Not only has North Korea not stopped its nuclear activities, but according to a US intelligence report made public this week, North Korea threatened to sell nuclear weapons to terrorists in 2005. North Korea told US officials that they "could transfer nuclear weapons to terrorists if driven into a corner." The report also contains information on North Korea's enrichment and proliferation activities, Syria's nuclear ambitions, and al-Qaeda's plans for developing chemical and biological weapons to be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report paints a vivid picture of the challenges we face as nation.
This past year evidence was uncovered that North Korea may be helping Syria develop nuclear weapons. The news was made public after Israel conducted a mysterious nighttime raid deep into Syria to destroy what some say was a clandestine nuclear facility. Syria's nuclear ambitions and its cooperation with North Korea will undoubtedly complicate the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Officials warn that the secretive and often unpredictable regime has not yet ceased all of its proliferation activities.
North Korea has shown some willingness to cooperate, but US government officials are skeptical. US diplomats won't be able to rest easy until all of North Korea's nuclear facilities are not only shut down, but dismantled. Experts suspect that North Korea currently possesses between six and eight nuclear weapons. However a report by the Institute for Science and International Security claims that North Korea has enough radioactive material to build as many as 13 bombs.
The standoff with North Korea began in October of 2002 when the communist regime announced its plans to build nuclear weapons. North Korea subsequently withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Four years later, in October of 2006, North Korea shocked the world when it conducted its first-ever test of a nuclear warhead. It had long been suspected that North Korea possessed such weapons; however the test laid to rest any lingering doubts about North Korea's nuclear capabilities.
The US has long hoped that pressure from the international community would motivate North Korea to continue with six-party talks and eventually abandon its nuclear program. For almost six years the six nations have tried to reach an agreement, without much success. North Korea's eccentric dictator, Kim Jong-Il, has a history of unpredictable behavior and has proven to be a fickle negotiating partner. Further complicating matters is the fact that the six parties involved in the peace negotiations have such divergent interests. The US and Japan, concerned about security, have taken a hard-line approach. Meanwhile, South Korea wants to avoid war and has increased aid to the North while Russia and China - afraid of sparking a refugee crisis - have been hesitant to back harsh sanctions.
Jesus warned us that as we approach the end times there would be "wars and rumors of wars..." and that "nation would rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom..." This knowledge, that we are in living in the last days, should give you a renewed sense of urgency and determination in pursuing God’s plan for both your life and mine. It is a plan in which we are called to be ambassadors for Christ bringing the light of life and hope into a world full of darkness, death, and decay.
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If we are going to quote Jesus then we should be very careful to be accurate about it. Matt 24: 4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[a]' and will deceive many. 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.-- Jesus makes it very clear that wars and rumors of wars must happen and are part of everyday life. He said see to it that you are NOT alarmed about wars and rumors of wars. In verse 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. 22If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.-- This is the great tribulation for it can be nothing else. Greater distress than has ever taken place before or ever again has to be the great tribulation. Then look at what Jesus says right after that in verse 29"IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISTRESS OF THOSE DAYS
" 'the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'[c]
30"AT THAT TIME THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN WILL APPEAR IN THE SKY, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. -- So the sign of the return of Jesus is the Sun will turn black and the moon will turn blood red as in the Revelation also. In anyone wants to know what this means you can contact me at - lounewton1347@yahoo.com Click here to reply to this post
THE SUN WILL TURN BLACK AND THE MOON BLOOD RED
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If we are going to quote Jesus then we should be very careful to be accurate about it. Matt 24: 4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[a]' and will deceive many. 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.-- Jesus makes it very clear that wars and rumors of wars must happen and are part of everyday life. He said see to it that you are NOT alarmed about wars and rumors of wars. In verse 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. 22If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.-- This is the great tribulation for it can be nothing else. Greater distress than has ever taken place before or ever again has to be the great tribulation. Then look at what Jesus says right after that in verse 29"IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISTRESS OF THOSE DAYS
" 'the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'[c]
30"AT THAT TIME THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN WILL APPEAR IN THE SKY, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. -- So the sign of the return of Jesus is the Sun will turn black and the moon will turn blood red as in the Revelation also. In anyone wants to know what this means you can contact me at - lounewton1347@yahoo.com Click here to reply to this post
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