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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Report: Assad built seven-story underground war bunker-Syrian rebels claim president set up facility beneath Damascus reinforced against chemical weapon attacks-By Ari Solomon February 16, 2016, 12:53 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A Syrian rebel group claims that Syrian President Bashar Assad built an underground town in the Damascus area capable of being used as headquarters for the regime’s senior military and political leadership, the Maariv newspaper said Monday.The Army of Islam, one of the largest rebel organizations, comprising some 50 Islamist factions, revealed the existence of the underground complex, in a region where it said it had taken control, in a documentary film.Referred to as “Assad’s Neighborhood,” the base reportedly extends seven stories underground, contains multiple command centers, and features a maze of escape routes that extend into the surrounding mountainside.“After entering the tunnels, our fighters were surprised to find routes for vehicles and roads with lighting,” said field commander Abu Samir. He added: “Five huge gates protect the entrance to a sterile area capable of safeguarding against chemical weapons and managing the entire war.”Rebel groups and forces loyal to the regime continue to fight for control of Damascus and its outskirts.Footage of the underground ‘neighborhood’ is shown from about 37:00 in the video below.
Samantha Power: Iran deal compliance ‘strong’ so far-On visit to Israel, US envoy says Tehran has met conditions of nuclear agreement to date, but warns it remains regional threat-By AFP and Times of Israel staff February 15, 2016, 11:44 pm
Washington’s UN ambassador Samantha Power said in Israel on Monday that compliance with the Iran nuclear deal was so far “strong,” but warned Tehran was still helping fuel conflict and remained a threat.“What this deal does if implemented — and so far the implementation has been strong but it’s very early days — is it cuts off the pathways to a nuclear weapon and it gives us much more visibility into Iran’s program than we had before,” Power told a group of Israeli students.She added later that “Iran of course is still a threat. Iran is supporting terrorism. Iran is supporting parties to conflict like the Assad regime (in Syria)”.Last July’s Vienna agreement between Iran and the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) sees sanctions lifted in return for Tehran ensuring its nuclear program remains for civilian use.Israel strongly opposed the deal with its arch-foe, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning it would not block Iran’s path to nuclear weapons.He also said lifting sanctions would allow Iran to further back proxy militants in the region, including terror groups such as Hezbollah.Netanyahu’s outspoken criticism of the accord, particularly in a speech to the US Congress, led to a rift with US President Barack Obama’s administration.He has since scaled back his rhetoric, and the United States and Netanyahu’s government are currently negotiating a new 10-year defence aid package expected to be an increase over the current $3.1 billion Israel receives annually.Power has met Israeli and Palestinian leaders during her visit, expected to end Tuesday.She said Washington’s aim was to move the two sides towards “being in a position to restart the negotiations, which is not a position they are in right now”.Power met Netanyahu earlier Monday and said they discussed “steps that could be taken to preserve prospects” for a two-state solution.They also discussed the conflict in Syria and the threat from the Islamic State group, she said.The envoy also met with Jewish and Arab children at a Jerusalem school targeted in a 2014 arson attack.Power’s visit comes amid a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks that erupted in October and has killed over 25 Israelis, as well as an Eritrean, an American and a Palestinian bystander.
Morocco’s king dispatches Jewish aide to push Israeli-Palestinian talks-Channel 2 says senior officials from both sides will meet this week under auspices of Sam Ben Shitrit, with backing from Abbas and Netanyahu-By Raoul Wootliff February 15, 2016, 10:57 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The king of Morocco has reportedly sent a veteran Moroccan Jewish negotiator to push for a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in order to renew peace talks.Mohammed VI is making efforts to facilitate the meeting using Sam Ben-Shitrit, Channel 2 news reported Monday.Ben-Shitrit is the founder and chairman of the World Federation of Moroccan Jews, and has on a number of occasions acted as a middleman between Israel and Morocco, which do not have official diplomatic relations.According to the TV report, Ben-Shitrit has arranged a meeting between several unnamed high-level PA and Israeli public officials to take place later this week. Both Netanyahu and Abbas gave the okay for the meeting and even reportedly expressed willingness to meet each other.Morocco kingNetanyahu reportedly told Ben-Shitrit that the king’s plan is an opportunity to restart talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.In a recent meeting with Ben-Shitrit, Abbas, for his part, said he would be willing to meet with Netanyahu without agreed-upon preconditions for restarting negotiations, Channel 2 said.After that meeting, Ben-Shitrit is said to have sent a letter to Netanyahu quoting Abbas as saying, “At the beginning of next month, I will write a personal letter to Netanyahu proposing a meeting with him.”The Israeli and Palestinian leader have not held an official meeting in over five years; they were last photographed together in November 2015, shaking hands on the sidelines of the climate change conference held in Paris. After a group photo of more than 150 world leaders attending the conference, Netanyahu and Abbas could be seen exchanging words in a meeting that lasted no more that a few seconds.“It’s important for the world to see that we’re ready to talk,” Netanyahu said later, stressing, however, that it was merely an act of “protocol” since they happened to be standing close to each other. “On the other hand, we have no illusions about Abu Mazen (Abbas). Incitement plays a central role in [fostering] terrorism and Abu Mazen must stop his incitement,” he added.The prime minister has accused Abbas of inciting against Israel, lying about ostensible Israeli plans to change arrangements on the Temple Mount, and thereby playing a role in encouraging the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis.The king of Morocco’s reported efforts to facilitate a new meeting come as a number of international players are also pushing for a renewal of peace talks.Meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power reiterated her country’s commitment to advancing a two-state solution, as well as a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.On Friday, representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers announced plans to try to kick-start long-moribund negotiations between the two sides.In a joint statement by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry and the UN’s Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, they said they will prepare a report on the current situation between Israel and the Palestinians, with an eye toward resuming peace talks.The new report would include “recommendations that can help inform international discussions on the best way to advance the two-state solution.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Diplomat: Islamic State used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters-Global chemical weapons watchdog confirms first use of the gas in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003-By Times of Israel staff February 15, 2016, 7:02 pm
Islamic State terrorists employed mustard gas against Kurdish fighters during battles in Iraqi Kurdistan last August, an unnamed diplomat confirmed Monday, Reuters reported.This marks the first documented use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of strongman Saddam Hussein in December 2003, according to a source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Reuters said.Samples tested for the chemical, which causes burning to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, came back positive after 35 Kurdish militants had become ill while fighting IS near Erbil, northwest of Baghdad and the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq.Reuters also quoted an official as saying that the issue will likely be discussed when the OPCW Executive Council meets again in a month.According to Reuters, experts are unclear as to how Islamic State could have acquired the chemical weapons, or whether the group has access to more.Another diplomat told Reuters that the mustard gas could have come from a Syrian stockpile, which would point to the Syrian regime having concealed parts of its own chemical weapons program that was dismantled three years ago under international observers.“If Syria has indeed given up its chemical weapons to the international community, it is only the part that has been declared to the OPCW and the declaration was obviously incomplete,” the diplomat told Reuters.
High Court challenges ‘stability clause’ in controversial gas deal-Government has a week to answer questions on provision preventing changes to framework agreement for 10-15 years-By Raoul Wootliff February 15, 2016, 10:25 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The High Court of Justice has challenged a key component of the government’s controversial framework agreement to develop Israel’s newly found natural gas fields, questioning its ability to enshrine the terms of the deal for years to come, without Knesset legislation.In an opinion published Monday, the court expressed its reservations over a clause included in the agreement, which prevents the state from making any substantial changes to the framework deal for 10-15 years. It demanded the government respond to its questions within seven days.“We are focusing at the moment on the stipulations dealing with the stability of the deal, and with the question of whether this sort of clause is possible without legislation,” the court wrote.“In order to remove all doubts, we want to know whether there is any room to write this clause into law,” the statement added.The agreement would grant a two-company partnership — America’s Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek Group — the rights to develop the Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean, the largest yet found in Israel’s territorial waters.The opinion was published following a Sunday appearance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the court where he urged the deal be approved, saying it was critical to ensuring Israel’s security and position in the Middle East.If the current deal isn’t approved, he told the panel of five justices, “we will lose our export potential to Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinians and also the European Union.”The appearance by the prime minister at the High Court to defend the deal was nearly unheard of in the annals of the court, and came after Netanyahu, in his capacity as economy minister, requested permission to testify in person in response to a court challenge against the draft agreement.Netanyahu sought to convince the judges to dismiss five petitions submitted by opposition parties and a handful of NGOs seeking an injunction against the plan.The “stability clause” — which has been included at the behest of the gas companies, fearful that a change to the framework would affect the profitability of the project — has caused considerable opposition from the groups protesting the deal. But some predict that, without it, the companies may make good on their threats to pull out altogether.“The public regards the stability clause as though the state surrendered to the gas companies. The state needs stability, perhaps even more than we do. Without stability, there can be no development of the Leviathan reserve or other gas reserves. And if there’s no development of the gas reserves, it’s the state that loses,” a senior gas company executive told Globes.Echoing testimony he gave to a Knesset panel before the deal was approved, Netanyahu warned the court that “Israel is seen [overseas] as an over-regulated state, and this creates a significant problem for us. Other countries will go to our enemies and take [gas] from them.”These fears, he said, explain why “we are now in a decisive moment.”In an affidavit submitted to the court last week ahead of his testimony, Netanyahu argued that a failure to implement the deal would damage Israel’s security, economy and foreign relations.The court’s decision on the deal could be decisive, as Netanyahu is fighting for the right to overrule a December 2014 ruling by Israel’s then-antitrust commissioner David Gilo that found the Noble-Delek consortium may violate antitrust rules.In December 2015, Netanyahu successfully overcame a year-long delay in approving the controversial deal in the Knesset and cabinet — but only by appointing himself the minister of economy in place of Aryeh Deri, who resigned.The economy minister is empowered through Article 52 of the Antitrust Law to override an antitrust ruling if the minister determines the monopoly to be in Israel’s national-security or diplomatic interest.After becoming economy minister in November 2015, Netanyahu finally signed the controversial agreement with the gas companies on December 17.The current court hearings are the final hurdle for the leasing agreement, with lawmakers and NGOs, including the Movement for Quality Government, arguing that the prime minister’s justifications for invoking Article 52 do not fulfill the demand of the law for a clear advantage in national security or diplomacy.Opponents have argued that the de facto duopoly in the gas market will lead to higher prices for Israeli consumers, while supporters of the deal say the protections given to the gas companies are necessary to entice them to invest the billions of dollars upfront in order to develop the fields.Five separate petitions have been lodged with the High Court urging it to throw out the deal over these and other legal issues.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report
Top Israeli researcher: Robots could take over most jobs within 30 years-Society faces its biggest challenge in finding meaning in a life mostly run by machines, warns Rice University’s Moshe Vardi-By Times of Israel staff February 13, 2016, 8:27 pm
A renowned Israeli professor of computer science says robots could take over most human jobs within the next 30 years, leaving mankind with a lot of free time and little to do.Moshe Vardi, of Houston, Texas’s Rice University, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on Saturday that society’s major challenge in the coming decades will be to find meaning in a mostly automated life.“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task,” Vardi said. “Robots are doing more and more jobs that people used to do. Pharmacists, prison guards, boning chicken, bartending, more and more jobs we’re able to mechanize them.With robots eliminating many middle-class jobs, Vardi said unemployment could rise beyond 50 percent.“I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? …The question I want to put forward is, ‘Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'”Vardi’s warning quickly made international headlines on Saturday.While many may relish the thought of an existence with few work hours and copious amounts of leisure time, Vardi said he was not at all certain this would be healthy to the human race.“A typical answer is that if machines will do all our work, we will be free to pursue leisure activities,” he said. “I do not find this a promising future, as I do not find the prospect of leisure-only life appealing. That seems to me a dystopia. I believe that work is essential to human well-being.“Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’…We need to rise to the occasion and meet this challenge before human labor becomes obsolete.Vardi has won three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, as well as a Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science. He chaired Rice University’s Computer Science Department between 1994-2002. He has authored over 400 technical papers in his field.In December, The Times of Israel reported that China will invest $20 million in Israeli robot technology, in the hope that the tech Israel develops will help catapult its economy. The Israeli Robotics Association signed an agreement with a coalition of Chinese investors and the city of Guangzhou, one of China’s biggest industrial centers, to build a robotics R&D center in Israel dedicated to developing robot tech that China will be able to use to automate and modernize its massive industrial base.Zvi Shiller, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty of Engineering Ariel University and chairman of the Israel Robotics Association, said Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world in robot development and research, “but we don’t have a lot of opportunity to deploy that technology because our economy is too small.“China is a major opportunity for us, and manufacturers there are very motivated to take advantage of our technology. There are thousands of factories that will be interested in the technology developed at the Institute. It’s like a second Industrial Revolution – and Israeli technology is at the center of it.”Economists and policy-makers are increasingly aware of the problems posed by advances in artificial intelligence, which render humans obsolete in many fields.Scientists and tech experts — including professor Stephen Hawking, entrepreneur Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — have warned of the dangers of autonomous robots in the battlefield.AP and David Shamah contributed to this report.
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Medical marijuana company predicts profits boom-Anticipating $84 million in sales in 2019, Israeli-founded Cannabics seeks investment as it touts treatment for cancer sufferers-By Sue Surkes February 15, 2016, 10:40 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A company founded by Israelis that has developed a marijuana capsule for cancer sufferers predicts that the legal cannabis industry will outstrip both the US film and organic food industries within five years.Cannabics Pharmaceuticals estimates that the medical marijuana market has the potential to reach $3.6 million in the US alone, the Globes newspaper reported Monday.The company, whose share price has fallen along with the rest of the sector since peaking in 2014, is currently presenting its wares to Israeli, American and European investors as part of a bid to raise $4 million through a private placement, the newspaper said. The offering, made privately to selected investors, is expected to close next month.Cannabics’ cannabis-oil pill is on sale in Israel and in Colorado in the US. Now, the company is developing a system for using a cannabis ingredient to help doctors evaluate biopsies more accurately.The $4 million is needed to commercialize the evaluation system and to perform a clinical trial on 40 cancer patients at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, northern Israel.Cannabics — a US-based company founded by Israeli researchers in molecular biology and cancer — carries out its research and development in Israel in collaboration with Israeli medical centers.It expects to be turning a profit by late 2017 and predicts sales of $84 million in 2019.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Report: Assad built seven-story underground war bunker-Syrian rebels claim president set up facility beneath Damascus reinforced against chemical weapon attacks-By Ari Solomon February 16, 2016, 12:53 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A Syrian rebel group claims that Syrian President Bashar Assad built an underground town in the Damascus area capable of being used as headquarters for the regime’s senior military and political leadership, the Maariv newspaper said Monday.The Army of Islam, one of the largest rebel organizations, comprising some 50 Islamist factions, revealed the existence of the underground complex, in a region where it said it had taken control, in a documentary film.Referred to as “Assad’s Neighborhood,” the base reportedly extends seven stories underground, contains multiple command centers, and features a maze of escape routes that extend into the surrounding mountainside.“After entering the tunnels, our fighters were surprised to find routes for vehicles and roads with lighting,” said field commander Abu Samir. He added: “Five huge gates protect the entrance to a sterile area capable of safeguarding against chemical weapons and managing the entire war.”Rebel groups and forces loyal to the regime continue to fight for control of Damascus and its outskirts.Footage of the underground ‘neighborhood’ is shown from about 37:00 in the video below.
Samantha Power: Iran deal compliance ‘strong’ so far-On visit to Israel, US envoy says Tehran has met conditions of nuclear agreement to date, but warns it remains regional threat-By AFP and Times of Israel staff February 15, 2016, 11:44 pm
Washington’s UN ambassador Samantha Power said in Israel on Monday that compliance with the Iran nuclear deal was so far “strong,” but warned Tehran was still helping fuel conflict and remained a threat.“What this deal does if implemented — and so far the implementation has been strong but it’s very early days — is it cuts off the pathways to a nuclear weapon and it gives us much more visibility into Iran’s program than we had before,” Power told a group of Israeli students.She added later that “Iran of course is still a threat. Iran is supporting terrorism. Iran is supporting parties to conflict like the Assad regime (in Syria)”.Last July’s Vienna agreement between Iran and the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) sees sanctions lifted in return for Tehran ensuring its nuclear program remains for civilian use.Israel strongly opposed the deal with its arch-foe, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning it would not block Iran’s path to nuclear weapons.He also said lifting sanctions would allow Iran to further back proxy militants in the region, including terror groups such as Hezbollah.Netanyahu’s outspoken criticism of the accord, particularly in a speech to the US Congress, led to a rift with US President Barack Obama’s administration.He has since scaled back his rhetoric, and the United States and Netanyahu’s government are currently negotiating a new 10-year defence aid package expected to be an increase over the current $3.1 billion Israel receives annually.Power has met Israeli and Palestinian leaders during her visit, expected to end Tuesday.She said Washington’s aim was to move the two sides towards “being in a position to restart the negotiations, which is not a position they are in right now”.Power met Netanyahu earlier Monday and said they discussed “steps that could be taken to preserve prospects” for a two-state solution.They also discussed the conflict in Syria and the threat from the Islamic State group, she said.The envoy also met with Jewish and Arab children at a Jerusalem school targeted in a 2014 arson attack.Power’s visit comes amid a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks that erupted in October and has killed over 25 Israelis, as well as an Eritrean, an American and a Palestinian bystander.
Morocco’s king dispatches Jewish aide to push Israeli-Palestinian talks-Channel 2 says senior officials from both sides will meet this week under auspices of Sam Ben Shitrit, with backing from Abbas and Netanyahu-By Raoul Wootliff February 15, 2016, 10:57 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The king of Morocco has reportedly sent a veteran Moroccan Jewish negotiator to push for a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in order to renew peace talks.Mohammed VI is making efforts to facilitate the meeting using Sam Ben-Shitrit, Channel 2 news reported Monday.Ben-Shitrit is the founder and chairman of the World Federation of Moroccan Jews, and has on a number of occasions acted as a middleman between Israel and Morocco, which do not have official diplomatic relations.According to the TV report, Ben-Shitrit has arranged a meeting between several unnamed high-level PA and Israeli public officials to take place later this week. Both Netanyahu and Abbas gave the okay for the meeting and even reportedly expressed willingness to meet each other.Morocco kingNetanyahu reportedly told Ben-Shitrit that the king’s plan is an opportunity to restart talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.In a recent meeting with Ben-Shitrit, Abbas, for his part, said he would be willing to meet with Netanyahu without agreed-upon preconditions for restarting negotiations, Channel 2 said.After that meeting, Ben-Shitrit is said to have sent a letter to Netanyahu quoting Abbas as saying, “At the beginning of next month, I will write a personal letter to Netanyahu proposing a meeting with him.”The Israeli and Palestinian leader have not held an official meeting in over five years; they were last photographed together in November 2015, shaking hands on the sidelines of the climate change conference held in Paris. After a group photo of more than 150 world leaders attending the conference, Netanyahu and Abbas could be seen exchanging words in a meeting that lasted no more that a few seconds.“It’s important for the world to see that we’re ready to talk,” Netanyahu said later, stressing, however, that it was merely an act of “protocol” since they happened to be standing close to each other. “On the other hand, we have no illusions about Abu Mazen (Abbas). Incitement plays a central role in [fostering] terrorism and Abu Mazen must stop his incitement,” he added.The prime minister has accused Abbas of inciting against Israel, lying about ostensible Israeli plans to change arrangements on the Temple Mount, and thereby playing a role in encouraging the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis.The king of Morocco’s reported efforts to facilitate a new meeting come as a number of international players are also pushing for a renewal of peace talks.Meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power reiterated her country’s commitment to advancing a two-state solution, as well as a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.On Friday, representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers announced plans to try to kick-start long-moribund negotiations between the two sides.In a joint statement by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry and the UN’s Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, they said they will prepare a report on the current situation between Israel and the Palestinians, with an eye toward resuming peace talks.The new report would include “recommendations that can help inform international discussions on the best way to advance the two-state solution.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Diplomat: Islamic State used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters-Global chemical weapons watchdog confirms first use of the gas in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003-By Times of Israel staff February 15, 2016, 7:02 pm
Islamic State terrorists employed mustard gas against Kurdish fighters during battles in Iraqi Kurdistan last August, an unnamed diplomat confirmed Monday, Reuters reported.This marks the first documented use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of strongman Saddam Hussein in December 2003, according to a source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Reuters said.Samples tested for the chemical, which causes burning to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, came back positive after 35 Kurdish militants had become ill while fighting IS near Erbil, northwest of Baghdad and the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq.Reuters also quoted an official as saying that the issue will likely be discussed when the OPCW Executive Council meets again in a month.According to Reuters, experts are unclear as to how Islamic State could have acquired the chemical weapons, or whether the group has access to more.Another diplomat told Reuters that the mustard gas could have come from a Syrian stockpile, which would point to the Syrian regime having concealed parts of its own chemical weapons program that was dismantled three years ago under international observers.“If Syria has indeed given up its chemical weapons to the international community, it is only the part that has been declared to the OPCW and the declaration was obviously incomplete,” the diplomat told Reuters.
High Court challenges ‘stability clause’ in controversial gas deal-Government has a week to answer questions on provision preventing changes to framework agreement for 10-15 years-By Raoul Wootliff February 15, 2016, 10:25 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The High Court of Justice has challenged a key component of the government’s controversial framework agreement to develop Israel’s newly found natural gas fields, questioning its ability to enshrine the terms of the deal for years to come, without Knesset legislation.In an opinion published Monday, the court expressed its reservations over a clause included in the agreement, which prevents the state from making any substantial changes to the framework deal for 10-15 years. It demanded the government respond to its questions within seven days.“We are focusing at the moment on the stipulations dealing with the stability of the deal, and with the question of whether this sort of clause is possible without legislation,” the court wrote.“In order to remove all doubts, we want to know whether there is any room to write this clause into law,” the statement added.The agreement would grant a two-company partnership — America’s Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek Group — the rights to develop the Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean, the largest yet found in Israel’s territorial waters.The opinion was published following a Sunday appearance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the court where he urged the deal be approved, saying it was critical to ensuring Israel’s security and position in the Middle East.If the current deal isn’t approved, he told the panel of five justices, “we will lose our export potential to Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinians and also the European Union.”The appearance by the prime minister at the High Court to defend the deal was nearly unheard of in the annals of the court, and came after Netanyahu, in his capacity as economy minister, requested permission to testify in person in response to a court challenge against the draft agreement.Netanyahu sought to convince the judges to dismiss five petitions submitted by opposition parties and a handful of NGOs seeking an injunction against the plan.The “stability clause” — which has been included at the behest of the gas companies, fearful that a change to the framework would affect the profitability of the project — has caused considerable opposition from the groups protesting the deal. But some predict that, without it, the companies may make good on their threats to pull out altogether.“The public regards the stability clause as though the state surrendered to the gas companies. The state needs stability, perhaps even more than we do. Without stability, there can be no development of the Leviathan reserve or other gas reserves. And if there’s no development of the gas reserves, it’s the state that loses,” a senior gas company executive told Globes.Echoing testimony he gave to a Knesset panel before the deal was approved, Netanyahu warned the court that “Israel is seen [overseas] as an over-regulated state, and this creates a significant problem for us. Other countries will go to our enemies and take [gas] from them.”These fears, he said, explain why “we are now in a decisive moment.”In an affidavit submitted to the court last week ahead of his testimony, Netanyahu argued that a failure to implement the deal would damage Israel’s security, economy and foreign relations.The court’s decision on the deal could be decisive, as Netanyahu is fighting for the right to overrule a December 2014 ruling by Israel’s then-antitrust commissioner David Gilo that found the Noble-Delek consortium may violate antitrust rules.In December 2015, Netanyahu successfully overcame a year-long delay in approving the controversial deal in the Knesset and cabinet — but only by appointing himself the minister of economy in place of Aryeh Deri, who resigned.The economy minister is empowered through Article 52 of the Antitrust Law to override an antitrust ruling if the minister determines the monopoly to be in Israel’s national-security or diplomatic interest.After becoming economy minister in November 2015, Netanyahu finally signed the controversial agreement with the gas companies on December 17.The current court hearings are the final hurdle for the leasing agreement, with lawmakers and NGOs, including the Movement for Quality Government, arguing that the prime minister’s justifications for invoking Article 52 do not fulfill the demand of the law for a clear advantage in national security or diplomacy.Opponents have argued that the de facto duopoly in the gas market will lead to higher prices for Israeli consumers, while supporters of the deal say the protections given to the gas companies are necessary to entice them to invest the billions of dollars upfront in order to develop the fields.Five separate petitions have been lodged with the High Court urging it to throw out the deal over these and other legal issues.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report
Top Israeli researcher: Robots could take over most jobs within 30 years-Society faces its biggest challenge in finding meaning in a life mostly run by machines, warns Rice University’s Moshe Vardi-By Times of Israel staff February 13, 2016, 8:27 pm
A renowned Israeli professor of computer science says robots could take over most human jobs within the next 30 years, leaving mankind with a lot of free time and little to do.Moshe Vardi, of Houston, Texas’s Rice University, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on Saturday that society’s major challenge in the coming decades will be to find meaning in a mostly automated life.“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task,” Vardi said. “Robots are doing more and more jobs that people used to do. Pharmacists, prison guards, boning chicken, bartending, more and more jobs we’re able to mechanize them.With robots eliminating many middle-class jobs, Vardi said unemployment could rise beyond 50 percent.“I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? …The question I want to put forward is, ‘Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'”Vardi’s warning quickly made international headlines on Saturday.While many may relish the thought of an existence with few work hours and copious amounts of leisure time, Vardi said he was not at all certain this would be healthy to the human race.“A typical answer is that if machines will do all our work, we will be free to pursue leisure activities,” he said. “I do not find this a promising future, as I do not find the prospect of leisure-only life appealing. That seems to me a dystopia. I believe that work is essential to human well-being.“Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’…We need to rise to the occasion and meet this challenge before human labor becomes obsolete.Vardi has won three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, as well as a Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science. He chaired Rice University’s Computer Science Department between 1994-2002. He has authored over 400 technical papers in his field.In December, The Times of Israel reported that China will invest $20 million in Israeli robot technology, in the hope that the tech Israel develops will help catapult its economy. The Israeli Robotics Association signed an agreement with a coalition of Chinese investors and the city of Guangzhou, one of China’s biggest industrial centers, to build a robotics R&D center in Israel dedicated to developing robot tech that China will be able to use to automate and modernize its massive industrial base.Zvi Shiller, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty of Engineering Ariel University and chairman of the Israel Robotics Association, said Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world in robot development and research, “but we don’t have a lot of opportunity to deploy that technology because our economy is too small.“China is a major opportunity for us, and manufacturers there are very motivated to take advantage of our technology. There are thousands of factories that will be interested in the technology developed at the Institute. It’s like a second Industrial Revolution – and Israeli technology is at the center of it.”Economists and policy-makers are increasingly aware of the problems posed by advances in artificial intelligence, which render humans obsolete in many fields.Scientists and tech experts — including professor Stephen Hawking, entrepreneur Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — have warned of the dangers of autonomous robots in the battlefield.AP and David Shamah contributed to this report.
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Medical marijuana company predicts profits boom-Anticipating $84 million in sales in 2019, Israeli-founded Cannabics seeks investment as it touts treatment for cancer sufferers-By Sue Surkes February 15, 2016, 10:40 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A company founded by Israelis that has developed a marijuana capsule for cancer sufferers predicts that the legal cannabis industry will outstrip both the US film and organic food industries within five years.Cannabics Pharmaceuticals estimates that the medical marijuana market has the potential to reach $3.6 million in the US alone, the Globes newspaper reported Monday.The company, whose share price has fallen along with the rest of the sector since peaking in 2014, is currently presenting its wares to Israeli, American and European investors as part of a bid to raise $4 million through a private placement, the newspaper said. The offering, made privately to selected investors, is expected to close next month.Cannabics’ cannabis-oil pill is on sale in Israel and in Colorado in the US. Now, the company is developing a system for using a cannabis ingredient to help doctors evaluate biopsies more accurately.The $4 million is needed to commercialize the evaluation system and to perform a clinical trial on 40 cancer patients at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, northern Israel.Cannabics — a US-based company founded by Israeli researchers in molecular biology and cancer — carries out its research and development in Israel in collaboration with Israeli medical centers.It expects to be turning a profit by late 2017 and predicts sales of $84 million in 2019.
