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The L-rd said to pay very close attention to minute details concerning this tragedy because He is speaking through many of these details:

DetailThe very first witness account was by a woman from PALESTINE, Texas, the owner of a horse ranch in Palestine, Texas, and one of her workers who had been out in the field. They kept repeating that they couldn’t see anything because of thick, dense FOG. They only heard a terrible loud noise or boom. The worker said it sounded like a TRAIN running through the property, so loud and awful.

Witness after witness spoke of the terrible loud “noise” or “boom” they had heard, and of shaking, before they ever saw anything or heard on TV what was happening.

Meaning: Just as the nations suffer from “blinding fog” (i.e. from deception, lacking insight, understanding and “vision”) concerning the truth about the Middle East conflict and the Palestinian insistence on establishing their own state upon the ruins of Israel, so was there dense fog over this TEXAN “Palestine”. 

Similarly, the President from Texas suffers from “fogged up” vision with his drive to establish a Palestinian state upon the covenanted Land, and going to war against Iraq.

As horses symbolize earthly power, so does this FOG over the town of Palestine symbolize the FOG of human reasoning blinding politicians to the spiritual and warfare realities of creating a Palestinian state on Israel's soil. 

It took a very loud BOOM to make the woman hear, but she still could not see anything as, prophetically enough, her area of Palestine, Texas was shut in by fog while the rest of Texas had clear skies.

Furthermore, the boom sounding like a train implies that if President Bush, Ariel Sharon and “the Quartet” 14 continue to pursue the establishment of a Palestinian State upon the Land of Israel, the matter will turn into a “run-away train” tragedy as terrible as the break-up of the Columbia.

By the way, Texas is "the Lone Star state"! Do we really want to be going it alone against Iraq?  G-d seems to be saying "no" to this war's timing, and especially to the notion that WE ALONE (the U.S.) can conquer world terrorism. G-d is looking for humility here, for a recognition of human limitations --- for there will be NO PERMANENT PEACE until He Who is the “Prince of Peace”/Sar HaShalom, returns. 

The haughtiness of President George W. Bush’s statements in his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, regarding America’s calling as a nation to rid the world of global terrorism, is being challenged by the Almighty. G-d will be with us if we advance in agreement and communion with HIM; if we deal with Iraq in His timing, in line with His strategy, in accordance with His ways --- and NOT our ways!

DetailEvery witness told of the LOUD BOOM FIRST!

Meaning:  September 11th was the FIRST trumpet call! Now another one was heard with the disintegration of the NASA shuttle COLUMBIA and its SEVEN crew members, ONE of whom was an ISRAELI! It is a powerful TRUMPET blast of divine warning against dividing up G-d’s OWN Land, Israel! His warning sound was being HEARD BEFORE the disaster could be SEEN, even as the Lord declares in the Scriptures, “Surely the Lord G-D does nothing, without revealing His secret to His servants, the prophets. The lion has ROARED: who will not fear? The Lord G-D has spoken: who can but prophesy?”15

 I.e., there is STILL TIME to avert the disaster from happening IF the divine warnings of impending disaster are heeded!

The number 28:  This was Columbia's 28th flight, in the 28th month of the Intifada, which began on Sept. 28, 2000, and was right after Bush's State of the Union speech on January 28, wherein he again reiterated the USA's (the "Quartet's") intention to see to the establishment of peace and of a Palestinian state on Israel's land, along with his intention to fight a war in Iraq and anywhere else needed to rid the planet of terrorism. 

Numerically 28 means "eternal life". It figures at least 4 times in this scenario (once for each member of the Quartet?). There have only been four space shuttles16, Columbia representing one of this “Quartet”. G-d is emphasizing the need to choose life over death now by yielding to His timing regarding events, in particular end-time events. 

The space shuttle Challenger, by the way, exploded on January 28, 1986.

There were 7 astronauts on board Columbia. Seven is one of G-d's perfect numbers. Seeing that there were seven astronauts, we may conclude with certainty that it is indeed G-d Who is making a statement here.

Columbia’s crew was composed of male/female, black/white, Jew/Gentile and multiple nationalities such as an Indian native and an Israeli. The flight commander’s name was HUSBAND. G-d declares in His Word in Isaiah 54:5, that HE is our Husband, our “co-pilot”: “For your Maker [is] your Husband; the L-RD of hosts [is] his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the the G-d of the whole earth He is called.” 

The hour has come for us to turn from the wisdom of man and seek the wisdom of our "Husband" - G-d.

Detail:The Significance Of Torah In Space17
An excerpt of Barbara Richmond's "Special Jerusalem Report #2 on 2/1/03" 


14 The Quartet: NewsClips 3 15 Amos 3:7-8
16 Columbia, Enterprise, Challenger, and Atlantis 17 Torah in space: News Clips 3; Special Jerusalem Report: www.foryourglory.org

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