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Monday - September 1, 2003

Isa 31:4

4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
KJV
 

 

Sunday, August 31, 2003 Elul 3, 5763

The zealots return, for the Temple, of course

By Danny Rubinstein

Last Wednesday's Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount were most interested in speculation about the precise location of the Temple. One member of the group explained where the courts for the priests and the people and the women were located and where the Holy of Holies stood, but the police officer accompanying them urged them to move on: They were not allowed to pause, lest they begin praying.

Last Wednesday, like every other day last week, a group of Jews went to the Temple Mount. At 8 A.M. there was already a ruckus of traffic at Dung Gate. In these last days of the summer vacation, Jewish pilgrims were taking the opportunity to visit the Western Wall. The path leading to the Mograbi Gate, above the Western Wall, was nearly empty. The visitors to the Wall usually are not very interested in going up to the Al Aqsa plaza. At the foot of the path, police and Border Police and a first group of some 15 Jews waited for the gate to open. All the Jews wore skullcaps, some had wild payot, and they were all dressed sloppily. They looked like Hilltop Youth from the settlements.

One of them wore an unusual, crown-like hat and a colorful badge on his lapel, with the words "Mishmar Hakadosh" - Holy Guard - written on it. His name - his family name, he said, was Alon. He was born in Ukraine and became religious. Asked what distinguished him from the police at the entrance to the plaza, he answered with a smile: "They are the guards of the imagination while I am from the real guard." Later he explained to the police that they only think they had power, and that he and his friends in the Mishmar Hakadosh have the real power.

The policeman at the entrance checked each person before the visitor went through the Mograbi Gate and onto the large plaza around the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque. There are dozens, perhaps more, Border Police and policemen deployed throughout the plaza, accompanied by guards from the Waqf, the Muslim religious trust. The Jewish group began its tour around the plaza, accompanied the entire time, at a distance, by a squad of police and Waqf guards.

The group passed the museum and entrance to Al Aqsa and reached a large area in the southeast corner of the plaza. Under this part of the plaza are the large caverns known as Solomon's Stables, which were discussed at Camp David three years ago as a possible site that could be turned into a synagogue. The Palestinian delegation vehemently rejected the idea and meanwhile the Waqf has renovated the spaces into prayer halls for Muslims. The plaza above is covered with new tiles and air ducts that open to the halls below. A broad entrance has also been built to the prayer halls, with a fancy staircase and new lighting. A large area was dug out to create that entrance, near the eastern wall of the plaza. The construction prompted cries in Israel that the Waqf was vandalizing archeological findings.

Last Wednesday's Jewish visitors were most interested in speculation about the precise location of the Temple. One member of the group explained where the courts for the priests and the people and the women were located and where the Holy of Holies stood. All the members of the group know that halakha (Jewish law) forbids a Jew to approach an elevated area in the center of the plaza, since we are all "tainted by death." But nowadays there are quite a few rabbis who contradict the traditional halakha, and allow Jews to move around that elevated area. When the group paused for a while, the police officer accompanying them urged them to move on. They were not allowed to pause, lest they begin praying.

Alon of the Holy Guard said, "It's difficult to believe that mumbling some psalms is considered disrupting public order."

A little while after the group passed the inner buildings of the blocked Golden Gate in the center of the eastern wall, opposite the Mount of Olives, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, chief administrator of the Haram el Sharif plaza, joined them at some distance. He was outraged by reports of a secret understanding between the Waqf and the Israeli police about opening the plaza to non-Muslim visitors. When the group paused for a moment, he angrily demanded the police make them get going. "It is absolutely forbidden for non-Muslims to pray here," he said. "They aren't praying," said the policeman. "They're getting an explanation."

The group passed the school and academy along the northern Wall and the gates on the western side. Near one of them is the burial room of Faisal Husseini, who died two years ago in Kuwait.

Israelis haven't visited the mount for the last three years and aside from the changes in the area of Solomon's Stables, the only discernible changes are on the western side, for the renovation of Husseini's burial chamber. He is buried alongside his father, Abudl Kadr el Husseini, who was killed in 1948 in the battle at the Kastel, on the way to Jerusalem and next to his grandfather, Mussa Qassam Husseini, appointed mayor of Jerusalem by the British in 1918, but deposed two years later for opposing British policies regarding Jewish immigration.

Three generations of Husseinis are now buried there, and beside them is the grave of Ahmed Hilmi Ahmed al Baki, the short-lived Palestinian prime minister appointed in Gaza by the mufti in 1948.

Not far from the grave, a bearded Jew wearing a skullcap was measuring out in footsteps the path that leads to the Dome of the Rock. He said he was Daniel Michelson, a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute. He said he is a specialist in measurements on the Temple Mount for calculating the site of the Temple. Like Alon from the Holy Guard, he also was an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who turned religious. He suggests those interested in the subject visit his Web site, where, among other things, there are lengthy presentations of the so-called Bible codes, the "secret" codes of the Bible.

The chairman of the Waqf, Adnan Husseini, explains that one of the reasons they are afraid to open the plaza to non-Muslims is that it is pretty clear to them who will want to visit. Foreign tourists are staying away from Israel. Israelis from Tel Aviv are afraid to go to Jerusalem. Those that remain are the zealots and extremists who will use the opportunity to create trouble on the Temple Mount, he says.

Nonetheless, there apparently were secret contacts between the heads of the Muslim community and the police about opening the site to non-Muslims. Jerusalem Mufti Sheikh Akram Sabri, an Arafat loyalist, told Palestinian reporters two weeks ago, as reported by Al Ayyam on August 8, that "the Waqf is examining the possibility of resuming tourist visits to the Haram in Jerusalem." There were rumors and reports that more than a month ago, when Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal, brother of King Fahd, visited Al Aqsa, he spoke with the Waqf leaders on the matter, saying Muslims should not oppose foreigners visiting the mount. But Adnan Husseini is furious about those reports, calling them "an ugly Israeli invention meant to pave the way to Al Aqsa."

Last weekend, Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas spoke on the issue, condemning visits by extremist Jews to the Al Aqsa plaza. "This is a deliberate Israeli provocation just like September 2000" - a reference to then-opposition MK Ariel Sharon's visit to the site - "meant to incite and lead to violence while we are trying to calm things down."

The tour by the Jewish visitors last Wednesday ended back at Mograbi Gate, above the Western Wall. The group walked out backward, lest they turn their backs on the holy place, and then began to go down the path to the Western Wall plaza. One of the Waqf guards, watching them depart, said in Arabic the well-known phrase, "the powerful have no shame."

At the foot of the path, Alon of the Holy Guard was ready with leaflets "for men only" explaining the rules of going to the site. The rules include certain blessings that must be said and special care for cleanliness, including a visit to the ritual bath. "Make sure all the orifices are clean; ears, nose, everything, under the fingernails ... and those who must, should use their orifices before the dunk in the ritual bath."

A police sergeant said Alon and his friends were there every day. He was amazed. "They don't work. They don't go to school. Who pays for them?" But meanwhile, another group of Jews - all young - has shown up, waiting to go to the Al Aqsa/Temple Mount plaza, among them a few ultra-Orthodox

 

 

The bias of this reporter is "of course" obvious. He would like his readers to agree that the only Jews interested in the Temple Mount are the fanatics and zealots.  To him, the Temple Mount is a curse magnified by religion that can only lead to further civil conflict. I particularly like his reference to the "hilltop youth of the settlements." It reminds me of the hillbilly smears often used by American reporters in referring to someone they would like to portray in a very poor light. The references to the "Bible codes" is also aimed at portraying only overboard mystical minded Jews as those who see the Bible bringing importance to the Mount.

The Temple Mount has a much greater interest to many who are not of the hillbilly category. It also is not something hidden away in obscure mystical Bible codes. The importance of the Temple Mount to God is revealed in the plainest of statements language can communicate. The Temple Mount is not a hidden subject in the Bible!

Men of the Bible have waited for God to keep His promises concerning the Temple Mount. They are not zealots or extremists, but faithful men who know the God of the Bible is the only God that is not a figment of manmade imagination. The language of the Bible is too clear. God has communicated His will to mankind. Jesus Christ is the only savior! It will be at this mountain that the vail covering the nations shall be lifted. A vail produced by sin that leaves men without excuse for their willing blindness. It will be on this mountain that death will be swallowed up in victory. It will be at this place where all the tears produced by sin will be wiped away. Here is where the Lord Jesus Christ as the LORD of hosts will come at His return to planet earth!

Ps 24:10

10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
KJV

 

"Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done"

 

 

Temple Mount

Isa 25:5-9

5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
KJV
 

 

Tuesday - September 2, 2003

Rev 16:15-16

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
KJV
 

 

Monday 1st September, 2003

Israeli says Iran is at nuclear crossroad

Big News Network.com     Monday 1st September, 2003

 

Israel's foreign minister is expressing concern that Iran has reached the point of no return in its nuclear program.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Iran is likely to have nuclear capability within one year and he called on Russia to stop providing assistance, the Indian Web site Deepikaglobal.com reported.

Shalom met Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Yuri Fedetov, who is visiting Israel, and apprised him with Israeli assessments on the issue, besides warning him that a nuclear capable Iran will change the strategic balance in the region, Radio Israel reported Sunday.

Russia is helping Iran build an atomic reactor at Bushehr. The U.S. has claimed the Iranians would use the technology to fabricate nuclear weapons.

Media reports have also named Pakistan, which has refused to sign the nuclear 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, as one of countries whose nuclear technology might have been passed to Iran.

 

 

The time is up! The technological explosion of this computer generation has brought the world to the brink of Armageddon. It is not that I believe Armageddon will be a nuclear holocaust, but I know that evil will soon have a weapon it will not hesitate to use on the Jews of Israel. A nuclear bomb targeting Tel Aviv by Hezbollah's mindless wild animals is now potentially only a year away. This means God will be forced to  intervene before such a tragedy takes place.

The Islamic bomb is now moving from Pakistan to Iran. The Russian Gog is in the thick of it all. It will quickly move on to Hezbollah, and the Beka Valley of Lebanon where it can reach Tel Aviv. The Arab governments will all claim hands off putting blame on the elusive terrorists working independently. How the terrorists get the bomb will never be officially revealed. It will remain a mystery of denial. Retaliation by Israel on Lebanon would accomplish nothing.

I suspect a false gentile peace will be imposed on the Middle East very soon now. The Islamic bomb is forcing the world into action. Rather then seek God, the world will seek a phony peace plan. Israel will be put to rest by false gentile promises. The Bible says Islam will not conquer by using the bomb, but rather will come to plunder an unprepared Israel at rest.

One year is not a very long time. Something must happen quickly to avert disaster. The best man can do is prolong the inevitable Armageddon. Only God has a plan that will solve the Middle East conflict forever. It means the end of the times of the gentiles, and the beginning of the Kingdom age! The end of Islam on the mountains and fields of Israel will focus the eyes of the world on God's plan for dispensational change in action. The time has just flat run out!

 

 

The End of Islam

Ezek 38:11-18

11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
KJV

 

 

Wednesday - September 3, 2003

Ezra 1:3
3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
KJV
 

 

Israel vows 'all-out war' on Hamas

Tuesday, September 2, 2003 Posted: 1:14 AM EDT (0514 GMT)

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel declared "all-out war" against Hamas Monday and said it is freezing diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority unless the Palestinian leadership takes "tangible steps to deal with infrastructures of terror."

A statement released after a Cabinet meeting cited Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz as saying the August 19 bus bombing in Jerusalem had "broken the track that was supposed to give the diplomatic process a chance."

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told CNNRadio that military means was not the way to secure peace. He added that breaking off ties with the Palestinian Authority will prevent the road map to peace from ever being implemented.

Before the Israeli announcement, Israeli military helicopters fired missiles at Hamas members Monday in Gaza City.

Israeli security sources said a helicopter fired on "a car loaded with arms ... killing two Hamas military activists." They were identified as Khader Housari, 40, and Munther Kanitha, 32.

Palestinian sources said one Hamas member was killed and conceded that doctors said a second Hamas member was "clinically dead."

Twenty-five people were wounded in the attack, according to Dr. Mauia Abu Hasanin, director of the Shifa Hospital emergency room.

In addition to Monday's strike, Israeli helicopter attacks during the past two weeks have killed 10 Hamas activists and wounded more than 50 Palestinians as part of an Israeli strategy to target suspected terrorists

Monday's statement from Israel said it has adopted the following positions:

 "An all-out war against Hamas and other terrorist elements, including continuous strikes at the organization's leaders";

 

 

 

Of all peoples on earth today, none is as opposed to the building of a Third Jewish Temple more then the terrorist groups like Hamas. There are no peoples so opposed to the God of the Bible then these Islamic Arab terrorists. Dispensational change is what the God of the Bible is preparing during this generation. He brought the Jews back to the Holy Land, and for the first time in almost 2000 years has reformed the Nation Israel on the same land that He promised to their Fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In less then 50 years little Israel has emerged as a world power second to none other then the super powers. She can fend for herself when needed.

Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land is too much for most of the gentile religions and governments. Many are subtle in their opposition, but some are violently active in their determination to stop whatever God is doing with the Jews in the Holy Land. Hamas falls into this category.

This is not the first time that the Jews found opposition from the people living on their land. This is not the first time adversaries did all they could to frustrate the purposes of the God of the Bible. This will not be the last time  groups like Hamas will have failed to frustrate God.

The greatest frustration this world of sin has is that the God of the Bible provided only one way to obey Him. All must come to the Lord Jesus Christ in humble submission to His glorious sacrifice for sin. All religion must be abandoned. It is only the person to whom the sinner can come. The God of the Bible provided no other way then the sacrificial blood of Christ, and this frustrates all who oppose a Third Holy Jewish Temple built on the Temple Mount where remembrance of Calvary will be daily demonstrated throughout the next dispensation.

 

 

People Living in Samaria

Ezra 4:1-5
4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

5 And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
KJV
 

 

Thursday - September 4, 2003

Ex 12:48-49

48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
KJV
 

 

Wednesday September 3, 1:13 PM

Arafat declares "roadmap" dead

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reportedly said the US-backed "roadmap" toward peace and a Palestinian state was dead because of Israeli aggression.

"The roadmap is dead, but only because of Israeli military aggression in recent weeks," he said in an off-camera interview with CNN, according to the network's website.

The interview took place in the West Bank town of Ramallah.Arafat also told CNN that the United States had let the plan die. The roadmap was drafted by US, UN, EU and Russian officials. Arafat told CNN that US preoccupation with Iraq and upcoming presidential elections got in the way of assuring implementation of the roadmap. He also said that a split between him and Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas has been exaggerated.

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said earlier Tuesday that the government was to consider expelling Arafat as he was obstructing the peace process. "Arafat is a very major obstacle for (Palestinian prime minister) Mahmud Abbas and for the whole political process," Mofaz told military radio. "We made a historic mistake by not expelling him two years ago but we are going to address this issue in the short-term, without doubt before the end of the year."

Arafat has been effectively confined to his headquarters in Ramallah by the Israali army for the past 20 months. According to media reports, the majority of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet is in favor of expelling Arafat, but the security services have warned that he could have more of a "capacity for nuisance" in exile.

In recent weeks, the United States has ramped up pressure on Arafat to turn over the entire Palestinian security apparatus to Abbas in order to rein in militant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher repeated those demands Tuesday. Arafat "needs to cooperate with the new government, he needs to turn over security services that have remained under his control to the control of the new government so that they can be real and effective action against terrorist groups by the Palestinian government," he said. "Chairman Arafat needs to do that, and everybody who talks to him needs to call on him to do so."

Privately, US State Department officials sought clarification from Israel over its defense minister's threat to expel Arafat. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they wanted to know whether Mofaz had been speaking personally or was reflecting the view of Sharon's government when he made the threat.

 

 

It is not just Arafat that foils the gentile Road Map. The Islamic Arab Palestinians are just as guilty. They refuse to face the reality that God has given the sovereignty of the Holy Land to the Jews. Many Arabs living within Israel have acquiesced to Jewish sovereignty, and found the Jews far more just then their own Arab brothers in Arab controlled countries. Peaceful Arabs in Israel prosper better then their Palestinian counterparts confined to the refuge camps in Lebanon and Jordan. The hate nurtured by Arafat, and the Palestinian Authority refuses to acknowledge this fact. They would rather have the Palestinian people suffer forever then submit to a Jew (especially a Jewish King)! It is the hate that foils the gentile Road Map. When the hate is controlled, the Palestinian people find prosperity and peace under Jewish sovereignty.

It is not perfect harmony because God has not circumcised the hearts of the Jews yet. It is going to get better for all Arabs willing to submit. It is God's plan to open a door for the gentile strangers in the Land of Israel, but they must be submitted to Him, His chosen people, and His one law for all. The rebels will find only the wrath of God in their rebellion.

The gentile Road Map is based on the continuation of the rebellion. The rebels would be inserted in the midst of Israel with their own State under their control where they can keep the Middle East conflict going forever.  The Jews would be expected to acceptably bare the victimization by the gentile rebels forever. Only the gentile UN, EU, and Russia could have come up with such a plan, and call it a peace plan. The US should rise above such foolishness.

The un-submitted stranger without his heart circumcised is the rebel stranger who shall be cut off!

Read about the Stranger in the Kingdom Age

 

 

The Stranger in the Holy Land

Ex 12:19-20

19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
KJV

Ex 12:43-45

43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
KJV

Ex 29:33

33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
KJV


The Hunter's Creed in the Holy Land


Lev 17:12-14

12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
KJV
 

 

Friday - September 5, 2003

Ex 20:24-25

24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
KJV
 

 

60 Years Late - But Important For The Future
18:58 Sep 04, '03 / 7 Elul 5763
 

Three Israel Air Force F-15 jets overflew the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp this afternoon - sending a message that Israel is now prepared to take the action that Allied forces did not in 1944.

Three Israel Air Force F-15 jets overflew the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp this afternoon. "We are sending a message," said one of the pilots, all of whom are sons of Holocaust survivors. "It's true that we're 60 years late, but the State of Israel will ensure that there will never be another Auschwitz." Two Polish government Mig-29 jets accompanied the Israeli craft - although the Auschwitz museum management said it objected to the flight.

"For Israeli planes to fly symbolically over Auschwitz serves as an important reminder that Allied planes flew over the notorious Nazi death camp in 1944, but knowingly failed to bomb the gas chambers and crematoria where 1.5 million Jews were murdered," said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

At the same time as the flight, a ceremony was held on the ground in Auschwitz to commemorate the transport that arrived on Sept. 4, 1943, exactly 60 years ago. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum provided the names of 600 French Jews who arrived that day in Auschwitz.

An Austrian man was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday for denying the Holocaust. The convict, who was born six years after the Holocaust ended, is a former Vienna city councilman who was sentenced for disseminating posters claiming that the Nazis never used gas against Jews. The courtroom was filled with his supporters.

 

 

The Holocaust is a very significant event from a Biblical perspective. It pictures on a small scale what the Bible predicts on a massive scale. Worldwide anti-Semitism was the subtle attitude of a world on the brink of destroying itself. The power behind the Holocaust was Hitler and his Nazi party. A picture of the soon coming Biblical antichrist and his followers. Hate for the Jews is the tie that binds. The same hate manifested today by Islam.

This flyover signals why Islamic hate has not created another holocaust. God has given little Israel the ability to defend itself against those who would not hesitate to ethnically cleanse the world of Jews were they able. They would certainly start in the lands directly under their control with a global view for the future. Today, since the establishment of the State of Israel, Jews who lived in Islamic countries for thousands of years had to flee for their lives. There are no Jewish communities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, North Africa, etc. etc.  anymore. The present gentile world says nothing about their right of return!

Dispensational change is coming, and with it the greatest conflict ever. Anti-Semitism by the gentile world is why God is bringing to an end the times of the gentiles. It started at the destruction of the First Holy Jewish Temple, and will end with the construction of the Last Holy Jewish Temple as described by Ezekiel in Ezekiel 40 -48. The great gentile image of Nebuchadnezzar will be destroyed by the stone made without hands. The virgin born Lord Jesus Christ will return to Ezekiel's Temple ending the times of the gentiles, and the beginning of the Jewish Kingdom age.

The gentiles are quickly moving to Armageddon. It will be their hate for the Jews, and the soon coming Jewish King that will bring them to destruction.

 

 

Times of the Gentiles

Dan 2:31-36

31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
KJV
 

 

Saturday - September 6, 2003

Ps 89:34-37

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
KJV
 

 

Yesha Rabbis: A "Mitzvah" To Visit Temple Mount
15:25 Sep 05, '03 / 8 Elul 5763
 

The Yesha Rabbis Council issued a Halakhic ruling today not only permitting Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount, but even mandating it, contingent upon proper precautions. Excerpts from the announcement of the ruling: One of the rabbis commented that by refraining from ascending, we are thereby declaring to the world as if we, G-d forbid, have no part in the Mountain of G-d - and we thus strengthen the Arabs' feeling that the Temple Mount is theirs.
"The public is not aware that many rabbis are of the opinion that we currently have the information necessary to enable one to ascend without transgressing, and that therefore those who permit it are not being 'lenient' and are not disputing those who came before them - but are rather clearly relying on that which is now known.
"We therefore call on every rabbi who [agrees with this] to actually visit the Temple Mount, and to guide his congregants in doing so according to Halakhah [Jewish law]. It is a disgrace for us that the Arabs - 'who say let us seize for ourselves the pastures of G-d' [Psalms 88] - ascend to the site by the tens of thousands, while barely any Jews do so...
"All those who continue to feel that it is forbidden did not check the matter sufficiently, and forbade it only because of uncertainty [as to the permitted locations] - but this doubt has been cleared up, and it can be clearly delineated where on the Mount we are permitted to walk.
"It is our tradition that 'we do not add decrees.' In order to forbid something, the Sanhedrin, or all the generation's Torah leaders, would have to convene and make this decision - but that has not occurred, and therefore the Law remains as it was, namely, permitting ascent to the Temple Mount, as Maimonides himself did and as the Meiri testified that it is a 'common-place custom' to do so. Even a prophet cannot uproot a commandment except as a temporary measure.
"Those who wish to be extra careful [should know that] their stringency is leading to a leniency, in that many people who would be happy to follow the Halakhah actually transgress it out of ignorance - simply because the proper laws are not publicized."

The Yesha Rabbis' announcement, which quotes Maimonides' ruling [Biat HaMikdash 3,4], states that one who ascends to the Mount while adhering to three conditions - immersion in a mikveh; keeping the laws of Awe of the Temple (no leather shoes, etc.); and knowledge of the precise permitted areas - is fulfilling a "great mitzvah [Torah commandment]."

The rabbis also praise Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi for his efforts in opening the site to Jews.

 

#1 = The Wailing Wall

#2 - The Future Temple

#3 - The Mount of Olives (Where Christ went up to heaven, and where He will return.)

 

 

Here it is! The call for Jews to not just occupy the Temple Mount, but to conquer it! This is not the status quo of 3 years ago when Jews were not encouraged to visit the Mount. Now, the leading rabbis are calling a visit to the Mount a Biblical decree, or Halakhah. This places a visit into the same category as a legalistic mitzvah, or good deed leading to acceptance into heaven. The rabbis rightly use the Bible (Torah) as their authority, but I question their motivation! Sadly, this is all political using religion to reach a man centered end. The saddest part of modern Judaism in Israel is that the rabbis have put a wall between the people and their Temple. Tradition has made the Wailing Wall the holiest site for Jews in Israel today not the Temple Mount. I wait for the Man or men who will call for that wall to be torn down. Tradition must always take a backseat to what the literal Bible says. The literal Bible says a Third Holy Jewish Temple will be built on the Temple Mount that will be the holiest site in all the world! The wailing Wall must go to make room for Ezekiel's Temple of Ezekiel 40 - 48.

The conflict around the Temple Mount has now taken a great step forward. It remains a curse on all who would abuse the Biblical purpose for it's future. I expect the liberal secular and religious Jews to create an uproar in opposition to this rabbinical decree. The old divided Kingdom of Judah and Israel finds new expression between liberal and conservative Jews today. These divisions reflect even greater divisions coming between spiritually minded, and worldly minded Jews. Only by turning to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob can these impossible divisions be unified. This is also part of God's plan for the Temple Mount. There is no room for divisions in the next Jewish Kingdom dispensation. The Temple Mount is destine to divide Jew from gentile, not Jew from Jew. It is destine to clearly demonstrate Biblical righteousness and holiness absolutely separated from all that is impure and polluted with sin. The altar will once again flow with sacrificial blood, but this time in remembrance of Calvary. Only in such a Holy Temple could the Lord Jesus Christ sit on His throne when He cones again. There is a lot of change that must take place within Judaism before such wonderment can take place. What is happening on the Temple Mount today has this one singular goal fixed as the final end.

"Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done"

 

 

Biblical Unity of Israel and Judah

Ezek 37:19-25

19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
KJV

 

 

Sunday - September 7, 2003

Sunday Animation: Days of Noah

Matt 24:37

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

 

Abbas Steps Down, Dealing Big Blow to U.S. Peace Plan

By JAMES BENNET

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 6 — Mahmoud Abbas submitted his resignation as Palestinian prime minister today and Israel lightly wounded the spiritual leader of Hamas with an airstrike in Gaza City, events that put the Bush administration's initiative for Middle East peace close to the point of disintegrating.

Some associates of Mr. Abbas held out the hope that, by provoking what Palestinian politicians called a dire crisis within the leadership, he would revive a peace plan they said was all but dead already. Similarly, Israeli officials have said that all-out war with Hamas is necessary for peace in the Middle East.

But both developments seemed to carry an equal or even greater chance of moving the adversaries in the other direction, toward spiraling violence.

After Mr. Abbas resigned, but before the airstrike, Qadoura Fares, a Palestinian legislator, said: "It seems that we are entering a crisis. And it seems that the price of this crisis will be a lot of blood." Immediately after the attack on the Hamas spiritual leader and founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Hamas officials pledged retaliation.

President Bush had embraced Mr. Abbas as an alternative leader to Yasir Arafat, one who was willing and able to champion a new peace plan, known as the road map. But in the eyes of most Palestinian politicians and analysts, Mr. Arafat emerged from the struggle strengthened with a public that, before Mr. Abbas's elevation, had shown signs of wearying of him.

Mr. Arafat, the president of the governing Palestinian Authority, accepted Mr. Abbas's resignation, two Palestinian ministers said. The crisis might force Mr. Arafat to yield more authority to Mr. Abbas in a bid to keep him in his post or to whomever he might appoint to replace him, other Palestinian officials said.

"I hope the climax of the crisis will pave the way for new ground rules of understanding between the president and the prime minister," said Ziad Abu Amr, a Palestinian minister and political scientist. He and other Palestinian officials said that if Mr. Abbas, a longtime leader of Mr. Arafat's Fatah faction, was unable to effectively fill the post of prime minister, no one else would be able to do so, either.

Speaking to reporters at a conference in Italy, Tom Ridge, the American secretary for domestic security, said the resignation would slow the peace process but not deter Mr. Bush. "There was great promise there, great hope there, but he was consistently being undermined by elements within the Palestinian Authority," Mr. Ridge said of Mr. Abbas.

Already under severe threat from Israel, Hamas came under new pressure from Europe today. European Union foreign ministers denounced the group's political wing as a terrorist organization, opening the way for Europe to freeze the group's assets.

Should the resignation become final, Mr. Abbas would serve as head of a caretaker government while Mr. Arafat chooses a successor. By law, Mr. Arafat has about two weeks to do so. Under pressure from the United States, the United Nations and Arab states, Mr. Arafat reluctantly appointed Mr. Abbas this spring to the new post of prime minister. He was confirmed on April 29 after a legislative fight over his statutory powers.

In a closed-door session here today with Palestinian legislators, Mr. Abbas, who was described as worn out and sad by those present, blamed Israel, the Bush administration and Mr. Arafat for undermining his government and his efforts for peace.

In a statement, as before the legislators, he put the blame primarily on Israel, saying, "The fundamental problem was Israel's unwillingness to implement its commitments in the road map." He said the United States had failed to put sufficient pressure on Israel.

But, in a clear swipe at Mr. Arafat and the rest of the Palestinian leadership, he also complained about a "lack of support" for his government and "harsh and dangerous domestic incitement against the government." On Thursday, when Mr. Abbas presented a summary to legislators of his first months in office, masked men spray-painted the walls outside with slogans denouncing his government, and dozens of protesters chanted against him.

Mr. Fares, the legislator, said the incident left Mr. Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, "with a big scar."

"It was not simple for Abu Mazen to be accused of treason," he said.

 

 

It is clear Arafat rules by intimidation. It is what the Palestinians want because of their hate for the Jews. They want the thug who acts like the wild animals to lead them into continual vengeful conflict with the Jews. God has clearly demonstrated that He will keep His eternal Word to the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has given sovereignty of the Holy Land to the Jews a third miraculous time. Each time there was conflict with the local residents. Each time God gave the Jews the sovereignty.

President George Bush made a terrible mistake as a gentile by interfering with the God of the Bible. He entered onto Holy Ground when he agreed with the UN, EU, and Russia to give the heathen Palestinians a large part of the Holy Land for a State of their own. Everything went wrong for Bush once he stepped where gentiles dare not tread. I would only hope the US will extract itself from this unholy gentile alliance that defiantly stands in the way of what God has already said He will do with the Jews and the Holy Land.

The future is not in a Palestinian State, but in the coming Jewish Kingdom. The future with God is in Israel, Jerusalem, and the Last Jewish Temple. Woe to all who would stand defiantly in the way of what God said He will do in the Bible. Nothing can change God's plan for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to Jerusalem. Noah's flood is a stark reminder of how far God will go when sin filled mankind refuses to submit. Hell is filled with the defiant rebels who thought themselves great. Who had no need for the blood of the Biblical sacrificial savor. The Last Jewish Temple will daily honor that blood, and the rebels will experience only judgment because of their defiance.

 

 

The Day of the LORD Nears

Isa 2:12

12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
KJV

Ezek 30:3

3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
KJV

Joel 1:15

15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
KJV

Amos 5:18

18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
KJV

Obad 15

15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
KJV

Zeph 1:7

7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
KJV
 

Sunday Animation: Days of Noah

 

Monday - September 8, 2003

Jer 6:14

14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
KJV
 

 

Abu Ala in Line to Replace Abu Mazen
14:00 Sep 07, '03 / 10 Elul 5763
 

(IsraelNN.com) Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rudieneh indicated earlier today that Abu Mazen will continue serving as prime minister until a new government can be formed. Abu Mazen announced his resignation on Saturday.

Abu Rudieneh added that if a new government is formed, the leading candidate for the premiership is Abu Ala, the speaker of the Palestine Legislative Council, who is aligned with Arafat.

There is also the possibility that Arafat will reject the resignation but analysts explain this is highly unlikely. Abu Rudieneh did indicate that this is a possibility, Israel Radio reported.

 

 

The intimidation of Abu Mazen, and appointment of Abu Ala by Arafat is like spiting in the face of George Bush for having put all the prestige of the United States on the line for any equitable peace plan from a worldly perspective. Bush should never have gotten involved from the beginning, but Arafat by putting the terrorist's terrorist into the prime minister position shows he never had any other agenda, but to continue the terrorism. It is almost unbelievable that Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize. The world as well had given Hitler the peace prize.

This world is in total disorder. If ever the words "peace peace when there is no peace" had application, it is today! The gentile road map is a plan that goes contrary to everything God says in the Bible that He is about to do with the Jews and the Holy Land. Judgment will soon be the only response God will have for a gentile world in absolute rebellion to the Bible.

God's plan is not just for the Jews to occupy the Holy Land, but to conquer it! Arabs can submit to Jewish sovereignty, but should they resist they will only find judgment. Anyone living in the Holy Land who can't submit to Jewish sovereignty will never submit to the coming Jewish King. Any gentile nation that would resist what God is doing in the Holy Land with the Jews is destine for destruction. Dispensational change is what is happening. The times of the gentiles is coming to an end, and the Kingdom Age is about to begin. Arafat is about to go the same way as all the anti-Semites like Hitler. The Palestinian Islamic Arabs need to take a lesson from what happened to the Nazi culture after World War Two. Lessons that are always willingly forgotten because of hate for the Jews, and their coming King.

 

 

The King The LORD of Hosts

Isa 9:6-7

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
KJV

Hag 2:9

9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
KJV

Zech 8:18-23

18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
KJV

Ps 24:10

10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
KJV
 

 

Tuesday - September 9, 2003

Deut 3:24

24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
KJV
 

 

Arafat picks PLC Speaker Qureia to replace PM Abbas

By Arnon Regular and Agencies

 

OLD FRIENDS: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

listening to PM-designate Ahmed Qureia at a Fatah

meeting yesterday in the Muqata.

 

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday picked Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Ahmed Qureia as the next PA prime minister, with a Fatah central committee meeting approving the appointment last night.

Qureia has been lobbying American European diplomats for the past few weeks, sounding them out about his replacingMahmoud Abbas, who resigned as prime minister on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from either Washington or Jerusalem on Qureia's appointment, which only becomes official after a PLC vote. However U.S. President George W. Bush's top foreign policy advisers said yesterday that the Palestinians' next prime minister must be free of the restraints on fighting terrorist groups that forced Abbas to quit in frustration. Otherwise, they said, progress toward completing the U.S.-backed plan to an independent Palestinian state by 2005 will remain stymied. ...

Powell said the U.S. "did everything we could to support him," but the council, Arafat and other Palestinian leaders did not give Mr. Abbas the resources that he needed in order to go after Hamas. "We have to change that, or else we will not find progress ahead of us," Powell said on ABC's This Week.

 

Hitler was mindlessly focused on his goal: the elimination of all Jews from the planet

 

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The same hate for the Jews, and their coming King that blinded Hitler to his coming  downfall is seen working in Arafat. The source of this blind hate is Satanic to the core. In the last generation this hate led to the demise of Hitler, and the destruction of the Nazi culture that put him into power. Arafat is clearly moving himself, and the Palestinian culture toward that same end.

The mighty God of the Bible has one plan for the Jews, and the Holy Land while Arafat has put the desires of Satan before the Palestinian people. The conflict can only escalate until a final solution is implemented. Satan's final solution is clearly the elimination of the Jews. God's final solution is to establish the Kingdom of His own dear Son. Only one of these solutions will be the final solution.

Arafat and the Palestinians are only a picture of what is yet to come to the Jews and the Holy Land. The hate of Arafat is but child's play when compared to the vicious hate that will be manifested against the Jews by the coming antichrist who will have the power to enforce his hate. He will make Arafat, Hitler, Antiochus Epiphanies, and the Pharaoh of the Exodus combined hate for Jews appear small compared to what he will do.

Satanic frustration will only grow as God forces His plan into action. Dispensational change is what is causing the rise in this blind hate our generation is experiencing. It has only begun! The 9/11 call to blind hate against the Jews on the part of Islam can only lead to their destruction. It is not wise to be in conflict with the God of the Bible!

The last half of the Great Tribulation is called Jacob's Trouble. The Last Holy Jewish Temple (Ezekiel's Temple) will have been completed when the antichrist comes to the Holy Land to usurp it's Throne prepared for the return of Christ. The Temple will be made desolate for the 3 1/2 years of Jacob's Trouble. Jewish persecution will reach new heights just before the God of the Bible implements His final solution that ends the times of the gentiles forever!

 

 

Uniting of Old and New Testaments

The Law [Keeping Temple Commandments] and Grace [Testimony of Jesus Christ]

Ezekiel's Temple Law Profaned for  3 1/2 Years

Rev 12:13-17

13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
KJV
 

There will be no need for a Newer Testament during the transition, and on into the next Last Temple dispensation.

 

Wednesday - September 10, 2003

Matt 4:4

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
KJV
 

 

78% of Bush's Postwar Spending Plan Is for Military

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — President Bush's $87 billion request for postwar costs is heavily weighted to maintaining military operations, with $65.5 billion directed to the armed forces, $15 billion toward rebuilding Iraq and $5 billion toward building its security forces, and $800 million to new spending for civilian programs in Afghanistan, administration officials said today.

The $87 billion price tag makes the package the most expensive postwar military and civilian effort since the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Combined with the earlier $79 billion approved by Congress to conduct the war and pay initial postwar expenses, it would bring the cost to the United States of deposing Saddam Hussein and stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan this year and next to $166 billion. That is more than 25 times the $6.4 billion bill to American taxpayers, in today's dollars, for the Persian Gulf war in 1991 to expel Iraq from Kuwait.

Most of the cost of the 1991 conflict — $60 billion at the time or about $84 billion in today's dollars — was picked up by allies, including Saudi Arabia and Japan.

This time around, administration officials said, their main financial goal is to squeeze donations from other countries toward the difference between the $15 billion the United States plans to put toward physical reconstruction of Iraq and the total cost, which the White House put at $50 billion to $75 billion.

 

 

The Bible says a great economic power is coming out of Iraq called Babylon the Great. The billions being invested today are destine to return into the  trillions. Worldly minded people will rejoice at these kinds of returns that will come from the investments of today. Babylon the Great will finance the rise of the antichrist who will control the whole world by controlling the purse strings. The rejoicing will be short lived because the Bible says God will destroy Babylon the Great in one hour. God knows all this worldly wealth will be used for sinful purposes. The lustful desires of sin filled men will victimize the weak on an unprecedented scale. Greed will be the carrot of the antichrist that will propel him to the status of a living god.

The choice between money, and holiness will be highlighted when the world sees Babylon the Great compared to Jerusalem during the time when the Last Temple begins operation. The 7 year Great Tribulation is designed to force choice. The Jews are going to turn back to their God while the gentiles are going to turn to the antichrist. The choice will be clear when judgment comes at the end of the Great Tribulation.

Everything happening in the Middle East is aimed at the soon coming dispensational change God has promised in the Bible! God has arbitrarily chosen the Jews to have a Kingdom in the next dispensation. It has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with judicial decrees by world courts. It just simply is God's will answerable to none for there is no place higher to appeal.

 

 

God's choice is Clear

Deut 4:36-40

36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
KJV
 

 

Thursday - September 11, 2003

Isa 59:4

4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
KJV

 

 

Tests Confirm Ancient Jerusalem Tunnel

By WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press Writer

A tunnel that snakes under the ancient walls of Jerusalem likely was built around 700 B.C. during the reign of King Hezekiah, as described in the Bible, a new study suggests.

The tunnel's age had been debated by biblical scholars, a few of whom had suggested it was built centuries later. The only surviving clue to its age had been an inscription discovered in 1880 on a tunnel wall, which supported the link to Hezekiah but did not specifically name him.

In the new study, analysis of stalactite samples from the ceiling of the Siloam Tunnel and plant material recovered from its plaster floor both confirm the biblical record, researchers say.

"We believe this point is now clearly settled," said Amos Frumkin, a geologist and director of the Cave Research Center at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He and colleagues present their analysis in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

 

The Tunnel

A 1750-foot (530m) tunnel carved during the reign of Hezekiah to bring water from one side of the city to the other, Hezekiah's Tunnel together with the 6th c. tunnel of Euphalios in Greece are considered the greatest works of water engineering technology in the pre-Classical period.  Had it followed a straight line, the length would have been 1070 ft (335m) or 40% shorter.

 

Hershel Shanks, an expert on the history of Jerusalem who writes for the Biblical Archaeology Review, said "it's nice to have scientific confirmation for what the vast majority of biblical scholars and archaeologists believe."

Shanks, who didn't participate in the new study, said confirmation of the tunnel's age was important because so little scientific testing has been done to date biblical structures.

"If you can couple various technological capabilities and science with more traditional scholarship and other historical analysis, and reach the same conclusion, that's a pretty powerful argument," said Bruce Zuckerman, a University of Southern California religion professor and expert in biblical archaeology.

Testing is difficult, they say, because sample material from buildings and structures mentioned in the Bible are hard to identify and may be poorly preserved, or access by scientists may be restricted for political or religious reasons.

The tunnel's plant fragments were subjected to radiocarbon dating, which measures age by the decay of a radioactive form of carbon. Core samples from the stalactites underwent chemical testing and other examination to determine age.

As far as Frumkin or other experts such as Shanks and Zuckerman could determine, the tests marked the first time that a well-identified biblical structure had been subjected to extensive radiocarbon dating.

Biblical accounts mentioned in Kings and Chronicles say the 1,750-foot-long tunnel was constructed to move water from the Gihon spring all the way across the ancient city of Jerusalem into the pool of Siloam to protect the city's water supply from an Assyrian siege. The Assyrian empire was consolidating its control of the area after a rebellion led in part by Hezekiah.

The serpentine tunnel, now a tourist attraction, still bears pick marks from workers who occasionally had to adjust their course to meet with a second team of workers coming from the opposite side of the city.

The frequent direction changes suggest it was a struggle to connect the two ends of the tunnel without following the natural fissures and openings in the rock, Shanks said.

"The tunnel is extraordinary, but these guys didn't know where they were going a lot of the time," Shanks said.


Tuesday’s Bombings In Tel Aviv And Jerusalem Kill At Least 14
by Avraham Shmuel Lewin, the JEWISHPRESS
 

Two suicide bombings, the first outside Tel Aviv and the second in the heart of Jerusalem, left at least 14 Israelis dead and scores wounded on Tuesday.

At least six people were killed and between 40 and 50 injured (all casualty numbers in this report are preliminary as of late Tuesday) in the bombing at the popular Cafe Hillel restaurant on Emek Refaim Road in the German Colony in southern Jerusalem.

 

 

 

Above the tunnel the terrorism continues in the city of Jerusalem. The Islamic justification for the murder of Jews is that this Holy Land is theirs. They have no heritage. Islam just takes what is not theirs, and expects the world to comply with their wishes. The Jews have refused to acquiesce, and so find themselves the victims of a most vicious hate campaign. A large part of this hate campaign is based on the denial of truth. Lies are openly spread throughout the Islamic world, and believed because the Moslems want to hear those lies. History is redacted as if the Jews never possessed the Holy Land.

It is a certainty that if Islam had control over Hezekiah's Tunnel (called an ancient Jerusalem tunnel for political correctness) like they have had over the Temple Mount they would destroy every stalactite and every plant found from end to end. When the truth contradicts Islamic teaching, then the truth must be destroyed. This is a religion based on lies that denies the truth of the Bible. It is supported by a culture that only wants lies to believe. They will never accept the truth of either Hezekiah's Tunnel, or the Biblical account of David's seed Hezekiah. Islam will never accept Hezekiah's rule over the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

9/11 is an example of Islamic hate bent on destruction of the truth. God has brought the Jews back to the Holy Land. Islam can't accept that truth. They would rather turn it into a lie saying it is the United States that brought the Jews back to their rightful inheritance. Never did the United States as a nation determine that we would force Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land. The present Road Map giving the Islamic Arab Palestinians part of the Holy Land for their own State in defiance of the God of the Bible proves the Islamic lie, but Islam does not stop in their false beliefs. Destruction is their religious answer to all contradictions.

God is now forcing the issues of truth in the Holy Land. The Temple Mount is Jewish not Islamic. The hateful Islamic destruction of everything Jewish is bound to increase as God forces this truth to be acknowledged.  The greatest truth of all will be when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to the Last Jewish Temple to be built on the Temple Mount. Islamic attempts at destruction of this truth can only lead to their  judgment by the God of the Bible.

 

 

Inheritance is Jewish not Islamic

Ex 15:13-18

13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
KJV
 

 

Friday - September 12, 2003

Gen 15:7

7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
KJV
 

 


IDF troops seize PA ministry near Arafat's Muqata

 

IDF troops took control of the Palestinian Authority Cultural Ministry in the West Bank city of Ramallah Thursday morning, Palestinian sources said.

The building, located just south of Yasser Arafat's Muqata compound, gives the soldiers a vantage point of the Muqata and sends a direct and clear message to Arafat that the IDF is present in the West Bank city.

Palestinian officials expressed concern over the takeover, saying that they expected the IDF to impose a total siege on Arafat.

The action came just hours before the security cabinet was set to meet to discuss the possibility of expelling Arafat.

Military sources confirmed that troops had taken positions in the city, saying that the move was made to send a signal and message to the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat.

Sharon, arriving back in Israel earlier than planned from India following Tuesday's twin suicide bombings, plans to convene the security cabinet for urgent talks later in the day.

Hard-liners in Sharon's Cabinet have long clamored for expulsion of Arafat. Up to now Sharon has rebuffed the deportation calls, fearing international condemnation.

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who supports the deportation of Arafat, told Army Radio Thursday that he believes that there is a majority within the cabinet supporting the move.

"The moment Arafat is out, someone else will sprout up after him and will control the security forces, the PA's funds," Shalom said. "The moment he isn't here, more moderate officials will be able to move in after him."

Arafat aide, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, said Thursday that the deportation of the Palestinian leader would set the region on the brink of an abyss.

Likud Minister Yisrael Katz said Thursday that Israel does not have to wait to receive America's authorization to expel the Palestinian leader.

"As far as I know, there is no Israeli commitment to the Americans not to take action," Katz said. "Israel is allowed, able and obligated to make its own decisions."

Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, head of the moderate opposition Labor Party, warned that expelling Arafat would be a "historic mistake" that would "deepen the hostilities between the Palestinians and ourselves." He told CNN, "Arafat outside (his Ramallah office) will be more effective and more negative than he is today."

Margot Dudkevitch, Lamia Lahoud and Arieh O'Sullivan contributed to this report.

 

 

I agree that expelling Arafat will not bring peace, but this is not a time for seeking peace with terrorism. The US did not recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan where ben Laden had diplomatic immunity, and so also Israel must not recognize either Arafat or the Palestinian Authority giving him that same diplomatic immunity. It is just not Arafat that must go! The entire heathen culture that refuses to acknowledge Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land must be brought into submission. Those who can't submit to Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land will never submit to a Jewish King ruling from the Last Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

The politicians use worldly diplomacy to achieve their ends, but the Holy Land is different. There is no diplomacy with holiness. There is only submission! This lesson is now being taught to a rebellious world for contemplation. All diplomatic efforts to reason with God's holiness are rebuffed before they can open their mouths. Mankind is too low, and God is too high. The only approach to an absolutely holy and pure God is through absolute surrender. The only salvation offered in the Bible is by such absolute surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no bargaining! There is no diplomacy! Just as I am without one plea is a truth this generation must acknowledge, or perish! The words are said with the lips, but God measures the heart. He knows the truth of it all.

The Bible makes it clear the direction God is going with the Jews, and the Holy Land. It is no secret! The blindness of the politicians is appalling, but expected. Their willing ignorance of the Bible explains their continual failure to understand the Middle East crises. The world should be preparing the Holy Land for the Jews, and encouraging the Jews to seek a circumcised heart through the God of their fathers after the rapture takes place. Today the . The Messianic hope is a sure hope not just for the Jews, but for the world. The Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Last Jewish Temple is the direction for dispensational change.

 

 

They Shall Not Dwell In Thy Land

Ex 23:29-33

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
KJV
 

 

Saturday - September 12, 2003

Ps 2:6-7

6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
KJV

 

 

Violence Erupts at Western Wall
13:37 Sep 12, '03 / 15 Elul 5763
 

IsraelNN.com) Hundreds of Arabs are throwing rocks down at worshippers in the Western Wall Plaza below. Police are now entering the Temple Mount complex. Magen David Adom remains on standby. Details to follow as they become available.
 

Police Restore Order on the Temple Mount
14:07 Sep 12, '03 / 15 Elul 5763
 

IsraelNN.com) Police have restored order on the Temple Mount. There are no reports of injuries

 

Last Update: 12/09/2003 17:14

Police storm Temple Mount to disperse stone-throwers

By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and The Associated Press