Sept. 18, 1998
Today, September 18, 1998 is a day that will live in infamy.
On this date, the United States Senate failed to override President Clinton's veto of a measure banning the barbaric "partial-birth abortions," or the killing of babies WHILE ACTUALLY BEING BORN by cruelly puncturing their skulls and sucking out their brains. The 64-36 vote in favor of an override left opponents three votes short of the two-thirds majority needed. This final Senate ratification now places the entire U.S. government officially and finally in favor of the wholesale murder of innocent babies: The Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch!
This morning I strongly sensed in my spirit that the vote today was crucial to the withholding, or releasing, of God's final judgment on America. I sense the die is now cast. A friend reports that he "read just recently that Mother Theresa was reported to have said that the result of continued abortions would be nuclear war." I cannot confirm that, but I do know this truth: The world outside of the grace of Christ is under the condemnation of the Law, which says, "Life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth" (Deuteronomy 19:21, NKJV). This means that if God's Word is true, for every one of the some 40 million murdered babies since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, there will be a life taken. Every drop of innocent blood will be matched in God's coming judgment on the world.
We are near that time. It is interesting and not coincidental that this tragic abortion vote comes just hours before the Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh HaShannah, closing the Hebrew Jubilee year 5758, an acrostic for "season of Noah," a time when "the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). Referring to this
time, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man" (Luke 17:26). Listen!
I can hear the eerie, screeching sound of the almost-closed door of the ark. The dark, ominous storm clouds are already formed and hanging over the world. I can hear the trumpet in the distance.
Read it and weep...
Thirty-six Senators cast a pro-abortion vote to *not* override the veto.
How did your Senators vote? Find out below and then use the "Contacting Congress" section of the Armchair Lobbyist (http://www.prolife.org/tal) to find contact information for your Senator. Let your Senators know that you appreciated or were disappointed with their vote on this crucial issue.
Please forward this alert to other pro-life people you know.
Voting ``yes'' were 13 Democrats and 51 Republicans.
Voting ``no'' were 32 Democrats and 4 Republicans.
Alabama - Sessions (R) Yes; Shelby (R) Yes.
Alaska - Murkowski (R) Yes; Stevens (R) Yes.
Arizona - Kyl (R) Yes; McCain (R) Yes.
Arkansas - Bumpers (D) No; Hutchinson (R) Yes.
California - Boxer (D) No; Feinstein (D) No.
Colorado - Allard (R) Yes; Campbell (R) Yes.
Connecticut - Dodd (D) No; Lieberman (D) No.
Delaware - Roth (R) Yes.
Florida - Graham (D) No; Mack (R) Yes.
Georgia - Cleland (D) No; Coverdell (R) Yes.
Hawaii - Akaka (D) No; Inouye (D) No.
Idaho - Craig (R) Yes; Kempthorne (R) Yes.
Illinois - Durbin (D) No; Moseley-Braun (D) No.
Indiana - Coats (R) Yes; Lugar (R) Yes.
Iowa - Grassley (R) Yes; Harkin (D) No.
Kansas - Brownback (R) Yes; Roberts (R) Yes.
Kentucky - Ford (D) Yes; McConnell (R) Yes.
Louisiana - Breaux (D) Yes; Landrieu (D) Yes.
Maine - Collins (R) No; Snowe (R) No.
Maryland - Mikulski (D) No; Sarbanes (D) No.
Massachusetts - Kennedy (D) No; Kerry (D) No.
Michigan - Abraham (R) Yes; Levin (D) No.
Minnesota - Grams (R) Yes; Wellstone (D) No.
Mississippi - Cochran (R) Yes; Lott (R) Yes.
Missouri - Bond (R) Yes.
Montana - Baucus (D) No; Burns (R) Yes.
Nebraska - Hagel (R) Yes; Kerrey (D) No.
Nevada - Bryan (D) No; Reid (D) Yes.
New Hampshire - Gregg (R) Yes; Smith (R) Yes.
New Jersey - Lautenberg (D) No; Torricelli (D) No.
New Mexico - Bingaman (D) No; Domenici (R) Yes.
New York - D'Amato (R) Yes; Moynihan (D) Yes.
North Carolina - Faircloth (R) Yes; Helms (R) Yes.
North Dakota - Conrad (D) Yes; Dorgan (D) Yes.
Ohio - DeWine (R) Yes; Glenn (D) No.
Oklahoma - Inhofe (R) Yes; Nickles (R) Yes.
Oregon - Smith (R) Yes; Wyden (D) No.
Pennsylvania - Santorum (R) Yes; Specter (R) Yes.
Rhode Island - Chafee (R) No; Reed (D) No.
South Carolina - Hollings (D) Yes; Thurmond (R) Yes.
South Dakota - Daschle (D) Yes; Johnson (D) Yes.
Tennessee - Frist (R) Yes; Thompson (R) Yes.
Texas - Gramm (R) Yes; Hutchison (R) Yes.
Utah - Hatch (R) Yes.
Vermont - Jeffords (R) No; Leahy (D) Yes.
Virginia - Robb (D) No; Warner (R) Yes.
Washington - Gorton (R) Yes; Murray (D) No.
West Virginia - Byrd (D) Yes; Rockefeller (D) No.
Wisconsin - Feingold (D) No; Kohl (D) No.
Wyoming - Enzi (R) Yes; Thomas (R) Yes.
October 20, 1998
An Associated Press wire report today said there is growing support for an effort to build a third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. It reported details of the Temple Mount Faithful group's latest attempt to lay a foundation stone on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on October 7. It said that supporters of the group who want to tear down the Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques which currently reside on the site of the original Jewish Temple and rebuild a new temple based upon the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Group leader Gershon Solomon was quoted as saying, "We came to say to the whole world that the Arab occupation of the Temple Mount is finished forever." Police once again, however, stopped a truck carrying the cornerstone just 200 feet from the site chosen. The report said that "those seeking to reclaim the Temple Mount for the Jews have increasingly moved into the mainstream, winning support from some rabbis and prominent politicians. A Jerusalem convention of the movement in September drew some 1,000 people -- double last year's turnout -- who cheered speaker after speaker demanding that the building of a new temple."
TEL AVIV (AFP) — Israeli police prevented Jewish extremists from entering occupied Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound Wednesday to launch the reconstruction of the Jewish temple, which extremist claim, stood at the site 2,000 years ago. Brandishing Israeli flags, about 60 activists from the Mount Temple Faithful group tried to enter the mosque compound to lay a four-and-a-half tonne “cornerstone” for the temple, a police spokesman said. Police barred the group entry to the compound, the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The activists went instead to a square near the Western Wall, a retaining wall for the mosque compound which Jews consider the last remnant of the temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. Their bid to enter the mosque area, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, coincided with an annual ceremony at the Western Wall called the blessing of the Cohen — descendants of the clan of high priests who officiated at the temple. About 30,000 people gathered at the wall for the ceremony, held each year during the weeklong festival of tabernacles, Sukkot. The Temple Mount Faithful are dedicated to rebuilding the ancient temple in the place of Al Aqsa mosque and the adjacent Dome of the Rock. On Wednesday they left their “cornerstone” for the new temple outside the Old City walls surrounding the disputed compound. “We will return because there cannot be a state in Greater Israel without the reconstruction of the temple and no one can stop this holy and historic project,” said Gershom Salomon, head of the activist group. Israeli security forces recently stepped up patrols around Al Aqsa for fear of possible attacks by Jewish radicals hoping to scuttle peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
September 16, 1998
According to an Arutz-7 news report from Israel, Deputy Education Minister Moshe
Peled will give his blessing to an event calling for the re-establishment of the
Jewish Temple. In a pre-recorded appearance in Jerusalem's Binyanei Ha'Umah
Convention Center, he will reportedly call for the "inculcation of the values of the
Temple in the educational system and among the country's youth." Yehuda Etzion,
one of the event's organizers, was quoted as saying that its purpose is to restore
the Temple Mount to its rightful holy place in the Jewish nation, "and in the future, to
rebuild the Temple."
The Electronic Telegraph reported today that exiled Saudi millionaire terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden, suspected by the U.S. and Britain of training the Yemeni Islamic militants who kidnapped 16 western tourists last week, again called for a "holy war" or Jihad against American and British targets, according to a Time magazine interview. The article said Bin Laden "insists that a jihad be waged against Britain and the United States because the bombing of Iraq was carried out 'on behalf of
Israel and the Jews.'" He also supposedly "hints for the first time that he was involved in bombings in August of US embassies in Africa, in which 224 people were killed, including 12 Americans, and 5,000 injured." He was quoted as saying, "Our job is to instigate and, by the grace of God, we did that and certain people responded to this instigation. If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and Americans is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal."
Reuters reported from the Middle East that infamous Islamic militant and alleged "mastermind" of worldwide terrorism, Osama bin Laden, "has called on Muslims to attack U.S. and British citizens and interests to avenge the two countries' air strikes on Iraq,'according to the London-based Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. He was quoted as saying that there should be a fight against "the Jews and the crusaders, especially the Americans and British who did not care about the rights of any child, elderly man or woman in Iraq." He reportedly went on to say, "The British and American people have widely voiced their supports for their leaders' decision to attack Iraq which makes all those people, in addition to the Jews who occupy Palestine, into people warring (against God). Every Muslim should confront and fight them. Anything that could be taken from them by force is a prize for the Muslims."
It was widely reported today that Time magazine said yesterday that suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden may be planning attacks on Washington or New York to avenge a U.S. missile strike on his Afghan headquarters in August. Time quoted a U.S. State Department aid as saying, "We've hit his headquarters, now he hits ours." The Time Magazine December 21 issue to be available on newsstands next week will also supposedly report that a Bin Laden group had been planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan although it was stopped from doing so three months ago. The Nando Times said that the report "also revealed that intelligence officials discovered in 1993 that bin Laden was shopping for nuclear weapons."
Associated Press has reported that Americans in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, four Gulf nations in the Persian Gulf, have been warned by the U.S. government to be on alert for potential attacks on Americans within the next 30 days. The U.S. embassies in these nations issued statements saying there is "a strong possibility that terrorist elements are planning an attack against U.S. targets in the Gulf, possibly in the next 30 days."
Associated Press reported a supposed link between Bin Laden, the wealthy Saudi exile accused of masterminding the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa, and a terrorist network out of Albania that according to the Sunday Times has "infiltrated other parts of Europe." The report said the Times quoted the head of the Albanian intelligence service as saying a network run by Bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo. He also said he believed terrorists had already infiltrated other parts of Europe from bases in Albania. The report said that "Interpol believes more than 100,000 blank Albanian passports were stolen in riots last year, providing ample opportunity for terrorists to acquire false papers."
This weekend CNN reported that the sons of jailed Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is serving life in a U.S. prison for planning New York City terrorist bombings, have joined the terrorist forces of Osama bin Laden. According to the report, the imprisioned sheik has written a will urging his sons to take revenge against America.
A leader of Pakistan's militant Sunni Muslim group, Sipah-e-Sahaba or Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet, said that if alleged terrorist supporter-mastermind Osama bin Laden is arrested, the U.S. would be attacked. Omar Warsi, the group's leader, said, "It is a challenge to the entire Muslim world ... Bin Laden is a hero of the Muslim world. If anything happens to him, America will be responsible."
CNN reported today that the alleged U.S. embassey bombings' "mastermind," millionaire Saudi exile Osama Bin Laden, was indicted yesterday by a U.S. federal grand jury. The report also said that the U.S. government is offering a record-breaking $5 million reward for his arrest, more than twice the $2 million limit the United States previously has offered in what it calls terrorist cases.
The London Times reported today that a major Arab newspaper in
London, Al-Hayat, has said that the exiled-in-Afghanistan Saudi
millionaire and Islamic fundamentalist terrorist leader Osama Bin Ladin
has obtained tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Central
Asian states. Bin Laden, who has created a network of influential
friends in Central Asia and Ukraine, is alleged to be responsible for
the recent U.S. embassy bombings in Africa according the the U.S.
government.
It was reported yesterday by British sources that Bin Laden, now known as the world's most wanted terrorist, is constructing a huge complex of fortresses for his army of Arab terrorists in Afghanistan. A report said that "one new base has already been completed in Kandahar and is inhabited by bin Laden's recruits...Another is almost complete and, according to local officials, teams of surveyors have been charting the area for further fortresses. They say that at night numerous vehicles bring the latest Arab recruits."
The FBI now alleges that Osama bin Laden, the multi-millionaire Saudi exile in Afghanistan wanted for supposedly masterminding the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, used one of his top aides, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, to try to obtain nuclear weapons. In late 1993, Salim reportedly agreed to a plot to procure enriched uranium "for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons". Federal officials claim that Salim was a key advocate within for getting Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims to set aside age-old rivalries to join bin Laden in operations against America and Israel.
The Associated Press today reported that the F.B.I. and local authorities have thwarted a plan to bomb the U.S. embassy in Uganda and are detaining 20 people in connection with the plot. The F.B.I. said that Ugandan intelligence officials reason to believe that the group that carried out the bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam also planned to attack the U.S. Embassy in Uganda. According to the Washington Post, two men being held are believed to be associates of Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind in the bombings of U.S. embassies in eastern Africa last month.
Saudi millionaire-terrorist Osama bin Laden, being hunted by the U.S. for waging a
holy war against America has a death wish according to lastest reports. He was
quoted by th Arabic daily Al-Quds Al Arabi as saying, "I'm fighting so I can die a
martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. I
regret having lived until now. I have nothing to lose."
According to a Washington Times report yesterday, the FBI has said that Afghan terrorists are offering bounties of "thousands of dollars" worldwide to kill Americans. The FBI told security managers, "The unilateral U.S. military action against suspected terrorist facilities in Sudan and Afghanistan [on Aug. 20] has elevated the risk to U.S. citizens and interests worldwide."
A Reuters report today said that Saudi millionaire-dissident Osama bin Laden, who resides in Taliban Afghanistan, has vowed retaliation against the United States following the missile strikes on his operations in Afghanistan according to a Pakistani newspaper. He supposedly said, "The war has just started and the Americans should wait for an answer. Tell the Americans that we aren't afraid of bombardment, threats and acts of aggression. We suffered and survived Soviet bombings for 10 years in Afghanistan and we are ready for more sacrifices."
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