Matthew 24:6-8 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mark 13:7-8 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
In the past SIX (6) days, increasing Rumours and Threats of Wars in ‘Diverse Places’; US expected to step up surveillance as China continues to escalate naval exercises
A series of US spy planes have been detected around China’s coast, including one that was spotted off the coast of Guangdong
Another surveillance aircraft was seen near a no-entry zone in the East China Sea, where the latest drill began on Tuesday
Laura Zhou in Beijing
China has announced another naval exercise as observers predicted that its increasing military capabilities would see an increase in US surveillance flights.
The maritime safety authorities in Zhejiang province announced a no-entry zone for civilian vessels in the East China Sea from Tuesday until Friday afternoon because of “military activities”.
The scale of China’s exercises along its coast in recent weeks has been unprecedented and has been matched by an increase in the number of US ships and aircraft keeping watch over the PLA’s activities.
Meanwhile, a Beijing-based think tank said satellite images showed a number of flights by US spy planes, including one that approached the coast of Guangdong province and another near the no-entry zone.
A US army Artemis CL-604 left Kadena air base in Okinawa on Monday and was later spotted near Guangdong province, according to a Twitter post by the South China Sea Strategic Probing Initiative.
It also said the US air force had transferred two reconnaissance planes, an RC-135W and an RC-135S, from the Yokota air base in Tokyo to Okinawa on the same day.
One Tuesday another army CL-604 plane was spotted near the area cleared for the East China Sea exercise and second that left Kadena air base was seen over the South China Sea.
The latest activities came as tensions between the world’s two largest economies continue to escalate on many fronts, from the economic to the strategic, with the South China Sea and Taiwan among the most likely flashpoints.
Song Zhongping, a Hong Kong-based military commentator, said the US was likely to carry out more reconnaissance operations in China’s coastal regions in future given its growing concern about China’s expanding military capability – in particular the possibility of an attack on Taiwan.
The US, he said, is looking to collect intelligence to “better study China’s strategic intentions in case any armed confrontations occur”.
“Such provocations could become increasingly normal,” Song said. “But from another perspective, the PLA could take it as a great opportunity to train its military in such face-offs with the world’s biggest military power.”
China’s military has stepped up its activities in recent weeks along its southern and eastern coastlines.
The latest exercise in the East China Sea follows the start of another drill in the Bohai Sea, off the northeastern port of Qinhuangdao, on Monday and a four-day live-fire exercise in the Yellow Sea near Lianyungang.
Meanwhile, the US has reportedly stepped up its reconnaissance activities near Chinese coast over the past weeks, with at least four aerial reconnaissance planes being spotted in the Taiwan Strait, the Bashi Channel, the East China Sea and Yellow Sea on August 29 alone.
Beijing has warned against the risks of such operations. Last month the Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe contacted his US counterpart Mark Esper after, prompting accusations such activities increased the risk to civilian aircraft.
In an annual report released last week, the Pentagon warned that China’s armed forces are determined to establish a “world-class military” that can rival or exceed that of the US by 2049, when Beijing could leverage its military might to assert itself in the Western Pacific. The Chinese defence ministry rejected the claims, describing the Pentagon’s report as full of “zero-sum and cold war thinking”.
In His Service,
Night Watchman
Paul Rolland
Night Watchman Ministries
Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.