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:
- Oil jumps to highest since 2011 as OPEC holds output steady despite Russia’s war on Ukraine
- U.S. oil climbed to the highest level in more than a decade in Wednesday trade, with global benchmark Brent topping $113 per barrel after OPEC and its oil-producing allies, which includes Russia, decided to hold production steady.
- West Texas Intermediate crude futures, the U.S. oil benchmark, jumped more than 8% to trade at $112.51 per barrel, the highest level since May 2011.
- “Brent crude could surge to the $120 level if the oil market starts to think it is likely that sanctions will be placed on Russian energy.”
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- China is ‘big winner’ of Russia-Ukraine war, former FBI agent who worked in China warns
- “They’ll be the primary beneficiary of the sanctions against Russia, the yen will benefit from the decline of the ruble, and they have been given a case study of what the world’s response would look like if they were to invade Taiwan.”
- “It would not be surprising at all to learn that this is shaping up exactly as China planned,” Gray, who spent 10 years working as a supervisory special agent focused on China and North Korea, added.
- “From my experience as an FBI supervisory special agent working on China and North Korea, I know that the Chinese Communist Party is perpetually and patiently planning to take our place as global leaders,” he warned. “As Americans, we need to be cognizant of this threat.”
- Although European countries have joined the U.S. in imposing hefty sanctions on Russia amid the Ukraine war, they have mostly spared Russia’s energy industry of such economic warfare, because much of Europe is dependent on Russia for energy.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Mastercard and Visa cut off Russian banks from their networks: Exodus of foreign firms plunges Russia’s economy into freefall as ruble hits record low and Moscow residents continue scramble for hard currency
- Visa and Mastercard have blocked multiple Russian banks from their network
- It means that many Russians awoke Tuesday unable to use their bank cards
- Everyday Russians have been making runs on banks to withdraw cash
- The ruble has plunged in value amid punishing Western sanctions
- Scores of companies are pulling out of Russia in response to Ukraine invasion
- Other Companies cutting ties with Russia:
- Adidas
- BP
- Dell
- DHL
- Disney
- Ericsson
- FedEx
- GM
- Harley-Davidson
- HSBC
- MasterCard
- Nokia
- Shell
- Sony
- Uber
- UPS
- Visa
- Volvo
- Warner Bros.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- WILD THREATS Putin’s ‘propaganda chief’ threatens West with nuclear destruction as Russia’s arsenal put on high alert
- News anchor Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers across Russia’s 11 time zones that the West would be blown to smithereens with “more than 500 nuclear warheads” if it continued to threat Moscow.
- “This would guarantee destruction of the USA, and all other NATO countries.”
- Kiselyov appeared to back his argument with the crackpot principle that if Russia wasn’t part of the globe then “why do we need the world?”
- “Today our Russian Nuclear Triad is on the high alert.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Russia holds drills with nuclear subs, land-based missiles
- Russian nuclear submarines sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers roamed snow forests Tuesday in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation’s nuclear forces put on high alert over tensions with the West over the invasion of Ukraine.
- It also was unclear whether the exercises represented a change in the country’s normal nuclear training activities or posture.
- Putin’s decree applied to all parts of the Russian nuclear triad, which like in the U.S., consists of nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-tipped land-based ICBMs and nuclear-capable strategic bombers.
- The latest statements from Putin and other Russian officials indicated the Kremlin view of Western sanctions as a threat on par with military aggression.
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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:
- U.S. oil jumps to 7-year high above $101 a barrel as Russian assault prompts supply shortage fears
- Prices first topped the $100 mark last Thursday when Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting fears of supply disruptions from key exporter Russia, in what is already a very tight market.
- West Texas Intermediate crude futures, the U.S. oil benchmark, jumped 5.7% to trade at $101.17 per barrel.
- International benchmark Brent crude advanced 6.3% to trade at $104.16 per barrel. The contract rose to $105.79 last week, the highest since 2014.
- Morgan Stanley now sees Brent averaging $110 in the second quarter, up from a prior forecast of $100. Under the firm’s bull case, prices will jump to $125 per barrel.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Ukraine’s First Round Of Talks With Russia Ends Without A Ceasefire Agreement
- A Russian rocket artillery barrage hit the city of Kharkiv, killing dozens of its residents, while the negotiations were ongoing.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pressing the West to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, an idea that has been floated recently. However, NATO officials, among others, have all but ruled this out. “We have no intentions of moving into Ukraine neither on the ground or in the airspace,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
- The Russian government claims to have captured the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which lies around 100 miles northeast of Crimea. Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and one of the top 10 largest such facilities in the world.
- The Ukrainian military has put civilian casualty figures. A total of 352 civilians, including 14 children, have died in the fighting so far, according to the official statement.
- Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby has warned that “Mr. Putin still has at his disposal significant combat power,” including in the Black Sea.
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“Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. So I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them magnificently dressed, a great contingent with shield and buckler, all of them wielding swords; Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with buckler and helmet; Gomer with all its troops; Beth-Togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops– many peoples with you.'” — Ezekiel 38:1-6
Important Takeaways:
- ‘God Is Getting Ready to Do Something Amazing’: CBN Founder Pat Robertson on Russia and Its Place in Prophecy
- He cited key passages from the prophet Ezekiel regarding nations coming together one day to rise up against Israel – specifically pointing to what Russia is doing in Ukraine as a precursor to that event:
- Referring to a map showing the location of Ukraine, Robertson pointed to a “choke point” between Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece and why Russia might eventually be aiming to control that point.
- Robertson also showed a map explaining which biblical names correspond to the modern-day countries.
- Gomer = Ukraine
- Rosh = Russia
- Magog = Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan
- Persia = Iran
- Togarmah and Tubal = Turkey and Syria
- Put = Libya
- Cush = North Sudan and Egypt
- “All of those troops there are going to be coming against Israel in the latter days. And God says, ‘I am going to take care of it.'”
- “But is Putin insane?” he asked. “Well, yes and no. Because he is being driven to move against Israel because God says ‘I’m going to put hooks in your jaws and I’m going to bring you down on them.’ Now you get the picture.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Finland, Sweden brush off Moscow’s warning on joining NATO
- A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry Friday voiced concern about what it described as efforts by the United States and some of its allies to “drag” Finland and Sweden into NATO and warned that Moscow would be forced to take retaliatory measures if they join the alliance.
- Finland has a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) land border with Russia — the longest border shared by any European Union member state and Russia.
- Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Saturday that “we’ve heard this before.”
- In Sweden, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson addressed Moscow’s statement in a joint news conference Friday with Sweden’s military commander Micael Byden.
- “I want to be extremely clear. It is Sweden that itself and independently decides on our security policy line,” Andersson said.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Ukraine, Russia envoys talk under shadow of nuclear threat
- In a war being waged both on the ground and online, cyberattacks hit Ukrainian embassies around the world, and Russian media.
- Western nations ramped up the pressure with a freeze on Russia’s hard currency reserves, threatening to bring Russia’s economy to its knees. Russians withdrew savings and sought to shed rubles for dollars and euros, while Russian businesses scrambled to protect their finances.
- The U.S., European Union and Britain also agreed to block selected Russian banks from the SWIFT system, which facilitates moving money around thousands of banks and other financial institutions worldwide.
- Ukrainian authorities have been handing out weapons to anyone willing to defend the city. Ukraine is also releasing prisoners with military experience who want to fight, and training people to make firebombs.
- In another possible escalation, neighboring Belarus could send troops to help Russia as soon as Monday, according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of current U.S. intelligence assessments.
- On Monday, the Defense Ministry said extra personnel were deployed to Russian nuclear forces, and that the high alert status applies to all their components: the forces that oversee land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the fleet of nuclear-capable strategic bombers.
- Exact death tolls are unclear, but the U.N. human rights chief said 102 civilians have been killed and hundreds wounded in five days of fighting — warning that figure was likely a vast undercount — and Ukraine’s president said at least 16 children were among the dead. More than 500,000 people have fled the country since the invasion, another U.N. official said
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