IN the NEWS - And More....

It has been continuing---the massive weird global natural calamities--crammed into a small window of time of the last few weeks.

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, ...and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Matthew 24:7,8,6/Luke 21:11

Brazil: Tsunami hits Rio and surrounding area---with no earthquake or storm!

Spain: Canary Islands rumbled by 700 tremors around a volcano. Massive hailstorm hits Spain.

China: Beijing flooded again and city moves several inches.

Typhoon hits again. More flooding elsewhere in China. Sinkholes swallow up cars on the streets of Wuhan. Chikungunya fever outbreak likely due to mosquitos multiplying due to all the water from the floods. Hail pounds several provinces. Landslides in Hunan.

Australia: rare snowstorm in New South Wales of 20 inches of snow. Periphery of area flooded. Perth hit by a rare tornado.

Britain: Major storm knocks out power in parts of Scotland.

Turkey: Record heatwave.

Iraq: Record heatwave and most of country loses electricity. (125F)

Japan: Record rainfall. Record heatwave.

India: Mudslides sweep away villages.

Russia: Massive floods, mudslides and tornados ravage the south. Volcanic eruptions back east.

South Korea: Record flooding now in the south.

Burma: Flash Floods on border with China.

Italy: Mt. Etna slowly sliding towards the sea--picking up pace. Massive hailstorm.

Taiwan: Record rainfall triggers another round of flash flooding.

U.S.A.: Flash Floods in North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Quakes in New Jersey and off the coast of NYC.

SUN: A geomagnetic Storm may be responsible for the shifting tectonic plates that caused last weeks mega quake, tsunami, and tilted the earth slightly.

IN the NEWS - Shia Suicide (human sacrifice) CULT: Nothing New Under the Sun

The thing that hath been, 

it is that which shall be; 

and that which is done is that which shall be done: 

and there is no new thing under the sun. 

Ecclesiastes 1:9

"Iraq..... the country and prompting a fierce state crackdown, is a religious group that practices a system of lottery-based suicide. The Allahiyah movement, also known as the Qurban ("sacrifice") group, is thought to have formed in Basra and Dhi Qar in early 2020 and has as many as 2,500 adherents..... the head of the movement is a cleric named Abdul Ali Munim al-Hasani, currently residing in the city of Mashhad in Iran.

Gatherings, posted on social media, show large groups of men dancing to loud electronic music and chanting slogans of sacrifice to Ali bin Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

That began to change in 2021, when the first reports emerged of young men associated with the group hanging themselves in Husseiniyahs, buildings designed for Shia religious, spiritual and social gatherings.

The movement reportedly splintered from the followers of Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, an influential Shia cleric whose son Muqtada al-Sadr is one of the most powerful figures in Iraq. Muqtada al-Sadr has, however, publicly disavowed the Allahiyah movement as "extremists" and warned against young people being attracted to it.

Adherents believe that Ali is a mystical, divine figure, akin to Jesus in Christianity.
"We believe that Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon him, is God incarnate on Earth, and that sacrifices must be offered to him in order to gain his satisfaction and forgiveness," a member of the Qurban group told HuffPost Iraq in June.....on June 16 security forces arrested an official of the movement in Dhi Qar Governorate while he was in the eastern Hamza district on his way to Karbala governorate. After being interrogated he confessed to having killed two family members as "sacrifices".

In May, four different Allahiyah followers were involved in suicide incidents across Dhi Qar, including a 15-year-old boy who reportedly died after hanging himself with electrical wire.

According to Al Sumaria News, in recent months Iraqi authorities have recorded at least 25 suicide cases among the ranks of the Qurban group. An operation has been launched to suppress the group's activities, leading to the arrest of many of its members.

Following the killings in Dhi Qar, the governorate's police arrested a further six members of the group, who they said had convinced three of their followers to kill themselves." 

ZeroHedge

VIOLENCE: Allow me to introduce another theory to man's theories

"There are two prevailing theories about the early history of interpersonal violence: 

One claims violence erupted as humans transitioned from hunter-

gathering to settled communities; 

the other claims violence was rampant in early communities before the transition to farming led to cooperation and greater peace, per Scientific American. 

Yet "a more nuanced picture is emerging," according to an ambitious new study of the remains of 3,539 people who died in what is now Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan up to 400 B.C., per Newsweek. European researchers, who sought to learn about violence among humans at a time when written records are largely absent, came up with findings that don't neatly match either of the two narratives.
"Crowding and rising inequality may have triggered conflicts following appropriation of other groups' resources," reads the study published Monday in Nature Human Behavior, per Cosmos Magazine. " Newswer

Here's Another "Theory":
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.....The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked....
John 8:44/Jeremiah 17:9

ARCHAEOLOGY: Si.427

 ....and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:32

 

"A cuneiform tablet, thought to be around 3,700 years old, and designated Si.427 is now said to be the oldest example of applied Pythagorean geometry. 

The clay tablet from Babylonia was unearthed in central Iraq in the

late 1800s, and displayed in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Turkey, for more than a century.

Daniel Mansfield, a mathematician from Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW), gained access to the tablet, and recognized its significance. 

Mansfield had published about a similar tablet, Plimpton 322, which he determined was the oldest known trigonometric table. It shows that “the Babylonians had an advanced knowledge of mathematics and [that] Pythagoras’ theorem was known a thousand years before Pythagoras.”

**The tablet is now thought to be a surveyor’s plan of a field which

ses trigonometry to work out the lengths and areas of the land. It may have been used in legal disputes, or to calculate the land’s crop yield. The UNSW report says that Si.427 “reveals that mathematics during this era was more sophisticated than previously assumed.”

---These findings are consistent with the history in Genesis—humans were created intelligent from the beginning—rather than evolutionary ideas of human progress from primitive ancestors. ---Since Babylon was in the region civilization recommenced after Noah’s Flood, we would expect to see sophistication here from the very earliest times." CMI

ARCHAEOLOGY: What's in those Envelopes?

The timeframe is roughly that of the days of the Judges....wonder if when they open and read those envelopes will there be any info about activity in the lands to their south? Or will it be just routine correspondence....Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? Judges 1:1

 

".......archaeologists has uncovered a 3400-year-old Mitanni Empire-
era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir early this year as water levels fell rapidly due to extreme drought in Iraq. 

 

The extensive city with a palace and several large buildings could be ancient Zakhiku – believed to have been an important center in the Mitanni Empire (ca. 1550-1350 BC)..... the city was destroyed in an earthquake around 1350 BC, during which the collapsing upper parts of the walls buried the buildings.

Of particular interest is the discovery of five ceramic vessels that contained an archive of over 100 cuneiform tablets. They date to the Middle Assyrian period, shortly after the earthquake disaster struck the city. Some clay tablets, which may be letters, are even still in their clay envelopes. The researchers hope this discovery will provide important information about the end of the Mitanni-period city and the beginning of Assyrian rule in the region." 

SciTechDaily

Papal Notes - Christ vs. Francis on Abraham

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15

"A “common prayer” was offered for Muslims, Jews, representatives of different Christian churches and other Iraqi religious minorities during the meeting with Pope Francis to celebrate their “common father in faith,” Abraham. Pope Francis called on the different monotheistic religions to end their divisions and “row together on the same side” as children of the same God. Here are some highlights from Pope Francis’ speech published by the Vatican Press Office:

“We need to move beyond ourselves, because we need one another. The pandemic has made us realize that “no one is saved alone” (Fratelli Tutti, 54). Still, the temptation to withdraw from others is never-ending, yet at the same time we know that “the notion of ‘every man for himself’ will rapidly degenerate into a free-for-all that would prove worse than any pandemic” (Fratelli Tutti, 36). Amid the tempests we are currently experiencing, such isolation will not save us.” 

“Brothers and sisters of different religions, here we find ourselves at home, and from here, together, we wish to commit ourselves to fulfilling God’s dream that the human family may become hospitable and welcoming to all his children.” 

“As children of Abraham, Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with other believers and all persons of good will, we thank you for having given us Abraham, a distinguished son of this noble and beloved country, to be our common father in faith.”

“The way that heaven points out for our journey is another:

the way of peace. It demands, especially amid the tempest, that we row together on the same side. It is shameful that, while all of us have suffered from the crisis of the pandemic, especially here, where conflicts have caused so much suffering, anyone should be concerned simply for his own affairs.” 

Pope Francis constantly spoke of Abraham as “our common father

in faith.” He stressed that it is this connection to Abraham that unites Christians, Jews, and Muslims. 

---However, Jesus clearly taught that it was not the carnal descendants that counted, or our fleshly connection to Abraham that mattered. What matters to God is whether you are the spiritual seed of Abraham. In fact, Jesus denied that the Jews of His day were the true children of Abraham because they did not live his life or manifest his same character. Read John 8:37-44." AdventMessenger

Papal Notes - Francis gives us an "LOL" moment in Iraq

 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; Proverbs 14:13

"Pope Francis met with the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani in southern Iraq early Saturday and thanked him for his vocal defense of human life. (LOL)

The meeting took place at the home of Sistani, one of the most senior

clerics in Shiite Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf, on the second day of the pope’s historic visit to the country.

During the meeting, the pontiff “stressed the importance of collaboration and friendship between religious communities,” Bruni stated, in a common endeavor to promote mutual respect and dialogue and so to “contribute to the good of Iraq, the region, and all humanity.”

Bruni said that the meeting provided the pope with an opportunity to thank the ayatollah for having “raised his voice in defense of the weakest and most persecuted, affirming the sacredness of human life and the importance of the unity of the Iraqi people” in the face of the ongoing conflicts and violence of recent years.

Al-Sistani, a highly venerated figure in Shiite-majority Iraq, wished happiness to Francis and the members of the Catholic Church, and thanked the pope for making the effort to visit him in Najaf.

When the Islamic State (Sunni's) captured Mosul in 2014 and took

control of much of Iraq, Sistani called on the Iraqi people to take up arms against the caliphate. Tens of thousands of Shia Muslims answered his call, which resulted in the birth of the Hashd al-Shaabi, Iraq’s Shia militias.

In taking his leave of the ayatollah Saturday, the pope reiterated his prayers to God, creator of all, “for a future of peace and fraternity for the beloved Iraqi land, for the Middle East and for the whole world,” the Vatican Press Office said." Breitbart

Papal Notes - hashtag #welcomePopeFrancis in Arabic

 .... and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3

 "Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad Friday for a three-day visit to war-torn Iraq. In his first international trip since the pandemic began.....

The Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, told reporters this week that the pope has come to Iraq as an "act of love."

"I come among you as a pilgrim of peace, to repeat 'you are

all brothers,'" Francis said in a video message to the Iraqi people ahead of his visit. "I come as a pilgrim of peace in search of fraternity, animated by the desire to pray together and walk together, also with brothers and sisters of other religious traditions."

Much of Francis' visit will be televised for Iraqi people and the

world to see. "May the clash of arms be silenced!" exhorted Francis.

Something that won't be televised will likely be the most critical meeting of the trip: When Francis meets Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a top Shiite leader. Francis is expected to meet with the religious leader in the holy city of Najaf for about 30 minutes on Saturday. 

For the first known time in his eight-year papacy, Francis used a

bulletproof car upon landing in Baghdad. At various points on his route to the presidential palace there were also a variety of tanks and armored vehicles keeping watch, and several Boeing tiltrotor Osprey aircraft were seen flying above the papal convoy.

Francis expected to visit the southern Iraqi city of Ur on Saturday, where the father of all three Abrahamic faiths is believed to have been born.

Most Iraqi outlets were covering the visit closely and the hashtag #welcomePopeFrancis was trending in Arabic." ZeroHedge/VaticanNews