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5/13/2018 7:16:49 PM

End of the world: Christians believe THESE are the signs of the apocalypse

THE end of the world is upon us and there are countless signs that point to the apocalypse, according to militant Christians.

By SEAN MARTIN

PUBLISHED: 17:39, Fri, May 11, 2018 | UPDATED: 19:12, Fri, May 11, 2018

Some followers of the Bible have been keeping track of world events and believe a lot is occurring now which would suggest that the end of the world is near.

The most obvious sign for Christian conspiracy theorists is the seemingly imminent war between Iran and Israel.

Christians tout Israel as the Holy Land and an attack on that is an attack on God, they believe.

Website Signposts of the Times points to Ezekiel 38/39 which reads: “After many days you will be called to arms.

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End of the world: Christians believe THESE are the signs of the apocalypse

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Tensions between Israel and Iran continue to mount

“In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate.

“When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Another sign according to the website is the news that French President Emmanuel Macron has called on countries, including Britain, to sign up for his 10-nation defence coalition with EU member states.

Signposts of the Times says: “We are told specifically in Revelation 17 of a group of 10 Kings/Kingdoms that will rise during the time of the Antichrist and in Daniel 12 we are told that these armies will ultimately march into the Middle-East and specifically, into Israel.

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Macron has called on a 10-nation army

“And what to make of the next news story which reports on the Pope and his work to bring groups together from the Middle-East to 'help bring peace to the region'?

“Of course the bible tells us 'blessed are the peace-makers’, (Matthew 5:9), but it also warns that when all begin to say ‘peace and safety, there will be sudden destruction’.”

The website fails to give a date on when the world will end but other conspiracy theorists believe that it began last year and will be completed in 2025.

Christian conspiracy theory sited Unsealed writes: “Looking now in the rear-view mirror we can see that the Great Sign occurred on September 23–24, 2017 in immediate or close proximity to the Feast of Trumpets.

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“But looking forward, I've learned something quite interesting: in 2025 the Feast of Trumpets falls precisely on September 23rd on both the Hebrew calendar and the more accurate Torah Calendar.

“The final eclipse lands on April 8, 2024 and just five weeks later, on Israel's 76th birthday, a sign forms in the sky that might signal the beginning of the final segment of Daniel's 70th Week—seven angels in Heaven pouring out seven vials of wrath upon the earth.

“We speculated this might take only several months, but perhaps this final judgment takes a little over a year, ending in the Fall of 2025.”

(express.co.uk)

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/14/2018 8:44:24 PM
	DEA Knowingly Gave Addicts and Drug Dealers Licenses to Prescribe Opioids— Fueling the Epidemic Drug dealers, drug addicts, convicted felons and the deceased are among the thousands of individuals who have been given licenses to prescribe opioids by the DEA. By Jack Burns - May 13, 2018 As thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses, an independent investigation into the Drug Enforcement Agency’s conduct has found that it has been issuing controlled substance licenses to drug dealers, drug addicts, convicted felons and dead people, which is just one of the many things that have fueled the current crisis. The investigation, which was conducted by the Daily Caller, noted that in 2006, only 510,000 individuals and organizations held controlled substance licenses. As of March 2018, that number had increased drastically to 1.7 million licenses. According to the report: One dentist, for example, admitted to helping “an outlaw motorcycle gang” manufacture methamphetamine in the early 2000s, which resulted in two years of jail time, a DEA document said. He’d previously been caught with meth several times and admitted to “a history of substance abuse with alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamine and cocaine. That same dentist was given a license to prescribe controlled substances in 2012. A doctor was also given a license, in 2009, even though he had previously had a run-in with the DEA when he was caught distributing cocaine. A doctor was caught distributing cocaine in 1981 but wasn’t prosecuted because he cooperated with authorities, another DEA document shows. He was arrested again in 2001 with cocaine and two prescription drugs — an opioid and a minor tranquilizer — and pleaded guilty to related charges in 2003. While the total number of DEA licensed providers exceeds 1.4 million people, it appears as though the agency is not doing its due diligence when it comes to regulating how opiates are being diverted from distributors directly to the street-corner drug dealers. The Office of Diversion Control, as it’s known, is the DEA department that is tasked with policing when opiates are being diverted from legitimate uses to nefarious ones. The pipeline runs from the pharmaceutical company’s production line, through distributors into pharmacies and further down to drug dealers. But it seems as though they are not doing their job. The investigation found that licenses are also held by both people who have died and people who are in prison: More than 760 people of the then-1.4 million registered with the DEA “were potentially ineligible” for licenses because the Social Security Administration reported them as dead, they did not have state-level permission to prescribe or distribute controlled substances or “were incarcerated for felony offenses related to controlled substances.” Some of the DEA’s license holders did not even provide a social security number making it impossible to conduct a background check prior to the license being issued. …nearly 700 Social Security numbers in the DEA’s database were registered to multiple names or variations of names, “which can be a risk indicator of potential fraud,” the report showed. Instead of supplying the required social security number, some applicants listed an employer identification number: Another nearly 42,000 entries in the DEA’s database listed an employer identification number rather than a Social Security number, the GAO found, which makes it more difficult to conduct background checks and prevent fraudulent identities. It is not as if the DEA is underfunded and cannot police the pharmaceutical industry or even its own licensing loopholes. In 2013, the agency took in $328 million in licensing fees. There is more than enough money to hire agents and investigators to oversee the distribution and diversion crimes being committed. But according to last year’s former DEA Office of Diversion Control executives, who blew the whistle in an explosive report, little to nothing is being done. As the whistleblowers allege, Big Pharma is writing policy for the DEA to protect its distribution network. Not only has Big Pharma placed its lawyers within the agency, but former DEA agents now work for Big Pharma in an incestuous pool that is controlling the opiate supply chain. Joe Rannazzisi, former head of the Office of Diversion Control for the DEA, uncovered how one West Virginia town of 3,000 people had been shipped 21 million opioid pills but was stymied into not being able to do anything about it. “This is an industry that’s out of control. What they wanna do, is do what they wanna do, and not worry about what the law is,” Rannazzisi told 60 Minutes. “And if they don’t follow the law in the drug supply, people die. That’s just it. People die. This is an industry that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors’ offices that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs.” After Rannazzisi exposed the diversion pipeline in West Virginia, as well as other diversion hot spots, the former DEA executive said Congress passed a law making it nearly impossible for anyone to do anything about it. It is called the “Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act,” which was passed in 2016 and signed into law. He said top DEA officials, along with Big Pharma lobbyists, helped draft the law—further shielding their profits from DEA fines for diversion infractions. “The new law makes it virtually impossible for the DEA to freeze suspicious narcotic shipments from the companies,” Rannazzisi said. Rannazzisi resigned shortly after the law’s passage but he did not stay silent. Unfortunately, it is now up to the American people to take on the opioid crisis head-on. The will of the people must be changed in order for Big Pharma’s death grip over the population to be released. The only hope, it seems, for people to end their addiction to opiates lies, ironically, in another substance the DEA has classified as more harmful than opiates—Marijuana. As The Free Thought Project has reported, doctors in Boston have over an 80 percent success rateending opiate and heroin addiction using concentrated forms of cannabis. Until cannabis is made legal nationwide, opiate-addicted Americans will continue to seek out their drugs, which the DEA is all too complicit in supplying. (thefreethoughtproject.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/14/2018 9:07:03 PM
	12-year-old boy with autism arrested for brandishing imaginary rifle at Texas school BY JOHN W. YELLAND THURSDAY, MAY 10TH 2018 12-year-old boy arrested for brandishing imaginary rifle. (Photo: MGN) (KUTV) — A 12-year-old autistic boy was placed in a Juvenile Detention Center on Monday after brandishing an imaginary rifle at his art teacher, FOX 26 reports. The 5th grade teacher reportedly felt threatened by the child, identified as David Sims, who was arrested by a school police officer. "She (the officer) just put handcuffs on me and told me I need to go with her," Sims said. "They just said, 'We don't tolerate that. We take it as a threat,'" said Amy Sims, the boy's mother. "A threat? He didn't threaten anyone. He didn't do anything but play." Amy Sims was not informed of the incident until her son was already in custody, FOX 26 reports. The mother states that because of her son's condition, he does not understand that "make believe" gunplay on school grounds has become a sensitive matter. "Being put in handcuffs, not knowing what he did wrong, I could have had a talk with him and told him, 'Look, I know you like to play guns, but you can't do it in school,'" Amy Sims said. David Sims was brought to a Juvenile Detention Center, where he remained for over two hours. Because of the boy's age and disability, it is likely that criminal charges can be avoided, according to Montgomery County Attorney J.D. Lambright. "We want to get them turned around and on the right path," Lambright said, as reported by FOX 26. According to Lambright, Sims reportedly made a verbal threat before brandishing the imaginary rifle, and this has allegedly happened in class before. According to Lambright, this latest incident at Bozman Intermediate School is but the most recent in a slew of concerning outbursts from students in schools from all around his jurisdiction. "Right after the Florida incident we were getting two a day, three a day and it wasn't isolated to any particular school," Lambright said. "We have six school districts in Montgomery County and they were coming in across the country." The Conroe Independent School District refused to comment on specifics about the arrest of David Sims, FOX 26 reports. However, the school district did provide a statement to FOX 26 saying, "Situations involving students with special needs are responded to consideration for each unique need." Amy Sims disagrees — she feels her son is being discriminated against. "Because he's disabled," she said, "they automatically think he's got something mental, so he might go shoot up a school." The Sims family told FOX 26 that Conroe ISD informed them that for the rest of the spring semester, David Sims is required to attend an alternative disciplinary school. (fox28media.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/14/2018 11:01:03 PM
	Indonesia church attackers 'used children as suicide bombers' Published time: 13 May, 2018 02:03 Edited time: 14 May, 2018 03:12 Motorcycles burn following a blast at the Pentecost Church Central Surabaya (GPPS), in Surabaya , East Java, Indonesia May 13, 2018 © Antara Foto Agency / Reuters At least 13 people have been killed in three seemingly coordinated suicide bombings that hit churches in the second-largest city of Indonesia, police said. Islamic state (IS, formerly ISIS) has claimed responsibility. The suicide bombers are all members of one family, including teens and children, according to Indonesian police. The Indonesian president said the terrorists used children as suicide bombers. Around 40 victims who were injured in the attacks were transported to hospital, East Java provincial police spokesman Colonel Frans Barung Mangera told reporters. Read more ISIS claims responsibility for killing 5 police officers in Indonesian prison riot The authorities said that the attacks were carried out by a local terrorist group linked to the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL). A spokesman for the country’s intelligence agency said that Jemaah Ansharut Daulah was behind the blasts. The group has pledged allegiance to ISIS mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The bombings are likely linked to a deadly riot in a high-security jail in Jakarta, which led to the death of five police officers and one inmate on Thursday, said Wawan Purwanto, the communication director at the intelligence agency, as reported by Metro TV. The failed prison break was claimed by IS, but authorities did not believe it was involved. Indonesian President Joko Widodo described the attacks as"barbaric". Speaking at a press briefing on Sunday, Widodo said he instructed police "to look into and break up networks of perpetrators." The three blasts hit on Sunday morning, within 10 minutes of each other, police said. They targeted the Santa Maria Catholic Church, the Protestant Indonesian Christian Church in Jalan Diponegoro and a Pentecostal church. Pentecostalism is a renewed movement within mainline Protestant Christianity. Christians constitute some 10 percent of the population of Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the world. There have been a number of extremist attacks on religious minorities in the country in recent years. (RT)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/14/2018 11:17:13 PM
	Israeli Army Kills 55 People, Injures Over 2,400 in ‘Terrible Massacre’ at Gaza Border May 14, 2018 at 8:14 am Written by Middle East Eye Update: At least 55 people killed at the Gaza border. (MEE) — At least 43 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday as thousands of Palestinians took to the streets across the occupied territory to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, with tensions running high in Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank. While the anniversary of Palestinians being driven from their land is typically commemorated on 15 May, large demonstrations are taking place the day before to accommodate the imminent start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and protest at the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem. High Security in Jerusalem US President Donald Trump’s decision to move the embassy last December has deeply angered Palestinians, who regard it as official US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and open support for the Israeli government, to the detriment of any peace negotiations. The status of Jerusalem has long been a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Palestinian Authority (PA) wants East Jerusalem to be its capital as part of a two-state solution, but Israel wants the whole city as its capital. The Nakba – or catastrophe – saw 750,000 Palestinians displaced from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Their descendants now number five million refugees, including more than two million in the occupied Palestinian territory alone, who have been calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and the right to return to their homeland. According to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, thousands of police officers were deployed in Jerusalem on Monday in anticipation of the embassy inauguration ceremony, which started at 4pm local time (1pm GMT). Nonetheless, Palestinian residents of the city demonstrated ahead of the ceremony. In Baten al-Hawa in the neighbourhood of Silwan – located just outside of the Old City – Palestinian protesters were met with force by the Israeli police. Israeli forces also prevented buses of demonstrators from leaving the Old City to head to the US embassy – located in the building that formerly hosted the US’ consulate. Deadly Day in Gaza Demonstrators in Gaza, who have been gathering for the the past six weeks as part of the “Great March of Return”, once again returned across the buffer zone near the fence separating the blockaded coastal territory from Israel. The Gaza Ministry of Health identified 15 of those killed as Anas Hamdan Qudeih, 12, Musab Youssef Abu Laila, 29, Ubeidah Salem Farhan, 30, Mohammed Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26, Izz al-Din Moussa al-Samak, 14, Izz al-Din Nahid al-Uweiti, 23, and Bilal Ahmad Abu Daqqa, 26, Jihad Mufid al-Farra, 30, Fadi Hassan Abu Salmi, 30, Ahmad Awadallah, 24, Mutasim Fawzi Abu Lowli 20, Mohammad Mahmoud Abdel Aal, Ahmad Fawzi al-Tatar, Ahmad Adek Moussa al-Shaar, 16, and Mohammed Abdel Rahman Alaa Meqdad. The other dead Palestinians were not immediately identified. The Israeli army meanwhile reported that it had killed at least three Palestinians in an airstrike near Rafah, claiming that they attempted to place an explosive device near the fence. At least 1,703 people have been wounded by Israeli forces across the territory by 3pm local time, according to the ministry. MEE correspondents on the ground in Gaza reported that Israeli forces stationed behind the fence have been heavily firing live bullets into crowds since the morning, in addition to small drones dropping tear gas canisters above the demonstrators. According to the ministry, Israeli forces have killed at least 90 Palestinians and wounded more than 11,000 since the beginning of the march on 30 March. The international community has denounced the army’s excessive use of force. Palestinians leaders, whether in the occupied territory or from the community of Palestinian citizens of Israel, accused the Israeli army of carrying out a “massacre” in Gaza. “A massacre is taking place against unarmed civilians in Gaza. What were [US Ambassador David] Friedman and [Jason] Greenblatt thinking about by choosing #Nakba70 for their shameful celebration of hate? Israeli government must be held accountable. Stop the massacre,” tweeted Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian lawmaker in Israel’s parliament. Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Joint List, which mainly represents Palestinian citizens of Israel, condemned a “bloodbath” while Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Israel was threatening Palestinian protesters with “killing and terrorism”. Amnesty International denounced the Israeli army’s violent repression of the Gaza protests as “an abhorrent violation of international law”. “This is another horrific example of the Israeli military using excessive force and live ammunition in a totally deplorable way,” the organisation said in a statement. “This is a violation of international standards, in some instances committing what appear to be wilful killings constituting war crimes.” West Bank Protests: ‘Jerusalem is More Than Just a City to Us’ Meanwhile, Palestinians demonstrated across the occupied West Bank on Monday, as at least 1,200 Israeli soldiers were reportedly deployed to counter the protests, using tear gas and sound grenades against protesters. Many Palestinians were arrested early on Monday morning ahead of demonstrations, according to local media, while several roads and village entrances were closed by Israeli forces to prevent Palestinians from joining demonstrations. In Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, protesters tried to cross the Qalandia military checkpoint but were met with force. A young man was shot in the village of Deir Nidham northwest of Ramallah. In the city of Hebron, violent confrontations broke out with the Israeli army forces in the area of Bab al-Zawiya. And in Bethlehem, hundreds marched from Nissan Square towards an Israeli military base located just north of the city, only to be met with tear gas and sound bombs. “We were marching peacefully – men, women, children, young people,” Sajida Allan, a 24-year-old demonstrator living in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, told MEE. “No one was even throwing stones. But just two minutes after we arrived outside the Israeli military base, the soldiers threw sound bombs and tear gas, forcing people to run away.” “We tried to avoid the gas because it was burning our eyes and hurting our chests,” she said. “They fired at us, but we were just trying to express ourselves and our frustrations with the 70 years of exile we have been living and the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem.” Allan expressed hope that more Palestinians would take to the streets on 15 May. “Jerusalem is more than just a city to us, it is a symbol of Palestine. We grew up hearing stories of Jerusalem as an Arab city, a Palestinian city, and as the future of our Palestinian state. And we protest so that it will remain this way.” The Israeli army also used tear gas near schools in Hebron city, as well as in the Bethlehem-area village of Tuqu, where students who were passing end-of-year exams sufffered from excessive tear gas inhalation. (Photo credit: MEE/Mohammed Asad) By Chloé Benoist / Republished with permission / Middle East Eye
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