Look Up Fellowship "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near." Luke 21:28

Matthew 10:16 (KJV) Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Ephesians 5:11 (KJV) And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

April: Are We About To See The Fulfillment Of The Gog Magog War? (Part 1)

April: Are We About To See The Fulfillment Of The Gog Magog War? (Part 2)

May: 'Pakistani Taliban' Back In The News (Why It's Important)

June: 'False Flag' Narrative Almost Complete

June: Is A False Flag Event Imminent?

More War? Ahmadinejad Says Expects U.S. To Attack MidEast Soon

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run Press TV.

In an interview recorded on Monday, Ahmadinejad did not specify whether he thought Iran itself would be attacked nor did he say what intelligence led him to expect such a move.

The United States and Israel have refused to rule out military action against Iran's nuclear program which they fear could lead to it making a bomb, something Iran denies.

"They have decided to attack at least two countries in the region in the next three months," Ahmadinejad said in excerpts broadcast on the rolling news channel on Tuesday.

Israel, which refuses to confirm or deny the existence of its own nuclear arsenal, has a history of pre-emptive strikes against suspected nuclear targets. In 1981 it destroyed Iraq's only nuclear reactor and in 2007 bombed a suspect site in Syria.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran "the ultimate terrorist threat." His deputy, Moshe Yaalon, has said Israel had improved military capability which could be used against foes in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or Iran.

Ahmadinejad said Iran had "very precise information that the Americans have hatched a plot, according to which they to wage a psychological war against Iran."

He also criticized the U.S.-led drive for international sanctions to pressure Tehran over the nuclear issue.

Defense Department Can't Account For $8.7 Billion

BAGHDAD – The U.S. Defense Department is unable to properly account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money tapped by the U.S. for rebuilding the war ravaged nation, according to an audit released Tuesday.

The report by the U.S. Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction offers a compelling look at continued laxness in how such funds were being spent in a country where people complain basic services like electricity and clean water are sharply lacking seven years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

The audit found that shoddy record keeping by the Defense Department left the Pentagon unable to fully account for $8.7 billion it withdrew between 2004 and 2007 from a special fund set up by the U.N. Security Council. Of that amount, Pentagon "could not provide documentation to substantiate how it spent $2.6 billion."

The funds are separate from the $53 billion allocated by Congress for rebuilding Iraq.

1. In 2001, Dov was CEO of SPS International, part of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the notorious Flight Termination System (FTS) that could hijack even a hijacked plan and land or crash it wherever (World Trade Center Towers!?!).

2. Perhaps not coincidentally in May 2001, when Dov served at the Pentagon, it was an SPS (his firm's) subsidiary, Tridata Corporation, that oversaw the investigation of the first "terrorist" attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. This would have given them intimate knowledge of the security systems and structural blueprints of the World Trade Center. From the 1990s through 2001, WTC Security was handled by Securacom, a Kuwait-American firm, on whose board Marvin Bush, the President's brother, sat. After 9/11, Securacom was let go, changed its name to Stratosec, and was delisted from the Stock Exchange in 2002.

3. Mr. Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project For The New American Century's position paper, "Rebuilding America's Defenses", advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident (9/11!?!) to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations.

4. Mr. Zakheim's grandfather was born in 1870, Julius Zakheim (Zhabinka), in the Ukraine, a Russian Rabbi who married a relative of Karl Marx. He was a Menshevik/Bolshevik and played a leading role in the 1905 turmoil that paved the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

"...the second loss of $2.3 trillion was announced on September 10, 2001, by Donald Rumsfeld and the story was buried the next day under the rubble of 9/11."

Business Board: Close U.S. JFCOM, Freeze Hiring

An influential Pentagon advisory board is poised to recommend Defense Secretary Robert Gates close contractor-heavy U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and rid his office and the Joint Staff of redundant functions, moves that could save billions of dollars.

As part of work ordered by Gates under his war on overhead and inefficiencies, a Defense Business Board study group is urging him to also shutter its Networks and Information Integration directorate. NII, as it's known in the defense community, resides within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

The Defense Business Board task force also is recommending Gates initiate a hiring freeze for OSD, all Joint Staff directorates and all combatant commands.

Those recommendations are part of a set of preliminary recommendations the board unanimously approved July 22. The board expects to submit these initial findings to Gates soon in an informational memo, followed in October by a broader set of longer-term cost-cutting proposals.

The board also will advise Gates to seek to "eliminate organizational duplication and overlap" across the department. A fourth proposal will advise an immediately effective directive to "seriously curtail all indirect spending" on things like "duty station moves, travel [and] conferences," states the preliminary DBB report. This recommendation also calls for Gates to modify the so-called "use it or lose it policy" on such funds, "which only promotes wastes," the report states.

The JFCOM and NII closures are part of a broader recommendation that will go to the secretary soon to shrink the military's combatant commands, which the board has concluded are swollen with thousands of expensive contractors - many in redundant positions.

Gates asked the board to propose ways the department can slash $101 billion over five years from overhead and unneeded costs. Gates wants to transfer those savings to hardware programs he feels are needed to combat future threats.

With war funding included, U.S. military spending for fiscal 2010 will approach $661 billion. The DBB study group estimates "at least $200 billion - $ 1 trillion across the [future years defense plan] - is overhead." If the Defense Department's overhead was its own nation, it would rank 49th globally in total gross domestic product - just behind Singapore and Portugal, and just ahead of Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon comptroller and now a Booz Allen Hamilton executive, applauded the secretary for being "brave enough" to seek overhead and other cost reductions. Gates realizes that he must make changes, even with two hot wars raging, "because if we don't, we'll shoot ourselves in the foot," Zakheim said.

Army Unit Piecing Together Accounts Of Pentagon Attack

"One Army office in the Pentagon lost 34 of its 65 employees in the attack. Most of those killed in the office, called Resource Services Washington, were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. They were at their desks when American Airlines Flight 77 struck."

Matthew 24:6 (KJV) 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.

Test Flight: Lufthansa Searches For Savor In The Sky

Air Berlin Touches Down In Oneworld

Highlands Ranch Baby Born On Flight

A Highlands Ranch woman gave birth on a flight from Germany to Denver earlier this month.

Expectant mother Heather Randle went into labor on the Lufthansa flight, which was then diverted to Canada, and gave birth to daughter Trudance on the plane. The baby was seven weeks early.

Randle said her water broke and she began having contractions. Three different doctors responded to the emergency. When her contractions grew closer together, the doctors told her she would definitely have the child on the plane.

Because of the rather unique circumstance, the baby will have dual citizenship to the United States and Canada and may also get a German passport.

Isaiah 38:14 (KJV) Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Jeremiah 8:7 (KJV) Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

Ezekiel 38:4 (KJV) And I will turn thee back7725 , and put5414 hooks2397 into thy jaws3895, and I will bring thee forth3318 , and all thine army2428, horses5483 and horsemen6571, all of them clothed3847 with all sorts4358 [of armour, even] a great7227 company6951 [with] bucklers6793 and shields4043, all of them handling8610 swords2719:

Ezekiel 38:15 (KJV) And thou shalt come935 from thy place4725 out of the north6828 parts3411, thou, and many7227 people5971 with thee, all of them riding7392 upon horses5483, a great1419 company6951, and a mighty7227 army2428:

Ezekiel 39:20 (KJV) Thus ye shall be filled7646 at my table7979 with horses5483 and chariots7393, with mighty men1368, and with all men376 of war4421, saith5002 the Lord136 GOD3069.

Zechariah 1:8 (KJV) I saw7200 by night3915, and behold a man376 riding7392 upon a red122 horse5483, and he stood5975 among the myrtle trees1918 that [were] in the bottom4699; and behind310 him [were there] red122 horses5483, speckled8320, and white3836.

Zechariah 6:2 (KJV) In the first7223 chariot4818 [were] red122 horses5483; and in the second8145 chariot4818 black7838 horses5483;

Zechariah 6:3 (KJV) And in the third7992 chariot4818 white3836 horses5483; and in the fourth7243 chariot4818 grisled1261 and bay554 horses5483.

Zechariah 6:6 (KJV) The black7838 horses5483 which [are] therein go forth3318 into the north6828 country776; and the white3836 go forth3318 after310 them; and the grisled1261 go forth3318 toward the south8486 country776.

"The cult of Ariadne consisted of a ceremonial dance, the orgiastic rites and some lamentations. In the Iliad, Homer mentioned the Ariadne's dancing place (choros) prepared by the craftsman Daedalus in the Cnossian Palace. According to the Delian myth the famous Cretan Crane Dance was performed for the first time on the island of Delos by rescued youth, who were travelling with Theseus from Crete to Athens. So, this dance and image of Ariadne played always an important role in the cult on Delos. Also some vase painters depicted Ariadne in a context with dancing. There is a supposition that this ceremonial dance was a part of the collective marriage ritual for marrying couples.

The Ariadne's cult on Naxos was performed also with the orgiastic rites (like the festivals of joy) together with lamentations and expressions of sorrow (like during funeral ceremonies). In Amathus the sacrifices were brought in honour of Ariadne and at this place a special cult was practised in which a young man was simulating the pains of a woman giving childbirth with some screaming. Ariadne was also remembered in the Athenian festival The Oschophoria (celebration in honour of Theseus) and in the other Athenian festival The Anthesteria (performed in honour of Dionysus) as the wife of both of these two protagonists.

Dance or in Greek Choros. The mythical (choros), built by Daidalus for Ariadne (Iliad, 18.590), still remains a mysterious and ambiguous term for concerned scholars.It either signified the choral dance or the magical space where the dance was performed: namely the dancing floor. The ancient scholars interpreted choros as a place (topos), complete with columns and statues arranged in a circle. Recently discovered circular structures at Knossos were somehow related to Daidalic choros. In earlier texts, choros denoted dance without the indication of a dancing floor. The dance existed in itself and stayed as a temporal phenomenon. The meaning of the word is still on enigmatic grounds and its importance lies in this ambiguity, Ömür Harmansah Archaic Age and the Metamorphoses of Greek Culture.

Geranos (Γέρανος) (crane dance) was danced in Delos. According to Plutarch, Theseus after having killed the Minotaur in the Labyrinth of Knossos, on his way back to Athens, he stopped at Delos. There, he offered a sacrifice to the goddess Aphrodite and he danced around the altar. This dance included serpentine movements, imitating the movements of Theseus inside the Labyrinth. The dance is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad. Some experts say that Theseus danced the Geranos in Crete and not Delos.

Sexes did not mix during dance except for the chain or geronos dance. The dance reenacts the story of Ariadne, future wife of Dionysus and daughter of King Minos, aiding Theseus to escape the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. The lovers flee to the island of Naxos where they erect a monument to Aphrodite and dance a winding, mazelike dance in her honor to celebrate their love.

Some have speculated that the name 'Ariadne' may mean 'the very holy one', and thus the Ariadne of Greek myth may be the (Minoan) Snake Goddess, 'reduced in legend to a folklore heroine.'"

The song, in English is called 'O Pure Virgin'.
http://www.orthodox.net/services/o-pure-virgin.html
http://www.matia.gr/7/72/7201/7201_1_9.html (for the Greek Version)

"Agni Parthene" is the hymn of St. Nektarios, which begins,
"Agni Parthene, Despina, ahrande Theotoke: here nimfi animfefte."

Agni Parthene (Gr. Αγνή Παρθένε) is a non-liturgical hymn composed in Greek by St. Nectarios of Aegina in the 19th century during his tenure as director of the Rizarios Theological School of Athens. St. Nektarios liked to compose hymns in honor of the Mother of God to deepen his personal prayer and relationship with her. The tradition passed down at the monastery of St. Nektarios, in Aegina, Greece, is that the Lady herself appeared before him and requested that he record on paper a particular hymn the angelic choirs were about to sing. This hymn was the "Agni Parthene". The original script can still be viewed on his prayer table in his bedroom at this monastery.

The original melody to this hymn was composed by an Athonite hymnographer who is said to also have had a vision of the Virgin Mary prior to composing the work. The recording of this melody by the Monks of Simonopetra has contributed significantly to the popularization of the hymn.

Due to its popularity, the hymn has been translated into many langauges and the original melody has been adapted to suit the particular style of church chanting. One such variation is the Valaam Monastery chant of the Russian translation.

The hymn of the Pure Virgin is part of A Small Theotokarion (Athens, 1905) a book of Hymns to the Mother of God, written by St. Nektarios.

This hymn has been used during communion in the Liturgy and it is sometimes chanted at the beginning of Vespers.

Carthage Preps For Marian Days

The 33rd annual Marian Days festival will be held Aug. 5-8 at the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix, 1900 South Grand in Carthage.

* Allusions to the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation
* One Eye symbolism
* Sun symbolism
* Father-Son symbolism
* Lyrics to the song ("...a symphony of angels...")
* More Soccer symbolism
* The color orange again
* Pyramid/Triangle symbolism with hand gestures
* "Star Alliance" and 5-Pointed Star symbol
* Rose symbolism
* "We have an eye for details." (I laughed at that one!)

1. I need to strengthen my faith for any potential "hard times" that I might have to go through in this life (even if they're not the result of some unprecedented, end times, apocalyptic scenario).

2. I need to study the Bible and pray about how I would react and respond in the face of pure evil especially as it pertains to defending my family.

3. I need to nurture the kind of faith that expects miracles from God even in a time and a place where we do not see the kinds of miracles recorded for us throughout the Holy Bible because His divine, supernatural protection is real.

Revelation 13:10 (KJV) He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

The Road: "In A Moment, The World Changed Forever..."

The Book Of Eli: "Believe."