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The cataclysmic explosion of a giant star is the most distant object ever detected by telescopes
Dec 22nd, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

NASA's Swift space observatory which is tuned to see high energy gamma ray emitted from extreme events has picked up a colossal blast, the cataclysmic explosion of a giant star, the most distant single object ever detected by telescopes.

Other telescopes that followed up on the signal confirmed the source to be more than 13 billion light years away and scientists say the star's destruction probably resulted in what astronomers call a black hole.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The cataclysmic explosion of a giant star at the most distant location ever detected by scientists has a past significance as well as a prophetic significance according to Bible prophecy.

With the power of a satellite that can see farther into outer space than ever before, the scientific world has observed the most distant single object ever detected by a telescope, the cataclysmic explosion of a giant star. The scientific world believes this event will give them more information on the origins of our universe, a quest for truth that is not looking to the right source for the truth when all they must do is look to the source for this knowledge written by the only One who observed it happen and could do it again, and in fact will do it again.

Let me explain. The Bible, Genesis chapter 1, tells how God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them including this star that exploded deep in space., Genesis 1:1-16. In the future, God will destroy this whole universe, II Peter 3:10, and create, as He did the first time, new heavens and a new earth, Revelation 21:1. The Apostle Peter wrote that very brilliant people will be dumb on purpose at the time of the end and they will deny the truth of Creation given to us by God, the One who did it, observed it and then had Moses write about it, II Peter 3:5-7.

The Apostle Peter also said people who deny God created the heavens and the earth and all that in them is will also deny that Jesus Christ is coming back, but I must remind you that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Israel, Arab Countries Plan for War With Iran
Dec 22nd, 2009
Daily NewsWND -Aaron Klein
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning;War

Secret talks held to discuss how to respond to retaliatory attacks

TEL AVIV – Intelligence officials from Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the U.S. held a meeting last week to discuss specific responses to Iranian retaliatory attacks during a potential war with Tehran, WND has learned.

A senior Egyptian intelligence official told WND the main talks, which took place in Amman, revolved around the possibility of Iranian-directed Palestinian and Islamic attacks against Israel, Egypt and Jordan during a possible future war with Iran.

The official said scenarios discussed revolved only around Iranian retaliatory attacks and did not take into account how any future war with Iran would be initiated or the timing of such a war.

The official said the concern was that Iran would use proxies such as Hamas in the Gaza Strip to attack both Egypt and Israel, while Hezbollah in Lebanon would launch missiles at Israeli population centers, including Tel Aviv.

Also, there is fear militants inside Jordan allied with the Muslim Brotherhood could attack Jordanian interests.

Hamas in Gaza is said to have rockets capable of reaching just outside Tel Aviv, while Hezbollah possesses Iranian-supplied missiles and rockets that can reach most Israeli population centers.

Egypt granted Israel permission several months ago to conduct naval exercises off Egyptian coastal waters. The military drills clearly were aimed at Iran.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, are influenced by Sunni Islam. The Arab countries are threatened by the growing influence of Iran, dominated by Shiite Islam.

In September, Saudi Arabia denied it offered the Israel Air Force permission to fly over its territory to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.

The Arab country was responding to a report in London's Sunday Express claiming the Saudis had agreed to turn a blind eye and not interfere should Israel and the U.S. attack Iranian nuclear facilities through Saudi air space. The Saudi government called the Express report baseless.

Just before the Express report, WND quoted an Egyptian intelligence official stating Saudi Arabia is cooperating with Israel on the Iranian nuclear issue.

The official said Saudi Arabia is passing intelligence information to Israel related to Iran. He affirmed a report from the Arab media, strongly denied by the Israeli government, that Saudi Arabia has granted Israel overflight permission during any attack against Iran's nuclear facilities.

The official previously told WND that Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, has been involved in an intense, behind-the-scenes lobbying effort urging the U.S. and other Western countries to do everything necessary to ensure Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons. Such weapons would threaten Saudi Arabia's position of influence in the Middle East.

The Egyptian official said his country believes it is not likely Obama will grant Israel permission to attack Iran.

He previously spoke about the efforts of other Arab countries to oppose an Iranian nuclear umbrella but did not comment on Egypt's own position on the matter.

Iran, not Israel, is Arabs’ Worst Enemy, Survey Reveals
Dec 22nd, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Iran’s nuclear threat to regional security has replaced Israel as the Arab world’s public enemy number one for the Arab world, according to an Arab survey commissioned by the Doha Debates group.

A majority of respondents from 18 Arab countries said Iran is a bigger threat than Israel, and nearly a third think that Tehran is just as likely to target them as Israel. An overwhelming 80 percent do not believe that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon.

The poll's results reinforce an opinion of Arab leaders who have traditionally been suspicious of Iran. "The Arab-Israeli conflict is a minor historical hiccup compared with the ancient feuds between Arabs and Persians," Mideast analyst and journalist Michael J. Totten recently wrote in Commentary Magazine.

“Arabs and Persians have detested each other for more than a thousand years, ever since Arabs conquered pre-modern Iran and converted its people to Islam,” according to Totten, who has covered the war in Iraq and has written extensively from Middle East countries.

“Most Arabs are Sunnis, most Persians are Shias, and Sunnis and Shias have been slugging it out with each other since the eighth century,” he added. "Arabs and Persians killed hundreds of thousands of each other in the Iran-Iraq war alone in the 1980s. The civil war between Sunni and Shia militias in Baghdad a few years ago was much nastier than any of the Israeli-Palestinian wars."

Totten also noted that Iran and Israel had good relations until the Iranian revolution against the Shah Reza Pahlavi in 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “used violent anti-Zionism to win the hearts and minds of the Arabs.”

“It worked to an extent for a while,” Totten wrote. "Most Arab governments didn’t buy it, but the people often did. For a while… it looked like Iran, by supporting Hizbullah and Hamas against Israel, might actually pull off the most unlikely of coups in rallying the mass of Sunni Arabs in support of Persian Shia hegemony. That disconnect now seems to be over.”

Idf Document Threatens Violence Against Settlers
Dec 22nd, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria and conservative Israelis across the country were dismayed last week when the media reveal a military document recommending the use of "paralyzing force" against those who violate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's partial 10-month settlement freeze.

Netanyahu implemented the freeze in line with Arab and international demands, though the Palestinians have rejected the gesture and still refuse to return to the negotiating table.

Arguing that the freeze was a surrender to world pressure, could never result in true peace with an intractable enemy and would become permanent in the eyes of Israel's detractors, many settlers vowed to continue building in violation of the ban.

Most hoped that Netanyahu, unlike former prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, would not use brutal force against those practicing civil disobedience.

But at the weekend, Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested that military force would indeed be used if Jewish settlers defy the government's decision.

"Settlement leaders and settlers are required only to heed the government's decision to impose a moratorium for a given period of time on new construction," read a statement issued by Barak's office. "This way, there will be no reason to use force or create friction with security forces... We expect settler leaders to heed government decisions and allow the IDF to do what it was established to do - ensure readiness for war."

A settler activist speaking to Ha'aretz responded to the document and Barak's warning by saying "surprises" were being prepared for security forces sent to enforce the settlement freeze.

"We are preparing a series of surprises and events that [the security forces] won't be prepared for," he said.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority is doing its part to aid the settlement freeze by forbidding Arabs living under its jurisdiction to do construction work for Jewish contractors, according to Israel National News.

The PA is desperately looking for alternative jobs for these laborers, and one of the top options is recruiting them into the PA paramilitary force, which recently received a large infusion of US taxpayers' dollars.

However, it will be difficult to replace Jewish construction as a job option. The explosive growth of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria has long provided a steady source of work for thousands of Palestinian Arabs.

. 1st - Time Discovery of 2nd-temple Dwelling in Nazareth
Dec 22nd, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Hana Levi Julian
Categories: Today's Headlines;Archaeology

The remains of a dwelling from the last days of the Second Temple have been uncovered in the heart of the city of Nazareth. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) revealed the remains of the ancient residential area in the northern Israeli Arab city for the first time to reporters on Monday.

The structure was exposed during a small-scale excavation that was carried out on a nearby church property in light of municipal plans to build in the area.

Archaeologists uncovered in the excavation a large broad wall dating to the Mamluk period (15th century CE) that was built on top of, and “utilizing” the walls of, an ancient building. This earlier building consisted of two rooms and a courtyard which contained a rock-hewn cistern for rainwater. Few artifacts were recovered from inside the building, most of which included fragments of pottery vessels from the early Roman period (1st and 2nd centuries CE).

Proof of a Jewish presence was found in several fragments of chalk (stone) vessels that were discovered. Such vessels were only used by Jews during this period, because such vessels were not susceptible to becoming ritually impure.

A hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was also exposed. According to IAA exacavation director Yardenna Alexandre, the pit may have been prepared by the local Jews “to protect themselves during the Great Revolt against the Romans in 67 CE.”

The nearby church itself was built in 1969 on the spot the Catholic faith identifies with the house of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and rests on the remains of three earlier churches, the oldest of which is ascribed to the Byzantine period (4th century CE).

“The building that we found is small and modest and it is most likely typical of the dwellings in Nazareth in that period,” observed Alexandre. “From the few written sources that exist, we know that in the first century CE, Nazareth was a small Jewish village located inside a valley. Up to now, a number of tombs... were found in Nazareth, but no settlement remains have been discovered that were attributed to this period.”

The “Association Mary of Nazareth” intends to conserve and present the remains of the newly discovered house inside the building planned for the International Marian Center of Nazareth, the city where Jesus and his family lived during the period the discovered dwelling stood.