Navy Seal Training Camp off San Diego captures giant oarfish

The appearance of the fish follows Saturday’s destructive 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile and the January 12 tremors in Haiti, which claimed an estimated 200,000 lives. A quake with a magnitude of 6.4 has also struck southern Taiwan.This rash of tectonic movements around the Pacific “Rim of Fire” is heightening concern that Japan – the most earthquake-prone country in the world – is next in line for a major earthquake.Those concerns have been stoked by the unexplained appearance of a fish that is known traditionally as the Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace. The giant oarfish can grow up to five metres in length and is usually to be found at depths of 1,000 metres and very rarely above 200 metres from the surface. Long and slender with a dorsal fin the length of its body, the oarfish resembles a snake.

Japanese Fear Oarfish Sightings Are Quake Omen

Newser) – Dozens of sightings of a very rarely seen fish have raised Japanese fears that their country may be the next one rocked by a major quake. The appearance of oarfish—which can grow to up to 16 feet long and frequent depths of up to 3,300 feet—is considered an omen of an impending earthquake, according to Japanese lore. They have been washing up on beaches and appearing in fishing nets in numerous locations around the country in recent weeks.

When I first received notice regarding the 13 Clues Bible Study, I ignored it. My first thought was “here’s another rabbit trail…” I am now reading this study and will be researching the provided information.

The Cliff notes version – There are excellent reasons suggesting that believers should be very awake and watching for the return of Christ during Mar-Apr 2010.

The actual study runs approx 84 pages in pdf form. As always, readers should read carefully and use discernment.

The entire study is available:

Here – pdf download. I took Lora’s original study and converted it to pdf. I DID add more page breaks (line breaks and white space are your friend) but I DID NOT alter or edit any of the text. At least not intentionally. : )

Here - Lora’s blog and website.

This world and sadly many who call themselves Christians are watching for everything BUT Jesus to show up. People are looking for the anti-christ, the tribulation, economic collapse, global warming and everything else BUT Jesus. What a huge mistake. When Jesus tells us to WATCH, he is clearly telling us to watch FOR HIM….The “wise virgins” went out to meet who? The BRIDEGROOM, and who is the bridegroom? It’s Jesus.
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(IsraelNN.com) Following a government decision to begin distribution of gas masks to the populace, the Israel Postal Company began the distribution of gas masks in the city of Or Yehuda. The distribution will continue over a period of six days and will thereafter be extended to the Kiryat Ono and surrounding area.

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ISRAEL TODAY NEWS HEADLINE

Sunday, February 28, 2010 Israel Today Staff
Israeli air force training hints at possible strike on Iran

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the Israeli air force has started practicing rapid refueling, the type of which would only be used in a sustained aerial attack on a distant enemy.

The process involves Israeli warplanes sent on raids thousands of miles away returning to Israel, landing and refueling without shutting off their engines in order to get back in the air as fast as possible. Naturally, rapid refueling of this type is very risky, since the fuel is being pumped not far from the jet’s engines.

In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will once again use the Word of God to reveal a true and amazing condition that has engulfed our erstwhile great nation of the United States of America. I am referring to a serious and deadly systemic infection of spiritual bacteria called sin! Sin is so much like pathogenic bacteria in so many ways. Microbiologists and bacteriologists tell us that many forms of bacteria double in number every fifteen minutes at room temperature. We also know that in one milliliter of water there are over one million bacteria. The scientists have also revealed that if all bacteria lived instead of constantly dying the entire earth would be covered with the microscopic germs to a height of six feet in just one week.
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There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things “in order,” she contacted her Pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes

She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service, what scriptures she would like read, and what outfit she wanted to be buried in. Everything was in order and the Pastor was preparing to leave when the young woman suddenly remembered something very important to her.

“There’s one more thing,” she said excitedly.

“What’s that?” came the Pastor’s reply.

“This is very important,” the young woman continued. “I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand.”
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by Lambert Dolphin
www.ldolphin.org/newsletter-97.html

Well over a year ago a series of crises in banks and lending institutions gave us reason to believe God was at last beginning to judge our nation for a century of decadence and moral decline. Soon it was clear that financial institutions and national economies all around the world were also drastically affected. Many of us now believe that God is doing exactly what he said He would do.

He will shortly send His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, back to this planet to forcefully set up a kingdom of justice, righteousness and peace on earth. Jesus is, after all, the Owner and Heir of planet earth. Sadly the vast majority of people on the earth today do not know Jesus and do not wish to know Him. His return will therefore involve a bloody invasion by force.

The New Testament tells us that the “church age,” now drawing to a close, has been a 2000-year interval in which the message of God’s love and forgiveness has gone out to the entire world, over and over again. The invitation has been a call for all peoples to know Jesus Christ as Lord and to become members of His family.

The Bible says that when the “full number” of gentiles has come in (to the church), Israel would once again be placed at center stage as chief of the nations, with Jesus ruling all the earth from Jerusalem as His capital. Ancient promises made to the patriarchs of Israel will then at last be fulfilled. Then and only then will man’s dream of world peace come to pass.
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Brother D

Luke 17:26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

The Lord has given me a troubling question for all the naysayers who would have us believe that we will all go through part, most, or all of the time of Jacob’s trouble.

That troubling question is, how much “tribulation” did Noah endure in his days? If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah AND naysayers are right that we will all go through at least part of the tribulation,then we should see some “tribulation” that Noah went through comparable to what we see in the book of revelation, but do we?

Where exactly do we see in Noah’s experience plague, famine, the righteous being hunted down and slaughtered etc? If we are to believe the naysayers that tell us there is no escape from the coming days of hell on earth, shouldn’t we see the things that will happen during the tribulation in Noah’s experience as well?

Well, we don’t. The fact is, we see nada, zip, zero, NOTHING about the description of the days of Noah that would in ANY WAY compare to the days of the Daniel’s 70th week/time of Jacob’s trouble.
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Brother D

I have asked the Lord to give me more depth of insight into the “escape from all” and to correct any misunderstandings I might have of it so when this writer writes to you it can be in full assurance of correctly handling the Word of truth. What he has given me over the past hours further confirms that there absolutely will be an escape from all, exactly like the bible says there will be in Luke 21:36, the stories of Noah, Lot, Enoch, Rev 3 and 4 etc.

The is a growing fad within today’s form of “Christianity” to question whether there will be an escape from all or not. These people who question the escape from all, refuse to believe God’s word at face value and so they believe and teach a lie, to their own detriment and the detriment of those who hear them.

The people who attempt to debunk the escape from ALL tell you that the church will go through all or part of God’s wrath, also known as the time of punishment, also known as the tribulation, also known as the time of JACOB’S trouble. I cannot think of a more unbiblical concept.

Why do these people (mid-trib/pre-wrath/post-trib) fall into such grievous error? They refuse to know and love the truth. Not only do these people disbelieve the plain written word that teaches us about the mystery known as the escape from ALL/rapture, they do not understand basic fundamental truths about the church. What am I talking about?
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How soon…..? By Pastor F. M. Riley February 12, 2010

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12

Dear ____________,

Thank you for writing. I am glad the studies were a blessing to you. I have an entire series of studies setting forth the truth of the Pre-tribulation rapture which I will be glad to send to you or any of our readers who request them. Just ask for “The Pre-tribulation Rapture Series.”

Dear brother, I DO NOT know that the rapture of New Testament believers has to fit within the holy days of the Jewish calendar, for the Lord’s New Testament church is primarily a Gentile entity. The Lord’s church is not Jewish, and therefore it is possible that the church does not have to conform to the Jewish holy days.

However, that question is up to the Lord. The church may indeed have to conform to them! We will soon see! If it is required that the prophecies regarding the Lord’s church be fulfilled in accordance with the Jewish holy days, then it appears to me that everything predicted leading up to the rapture of the church is coming together like a hand fitting into a glove.
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