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U.S. on Alert for Nuclear Blast Overhead
Apr 2nd, 2013
Daily NewsWND
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

WASHINGTON – U.S. officials quietly are expressing concern that North Korea could use its “space launch vehicle” to explode a high-altitude nuclear device over the United States, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy major portions of the U.S. electrical grid system as well as the nation’s critical infrastructures.

The concern is so great that U.S. officials who watch North Korea closely are continually monitoring the status of the North Korean “space launch vehicle,” whose status could suggest a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States.

They are aware of the three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a “package,” which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be deorbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, creating an EMP effect.

This concern is in addition to North Korea’s latest threat to strike targets in Hawaii and the continental U.S., as well as possible attacks against U.S. bases in South Korea and Japan.

The 28-year-old North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has signed an order for North Korea’s strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at U.S. targets.

The signing was against a photo backdrop following an emergency meeting of his senior military leaders showing large maps that were labeled “U.S. mainland strike plan, specifically at Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.”

The Seventh Commandment
Apr 2nd, 2013
CommentaryIan C. Kurylyk
Categories: Contemporary Issues;Exhortation

 “Thou shalt not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14).

We can study this commandment like other ones by first identifying a fact of God’s nature that it involves and then go on to consider the significance to mankind. God is faithful and therefore requires it of the creatures He made in His image.

Faithfulness is a fundamental attribute of the God of the Bible. Satan first drove a wedge between mankind and the Creator when he slandered God’s faithfulness in the Garden of Eden. Ever since then sinfulness and hard suspicious thoughts toward God have been a package deal for members of the human race.

But still God has been faithful to us. His faithfulness has led Him to provide us a way of escape from sin and its curse, even at great personal cost to Himself. He has not abandoned man because of his rebellion. The Lord was faithful unto death. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of God’s love and His trustworthiness.

Distrust and disobedience by Adam in paradise was the way sin entered the world. The coming of God’s Son into the world to suffer and die for our sins was the ultimate act of good faith. Through this the resurrected Saviour is challenging sinful men to turn from sin and distrust and come back to God. He is calling on each individual to accept the Lord personally which means renouncing sin and repenting of distrust and accepting the gift of salvation provided through Jesus Christ. It is all-important to realize God’s faithfulness to us. The challenge is what will we do with it?

God has also ordained that faithfulness would lie at the base of human relationships. He is the Author of the home, and He has planned for procreation to take place in an environment of love and stability sustained by faithfulness. Society suffers greatly when God’s hedge of safety is broken down in the pursuit of pleasure without responsibility. Experiments in new morality have long reaching consequences often realized when the damage is too late to repair.

Every traditional marriage ceremony reminds us of the fact that God has planned life on earth to contain patterns of heavenly things for our blessing. The union of a man and a woman in marriage is a picture of the relationship God has with His people in a spiritual sense. When people become part of the spiritual bride of Christ by faith they enter into a relationship of love, eternal security, joy, and happiness. There are shadows of these things in earthly marriage as the couple enter into God’s patterns of marriage blessing.

When people depart from God in sin and take up with idols it is unfaithfulness to Him and brings ruin. When people are unfaithful in marriage a corresponding measure of sorrow and ruin comes to all involved. Like all the commandments, the scope is broad as a comparison of other scriptures makes clear. The sexual sin of adultery stands at the head of a number of deviations from the plan of God that are all violations of the seventh commandment.

Three facts of sexuality are clearly taught in the Bible that makes it clear that God intended it only for use within the marriage bonds.

Outpost Residents: are We the Enemy?
Apr 2nd, 2013
Daily NewsINN - Gil Ronen
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Residents of the outpost community of Esh Kodesh in the Binyamin region are reeling after an early morning raid by police, who arrested five of them.

"We wish to express our severe protest in the face of the despicable way the police treated the residents," an announcement by residents said.

"There is no logic that justifies arriving this way before dawn, in large forces, as if we are enemies, in order to mess up our homes in contradiction of the rules for conducting searches as written in the warrants, and scare our little children in their beds."

"The community of Esh Kodesh is a law-abiding one, which pays taxes and serves in the army and national service," the residents wrote. "The police know that if they had asked the residents who were arrested to show up for questioning, they would have done so. And yet, they decided, for political reasons, to raid the community in the middle of the night in a way that reminds us of our military service and the arrests of terrorists."

"We did not see you arresting the marauders who attacked our community, our groves and vineyards, even though the community filed complaints against attackers, photographs and video footage of whom are in our possession and were even published.  

"We hope that the court understands the reality we are facing, and that it will release those of the community's men who were arrested, and deal severely with the Arab marauders attacking us."

The Judea and Samaria Police said Tuesday that "following the ongoing conflict between the villagers of Kusra and the residents of the Esh Kodesh outpost" and "mutual attacks," police launched an undercover investigation. This morning, the police added, five residents of the outpost in their 20s were arrested and several weapons were seized, including rifles and handguns.

No Hell Bell Comes Out in Support of Homosexuality
Apr 2nd, 2013
Daily Newschristiannews.net
Categories: Commentary;Apostasy

Rob Bell, author of the best-selling and controversial book Love Wins, which challenges the Christian teaching of Hell, came out in support of homosexual marriage on Sunday and called "narrow" Christians to repentance. During the question and answer period, Bell was asked about his beliefs regarding same-sex "marriage."

"I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man," he said. "I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs -- I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are."

Bell opined that many evangelicals can no longer be classified as conservatives because their beliefs have changed with the times.

"I think we are witnessing the death of a particular subculture that doesn't work," he asserted. "I think there is a very narrow, politically intertwined, culturally ghettoized, evangelical subculture that was told 'we're gonna change the thing' and they haven't. And they actually have turned away lots of people."

"And I think that when you're in a part of a subculture that is dying, you make a lot more noise because it's very painful. You sort of die or you adapt," Bell continued. "And if you adapt, it means you have to come face to face with some of the ways we've talked about God, which don't actually shape people into more loving, compassionate people. And we have supported policies and ways of viewing the world that are actually destructive. And we've done it in the name of God and we need to repent."

Leader Jane Shaw asked Bell during the discussion whether Christians can know truth for certain.

"I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?'" he replied. "That's the measure of a good religion, is you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?"

Editors Note....In this article we have a birdseye view of the apostsy that is moving into the Evangelical Church. Bell is way out in front of the main stream evangelicalism in his apostasy, but what has he left to forsake? Nothing! Bell is doing what always happens in a period of decline, someone leads the way.emboldening others to follow. Those who are on the slippery slope of departure will find it easier declare their apostasy.

Let the Headlines Speak
Apr 2nd, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Will Globalists Use North Korea To Trigger Catastrophe?
The mainstream view being espoused by globalist-minded politicians and corporate oligarchs with an agenda is that North Korea is a nuclear armed monstrosity ready to use any subversive means necessary to strike the United States. The idea that the North is working closely with al-Qaida has been suggested in everything from White House briefings to cable news to movies and television.  

Top scientists to Obama: Ban mutation experiments that will make avian flu more infectious
“The accidental release of an artificial, laboratory-generated, human-transmissible H5N1 virus into the community has the potential to cause a global pandemic of epic proportions that would dwarf the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed over 50 million people,” read a letter to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. The petition was drafted by the Foundation for Vaccine Research (FVR), a scientific advocacy group, and numbered world-leading biologists among the 17 signatories, including Lord May, the former chief science advisor to the UK government, and Sir Richard Roberts, the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Medicine, for genetics research.  

Severe sandstorm slams Israel
Israeli environmental officials said the country was experiencing its worst sandstorm in four years, with air pollution levels 40 times higher than usual.  

Obama Urges Quick Adoption of Arms Trade Treaty by UN General Assembly
Despite failing to be adopted by consensus vote on last Thursday, the Arms Trade Treaty’s (ATT) civilian disarmament agenda marches on. In an interview with The New American in advance of Thursday’s ill-fated final plenary session of the conference at UN headquarters deliberating the Arms Trade Treaty, a member of the U.S. delegation said the they were prepared to vote in favor of adoption of the gun grab.  

Israel braces for massive cyber-offensive
Hackers around the world are plotting to strike Israel’s online presence in a coordinated cyber-attack later this week. The effort, known as “OpIsrael,” which is being organized by hacktivist group Anonymous, aims to target the 100 largest websites in the country, especially those of banks, credit card companies, and communications firms.  

Mashaal re-election opening for 'real engagement with West'
Hamas re-elected Khaled Mashaal on Tuesday as the Islamist group's political leader, at a marathon overnight closed-door meeting held in Cairo, an official with the organization said. Once reviled as a hardliner but now seen increasingly in the Arab world and by some Westerners as a moderate, Mashaal, 56, has headed the movement that rejects Israel's existence and controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza, since 2004.  

Cartels dispatch agents deep inside US
Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States - an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.  

Rebels 2 km from Assad's largest WMD cache
Arab news outlets reported Monday that Syrian rebel battalions have seized control of As-Safira, a suburb of Aleppo where, according to foreign reports, President Bashar Assad's largest chemical weapons cache is located.  

Stockton California to enter bankruptcy
The people of Stockton, California, will feel financial fallout for years after a federal judge ruled to allow the city become the most populous in America to enter bankruptcy. But the case is also being watched closely because it could answer the significant question of who gets paid first by financially strapped cities – retirement funds or creditors.  

UN Set to Vote on Global Arms Trade Treaty
The UN General Assembly will vote on Tuesday on the first international treaty establishing rules for cross-border conventional arms trade as Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked its adoption by consensus last week.  

A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise
Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...A.D.H.D. is described...as resulting from abnormal chemical levels in the brain that impair a person’s impulse control and attention skills.  

Sinclair – Something Has Western Central Banks Terrified
“This is all because of the one quadrillion dollars in derivatives that are in the financial system. Six years ago the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) at that time reported that the amount of derivatives already outstanding exceeded one quadrillion dollars. This number is unimaginable to most human beings. But that is the actual number (over one quadrillion dollars). They never should have released that number because it created a bit of panic.  

U.S. on alert for nuclear blast overhead
U.S. officials quietly are expressing concern that North Korea could use its “space launch vehicle” to explode a high-altitude nuclear device over the United States, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy major portions of the U.S. electrical grid system as well as the nation’s critical infrastructures.  

China mobilizing troops, jets near Korea
China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said. Reports from the region reveal the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently increased its military posture in response to the heightened tensions, specifically North Korea’s declaration of a “state of war” and threats to conduct missile attacks against the United States and South Korea.  

Saudi religious police lift ban on women on bikes
A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom's religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restricted, recreational areas. The Al-Yawm daily on Monday cited an unnamed official from the powerful religious police as saying women can ride bikes in parks and recreational areas but they have to be accompanied by a male relative and dressed in the full Islamic head-to-toe abaya.  

Mali crisis: EU troops begin training mission  -  An EU mission to train Malian soldiers is due to begin as part of efforts to help the West African country counter an Islamist insurgency. The first of four Malian battalions will train under European instructors at the Koulikoro base some 60km (37 miles) from the capital, Bamako. A French-led intervention that began in January has regained the main cities of northern Mali from Islamist groups. 

North Korea to reopen shuttered nuclear reactor  -  North Korea said it will restart all facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear site, including a uranium enrichment plant and a graphite-rod reactor...the official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday. Pyongyang said the nuclear facilities would be used for both electricity and military uses. The move could enable North Korea to extract more plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile for use in nuclear weapons.