Rev 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
“Hardly a day goes by when our senses are not bludgeoned by some new outbreak of terrorism in the Middle East. Despite our best efforts at making and keeping the peace, political, economic, and religious tensions often lead to unrest, violence, and riots.”
-Jim Bakker in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”
A pair of car bombings in Baghdad has killed 19 people. The blasts happened in the middle of the afternoon rush hour. The first bomb exploded outside a restaurant and the second a few miles away at a passport office.
Insurgents connected to al-Qaeda have been behind the overwhelming majority of the violence and have left 240 people dead this month. The current assault is part of an ongoing campaign of bombings that ramped up with a massive attack on July 23rd that killed 107.
More than 50 people were injured in today’s attacks.
The government confirmed a suicide bomber carried out the first attack while TV news channel al-Sharqiya said that both attacks were suicide bombings.
