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Springfield Mass. tornado, surreal (UPDATED- tornado sucks up river)

I watched an intense storm pop up in central Massachusetts this afternoon. All of the eastern seaboard is under a tornado watch, from DC to Maine. Half an hour ago, a tornado touched down in Springfield Mass and ripped through the city at rush hour. Tornadoes in New England are rare. They do happen, but they are rare. Municipalities don’t have tornado warnings and the people don’t expect them. If one hits, people must rely on eyesight to visually spot it or be tuned in to emergency weather messages. They may not be tuned in, and even if they are, they don’t know what to do. I didn’t.

When I moved here to Georgia I had to learn what to do when a tornado warning is issued. You go to the cellar or to the lowest floor of your building. You put as many walls between you and the outside as possible, going into a closet or the bathroom if need be. I didn’t know any of that nor was familiar with the power of these storms as I am now.

The tornado that hit Springfield apparently did much damage. Trees and power lines down, buildings damaged. Another one is headed for Worcester MA, and one just hit Sturbridge. I’m listening to live scanners, and also looking at video and photos. Amazing. This is surreal. I don’t know what is in store for Boston or NY later today but the weather channel guys are making comparisons to weather conditions similar to Tuscaloosa and Birmingham Alabama in terms of signature and situation.

The guy stayed looking at it until the hail conked his head, then he made a beeline for the car.

Jesus said that as we approach the end of days that the birth pangs will become more frequent and painful. We are not under judgment yet but we can definitely see that the times are getting crazier. I’m more amazed every day at seeing the results of what the bible tells us to expect.

Don’t forget, today, June 1, opens the 2011 hurricane season.
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Incredible shrinking Israel

The extent Israel will go for “peace”, source The Israel News

Click on picture for enlargement, or look at original here.

According to the biblical borders set by God, this map approximates what Greater Israel should look like, and will one day after the Tribulation:

What a day that will be, when the nation loved by God is finally entering into its Kingdom reign with Him, with secure borders!
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7 minutes vs. 16 hours: how the media reports delay

A political observation:

7 Minutes Vs. 16 Hours: How The Media Reports Delay

“George Bush was relentlessly mocked for waiting seven minutes (actually waiting for his security detail to ready the exit and for his vehicle to be readied) before leaving the school he was visiting. He calmly finished reading My Pet Goat for the kids before going to his now-ready helicopter.”

“On the other hand, after Obama was told (most likely for the fifteenth time) that the CIA was really, really, really quite confident that Osama bin Ladin was at that compound in Abbottabad, he decided he needed to sleep on it.”

“Sixteen hours later (hours during which Osama might have fled– bear in mind, his courier’s name had just been outed by WikiLeaks), he made up his mind. How does the media report this? Well, relying upon those in Obama’s inner circle (that is to say, his political flunkies and spinners), we’re told this:”

“But the next morning after 16 hours, Obama summoned four top aides to the White House Diplomatic Room. Before they could speak, the president put his fist on the table and declared ‘It’s a go’.” Why does it matter that he did this “before they could speak”? They had spoken already yesterday when they strongly, strongly urged the president to give the order, and he had decided to sleep on it. They were only waiting on him, after all.”

“So, after 16 hours of vacillation, during which the operation might have been rendered a failure by intervening invents, he fist-bumps a piece of furniture and finally makes up his mind. This is something to brag about? This is, in Howard Fineman’s words, “almost Biblical”? Seems like a very cautious, feckless, indecisive individual delaying and delaying on critical decisions and then attempting to sound heroic when he finally does what he’s being paid to do.”

Thanks to OCBill. This is from the Daily Mail, via Drudge.

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The most incredible solar flare I ever saw

It was just shown on SOHO/NASA. It just occurred so the only thing I know for sure is that is not earth-directed. Its size is unknown, but it looks to my layman’s eyes like it could be an X-class (largest). I’ll eagerly await Spaceweather.com’s report tomorrow. For all the people who think they will be able to stand and defy God, all’s I’ll say is really? REALLY? Just look at it. O, the Lord is mighty!

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Man-eating elephants and tigers terrorize village in India (updated a bit)

ABC News is reporting an “alarming” development in a village in India.

“Humans aren’t natural prey for elephants and tigers, but in the Sundarban islands of West Bengal, India, an alarming number of people have been attacked — even eaten — by these wild beasts. In one part of the country, there have been reports of elephants going on a rampage, trampling homes and killing around 200 people in the past year. In one bizarre case, this typically plant-eating animal reportedly ate a human. In another part of the country, tigers, who have developed an appetite for human flesh, reportedly killed 14 people in one village alone last year. “Tigers generally aren’t man eaters,” said Dave Salmoni. “It’s anomaly when an animal decides to start eating people.”

If it is an anomaly when carnivorous tigers eat people, it is surely an anomaly when herbivorous elephants do! “These villagers are also unable to protect themselves because as Hindus, they worship elephants and can’t kill them. However, Salmoni said that local wildlife officials were granted special permission to take out one particularly violent female elephant that reportedly killed 17 people.”

Incidents like these are usually explained by scientists as an animals’ response to habitat pressure, a fight for space. And they well could be. Although an elephant eating 17 people is a stretch. Scientists note that the animals in this village are changing their culture and behavior. “As food becomes scarcer, Salmoni explained, these large animals might turn on humans because they are easy prey. A place like the Sundarban, that’s happened,” Salmoni explained. “They’re creating a culture of man-eating where moms are teaching cubs, people are easy prey.”

The bible depicts a time when people WILL be hunted. “Fourth Seal: Widespread Death on Earth- When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.” (Rev 6:7-8)

What strikes me about this incident apart from the others I’ve reported on, is that the animals are not responding to a one-time pressure of habitat. It is becoming generational. Mom tigers are teaching cubs to hunt humans. Once human prey becomes established as a generational pattern, it changes everything.

In the beginning, all animals were vegetarians. But after the Fall, Adam, Eve, satan, and the earth were cursed. (Gen 3:17) The curse got worse and worse until the thoughts were of evil in men’s hearts continually (Gen 6:5) and decided to wipe all but 8 people from the earth and start over. (Gen 6:7). And so it goes, until Jesus comes again and again wipes out sin, but this time (almost) for good. (Rev 20:7-10). The curse and man’s sins affect the earth and its creatures, (Rom 8:19-22) creatures who are waiting eagerly for redemption. Between now and then, things will degrade until the fourth seal is unleashed and the fear and dread of man that God had put into animals after the flood is (Gen 9:2) removed and we, as the scientist said, become their easy prey.
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"Red dragons" emerging from the ground in China, earth cracking up continues

I’ve been fascinated with the pattern I’ve been seeing all over the globe regarding earth changes under the ground, at the crust. There have been so many mine explosions, cracks in the earth, sinkholes, and pipe breaks that by now, I am fully convinced they are part of the end time scenario. Since April, especially since the BP explosion, there have been sudden cracks in the earth all over the world that are affecting people in myriad ways. There have been deaths from an  unusual number of mine explosions, whole houses, schools, neighborhoods swallowed by sinkholes, there have been sudden outbreaks of many sinkholes at once. There have been unexpected pipe breaks that have either spewed oil or water, ruining neighborhoods, the Gulf, and in one of these, a boil-water order had to be issued for millions. In Mexico, an almost mile-long crack appeared in the earth that appeared after a sudden explosion, damaging 100 homes. By now,  there are too many incidences to count, but I wrote about most of them in previous entries from May 31 onward, here, here, here, and here. In each entry I wrote about the end time aspects of these amazing events and used the scriptures to illustrate that the pattern is not far-fetched in having a prophetic aspect. Please take a moment to review the previous incidences to form the background of why I think these continuing events are so important.

Today I bring to you three more unusual or tragic earth-cracking events. Another mine exploded, in Columbia, this time. The death toll was high. “Dozens of were trapped and feared dead after a fiery blast tore through a tunnel in a Colombian coal mine during a shift change, killing at least 16 workers. A methane gas buildup is believed to have fed the explosion that occurred in a long access tunnel that drops to a depth of 500 feet.” Methane seems to be the culprit in many of these latest explosive events.

In China, an enormous sinkhole swallowed a playground, rendered a school unstable, and caused the evacuation of an entire neighborhood. Video at link. Photo below:

Also in China, and this is eerie, red mud suddenly started bubbling up from underneath the asphalt in front of a city bus station. More and more bubbled up, and the people started coming out of their homes and businesses to see what was happening. People called it “red dragons” which eerily mirrors language used in Revelation to depict the devil’s tribulation torment of Israel and the earth. Crews arrived to hose the mud away, but the more they hosed, the more came up from underneath. One spectator noticed that the road was heaving, prompting fears that the ground itself was unstable. No one knows why the mud is coming. Here are two photos and a google translated text from the original article:

June 17, 2010 at 3 pm, Chengdu, Chen Jia Street bus station near the road suddenly vision. Speculation surrounding the masses: maybe and related projects in the vicinity.

Scene:Scared people suddenly rush to avoid anomalies

Bump of about 5 meters, 2 meters wide, raised a maximum of 30 cm, was half-oval shape, the central 2 m in length with a small crack, red-brown mud with a bubble flow, slurry spreading on the road, forming a 10-meter-long red “mud dragons.” “The scene with the movie” 2012 “, a little scary!” Beam near the lottery shop staff Sister said, “around 3 pm, the road suddenly emerge in front of the bubble, egg-sized, red-brown and then continue to emerge The mud, less than a few minutes, a large mud on the stream, while also a little bit up the road bumps. “Liang big sister said,” people around quickly to hide away, afraid of even greater crack. ” Mr Hui said that the public, forced foot bump and feet can feel the road under the obvious shock.

“Under the road seems to be empty!” One resident said, “afraid that a sudden collapse of the raised floor down!”

Explanation: Appeared normal construction will not affect people’s life around 4 o’clock in the afternoon, cleaning companies have used water cannons to wash the mud on the road. But here has not been cleaned up, there they emerge new mud. 16:30 or so, gradually slow down the speed of mud emitting only a small amount of leakage from the cracks in. Subsequently, sections were raised warning line and the cone-shaped tube warning “siege.”

As we see the prophetic pieces coming together in the Middle East presaging the Psalm 83 war, and the Battle of Gog-Magog … as we see the upsurge in earthquakes in diverse places … as we take note of the moral conditions Paul said would be in place at the time of the end, and now as we collect evidence that the very earth itself is changing underneath the ground, in advance of the coming destruction of the earth by the God who made it, … it is time to look inside ourselves and take stock of our spiritual condition. There is a heaven and our Lord Jesus wants all to go there. Not all will, because many will reject Him as the only remedy for their sin state. Many people do not even believe they sin at all, that they “are good people” who “are going to heaven” where a “loving God will receive them.” This concept of entry into heaven for all is a lie. God is loving, but more than that, He is HOLY. He cannot receive you if you have sin in you and you will always have sin in you if you have not asked Jesus to forgive it. If you do, He wipes it away and He does not hesitate! I hope you do not hesitate in asking Him!

I had a conversation with someone who said, vehemently I might add, that “The bible is a lie! It is made-up by men from myths!” And then she stated that God is loving. How does she know God is loving if the bible is a lie? And if the “lying bible” teaches that God is loving, isn’t is also a lie that God is loving along with everything else in the book? Where do you learn about God if not from the bible? Answer: nowhere. It is the bible that says that God is loving, and shows His love to us through Jesus and His Mercy and Grace, but if you throw away the bible, how do you know God is love at all? And if you believe God is love and know that comes from the bible, you cannot pick and choose the rest of the verses that show His holiness and wrath in the face of His imminent judgment.

The time is coming very, very soon where Jesus will call His believers  up to Him and we will be received by Him in the air, and then travel to heaven. This event is the rapture Paul spoke of in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 and 1st Corinthinans 15:50-54. Be part of this event. If you confess your sins to Jesus and ask Him to be part of your life, handing over your will in exchange for His, you will be saved. Do you really want to be on the earth when it cracks up? You don’t have to be. Jesus is waiting…

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Sinkhole in TN, explosions and seafloor collapse at oil blowout

This first incident happened a week ago in Canada. Note the use of the word “freak” and that the area was not known for sinkhole activity…
Horror as freak sinkhole swallows home and family of four
“There’s news of a tragedy today concerning a home in Canada which was engulfed by a giant sinkhole. All the four members of the family were killed in the incident which occurred while they were watching T.V. together. During a freak landslide in Quebec, the sinkhole opened up to swallow the French-Canadian family home. The family that lived there, the Prefontaines had been watching an ice-hockey game in the basement lounge of their home in Saint-Jude overlooking the Yamaska River. The two children killed were only around the ages of 9 and 11, according to the Timesonline.co.uk. Although rescuers launched a desperate attempt to save the family, late last night their bodies were finally found with Quebec’s emergency management co-ordinator, Michel Dore saying, “They were found very close to one another, some of them lying on the family couch in the basement.” The giant crater that formed completely destroyed the family home and five other houses in the area were evacuated. Apparently the house was in a location not considered to be at risk from sinkholes and the Saint-Jude Mayor, Yves Bellefeuille said the community was in shock. For more on this story go to the timesonline.co.uk. We send our thoughts to the extended family and friends of those killed.”

Today in TN a sinkhole on the Interstate opened up, swallowing half a lane:

I-24 reopens after sinkhole repair
A stretch of eastbound Interstate 24 between Nashville and Chattanooga has reopened after a massive sinkhole was repaired. The 25-foot deep sinkhole developed suddenly on Tuesday in Grundy County. Crews with the Tennessee Department of Transportation had to excavate 35 feet to reach the bottom of the sinkhole and remove unstable material. The area was filled in with more than 5,400 tons of graded solid rock and the interstate was repaved.

On May 14 I wrote here about Paul Noel’s assertion that eventually the sea floor under the BP oil well blowout would collapse. Mr Noel wrote for Pure Energy Systems that

…the situation is getting further and further out of hand. The nature of the crude had changed, indicating that the spill was collapsing the rock structures. If it is collapsing the rock structures, the least that can be said is that the rock is fragmenting and blowing up the tube with the oil. With that going on you have a high pressure abrasive sand blaster working on the kinks in the pipe eroding it causing the very real risk of increasing the leaks.

More than that is the very real risk of causing the casing to become unstable and literally blowing it up the well bringing the hole to totally open condition. Another risk arises because according to reports the crew was cementing the exterior of the casing when this happens. As a result, the well, if this was not properly completed, could begin to blow outside the casing. Another possible scenario is a sea floor collapse. If that happens Katie bar the door.

Well, according to the blogger Monkeyfister and his eagle eyed minions, it seems that is exactly what may have happened yesterday. Monkeyfister gives a blow-by-blow explanation as it happened over Sunday and Monday, beginning with the entry on Sunday May 23, “Major Change Down Below… ” here. (scroll down). The Moderate Voice summarized things here, if you do not want the blow by blow.

It seems that indeed the seafloor collapsed. This is a screenshot taken yesterday (Monday May 24)

Here is Monkeyfister’s guy who took a bunch of screenshots as it happened. Click for bigger.

Here is today’s screenshot from the BP live oil cam:

That seafloor looks a lot lower all of a sudden. A series of explosions appears in the shots above appears to have collapsed the seafloor and blown up the Blow Out Preventer (BOP) at the well head. Oil and gas are now gushing out of a crater in the seafloor where the BOP used to be at an exponentially greater rate than anything we have seen before. Attempts at a top-kill shot tomorrow brings only promises of BP cutting off the live feed when they enact the shot. All previous attempts at stopping the oil have failed. Here is the top kill explained and the locals’ skeptical reactions:

And here is our Friendly Corporate Overlord Organization preventing reporters from accessing the oil-drenched areas and boasting about close ties to local law enforcement, in a STUPENDOUS story for Mother Jones by Mac McClelland: “It’s BP’s oil“. I highly recommend you read it!

What prophecies come to mind here? Well the obvious biblical incidences of sinkholes swallowing people unexpected and the earth veritably caving in on itself come to mind but more to the point, we were told by Jesus Himself in Luke 21:25-26 that the end time would be characterized by problems so great they throw men into peplexity and nations into distress, suggesting the problems are so vast that no one knows how to solve them. That corporations would be so greedy they would be unaffected by their workers’ cries for pay, for justice, but instead they would go right on making money.

“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.” (James 5:1-6)

Like this incident reported by McClelland:

“They take these bags to a plant and separate out the sand so they can process the oil.”
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Test the spirits

By Elizabeth Prata

Let’s review what a sign was exactly. Looking at the Greek behind the use of the word sign in verses such as Mt 12:38 or 39, it means sign or miracle. Not every unusual event is a sign but if something was a sign it had certain characteristics. First, it was a miraculous thing, either supernatural or natural. It was something that pointed to Christ or the Bible. It w as something that was either convincing or confirming of the Word. It was consistent with the Word.

The days of signs from Apostles or from God is over. We have the more sure word now. The word of God IS the sign.

Not everything supernatural was or from God! If you think you see a sign that is supernatural, just remember Paul warned in 2 Cor 11:14 that satan appears as an angel of Light. Signs and wonders have been performed by satan’s agents all throughout the Bible, notably in Exodus 7:11-12, and 22. And we are warned in 2 Thess 2:9-10 that in the future there will be signs and wonders performed by satan to deceive. Remember and take to heart that if your own eyes behold a sign or a wonder, not to ascribe it to God, but remember satan’s tricks. Even Pharaoh’s wizards kept up with Moses’ actual signs, for a while.

We are told to test the spirits when we receive a message from a teacher or pastor. How do you test the spirits? First, ask for guidance and wisdom from the Holy Spirit and it will be given to you generously and without reproof. Secondly, you know that “This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.” (1 John 4:2-3).

False teachers rarely ever outright deny Jesus. The actually refer to Jesus often. If they denied him, then you would know they were false! So they do something else to deny Him, they teach a different Jesus. They teach a message that subtly makes YOU the central motivator/catalyst/agent in your salvation. They make Him non-essential.

Does the teaching bear good fruit? By their fruits you will recognize them! (Matt 7:16-20) Pray for discernment and watch to see if the fruit the sign yields is good or bad. This takes patience, because it takes time for fruit to grow.

The end time and especially the Tribulation will be full of false signs and wonders, so remember this important thing: Not everything supernatural is from God!