Here
are today's FEATURE stories:
CHRISTIAN
PERSECUTION/ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS:
Christians
in bull's-eye in new 'hate crimes' plan - A
fast-tracked congressional plan to add special protections for homosexuals
to federal law would turn "thoughts, feelings, and beliefs" into criminal
offenses and put Christians in the bull's-eye, according to opponents.
END
TIMES:
The
Time Shall Come (by Jack Kinsella) - The Olivet
Discourse focuses its attention on events that take place DURING THE TRIBULATION,
but begins by describing the events that conspire together to bring it
about.
ISRAEL
HAPPENINGS:
Ezekiel
38-39/Armageddon Players -
We
need to kill him - Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has to be killed. Really be killed, I mean, physically. He
should be eliminated, put to death, assassinated, and all those words that
serve to say the same thing.
Miscellaneous
-
Israel:
3,500 Years Old, 59 Years Young - Jews and
others around the world are celebrating the 59th birthday of the re-birth
of the Jewish State. The faith and fears that faced the Jews in their 3,500-year
history remain today.
LAST
DAYS WALTZ (2 TIMOTHY 3):
NEW
WORLD ORDER:
European
Union -
EU
in new grab for more power - THE president
of the European Commission demanded MORE powers for Brussels yesterday.
José Manuel Barroso also called for “institutional reform” — code
for a backdoor EU Constitution.
One
World Religion -
Antichrist's
Coming One World Religion - The Antichrist
is generally depicted as a militant atheist who brazenly opposes Christianity.
Communism has been called an antichrist system because of its overt suppression
of Christianity. It is not surprising, then, that when they were finally
able to speak their minds, the Romanian people who suffered under him for
24 years called their deposed president, Nicholae Ceausescu, "the Antichrist."
SIGNS
OF THE TIMES (MATTHEW 24):
Famine/Drought
-
Australia's
epic drought: The situation is grim - Australia
has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's
food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could
be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.
Pestilence
-
Photo
Gallery: Poison Snakes Swarm Florida Island - About
600 vipers slither around the 165-acre (67-hectare) island—in some areas
with an average of 22 cottonmouths on every palm tree-covered acre.
Plagues
-
The
Plague Fighters: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Begins - HIV,
Ebola, SARS — any of the world's most horrifying diseases are caused by
animal viruses that made the jump to humans. Now a UCLA scientist thinks
he can stop the next pandemic before it even starts.
Strange
Earth Signs -
Nationwide
Power Blackout Hits Colombia - Colombia's
electrical grid collapsed Thursday, causing a nationwide blackout that
halted trading on the stock exchange, trapped people in elevators and left
authorities struggling to determine the cause.
-
Volcanic
Activity Triggered Deadly Prehistoric Warming - Ripping
Greenland from Europe, the volcanic events also turned oceans fatally acidic,
says a new study that finds parallels to global warming today.
Unusual Weather -
Europe
swelters in record spring heatwave <- Tell
ME Father Yahweh's not giving us signs!!!
- Much of western Europe is seeing record
temperatures for April which has led to a growing drought threat in many
countries.
Strange
Heavenly Signs -
Sun -
Scientists
Predict Next Violent Solar Cycle - WASHINGTON
(AP) -- The violent peak of the next sunspot cycle is expected in late
2011 or mid-2012 - potentially affecting airline flights, communications
satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree on
how intense it will be.
TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:
Osama
bin Laden alive, plans new attacks - Taliban cleric - Mullah
Dadullah Akhund, a radical Muslim cleric and a ruthless leader of the Taliban
military wing, said in an interview with the Al-Jazeera television channel
that bin Laden personally planned the attack on U.S. Vice President Dick
Cheney during his visit to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan in
February.
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Friday's
article, "2007 Off to an Ominous Start" by
Terry James, will also be linked to the Daily Update page.
EXCERPT:
Signs
in the sun, moon, and stars; the seas and waves roaring; distress and perplexity
of nations; Israel a burdensome stone and cup of trembling to the world--the
year 2007, indeed, seems to have launched Planet Earth into perilous times.
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NOTE:
If you have any prayer
requests, feel free to send them to peggym@his-forever.com,
and I will post them with the next morning's updates.
I
pray you are blessed by all, and that you have a blessed day in the Lord!
YSIY!
Peggy
www.his-forever.com