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

http://www.his-forever.com/daily_update_10_16_06.htm
 

 

and are as follows:

RECIPE:  "Ghost Cookies"

2 TIMOTHY 3:

Adults, children found dead in gruesome highway shootings

Four people, a man and a woman who was clutching two children, were found shot to death Friday on an isolated stretch of Florida's Turnpike, police said.

Dozens of cities see jump in murders, robberies

On the 'sin' of sending kids to public school
The man who helped push the issue of public education onto the national agenda of the Southern Baptist Convention has written a new book that blows the lid off government schools, showing parents the kind of worldview and values their children are influenced by 180 days a year.

Wartime Catholic bishop helped Nazis escape
The priest openly declared his pro-Nazi views and has been labelled the "Black Bishop" by Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter whose foundation gathered evidence against him.

AMERICA:

Rice Affirms U.S. Commitment to Creation of a Palestinian State

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice affirmed U.S. commitment to the goal of creating a Palestinian state and urged Palestinian Americans to mobilize their full energy to realizing this objective.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:

Cross row stokes Christian anger

British Airways says all jewellery and religious symbols on chains must be worn under the uniform. But it makes an exception for Sikh turbans and Muslim hijabs because they cannot be covered up.

EUROPEAN UNION/UNITED NATIONS:

German Conservative: Turkey Doesn't Belong In EU

A German conservative leader argued Saturday that Turkey does not belong in the European Union, although he stressed the need for "close cooperation" with the predominantly Muslim country.

Turkey's EU Plans Threatened By Genocide Dispute With the French
Turkey's painful progress towards European Union membership has been plunged into crisis by a dispute with the French over the massacre of Armenians during and after the 1914-18 war. A Socialist-backed proposal, which could pass the National Assembly on Thursday, would make it illegal in France to deny that the killings amounted to genocide by Turkey.

U.N. Council Imposes Harsh Sanctions On North Korea
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose financial and arms sanctions on North Korea to punish the reclusive Communist nation for its nuclear weapon test on Monday.

FAMINE:

And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” And I looked and saw a black horse, and he who sat on it holding a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wage, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wage. And do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation 6:5-6)

Grain Stockpiles At Lowest For 25 Years

The world’s stockpiles of wheat are at their lowest level in more than a quarter century, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which on Thursday slashed its forecasts for global wheat and corn production. The lower forecasts were largely attributable to the severe drought in Australia, where the forecast for this year’s wheat crop was cut by 8.5m tons to 11m.

NATURAL HERBS:

Grandma's Cures (home remedies)

NATURAL DISASTERS:

Australia battles bushfires as drought scars land

Australia Hit By Worst Drought In History
The Australian government has been told that the country is in the grip of its worst drought in history. Scientists have briefed government ministers on the critical nature of Australia's water shortage, saying the future for the nation's farming and environment is bleak. Wendy Craik, from the Murray Darling Basin Commission, has predicted that if there are no good rains soon, water storages could be empty by the end of April or May 2007.

Deadly Snowstorm Clobbers Western N.Y. <- Good Lord, and it's in the 70's at 6:40 a.m. where I live!!!
Buffalo lay all but paralyzed Friday after a record-breaking early snowstorm whited out the brilliant colors of fall, buried pumpkins and apples and caught this city famous for its wintry weather flat-flooted. At least three deaths were blamed on the storm.

Indonesia seeks help fighting bush fires polluting region

OCCULT:

Unholy row breaks out after UK night-school course in Satanism

Occultist Scott Jones is guiding students through topics such as a witchcraft, Satanism and tarot during the course in Worle, Somerset.

ONE WORLD RELIGION:

Low-caste Hindus adopt new faith

Thousands of people have been attending mass ceremonies in India at which hundreds of low-caste Hindus (Dalits) converted to Buddhism and Christianity.

Pope and Dalai Lama discuss Unification on “religious matters”
During the talks, the head of the Tibetan Buddhist community told the press afterwards, “we talked about human values, religious harmony, unification and the environment”. On such issues the two leaders see eye to eye.

Pope meets Prodi and Dalai Lama
Pope Benedict XVI met with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi for the first time since the Italian center-left government took office in May. The pontiff also met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, according to the Vatican press office, and apparently failed to agree on reviving a series of controversial inter-faith meetings.

Top Clerics Accept Pope's Apology
Amman: An open letter sent to Pope Benedict XVI from 38 top Muslim clerics from around the world accepts his apology over his remarks on Islam. The letter, shown on the website of Islamica magazine, will now be delivered to a Vatican representative in Amman in the hope of engaging the Pope in a discussion to counter prejudice against Islam, said the Jordanian-based editor Sohail Nakhooda.

PESTILENCE:

Moth that can kill humans is found breeding in Britain

A moth that can be deadly to humans and strips the leaves off oak trees has been found breeding in Britain in what scientists are saying is the result of climate change.

PLAGUES:

Dengue fever outbreak in Pakistani city kills 17

E coli in spinach traced to manure

Egypt On High Bird Flu Alert
Eygptian Minister of Health and Population, Hatem El Gablali said that hospitals all over Egypt were put on a high state of alert and preventive measures were beefed up to confront a possible resurgence of Bird Flu in the Country.

Food poisoning fells hundreds of Chinese children
A total of 246 children and teachers fell ill on Wednesday after snacks at a primary school in Guangzhou, capital of the booming southern province of Guangdong, the Beijing News said.

Human Cases of Black Plague Hits Four States <- FEATURE!
Plague is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In 2006, a total of 13 human plague cases have been reported among residents of four states: New Mexico (seven cases), Colorado (three cases), California (two cases), and Texas (one case).

India battles mosquito-borne diseases
Indian health authorities are battling to curtail an outbreak of dengue and chikungunya mosquito-borne diseases which has struck more than 6,000 people and claimed 92 lives.

New HIV/AIDS Infections in Australia Surge

Plague Confirmed In Congo, 42 Reported Dead: WHO
An outbreak of plague has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 42 deaths reported among 626 suspected cases over the past 10 weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Virus Shuts Down Canadian University
An illness believed to be a Norwalk-type virus has sickened at least 100 people on the campus of Mount Allison University in New Brunswick and in the surrounding university town of Sackville.

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

1000's of Dead Fish Wash Up on Puerto Rico Shore

1000's of fish in northern Puerto Rico died after reduced  amounts of oxygen in a canal and the water becoming more acidic, the natural resources department said Friday.

Climate change triggers war, warns expert
CLIMATE change was one of the biggest menaces facing humankind and threatened to breed terrorism, war and the collapse of civilisation, a global health expert said today.

Flood Watch As Record Snowfall Melts
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A flood watch was posted Saturday as the region's record snowfall melted, and some 350,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity.

Shrinking Ponds Signal Warmer, Dryer Alaska <- FEATURE!

STRANGE HEAVENLY SIGNS:

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven [ 7 ] thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven [ 7 ] thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven [ 7 ] thunders uttered, and write them not. (Revelation 10:1-4)

• Photos of the strange object found near the space shuttle Atlantis!  It looks like the angel with the scroll in Revelation 10!!!  REALLY odd!!! <- FEATURE!

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

Hamas May Send Operatives To Iran

Hamas representatives were in Teheran on Thursday discussing the possibility of training its operatives in Iran, Channel 2 reported. Following PA elections earlier this year, Hamas reportedly asked Iran for guidance, instructions and financial assistance as it prepared to take over the Palestinian government.

Mashaal: Hamas Wants To Form Gov't With Fatah
Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal says the movement doesn't want to rule the PA alone, and that the group is interested in establishing a government with Fatah, Israel Radio reported Friday morning.

Men tied up, throats slit in Iraq
THE bodies of 14 construction workers, their throats slit and their hands and legs bound, have been found in a rural area near Baghdad, police have said.

Orthodox priest beheaded In Iraq

Taliban using cannabis 'forests' as cover
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy - almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.

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Monday's article, "The Kings of the East" by Jack Kelley, will also be linked to the Daily Update page.
 

 

EXCERPT:

With all the fuss about North Korea allegedly going nuclear, let's review what the Bible says about the Far East in the last days and see if we can tell what this means.

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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