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US fears over China nuclear weapons (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The US is increasingly concerned about China’s deployment of mobile land and sea-based ballistic nuclear missiles that have the range to hit the US. The 2007 Pentagon China military power report highlights the surprising pace of development of a new Jin-class submarine equipped to carry a nuclear ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000 miles. Washington is also concerned about the strategic implications of China’s preparations later this year to start deploying a new mobile, land-based DF-31A intercontinental ballistic missile that could target the whole US.

Hamas, Fatah face off in pitched Gaza fight (Israel - God’s Timepiece)
Hamas gunmen overran the headquarters of a Fatah-allied security force in northern Gaza, killing at least 17 in a key victory in what is rapidly developing into a full-fledged civil war.

Flirting With Invisibility (Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies)
In the experiment, a beam of microwave light split in two as it flowed around a specially designed cylinder and then almost seamlessly merged back together on the other side. That meant that an object placed inside the cylinder was effectively invisible. No light waves bounced off the object, and someone looking at it would have seen only what was behind it.

Christians say national ID number is the Mark of the Beast
Endtimes Ministries in Dallas has distributed thousands of copies of its monthly magazine and brochures to legislators

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Israel to replace soldiers with machines (Israel - God’s Timepiece)
Starting in August of this year, the border between southern Israel and the Gaza Strip will be guarded by machines, rather than live Israeli soldiers. Israel has developed a remote-controlled border surveillance system that will allow Israel to keep a close eye on the Gaza security fence without putting soldiers’ lives in danger. The robotic surveillance towers are also equipped with automatic weapons to allow them to engage any terrorist threat.

Declining Christian Population a Fact of Life in Arab Societies (Christian Worldview/Issues)
“There are 12 million Christians in the Middle East. If the current trend continues, there will be fewer than 6 million by 2025.”

Ark. lawmakers express distaste with national ID law
It was inspired in part by an article from a magazine dedicated to Biblical prophecy

Hindu appointed to run Christian religion studies (Apostate Christianity)
A college affiliated with a Christian denomination has appointed to head its religion department a practicing Hindu who believes that some forms of Christian ministry produce violence. Anantanand Rambachan, who has taught religion and philosophy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., since 1985, now will become the first non-Christian to head the religion department in the school’s 133-year history.

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