Signs of Life on Saturn's Moon?

USA TODAY

Saturn's geyser-spewing moon, Enceladus — visited by the international Cassini spacecraft on its closest flyby this week— presents planetary scientists with a geophysical locked-room mystery.

Whodunit? Or rather Whatdunit? Or Whatizit?

How does something buried inside an ice ball only 311 miles wide, provide the pop to propel a plume 600 miles out of the moon's south pole? "The biggest puzzle with Enceladus is where is the heat source," says Cassini scientist Linda Spilker of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission. "This tiny moon 'should' be frozen over like the others orbiting Saturn."

And there is one even more compelling question.

"Is it possible for life to exist on Enceladus, the tiny icy satellite of Saturn," asked planetary scientists Susan Kieffer of the University of Illinois and Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado, in the journal Science last year. Life on Enceladus, hidden in an interior lake or ocean suspected under its ice, has consumed planetary researchers since 2005, when Cassini first spotted the plume.

Israel: 'We're not bluffing on Iran'

Jerusalem Post:

Israel is not bluffing when it warns that all options are still on the table and that it may strike Iran's nuclear facilities, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview with Sky News on Friday.

"The one who's bluffing is Iran, which is trying to play with cards they don't have," Ayalon reportedly said.

The deputy foreign minister's interview came a day after the Guardian reported that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has demanded that Iran explain evidence that it has experimented with advanced nuclear warhead technology.

"All the bravado that we see and the testing and the very dangerous and harsh rhetoric is hiding a lot of weaknesses," Ayalon explained.

Jordian King: Jerusalem is the red line

Jordan's king: Region heading towards abyss

In interview to al-Hayat newspaper, King Abdullah warns, 'If we miss this opportunity and peace is not achieved in a year or two, I believe our generation will not see peace'

Jordan's King Abdullah II warned on Monday against the continuation of the political stalemate reached in the region. In a special interview to London-based al-Hayat newspaper, Abdullah warned that if the current situation continues, it would be "heading towards an abyss. If there is no progress, if there is no vision, I am concerned about Palestine, and about the entire region."

In the first part of the two-part interview, Abdullah urged Israel to cease its "illegitimate steps that make chances for peace tough."

He said, "Jerusalem is the red line. The Israelis must understand Jerusalem's standing among the Arabs, the Muslims and the Christians, and should not play with fire."

Sanhedrin to UN: Goldstone Will Bring Judgment Upon You

From Prophesy in the News

The Sanhedrin has warned the UN General Assembly not to hold a plenum debate on the anti-Israel Goldstone Report.

In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN's member states, the Sanhedrin warns that continued consideration of what it calls the "hostile, fallacious, and malicious" Goldstone document will bring upon the world the catastrophic events described in the Bible's Book of Joel, Chapter 3.

The Goldstone commission found Israel guilty of committing war crimes during its anti-terror Cast Lead offensive in Gaza early this year. Many in Israel feel that the commission's purpose was to categorize Israel's attempt to fight the same terrorist threat that threatens the entire world as "war crimes."

The Sanhedrin is an initiative of recent years to recreate the traditional supreme legal tribunal in Judaism.


...The Sanhedrin then explained by what authority it issues injunctions to the United Nations: "The International Court of the Sanhedrin operates by the power of the Bible, the only Holy Writ whose essence was handed over to mankind at Mt. Sinai [the Torah], and of the Prophets, sent to all nations of the world and universally held in respect by them. By virtue of this delegated authority, passed down from one generation to the next ever since the time of Moses our teacher, the master of all of prophets, and by virtue of the succession of authority in Jewish tradition, we appealed to you that you might not fail and thus fail the world, bringing upon it catastrophe."

...The letter states that the Goldstone Report is an "attack on the State of Israel, and thus an attack on the Jewish People, in order to try to remove it from the stage of history by an unprecedented shedding of blood - tacitly encouraging Iran and those like it to continue to develop weapons of mass destruction while the rest of the world sits by and looks on... We are convinced that the continued discussion of this report, which is lacking all moral basis, will lead the nations of the world, and all of mankind, to the judgment that will take place in Jerusalem in the Valley of Jehoshafat, as written in the Prophets and Torah of Israel."

Readers' Digest Pulls the Plug On Purpose Driven Connection

The Rick Warren News Room announced today that "...Positive, Off-the-Charts User Feedback Prompts Ministry to Transition And Expand (Purpose Driven Connection magazine) to Interactive Services and Free Content...

Warren states: “Impressive reader feedback has prompted us to focus all our energies on our digital format, so our content can be expanded, international, interactive and free,” Warren explained. “The positive response from readers was so overwhelming we didn’t want the content to be limited only to Americans who could afford a subscription to a magazine.”

"...“So when we heard the feedback and noticed subscriptions to the print magazine lagging behind Internet usage, in spite of strong retail newsstand sales, we jumped at the chance to go all digital,” Warren concluded.

Editor's note: "...[J]umped at the chance to go digital?" Warren makes it sound like this was his first chance to launch into cyberspace with his Purpose Driven marketing! Just do a search for Purpose Driven and you'll see what kind of presence Purpose Driven has on the 'Net.

In this Associated Press article, PD Connections managing editor Brian Bird reveals a more realistic assessment of the parting of the ways between Reader's Digest and Rick Warren:

Brian Bird, managing editor of the magazine and Web site, said subscriptions were between 2,500 and 5,000 per month.

"I imagine (Reader's Digest officials) were hoping for this to explode, and it didn't explode," Bird said. "But it's had slow, steady growth. It takes a long time for anything to really grow, especially in a competitive media culture."

The New York Post reports:

The Reader's Digest Association is dropping its high-profile joint venture with TV evangelist Rick Warren, due to a lack of subscriptions to the Purpose Driven Connection, The Post has learned.

The magazine will cease publication after the Christmas issue due out in mid-November.

Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in California and author of the bestselling book "Purpose Driven Life" said that he and RDA will transition the project into a web only venture over the next few months.

RDA, which is operating in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will cease funding the operation entirely in March 2010 and turn the project over to the Warren’s company.

Frank Lalli, a veteran editor of Money and George magazine who had been overseeing the venture for RDA, is exiting the company.

Editor's note: This was not just a magazine for encouragement and entertainment. It was a vehicle designed to deliver canned sermons for Purpose Driven pastors and small group studies within the Purpose Driven Network.

From The Purpose Driven Network Webcast:

Rick Warren:
People have heard about this new magazine, Purpose Driven Connection. It’s not really a magazine; what it is it is curriculum by subscription. Okay. In other words, you get a subscription for ten, fifteen bucks and then inside is the DVD and all of the Bible study materials plus a bunch of other articles. And so rather than—Sunday school churches would order the Sunday school curriculum and then give it out. You know the people in your church order these, they go directly to their mailbox, and everybody’s got their workbook and their DVD and stuff like that.

Gerald Sharon:
Well, here’s what I want—yeah, just a minute. Somebody wants to know about the curriculum, and you mentioned that earlier, it’s going to be in Life’s Healing Choices curriculum.

Rick Warren:
Curriculum.

Gerald Sharon:
Curriculum, yeah, through the Purpose Driven Connection and in that there will be a DVD, the study guide, it’s all going to be right here and that’s the DVD. And some of you are saying, you talked about hosting Rick

Rick Warren:
Yeah.

There you have have it. Rick Warren plainly states that the PD Connection magazine was intended to serve as the equivalent to materials used in traditional Sunday School classes.

Well, that would have brought the Purpose Driven catechism and congregations a step closer to forming their own denomination, complete with Rick Warren as the Purpose Driven Pope!

Seances, Spirits, and 12 Steps

...In A.A. circles the cofounders are affectionately known as Dr. Bob and Bill W. Promoting one of his more recent titles, ‘The Conversion of Bill W.,’ Dick B. writes, “It’s an account of the many ways the Creator seems to have touched the life of Bill W. and, through him, the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.”[2]

The title alone gives the impression that A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson came to Christ. It is certainly true that Wilson was used powerfully and spiritually-but not by the God of the Bible. Wilson, in bondage to spiritualism, communed for decades with unclean spirits. This should be of paramount concern because Wilson was not only the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, but also the man who wrote the 12 Steps.

Read the rest of this chilling report from My Word Like Fire.

See related articles:

Is Celebrate Recovery the same thing as AA? , Life's Healing Choices: Rick Warren's 'Open Nerve' Manipulation

Is Celebrate Recovery the same thing as AA?

From the More Books and Things website:

...And if Celebrate Recovery is the same thing as AA, should churches be using it? Are these 12 steps of Celebrate Recovery based on the words of Jesus, or on the 12 steps of AA? Do we need the twelve steps of AA to 'help' us, as RW of Saddleback says, or do we need Jesus to set us free from the power of sin, as the Bible says?

This is how AA's cofounder, Bill Wilson, who listened to spirit guides and participated in seances, got (or channelled) his 12 steps:

“As he started to write, he asked for guidance. And he relaxed. The words began tumbling out with astonishing speed. He completed the first draft in about half an hour, then kept on writing until he felt he should stop and review what he had written.”

The question is, who did he ask for guidance?

Read the rest at More Books and Things.

See related article, Life's Healing Choices: Rick Warren's 'Open Nerve' Manipulation

Temple Mount riots spotlight religious oppression

From One News Now

A pro-Jewish movement within Israel's Likud Party says that Arab riots on Jerusalem's Temple Mount won't end until the government of Israel restores the Jewish holy site to Jewish control.

Nine police officers were recently injured as Arab rioters hurled rocks and bottles at security forces attempting to stem the violence that began earlier in the morning. According to Israel National News, the riots stemmed from calls by radical Muslim groups in east Jerusalem to "defend" the Temple Mount from conquest by what they called "radical Jewish right-wing elements."

Rob Muchnick, U.S. spokesman for Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership Movement), says the solution to the rioting is to restore full Jewish sovereignty to the Temple Mount and to give Jews full rights to pray there.

"There's no freedom of religion. The Muslims can come and go as they please for 24-7. A Jew has a couple hours a day sometimes in the morning and can't pray on their holiest site," Muchnick argues. "So when my group takes over, Moshe Feiglin, the head of my group, is going to go into Temple Mount and pray to God from the Temple Mount to show the whole world that this is ours."

Furthermore, he says, the Dome of the Rock mosque and other Islamic sites must be removed from the Temple Mount.

Is Your Pastor Warning You of The Coming One World Religion?

Dean E. Burton, Minister of Forsyth Christian Church, Branson, MO is warning the church and the community:

In over 65 years of Bible study I have often wondered why I could not identify the United States of America in the Bible's "end time" prophecy. I fear that I now have the answer, and it is not pretty.

According to what has been leaked about the coming meeting in Copenhagen, our sovereignty as a nation will be compromised. The prophecy of a "one world government" appears to be very close to reality. Plans are under way to bring into existence a "one world religion." The economic chaos in our country appears to have us on the brink of bankruptcy. A comparison of the moral fiber of our country compared with what the Bible teaches indicates we are spiritually bankrupt. The conflict over Israel is a major indicator that something really earthshaking is about to take place.

Now read the book of Revelation in the Bible and the scenario becomes astonishingly clear. It is probably too late to bring about a "Nineveh/Jonah" revival, so the emphasis must be on individual preparation for what is prophesied. This is not "fear mongering," it is reality. Keep in mind that hundreds of Bible prophecies have a 100 percent record of being accurate.

Make certain that you are ready by reading for yourself the New Testament Scriptures and follow its teachings to the letter. Find a Bible believing and Bible preaching church to assist you in your search for truth.

10,000 faithful disappointed as Virgin Mary fails to show at Knock

Organizer claims he saw Our Lady and that she revealed a 'secret' message By ANTOINETTE KELLY, IrishCentral.Com

More than 10,000 people were left disappointed in Ireland Saturday as the Virgin Mary failed to appear as predicted at Knock Basilica.

By 3 p.m. Irish time (10 a.m. EST) about 7,000 people had crammed into the Basilica with a further 3,000 people outside.

Dubliner Joe Coleman, the man who had predicted the apparition left the Basilica at about 4 p.m. saying he had seen Our Lady as anticipated.

Coleman, who says he is “a visionary of our Blessed Mother” said he had also received communication from the Virgin Mary.

However, he said he was unwilling to reveal the message.

Speaking earlier this week Coleman had he warned that the visitation would only be visible “to people who come with an open heart”.

Earlier this month an estimated 5,000 gathered at Knock Shrine with some people claiming to have seen the sun dancing in the sky.

Mr Coleman said the Virgin Mary had asked him to recite the Rosary with a priest in the Basilica and he said he was disappointed that the Catholic Church had declined to make one available.

Also speaking earlier this week, the Archbishop of Tuam, Dr Michael Neary, said such gatherings were not condoned by the Church.