Tropical Storm Allison's 3 feet of rain caused up to $2 billion in damage in Houston, making it the most destructive storm in the city's history said Mayor Lee Brown: "This is clearly the most expensive and devastating disaster we've ever had."
The storm killed 21 people and turned neighborhoods into lakes and roads into rivers. The storm damaged 24,000 homes, at least 526 commercial buildings, including several downtown skyscrapers, and many government, medical, and performing arts buildings.
Contrast Houston's woes with what Florida is going through.
CBS News Anchor Dan Rather reported on June 4th, 2001 that as the hurricane season begins, the state finds Mother Nature bearing down with more bad news, posing perhaps catastrophic consequences for Florida's major industries: tourism and agriculture.
Just two weeks ago, an 800-acre fire in central Florida closed five major Orlando-area highways and contributed to a nine-car pileup on the Florida Turnpike. Also a swamp fire in north Florida has burned nearly 61,000 acres. So far this year, 2,844 fires have burned 254,500 acres in Florida.
Forestry officials fear more fires will ignite before hurricane rains offer any relief to this drought stricken state. And when the wind and rains do come, they may not save the Florida citrus industry.
Work crews are racing against time to eradicate a deadly citrus canker spread by wind and rain. They are fearful that if tropical storms, with their strong wind and rain, move the bacteria north to what's called the heart of "big citrus." Oranges and grapefruits -- a $9 billion industry -- could be lost. "Are we going to come back after this is over - if it is ever over?" asks Carlos Bekardi, University of Florida Agricultural Services. "I don't believe its going to happen. I think that's why I say we've lost the industry."
This is the only way to stop the citrus canker infestation from spreading is by bulldozing and burning of the groves. For the trees, it's lethal. First the leaves drop, then the fruit, and then the tree dies. This is an insidious citrus canker. It is caused by bacteria that's harmless to humans, but devastating to a citrus grove and it can spread from tree to tree or with birds or on the wind. Add water to that wind - as in rain - and it can spread for miles.
Dan rather concluded this report with a perhaps prophetic statement: "In Florida you don't have to be a weatherman to know that whichever way the winds blow during this mean season, it will be an ill wind."
The hurricane season is just getting underway.
What does all this mean prophetically? The answers can be found in Amos and Deueronomy:
God says, through the prophet Amos: "......you have not returned to me, declares the Lord. I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me, declares the Lord." (Amos 4:6-8)
This speaks clearly of God's judgment on America. Amos 4:7 has been fulfilled. "One field had rain; another had none." Notice two things in this passage of scripture. Number one, God caused this situation by His own word. And number two, this passage demonstrates the purpose of the judgment: that being repentance ("... you have not returned to me, declares the Lord").
Rain and draught occurring simultaneously in the same country at the same time is a sign of God's judgement as he is pleading for repentance.
Disobedience to God's commands will bring a curse upon the land:
"So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. "But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. "Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks." (Deut 28:14-18)
This just in from John McTernan via Bill Koenig:
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God’s Perfect Storm Warning – John McTernan
June 13, 2001
From June 8 to June 9, 2001, one of the greatest rainfalls in the history of the United States happened in eastern Texas. In a 24-hour period, over 28 inches of rain fell in the Houston area. In
fact, between June 5 and 11, three feet of rain fell on the area. The rain was the product of Tropical Storm Allison, whose brief history will go down in Weather Bureau records as "weird"—to say the least. Allison formed within one day in the Gulf of Mexico, which is unusual. This storm then headed into Texas east of Houston and broke up as a storm system. The remnants drifted to the north of Houston and circled around the city before sliding back south to the Gulf. The storm then re-formed into a tropical storm, which began to unleash incredible torrents of rain starting Friday evening and into Saturday.
The destruction in Houston was catastrophic. An estimated 20,000 homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged, along with possibly 50,000 automobiles and trucks. The city was closed for three days. Twenty-eight counties in Texas were declared a disaster area along with 14 parishes in Louisiana. The resulting damage will be close to $2 billion. This was an incredible storm that did tremendous damage to southeast Texas.
Storms of this magnitude are usually connected to some national sinful event involving abortion, homosexuality, or the pressuring of Israel over her covenant land. This storm was no exception. President George W. Bush sent CIA director George Tenet to Israel to try and broker a cease-fire between the Israelis and the Palestinians and to implement the Mitchell Report. This was the Bush administration’s first real involvement in the Middle East crisis. Tenet wanted Israel to stop building in the settlement areas.
Tenet arrived in the Middle East on Wednesday. On Friday, June 8, the Central Intelligence Agency director hosted talks between senior Israeli and Palestinian security officials in Ramallah, while Assistant Secretary of State William Burns met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city. This was at the same time Allison re-formed as a tropical storm and began dumping this tremendous rain. The two events exactly coincided! On the nightly news, the flooding and the meetings in Israel were reported together!
Texas is President Bush’s home state. He was at his ranch in Crawford, Texas at the time of the flooding. He declared the 28 counties in Texas a federal disaster area while he was in Texas. This was the third time since the Madrid Peace Process began that a sitting president’s state has been the location of a powerful and damaging storm, occurring at the exact time the president was involved with Israel and the covenant land. The first disaster literally destroyed President George H. Bush’s home in Maine. This storm, which came to be known as "The Perfect Storm," happened while President Bush was initiating the Madrid Peace process on October 31, 1991.
According to meteorologists, a "perfect storm" occurs once every 100 years. This storm formed in the North Atlantic and headed west for 1000 miles. The normal weather patterns in the United States are west to east, not east to west.
This was one of the most powerful storms ever. It generated waves over 100 feet high, the highest waves ever reported in the North Atlantic Ocean. As the storm moved west, it sent 30-foot waves smashing at President Bush’s home in Maine. This storm actually struck while the President was opening the Madrid Peace Process. When the President returned home, he had to go to Maine to oversee the repair of his home.
In March of 1997, President Clinton invited Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to the White House to discuss his "problems" with Jerusalem. While Arafat was en route, a powerful tornado storm ripped through seven states, with the worst damage in Arkansas, Kentucky and Ohio. Clinton’s home state of Arkansas bore the brunt of the storm with 13 counties declared a disaster area. This storm brought record flooding to the Ohio River. Clinton met with Arafat, and the headline of a New York Times front-page article on March 4, 1997, read, "President Clinton Rebukes Israel." The headline of the adjacent article read, "In Storms’ Wake: Grief And Shock." The report of Clinton’s home state being devastated by tornadoes was on the front page of the N.Y. Times right next to the one of Clinton verbally attacking Israel.
The home states of all three of these presidents were affected by severe weather patterns simultaneously to their diplomatic dealings, which were putting pressure on the covenant land agreements for the nation of Israel.
The enormous damage to President Bush’s home in Maine by "The Perfect Storm" was eerie, coming just as he was directly responsible for initiating the Madrid Peace Process, which affected Israel’s land.
All three of these storms were ferocious and record-breaking. Both George W. Bush and Clinton had to declare disaster areas in their own states at the very time they were dealing with land giveaway in Israel.
A clear pattern has developed here. Are these presidents being warned by God not to interfere with the covenant land of Israel? Can all of this just be a coincidence? Or is the hand of God signaling a perfect storm warning?
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With God there are no coincidences. God continues to plead for repentance. The signs are everywhere. There have been yet more signs in the heavens and more signs in the earth as volcanic and tectonic activity is increasing at an alarming rate. I will post on these events next, God willing.
In the Middle-East the reports are not good. Although there is a cease-fire in effect (the killing is continuing), but what is going on behind the scenes that is of concern. For example:
I received this unsubstantiated report from a subscriber who indicated J.R. Church (a respected prophetic watchman) said that his military sources indicated that Ariel Sharon went to Russia not long ago to talk with Putin and told him if Russia sells the missle defense system to Syria that they (Isreal) plan too destroy Syria before the system reaches them. Also Assad met with Putin and Putin told him not attack Isreal until they give the go ahead. Assad then got up from his chair and stormed out of the room in great anger. J.R. said that this indicated that Assad had planed for this to take place. We are getting close. Things are being held in check by the Holy Spirit until the appointed time."
Is this report possibly true? Well, you do not need to verify its veracity per sei -- just read the Bible: "Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap." (Isa 17:1) God has already told us, through the prophet Isaiah that Damascus will be utterly destoyed as we approach the time of Messiah's return.
Consider that Syrian Defence Minister Brigadier General Mustafa Talas visited Russia on May 25th, 2001. According to the Tzemach News Service, the secret conversations touched on very delicate issues of resuming the full-scale military-technical cooperation between the two countries that was suspended in the early 1990s but has gradually begun to return to life over the last two years. According to information, the Syrians are ready to pay up to $1 billion within the next few years for repairs of its existing military equipment and the purchase of new military hardware. Another issue that the Syrians are persistently raising is far more sensitive: the sale of Russian S-300 air defence systems to Damascus. These systems are so effective that they could change the entire military-strategic situation in the Near East region.
Representatives of Russia's stated-owned arms exporting company Rosvooruzheniye and Iran's defense ministry met this week for talks on Russia's arms and components exports to Iran, with a focus on the Tor-1M anti-aircraft systems.
In other news, Iran has successfully test-fired a solid-fuelled surface-to-surface guided missile, the Fateh 110, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. It said the missile has been designed and produced independently by Iranian military experts and can be guided to destroy its targets with high accuracy." We continue to move toward an appointment with destiny.
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