Revelation 8:7 “ The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.”
Important Takeaways:
- CURRENT WILDFIRES BURNING IN THE U.S.
- In Texas there are 74 fire-related incidents currently reported 368,854 acres affected
- New Mexico 49 fires and 241,879 acres affected
- Oklahoma 35 fires and 75,278 acres affected
- Nebraska 4 fires 42000 acres affected
- Kansas 12 fires 36,568 acres affected
- Arizona 30 fires 32,756 acres affected
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Chinese navy shows off hypersonic anti-ship missiles in public
- The Chinese navy has shown off an advanced anti-ship missile ahead of celebrations to mark its 73rd anniversary this weekend
- Military analysts said displaying the YJ-21, or Eagle Strike 21, may be a warning to the United States or Taiwan
- The missiles are designed to target aircraft carrier strike groups
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- China and Solomon Islands sign security pact, Beijing says it is ‘not directed at any third party’ amid Pacific influence fears
- The agreement will see Beijing helping Honiara with issues including social order and national security
- The US has warned the pact could lead to a Chinese military presence in Solomon Islands
- Australia’s Minister for the Pacific travelled to Honiara last week in an unsuccessful bid to stop the deal
- “We are concerned about the lack of transparency with which this agreement has been developed, noting its potential to undermine stability in our region,” the ministers said.
- “We continue to seek further clarity on the terms of the agreement, and its consequences for the Pacific region.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- US Sanctions Fall Short of Halting Russian War Machine as Ukraine War Enters New Phase
- “When the Biden administration announced sanctions on the 24th of February, they specifically said, in fact, the president himself tweeted, that their goal was to reduce the ‘ruble to rubble.’ Unfortunately, as we’ve seen today with the ruble trading at higher levels against the dollar since before the attack, by their own metric, the Biden administration has failed,” said Marshall Billingslea, former Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing at the Treasury Department
- As the fighting in Ukraine again escalates, the Biden administration says it’s committed to raising pressure on Russia.
- Many observers are asking, however, will it be enough?
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Top US Diplomats Head To Solomon Islands Amid China Worries
- National Security Council Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will lead the delegation, NSC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
- They will visit the US state of Hawaii, and also Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
- Seeking “to further deepen our enduring ties with the region and to advance a free, open, and resilient Indo-Pacific,”
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled through the region in February to highlight Washington’s commitment, as it crafts a long-term strategy to contain an increasingly ambitious China.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- China holds military drills around Taiwan as U.S. delegation visits
- China’s military sent frigates, bombers and fighter planes to the East China Sea and the area around Taiwan on Friday, People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command spokesman Shi Yilu said, according to China’s state broadcaster.
- The People’s Liberation Army said the move was intended to target the “wrong signals” sent by the United States.
- “With Taiwan producing 90% of the world’s high-end semiconductor products, it is a country of global significance, consequence and impact, and therefore it should be understood the security of Taiwan has a global impact,” Menendez told Tsai in a meeting in the presidential office broadcast live online.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “ when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- US, Philippines start largest-ever war games as defense ties deepen amid China tensions
- Nearly 9,000 Filipino and American soldiers will take part in the 12-day Balikatan drills across the main island of Luzon
- Philippine military chief General Andres Centino said the training reflected the ‘deepening alliance’ between the two countries
- Recent maneuvers between the two countries focused on potential conflict in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost in its entirety.
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2 Timothy 3:1 “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.”
Important Takeaways:
- Large fires becoming even larger, more widespread
- In the journal Science Advances, a team of environmental scientists found that fire frequency has tripled in some parts of the United States — and that in the 2000s, wildfires grew up to four times the size of fires in previous decades.
- William Travis, deputy director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Earth Lab and a co-author of the paper. “More large fires plus intensifying development mean that the worst fire disasters are still to come,” he says in a news release.
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Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
Important Takeaways:
- Plains Drought to Curb U.S. Wheat Harvest, Adding to Global Supply Worries
- A worsening drought in the southern U.S. Plains is threatening the region’s winter wheat crop just as the Russian invasion of Ukraine dents global supplies.
- More than half of Kansas was classified as under severe drought or worse as of March 8, the driest conditions since 2018, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center.
- Severe drought is also covering three-quarters of Oklahoma and more than two-thirds of Texas, both of which also are large wheat producers.
- U.S. hard red winter wheat represents nearly half of the country’s overall wheat production and is milled mainly for bread flour. A reduced crop could further stoke food inflation that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said was the highest-ever in February
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Important Takeaways:
- Amid Heightened Risk of Cyber Attack, US Scrambles to Fill Nearly 600,000 Open Cyber Security Jobs
- Cyber protection is no longer optional. The future is now, and the war in Ukraine has escalated the threat of destructive ransomware attacks to an all-time high.
- The intelligence community says it’s focused on four potential scenarios.
- “We’re very, very focused on ransomware actors that might conduct attacks against our allies or our nation. We’re very, very focused on some type of cyber activity that’s designed for perhaps Ukraine that spreads more broadly into other countries. Third, is any type of attack that an adversary would conduct on an ally. And finally, certainly our critical infrastructure,” said NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone.
- “In today’s society, everything is connected, everything is interdependent, and therefore, everything is potentially vulnerable,” Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- “In 2019 in the U.S., you had about a bit less than 50,000 people who…graduated from a master’s in computer science
- The numbers just don’t add up: 50,000 people to fill nearly 600,000 jobs. So the tech industry is trying to help fill the void.
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