These Perilous Times 230 Christians Recently Reported Missing

People all across the world are witnessing the destruction in Syria. People all across the world are witnessing the destruction on earth by a careless society and the elites. People all across the world are so focused on their own fear and problems that we forget what unites us all in desperate times. Faith, the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the answer to a world gone astray.

In these perilous times, many feel lost, abandoned and forgotten while stuck in a war stricken country or place by a world that cares not. What happens when all is lost? What happens when there is nothing left? Who picks up the pieces?

Faith, the substance worth fighting for, worth bleeding for, worth dying for, faith in Jesus Christ that is. Below is a powerful testimony by Author Tim Doyle telling the story from Syria.

Hundreds of Christians have been reported missing, hundreds more have been slaughtered. ISIS has been the wrecking force behind such attacks, but looking further at the driving force of ISIS one will find the US and Mossad are the real menaces of this crisis.

These Perilous Times 230 Christians Recently Reported Missing

Just recently 230 Christians have been reported missing after fighting near their villages. Even though the threat of death and capture surrounds the entire middle east for Christian men, women, and children; something truly awesome is happening.

The faith is growing, the church is growing, and the people are waking up to the power of Christ, the redemption of Christ, the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Christian Persecution has happened all throughout human history, for it is written that it will happen. God says fear not FOR IT WILL PASS. God is purifying His people.

When all hope is lost, and the darkness surrounds, there’s a light on YOU just have to know where to look. Jesus Christ.

“So they prayed and fasted for a week, the team. And so Fareed walked down to the basement of this house in Damascus thinking, ‘I wonder if anyone is going to be there,"” Doyle said.

“There was actually 25 leaders there – the 10 had gone out and recruited 15 more that said, ‘We’re ready to stay, we’re ready to suffer, we ready to die here in Syria for Jesus,"” Doyle continued.

“And to seal this commitment they went out and bought a plot of land so they can bury each other when they die as martyrs,” he said. Doyle says the team continues to send reports that Jesus is moving in Syria, people are joining the Church, and the graveyard is empty.”

For their graves are empty. Jesus Christ reigns forever, and ever.

These times are different, for there are signs in the sun, moon, stars, distress in the earth, distress amongst nations. People are rising against people, nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. God is purifying His people, through these trials, and through faith. The redeemer is redeeming, and the word of the Lord is cutting just as a double-edged sword.

The only way out is through the tribulation, and what comes next is going to be tough on humanity, prepare now for destruction cometh and just as the Bible states in Matthew 24:13; But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Be prepared to endure the tribulation, for it is also written:

Matthew 24:29-37King James Version (KJV)

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

These Perilous Times 230 Christians Recently Reported Missing

Toxic sludge in contaminated river reaches New Mexico, communities have 90-day water supply

California is in a water crisis, and now New Mexico only has 90-days worth of water. Three months worth of water, that is not long at all. The previous water crises in America have been some of the worst this country has faced. Now, there is another water crisis on the horizon because of arsenic and lead in polluted water supplies. 

Toxic waste, including arsenic and lead, which seeped into a river in southwest Colorado, has now crossed the state border into New Mexico. More than 550 gallons per minute are entering the water flow system according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which caused the spill.

The agency says it should have the results of samples undergoing lab testing soon, so they can find out just how contaminated the river has become. Aside from lead and arsenic, federal officials say the spill also contains, cadmium, aluminum, copper and calcium.

High levels of arsenic can cause blindness, paralysis and cancer, while lead poisoning can create muscle and vision problems in adults and can be fatal for children.

"We’re busting our tails to get that out," Environmental Protection Agency Regional Director Shaun McGrath said, as cited by AP. "We know the importance to people to have this information."

The bright orange toxic sludge, which entered the Animas River in Colorado, has now crossed the state border into New Mexico and reached the city of Aztec on Friday night. Local communities in both states are not happy and have blasted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for being slow in warning residents after the spill took place. 

"There’s not a lot we can do. We can keep people away (from the river) and keep testing. We still don’t know how bad it is," San Juan County Emergency Management Director Don Cooper said, according to AP. 

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Officials in the cities of Aztec and Farmington say they have shut down the river’s access to water treatment plants, adding that the communities had a 90-day supply of water.

The Animas flows into the San Juan River in New Mexico, and the San Juan flows into Utah, where it joins the Colorado River in Lake Powell. There are also reports that the contaminated water is heading towards Utah.

The EPA says they have finished building two containment ponds, which are aimed at treating the toxic sludge in the river. However, this is very much a short-term plan, while the long-term issue of cleaning up the spill will take some time according to McGrath. 

“The sediment, the metals that are in that sediment are going to settle out to the stream bottom," he said. "As we have storm surges, as we have flooding events, that sediment can and likely will get kicked back up into the water. We’re going to have to do ongoing monitoring," McGrath added.

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It is estimated that over one million gallons of toxic waste has already found its way into the river. The spill was caused after the EPA was investigating the abandoned Gold King Mine on Wednesday together with the state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. They accidentally breached a debris dam that had formed inside the mine and this triggered the release of the waste into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River in San Juan County.
Ironically, the initial goal was to find a safe way to pump out the wastewater from the mine, which was abandoned in 1923 and treat it, EPA spokeswoman Lisa McClain-Vanderpool said. 

Toxic sludge in contaminated river reaches New Mexico, communities have 90-day water supply

Suspect In Situation That Caused Columbia County School Lock Downs Identified

***UPDATED at 11:46 A.M. on Friday, August 7th*** Columbia County, GA – We have now learned the name of one of the suspects in a Friday morning situation that caused all school in Columbia County to be locked down. Captain Steve Morris, of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, 18-year-old Jerimiah Hawkins, of Aiken, posted a series of Snapchats of a handgun being discharged from a vehicle. In other Snapchats, Hawkins stated he was in Augusta, the Lakeside High School parking lot, and in the cafeteria of Lakeside High School.

Capt. Morris says, no direct threats were made to any particular school, but out of an abundance of caution, all schools in Columbia County were placed on lock down.

“Any time we get a call like this, you know we need all the resources that we can get and that’s what happened here. We reached out for resources and we have a lot of schools in the county,” said Capt. Morris.

“I think they handled it well. I mean, I heard some parents in there complaining, saying they wish they would have been called. But, if they would have been called, there would have been 4,000 parents up here and they would not have been able to do their job. So, I think it was best to handle it this way,” says Jahmar Binghman, a parent of a Lakeside student.

One witness stated a white male in a dark-colored Chevrolet Avalanche pointed a weapon at them while they were on the bus at Old Evans Road, near Bobby Jones Expressway. The Suspect was tracked via cell phone to Aiken, where he was arrested by Aiken Department of Public Safety officers.

The truck was at the scene of his arrest. Two other subjects were with Hawkins, 17-year-old Aaron Lott, of Aiken, and 19-year-old Leondre Henderson, also from Aiken.

We will continue to follow developments in this story and provide mroe details as they become available. WJBF News Channel 6’s Margaret-Ann Carter will be reporting on this story during the Friday WJBF News Channel 6 at Noon broadcast.

Source: Suspect In Situation That Caused Columbia County School Lock Downs Identified | WJBF-TV

Suspect In Situation That Caused Columbia County School Lock Downs Identified