2 dogs tested antigen-negative at 18 and 24 months, and they showed no difference in results between their heated and non-heated samples (Table 1).
The highest proportion of negative antigen rapid test results that converted to positive test results after heating was observed at 6 months of treatment (42.9%; P < 0.01). All dogs testing negative before and after sample heating remained negative in subsequent six-month interval testing (Table 2).
Before the moxi-doxy treatment was initiated, most dogs were microfilaremic at Knott's test (20/22; 90.9%). Because 8 of their samples showed no microfilariae on counting slides, they were considered to have less than 300 Mf/ml of blood. Another dog's Mf count was below 300 Mf/ml as well, and therefore, the number of low microfilaremic dogs was assumed to be 9 . A total of 11 dogs were in the higher microfilariae count group, with a total microfilariae count ranging from 438 to 44,538 Mf/ml of blood. After 6 months of treatment, all dogs, regardless of their initial microfilariae count, became amicrofilaremic (Knott's test) and remained amicrofilaremic until they were released.
Most dogs with lower microfilaremia levels (< 300 Mf/ml of blood) (66.7%) tended to present negative antigen test results (prior to and after heat pre-treatment of samples) faster than the higher microfilaremic dogs (> 300 Mf/ml of blood) (9.1%) (P < 0.05). At 12 months of moxi-doxy treatment, all lower microfilaremic dogs, and 72.7% of higher microfilaremic dogs, were found to be antigen-negative before and after heat pre-treatment. At 18 months of treatment, the last 2 higher microfilaremic dogs were found to be antigen-negative before and after heat pre-treatment (Table 2). These 2 dogs were monitored until 24 months after the initiation of treatment, and, when they presented negative antigen results again, they were released from the study.
The results seemed to indicate that the topical imidacloprid + moxidectin and doxycycline (moxi-doxy) treatment can block transmission of heartworms by eliminating the microfilaremia. This treatment begins to eliminate adult heartworms (based on antigen and microfilaria testing) as early as 6 months into the protocol, and, in this study, it achieved D. immitis adulticide results (judged by antigen elimination - 2 consecutive pre-heated negative results) by 24 months at the latest.
As the adult worms die, the concentration of circulating antigen in these dogs declines gradually until it eventually falls below test detection limits. Part of the circulating antigen appears to be bound to the antibodies in many (or all) dogs, and thus, heating samples before testing can free this antibody-bound antigen . In addition to freeing this antigen, the process of coagulating the proteins in the plasma sample and then collecting the liquid phase to be used in the test may also concentrate the (carbohydrate) worm antigen in the sample . This would explain why some of the samples that initially tested negative later tested positive after the heating process. The freed antigen and the concentration of the sample would raise them above the detection limit again, for a period of time. Therefore, it is suggested that the immune complexes formation is a natural event during the course of a heartworm infection and that an antigen remnant is detected in non-heated samples. On the other hand, worms from ivermectin-treated dogs are thought to produce less antigen as the treatment progresses , and the same could be predicted to occur during the treatment with moxidectin + imidacloprid and doxycycline at 3 months of treatment .
As subsequent samples of these same dogs tested negative before and after heating in a consistent manner, we believe that these dogs had no more adult heartworms producing antigen. Therefore, the first negative samples (before heating) were already indicative of success of the adulticide treatment.
It would be very interesting to test successive samples of heartworm-positive dogs, treated with the recommended melarsomine dihydrochloride adulticide protocol, and then observe if the first negative samples would test positive if pre-heated. If this was done, we could then compare the number of cases where the results diverge between non-heated and pre-heated samples, following these two different adulticide protocols.
Most of the dogs that seroconverted to antigen-negative, both before and after the sample heat-treatment, had less than 300 Mf/ml of blood at 6 months of treatment, and the higher microfilariae-level dogs tended to seroconvert at either 12 months of treatment or even 18 months (2 dogs) of treatment. In addition to the fact that dogs with lower Mf counts might have less antigen-producing worms that need to be eliminated, these results also seem to confirm that the presence of microfilariae correlates with a lower immune response towards the parasites. This result has been shown before , suggesting that a low microfilariae burden might favor treatment efficacy due to the better immune response towards the adult parasites. Therefore, we suggest that microfilaremia levels may be used by companion animal practitioners to estimate the speed of results with this adulticide treatment. Furthermore, it must be emphasized that once a dog has been infected by heartworms, reinfection is likely to occur. Therefore, practitioners must properly educate their clients, and continuous chemoprophylaxis must be enforced.
Two negative antigen rapid test results that came 6 months apart might be recommended as the criterion to consider a dog cleared of infection. Furthermore, a dog's initial microfilaremia level may be used to estimate the necessary time frame to end the treatment period.
The authors thank Bayer Animal Health and Nova Praxedes for providing all of the Advocate® used in the study and Ourofino Saúde Animal for providing all of the Doxifin® used in the study.
Bayer Animal Health and Nova Praxedes provided the moxidectin + imidacloprid (Advocate®) used in the study. Ourofino Saúde animal provided the doxycycline (Doxifin®) used in the study.
The databases used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on a reasonable request.
AJRB participated in the acquisition of data, interpretation of results, and helped to draft the manuscript. FMA participated in the study coordination, the acquisition of data, the laboratory analysis and helped in drafting the manuscript. CVS participated in the study design. NL conceived the study, participated in coordination of the study, assisted in the acquisition of data and interpretation of results, and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
AB received product donation from Bayer Animal Health, Nova Praxedes and Ourofino Saúde Animal in Brazil. NL is consultant for Bayer Animal Health, Idexx Laboratories and Zoetis in Brazil. CVS is a Virbac US employee.
This study protocol was approved by the Universidade Federal Fluminense Comissão de Ética no Uso de Animais - CEUA (Ethical Animal Use Committee), protocol number: 499.
Nelson CT, Mccall J, Carithers D. Current canine guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) infections in dogs (revised July 2014). http://www.heartwormsociety.org. Acessed 24 may 2016.
Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC). CAPC general guidelines, 2014. http://https://www.capcvet.org/guidelines/heartworm/. Accessed 24 may 2016.


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Burglary suspect arrested after shooting at officers from riding lawnmower
WMBF / Marlboro County
Camelin McRae
via WMBF:
MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. -- (WMBF) -- A spokesperson for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says the agency is investigating after two officers with the Clio police department shot a man who was driving toward them on a lawnmower and fired shots at them in the 500 block of South Main Street/Hwy 9.
Two Clio police officers and a Marlboro County deputy were investigating another in a string of overnight breaking and entering calls when they encountered a man approaching them on a riding lawnmower.
The man fired at the officers, missing them but striking the deputy's car. The two Clio officers fired back at the man, striking him. He was transported to a hospital in Dillon where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries and was taken into police custody.
Camelin Demetrius Mcrae, 25, of Clio, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count each of possession of a weapon during a violent crime and malicious injury to real property. Mcrae is also charged with a burglary that occurred at the Tiger Mart convenience store in Clio shortly before the shooting, according to authorities. He faces counts of second-degree burglary, malicious injury to real property, and petit larceny.
FULL STORY: Man arrested, charged with shooting at officers from riding lawnmower - WMBF
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