Is Pope Francis an exorcist?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference reported Monday that it had surveyed exorcists, who agreed there was "no doubt" that Francis either performed an exorcism or a prayer to free the man from the devil. The Vatican was more cautious. In a statement Tuesday, it said Francis "didn't intend to perform any exorcism. But as he often does for the sick or suffering, he simply intended to pray for someone who was suffering who was presented to him." Fueling the speculation is Francis' obsession with Satan, a frequent subject of his homilies, and an apparent surge in demand for exorcisms among the faithful despite the irreverent treatment the rite often receives from Hollywood.

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JUDGE GOES OFF DEEP END TO SHUT UP CHRISTIANS

Suppression of speech fine if Muslims threaten violence

 A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message. The ruling from Judge Patrick J. Duggan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment of a lawsuit brought by a team of Christians who were badgered, bullied and targeted with garbage thrown by Muslims who disliked their message at last year’s Arab Fest in Dearborn, Mich.

 The violence developed at the 2012 events when Christian evangelists walking on public sidewalks surrounding the event while carrying signs with biblical messages were assaulted with stones, bottles and debris by attendees of the festival. The signs that brought on the attack included “Know the God of the Bible” and “Trust Jesus.”

 Several of the Christian demonstrators walked away bruised and bloodied from the attack. Ruben Israel, the leader of the group, pleaded with law enforcement officials to intervene so that the demonstration could continue peacefully. However, the officer refused and demanded the Christians leave the premises or face arrest for disorderly conduct. Shortly after, Israel contacted AFLC, which filed a federal lawsuit against Wayne County and several officials from the Wayne County sheriff’s office. AFLC charged that the officers failed to uphold their constitutional duty to protect the Christians.

Read More: http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/judge-lets-muslim-violence-silence-christians/

Iran recruits online for militants to fight Israel

An Iranian website associated with the revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei is using online posters and propaganda materials to recruit militants to fight "Salafists” and "Zionist dogs”. Appealing to the "pride of the young Iranians” and to their "revolutionary duty" to create "resistance cells”, these materials are helping to mobilize young Iranians to travel to Syria to fight against Israel in order to achieve “martyr” status.

Any Syrian military response to the Israeli attack, itself in response to Syrian weapons bound for Hezbollah, would obviously be in Iran’s interests. This sentiment was broadly acknowledged by the chairman of the Iranian Basij militia, Mohammadreza Naqdi, who, on May 7th, said, "With [Israel’s] attack against Syria, the victory of the global Islamic movement against Zionism and for the liberation of Jerusalem has been pushed forward by eight years."

 Why exactly the fight against Israel has been advanced by “eight years” remains a mystery, or more likely a rhetorical anomaly, but Naqdi did further elaborate on the ‘positives’, from an Iranian perspective, of Israel’s attack: "Anyone who feels pride will come to war against Israel. The media has a duty to inform the people."



Full Story: http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3541/iran_recruits_online_for_militants_to_fight_israel

Police Bar Jews from Temple Mount

Police barred Jews from entering the Temple Mount on Thursday, after Muslim groups threatened violence in the wake of a plan to bring Jewish children to visit the site. The plan, organized by groups encouraging Jewish visits to the Mount, was meant to be an educational program that would demonstrate rituals associated with the Temple, such as the bringing of bikurim ("First Fruits", the gift to the Temple brought on Shavuot).

 Over the past few days, chatter on Islamic web sites indicated that the groups would be met by rioters. Instead of seeking to defuse the situation or defend the groups of visiting children, police chose to capitulate to the threats, and announced that they were closing the Mount to all non-Moslems out of “concern for public safety.” The decision came only a little while before the tour was set to begin, at 8:30, and after dozens of children and their families – many coming from far distances – had already gathered at the Kotel.

Full Story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168039#.UZUjlKI3uE5

Counterpoint: The Fabricated Threat of Iran?

In the US and Israel, the so-called threat of Iran is depicted in the most apocalyptic terms. The discrepancy, however, between the hysteric mainstream Western discourse over Iran's ostensible nuclear weapons program and the findings of the rarely publicized authoritative reports by the Pentagon and US military intelligence, is telling.

The primary fear in Washington and Tel Aviv isn’t Iran’s purported nuclear program, but its deterrence capacity, its capability to deter the US and Israel from exercising military force in the region.

Read the Full Story: http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/15810/

Who are the Two Witnesses?

The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11 will not be the Jewish and the Gentile church. They will not be Moses and Elijah reincarnated. John the Baptist was not literally Elijah; yet Jesus said that he fulfilled the Elijah prophecy because he came in the spirit and power of Elijah. Likewise, the Two Witnesses will be two ordinary people that apparently come in the spirit and power of Moses and Elijah. These two prophets are almost certainly alive on this earth right now, and are being prepared by God for the ministry for which they have been ordained. The time for the revelation of the Antichrist and False Prophet is near. These two men will be Satan’s two witnesses. God has an answer for Satan’s master plan. He will present His Two Witnesses to the world. They will preach the full truth of God’s Word for three and one-half years. They will then die in Jerusalem. After 3 1/2 days, they will be resurrected and caught up into the sky. Yes, Satan’s messengers will deceive the world and corrupt the people of the world by his flatteries. But, the people who know their God shall be strong and do exploits!

As pressure for an “international” solution to the Middle East problem mounts with each passing bullet, let us consider what the prophecies forecast for the times just ahead.

A global leader will pave the way for Israel to build her Third Temple. Daily sacrifices in the temple will begin. There will be a war in heaven. Satan will be forbidden access to heaven and will no longer be able to function as the “accuser of the brethren.” When this happens, the Bible says that the global leader will walk into Israel’s temple, stop the sacrifices and claim to be Messiah and God. This event, called in the Bible the “abomination of desolation,” will trigger Satan’s 3 1/2 year war against the saints. This time of great tribulation is described in Revelation 13:5-7.

READ IRVIN BAXTERS ENTIRE ARTICLE:  http://www.endtime.com/blog/the-two-witnesses-who-are-they/

E-Verify’ A huge step toward a permission-slip society

“Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this mocking remark, Ronald Reagan dismissed a national ID proposal in 1981. In the 32 years since, Americans have rejected various forms of national ID. 
But now biometric national ID is back at America’s doorstep, and most Americans don’t even realize. 

Unless states refuse the hundreds of millions of dollars allocated by the bill for this purpose, which is highly unlikely, the Department of Homeland Security will have a national biometric identification database that includes every U.S. worker.




 Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/e-verifys-biometric-database-a-huge-step-toward-a-permission-slip-society/#ixzz2TNi8Ogem

Revelation 13:16-18 says,

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Nazi Concentration Camp – “My name is 174517… We will carry the tattoo on our arm until we die… It seems that this is the real, true initiation into the camp. Only by showing one’s number can one get bread and soup…”

E-Verify is "an Internet-based system operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA). E-Verify is currently free to employers and is available in all 50 states. E-Verify provides an automated link to federal databases to help employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers." It is currently a voluntary system. House bill H.R. 2885, however, would make it mandatory for all employers. The result is an even more intrusive National ID System than the REAL ID, against which DownsizeDC.org has successfully fought.

 The nominal intent of the bill is to crack down on illegal immigration, even though America has a shortage of unskilled labor and would be better served by broadening immigration law. And yet the victims of the bill will be innocent, law-abiding employers and employees. For instance . . . The Social Security Administration estimates 3.6 million Americans would have to visit an SSA field office each year in order to KEEP their jobs — one of them might be you! 73% of businesses employ 10 or fewer people, and it is unknown how many currently lack the resources and technology to implement E-Verify.

That's why a coalition of national and state pro-freedom, limited government, and Constitutional government organizations sent a letter to members of Congress explaining why H.R. 2885 must be opposed. Here is a digested version of the objections . . . This Act would require each American to ask permission from the Federal Government when hiring or being hired. It creates a de facto National Identification System that could grow to include biometrics such as fingerprints, DNA and/or iris scan. This is tantamount to an unconstitutional, warrantless search.

 It won't be long before employers will be required to verify whether employees are delinquent in the payment of federal, state, or local taxes, in compliance with child support or alimony decrees, on a terrorist watch list, or convicted, let alone accused of crime. Errors in the verification process will be practically immune from timely legal redress, and in 2009 (under a voluntary system) about 80,000 workers likely received erroneous findings from the system and may have lost their jobs. Despite the sales pitch of politicians, this bill doesn't protect employers from criminal prosecution should they employ an individual later proven to be in the U.S. illegally, or who has successfully assumed a fake or stolen identity.

 The loss of jobs will be staggering as employers substitute machinery for employees or outsource employment to avoid the vexations and costs of compliance, as will the loss of tax revenues as jobs go underground — just what we need in today's economy. It will create an unprecedented black market demand for fake identities coveted by those seeking employment, particularly for short-term jobs where illegal workers will be long-gone before there is any chance of detection. And will make it very difficult for law-abiding victims of identity theft to find work. Once again, this could be you.

Read the entire article: https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/e-verify/

IRAN AGENTS TRAINING TO STORM ISRAEL'S BORDER

Camps set up near Syrian capital to prep for guerrilla warfare

 TEL AVIV – The Iranian-backed Hezbollah is established training camps near the Syrian capital of Damascus to prepare for possible guerrilla warfare targeting Israel’s northern Golan Heights, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials. The officials said the camps are training Palestinian groups as well as special units connected to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Baath party for operations against Israel if such actions are green-lighted by Assad in the near future.

 The officials said that for the time being, Russia has urged Assad against taking any action targeting Israel. Assad is also being held back from widening the conflict with the Jewish state for the time being since his army has made great advances toward quelling the jihadist-led rebel insurgency targeting his regime.

If Israel Nuked Iran

In those first minutes, they'll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They'll just stand there. Soon, you'll notice that they are holding their arms out at a 45-degree angle. Your eyes will be drawn to their hands and you'll think you mind is playing tricks. But it won't be. Their fingers will start to resemble stalactites, seeming to melt toward the ground. And it won't be long until the screaming begins. Shrieking. Moaning. Tens of thousands of victims at once. They'll be standing amid a sea of shattered concrete and glass, a wasteland punctuated by the shells of buildings, orphaned walls, stairways leading nowhere. This could be Tehran, or what's left of it, just after an Israeli nuclear strike.


Its scenarios are staggering. An Israeli attack on the Iranian capital of Tehran using five 500-kiloton weapons would, the study estimates, kill seven million people—86% of the population—and leave close to 800,000 wounded. A strike with five 250-kiloton weapons would kill an estimated 5.6 million and injure 1.6 million, according to predictions made using an advanced software package designed to calculate mass casualties from a nuclear detonation.

 full story: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/nuclear-strike-tehran-israel

Biometric ID News

NIGERIA'S FUTURISTIC NATIONAL ID CARDS ARE ALSO DEBIT CARDS

MasterCard and the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission made the government debit card announcement at the World Economic Forum on Africa on Wednesday. 13 million combination government ID cards/debit cards will be rolled out over the next year; Nigeria has a population of approximately 167 million. The ID cards, which contain demographic and biometric data belonging to each Nigerian citizen encoded on a microchip, will be linked to bank accounts. When the cards are used at stores or kiosks, cashiers will be able to verify the buyer's identity using both the regular photo identification and the biometric chip-encoded information.

READ MORE HERE:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3009549/nigerias-futuristic-national-id-cards-are-also-debit-cards

Temple Mount Solution 'by Next Year?

As we know...future endtime events depend on the fact that the Temple will be rebuilt again.

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein stated Wednesday that the present state of affairs, in which MKs are prevented from visiting the Temple Mount, is a "very grave" matter, which he hopes will be solved in a year's time.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (NIV) [3] Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. [4] He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.  

Daniel 9:27 (NIV) [27] He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him".

The rebuilding of a third temple in Jerusalem will occur on the Temple Mount area. A Problem: Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque located on the Temple Mount. The Sanhedrin's peace initiative was launched on May 1, 2007. Jewish group devoted to rebuilding Temple in Jerusalem sent letters to all world leaders, including Arab ones, inviting them to take part in project, attend conference on Temple Mount in Israel. In the letter, the rabbis warn that the world is nearing a catastrophe, and write that the only way to bring peace among nations, states, and religions is by building a house for God, where Jews will worship, pray and offer up sacrifice, according to the vision of the prophets.

I believe the Jews will soon be allowed to rebuild a third temple on the Temple Mount. The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has spent approximately $27,000,000 on preparations for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. Most all the temple articles are completed, and the sacrificial altar is currently being built. The Jewish Sanhedrin, which was re-established in 2004 after a hiatus of 1,600 years, along with a prominent Muslim author, Adnan Oktar, are calling for the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple as the way to world peace and religious harmony.

http://www.prophecysigns.com/prophecy-sign-6/

The United States on Wednesday called for both Israel and the Palestinian Authority to exercise restraint amid tensions over a disturbance at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.

"We're concerned about the recent tensions surrounding the Temple Mount, Haram al-Sharif, including the detention today of the Grand Mufti," State Department deputy spokesman Patrick Ventrell, told reporters, according to AFP, using the Muslim name for the Temple Mount.

"We understand that he was released," he said. "But we urge all sides to respect the status quo of this holy site and to exercise restraint and refrain from provocative actions."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167866#.UYwU16I3uE4

Iran threatens Israel: Golan will be ‘Fatahland’

Will the latest attack allegedly carried out by Israel on the Syrian front awaken a military response from the Assad regime and its supporters?

On Wednesday, the Hezbollah-identified Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted Iranian officials who claimed that Iran received a message from the United States and Russia stating that the alleged Israeli airstrike was not an attempt to launch a war against Syria.

n the wake of reports that Israel attacked a shipment of "game changing" long range, surface-to-surface missiles intended forHezbollah in Syria Friday night, Ibrahim Amin al-Sayed, head of Hezbollah's political bureau, said that his organization "is ready to prevent Syria from falling into Tel Aviv and Washington's hands".

Al-Sayaed even admitted that Hezbollah operatives were active in Syria to protect Lebanese citizens "from the Israeli-American cooperation."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4375883,00.html

Hawking 'backs Israel boycott'

Stephen Hawking 'backs Israel boycott'

UK physicist reported to have withdrawn from upcoming Israeli conference in Jerusalem as part of an academic boycott.

British cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has announced his withdrawal from an Israeli conference in Jerusalem, prompting reports that he is supporting an academic boycott on the country. Hawking was due to appear at the conference, hosted by Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, but his name was recently dropped from the list of speakers.

 A statement on the website of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine said: "We understand that Professor Stephen Hawking has declined his invitation to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference, Facing Tomorrow 2013, due to take place in Jerusalem on 18-20 June. "This is his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there." Agencies reported that the University of Cambridge, where Hawking works, confirmed the statement had been approved by the professor.

Israel Maimon, chairman of the Israeli Presidential Conference, said on Wednesday that Hawking's decision was "outrageous and wrong". "The use of an academic boycott against Israel is outrageous and improper, particularly for those to whom the spirit of liberty is the basis of the human and academic mission," he said. "Israel is a democracy in which everyone can express their opinion, whatever it may be. A boycott decision is incompatible with open democratic discourse."