Doves:

There comes a time when we should realize that we may NEED to
"SEE" the error of our ways.  Like a fly stuck on a piece of fly paper...
we don't need to just keep licking up the stuff saying, "Oh, this tastes
pretty good!!!", we need to realize what is the REAL situation we are
in!!!

There is NO DOUBT that Colin Powell is a VERY smart man and a VERY
NICE man.  You really can't HELP but like him.  I WANT to believe his spin
on things, as EVERYONE would like to.  He is able to put out SUCH a good
and wholesome spin on situations that you find yourself WANTING to believe
it and go to bed and sleep well that night.  But is he and the whole
administration (AND THE U.S.) correct in its stance toward the Middle East?

It seems I almost wore myself out (and MANY others have too) in
noticing the signs from last year.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2004/calvinm126-1.htm

   1.  The "coming apart" of the Columbia Space Shuttle over "Palestine", TX (2/1)
   2.  The perfect week (Sunday to Saturday) of record tornados (5/4-5/10)
   3.  The ominous Scorpion Moon within midnight EST (5/15,16)
   4.  The right hand of Isabel going by Washington D.C. (9/19)
   5.  The 6.5 CA quake that "MIRACULOUSLY" didn't kill but 3 people (12/22)

Bill Koenig's book, "Eye to Eye", is ALL about these (and other) signs.
http://www.watch.org/

Aren't we, as Christians, SUPPOSED to notice these things?  In the
Book of Revelation, the warning book to Christians about the End Times,
in chapters 2 and 3 it says SEVEN TIMES TO ALL SEVEN CHURCHES:

   "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

But to those of us who believe that the U.S. has a "special" place in
prophecy, these warnings have been ESPECIALLY difficult to swallow
WITHOUT SOME NOTICE!!!

   Revelation 18
   3 For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries.
   The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
   and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
   4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
      "Come out of her, my people,
       so that you will not share in her sins,
       so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
       5 for her sins are piled up to heaven,
       and God has remembered her crimes.

Having said this, as I was laying in bed thinking about some of the things
I have read on fivedoves, etc., I figured in my head the number of days to
this week - 11th (Easter) through the 17th.  It is like the "Sunday through
Saturday" week of record tornados - May 4 - 10 - which occurred JUST
AHEAD of the VERY ominous Scorpion Moon - midnight EST May 15/16.

Time calculation
From: Sunday, May 4, 2003 (day of 83 tornados; see Psalm 83 below)
to: Sunday, April 11, 2004 (Easter, 2004)
It is 343 days between those dates
7 X 7 X 7 = 343

Thankfully, Tom Gaston has done ALL the work on the number 343 else
I would have probably missed the possible significance of this week:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2004/tomg410.htm

GOD BLESS!!!

Calvin

   Psalm 83
   1 O God, do not keep silent;
   be not quiet, O God, be not still.
   2 See how your enemies are astir,
   how your foes rear their heads.
   3 With cunning they conspire against your people;
   they plot against those you cherish.
   4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
   that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

   5 With one mind they plot together;
   they form an alliance against you-
   6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
   of Moab and the Hagrites,
   7 Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
   Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
   8 Even Assyria has joined them
   to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
   Selah

   9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
   as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
   10 who perished at Endor
   and became like refuse on the ground.
   11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
   all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
   12 who said, "Let us take possession
   of the pasturelands of God."

   13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
   like chaff before the wind.
   14 As fire consumes the forest
   or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
   15 so pursue them with your tempest
   and terrify them with your storm.
   16 Cover their faces with shame
   so that men will seek your name, O LORD .

   17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
   may they perish in disgrace.
   18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD -
   that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.