ALL:

It is VERY sad that our ministers (and MUCH less our politicians) are
SO VERY uneducated in the "ways" of God's judgment.  He will NOT
tolerate our NOT listening much longer!!!  Psalm 19 declares the coming
of the Bridegroom (Jesus) to be like the rising of the sun.  Towards the
end of the Psalm, it gives specific reasons for the discernment of His
precepts, "By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is
great reward."

...Psalm 19
...8 The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart.
...The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
...9 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever.
...The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous.
...10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold;
...they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
...11 By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is
...great reward.
...12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults.
...13 Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule
...over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.
...14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
...be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Is God about to "unwrap" one of our presents which we have failed
to open and discern in 2001-2005 (since "911")?  As I stated in an
earlier post regarding a "sighting" just prior to 2006: 

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2005/calvinm1229.htm

...The "911" "WARNING"  (the "911" taking down of the Twin Towers)
...could have been the WARNING of the coming 4 years of the "Parable
...of the Fig Tree"!!!!  This occurred just before the beginning of 2002 -
...4 YEARS AGO!!!!

...2002...2003...2004...2005

...Luke 13
...6 Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree,
...planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit
...on it, but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man
...who took care of the vineyard, 'FOR THREE YEARS
...NOW I'VE BEEN COMING TO LOOK FOR FRUIT ON
...THIS FIG TREE AND HAVEN'T FOUND ANY.  CUT IT
...DOWN!  Why should it use up the soil?'
...8" 'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for ONE MORE
...YEAR, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it.
 
...The new moon will be on December 30th / 31st and the last day of
...Hanukkah on January 1st or 2nd.  Was this a sign of the curtain of
..."2006" rising on days which will NOT be so very happy as we have
...seen in this country!!!???

Chuck Colson also "saw" something coming up in some "vision" as
2006 began as posted by Marie Komar and Donna Danna on Five Doves:

A New Year's Dream: Nightmare or Prophecy?
By Chuck Colson

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2006/mariek15-1.htm

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/chuckcolson/2006/01/03/180843.html 

Then, ALSO on Five Doves, I noticed that Tim McHyde mentioned
Katrina's timing along with Bill Koenig's excellent article:

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2006/timm14.htm

Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans - God's Judgment For Gaza?

http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/katrina-new-orleans-hurricane.htm

Gaza to Katrina - A Devastating Two Weeks - Bill Koenig

http://watch.org/showart.php3?idx=71101&rtn=/index.html&showsubj=1&mcat=1

...Note from Bill:
...I will continue to connect the disengagement activities
...in Israel to the other very serious events and headlines up to the
...devastating Hurricane Katrina and then beyond. (You can review the
...news headlines below and see them for yourself.)

...And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
...and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 12:3 (KJV)

...I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of
...Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my
...heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted
...my land. Joel 3:2 (KJV)

...To say the least, much has happened since the disengagement eviction
...began in Israel on August 17 (with preliminary work actually taking place
...during the 9th of Av - sundown on Saturday, August 13, to sundown on
...Sunday, August 14. The government of Israel didn't want the disengagement
...eviction to begin until August 17 due to the curse of the 9th of Av for the
...Jewish people.)

...On Monday, August 22, the last Jewish settlement in Gaza was
...evacuated - wrapping up Israel's historic pullout from the coastal strip
...after settlers held a farewell march behind Torah scrolls and a massive
...menorah, then boarded armored buses and left.

To me, it's sort of interesting that 4 prophetic (360 day) years from "911"
Katrina FORMED (almost as if foretold) about a month (a moon cycle),
after Secretary of State Rice went to Israel to "hurry up" the process (it
seemed to me) of Israel "GETTING OUT OF GAZA" and giving it to the
terrorist Palestinians who have NEVER wanted anything but Israel's
destruction. 

...From: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 ("911")
...To: Sunday, August 21, 2005 (Katrina forming)
...It is 1,440 days
...360 X 4= 1440

...Rice Visits Israel, Palestinian Areas To Discuss Gaza Withdrawal

http://usinfo.state.gov/mena/Archive/2005/Jul/21-422438.html

The Holy Spirit was "SO VERY" indignant inside of me at that time that
I kept telling our cook, Callie Mae, and my daddy's nurse, Lucy, that
"Something's about to happen!".  (That didn't take MUCH prophetic
speaking...just a knowledge of what God had ALREADY said!) 

Mississippi (my home state), as you know, was GREATLY affected by
Katrina.  Afterwards, Lucy told me to "Stop making predictions!"  My
home town is about 250+ miles from the Gulf Coast and in the Delta on
the western side of the state.  Even though we were on the "weak" side
of Katrina's wrath, we "felt" her power for 12 nervous hours with winds up
to approximately 70 MPH. 

Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps
over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do
they take root in the ground, than he blows on them
Isaiah 66:15
See, the LORD is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Jeremiah 4:13
Look! He advances like the clouds, his chariots come like a whirlwind,
his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! We are ruined!
Jeremiah 23:19
See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling
down on the heads of the wicked.
Hosea 4:19
A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them
shame.
Hosea 8:1
"Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD
because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Hosea 8:7
"They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it
will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will not leave
the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and
clouds are the dust of his feet.
_____

We are just past our most "materialistic" holiday - Christmas.  When we
look back at the two DEADLIEST earthquakes of 2003 and 2004, they
"FRAME" the year, 2004, (which would, to me, represent the 3rd year
of the parable of the Fig Tree).  BOTH earthquakes occurred on Christmas
in the US!!!  Their timing, interestingly, was "58" (the gematria of "NOAH")
minutes apart!!!

2003 quakes:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2003/

DEADLIEST 2003 quake at 1:56 UTC on 12/26/03:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2003/eq_031226/

2004 quakes:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2004/

DEADLIEST 2004 quake at 00:58 UTC on 12/26/04:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

2004 was the year that the movie, "The Passion of the Christ", came out. 
It was also the year of the 4 major hurricanes of 2004 which hit "F"lorida
(followed by 4 more in 2005). 

The point that I am trying to make is, ONLY, those who are watching and
hoping for their Bridegroom's return with GREAT interest probably noticed
some of these signs!  Those of us who have been watching and making
our comments (posts, etc.) have NOT been the most popular segment of
Christianity.  In fact, MANY TIMES we have been rejected out of hand by
the "seemingly" more mature Christian!  Zechariah 11:11 speaks of a "day"
on which God revoked His covenant made with the nations:
 
...Zechariah 11
...10 Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant
...I had made with all the nations. 11 It was revoked on that day, and so
...THE AFFLICTED OF THE FLOCK WHO WERE WATCHING ME KNEW
...THAT IT WAS THE WORD OF THE LORD. 

Looking at the interpretation of the MAJOR prophecy of Daniel 9:24-26, the
word "week" (see: "Seventy Weeks and the Messiah" below at the end of
this post), is a reference to 7 years.  Therefore a "day" of a "week" would
be a "year". 

Again, looking at Zechariah 11:11, could "2004" have been the "year / day"  
that Zechariah 11:11 speaks of?  As it says, "ONLY" the "AFFLICTED" were
WATCHING!?  To me, this sounds like rapture watchers who probably take
more flack from "inside" the Christian movement than most any other group!!! 
 
PLEASE NOTE that the 3 AM start of the "WATCH / WARNING" could have
been given to the "nations" (like the "group" of stores in the mall in Peg Fenn's
dream) about the time that Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ",
was about to come out amidst MUCH controversy!!!  The 10 AM "END" was
June 1 and right before Ronald Reagan's death!
 
"Peg Fenn's "Yahnunah" dream / A stream of 11/11's"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2004/calvinm62.htm 

God is NOT so much interested in our accumulation of materialist wealth
(of gold or "OIL") as He is in our listening to and discerning (or trying to
discern) His REAL thoughts: 

...Psalm 19
...9 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever.
...The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous.
...10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold;
...they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

For Christmas, I received a book - "One Man's Wilderness" by Sam Keith,
from a son and daughter-in-law.  It was about a man who, in 1968, went to
Alaska, built a cabin, and has spent most of his years since, "living in an
area as yet unspoiled by man's advance, a land with all the purity that the
land around us once held."

Since I received this book for a "Christmas" present, I was VERY interested
in Richard Proenneke's 1st Christmas spent in the wilderness away from the
hustle and bustle of the lower 48.  He said: 

..."December 25th.  A very white Christmas. No hard feelings toward anyone."

Perhaps he has JUST summed up what our thoughts should be regarding
where we are individually re Psalm 19 here at the "BEGINNING" of 2006!!!! 
SURELY, all these "WARNINGS" were NOT for naught!!!

...14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
...be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

GOD BLESS!!!

Calvin

...Daniel 9:24-26
...Seventy Weeks and the Messiah
...24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city,
...to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement
...for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and
...prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
...25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to
...restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven
...weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat,
...even in times of distress.
...26"Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have
...nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city
...and the sanctuary And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there
...will be war; desolations are determined.