Satellite Photo Of Icelandic Volcanoes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html
The recent volcanic eruption in South Iceland had given the airline industry a mega headache as it had grounded more than 80,000 flights around the world in just five days and the ash cloud is simply not showing signs that it is dissipating. In fact what is worrisome is that the two craters next to the one that erupted are now showing signs of activity.

What caused this massive eruption? Recent satellite photos taken of the craters have reviewed a very interesting picture. The three dark holes are the three craters and it really looks evil.
Remember what Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 24:6-8 - ⁶You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸All these are the beginning of birth pains.
The devil knows that his time is ending soon and these are just some of the things he is throwing at mankind as a kind of parting shot.
So what should we do? For one thing, we should recognize what is happening and hence quicken the pace of our work in the Lord - Believers, rise up and stand for our Lord and spread the good news that salvation had already been won and is available to all who would take it.

Oil & Gas Found Off Coast Of Israel

Monday, April 12, 2010 Israel Today Staff.
Israel to become center of new 'oil and gas rush'
A top US energy industry expert believes Israel is going to soon experience an "oil and gas rush" by major Western energy development companies. Speaking to the Israeli financial newspaper Globes, Fred Zeidman said the recent discovery of a massive natural gas field off Israel's Mediterranean coast had drawn the attention of every major Western energy company.
Israeli companies Delek and Isramco have already tapped the natural gas field, together with British energy giant Noble Energy. Zeidman noted that quite often, "as soon as Noble goes to a place, many other companies follow in its wake."
That could mean an enormous economic boom for Israel and its transformation overnight into a major international energy exporter. The natural gas field in the Levant Basin (the western Mediterranean) is estimated to hold 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, making it the largest natural gas resource ever found. The area is also believed to contain at least 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Well, God the Father, in these last days, will not abandon His first love - the Children of Israel and He had caused oil and gas to appear in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel and this reminded me of the prophecy that Moses gave to the tribe of Asher in Deuteronomy 33:24-25
v24 And of Asher he said: -- Blessed with sons [is] Asher, Let him be accepted by his brethren, And dipping in oil his foot.
v25 Iron and brass [are] thy shoes, And as thy days -- thy strength.

Great things indeed are happening in the land of Israel and we will soon be witnessing more spectacular event there.God had been faithful to the children of Abraham - both Ishmael and Isaac. The descendants of Ishmael are the people who live in the Middle East while the descendants of Isaac are the Israelis. The Arabs already had their share of the wealth of the land - oil and gas - and I believe the Lord wants to prosper the nation of Israel in these last days to demonstrate to them His grace and mercy and to draw them back to Himself and to Christ.And if we were to examine the maps of ancient Israel and look at how Moses prophetically commanded Joshua to divide the land of Israel into the twelve tribes, we would have no trouble locating where exactly the oil was to be found - off the coast (Moses called it dipping in oil his foot) of Haifa in the region of Mt. Carmel. Notice that the region literally looked like a foot sticking into the sea.

Jesus Gave Us All That He Has

During the signing of the marriage certificate at my daughter's wedding, I was reminded of the marriage vow I made to my wife when we got married almost 30 years ago. The pastor kept reminding my son-in-law (I would rather coin it as son-in-grace because we are all under grace now) that what was to be his will now be hers (his wife's) and what was hers will remain as hers.

I know this sounds strange but that principle is actually very scriptural. In Revelations 21:2, "Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband", we know that the apostle John through the Holy Spirit was talking about the Church as the Bride of Christ and that we are joined with Christ when we invited Him into our hearts.
Jesus came to give us life and in the process emptied Himself of all that He had so that He could purchase us for Himself and we the Church (individually as well as corporately) receive His blessings and this is the interesting part - we only receive and we never have to give up anything. Hence the refrain - He gave us all and we gave Him nothing in return.
And to top it all, three times the pastor asked Joshua whether he had any regrets and that he still has the option to say no until he placed his signature on the marriage certificate. Three times he asked the question and each time Joshua said, 'no regrets', 'I am very sure' and this reminded me of the three occasions at the Garden of Gethsemene when the option of passing the cup of God's wrath was giving to Jesus and each time He rejected the offer and said, 'not as I will, but yours be done' and He went to the cross willingly.

Policies Are Made In The House

Two days ago, Saturday April 03, 2010, our daughter Adeline was joined in marriage to Joshua Ting at The Chambers of The Arts House, Singapore. The Chambers is the former parliament chambers of the Singapore government and it was a very lovely setting for the wedding ceremony.
As the parliament chambers was the seat of the government, the officiating pastor reminded us the significance the Lord plays in our family as well as individual lives. Ideas and suggestions may be had in our personal lives in various locations but the decisions are made and sealed in the House (of God) and indeed God the Father had indeed cut the Covenant and sealed it in His House and Christ Jesus is the Head of our House.Our Lord is a generous God and because of His great love for mankind, He decided to come down to our level and take on human form so that, being one with us, He could become our Savior when He offered up His life on the Cross for us. And because He died in our place we are no longer under the Law of sin and death but we have entered into life the moment we received Him into our hearts.
And having done that, we have aligned ourselves to receive His blessings as His word confirms it in Hebrews 10:17 and Romans 4:7-8. God is a God of grace and mercy - grace because He has given us everything that we did not deserve to receive and mercy because He chose not to give us what we deserve but took them away from us when His Son died on the cross to save us.
And all these decisions were indeed made in the Chambers of Heaven when God the Father decided to send God His Son as a Substitute for our sin. Hallelujah, all glory to Jesus for His finished work on the cross for all of us.

Jewish Passover and Good Friday

The Jewish Feast of Passover or Pesach      this year will start at sunset on Monday March 29th and stretches over to sunset on Tuesday 30th and during this Feast holiday, the Jewish families will kill a lamb below the age of one-year and roast it in fire and then consume the entire animal in one sitting; nothing is to be left overnight. They would also apply some of the blood of the lamb on the two doorposts and the lentel of the doorway to signify that blood had been shed and a death had occurred.
The Passover lamb signifies to the Jews that someone (in this case the lamb) had died in substitution for the family and because there had been one death in the family, the angel of death would pass over that household and therefore no death of any family member would take place.
God intended the Jewish Feast of Pesach to be a shadow of the real Lamb of God dying for the sins of the entire human race and Jesus is indeed our Passover Lamb. The night that Jesus was captured almost 2000 years ago was exactly the night of the Passover and because the Jews start their day at sunset right through to the next sunset, Jesus WAS crucified on Pesach and it so happened that the day that Jesus died on the cross was a Friday and hence the Christian decided to commemorate that Day as Good Friday - Good because Jesus Who IS God Himself died for us.
However, due to the difference in calendar used, Pesach and Good Friday do not normally coincide on one particular day (the Jews calculate their calendar following the movement of the moon around the Earth while we use the Gregorian calendar which tracks the movement of the Earth around the Sun) and any overlap would therefore be very obscure. And so, it will be very interesting to note that we have both Pesach and Good Friday falling on the same week and so lets believe that the Lord has something great for us and we receive His blessings in faith.
Once again, Pesach is celebrated by the Jews from sunset (6:00 PM Jerusalem time) on March 29th till sunset on March 30th while Good Friday starts at midnight (local time) on April 01 till midnight April 02.