"Hold thy peace, and come out of him"

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Mar 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Mar 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

"the days of his ministration were accomplished" - On Syria in Battle

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On Syria in Battle

If the US could overwhelm Russia, Iran, China, and other parties concerned, the civil war in Syria must have been ended.

But some observers think that even the Vatican, other Churches, Judaists in Russia and Iran do not want the US to exercise its military power on Syria.  So, the situation in Syria doesn't change.  And Israel will not push the US to taking decisive military operation as long as it is safe.  

But this relative decline in the US influence can be understood more clearly on the religious facet of the US.

OCTOBER 08, 2013
The Cape of Good Hope
Russia, Syria and the Decline of American Hegemony
by ISRAEL SHAMIR
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The Russian rebellion against the US hegemony began in June, when the Aeroflot flight from Beijing carrying Ed Snowden landed in Moscow. Americans pushed every button they could think of to get him back. They activated the full spectre of their agents in Russia. Only a few voices, including that of yours truly, called on Russia to provide Snowden with safe refuge, but our voices prevailed. Despite the US pressure, Snowden was granted asylum.

The next step was the Syrian escalation. I do not want to go into the details of the alleged chemical attack. In the Russian view, there was not and could not be any reason for the US to act unilaterally in Syria or anywhere else. In a way, the Russians have restored the Law of Nations to its old revered place. The world has become a better and safer place.

None of this could’ve been achieved without the support of China. The Asian giant considers Russia its “elder sister” and relies upon her ability to deal with the round-eyes. The Chinese, in their quiet and unassuming way, played along with Putin. They passed Snowden to Moscow. They vetoed anti-Syrian drafts in the UNSC, and sent their warships to the Med. That is why Putin stood the ground not only for Russia, but for the whole mass of Eurasia.

The Church was supportive of Putin’s efforts; not only the Russian Church, but both Catholics and Orthodox were united in their opposition to the pending US campaign for the US-supported rebels that massacred Christians. The Pope appealed to Putin as to a defender of the Church; so did the churches of Jerusalem and Antioch. The Pope almost threatened to excommunicate Hollande, and the veiled threat impressed the French president. So Putin enjoyed support and blessing of the Orthodox Patriarchs and of the Pope: such double blessing is an extremely rare occasion.

There were many exciting and thrilling moments in the Syrian saga, enough to fill volumes. An early attempt to subdue Putin at the G8 meeting in Ireland was one of them. Putin was about to meet with the united front of the West, but he managed to turn some of them to his side, and he sowed the seeds of doubt in others’ hearts by reminding them of the Syrian rebel human flesh-eating chieftains.

The proposal to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons was deftly introduced; the UNSC resolution blocked the possibility of attacking Syria under cover of Chapter Seven. Miraculously, the Russians won in this mighty tug-of-war. The alternative was dire: Syria would be destroyed as Libya was; a subsequent Israeli-American attack on Iran was unavoidable; Oriental Christianity would lose its cradle; Europe would be flooded by millions of refugees; Russia would be proven irrelevant, all talk and no action, as important as Bolivia, whose President’s plane can be grounded and searched at will. Unable to defend its allies, unable to stand its ground, Russia would’ve been left with a ‘moral victory’, a euphemism for defeat. Everything Putin has worked for in 13 years at the helm would’ve been lost; Russia would be back to where it was in 1999, when Clinton bombed Belgrade.
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In the aftermath of the Syrian stand-off, Obama appealed to the people of the world in the name of American exceptionalism. The United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional,” he said. Putin responded: “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.” This was not only an ideological, but theological contradistinction.

As I expounded at length elsewhere, the US is built on the theology of exceptionalism, of being Chosen. It is the country of Old Testament. This is the deeper reason for the US and Israel’s special relationship. Europe is going through a stage of apostasy and rejection of Christ, while Russia remains deeply Christian. Its churches are full, they bless one other with Christmas and Easter blessings, instead of neutral “seasons”. Russia is a New Testament country. And rejection of exceptionalism, of chosenness is the underlying tenet of Christianity.

For this reason, while organized US Jewry supported the war, condemned Assad and called for US intervention, the Jewish community of Russia, a quite numerous, wealthy and influential one, did not support the Syrian rebels but rather stood by Putin’s effort to preserve peace in Syria. Ditto Iran, where the wealthy Jewish community supported the legitimate government in Syria. It appears that countries guided by a strong established church are immune from disruptive influence of lobbies; while countries without such a church – the US and/or France – give in to such influences and adopt illegal interventionism as a norm.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/11/02/russia-syria-decline-american-hegemony-israel-shamir/

However, the situation might be very simple for Israel.  It is Syrians that are now being wounded and killed whether on the regime side or the insurgent side.  Israel gets relatively safer.  If the Syrian Government and its military strength should become weaker after this Civil War, it serves the purpose of Israel.  Israel is waiting to see how this civil war in Syria will be finished.  Presently, there is a less possibility that Israel will have to face the more formidable anti-Israeli government in Syria in future.  Israel must think that  it is in position of vantage.  

Military Threats to Israel:Syria
(Updated October 2013)

Syria is one of Israel’s principal immediate military threats. Syria's primary military objective following Israel's independence in 1948 had been the destruction of the Jewish State, however the IDF has defeated the Syrian army in every major military engagement since. Today, rather than use direct confrontations, Syria funds and arms terrorist organizations (primarily Hamas and Hezbollah) as proxies to attack Israel. Meanwhile, the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad continues to develop ballistic missile systems and weapons of mass destruction.

Since 2008, Syria has spent more than $3 billion on weapons procurement and development, up from less than $100 million in 2002. Syria also reportedly received $1 billion from Iran in late 2007 to buy surface-to-surface missiles, rockets, anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft systems. “Iran and Syria share the same viewpoint regarding regional issues and efforts will be made to strengthen our shared interests and bilateral relations," said Hassan Turkmani, Syrian Defense Minister, who was dispatched to Tehran after Iranian officials condemned the resumption of negotiations with Israel in 2008.
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In August 2013, as intelligence agencies reported that Assad's forces were using chemical weapons against the rebels, the specter of conflict spilling over into Israel became much more pronounced.  As U.S. President Barack Obama considered a strike on Syria, Assad's allies in Iran made sure Israel knew it would be targeted in any conflict. "No military attack will be waged against Syria,"  Director-General of the parliament for International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam said in late August. "Yet, if such an incident takes place, which is impossible, the Zionist regime will be the first victim of a military attack on Syria." Khalaf Muftah, a senior Baath Party official who used to serve as Syria’s assistant information minister, echoed Sheikholeslam's statement: "[Israel] is behind the [Western] aggression and [it] will therefore come under fire ... We have strategic weapons and we're capable of responding. Normally the strategic weapons are aimed at Israel."

As of August 2013, the approximate breakdown for Syria's conventional forces was as follows:

Infantry: 304,000 Active; 315,000 Reserve. Armor: 4,800 tanks; 5,060 APC's. Air Force: 490 planes; 225 combat helicopters. Navy: 35 warships; 0 submarines.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Threats_to_Israel/Syria.html

There might have been a war between Israel and Syria.  Then many Syrians must have been killed by Israel using advanced weapons.  But should Israel kill 120,000 Syrians in such a case, while the same number of people have been killed in Syria since the start of the domestic armed conflicts originally riding on the Arab Spring?

Israel is paying new attention to areas like this in the long-quiet Golan Heights, where a border with Syria has led to concerns about the spillover of unrest there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/world/middleeast/syrias-unrest-puts-israelis-on-alert.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0



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Luk 1:23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
Luk 1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
Luk 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

"spoken of the Lord by the prophet" - Global Warming and Dow Jones Average

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Global Warming and Dow Jones Average

Ranking of average yearly temperatures since 1880 is as follows:

No..................YEAR.................Global Average Temp. (Celsius)   

1....................2010.....................14.56

2...................2005......................14.55

3...................1998......................14.53

4...................2013......................14.52

4...................2003......................14.52

6...................2002......................14.51

7...................2006......................14.50

8...................2009......................14.49

8...................2007......................14.49

10................2004......................14.47

10................2012......................14.47

The shift of the temperature level along years is as follows:


Higher......................................2005

Very High.............2003...........................................................2013

High...............2002.......................2006

Low..............................2004..............2007......2009......2012

Lower......2001..........................................2008.......2011


But what happened in those years marking a higher temperature over a year?

1998:  One year after the mysterious death of Princess Diana and one year before the mysterious death of JFK Jr.

2005:  The next year of the Great Sumatra Earthquake/Tsunami and the year that Pope John Paul II died.

2010:  One year before the 3.11 East-Japan Great Tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident.


And these year roughly matche the years when the New York stock index marked a remarkable jump, respectively.  

If this global warming is caused by CO2, it indicates that human desire for wealth has contributed to this temperature rise, since CO2 is an output from material civilization being driven by worldly desire of human beings.  So, the above figure sows a reasonable relationship between the N.Y. stock price level and the driving level of global warming.

Put simply, if mankind stops increasing their avarice, the concentration of CO2 in the air will decrease and the global temperature will drop, accordingly.

So it has become clear that it is a choice between only two things.  And we can check an  on-going state by observing the global temperature and the Dow Jones Average, so simply.





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Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Mat 1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Mat 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

"Art thou that prophet?" - Heaven in the Gospel

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Heaven in the Gospel

When I thought that God is omniscient, omnipresent, and almighty, I stopped thinking about contents of religions.

A religion might tell us 100 million truths, facts, theories, and items, but God can even hint a higher level of knowledge and thinking where we can find one trillion times more truths, facts, theories, and items that what any religion in this world can teach us.

In other word, when a religion guides us to the summit of Mt. Everest, God will simply take us to the moon and further to Mars.  So, I decided to just look up at the moon instead of reading tens, hundreds, or thousands of religious books.

Ability and capacity of God are infinite.   It is beyond our ability and capacity.  

So, from this consideration, we can get one conclusion.  What does God want us to do, if He does not expect us to fully understand Him and His work?

One of the answers must be that He wants us to enter Heaven but not to fall into the hell.

And, Christ Jesus gave us interesting hints about Heaven.

Mark 1:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Mark 6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

Mark 7:34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

Mark 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Mark 11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Mark 11:30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
Mark 11:31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?


Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

Mark 13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.


Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.


Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Mark 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.


Mark 14:62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.


Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

Put simply, if we love God, we should love to go to Heaven by any means since God is in Heaven.  And if we don't love God and observe teaching of God, we would not mind Heaven.  Accordingly, Christ Jesus must have tried to make people love God before teach them things about Heaven.

So, I think that Christ Jesus talked about Heaven in far less times than leaders of other religions or authors of creeds of other religions, including some faction of Buddhists.

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/god-the-creator/images/10347408/title/stairway-heaven-wallpaper

Buddhism teaches that the Buddhist paradise is a place one can ascend to if he should become completely clean leaving the world full of uncleanness, impurity, desire, and worldly passions.  If one reaches Nirvana, the paradise, he or she will never be born again in this world as a man, an insect, or whatever creature that lives and dies.



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Joh 1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
Joh 1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
Joh 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Joh 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
Joh 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

"Wisdom crieth without" - Global Food Balance

Japanese Art of Archery Practiced by Female High-School Students

Global Food Balance

The global state of import and export of foods is as follows as of 2003:


Region/Nation............Export............................Import

JAPAN.........................0.3 million tons............24.36 million tons

China...........................1.33....................................84.5

South East Asia.......1.04....................................30.18

Africa.........................4.33.................................57.14

US.............................106.91................................5.79

Australia...................19.55..................................0.12

Brazil........................64.5...................................8.6

EU.............................28.08................................25.8

Russia ....................18.55................................1.65


The total amount of import of foods in Japan, China, South East Asia, and Africa is 196.18 million tons.

The total amount of export of foods from the US, Australia, and Brazil is 190.96 million tons.

There is a balance between total import and total export in above figures.

If this balance is lost, Russia might make up for it to a certain degree, but other European countries than EU members might further rely on Russia in their acquisition of foods.

Now CO2 is causing global warming, but it is not a primary source of heat.  In winter when the sun, the major source of heat, provides less energy on the half part of the earth at issue, CO2 cannot provide heat to the winter part.

Put extremely, the mechanism causing global cooling or a mini ice age has almost nothing or little to do with concentration of CO2.  The earth gets into the phase of global cooling with or without CO2  At least, till CO2 becomes extremely abundant in the air over a certain degree, it will not stop the effect of global cooling caused by other factors of the earth.  

So, the winter becomes cooler while the summer is hot due to higher concentration of CO2 in the air.  The world seems to be in this state now.

The point at issue is that the progress of hidden global cooling, if any, might cause more unstable condition of the climate.  It might result in a great famine and a huge shortage of foods.

So far as now, we have to only hope that the US, Australia, and Brazil can cope with this climate crisis.

The Pacific Ocean has a warm temperature mode and a cool temperature mode, and in the past century, has switched back forth between these two modes every 25-30 years (known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO). In 1977 the Pacific abruptly shifted from its cool mode (where it had been since about 1945) into its warm mode, and this initiated global warming from 1977 to 1998. The correlation between the PDO and global climate is well established. The announcement by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) had shifted to its cool phase is right on schedule as predicted by past climate and PDO changes (Easterbrook, 2001, 2006, 2007). The PDO typically lasts 25-30 years and assures North America of cool, wetter climates during its cool phases and warmer, drier climates during its warm phases. The establishment of the cool PDO, together with similar cooling of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), virtually assures several decades of global cooling and the end of the past 30-year warm phase.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783





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Pro 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Pro 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Pro 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pro 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.