Ezek 44:2-4

2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
KJV
 

 

First Friday prayers of Ramadan at Temple Mt. end peacefully

By Haaretz Service and Agencies

The first Friday prayers of the fast month of Ramadan passed peacefully as some 150,000 Muslims gathered to mark the occasion by worshipping on the Temple Mount compound, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Large numbers of police patrolled in the Old City of Jerusalem ahead of the start of prayers, with reinforcements from police forces across the country arriving at the capital to boost numbers.

Israel Police commander Shlomo Aharonishki told Israel Radio that fact that the prayers had passed peacefully was down to the continuous security routine at the site over the past few months, as well as the outcome of the shared interests of Israel and the Waqf, the Muslim religious trust.

Entry for West Bank and Gaza Strip residents to the Temple Mount was limited to 5,000 married men of at least 45 years and women aged 35 or older, in order to prevent violent mass protests from erupting after the prayers. No age restrictions were imposed on Palestinian residents of Jerusalem.

 

Thousands of Muslims worshipping at the Al-Aqsa Mosque at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the first Friday prayers of Ramadan. (AP)

 

 

Police also set up checkpoints all around Jerusalem to prevent people from taking back roads into the city by foot, witnesses said.

In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, soldiers prevented a few hundred worshippers from entering Jerusalem and some tried to push and shove their way through. Israel Defense Forces troops fired a stun grenade, setting off a loud blast. One Palestinian was reported lightly injured.

Asked about the scuffles at the checkpoint, the military said that Palestinian officials in the city had not provided lists of names of worshippers, preventing soldiers from allowing people past checkpoints. The IDF said soldiers needed to screen lists for possible security risks.

A quarter of a million people used to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan before the intifada erupted three years ago with riots at the complex.

 

The Bible has one plan for the future of the Temple Mount while Islam has demonstrated they will die before allowing that Biblical plan to be implemented. The gauntlet has been cast down by Islamic leaders that should the Jews ever propose to rebuild their Temple, war to the death would result.

It is clear to me that God's plan for the Temple Mount, and Islam can't exist together. It is why I'm convinced Ezekiel 38 & 39 reveals the end of Islamic influence over the Holy Land at the beginning of the Great Tribulation. I'm convinced the testimony of the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11 who never leave Jerusalem will be the building, and establishment of kosher worship within Ezekiel's Temple. Even the chronology of Ezekiel supports this conclusion! The very next section of Ezekiel following the "Last Jihad" of Ezekiel 38 & 39 is the description of Ezekiel's Temple in chapters 40 to 48!

All reputable commentators agree the timeframe for Ezekiel 38 & 39 is difficult to predict. I offer my thoughts as speculation resulting from comparing today's news with Bible prophecy. I know the Temple Mount is critical to all God will be doing in preparation for the coming Kingdom age. If the whole world must step aside for God's plan, then it shall be so! The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again, and He is coming to Jerusalem. His glory will fill Ezekiel's Temple, and with the coming of His glory a flow will come from under the altar already in existence. A flow to cleanse, and mingle with the blood sacrificed on the altar that will increase to a mighty river as it flows to the oceans of the world. The entire earth will be cleansed of all the pollutants brought about during the rebellion of mankind during the Great Tribulation. 

"Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done"

 

Ps 110:1-2
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
KJV
 

 

*LATEST NEWS*- QUIET BREAKTHROUGH

 

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday night that he believes Israel is on the verge of a breakthrough in diplomatic talks with the Palestinians and “entering a path of peace and quiet.” Speaking at an economic forum in Tel Aviv Sharon admitted that Israel continued to hold high-level talks with Palestinian officials, though not a prime ministerial level – honoring a Palestinian request to allow PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei more time “to establish himself."

 

 

Ariel Sharon is no friend of the settlers. He is a politician first. He seems to be able to sell the sovereignty over the Temple Mount, and the conquest of Judah and Samaria for political advantage when the time comes. I personally do not trust him in back room negotiations. I'm certain the independent settler movement in Israel will be put on the chopping block as a sacrifice for a secular peace. I doubt it will slow the movement down much because they've been going against government policy from the beginning.

It is beyond reason to think that over 250,000 Jews can be rooted out of their homes in the Holy Land. An interesting observation is that there are already more then enough Jews living in the tribal areas of their fathers, and were God today to call for the 144,000 Jews, 12,000 out of each tribe, that prophecy in Revelation could be literally fulfilled! The Independent fundamental settler movement has more then necessary filled the potential needed. The situation is reflective of the days of the Judges when the Jews struggled with the stay behind interlopers who were not driven out during the initial conquest. It took David the King to subdue the Philistines who were the greatest power in those days. Soon, the son of David, who is really his LORD, will end all opposition to the Jews taking back what He has already promised them!

Soon a new song will be sung among the Jews. It will be new to this generation, but in fact is as old as the Bible. It can only be sung when the Jews as a people turn away from the politicians, and turn back to the God of their fathers!

"Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done"

 

Ps 9:12-13

12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
KJV
 

At Least 14 Killed in Separate Attacks Against U.S. Troops

By REUTERS

Published: November 2, 2003
 

BAGHDAD, Nov.2 — At least 13 soldiers were killed when a U.S. Chinook helicopter was shot down west of Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

 

"Currently 13 soldiers are KIA (killed in action) and some 20 wounded," a spokesman told Reuters. The attack caused the biggest single death toll among occupying troops since Saddam Hussein was toppled in April.

Separately, a U.S. soldier died after being wounded in an overnight roadside bomb blast in Baghdad.

A U.S. spokesman said two Chinooks had been heading for Baghdad airport with troops on a rest and recreation break. He said the downed helicopter, carrying 30 people including five crew, had been "shot down by an unknown weapon."

A witness in Falluja, Dawoud Suleiman, said: "There were two American helicopters. They fired a missile at one and missed, and then they hit the other, which crashed and caught fire."

Some Iraqis were jubilant. "The Americans are pigs. We will hold a celebration because this helicopter went down -- a big celebration," said wheat farmer Saadoun Jaralla near the crash site. "The Americans are enemies of mankind."

U.S. troops told journalists to leave the area and confiscated their film as another military medical helicopter with a red cross sign on its side landed, sending up clouds of dust from the dry scrubland.

It was the third time guerrillas had brought down a U.S. military helicopter since U.S. President George W. Bush declared major combat over in Iraq on May 1.

Bush himself had vowed on Saturday to stand firm and said leaving Iraq prematurely would strengthen the "terrorists" who he blamed for recent deadly suicide attacks.

DANCING ON THE WRECKAGE

In Falluja, residents said a roadside bomb had hit a convoy of U.S. soldiers in civilian vehicles. At least one vehicle was ablaze at the scene, where crowds gathered to celebrate and shout anti-U.S. slogans. Television pictures showed a gleeful youth wearing a U.S. Army helmet. Others danced on wreckage.

Before the helicopter attack, 123 U.S. soldiers had died in hostilities in Iraq in the past six months, including one killed by an overnight roadside bomb blast in Baghdad and two killed by a bomb in the northern city of Mosul the day before.

In Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, residents said a roadside bomb had exploded as a U.S. convoy passed, hitting a bus carrying university students and wounding two women.

 

The war in Iraq is really a clash of wills. The terrorists want the mighty Christian nation to leave them continue to terrorize their own people first, the US second, and ultimately the Jews. What has become despicable is that the politicians are now using the sacrifices necessary to contain, and destroy the terrorists for political gain. I'm ashamed of many Americans who are using the inevitable tragedy of war as a stepping stone for political advantage. Abraham Linchn faced a similar situation in his last years so it is nothing new. I only pray God's hand on America will not be something of the past.

I know the world is better for the fall of the Saddam regime. I know evil men are seeking to fill the void. I also know America must be willing to pay the price of a drawn out pacification program. It may still get worse before it gets better. It remains at the most basic level a clash of wills.

I personally feel America blessed with the might we possess are obligated to defend the world from terrorism. I believe God has given us a taste of what the Jews in Israel face daily. We see them dance in the streets at our sacrifices, and our hearts ach. Our inaction is the greater sin when it comes to terrorism, and those who support it. We did the right thing by entering Iraq, and if anything did not finish the job by including Syria. That shortcoming may still be accomplished? God's hand was clearly on America during Iraqi Freedom. Where we have gone wrong is with the "Road Map." The establishment of a Palestinian State within the Holy Land is an abomination to everything the Bible reveals about God's future plans for Israel. We tread on Holy Ground when as gentiles we meddle in Jewish affairs. God's hand can't be on the Road Map, and the Bible at the same time. We go too far when we think we have a better way then what God has already revealed.

 

Luke 21:24

24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
KJV
 

EU poll: Israel is top peace threat

Survey shows U.S. on par with Iraq and North Korea

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 3 — A majority of European Union citizens see Israel as a threat to world peace, and more than two-thirds believe the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was unjustified, an opinion poll showed Monday.

THE EU EXECUTIVE Commission’s survey of attitudes on Iraq and world peace showed that 59 percent of those polled saw Israel as a threat, putting it above Iran, North Korea and the United States, each of which polled 53 percent.
       The poll also found that 68 percent of EU citizens believed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was not justified.
       Asked by reporters about the political implications, Commission spokesman Gerassimos Thomas said: “It is not our role or our policy to interpret each opinion poll or to base our policy on it.”
       The commission carries out about 60 polls a year among the EU’s 375 million citizens, seeking their views on everything from the euro to EU enlargement.

In the the latest survey, around 500 people in each EU country were asked whether they considered the 14 nation listed as threats to world peace.
       Fifty-two percent said Iraq was a threat, 50 percent said Afghanistan was. The other countries — Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Russia and Somalia — scored less than 50 percent.
       
       © 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

 

It should be clear that world opinion is against Israel. It is unbelievable that the world would be more favorable to the Islamic Nations like Syria and Iran who so openly support terrorism then to the democratic Israel. It is hate pure and simple that makes reason go out the window. The Bible says that before God is finished bringing in the Kingdom Age that Israel will stand alone against the gentile world. It is apparent that those days have already arrived.

God has a perfect plan built around dispensational change. The times of the gentiles is ending, and the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Nebuchadnezzar's dream is finally coming to the toes of iron mixed with clay. The stone cut without hands is about to establish His Kingdom on earth. It matters not that the whole gentile world votes against God's plan. Nothing can stop the return of the Lord Jesus Christ as King of the Jews. He is coming to Jerusalem where His throne will be established for 1000 years. The world seems ripe for judgment, and the Jews are back in the Land of their fathers.

 

Num 34:3

3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
KJV
 

Dead Sea Drying Up, Israeli Study Warns

Tue Nov 4, 8:40 AM ET

By PETER ENAV, Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM - The Dead Sea is dying, and only a major engineering effort can save it, Israel's Minister of the Environment said Monday.

The Dead Sea gets its name from its heavy salt content, because no aquatic creatures can live in it. Now there's a new "death threat" — the Dead Sea is drying up and disappearing.

An Israeli TV reporter, illustrating the government report, stood on a spot where, just 20 years ago, water met land. Now that point is 2,000 feet of parched ground away, he said, as the sea gradually recedes.

Because it is landlocked in a hot desert area, evaporation is high, accounting for the dense salt concentration that allows bathers to float above the water with no effort. The area is popular for spas and treatments, with luxury hotels on both sides.

For millennia, the balance was maintained by the Dead Sea's only water source, the Jordan River, pouring in from the north. In recent decades, however, both Israel and Jordan have been tapping in to irrigate large swaths of agricultural land along the narrow river that divides the two countries, robbing the Dead Sea of its replacement water.

A five-year drought has added to the woes of Dead Sea, which occupies the lowest point on Earth, 1,320 feet below sea level. The sea is about 38 miles long and about 11 miles wide.

The Israeli study said that without an intensive engineering effort, the sea's water level will continue to recede by as much as three feet per year, adjacent ground water will disappear, surrounding land will buckle and collapse, and nearby wildlife and vegetation will be lost.

Environment Minister Yehudit Neot said she would ask the Israeli Cabinet to hold a detailed discussion on the study's conclusions.

"If the conclusions are not implemented, there is a real danger to the future of the Dead Sea as a world class natural resource," Neot said.

The Environment Ministry study said that to secure the sea's future, engineers would have to develop a new infrastructure of bridges and roads leading to its shores. It recommended that resources be applied only in places where remedial engineering efforts would be successful, suggesting that many areas are already beyond repair.

Plans to use the difference in elevation between the Dead Sea and other bodies of water might also help solve the problem. The latest idea is to build a channel between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Dead Sea, with waters rushing downhill driving electricity power stations.

The water pouring into the Dead Sea from the south would counter the deterioration, but environmentalists warn that water from the Red Sea is salty, while the Jordan River supplies fresh water, and this could have adverse consequences.

However, the Red Sea-Dead Sea channel project is still in planning stages, and experts say it might be prohibitively expensive

 

God has his own plan for saving the Dead Sea, but as usual it is just the opposite of the best laid plans of men. Water is like gold in the desert Middle East. The reason the Jordan can no longer supply the needs of the Dead Sea is because both Arabs and Jews siphon off it's flow for agricultural purposes. God's plan is to solve the water problem in Israel forever, and in the process solve the environmental problems of the whole earth.

God's solution is directly tied to the building of Ezekiel's Temple. That in itself is contrary to all the gentile peace plans for the Middle East. It also calls for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ as King of the Jews. His absolute righteous reign goes contrary to a world that demands the freedom to sin.

God's plan is not to use the worthless salt water from either the Mediterranean or Red Seas, but God's plan is to use fresh water with His flow going in the opposite direction. The flow will start from under the altar of Ezekiel's Temple, and it will flow in the opposite direction of the present plans to save the Dead Sea. The flow will be primarily provided to cleanse the altar of blood sacrifice, but as those clensing waters mingled with blood flow into the Dead Sea they will then overflow into the oceans of the world cleansing everything. God's plan is to use the waters of life to change the Dead Sea into the Living Sea. It is all part of coming dispensational change!

 

Gen 3:13

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
KJV
 

Kissinger: Sharon could make 'astonishing' concessions

By Haaretz Service

Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in remarks broadcast Wednesday that he was quite optimistic that the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock can be broken, and that despite Israel's "tactical stiffness," past experience has shown that even
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would make "astonishing" concessions if there were an opportunity for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The former American foreign policy chief said that if some positions are changed, "especially on the Arab side," progress will be made in the current period.

Kissinger was the central speaker Tuesday at a ceremony in the Israeli Embassy in Washington marking the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

"There are ways to get out of the deadlock, and I am actually quite optimistic," Kissinger said in an interview with Israel Radio. "Some positions will have to be changed, especially on the Arab side, about the survival of Israel, but I think that we are at a phase where progress will be made."

Asked about PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, Kissinger said "Arafat knows what he has to do. He doesn't need to be talked to. He's known for 10 years what he should do in order to have peace, and he hasn't wanted it."

The former secretary of state added that "The way to a breakthrough, is that the moderate Arabs convince the Palestinians, or assist the Palestinians, in defeating the terrorists."

"Whatever the tactical stiffness of Israel is, on the big issues it has made astonishing concessions every time there was an opportunity for peace. They did it under Rabin, they did it under (former prime minister Ehud) Barak, and they would do it under Sharon, or anyone else."

 

The coming secular peace is inevitable. It will prove more dangerous to the Jews, and the world then all the wars of human history because it will lead to Armageddon. It is not the war talk that bothers me as much as the phony peace talks. Peace leaving out God can only mean disaster in the end. Compromise between the heathen Palestinians, and God's chosen people is an abomination. This would not be the first time Israel was beguiled by treatorus neighbors. The Bible should remind the Jews to be on their guard when gentiles come with hands held out for peace.

I have no doubts Ariel Sharon is a politician first. I agree with Kissinger that he will make "astounding concessions" when he thinks the time is right. Rabin gave away the farm, and got the Oslo War for his reward. Who knows what concessions Sharon would make for a Nobel Peace Prize on his mantel? I'm sure those irritant settlers will find little sympathy when compromises are being made. I would imagine the status quo at the Temple Mount would be easy for him to accept. I'm also expecting a Palestinian State in the middle of the Holy Land would be part of the concessions made by the secular Jews for a secular peace!

All these concessions that I would expect from the Israeli politicians go against the Biblical plan for the future of the Holy Land. The coming peace truly is a great disaster in the making. If Joshua could be beguiled, then Sharon has no possibility of standing against the gentiles when they come with a secular peace. Only the Prince of Peace holds the future for the Holy Land. The cost will be the whole world must accept His uncompromising righteousness. All other peace plans are dead on arrival.

 

Gen 22:17

17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
KJV
 

Remembering Rachel - With A New Jewish Presence
16:03 Nov 06, '03 / 11 Cheshvan 5764
 

Hundreds visited Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem last night on the traditional anniversary of the death of the Matriarch Rachel. Nearby, a more modest crowd participated in the affixing of a Mezuzah on a new Jewish property.

Many hundreds of people visited Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem - just several hundred meters south of the Jerusalem municipal border - in commemoration of the traditional anniversary of the death of the Matriarch Rachel. Nearby, a much more modest crowd participated in the affixing of a Mezuzah on a new Jewish property adjacent to Rachel's Tomb. Journalist Judy Lash Balint, who participated in the modest event, described it:
"A small group gathered to watch as Minister of Tourism Rabbi Benny Elon put up the first mezuzah. He noted that it's the first Jewish building in Bethlehem in thousands of years. The IDF commander stationed there for the past several weeks looked on, together with the attorney for the project and the contractor responsible for the renovations. Former Knesset Member Chanan Porat strode in to join several of the young men who had worked behind the scenes to bring the project to fruition. A few American supporters managed to witness the scene. Standing out amongst the crocheted kippot was Rabbi Rabinovich, rabbi of the Kotel and other holy sites, resplendent in black coat and black hat..."

Ten public Egged buses arrive at the holy site daily - in marked contrast to the emptiness following its closure after the onset of the Oslo War. The abandonment may well have continued until today had not a group of 30 women taken things into their own hands. A few weeks after the site was closed, they walked, with their babies, to Rachel's Tomb from the Gilo Junction. They were forcibly evacuated that afternoon - but were promised that civilians in bulletproof buses would be allowed to visit later that day. The situation has in fact improved since then, and the number of visitors has risen dramatically.

Those who initiated the purchase and renovation of the Jewish property adjacent to Kever Rachel did so in the knowledge that without a Jewish presence in the area, Rachel's Tomb could meet the same fate as Joseph's Tomb - abandoned and destroyed by Moslem vandals, almost hermetically closed off to Jewish visitors. The new property, immediately south of Rachel's Tomb, is a three-story building housing an army unit on one floor, a kollel (Torah study group) on the next, and a self-contained apartment at the top. Bulletproof windows have been installed, and the house has been physically linked to Kever Rachel by a cement block wall and roof.
 

 

This is more work by the independent fundamental Jewish settler movement going on in Israel. Their own government has always been the greatest barrier for them to overcome. The mothers with their babies defy the Palestinian terrorists with a boldness General Custer would have applauded. They defy their own government which brutally evicted them in the beginning. It was only public pressure that caused the government to back down. They defy the Road Map put together by Russia, the UN, and the EU gentile powerhouses, and foolishly supported by the US. They stand alone rejected on every side, but God has given them an impossible victory. For the first time in over 2000 years since Rome evicted them a piece of property in the city of Bethlehem is now Jewish. The stronghold over the Holy Land by the vicious Palestinians, and the world wide Apostate Christian powers has been breached. Not by a great powerful army, but by a group of independent fundamental Jewish mothers doing what God has put in their hearts. They are settling the Land of Israel. The old tribal lands so long abandoned are steadily becoming Jewish once again.

This is a real Biblical miracle unfolding before the eyes of a world that does not want to see God at work in the Holy Land. This world would rather see the TV hucksters version of phony miracles, or acknowledge miracles acclaimed to Mother Teresa by the Apostate Church then see what God is really doing! Dispensational change is here. Soon, the real Church of born again believers in Christ will step aside at the rapture, and redemption will flow to the Jews of Israel. A great change is about to take place just as the Bible always said would happen. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again to Jerusalem as King of the Jews. Ezekiel's Temple must be built before His return. It will not be built by the government, but by the same independent spirit seen working today among unconverted Jews. Imagine what will be accomplished when their redemption draweth nigh!  Not even a blind man could be without excuse for not knowing what is happening in Israel today!

 

Ex 6:6-7

6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
KJV
 

Over 180,000 Reported on the Temple Mount
12:46 Nov 07, '03 / 12 Cheshvan 5764

(IsraelNN.com) Over 180,000 Islamic worshipers have arrived on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for Ramadan prayer services. Police are not reporting any disturbances.
 

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Arutz-7 Sells "Eretz HaTzvi" Ship
16:13 Nov 05, '03 / 10 Cheshvan 5764

An important chapter in Arutz-7 history ends today, with the sale of the Eretz HaTzvi ship. Yoel Tzur, Arutz-7's Technical Manager, said today that the ship has been sold for scrap, and that at "4:00 this afternoon it will leave for Izmir in Turkey, where it will be taken apart and sawed down." Tzur said that there had been two other options: "To sell it for use as a ship, but since it's 35 years old - built in Hungary in 1968 - it did not attract too many buyers... The other option was simply to sink it, which we did not want to do. Every day it stands idle in the ocean it costs us money, so we chose to sell it for scrap."

Asked to recount some of his memories of the Eretz HaTzvi, Tzur said, "There were very many. In the summer, we enjoyed going out to the ship, to go fishing and have a barbecue... In the winter, there were storms and difficulties getting the tapes out there, and the broadcasters and crew would complain that they wanted to get off... It was a period of a lot of tension and a lot of responsibility. But this period is over, and we're headed now for even bigger things - apparently this wasn't big enough for us..." Interviewer Ariel Kahane, who spent over a year as a broadcaster on the ship, agreed that it was a special experience. "One thing I remember is how we used to supply food to Abie Natan's Voice of Peace crew," he said.

 

 

The seas are not always smooth. No one enjoys hardship until after it's over. The struggle for the Temple Mount has only begun. Today, we experience rough waters. The conservative Arutz Sheva ends an unprecedented period of defying the politicians, and maintaining an independent spirit in Israel.  Arutz Sheva is a positive voice for the independent fundamental Jewish settlers. It has always been adamant about the fact that the Temple Mount is Jewish! Their voice continues for now only by the internet. I'm sure the politicians are already looking for ways to gag even that platform of expression. The conflict only grows in intensity as God forces His will on the Holy Land.

I'm encouraged that the last Jewish Temple was not built by the might or power of men, but rather by the spirit of the LORD of hosts. The Bible says the same LORD of hosts will intervene at the right time to accomplish the building of the final Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. It will not be done by the secular government, but through hardship by independent Jewish fundamentalists. The opposition this time will be no less intense, but it will be the irresistible spirit of the LORD of hosts working on the hearts of independent Jews that will prevail at the end.

God has a plan! Ezekiel 38 & 39 is a prophecy yet to be fulfilled. Ezekiel 40-48 is a Temple yet to be built. Ezekiel 39 ends all Islamic influence over the Holy Land. It will not be until then that the door will open for the construction of Ezekiel's Temple (chapters 40 -48) as the chronology at the end of Ezekiel unfolds. The Bible says the final Temple to be built on the Temple Mount will be Jewish!

 

Num 15:31

31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
KJV
 

Bush calls on Middle East to open arms to democracy
Hussein's fall a 'watershed' for the world

David E. Sanger, New York Times

Washington -- President Bush on Thursday challenged Iran, Syria and two crucial American allies in the Middle East -- Egypt and Saudi Arabia -- to begin embracing democratic traditions and to view the fall of Saddam Hussein as "a watershed event in the global democratic revolution."

Bush's speech, before the National Endowment for Democracy, appeared to be part of an effort by the White House to change American and world perceptions of the Iraq occupation, describing it in far broader strategic terms than the ouster of a dictator.

But it came at a time when Bush has been struggling to create democratic institutions in Iraq itself and when the daily casualties among alliance soldiers in Iraq have led many in the region to question whether the United States is capable of transforming the nation it invaded.

A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll released Thursday showed 54 percent of respondents disapproved of Bush's Iraq policies, up from 41 percent in August.

In the speech, Bush sought to position the American experiment in remaking Iraq alongside the nation's efforts to spread democracy in Asia and Europe after World War II and to bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. He directly compared what he called his administration's new, "forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East" to Ronald Reagan's 1982 declaration in England that Soviet communism had failed.

"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe," Bush argued, in a critique that embraced both Democrats and Republicans who preceded him, "because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."

 

I have always agreed the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do. I also expected the terrorism against our troupes would be a hardship difficult to bear. It is the cost of ridding the world of Islamic religious fanatics who have degraded into animalistic behavior.  The only way to deal with such depravity is to cage or kill them. We must pay the price, and finish the job in Iraq. I'm also convinced the job will never be complete until Syria is included as part of the invasion. The Beka Valley in Lebanon controlled by Syria must also be exterminated of all the filthy vermin  that have gathered there waiting for the right time to vent their animalistic vengeance on the Jews.

Where I disagree is with the gentile sponsored road map to peace concocted by Russia, the UN, and the EU which the US is foolishly endorsing. It is a road map to Armageddon. Freedom and democracy was once glorious concepts when it freed the people to worship using the literal Bible as their guide. Religion lost it's dictatorial power, and the individual was set free from it's bondage. Today freedom and democracy has become an invaluable right by mankind to sin! The Bible is being systematically removed from the public under the same claims of freedom and democracy which once freed the Western world from dictatorial religions, denominations, and philosophies. 

The future is not in freedom and democracy. The future is in dispensational change so clearly presented in the unchangeable Bible. The future is not moving away from the Bible, but moving back to it.

 

Hos 8:7

7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
KJV
 

Millions tucked away by Arafat and the Palestinian Authority

JERUSALEM -- More than $300 million of Palestinian Authority funds was diverted by Yasser Arafat into a previously undisclosed Swiss bank account and the money can no longer be traced, according to a television report to be broadcast today.

CBS News' "60 Minutes" reports that missing Palestinian funds were held in Switzerland in an account set up in the name of a British Virgin Island company. The account has since been closed.

The revelation follows the disclosure by the International Monetary Fund in September that Arafat had diverted more than $900 million of Palestinian Authority funds from 1995 to 2000.

The new report coincides with a BBC documentary, also airing today, that says the Palestinian Authority pays members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militia that conducts suicide attacks against Israelis, up to $50,000 a month.

The BBC will quote a former Palestinian Cabinet minister claiming that the money was intended to wean the gunmen away from suicide bombings. But an al-Aqsa leader interviewed by the BBC said that despite the payments, the group had not declared a formal cease-fire and Arafat had not asked it to stop the suicide bombings.

Details about the two reports emerged as Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia announced that Arafat had agreed to divide responsibility for security between the Interior Ministry and the National Security Council. The deal clears the way for the formation of a new Palestinian government.

The CBS program reports that $300 million of Palestinian money was channeled into a private account at the Lombard Odier Bank in Geneva. The account was closed in 2001, and the report says it is unclear where the funds are now.

Some of the money was tax refunds from the Israeli government to the Palestinian Authority for duty levied on imports, destined for the Palestinian-run areas, that must enter through Israeli ports.

 

It is no wonder why men strive for leadership rolls in the Palestinian Authority. One wrong move, and your dead! Yet, It is the road to untold wealth. The treasures of Ali Baba become insignificant when compared to this "Open Sesame" accessed through the Palestinian Authority. The real tragedy of it all is that the Palestinian people seem willing to pay this price of continual poverty by being willingly fleeced from their leadership because they hate the Jews that much. Only animals with no conscience are qualified to lead these Islamic Arab Palestinians because only men of such character can be expected to wreak animalistic vengeance on the Jews. Only animalistic fanatics can be expected to order the killing of Jewish women and little Jewish children without a tinge of hesitation. It is this kind of leadership that the Palestinians demand, and the cost of being continually fleeced is just expected.

The revelation of this truth will have little play in Palestine. In the first place, it would be the death warrant for any Palestinian newspaper, or other media outlet to repeat, and in the second place the Palestinian people would willingly accept any excuse from their leadership which would probably just blame it all on the Jews!

The Bible has long taught to sow in the wind only reaps the whirlwind. The Palestinian people certainly exhibit the truth of this Biblical proclamation. Soon, the entire gentile world will follow the Islamic Palestinian Arabs into sowing to the wind. They will choose the antichrist to lead them when he makes his appearance. The whirlwind coming that will destroy the Islamic Palestinian Arabs from the Holy Land will also destroy the entire gentile world that chooses the antichrist to be their leader!

 

Matt 24:37

37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
KJV
 

Proposed Palestinian Cabinet line-up casts doubt on peace moves

Ramallah, West Bank-AP -- Palestinian lawmakers say the new Palestinian Cabinet is set to win parliament's approval this week -- but it may have trouble renewing talks with Israel.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (AHK'-mehd kuh-RAY'-uh) says the Cabinet will be presented to parliament on Wednesday. The line-up leaves Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in control of security forces, despite calls from Israel and the U-S that he step aside.

An independent Palestinian legislator says he expects the new Cabinet to win easy approval -- but predicts Israel and the U-S will shun the new body.

In other developments, an Israeli newspaper reports the Defense Ministry wants to extend a planned security barrier six miles east of Jerusalem.

That would make it reach far deeper into the West Bank than in previously published ministry plans. Ministry officials say the published route, which runs closer to Jerusalem, reflects official thinking.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

The Palestinians just don't get it. The reality of 9/11 has passed on by them. They still live in the pre- Iraq war era. They still think Rabin or Barak are running the Israeli government, and Bill Clinton is president of the United States. They still believe the Oslo war is being won by them, and the game of deception is working when dealing with the infidels! Reality has not set into their thinking! The Middle East has moved on to the present while the Palestinians remain in the past. The Palestinians just refuse to leave the good old days, and this makes communication in the present world impossible. They negotiate as if they have the whole world hoodwinked into believing they are the innocent victims of Israeli aggression, and that their terrorism is a heroic expression of freedom by an oppressed society.

True history records only one group has been continually oppressed and suppressed. It has always been individuals who did not go along with the crowd. They stood individually, as a small remnant,  acknowledging that only God is righteous, and fallen mankind is in need of a Savior. At one time only Noah and his family were standing for God in a world probably numbering over 1 billion. Talk about being victimized, oppressed, and suppressed! America was founded by persecuted individuals who sought the freedom to acknowledge a literal Bible in a world gone mad with powerful dictatorial religions.

Today, there are few independent voices willing to expose the modern Charismatic movement as false. Individuals are few who maintain the truth that the Roman Catholic Church is apostate. Such independent fundamentalists are suppressed by the great weight of the modern Evangelical Church. Today, Christian independent fundamentalism is outside main stream Christianity, and victimized as being out of step.  God is disgusted with this lukewarm generation, and is about to spew it out of His mouth. Today's reality is that dispensational change as always recognized by the old-time fundamentalists is at hand! The day that the true Christian Church must step aside for the Jews is almost here. The present is quickly coming upon this generation. Biblical prophecy is again becoming present day reality as the old fundamentalists had told us would happen. Only a remnant of gentiles will be raptured out of the great apostate Christian monster that will be left behind. Only a remnant of Jews will survive the end of the times of the gentiles, and enter into the Kingdom. The days of Noe are here!

 

2 Sam 22:3

3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
KJV
 

Israel, U.S. to jointly fund laser capable of shooting down Katyushas
By Ellis Shuman  

Israel and the United States will jointly develop a laser cannon capable of shooting down short-range missiles, MK Yuval Shteinitz said on Tuesday. The U.S. Congress approved $57 million for the project and Israel will be required to provide matching funds.

Shteinitz recently led an Israeli delegation that lobbied successfully in Washington for additional funding for the joint Nautilus laser weapon project. The Associated Press noted, however, that there is no public record of congressional approval for Nautilus funding, but said it may fall under the classified portion of the 2004 Defense Authorization bill, passed by Congress and signed by U.S. President George W. Bush.

The laser beam system was successfully tested at the U.S. White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in February 1996. The intercept and destruction of a Katyusha rocket "was achieved during a high-power laser tracking test conducted as part of the ongoing Tactical High Energy Laser/Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (THEL/ACTD) integration process," news sources reported at the time.

However, since then, development of the project had been held up by skeptics in the U.S. Congress, an Israeli security official told AP.

"Now we have to make it an efficient, compact weapon that can be used in the battlefield and in the war on terrorism," Shteinitz said.

According to an AP report, Israel needs the Natulitus laser cannon to help protect its northern border from Katyushas launched by Hizbullah forces in southern Lebanon. Hizbullah is estimated to have some 11,000 rockets aimed at Israel.

Once the system is deployed, the minute a Katyusha rocket is fired at Israel, it would be detected by Israeli radar which determines the rocket's course, Maariv reported. The Nautilus laser cannon would then fire a high power laser beam at the rocket, destroying it in midair.

"If the technology is developed, it will be applicable to many other military mechanisms," Shteinitz said. "It could be a central mechanism in the future battlefield."

The Israeli legislators who lobbied for additional U.S. funding convinced congressmen that the Nautilus system could be used to help defend American sites, such as the White House, Maariv reported.

"It is clear that the laser is no longer a matter of science fiction," Shteinitz said. "The Americans realize that it is important to use this."

Congress also approved a further $89 million for a second joint U.S.-Israeli project, the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system, which has already entered production, Shteinitz said. The system is already operational and was deployed ahead of the war in Iraq to help defend Israel against possible SCUD launches.
 

 

The temptation for the Jews to put their trust in the gentile Americans, and their technological prowess is great. It is also a great error. God wants the Jews to trust Him not the gentiles. I can only see a bitter lesson coming out of this present tendency. It may seem strange for America to be doing the right thing with our Israeli ally, and yet be wrong when the big picture is visualized. I'm not saying this is the wrong thing to do; I'm just afraid the end result will not be what everyone would normally expect.

Dispensational change does not mean the Christians save the Jews. The true Christians step aside at the rapture leaving behind apostate Christianity, and God saves the Jews. It is a fundamental truth that the carnal minded, and apostate are always grabbing at worldly substitutes rather then resting in the sufficiency of God. It is why the Roman Catholic Church needs Mother Teresa, and the Charismatics need phony signs and wonders. All substitutes fail in the end! Only simple singular trust in God survives. Only those with this singular trust in Jesus Christ will be part of the raptured Church, and all those trusting in the substitutes will be left behind. It has never been Christ plus, but Christ alone!

The Jews are not putting their trust in phony substitutes for security. These formerly science fiction wonderments work! The problem is the substituted trust is what will fail. The United States is not always going to be Israel's friend. The antichrist will see to that. Alliances change, and former trust in agreements fail. Only that singular trust in the God of the Bible will never fail! Bitter lessons are about to confront all who seek worldly substitutes added to the one singular atonement revealed through the God of the Bible.

 

Ezek 36:23-28

23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
KJV
 

Likud MKs in Hevron
15:57 Nov 13, '03 / 18 Cheshvan 5764

Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin led a large group of Likud Knesset Members today on a visit to Hevron and Kiryat Arba. Rivlin said that the Geneva agreement is a "continuation of the Oslo Agreement that led the Israelis and Arabs towards a crash, and its results will be yet another erosion of the bonds linking the People of Israel and its Land."

The Prime Minister's Office announced this week that Sharon's plans to connect Hevron and Kiryat Arba would not be carried out. In fact, under the watchful eye of Israeli bodies such as the Civil Administration, the PA is building houses along Worshipers' Path - the road that connects Hevron and Kiryat Arba. The PA is also investing great resources to refurbish Arab houses near the Jewish neighborhoods in Hevron. Hevron Jewish Community sources say that the government is trying to "isolate and dry us out." The Likud MKs discussed with their hosts ways of solving this problem and constructing a contiguous Jewish presence between the two cities.

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Hevron’s First Response Team Activated
21:14 Nov 13, '03 / 18 Cheshvan 5764
 

(IsraelNN.com) Hevron’s first response security team has been activated after an armed person was detected in the Casba area adjacent to the Jewish Quarter. Details to follow if necessary

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Burns Says “Settlements” Undermine Our Position
00:54 Nov 14, '03 / 19 Cheshvan 5764

 

(IsraelNN.com) US Mideast envoy William Burns stated the “settlements” undermine Israel’s legitimacy as a democratic nation, Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reported.

According to the report, the senior US envoy added the ongoing expansion of Yesha (Judea, Samaria & Gaza) communities with the endorsement of the government will make efforts towards reaching an agreement the PA in the future considerably more difficult.

 

The independent fundamental settlement movement in Israel continues to cause turmoil. The "on again" " off again" support of the secular Jewish government is confusing at the least. It is clear the secular gentile governments are adamantly opposed to the occupation, and conquest by the Jews of Yesha (Biblical Judah and Samaria, or West Bank according to the gentiles)). The Bible is just as clear that dispensational change means the Jews will be back in the land of their fathers when the Kingdom age begins.

It is clear to those who understand the Bible that God is preparing to turn this world upside-down! The Jews are back, and with that the literal Bible referring to the literal Jews is  now ready to complete the revelation of God's eternal plan. The 2000 year dispensation of the Christian Church is quickly coming to completion, and the Kingdom age when Christ will rule the whole earth for 1000 years as King of the Jews is about to begin.

Individual fundamental Jews are more often then not defying their own secular government. They are always in defiance of gentile plans for the future of the Holy Land. What they are is in complete compliance with is what the Bible says needs to take place for dispensational change! Turmoil over the conquest of the Holy Land by the Jews is nothing new. There was great turmoil in the days of Joshua, and the turmoil was no less intense during the days of Ezra. It should be no surprise that the whole world is in turmoil today as the Jews, for a miraculous third time, are conquering the promised land!

The next major Jewish event in the Bible will be the building of Ezekiel's Temple. Imagine the turmoil that announcement will create when the revelation continues! The time is short! God has no intention to compromise His plan. The Bible will not be changed even if this entire generation must perish. A remnant will survive according to the Bible, and the Kingdom age will be established! The Holy Land will be holy once again. The hearts of the Jews are destine to change. Biblical righteousness will become not only the law of the Holy Land, but the whole earth. Only one God will be worshipped. The God of the Bible who sent His only begotten Son to be an atonement for sin. Only perfect blood has power to wash away sin. It is why Ezekiel's Temple with a functioning altar  must be built! It is all part of God's irresistible plan as revealed in the Bible.

 

Ps 2:12

12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust