MidnightCall Magazine

January 2009

Cover Story: The Seven Dispensations: The Age of the Church — By Norbert Lieth
Posttribulationism — By Dr. Ron J. Bigalke Jr.
Money: Ends and Trends — Endtime Shoe: Fitting The World for Ten Toes - Part I
Healthwise — How Safe Are Our Hospitals?
JAPAN – Researchers Make Brain Tissues From Stem Cells
BRAZIL – Subsidies Dispute With U.S.A.

News From Israel Magazine

January 2009

Cover Story: The Seventh Dispensation: The Age of the Kingdom — By Norbert Lieth
ON THE HORIZON:
Rabbinical High Court Annuls 40,000 Conversions
Israeli Economy Resilient to Crisis
Discovery of King David’s Waterway?
Of 13.3 Million Jews, 41.3% Live in Israel

AWACS With Brazilian Jets and Nuclear Submarine From Russia

Even as India awaits the delivery of the first of the three Israeli “Phalcon” AWACS (airborne warning and control system) later this year, it has signed a $210-million deal with Brazilian firm Embraer for three aircraft for its own indigenous miniature AWACS project.

The indigenous AEW&C (airborne early warning and control) systems being developed by DRDO will be mounted on the three Brazilian Embraer-145 jets, with the delivery of the first one slated for July 2011.

India’s longstanding quest to have a viable nuclear weapon triad – the capability to fire nukes from the air, land and sea – will finally take a big leap towards completion when it takes a Russian nuclear submarine on lease next year.

This morale-boosting news for the country’s strategic establishment comes with the fact that the 12,000-tonne Akula-II nuclear-powered attack submarine, which was being built at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur shipyard in Russia, began shore-based trials recently.

-The Times of India, 4 July 2008, pg. 11

With the explosive growth of India’s economy, the military is keen not to lag behind.

Here we see an apparent controversy. On the one hand, the powerful nations of the world are at relative peace with growing prosperity; on the other hand, the weapons industry is still a vital part of most nations. What is the future of the military according to the prophetic Word? “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Micah 4:3).

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