World Outlook - Stormy

 

Super Hurricane Mangkhut - 160 mph winds

As 1.7 million people evacuate for Hurricane Florence, a far stronger 'super typhoon' is about to hit the Philippines and China

Mangkhut is expected to make landfall in the Philippines on Saturday, before moving on to southern China, Vietnam, and Laos.

Typhoon Mangkhut bears down on millions in Philippines

Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already blasted through the Northern Mariana Islands, is speeding across the Pacific with winds that can gust as high as 255 kilometres (160 miles) per hour.

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Florence’s nighttime winds were down to 110 mph

From a high of 140 mph (225 kph), and the Category 3 storm fell to a Category 2, with a further slow weakening expected as the storm nears the coast. But authorities warned it will still be an extremely dangerous hurricane.

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Trump slashes number of Christian refugees admitted to US — despite vowing to help them

The number of Christian refugees admitted to the US has plummeted under Donald Trump, along with the rates of other persecuted religious minorities attempting to enter the country.

Overall, the number of Christian refugees admitted in 2018 plunged from 25,162 the year prior to just 14,289, according to State Department data. “It suggests that the president has no real interest in religious persecution or the tenets of religious freedom.”

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Will Russia/China stop at the Pacific ? 

Russian Bear Bombers Near Alaska Intercepted Again

For a second time in two weeks, U.S. F-22 jet fighters intercepted two Russian nuclear-capable bombers near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.

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US fighter jets intercept Russian nuclear bombers near Alaska ahead of massive war games

They were intercepted near the Cobra Dane radar system, located at Eareckson Air Station on the remote Shemya Island, which monitors launches of Russian missiles and aircraft. Cobra Dane is believed to be the first possible target that Russia would strike with a cruise missile if a conflict arose.

'They will get the message': Russia deploys hundreds of thousands of soldiers and cruise missiles in biggest war games ever

Over the following five days, they will sweep over huge swathes of Russia’s eastern territory, right towards the Pacific.

With nearly 300,000 soldiers, more than 1,000 planes, helicopters and drones, 36,000 tanks and 80 boats, headlines have predictably raged about preparations for a third world war.

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 Those deceived into an early rapture escape are unprepared to endure unto the end and are easily shattered as Pearl Kolleri was when the rapture did not happen on September 11th as she assumed.

Light amidst Darkness.

The five foolish virgins did not take enough oil in their lamps with them to endure the darkness of the tribulation because they did not believe Jesus' words of Matthew 24:29. 

They blindly assumed they did not have to endure unto the end and fell for the early escape lie."

Scene II - Enter the "falling away" 

“But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.  

And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Matthew 24