Wheat COGwriter Yesterday, a reader sent me a link that had the following: Food security has global implications “Prices for staple foods including corn will more than double in two decades unless action is taken, Oxfam International said last week. World grain stocks will fall for a second year by the end of June 2012, […]
Month: June 2011
Natural Disasters Increasing in Severity: Sorrows Increasing
Earth cracked by quake in Japan (Danny Choo) COGwriter Are severe natural disasters worsening? According to a new report from 2009 to 2010 they have: About 42 million people were forced to flee their homes because of natural disasters around the world in 2010, more than double the number during the previous year…The Internal Displacement […]
Second Jewish Temple Located?
COGwriter Here is a potentially interesting development: 2nd Jewish Temple just ‘waiting to be unearthed’ Archaeologist ‘absolutely sure’ structure beneath Jerusalem’s holy mount June 5, 2011 One of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists declared today that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple period – including the Second Temple itself – lie underneath the […]
UK Writer Compares USA to Rome’s Decline
“I will break the pride of your power” (Leviticus 26:19) COGwriter Notice the following news item from a writer in the UK, named Larry Elliot, today: America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its power but with cracks beginning […]
Self-Appointed Two Witnesses
Artist’s depicition of a man in black COGwriter Both today and yesterday I received information from different people claiming to be the two witnesses (the first one was a man and his daughter, and the second one was someone else who did not specify who the other witness supposedly was). I have gotten so many […]
CERN Makes Major Strides with Antimatter
COGwriter Over in Europe, CERN is moving ahead: CERN scientists have now been able to isolate unstable antimatter for a grand total of nearly 17 minutes. That’s a far cry from experiments performed last fall, when scientists were only able to record the presence of antimatter for fractions of seconds. The increased longevity should now […]
LCG: Fasting Has Cardiovascular Benefits
COGwriter A couple of weeks ago, I posted an item about fasting (see Fasting). In yesterday’s announcements at services, LCG reported the following: Fasting Reduces Risk of Heart Disease. In a study of more than 4,500 Mormons in Utah, researchers examined behaviors that were associated with lower risk of coronary artery disease—heart disease. After accounting […]
Pentecost is Sunday, June 12, 2011
Jesus taught, “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:14),. Pentecost pictures that only a few will find the way in this age–but implies that others will later. A “straight and narrow way” in Tobago COGwriter Saturday night, beginning after sunset, […]
Yemen’s President Flees
جامعة الدول العربية Jāmaʻat ad-Duwwal al-ʻArabiyya Arab League Flag COGwriter Another government of a nation that is part of the Arab League may have fallen: Fear of power vacuum as Yemeni president flees Financial Times – 5 June 2011 Fears are growing of a power vacuum in Yemen after the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and several […]
Dr. Winnail: Together on the Sabbath for a Reason
Dr. Douglas Winnail COGwriter In his latest update, LCG’s Dr. D. Winnail had the following: Together on the Sabbath—for a Reason! We are admonished in the Scriptures to encourage one another, “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some” (Hebrews 10:24-25). In the New Testament we see how the members of […]