New items have been added to my Daily Update pages for Monday morning, located here:

http://www.his-forever.com/daily_update_07_17_06.htm
 

 

and are as follows:

AMERICA:

US 'could be going bankrupt'

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

U.S. Military Plans Shape-Shifting Supersonic Bomber
The unmanned Switchblade would loiter for hours at low speed, then change it's shape and rocket to a target at Mach 2.

AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH:

Flood of claims for 'Noah's Ark'

Legendary vessel of Genesis story goes from nowhere to everywhere

CHRISTIANITY:

The Messianic Seal (The story behind the seal)

Sabbath or Sunday -- Does It Matter What Day We Observe? <- FEATURE!!!

Women Preachers (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service) <- FEATURE!!!
The Bible clearly states that the man is to lead in the home and church, and the woman’s role is to submit to the man’s headship. There is widespread rebellion against this divine plan, though, and many women are being appointed to leadership positions in churches. Consider some facts from our files...

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

Anti-Semitism -

Vatican Condemns Israel For Attacks On Lebanon

The Vatican on Friday strongly deplored Israel's strikes on Lebanon, saying they were "an attack" on a sovereign and free nation.

Ezekiel 38-39 Players -

Ahmadinejad: Israel acting like Hitler

"The Zionists think that they are victims of Hitler, but they act like Hitler and behave worse than Genghis Khan," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday. He was quoted by the Iranian News Agency.

Ahmadinejad Says 'Zionists' Are 'Most Detested' People In Humanity
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh verbal attack on Israel by describing "Zionists" as the "most detested people" on the planet.The comment came after Iran's top national security official, Ali Larijani, had met Palestinian groups to voice the Islamic republic's "decisive support" for their battle against Israel.

EU Fears Lebanon Offensive May Draw In Syria
The European Union said Friday it was concerned Israel's offensive in Lebanon may spread, drawing Syria into the fighting."We consider the situation to be very bad and there is the continuing possibility that it could worsen; that the conflict could expand, especially to Syria," said Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja of Finland, whose country now holds the EU presidency.

Iran, Syria Used Hizballah As Proxy To Attack Israel, Analysts Say <- FEATURE!!!
The Israeli government said it is holding the government of Lebanon responsible for attacks along its northern border, but Israeli analysts and government sources said that Iran and Syria are ultimately behind the attack.

Iran gave Hizbullah 11,500 missiles and rockets
An Iranian military source told the Arab daily Asharq Alawsat Sunday that between 1992 and 2005 Iran has transferred some 11,500 missiles and rockets to Hizbullah.

Iran Heaps Praise On Hezbollah Fight Against 'Tumour' Israel
Iran has rallied behind allies Hezbollah and Syria, praising the Lebanese Shiite militant movement's battle against "infected tumour" Israel and warning the Jewish state against widening the conflict.

Iran President: Attack on Syria Is an Attack on Islam
Iran's president warned Israel against extending its offensive in Lebanon to neighboring Syria, saying such a move would be regarded as an attack on the whole Islamic world and be met with a "crushing response," the official Iranian news agency said Friday.

Iran Warns Israel Of 'Unimaginable Losses' If Syria Hit
Iran warned its arch-enemy Israel of "unimaginable losses" if it attacks Syria and vowed that it was standing by the Syrian people. "We hope the Zionist regime does not make the mistake of attacking Syria, because extending the front would definitely make the Zionist regime face unimaginable losses," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.

Report: Syrians shoot at Israel
Lebanese sources predict provocation from Damascus

Syria 'Ready For Anything'
SYRIA is bracing itself for "any eventuality" as the regime nervously eyes a relentless Israeli operation over the border in Lebanon and faces up to increasingly hostile US rhetoric.

Syria says fully backs Hizbullah against Israel
Syria will support Hizbullah and Lebanon against Israel's attacks, ruling Baath Party says. Italian PM discusses situation with President Assad in highest level contact since Syria spurned after Hariri assassination.

Syria Vows Harsh Response If Israel Attacks
DAMASCUS - Syria vowed on Sunday a "harsh and direct" response if it is attacked by Israel. "Any aggression against Syria will have a firm and direct response not limited in time or means," Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in a statement.

Israel's Enemies -

2 Million Israelis Under Threat

No less than 120 Katyushas fired at northern Israel; many staying in underground shelters, hundreds leave their homes temporarily; two Israelis killed in attacks, 100 injured.

Hezbollah: We're Ready For 'Open War' <- FEATURE!!!
Hezbollah's leader said Friday that his group is ready for "open war" with Israel, and as his words were broadcast, guerrillas attacked an Israeli warship that had been firing missiles into southern Beirut.

IDF Strikes Beirut-Damascus Road
The IDF struck on Thursday the Beirut Damascus road. The road served as the main access between Lebanon and Syria, along which people and weapons were transferred into Lebanon.

Israeli Warplanes Strike In Beirut Again
Israeli warplanes punished the Lebanese capital on Friday, blasting the airport for a second day, shattering bridges, igniting fuel storage tanks and cutting the main highway to Syria. Hezbollah guerrillas fought back with a fresh barrage of rockets.Police said three people were killed and dozens wounded in the airstrikes, raising the death toll to 60 on the third day of Israel's offensive against the Iranian-backed militants.

Olmert: Operation Will Stop When Hizbullah Disarms
Israel will not halt its offensive in Lebanon until Hizbullah is disarmed, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday. Olmert made the comments during a telephone call with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Israeli government officials said Friday.

Tel Aviv told to be on rocket alert
The Home Front Command has re-examined its instructions following the lethal barrage of rockets fired on Haifa. "We may have been mistaken in our situation analysis and instructions we gave to residents," Colonel Yehiel Kopperstein, head of the Protection Division of the Home Front Command said.

"Peace" Plan -

Arab League Chief: Peace Process 'Dead'

Foreign ministers of 18 Arab countries passed a unanimous resolution Saturday calling on the U.N. Security Council to intervene to stop escalating Mideast fighting."The Middle East peace process has failed. The whole process should now be sent back to the Security Council for a complete overhaul," said Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.

At G-8, World Leaders Focus on Mideast
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- World leaders tore up a carefully prepared summit agenda Saturday and turned their attention to a growing crisis in the Middle East, hoping to reach common ground on ways to stop the fighting.

Mideast Crisis, Iran, North Korea Overwhelm G-8 Leaders' Agenda
The escalating Middle East crisis and disputes over Iran's and North Korea's nuclear ambitions are likely to overwhelm the official agenda when leaders of the Group of Eight nations meet tomorrow in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Only A Peace Accord Between Israel And All The Arab States Will End The Violence <- FEATURE!!!
Once more the inherent instability of the Middle East has been violently revealed by the military attack on Israel from Lebanese territory, which is viewed in Israel as a declaration of war on Israel by the Lebanese State itself.

MARK OF THE BEAST PRECURSOR:

Chips with Medical Records to be Implanted in 280 Patients <- FEATURE!!!

NEW YORK (AP)—In a new test program, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey plans to implant patients suffering from chronic diseases with a microchip that will give emergency room staff access to their medical information and help avoid costly or serious medical errors, the insurer said on Friday.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

Diabetes -

Inhaled Insulin <- FEATURE!!!

EXUBERA® (insulin human [rDNA origin]) Inhalation Powder is the first diabetes treatment that you can inhale. And it could change the way you manage your blood sugar.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

Ecuador volcano spews rocks, villages evacuated

Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spewed ash, gases and molten rocks on Friday, forcing authorities to evacuate four
nearby villages after the crater registered its most volatile activity since a 1999 eruption.

Landslide/floods kills 17 in Nepal
The landslide swept away the village of Ulleri as people were sleeping late yesterday following torrential rains and floods which lashed the region.

S. Calif. wildfires merge into big blaze <- FEATURE!!!
YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of firefighters aided by aircraft worked Friday in fierce heat to keep two big wildfires from gaining a foothold in the heavily populated San Bernardino Mountains, where millions of trees killed by drought and bark beetles could provide explosive fuel.

Scorching U.S.: First Half of 2006 Sets Heat Record
The average temperatures of the first half of 2006 were the highest ever recorded for the continental United States, scientists announced today.

NEW WORLD ORDER/ONE WORLD RELIGION:

World Summit of Religious Leaders Ends in Moscow <- FEATURE!!!

“We need to construct such world order which would combine democracy - as a way of the coordination of various interests and as participation of people in decision-making at the national and global level - with respect to moral feeling, mode of life, various legal and political systems, national and religious traditions of people”.

PLAGUES:

U.S. Southwest Warned of Potential Virus Outbreak <- FEATURE!!!

In one of the first efforts of its kind to forecast the location and severity of future disease, researchers cautioned today that the Southwestern United States is at greater risk of a hantavirus outbreak this year than in 2005. Hantavirus is a rare but deadly respiratory disease caused by exposure to a variety of viruses. It is contracted through contact with rodent droppings or the pests themselves. It can even waft into the lungs while a person is sweeping or raking.

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

Big Chunk of Swiss Mountain Falls

Rock on the Eiger had been crumbling in recent days because glacial ice that had been holding it together had melted, geologists said.

Global Warming or Just Hot Air? A Dozen Different Views
Earth's temperature has increased by about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) in the last century. Most of the warming in the last 50 years is attributed to human activities, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Sandton ice ball fell out of clear sky, says scientist
Research conducted by a Nasa- affiliated scientist suggests that the frozen object that plummeted from the clear sky last Friday morning was one of the first "megacryometeors" to be recorded in Africa.

STRANGE HEAVENLY SIGNS:

"The Signs of the Zodiac Foretell the Plan of God" by William F. Dankenbring

“In his Commentary on Daniel, that Rabbi laid it down, that the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Piscesbetokened not only the most important events, but referred especially to Israel (for which he gives five mystic reasons).  He further argues that, as that conjunction had taken place three years before the birth of Moses, which heralded the first deliverance of Israel, so it would also precede the birth of the Messiah, and the final deliverance of Israel”(p.211). Edersheim points out that one of the smaller Midrashim, called the “Messiah Haggadah” (Aggadoth Mashiach) begins as follows: “A star shall come out of Jacob.  There is a Boraita in the name of the Rabbis: The heptad in which the Son of David cometh --in the first year there shall not be sufficient nourishment; in the second year the arrows of famine are launched; in the third, a great famine; in the fourth, neither famine nor plenty;<?xml:namespace prefix = o />in the fifth, great abundance, and the Star shall rise forth from the East, and this is the Star of the Messiah.  And it will shine from the East for fifteen days, and if it be prolonged, it will be for the good of Israel; in the sixth, sayings (voices), and announcements (hearings); in the seventh wars, and at the close of the seventh Messiah is to be expected”(quoted by Edersheim, p.211-212).

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

Hizbollah Rockets Haifa And Israel Bombs Beirut

Rockets fired by Hizbollah guerrillas killed eight people in the Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday and bombs shook Beirut as Israel pursued a five-day-old assault in Lebanon aimed at crippling the Shi'ite Muslim group.It was Hizbollah's deadliest rocket strike on Israel in at least 10 years and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it would have "far-reaching" consequences for Lebanon.

WARS/RUMORS OF WAR:

N. Korea Says Not Bound By UN Resolution: Report

North Korea said on Sunday it was not bound by a U.N. Security Council resolution, which has created "an extremely dangerous situation" and the country would "bolster its war deterrent" in every way.

URGENT - World Leaders Agree On Mideast Warfare <- FEATURE!!!
World leaders, managing to resolve sharp differences over an escalating crisis between Israel and Lebanon, declared Sunday that extremist groups in the region cannot be allowed to plunge the Middle East into chaos and must immediately halt their attacks. The leaders of the world's eight industrial powers issued a strong statement condemning Hezbollah militants but also urged Israel to exercise restraint in its military actions against Lebanon.

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Monday's article, "Isaiah 17: An Oracle Concerning Damascus (7/15/06 update!!!)" by Jack Kelley [READ NOW!!!], will also be linked to the Daily Update page.
 

 

EXCERPT:
 

 

Unless somebody blinks soon, this crisis has the potential to escalate into the fulfillment of Isaiah 17's Oracle against Damascus. With that in mind, I'm delaying the publication of our next chapter of the Book of Revelation to present this updated commentary on Isaiah 17.

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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