April 15th Blood Moon Fact or Fiction on Bible Prophecy?

Were conducting a survey here at "End-Time Prophecy Watch" to see what you( the readers) think about the four blood moons, on how it relates to Bible Prophecy and End-Time Prophecy. Please take out the time to do the survey, and leave your comments about your thoughts on the four blood moons. If your making comments, please stay within the subject of the four blood(if you go off topic your comments won't be posted).

Do really think the 4 Bloods is a prophetic sign for the End-Times/Last Days?

Coptic Priest Killed in Egypt(Christian Persecution)

Story Source UPI.com

A coptic priest was shot and killed in northern Sinai in what some are calling "the first sectarian killing" since Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was overthrown in a military coup.

Mina Aboud Sharween, a Christian priest, was attacked Saturday as we walked in the Masaeed area in El Arish, which is closed to the Gaza strip, in the early afternoon.

Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has reportedly criticized Egypt's spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros, for approving the outing of the president and attending a ceremony lead by the head of the army General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, where Egypt's constitution was suspended.

Adly Mansour has since been sworn in as Egypt's interim president. Morsi suporters have vowed to stay on the streets until the former president is reinstated.

Saturday's shooting came in response to the arrest of several leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood on Friday.

Rumors of War: Syria, Israel exchange fire on Golan Heights

Source Reuter by Dominic Evans

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said its troops destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into its territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and warned that any attempt to violate its sovereignty would meet "immediate and firm retaliation".

Israel said the incident took place on its side of the Golan ceasefire line, that the vehicle was damaged but not destroyed, none of its soldiers were hurt and they returned fire.

The clash highlighted the potential for renewed conflict along a frontline that has become increasingly fraught after nearly four decades of calm overseen by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father.

It also followed Israeli airstrikes near Damascus against suspected missile stockpiles two weeks ago, after which Syria threatened to retaliate.

Assad is battling a two-year-old uprising in which rebel forces, including radical Islamists, have taken swathes of rural territory and attacked army posts near the Golan frontier.

There are frequent reports of cross-border gunfire from Syria during clashes between army and rebel forces but Tuesday's incident was the first time since the start of the crisis that Syria's armed forces said they targeted Israel's military.

"Our noble armed forces destroyed an Israeli vehicle ... which entered from the occupied territories and crossed the ceasefire line," Syria's military leadership said in a statement broadcast on state media. The incident occurred at 1:10 am (2210 GMT, Monday), it said.

Shortly afterwards, Israeli forces fired two rockets towards a Syrian position, without causing any casualties, Syria said.

The Israeli military's chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, said the Israeli army vehicle had been patrolling on the Israeli side of a border fence when it came under repeated fire.

"They fire on it once. They fire on it twice. They fire on it a third time, from a clear Syrian position," he said in a speech. "One time, okay. Two times, okay. Three times, too many. The position was destroyed."

Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said: "Our policy on Syria is clear: We are not intervening there, of course, in the civil war ... But as for the situation in the Golan Heights, we are not allowing and we will not permit a spillover of fire into our territory."

AGGRESSION

Tension in the Golan Heights region has been fuelled by the fighting on the Syrian side and several recent abductions by rebel fighters of U.N. peacekeepers, who have monitored a narrow zone of separation between Syrian and Israeli troops since 1974.

The abductions led the Philippines government to say it was considering withdrawing its troops from the UNDOF observer mission. Austria, the other main troop contributor, is concerned that French and British calls to drop an EU arms embargo on Syrian rebels would render its continued presence untenable.

Adding to the sense of alert, the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said two weeks ago it was forming combat units to try to recapture the Golan, after Assad and Lebanon's Hezbollah said they would support such operations.

The announcement followed Israel's air strikes near Damascus against suspected missiles stocks destined for Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006.

Syria's Foreign Ministry sent a written complaint to the United Nations on Tuesday, saying Israel's actions violated the United Nations charter and a 1974 military disengagement agreement between the two foes.

Syria's military command said the incident showed that Israel was supporting the anti-Assad rebels and aimed "to raise their morale which collapsed after the tough blows struck by our noble armed forces ... especially in Qusair."

Syria's army, backed by Hezbollah, has launched an offensive to capture the central town of Qusair, which has been in rebel hands for most of the two-year uprising which has now killed more than 80,000 people, according to the United Nations.

"The blatant Zionist aggression confirms that any violation, or attempted violation of the country's sovereignty will be met with immediate and firm retaliation," the Syrian army said.

Rumors of War: Philippines protests Chinese warship's presence

Source AP by Jim Gomez

Philippines protests presence of Chinese warship, fishing boats in disputed Spratly Islands

CAVITE, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its military in the disputed Spratly Islands, in the latest territorial squabble between the Asian countries, officials said Tuesday.

President Benigno Aquino III warned, meanwhile, that the Philippines is ready to fight back against any threat and announced plans to buy more warships and aircraft for its ill-equipped military, including anti-submarine attack helicopters.

"Our message to the whole world is clear: what belongs to the Philippines belongs to the Philippines," Aquino said in a speech at a naval base in Cavite province south of Manila. "We can fight back and defend ourselves every time somebody will threaten us right in our own home ground."

Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said the Philippines denounced the "provocative and illegal presence" of Beijing's ships off Ayungin Shoal in the South China Sea, adding the area is "an integral part of our national territory."

"The Philippines calls on China to respect sovereign rights and jurisdiction," he said.

Chinese diplomats did not immediately react to the protest, which Hernandez said was filed two weeks ago at the Chinese Embassy in Manila.

The shoal, 196 kilometers (122 miles) from the southwestern Philippine province of Palawan, is guarded by a Filipino marine unit based in a rusty warship that ran aground on a coral outcrop several years ago. The shoal lies near Mischief Reef, which the Philippines has claimed but was occupied by China in 1995, sparking intense protests from Manila.

By allowing fishermen in several boats to fish off the shoal, China has violated the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, which grants coastal states exclusive right to exploit marine resources in waters within 370 kilometers (200 nautical miles) of their coast, Hernandez said.

It's the latest territorial rift between the Asian countries, which also are locked in other long-simmering disputes in the South China Sea. Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim parts of the Spratlys, a chain of islands, islets and reefs.

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said another protest might be lodged if authorities confirm that two ships which chased a Philippine official's ferry boat last week near Ayungin Shoal were Chinese government vessels.

Eugenio Bito-onon, mayor of a chain of Philippine-occupied islands in the Spratlys, said he was traveling with 178 crewmen and companions on a boat to Palawan at night last week when two unidentified ships chased them away from Ayungin. The ships focused spotlights on Bito-onon's boat, preventing him and his companions from identifying the vessels, he said.

He said a suspected Chinese warship also cut through his four-boat convoy twice last October while he and his staff were traveling to a Philippine-occupied island in the Spratlys. He said he took pictures and video of the gray ship, its hull marked with the number 995, and reported the incident to the military.

Art Katz: The Time of Jacob's Trouble: Endtime Bible Prophecy

Israel ex-spy warns against "messianic" war on Iran

Story Source Reuters







Former Israeli Spymaster Yuval Diskin Warns Against Attacking Iran

A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program and "messianic" in the strongest criticism from a security veteran of threats to launch a pre-emptive war.

Other veterans have come out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak.

But the censure from Yuval Diskin, who retired as head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service last year, was especially strong and unusual in using the language of religious fervor that Israelis associate with Islamist foes.

"I have no faith in the prime minister, nor in the defence minister," Diskin said in remarks broadcast by Israeli media on Saturday. "I really don't have faith in a leadership that makes decisions out of messianic feelings."

The Prime Minister's Office and Defence Ministry had no immediate response to Diskin's remarks. But Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman rebuked Diskin and questioned his motives.

The catastrophic terms with which Netanyahu and Barak describe the prospect of a nuclear-armedIran have stirred concern in Israel and abroad of a possible strike against its uranium enrichment program. Iran says the project is entirely peaceful and has promised wide-ranging reprisals for any attack.

World powers, sharing Israeli suspicions Iran has a covert bomb-making plan, are trying to curb it through sanctions and negotiations. Those talks resume in Baghdad next month, but Barak on Thursday rated their chance of succeeding as low.

Although Israel has long threatened a pre-emptive strike if diplomacy fails, some experts believe that could be a bluff to keep up pressure on the Iranians, making it harder to interpret the swirl of comments from the security establishment.

In a commentary on Diskin's remarks, Amos Harel of the liberal newspaper Haaretz wrote that the temperature was rising ahead of the nuclear talks.

"Nothing has been determined in the Iranian story, and the spring is about to boil over into another summer of tension," he wrote.

FALSE IMPRESSION

Diskin spoke days after Israel's top military commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, told Haaretz he viewed Iran as "very rational" and unlikely to build a bomb, comments that apparently undermined the case for a strike.

The former Shin Bet chief was specifically damning of Netanyahu and Barak, who have often crafted strategy alone and whose rapport dates back four decades to when they served together in a top-secret commando unit.

"They're creating a false impression about the Iranian issue," Diskin told a private gathering on Friday, where the comments were recorded. "They're appealing to the stupid public, if you'll pardon me for the phrasing, and telling them that if Israel acts, there won't be an (Iranian) nuclear bomb."

Diskin said he was not necessarily opposed to an attack on Iran, though he cited experts who argue this risked backfiring by accelerating its nuclear program.

Netanyahu's former Mossad foreign intelligence director, Meir Dagan, last year also ridiculed the Israeli war option.

Diskin went a step further by saying that Netanyahu and Barak were not up to the job of opening an unprecedented front with Iran and, potentially, with its allies on Israel's borders.

Netanyahu is a second-term premier with solid public approval ratings and a broad conservative coalition. Barak, a former prime minister, is Israel's most decorated soldier.

"I have seen them up close," Diskin said. "They are not messiahs, the two of them, and they are not people who I personally, at least, trust to be able to lead Israel into an event on such a scale, and to extricate it."

Foreign Minister Lieberman said questions such as how and if to tackle Iran "are not made by the prime minister and defence minister. They are usually made in the security cabinet or cabinet."

Lieberman suggested to Israel's Channel Two television that Diskin might be angry at being passed over for the job as head of the Mossad.

Islamic Terrorist Group Partner with Mexican Drug Cartels

I was in Kingston, Jamacica on a ministry trip in September of 2002 when the Holy Spirit told me that   Islamic Terrorist groups would go to Mexico.  Their goal would be to pose a threat to the United State borders.  I did not hear from the Lord again regarding this matter until August of 2007 during an unlikely time.  Believe it not, I was on my honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  The Spirit of the Lord came to me strongly with the same word: an Islamic Terrorist group was coming to Mexico. 

Since that time, that prophetic word has been confirmed.  As it turns out, the Hezbollah Terrorist Group partnered with Mexican Drug cartels to form an alliance.  Hezbollah has established operations and a large stockpile of weapons in Mexico. Hezbollah's mission is to establish a strong terrorist network in regions of Mexico and South America. 

Needless to say, the relationship formed between Hezbollah and the various Mexican drug cartels is dangerous but predictably, mutually beneficial.   Hezbollah's goal is to bring terrorism and destruction to American soil.  The cartels weaken the boarders through their mayhem and lawlessness, allowing Hezbollah to do just that.   On the other hand, the cartels benefit because Hezbollah offers expertise in weapons and smuggling and cheaper access to heroin from Afghanistan and Iran. The following is a Fox News video report from July of 2011.  It describes a memo from theTuscon police department regarding Hezbollah partnering with Mexican Drug Cartels. 

    

Who is Hezbollah?

Hezbollah is a Lebanese miltitant Shiite Islamic group headquartered in Lebanon.  In the 1980's, it was partly founded and continues to be supported by Iran.  The very name Hezbollah means "Party of God ."  The Shiite group in Lebanon ia also a part of a bigger group referred to as "Twelvers."  Twelvers represent 85% of Shiites in Islam and believe that 12th Imam  ( or Islamic Messiah) will arise in the middle turmoil and chaos to revive Islam to it's former glory.  They also believe that the Mahdi/Imam will establish Islam as the global religion, and will reign for seven years before bringing about the end of the world.    

Before September 11, 2001, Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths by acts of terrorism than any other terrorist organization...even al-Qaeda.  Hezbollah's main objective is to bring destruction to the nation of Isreal and anyone who gives them assistance.  The United States is one of Israel's allies and therefore one of Hezbollah's  four major enemies   .

Potential Future

Twelvers believe that Israel and America are "Little Satan" and "Great Satan" respectively and that both must be attacked in order for the Mahdi, otherwise known as the guided one or Islamic Messiah, to arrive on the world scene in order to fulfill Islamic prophecy.    

Hezbollah sitting right at the borders of American and allied with the Mexican drug cartels is a dangerous mix of potential horrific attacks of terrorism on American soil.  Not only does Hezbollah have a growing presence in Mexico, but throughout Latin America.  They are aided by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (here, here).  Although terrorism is sitting at America's back door, most Americans truly believe that terrorism could never happen in United States again because al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in May of this year.
Some believe that killing one of the most influential leaders of terrorism would make some believe that the war on terrorism is won.  But nothing has been won. You can't kill the spirit behind Islam and you can't kill the ideology of Islam.  Terrorism is not about Muslim extremists carrying out terrorist acts against their enemies, its all about Orthodox Muslims carrying out jihad against non-believers and enemies of Islam.  The ideology of Islam is solely based on executing violence to all the infidels/non-believers of Islam through jihad (here, here, here).

If the American government actually believes that they can negotiate with Islamic Shiite Twelvers, they have another thing coming.  Muslims exalt the Koran and its prophecies over everything. They believe that in  Quran 2:190  the Koran requires them to defend Islam to its fullest and this in turn justifies an attack on Israel and America.

In 2007 President Felipe Calderon met with former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami in Mexico City to discuss developing cultural bonds between the Islamic and the west (here). Since that meeting,  Iran has aggressively attempted to develop closer political and economic ties to Mexico.   In turn, Iran has already developed a presence within Latin America and close ties to Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a close relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has a tremendous hatred of the United States of America.  If Mexico were to continue to grow economic, political and military ties with Iran, Iran would pose a great threat to the United States borders and national security.

Americas Future

As it stands now America needs to repent from all of its violence, witchcraft, sexual immorality, and gross sins and abomination.  It is just like previous great nations that entered into pride, tremendous amount of iniquity running wild. They were judged and therefore, lost their place in the earth.  Our nation is in the need of prayer and revival.   Many American church prophets prophesy prosperity and blessings.  They help you live a wonderful life now while feeding their followers lies and divinations.  They need to tell people to repent because judgement is coming to those that have align themselves against the Lord Jesus Christ. We are seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled right before our eyes.  We are living in the last days.  If you have been intoxicated by the world system, it is time to wake-up from spiritual sleep, and become sober and vigilant.  For this is not the hour not to be playing games with your soul's salvation.

Proverbs 14:34 says, "Righteousness exalts a nation: sin is a reproach to any people."

Psalm 9:17 says, "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."

Matthew 24:6-8 says, " And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."