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1 Timothy 1:18
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
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Posted by: JG on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 05:16 PM
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Will anyone Pray For Israel.
God commands us to.
He also promises a blessing if we do.
Israel Hit by Worst Locust Plague Since 1950s
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Millions of locusts swarmed through Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat on Sunday, devouring crops and flowers in the country's south.
 EXO 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all [that] night; [and] when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous [were they]; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Israeli agriculture officials sent crop dusters into the air to spray against the locusts that swept in from North Africa in the first such invasion since 1959. Eilat residents reported clouds of locusts eating palm trees bare and wiping out entire gardens.
"You watch as trees that are covered with flowers are devoured. They ate everything, even a grassy roundabout which is covered with locusts," said Meir, an Eilat resident.
Curious residents swatted locusts as long as 10 cm (3.9 inches) which filled the air as they walked outside to inspect the damage. "It's like the plagues of Egypt," said one resident.
In the Bible, locusts were the eighth of 10 plagues that God inflicted on the ancient Egyptians before Pharaoh, their leader, let the Israelites go.
Locusts ventured across the Negev desert as far north as the Dead Sea where farmers worried that larger numbers of insects said to be heading their way might eat through their crops.
"They have landed to sleep for the night ... tomorrow we are expecting greater numbers," explained farmer Shalom Shoshana who feared for his tomato and pepper crops. "It's frightening."
But agriculture officials said they were not overly concerned as a cold front forecast on Monday would prevent the locusts from breeding and would keep them grounded where they would be easy prey for crop dusters.
"The question is whether the locusts know that," piped up Shoshana.
The locusts were heading east toward Jordan and Saudi Arabia and were not expected to move to Israel's more fertile north as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip where Palestinian farmers are less equipped to deal with the scourge.
The last major invasion of African locusts 45 years ago ravaged crops in the Jewish state.
But some Israelis as well as labourers from Thailand, where locusts are a delicacy, made the best of the current outbreak by collecting the insects and taking them home for dinner.
"Delicious," said one Israeli man in Eilat, licking his lips after picking a locust off the ground and eating it raw. "They're a delicacy fit for a king."
A Web Site in Eilat listed recipes for locusts including locust shish-kebab, locust chips (French fries) and stir-fried locusts. The recipes said it was essential to cook the insects while alive "as otherwise they become bitter."
The locust is the only type of insect that is kosher and permissible for religious Jews to eat under Jewish law.
The first plague tells of a river of blood. This leads to a number of questions that can be summed up by asking what river specific thing could turn the water red, and kill all of the fish?
The second Plague of frogs
This third plague, of lice
The fourth plague of flies (one of the names of satan is...LORD OF THE FLIES)
plague 5 was a plague on livestock,
plague 6 was boils and blains, which could be Glanders,
plague 7 was a massive, but localised hailstorm.
plague 8 was an explosion of the locust population.
plague 9 was a massive sandstorm called a "cashimh".
plague 10, the death of the first born
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