September - 2008
Saturday - September 6, 2008
'Israel to evacuate Ghajar within 3
months'
Sources close to UNIFIL
in south Lebanon said on Friday that
Israel is expected to withdraw within the next three months from the
northern half of the disputed village of Ghajar, in hopes of depriving
Hizbullah of an excuse for arming itself against Israel.
The Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal quoted the sources as saying that
UNIFIL has prepared a report on the expected deployment of its forces in the
area ahead of a possible Israeli pullout, and that report has been relayed
to both the Lebanese and Israeli governments. Other Arab media outlets
reported earlier this week that Israel is also willing to
withdraw from nearby
Shaba Farms, another disputed area located at the juncture of the
Israel-Lebanon-Syria border.
According to a Lebanese source, UNIFIL's Italian commander General Claudio
Graziano held a series of meetings with senior Israeli officials and managed
to convince them that Lebanon is serious about the matter and that his
organization is committed to securing the border region.
Nasrallah: Even if
Israel cedes Shaba, we will not disarm
'My hostility towards
Israel is the greatest possible hostility'
Hizbullah leader Sheikh
Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that
even if the dispute with Israel
over the Shaba Farms and Ghajar border area is resolved, the
Shi'ite militia will not give up its arms, sicne they are needed to
protect Lebanon from Israel.
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The Olmert government has
only 2 weeks more, and then it is all over. The Road Map will. or at least
should die forever pn the Israeli side. I'm reminded of Saddam Hussein when he
saw it was all over in Kuwait opened all the oil valves to the atmosphere doing
as much damage as he could in his last days. Olmert is fixed on giving away as
much of the Promised Land as he can to the enemy before his reign is finished.
He would give away all of Judah and Samaria to Abbas including Jerusalem and the
Temple Mount, but the opposition is far too strong for such an attempt. He would
give the Golan Heights back to the Syrians if he could, but again the opposition
is too strong. All that is left is the little strip of Israeli land running
along the Lebanon boarder called the Shaba Farms. Olmert is fixed on giving away
this little plot of land to Hizbullah as his parting gift to the Jewish people.
I'm sure he expects the Nobel Peace Prize for this
last slap in the
face he is giving to the God who gave the Jews the great victory of 1967. The
crowning victory of this miraculous Third Exodus was all of Judah and Samaria
including all of Jerusalem with the Temple Mount. Olmert has done his best in
agreement with the Quartet (US, UN, EU, and Russia) who sponsor the Road Map to
turn back God's prophetic clock back to pre 1967 time! Folks, the politicians of
this evil generation are not going to stop what God has started in the Holy
Land. Look at how God exposes this Road Map as failed! Hizbullah quickly went
public with the statement that the give away is dead on arrival as something
leading to peace. Yet, Olmert, and the Quartet are like deaf men. Nothing will
deter them from pushing forward the Road Map that is already dead on arrival.
This goes beyond even the base wisdom of the natural man. It is absolute Satanic
blindness toward the Jewish side of the issue. Satan has been shaking in his
boots ever since all of Jerusalem became Jewish. He is working overtime to turn
back the clock. He knows the next thing coming to Jerusalem is the Jewish
King.
Friend, the clock is not
going to go backwards. The LORD Jesus Christ is coming again. He is coming to
the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. The Bible says He is coming in
Judgment! He is going to judge sin! He is going to judge all the nations, all
the religions, all the cultures of this evil generation. Every individual is
going to be held to account! There will be no hiding in the masses. The one who
can see into the heart will make the decisions. He will not be deceived! Friend,
I can only pray you are washed in the sin cleansing blood of the Lamb. To face
His wrath is too terrible to contemplate!
Revelation 6:14-17
14
And the
heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain
and island were moved out of their places.
15
And the
kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16
And said to
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17
For the
great day of his wrath is come; and
who shall be able to stand?
KJV
Sunday - September 7, 2008
Israeli cabinet to debate voluntary
evacuation plan for Judea/Samaria
At the weekly Israeli cabinet meeting
this coming Sunday, a
controversial legislative proposal is to come up for discussion for the
first
time that would
offer compensation to Jewish settlers living beyond the West Bank security
barrier if they voluntarily move into Israel. Some recent reports
suggest the plan is part of the Kadima party's overall phased strategy for
reaching peace with the Palestinians. In the first step, Israel would reach
a "shelf agreement" with the
Palestinian Authority that would
define the borders
of a future Palestinian state essentially along the lines of the
security fence. Israel would then use the compensation offers to try to
persuade Israeli settlers to voluntarily leave communities beyond the fence.
Then a Palestinian state would be declared and Israel security would
forcibly evacuate
any remaining settlers, as in the Gaza Disengagement of 2005. Leftist
elements backing the proposal insist their polling of Jewish families living
beyond the fence shows many are
willing to leave
on their own if the price is right, but settler council leaders are denying
the claims and vowing to stay.
Here is the
Road Map again! The only Jews in all of Israel who are obeying God during this
miraculous Third Exodus are being lined up for a kick in the pants by the
secular liberal Jewish politicians. The Jews have had their share of some of the
worst ungodly leadership over their history. It is leadership that comes to the
front out of the grass root desires of a stiff-necked rebellious generation.
Right at the beginning of the nation Aaron was swayed to go along with the grass
root desires of such a rebellious generation. The result was the blasphemous
Golden Calf of which this web page is dedicated. That generation had it's end in
death in the wilderness. They never experienced the joys of the Promised Land.
They missed out on all the milk and honey as God blessed a more submitted
generation.
Joshua 5:3-6
3
And Joshua
made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of
the foreskins.
4
And this is
the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt,
that were males, even all the men of
war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
5
Now all the
people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in
the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not
circumcised.
6
For the
children of Israel walked forty
years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which
came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the
Lord : unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land,
which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
KJV
Today, we
witness a similar generation as that of the first who gave Moses nothing but
heartache. They would have dumped him in an instant had God not kept Moses under
His wing. These secular liberal Jews who are the majority in Israel hate the
Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers whom they blame for all their woes. It
is the influx of these conservative Jewish Settlers who they moan have driven
housing costs through the roof. The fall of the iron curtain opened the door for
most of the settlers to migrate to Israel. They could not afford the rich
apartment dwelling liberal bastions in places like Tel Aviv, and so they became
pioneers moving into the new territories opened after the 1967 victory over the
Arabs. They settled Judah and Samaria. Apartment prices never came down after
the initial influx, and so the liberal Jews still have great animosity against
them. Now they are the targets of the bleeding heart peaceniks of the liberal
arm saying it is they who are the obstacle to peace with the Arabs. Folks, the
obstacle to peace with the Arabs is the Arabs themselves, and not the
Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers. These Jewish Settlers are doing their
best to occupy the Land God
has
given to the Jews after the 1967 victory. The liberal Jewish majority are doing
their best to turn back the prophetic clock God started with this miraculous
Third Exodus. The liberals want to lay in their comfortable beds in Tel Aviv,
and are willing to give away the farm to the enemy in the false hope it will
bring peace. Folks, this liberal secularized Jewish generation is going to
perish in the wilderness of their own creation. Watch Jerusalem, and the Temple
Mount for the Jews who will lead the way to the promised blessings of the God of
the Bible.
Friend, the
outlook for the gentiles is far worse then that for the rebellious Jews. Only a
remnant are predicted in the Bible to see the glory of the Lord! The crowd will
be left to die in the wilderness as happened before. Are you part of that small
remnant washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you born again? It is only a few
who have come to Christ with all their heart, soul, and might. The rest are just
part of the crowd wandering through the wilderness. Friend, come to this Christ
of the Bible, and live.
Isaiah 1:9
9
Except the
Lord of hosts had left unto us a
very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have
been like unto Gomorrah.
KJV
Isaiah 10:21-22
21
The
remnant shall return, even
the remnant of Jacob, unto
the mighty God.
22
For though
thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet
a remnant of them shall
return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
KJV
Isaiah 37:31-32
31
And
the remnant that is escaped
of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32
For
out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the
zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do
this.
KJV
Monday - September 8, 2008
Muslims Urinated Next to Torah Scrolls at Cave of
Patriarchs
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com) Muslims converged on the
Cave of Patriarchs in Hevron Friday
for Ramadan prayers, urinated next to Torah scrolls and left behind Hamas
flags.
The Cave of
the Patriarchs is the tomb of the biblical founders of the Jewish faith,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their wives, Sarah, Rivka, and Leah.
The
desecration occurred on one of the
10 days during the year that the holy site is open only to Muslims
and is closed to Jews. The
same arrangement also is accorded to
Jews on 10 holy Jewish days.
Uri Karzen, a Hevron resident, reported that a Kohen, who
recites the priestly blessings during the Sabbath morning service, told him
he smelled urine next to the Holy
Ark containing Torah scrolls. Karzen and other worshippers moved the
table, where the Torah scrolls are placed during the reciting of the portion
of the week, in order to avoid the foul smell.
The Hamas flags
were discovered in the windows that mark the burial sites of Abraham and
Isaac and the matriarchs, Sarah, Rivka and Leah.
Hevron resident Asher Horowitz explained that
he and others spotted the flags when they were returning holy books, which
had been taken into safe storage before the prohibition from Jews entering
the Cave of the Patriarchs went into effect.
He used a stick to pull one of the
flags from the marker of the burial site of Avraham and friends told him
they found flags at other markers.
Ever since Muslims
destroyed Torah scrolls in the Cave of the Patriarchs in the 1980s, Jews
always remove holy books and lock the Holy Ark when they are
prohibited from entering.
Noam Arnon, spokesman for the Jewish community in Hevron,
said there is
always some sort of damage discovered upon their return every time
Jews are prohibited from entering the holy site.
It is not all the Muslims," he said. "But there always are
a few who in the past have ripped mezuzot off the entrances to the rooms of
worship or simply leave behind vandalism. Complaints have been filed with
the police in the past, but no one ever has been arrested."
He added that two
policemen are always on guard when Jews pray, especially when Arabs are
prohibited from entering, but there are no policemen present when Jews are
excluded.
Surveillance cameras are mounted, but Karzen said the
place where urine was smelled may have been out of range of the cameras. The
cameras should have caught on film the placement of Hamas flags, according
to Horowitz.
Hevron
police said they know nothing about the incidents and that an
official complaint may not have been filed yet out of respect for the
Sabbath
This liberal secular
Jewish government has no love for the Bible, or Biblical history. It defies the
God of the Bible daily spiting in His face. This government has no love for the
religious conservative Jews who do love God. Next to Mount Zion the Tomb of the
Patriarchs is a most holy site. The Cave of Machpelah is one of the few
authentic historical sites found in Israel as is Mount Zion. It is affirmation
of Biblical truth and accuracy. Yet, the liberal government assigns only 2
part-time policemen to protect the site practically inviting the blood thirsty
Arabs to desecrate the Jewish part of the place. I sometimes wonder if Olmert
does not get a snicker on his face when these kinds of things happen at the Cave
of the Patriarchs. He seems to think this is just what the foolish Jews who
believe in a God deserve for their misplaced faith. Olmert believes all Jews
should put their faith in him, and his liberal government to solve all the
problems. Faith in a God only causes problems from his liberal perspective. I'm
sure any Jew who actively worships God is considered a fanatic. Olmert has
convinced himself that liberal theology is the only hope for mankind, and peace.
He is faced with the reality of unbendable Islamic barbarianism that has the
single goal of destroying the Jews, and proudly believes his liberal theology
will overcome this enemy.
Folks, understand the
politicians of this evil generation hate the God of the Bible, and any who would
follow Him. They do not believe He exists. Know the politicians are never going
to bring lasting peace to either the Holy Land, or any where else. It is beyond
their abilities. I know that peace is coming, but it is coming God's way not the
politicians way. The God in whom Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob put their faith is
going to keep His promises to these Patriarchs. Redemption is coming to the Holy
Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. The only redeemer revealed in the Bible
is coming again. He became the only perfect atonement for sin at Calvary, and on
this basis He can offer everlasting peace to all who will come to Him. The Bible
says He is going to force all men to decide whether they will submit to His
authority as the Savior, or not! Understand that the Day of the Lord is almost
here. The LORD Jesus Christ is coming again. The day is almost here when
resistance to Christ will no longer be optional. Friend, I pray you will come to
this Christ of the Bible brfore it is too late. Cast yourself upon His mercy.
Come with all your heart, soul, and might. Plead His blood may be applied to
your heart of sin. Be born again, and live!
Isaiah 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
Ezekiel 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
Joel 2:1
2
Blow ye the
trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for
the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
KJV
Obadiah 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
Zephaniah 1:14-15
14
The great
day of the Lord is near, it
is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord : the
mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15
That day is
a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
darkness,
KJV
Tuesday - September 9, 2008
Hamas Broadcasting from Temple Mount
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas's
Al Aqsa television network
has been exclusively broadcasting nightly
Ramadan prayers
from the Temple Mount the past week, according to Aaron Klein, who
writes for WorldNetDaily.
Police have not replied to questions whether the broadcasts are being
coordinated with Israel, which officially controls the site but allows the
Muslim Wafq to administer affairs there.
The
terrorist party's television network is the only one broadcasting the
one-hour prayer service. Its Al Aqsa television station frequently
airs programs calling for jihad against Israel.
Hamas also
broadcast from the Temple Mount on its radio network last December, when
Israeli authorities said they would halt the programming.
However, transmission continued for several weeks. A similar occurrence last
year involving the Islamic Jihad also resulted in threats but
no action to stop the broadcasts.
The Arab world has mounted a massive public relations
campaign in recent years to try to disprove a Jewish connection with the
Temple Mount, which is the site of
the destroyed First and Second Temples.
Arab workers over
the past several years have hauled away tons of debris from the area,
containing priceless archaeological artifacts dating back to the Temple
eras.
The Palestinian
Authority (PA) has insisted that the Temple Mount be included as part of a
new Arab country it wants to establish.
Here is
another example of the foot dragging of the secular liberal Olmert government.
They will do anything to spit in the face of God. In this case it is what they
will not do! They have the authority, and the responsibility to stop the enemy
from broadcasting on the most holy site of the Temple Mount. Yet, they do
nothing! The Arab barbarians strut around the Temple site as if they have full
control. They curse the God of the Bible as they replace Him with Allah and the
Koran. God had preformed a great miracle back in 1967 over 40 years ago now. God
gave the Jews full sovereignty over all of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount.
The secular liberal politicians of the day refused to follow through with what
God had done. Instead of clearing the Mount of all the Islamic trash. they gave
the keys to the Temple Mount back to the cowering Arab Wafq who with trembling
hands offered them to the Jewish conquerors. The politicians bulldozed the
garbage heap, and the Arab homes the Arabs had made in front of the Western
Wailing Wall instead. They gave the Jewish people a wall to worship rather then
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of David and Solomon who were
instrumental in building the First Temple. The rot of that decision 40 years ago
still permeates the air of today.
It is clear to
me God is going to have to raise up another Jewish prophet such as He did
with Haggai to get the Second Temple built. Right now I doubt any of the Jews in
the government would follow such a prophet.
Haggai 1:3-8
3
Then came
the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4
Is it time
for you, O ye, to dwell in your
cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5
Now
therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts;
Consider your ways.
6
Ye have sown
much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye
are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he
that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
Consider your ways.
8
Go up to the mountain, and bring
wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be
glorified, saith the Lord .
KJV
Folks,
we are not far from the day when such a prophet will challenge these slothful
Jews of this generation to consider their ways! To get off their duffs, and
build the House! Everything God has done in blessings to this generation of Jews
starting in 1948 with the establishment of the State of Israel has had but one
purpose, and that is for the Jews to build the Temple. This is the whole purpose
for now of this miraculous Third Exodus! Folks, from my reading of the Bible God
is not going to send the Jews just one prophet. He is going to send them
two! The Temple will be built. Ezekiel's Temple as described in Ezekiel 40 - 48.
Holy acceptable blood sacrifice will be re-established by two holy men clothed
in sackcloth. Two men who will take nothing from the worldly crowds. They will
lean totally on God for all their needs, and He will provide. No diamond stick
pins. No important TV ministry. Just two godly men called of God to build His
House. Pat Robertson and Benny Hinn will try selling them their eye teeth to do
the miracles they will perform. The whole world will see real Biblical miracles
when these two witnesses come on the scene. The entire Charismatic faith
movement built upon all these phony signs and miracles will be shaken to the
core. The real Christians will have been raptured at this point in time, but the
apostate Christian Church will remain hating everything these two prophets will
be saying and doing. The building of Ezekiel's Temple will be the great
testimony of these two prophets from my perspective of things. The Jews who do
consider their ways will lay down a new Jewish foundation leading to the second
coming of their King the LORD Jesus Christ.
Revelation 11:1-14
11
And there
was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and
measure the temple of God,
and the altar, and them that
worship therein.
2
But the
court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is
given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty
and two months.
3
And I will
give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two
hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4
These are
the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the
earth.
5
And if any
man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their
enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6
These have
power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and
have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with
all plagues, as often as they will.
7
And when
they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of
the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and
kill them.
8
And their
dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is
called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9
And they of
the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies
three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in
graves.
10
And they
that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall
send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that
dwelt on the earth.
11
And after
three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and
they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12
And they
heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they
ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13
And the
same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell,
and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were
affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14
The second
woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
KJV
Wednesday - September 10, 2008
Russia preparing to launch Iran's
Bushehr nuclear power plant
The
Russian
state-run company building Iran's first nuclear plant at Bushehr said on
Monday that preparations for the reactor's launch had entered their final
stage.
Atomic export chief Leonid Reznikov said that by year's end the company will
take steps that will make the launch of the Bushehr plant "irreversible,"
likely meaning that
fuel rods will be inserted in the reactor core.
Iran is paying Russia more than $1 billion to build the 1,000-megawatt
light-water reactor. The United States and other Western nations fear Iran
is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, and opposed Russia's role in building
Bushehr until Iran agreed to
return spent nuclear
fuel to Russia to ensure it does not extract materials that could be used to
make weapons. The West then agreed to drop any reference to Bushehr in
sanctions resolutions passed by the UN Security Council.
We must never
forget Ahmadinejad is deadly serious about wiping Israel off the map. This
fanatical Islamic barbarian has visions of being the Islamic Messiah. His ego
drives his hate for the Jews much the same as Hitler of the last generation. He
is absorbed in his own fame as the potential future leader of all the Islamic
world. He expects he will gain the praise and adoration of the Islamic people
which was only reserved for Mohammed. Russia is the tool he believes Allah has
sent for him to accomplish his vision. I tell you true the Gog of Ezekiel 38 &
39 is now fully engaged in its roll as the sponsor of the last Jihad pictured
there. Do you honestly believe the Gog can be trusted to responsibly oversee all
this nuclear weapons material that will soon be undergoing production in Iran. I
don't! The Bible tells us Russia in a key player in the end time events
concerning Israel. Dear friend, understand how short the time has become. The
Gog is spreading its ugly influence over the Holy Land. God is letting out the
line until they have enough to hang themselves, and then He is going to set the
hook!
Ezekiel 38:1-4
38
And the
word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man,
set thy face against Gog, the
land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him,
3
And say,
Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold I
am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4
And
I will turn thee back, and
put hooks into thy jaws, and
I will bring thee forth, and
all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of
armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords:
KJV
Folks, as an
old Montana fisherman I know exactly what God is saying. He will let them run
with the baited hook until it is far enough into the mouth so to set the hook.
They will think they are getting away with a prized morsel, but suddenly God
will appear setting the hook that will lead to their disaster. God will not
destroy this proud King of the North at the time of Ezekiel 38 & 39. He will
humiliate him instead. It is the chief prince that will be destroyed never to
raise his ugly head again. What we see in Ezekiel 38 & 39 is the end of Islam!
The last Jihad! Just as Russia is helping Israel's great Islamic enemy of the
day so also will Russia help the other Islamic countries that will participate
in the coming Islamic invasion of Israel. Russian fingerprints are all over the
Biblical revelation of the coming Islamic invasion of Israel.
Ezekiel 39
describes one of the most horrific defeats of a people ever put down to pen.
Islam will never recover from the crushing blow it will receive from God when it
tries to wipe Israel off the map. Folks, understand this most clearly that
Ezekiel 39 opens the door to the building of Ezekiel's Temple (Ezek 40 - 48) on
the Temple Mount. The chronology from Ezekiel 39 to Ezekiel 40, and forward is
perfect!
Friend, I can
only pray that you are ready. These are the end times in which we live. The
Bible is clear, but the people don't read it. They just don't care. I tell you
true that ignorance will never be an excuse. Jesus Christ came into this world
to save sinners. If you are not saved it is your fault not His. Friend, you can
come to Christ this very moment. You can humble yourself before Him in prayer.
You can come as a lost sinner casting all of your heart, soul, and might at His
feet. The Bible assures us that He will accept, and forgive all who come in this
manner, but woe to those who hold back from God. Those who still desire to have
the freedom to sin. This is a Holy God the God of the Bible. This is a righteous
sinless Christ who offered Himself as the only acceptable atonement for sin at
Calvary. Friend, you must come to Him on His ground not yours. He demands
perfection, and that most certainly holds at the moment of salvation. Yes
friend, for an instant you can perfectly give all of your heart to the Savior.
Sadly, it does not last. Our hearts are just too full of sin, and salvation does
not bring sinless perfection until later. We must struggle with the new nature
imparted before full sanctification coming at the death of the old nature
can be accomplished. We are meant to be a testimony for Christ in a world of sin
where we also are afflicted, but though afflicted it is possible for us through
the power of God to overcome. Friend, come to Christ, and experience the power
of His blood on your sin filled heart. Become born again! Plead to Christ that
He wash away all your sin! Only the saved are going to enter into the Kingdom
Age, and then on into eternity with Christ. Friend, come to this Christ of the
Bible, and live. The rest are on their way to hell. Islam as a religion, as a
culture, is about to be wiped off the planet because of their rejection of the
coming King of the Jews. Don't follow their example.
Ezekiel 39
The End of Islam
39:1
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and
Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will
cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the
mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows
to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall
upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that
is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to
the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall
upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in
the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I
will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know
that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day
whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set
on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows
and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them
with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any
out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they
shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord GOD.
11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the
sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they
bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of
Hamon-gog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they
may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them
a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall
sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with
the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's
bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in
the valley of Hamon-gog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse
the land.
17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered
fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather
yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a
great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and
drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the
flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of
rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken,
of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be
filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all
men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see
my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day
and forward.
23 And the heathen
shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity:
because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and
gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have
I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have
mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26 After that they
have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have
trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made
them afraid.
27 When I have
brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies'
lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which cause them to be
led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their
own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my
spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
KJV
Thursday - September 11, 2008
Arrests Decimate Pioneer Community
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com)
Three young
fathers are under house arrest and forbidden to return to their homes,
leaving only one adult male in
their pioneer startup community in southern Judea. They are
accused of
kidnapping an assaulting an Arab arsonist - against whom all charges have
been dropped.
The three say they
merely made a citizen's arrest, and then transferred the Arab to an army
force, after he set fire to their fields.
The
three, each with several children, are recent returnees to observant
Judaism, and barely support their families with flocks of sheep and odd
jobs. One of the three is a veteran of the IDF's most elite Matkal
commando unit.
The story began on a Sabbath day
two months
ago, when a group of Arabs and Israelis arrived in the Jewish-owned fields
of Mitzpeh Asael, in the South Mt. Hevron district. "This was
clearly a group of provocateurs," said Shmuel Medad, who heads the
Honenu civil rights
organization, which is spearheading the legal campaign on behalf of
the three Jews.
The "visitors"
set one of the fields on fire, the arrestees said, and the blaze
began spreading rapidly. "G-d had mercy," Medad said, "and the fire
stopped only a few meters away from one of the caravans."
"One of the
arsonists then ran towards the Jews with a hoe in hand," Medad
continued. "The Jewish residents caught him, and transferred him to an
army force that arrived there a
few minutes later. The soldiers also caught another arsonist."
The provocateurs claimed that the first Arab was tied to
a pole, but the Jewish farmers deny this.
"At that point," Medad continued,
"the Arab who was caught with the
hoe said he required medical help, and at his request, was evacuated via
Arab ambulance. He later surfaced with medical documents showing
that he had been injured, but these turned out to be forged... When the
police arrived, they arrested Eyal Rachamim, who serves as the security
officer of the area, and then released from IDF custody the other Arab."
Police Tear Up Complaint
"That night, Eyal's neighbor Lior
went to the police station to file
a complaint against the arson. The investigator actually tore up the
complaint - and then arrested him on charges of assault! Two days
later, the police arrested a third Jewish resident, Mordechai."
The District Prosecution, headed by
Attorney Yiska Liebowitz, decided
to drop all charges against the Arab - even though, Medad says, "he
changed his story! First he
admitted setting the fire, saying
he did it by mistake, and then he said he ran towards the Jews
because he thought they set the fire. One of the judges in one of the
courts noted that he changed his story, and wanted to release the Jews,
but his decision was not implemented - and
they ended up in jail for six
weeks." ....
All this for
the sake of the Road Map. The Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers are
victimized by the secular liberal Jewish government because they are seen as the
thorn in the flesh to the Road Map. The settlers have been living in Judah and
Samaria for forty years now. Ever since the 1967 war that freed this part of the
Holy Land settlers have been moving into these formerly Arab held lands.
The land was for the most part neglected by the interloping Arabs. It was the
Jews who caused the desert to bloom because they loved it. The Land was God's
gift to the Jews, and those who moved into Judah and Samaria treated it with
great respect. The Arabs who abused the Land, and moved on saw what bounty the
Jews were reaping, and suddenly wanted it back. It matters not whether the Arabs
ever lived on the Land now producing wonderful harvests. They just claimed it
all as theirs. They believe Allah gives them such rights from the Koran. The
Palestinian Arab thugs who just muscle in on their own people think they are
free to practice the same on the settlers. These settlers have proved themselves
of much sterner stock. The Arabs know the settlers will not be intimidated so
they are now using the Jewish liberal court system to have their way. Sadly, it
is working. The liberal courts hate the conservative settlers, and
justice
goes out the window whenever a case comes before them concerning the settlers.
Should a judge put justice first, he is quickly over-ruled by a more senior
liberal minded cohort. It is pleasing America, and the Road Map that drives
these liberal judges to be so unfair to the settlers. Judah and Samaria will not
be accepted by Abbas and the Palestinian Authority as long as there are Jews
living there. Over 300,000 Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers must be
forced from their homes in order for the failed Road Map to go forward.
Jesus Christ
tells His followers that this world hated Him, and if they are true in following
Him it will hate them also. The Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers are the
only Jews in Israel who are honestly trying to follow the Old Testament commands
of God. They are not saved. They are not redeemed. They are honest. My thoughts
are that it will be from this stock that God will call the Two Witnesses of
Revelation 11, and the 144,000 of Revelation 7 and 14 after the rapture of the
Church. They will be the first Jews to respond to Christ after the rapture when
the Church Age ends. They will set a new Biblical foundation for the coming
Jewish Kingdom dispensation. They are already exhibiting one of the qualities
needed to be a true born again, heart circumcised, child of God.
What about you
dear friend. Is there anything in your heart driving you to the Biblical Christ?
Do you desire to have your sins forgiven? Do you desire to live a righteous life
dedicated totally to the Savior? Are you willing to serve Him with all your
heart, all your soul, and all your might? Friend, come to Christ before the
times we live in overwhelm you. Come to Christ, and live!
John 15:18-21
18
If the world hate you,
ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19
If ye were of the
world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20
Remember the word that
I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have
persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying,
they will keep yours also.
21
But all these things
will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that
sent me.
KJV
Friday - September 12, 2008
U.S. Refuses to Aid Israel in Iran
Attack
by Ze'ev Ben-Yechiel
(IsraelNN.com)The
United States
has turned down Israeli requests for military assistance in attacking
Iran’s nuclear facilities. This will hamper the tiny Jewish state
in facing off alone against the much larger Islamic Republic, which is
equipped with some of the latest
military technology from Russia. As compensation, the U.S. has
agreed to bolster Israel’s missile defense system.
Israel would not
be allowed to refuel its military planes in Iraq, or even use Iraqi
airspace for a flyover on the way to Iran. Even if Israeli jets
were to reach Iran, they might not
be able to carry powerful enough bombs to do the job. The
U.S. has refused to supply Israel
with equipment such as bunker-buster bombs critical in destroying
heavily fortified nuclear installations.
Israeli officials have been in talks with their American
counterparts for several months over specific requests for military
assistance, and U.S. reticence over an Israeli strike has led American
military and diplomatic officials to decide against supporting what they
see as Israel’s growing commitment to an attack on Iran.
Among the requests
most critical for a
successful Israeli solo strike on Iran is the ability to
use Iraqi air fields as a
refueling point for Israel’s fighter-bomber fleet that would be used in
the attack.
The dropping of guided bombs on targets as small and
sensitive as a nuclear reactor requires the precision and agility that
could be likely achieved only by a very low-altitude release.
The distance
between Israel and Iran’s nuclear reactor at Bushehr is over 800 miles.
A large bomber aircraft would have the fuel range for such a
non-stop round-trip flight from Israel. However, the necessity of a
low-altitude approach to the target, combined with the heavier aircraft’s
low speed and maneuverability and lack of sufficient armaments such as
rockets or cannon, would render it extremely vulnerable to anti-aircraft
fire or attacking Iranian jets.
Last December,
Russia installed one of its
latest anti-aircraft missile networks in the hostile Islamic Republic.
Such operations are therefore usually performed with
supersonic fighter-bomber aircraft, such as the F-15s and F-16s used in
the 1981 bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor and last year’s bombing
of the nascent Syrian reactors. However, these aircraft do not have the
fuel range to safely make a trip to Iran and back without refueling.
Unless the Israeli planes would be able to refuel somewhere along the way
– American-occupied Iraq being the
only viable choice – a bombing run on Iran would likely become a
suicide mission.
Even if Israeli pilots volunteered for a kamikaze
mission, the expense of the aircraft, in addition to the risk of Iran
obtaining the Israeli-modified jets – some of the most advanced in the
world – even in partially destroyed condition, would make it unlikely that
Israel’s Defense Ministry would approve of such an attack.
Israeli aircraft would not need to actually land in Iraq
to refuel, as it is common practice to refuel in the air using long-range
air tankers. However, the tankers that the Israeli Air Force currently has
are outdated, making it difficult to coordinate refueling for such a
long-distance mission. To address this concern, Israel reportedly
requested the more modern Boeing
767-based refueling tankers, but the U.S. has also rejected this request,
as reported several weeks ago by Israel’s Channel 10 television.
Even if the Israeli jets were able to be refueled in the
air by long-range air tankers, a mission to Iran would require an
overflight of Iraq, the only country that would possibly be willing to
allow Israeli aircraft in its airspace. A glance at El-Al passenger flight
routes from an in-flight magazine illustrates this clearly: Flights en
route to Asia and the Far East, normally represented by graceful curves
for non-Israeli airlines, suddenly become sharp turns northward or
southward in order avoid flying over Middle Eastern countries.
However, the United States has apparently refused to
authorize Israel to fly over Iraq as well, and according to one report,
American officials told their
Israeli counterparts to ask permission from the Iraqi prime minister
themselves. It is very unlikely that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
would volunteer to allow Israel to use his country’s airspace without
pressure from the U.S., since such a move would antagonize many Arab
countries in the region.
In an apparent attempt to compensate for its
unwillingness to assist Israel’s needs for an Iran strike, the U.S. has
offered to deliver an advanced
radar warning system, to be installed in the Negev and manned by a
permanent U.S. staff working alongside Israeli military personnel. The
Pentagon has apparently placed the order already.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Russian state-owned
company building Iran’s Bushehr reactor announced last week that the
construction of the reactor will reach a state of “no return” by early
2009.
While a better radar system promises to greatly enhance
Israel’s ability to detect a long-range aerial attack from Iran, Israel
may soon be left with no realistic option to strike Iran’s nuclear
facilities and no time to find another solution.
The Road Map raises its
ugly head again not wanting to offend the Arabs who must accept Judah and
Samaria as a free gift. The United States will not help Israel to prevent Iran
from developing nuclear weapons. Instead we will give the Jews an early warning
radar system so they can shake in their boots a few minutes earlier when Iran
fires nuclear rockets at Tel Aviv.
Folks, the
less we help Israel the more the Russians help Iran. In the end the Russians are
going to help Islam into a final invasion of Israel when they realize the US is
now playing the hands off game. The only problem for the Russians is that God
does not much care what game the United States is playing. God Himself will
defeat the Islamic invaders, and embarrass the Russian Gog as revealed in
Ezekiel 39. The United States will find God does not need us at all when it
comes to protecting the Jews especially when we are out to please all the other
gentile world politicians.
Friend, to be
friends with this world of sin is to be an enemy of God. We must all break from
the world, and come to the Savior. The choice is yours. The world is going to
lose in the end. Holiness and righteousness are going to reign. Friend, it is
the King of the Jews who will be the final victor. Russia, the United States are
but dust on His scales of justice. Friend. come to Christ, or die the eternal
death of a never ending hell. The choice is yours.
Isaiah 40:15
15
Behold,
the nations are as a drop of a
bucket, and are counted as the
small dust of the balance:
behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
KJV
Isaiah 41:1-4
41
Keep silence before me, O islands;
and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them
speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2
Who raised
up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot,
gave the nations before him, and
made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword,
and as driven stubble to his bow.
3
He pursued
them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his
feet.
4
Who hath wrought and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord , the first, and
with the last; I am he.
KJV
Saturday - September 13, 2008
130,000 Muslims on Temple Mount
(IsraelNN.com) About 130,000 Muslims are on the Temple
Mount Friday, holding their second Ramadan Friday service.
Police only
allowed in married women over 30 and men over 45 with permits.
I just wanted to make the
point with this short news item that it is the Jews who have full sovereignty
over the Temple Mount. Islam can only do what the Jews permit them to do on the
Mount which Islam has recently declared as their third most holy site. It must
be conquered through blood if Islam is to save face. I'm sure the rest of Islam
looks upon these Palestinian Arabs as tainted for allowing the Jews to dictate
their movements. They lose face every time they obey Jewish orders on the Temple
Mount. They lose face for Allah every time they compromise with the Jews. Islam
whips up hate against the Jews by using the Palestinian Arabs, but Islam as a
whole looks upon the plight of the Palestinians as degrading to Allah. The
Palestinian Authority parasite government run by Abbas in Judah and Samaria must
be financially supported by the US, and Israeli governments because the Islamic
world will not support them. They are tainted! They will be sacrificed without
the shedding of any tears should Iran ever nuke the Jews. Islam has corralled
all the Palestinian Arabs who have fled the Holy Land keeping them penned up in
concentration camps reminiscent of World War II. This has been going on
since 1948. Islam keeps them in perpetual poverty restricting their movements
even more then what the Jews do on the Temple Mount, and then tells them it is
all the fault of the Jews. It most certainly would never be the fault of Islam.
Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon, and Hamas terrorists in the Holy Land who are
under the direct control of the Islamic Iranians now use the Palestinian Arabs
as fodder for their own Islamic benefit. These gullible Palestinian Arabs can't
comprehend that they are being used, and will be stabbed in the back once Islam
has no more use for them. They are a tainted people because of their proximity
to the Jews.
The
Road Map is dead on arrival in the broader Islamic world. The Palestinian Arabs
are despised because they imply they will accept the gift of Judah and
Samaria from the Jews. Accepting gifts from the hated Jews is not the Islamic
way. Allah the god of the barbarian tells them they must exterminate the Jews,
and thus gain Judah and Samaria. It is losing face to accept a Jewish gift.
Jewish blood is the only face saving way for Islam to regain sovereignty. It
can't be the way of free gifts. It must be the way of the barbarian. Here is the
great difference between those who follow the Bible, and those who follow the
Koran.
Friend, the greatest gift
ever offered throughout all eternity is the LORD Jesus Christ. There never was,
or ever could be an equivalent to Calvary. A one time atonement for sin that can
never end. So sure was God that Christ His Son would not fail that He granted
salvation to those who looked forward to their coming redeemer the LORD Jesus
Christ even before any knew His name. The continual blood sacrifices offered at
the Altar of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, and both Holy Temples pictured
Calvary. Forgiveness for sin was granted on the sure knowledge that Christ was
coming to redeem the sinner. There was no other way to have sins forgiven in the
last dispensation then through blood sacrifice which we now know always pointed
to Christ. The Bible tells us Christ offers forgiveness as a free gift to all
who will come. He has provided everything necessary for forgiveness at Calvary.
We need do nothing now, but come unto Him. The next Jewish Kingdom dispensation
will see the re-emergence of another Holy Jewish Temple with an altar. This time
all blood sacrifice offered will be in remembrance of Calvary.
Friend, the offer of
Salvation to you this very day is a free gift which the Bible identifies as
grace. Won't you come to this Christ of the Bible, and live.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8
For
by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God:
9
Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
KJV
John 4:10
10
Jesus
answered and said unto her,
If thou knewest the
gift of God, and who it is
that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and
he would have given thee living water.
KJV
Romans 6:23
23
For the
wages of sin is death; but the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
KJV
Sunday - September 14, 2008
Israeli leaders
furious over US Consul’s comments on Jerusalem
Mofaz: Livni
making 'strategic mistake
that could be a tragedy forever'
Netanyahu: Walles’
remarks shows government’s
incompetence
Israeli leaders across the political spectrum
expressed outrage on Thursday
to US Consul General Jacob Walles’ comments to the Arabic daily
Al-Ayyam that Israel has agreed to begin discussing the
fate of
Jerusalem with the Palestinians, some in opposition to such a
move and others because he leaked to the public.
Read More
I know this is
an insignificant issue with the secular world, but dear Christian friend
understand this is an enormous issue to God and the Bible! What is happening in
these waning days of both the Bush and Olmert governments is a last ditch effort
to seal the future of Jerusalem. To give most of that Holy City to the Islamic,
Arab, Palestinian, barbarians as a forever capital city from which to broadcast
to the world the power of Allah and the Koran over the Bible. This is the
politically correct Road Map peace plan the gentile world politicians want.
Jerusalem for the barbarians, and not for the coming Prince of Peace. The
politicians are very subtle as they leave God out of all their future plans for
Jerusalem. I'm glad to see at least some Jewish politicians realize the
importance of what is going on, and
making
a stink. What really stinks is the rot of this evil generation in which we live.
The politicians feel no obligation to God, or the Bible. They make their
decisions as if He does not exist. World War II drove the politicians of the
last generation back to God. He was mentioned often as they related their plans
to win the war. But, this evil generation goes through the trials of our day
glorying in their own abilities failed as they are. Today's politicians can't
admit they are wrong. They can't admit they are sinners in need of salvation.
They keep resurrecting the Road Map no matter how many times God has exposed it
as a blasphemous plan that will never work. The Road Map is the only plan the
politicians will recognize for bringing peace to the Holy Land. It is the
product of their own wit, and they will never give it up. First, Israel must be
forced to accept the Road Map, and give all of Samaria and Judah to the Islamic
Arabs including Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Next, Israel must be forced to
accept never ending terrorism such as suicide bombers, and continual rocket
attacks as long as they remain in the Holy Land. This is the price for peace
that the Road Map brings to the Jews. A perpetual bunker living lifestyle which
no other people would ever be asked to perform is what the Road Map demands of
the Jews. The Road Map demands of God , and the Bible that God give up His
intent to bring back the LORD Jesus Christ to the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the
Temple Mount. Jerusalem is out! Jerusalem is to be the capital of the Christ
hating Islamic Arab Palestinians. No Jews, No Bibles, and never the King of the
Jews would be allowed into Islamic Jerusalem. the God of the Bible must recant
is the message the Road Map sends to the world.
Well, God is
not going to recant. He is going to send these evil politicians leading this
evil generation to hell. The LORD Jesus Christ is coming in judgment. All who
support, and follow these gentile politicians will suffer their fate when Christ
returns. Jerusalem must remain Jewish, and the Road Map mentality must end. The
miraculous Third Exodus of our generation is the beginning of God reclaiming His
rights to the Holy Land. The gentile world opposes this move. The Bible is clear
that with dispensation change the times of the gentiles ends! The true Church of
truly born again Christians is raptured. A new Jewish foundation is laid for the
soon coming King of the Jews, and His
coming
Kingdom Age. The Bible is not going to be changed to accommodate the Road Map.
Friend, your
feelings on the future of Jerusalem determine on which side you stand! Recognize
the world politicians are never going to bring peace to planet earth. It is
beyond their abilities. Faith in Christ is the only way to go. Won't you come to
this Christ of the Bible for salvation? Won't you come to Him with all your
heart, soul, and might to have your sins forgiven? You can join the ranks of the
born again this very day by coming to Christ in humble personal prayer. He is
more then willing to apply His blood shed at Calvary where He became the perfect
atonement for sin to your heart if you will only come to Him, and ask. Salvation
is of grace, but the LORD Jesus Christ will not force it on the unwilling. You
must come dear lost sinner, or you will suffer the fate of this evil generation.
Repent, come to Christ, and live with Him in His Holy Jerusalem.
Isaiah 52:1-2
52
Awake, awake;
put on thy strength, O Zion; put on
thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2
Shake thyself from the dust; arise,
and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O
captive daughter of Zion.
KJV
Tuesday - September 16, 2008
Olmert Lashes Out at Beleaguered
Samaria Jews
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.comThere will be no pogroms against non-Jews,"
Olmert angrily scolds, referring to the
retaliation
carried out by Jews who had been earlier victimized in a stabbing/arson
attack.
Under fire from government figures and the media, with
little sympathy for the
Arab arson, stabbing and near-multiple-murders they suffered,
residents of the Shomron (Samaria) town of Yitzhar say that government
weakness and corruption, together with left-wing self-criticism of Jews,
is a deadly combination.
Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert began his
weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday with a scathing attack on the
beleagured residents of Yitzhar. Quickly dismissing the
arson-and-stabbing as "serious and harsh," and adding in the same sentence
that "our security forces are dealing with these issues and will reach
those who were involved and will do what needs to be done, as they do so
admirably throughout the year," he then went on to his main point, some 12
sentences long. He sharply rebuked
the residents of Yitzhar for retaliating "by assaulting Arab
residents in a nearby Palestinian village. They used live weapons and
wounded Palestinian residents even though there was no basis to assume,
and no knowledge to the effect, that these residents were at all
connected, whether directly or indirectly, to the terrorist attack in
Yitzhar."
"In actuality," Yitzhar spokesman Yigal Amitai said,
"Arabs of Asira
el-Kabaliye have set fire to the fields of Yitzhar seven times in recent
weeks, yet the army and the police did not take action to prevent
these attacks in advance, nor to thwart them as they were happening, nor
to apprehend the guilty parties afterwards. Instead, OC Central Command
Gen. Gad Shamni chose to issue orders to one of our residents, distancing
him from his home for four months."
"We therefore
now have reason to fear," Amitai continued, "that the terrorist who
burnt down the home of the Ben-Shlomo family, tried to murder the
Ofan family next-door, and then stabbed nine-year-old Tuvia Shtetman,
will also not be caught by the police or army."
Olmert Speaks Out Against Law-Breaking
Olmert, against whom the police recently recommended a
three-pronged criminal indictment, then spoke out against "taking the law
into one's hands." He said, "This phenomenon of
taking the law into one's hands,
of violent disturbances, of brutality
by Jewish elements living
in communities
in Judea and Samaria, whether in recognized communities or in
illegal outposts, is
intolerable, and will be dealt with sharply and harshly by the
law enforcement authorities of the State of Israel."
Olmert implied that the Jews of Yitzhar carried out a
pogrom against the Arabs of the hostile village. "There will be no pogroms
against non-Jewish residents in the State of Israel," he said sharply. "We
have law enforcement authorities. We have police. We have security
services. First and foremost, we have a military that knows how to deal
with incidents in which Jews are attacked and to fight terrorists, and it
will not lend a hand to those who take the law into their hands and attack
innocents, as was done over the weekend in the gravest manner." ..
What we have is the
secular liberal Olmert government that hates the conservative Independent
Fundamental Jewish Settlers. It is politics, and all politics! The liberals when
they gain control allow all their bias to come to the front. They are never
content just to win from the conservatives, but they are vengeful doing all they
can to make life as miserable as possible for their political opposites. Olmert
has no concern for the 9-year old stabbing victim. I really think he just sees
him as another troublesome settler who will never vote for the liberal party. It
seems to me that liberals in general are incapable of forgiveness. Once they
develop a hate it is forever. No circumstances will subdue their anger. The
record of Olmert toward the fundamental settlers is abysmal. Just look at his
response to the settlers of Sderot; the victims of most of the rockets
coming from Gaza. Nothing! He did pass a law forcing all new settler
buildings to be enforced to withstand rocket attacks at the settlers expense.
Such is his compassion toward these Bible believing conservative Jews. They are
fodder to him for the implementation of the Road Map. Olmert knows the Road Map
will never go ahead as long as there are Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers
living in Judah or Samaria. The more pressure put upon them from any source is
welcome in the eyes of Olmert and his liberal cohorts. The liberal Jews of
Israel are clear that they will never lift a hand to help the conservative
minority, and will even persecute them if they should lift their own hands in
self-defense.
Folks,
I can't help but feel an Obama victory here in America will produce a similar
condition for the Bible believing conservative Christians. I know his first act
will be to follow that liberal Clinton's first act in office which will be to
open the doors for the homosexuals into our military. As Satanic an idea as
there ever could be. A Democratic congress under Pelosi will push it threw into
law. Where Clinton failed, Obama will succeed. Christian parents will discourage
military service for their children knowing it will quickly become as perverted
as the Islamic paradise. Homosexuality and liberalism seem to go hand in hand.
It was Olmert who promoted the first gay pride parade in Jerusalem defying with
pleasure the religious conservative citizens who opposed such filth in their
Holy City. He shoved gay pride down their throats with a snicker on his face as
will Obama should he take control in the United States.
The whole world is heading
in the wrong direction. There are none righteous among the masses, no not one!
It is only in the persecuted remnant where at least there is a desire for
righteousness. Dear friend, I would invite you to join the faithful few. It
means total surrender to the Savior. There is no less a commitment acceptable.
The Bible says you must come with all your heart, soul, and might. Learn the joy
of absolute forgiveness of sin through the blood of Christ who paid the price of
atonement for sin at Calvary. You dear friend will never be acceptable, but
Christ is! In Him you will find a perfect Savior. A perfect redeemer. Come to
Christ, and live.
Isaiah 44:24-25
24
Thus saith
the Lord , thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the
Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that
spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
25
That
frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth
wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
KJV
Isaiah 47:4
4
As for our
redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
KJV
Isaiah 49:26
26
And I will
feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken
with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I
the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
KJV
Thursday - September 18, 2008
- Aluf
Benn, Haaretz
Sunday's cabinet
meeting was the last under Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, who is expected to
step down in the coming days.
At the session, Olmert returned to his term's exact point of departure. His
address was an almost verbatim
repeat of his inaugural speech at the Knesset in May 2006. Then, too,
he spoke of his painful
disillusion
with the dream of a
'Greater Israel,' of the crucial
need to divide the land to
ensure Israel's Jewish identity for years to come... Read
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Olmert offers Abbas 98.1% of West Bank’
Details of negotiation leak before summit
Israel TV Channel 2
reported on Sunday that outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has
offered Palestinain Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas some
98.1% of the West Bank for a
future Palestinian state in their secret negotiating track.
The report claimed that the talks with Abbas have included the possibility
of Israel ceding
the Jerusalem suburbs of Ma'aleh Adumim and Givat Ze'ev, while
Abbas is willing to negotiate the status of the Jerusalem neighborhoods of
Gilo and French Hill - Jewish neighborhoods located in areas captured
by Israel during the 1967 Six Days War.
The two are scheduled to meet on
Tuesday for a final round of their Annapolis talks, which are a
separate track from the one being conducted by Foreign Minister Tzipi
Livni with Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei. The Prime Minister's Office
had no comment on the reports, but earlier on Sunday, Olmert
addressed the weekly cabinet meeting about the
proposed voluntary evacuation bill
to buy off settlers living in Judea/Samaria.
"The vision of a 'Greater
Israel' is over. There is no such thing. Anyone
who talks that way is deluding himself," insisted Olmert.
"I [once] thought that the land from the Jordan River to the Sea was all
ours. But ultimately after a long and tortured process, I arrived at the
conclusion that we must share with
those we live with if we don't want to be a bi-national state," he
told the cabinet.
The cabinet session was the last one before Olmert's
expected resignation following the Kadima primary to replace him as
party leader on Wednesday.
Recent reports have claimed that Olmert had offered Abbas around 90% of
the West Bank in recent talks. News of an even higher amount were
accompanied by claims Olmert has
agreed to the return of 5,000 Palestinian refugees to Israel over a
five-year period. Olmert denied those claims on Monday, while Abbas rejected
it and demanded a much larger number of returnees. The Channel
2 report said the
Palestinians are also insisting on access to the Sea of Galilee.
Interviewed by Ha'aretz over the weekend, Abbas expressed
pessimism that the upcoming negotiations would be successful, as did
Israeli Vice Premier Haim Ramon in a separate briefing to reporters on
Sunday. Referring to the security barrier being erected along the 'Green
Line,' Ramon said that
"settlements
east of the barrier won't be under Israeli sovereignty."
He also said that the settlers living beyond the security fence should
come to the obvious and
pragmatic
conclusion that the smart thing to do would be to get out now.
Ramon is sponsoring the proposed bill introduced at Sunday's cabinet
meeting to offer residents of 72 Jewish communities east of the barrier
$300,000 for their homes if they leave on their own. Ramon estimated that
there were at least 11,000 settlers, out of almost 62,000 living in this
area, who would accept the offer.
But even Kadima ministers, even those running in this week's primary to
replace Olmert, objected to the bill or to the fact it was being
introduced at this time. Noth Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transport
Minister Shaul Mofaz complained that the Palestinians would see it as a
unilateral concession, would ask for more and would not likely give
anything in return.
Folks, I don't
know how these recent figures were calculated, but I know there are over 300,000
Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers living in Judah and Samaria. The
majority can't be living on just 1.9 % of the land. Olmert can't be trusted
to tell the truth. He is going down in history as the worst Prime Minister in
Israel's history. His unbelief in God, and the Bible is certain when he talks
about the vision of a "greater Israel" as being over. That vision of a
greater Israel comes from the Bible as part of the future prophecies God
has
promised to the Jews. It is God who thinks this way, and I am personally
offended when Olmert calls God disillusioned. It is the politicians who think
they know better then God who are the disillusioned. These politicians be they
Jew or gentile who give only lip service to God, heaven, and hell are those who
think they are in control. Oh how their promises and plans fall apart so
quickly! The people should know this by now, but the people demand to hear only
the lie. This is why they turn to the politicians rather then God. The great lie
of this evil generation is the Road Map. The plan to divide the Holy Land,
Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. The plan to share the Holy Land with the
Islamic barbarians who will never submit. Who will terrorize forever anye
humbled children seeking truth from the God of the Bible. The political plans to
leave God, and the Bible out of all future planning for the Holy Land is what is
happening this very day. The plan to place a stumbling stone before Christ
preventing His return to the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. Be
aware dear reader in these politically electrified months before elections in
both Israel and the US that these are evil politicians making evil plans for the
future of mankind. Plans that exclude God. Plans and promises to benefit evil
desires not holiness and purity. Understand that the politicians are never going
to bring lasting peace to the Holy Land, or anywhere else. It is beyond their
abilities. We as well expect the bar tenders, street walkers, and drug pushers
to bring in moral reform as expect the politicians of this evil generation to
bring in peace. It is Christ, and Christ alone ruling with a rod of righteous
iron who has the power and ability. I am appalled at all the lip service to
Christ coming from the politicians who in the next breath support the Road Map.
Are they that blind? Are they so ignorant of the Bible that they do all they can
to allow the Islamic barbarians to stand in His way at Jerusalem? We live in the
days when the very elect are stupified by all the evil being generated.
Some
politicians may be better then others, but they are all of evil intent. I am not
fooled when I go to the voting place. I vote for the better politician, but I
don't trust any of their promises or plans. I know the best of them are only
lukewarm toward the LORD. I know the closer we get to the coming of Christ the
worst the world situation will become. The politicians can't fix it. That is why
Christ must come again, My hope and faith is in what God is doing in the Holy
Land during our generation. I see the greater Israel every time I read the
Bible. I know God keeps His word.
Friend, I pray
you have come to this Christ of the Bible for salvation. He died at Calvary so
your sins can be forgiven. He is the perfect sacrifice for sin. He is the
pearfect, and only acceptable atonement for sin. Won't you come to Him, and
live.
Joel 2:31-3:2
31
The sun
shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the
great and the terrible day of the
Lord come.
32
And it
shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall
be delivered: for in mount Zion and
in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the
remnant whom the Lord shall call.
3
For, behold,
in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of
Judah and Jerusalem,
2
I will also
gather all nations, and will
bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they
have scattered among the nations, and
parted my land.
KJV
Joel 3:17
17
So shall ye
know that I am the Lord your God
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more.
KJV
Joel 3:20-21
20
But Judah
shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21
For I will
cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for
the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
KJV
Micah 4:1-3
4
But in the
last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain of the house of the
Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall
be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2
And many
nations shall come, and say, Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , and to the house of the God
of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:
for the law shall go forth of Zion,
and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem.
3
And he shall
judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more.
KJV
Friday - September 19, 2008
Mofaz Concedes Narrow Livni Victory
by Gil Ronen, Hillel Fendel and Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) Aides to Transportation and Road Safety
Minister Shaul Mofaz
announced early Thursday that he has decided to
accept the results of
Wednesday's primary elections for the leadership of the Kadima party,
despite the closeness of the count.
IDF Army Radio reported
he would accept Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni's leadership as head of the party, and support her in
her bid to form a new government, despite advice from his attorneys that
he challenge the results based on alleged polling irregularities.
With almost all of the votes counted,
Livni won by less than 2%, and her
margin of victory was a scant 431 votes. Mofaz's camp initially
said he would appeal the results.
The exit polls
for all three leading television channels in Israel misled the public
into believing that Livni had an easy victory, giving her 47-49 percent of
the vote versus 37 percent for Minister Mofaz. The Channel 2/Dahaf exit
poll gave Livni 48 percent of the vote to 37 percent for Mofaz. The
Channel 1 poll gave Livni 47.2 percent to Mofaz's 37.1. The Channel 10
poll gave Livni 49 percent and Mofaz 37 percent.
Had he filed a challenge to void the results at the
polling station in the Bedouin city of Rahat, and had the appeal been
accepted, Livni's margin of victory would have been a single vote.
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit received 8.5 percent of
the vote, and Public Security Minister Avi Dichter 6.5 percent, compared
with seven percent that each was given in the exit polls.
The voter turnout at the Kadima primaries passed the 50
percent mark during the evening hours, according to the party's central
election committee. The statistic was greeted with relief at the Foreign
Minister's campaign headquarters, where a higher turnout was seen as an
advantage.
Fatah-PA pleased
Sources in the Fatah-PA expressed
satisfaction with the result of the TV exit polls Wednesday night.
Fatah-PA officials followed the vote anxiously and were worried by the low
voter turnout, just like the Livni camp.
A senior Fatah-PA source said that "even if our formal
position is that we work with whoever is elected,
it is no secret that working
with Livni will be much easier. She knows the material, and
there is no need to start from scratch with her."
The source estimated that if
Mofaz were elected he
would have tried to create a coalition with Shas and the nationalist
parties and toughen Israel's
stance in negotiations, whereas "Livni understands that the solution to
the situation is a quick diplomatic agreement with us," he said.
Livni Asked for More Time
The polling was supposed to end at 10:00
P.M. but Kadima's central elections committee extended it by 30 minutes at
Livni's request and despite Mofaz's protests. Moti Morel, a strategic
advisor to Mofaz, said following the media exit polls that "if Livni wins
tonight, then Miss Clean will have to live with the eternal stain of
having stolen an election with extra time."
"You can't change the rules of the game in the middle of
the game," Morel said. "You don't just come up to a judge and say 'give me
a few more minutes."
Whip Predicts Whipping
Likud Knesset faction whip MK
Gideon Saar predicted Wednesday that Kadima will be trounced in the next
elections.
Speaking at a pre-Rosh HaShanah Likud function, Saar
said: "A prime minister must be
elected by the entire nation. At the end of all of the deals, combinations
and agreements there is a voting booth, and in the next elections, Kadima
will be beaten and defeated at the polls."
MK Shelly Yechimovich (Labor) said Wednesday evening
that Livni should call elections
instead of trying to form a coalition in the present Knesset. She
spoke on a Channel 2 panel.
Yechimovich's position was met with surprise by fellow
panelists who noted that Labor is
expected to take a walloping if elections are held anytime soon, because
Livni will take many of its voters away from it.
Olmert is gone! By far the
worst Prime Minister in the history of the State of Israel. I'm afraid Israel
has only gone from the frying pan into the fire. Livni is expected to be even
more liberal then Olmert. Right now she is reforming the Olmert Kadima coalition
so she can finish his elected term as the Prime Minister, and head of Kadima.
The only bright spot is that the term is almost over. National elections are
coming soon, and Livni is not expected to win when the elections take place. The
Labor Party is the equivalent to the liberal Democrats here in the US. Kadima is
now as liberal if not more so, and has become the strongest liberal Party in
Israel. The Likud Party is equivalent to the conservative republicans here in
the US. Polls indicate that Likud will probably win the next national election.
It is the backlash coming from Olmert's incompetence. Liberal Jews are the vast
majority in Israel, but they are fed up with Olmert, and many are ready to give
Likud the rule over the government.
These are critical, but
exciting times. God is bringing Israel to the brink of decision. The politics of
this world are as dust to God. It is His will, and His will alone that will
prevail. Nothing is going to stop God from bringing this miraculous Third Exodus
to its conclusion. Islam is going to be the first to face the wrath of God. They
will never get Jerusalem! The harder their hearts become the greater their
destruction. No liberal Party in Israel will stop the LORD Jesus Christ from
establishing His Kingdom at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. Yes, these are
exciting times. Christ is coming again in the Character of the LORD of hosts.
This attribute will not allow Him to lose. The victory is sure, and we who are
with Him will rejoice.
Friend, what is your
decision this day. Will you chose Christ, or this world of sin.
Joel 3:14-17
14
Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the
valley of decision.
15
The sun and
the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16
The Lord
also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his
people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17
So shall ye
know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any
more.
KJV
Saturday - September 20, 2008
Ahmadinejad: The idea of Israel "has
expired"
ICEJ urges UN to indict Iranian leader for
incitement to genocide
Controversial
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced Israel on Thursday and
once again
refuted the Holocaust while denying mounting evidence that Iran is
edging closer to building a nuclear bomb.
His comments came as
the
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem submitted a global petition
to the UN Secretary General in New York calling for the world body to
indict the Iranian
leader for "incitement to genocide".
Speaking to reporters
on the eve of his departure for the United Nations General Assembly in New
York next week, Ahmadinejad
smirked at the notion of
a "greater" Israel that would include occupied Palestinian territories,
saying that while "some say the idea of Greater Israel has expired, I say
the idea of a Lesser Israel has expired, too."
He also repeated previous statements calling the
Holocaust by Nazi Germany
a "fake" and
saying Israel is perpetrating a holocaust on the Palestinian people.
On Wednesday ICEJ Executive Director Rev. Malcolm Hedding wrote a letter
to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon urging the world body to honor its
founding charter and indict Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide in the
light
of Iran's "repeated threats to eliminate the Jewish State and its quest
for the nuclear means to carry out these threats."
The letter accompanied the delivery on Thursday morning of a petition
against the Iranian leader signed by more than 55,000 Christians from over
120 nations.
On Monday, the
International Atomic Energy Agency, the
UN's nuclear watchdog,
issued a report charging Iran of stonewalling
an agency inquiry to
resolve whether Tehran had covertly researched ways to make a nuclear
bomb.
But Press TV said
Ahmadinejad had told it in an interview that the IAEA report had confirmed
the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program and that Tehran had
cooperated with the Vienna-based UN agency with "full transparency".
Folks, you must understand
that Islam is a religion of lies. It can't stand in the light of truth.
Ahmadinejad can freely rewrite history in the face of those who lived through,
and experienced the very historical lies he presents to enhance Islamic hate for
the Jews. The rank and file of Islam across the world accept the Ahmadinejad
redactions without question. If they want to believe Allah says the clear truth
is a lie, then it is a lie, and it matters not what proof of the truth might be
out there. No Moslem questions Allah, and if Allah so hates the
Jews
that he must lie to emphasize that hate then the lie becomes Islamic truth. If
Allah must lie to the great powers so Islam can gain the victory then that is a
righteous act by the Islamic leadership. Be certain dear friends that Iran is
going full steam ahead in building nuclear bombs to be used to exterminate the
Jews of Israel. The Russians are foremost in speeding up the nuclear development
process in Iran. The atheists join Islam in using the lie as acceptable morality
when dealing with the gullible outsiders. Understand that Islam lies for Allah.
They will never change the direction they are going. Islam believes Allah has
charged them with the task of wiping Israel off the map, and they are going to
do it or die in the attempt. Negotiations are useless when dealing with the
Iranian Islamic fanatics, or the communistic Russian atheists.
The truth will never be
found in the Koran, or in any of the atheistic writings of the communists. The
truth can only be found in Christ. The truth can set the sinner free, but this
evil generation demands only the lie. Friend, you must break from the crowd if
you want to find the truth. You must come to Christ for the forgiveness of your
sin. The masses reject Christ as the Savior. The masses will never submit to Him
as their King. Friend, the truth is that there is no other way to the Father
then through Christ. Come to Him, and live.
John 14:6
6
Jesus saith
unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
KJV
John 8:31-32
31
Then said
Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
If ye continue in my
word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32
And ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free.
KJV
John 8:42-45
42
Jesus said
unto them, If God
were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God;
neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43
Why do ye not understand
my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44
Ye are of your father the
devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the
father of it.
45
And because I tell you
the truth, ye believe me not.
KJV
John 18:37
37
Pilate
therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered,
Thou sayest that I am a
king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that
I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth
my voice.
KJV
Monday - September 22, 2008
Olmert to Resign Tonight
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would
announce, at the Cabinet meeting Sunday morning, his plans to submit his
letter of resignation. He left open the actual time of his
resignation until early this afternoon, when he
announced that he would hand in
the letter of resignation to President Shimon Peres Sunday evening at 7:30
p.m.
The Prime Minister said in July that he would resign
"when a new [Kadima] party leader is chosen... in order
to enable him/her to form a new government." Though the
implication was that he would resign before or as the efforts to form a
new government begin, no date was specified.
When Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni was chosen last week
to head the Kadima party and began efforts to form a new
government, Olmert went one step further. He informed his fellow Cabinet
ministers in Kadima that he will announce in the Cabinet meeting his
decision to resign from the position of Prime Minister - but again, did
not say when he would hand in the letter.
Around 2 p.m.,
Olmert finally agreed to pin himself down, and stated that at 7:30 p.m.,
he would arrive at the President's Residence and give the letter to
President Shimon Peres.
The resignation
will take effect 48 hours later.
It
is not clear if Peres will call off his planned trip to New York to take
part in the United Nations convention this week. As part of his duties,
he must choose a new Knesset Member - Tzipi Livni, in this case, although
it is his prerogative to choose any other MK that he might feel has a
better chance of forming a new government - to put together a new
coalition government.
How Long Can Olmert Remain as Prime Minister?
Livni will have 42 days to form a new government, beginning the day
she receives the official mandate from President Peres to do so.
During that time, Olmert remains
as prime minister.
If Livni does
not succeed in forming a coalition government in her allotted 42
days, and if her party does not agree to new elections, President
Peres can then give the task to
another MK, who will have 28 days to form a coalition. If that
second leader fails as well, Peres
can appoint a third person, who will be given only 14 days to form
a government. If elections are not agreed upon during those 84 days,
new elections must be held 90 days
later.
Whether Livni succeeds in forming a new government in
the coming days or weeks, or if a 2nd or 3rd MK forms one, or if new
elections are held and a new government is formed shortly afterwards,
Olmert remains
the head of the caretaker government until the new government is actually
formed. Theoretically, therefore, Olmert might still remain Prime Minister
for six months or more.
Livni: New Gov't Now - or New Elections
Meanwhile,
Livni has been meeting with
leaders of various parties in an effort to form a new coalition.
She has expressed the hope that the present coalition parties will not
raise unreasonable demands and will agree to remain in the government.
"Either a new
government immediately or new elections immediately," she has said.
If she decides that a new government is not feasible, she says she will
call new elections, which will be held 90 days later or on a date agreed
upon by the parties.
Livni has met with the leaders of two opposition parties
- Zevulun Orlev of the National Religious Party and Chaim Oron of Meretz -
as well as with Rafi Eitan of the Pensioners Party.
However, more
critical in the coalition-making process are the leaders of Labor and
Shas, Kadima's two
largest coalition partners. Labor leader Defense Minister Ehud
Barak, who was never very enthusiastic about Livni's qualifications for
Prime Minister, now fears that she may try to use him. The fear is that
Livni will form a new government only in order to be able to quickly call
new elections afterwards from the position of Prime Minister.
Labor's Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister of
Infrastructures, said that Livni must obligate herself to "two years of
government stability" if she wishes Labor to remain in the coalition.
Shas
leader Eli Yishai has said that he will not join a Livni-led government
unless she promises to restore National Insurance child allowances and
not to negotiate the division of Jerusalem. Neither of these
demands will be easy for Livni to promise.
Olmert has Resigned
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert has handed his letter of resignation to President Shimon
Peres.
Olmert is now the head of a transition government.
Peres is about to speak to the public on live television
and radio.
Olmert is
finally finished though he may drag on for a while. His incompetence in the
Second Lebanon War sealed his fate. His attempt to politicize the military by
forced retirement of all conservative officers is what led to The State of
Israel losing its first war ever with Islam. The reason Olmert forced out the
conservative officers was because he was afraid they would balk at forcing out
the more then 300,000 Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers now living in
Judah and Samaria. Olmert's fears are well founded. He was pushing these
competent, and God fearing officers into a moral dilemma. Should they obey the
secular liberal Olmert, or should they obey God and the Bible. The Olmert
solution was to make the military joint chiefs of staff all as secularly liberal
as himself. Competence and experience were no longer a military criteria, but
rather what was your political persuasion. Bill Clinton tried doing the same
thing with
his
first act in office when he attempted to open the military to the homosexuals.
Thankfully there were enough conservative officers able to curtail his effort
resulting in the no ask no tell policy which was able to keep the status quo.
Today, Barak Obama promises he will succeed where Clinton failed, and his first
act in office will be to politicize the military by forcing homosexuals down
their throat. I expect we here in the United States will suffer the same
experience Israel has just gone through in the Second Lebanon War. We dropped
our moral compass in Viet Nam, and lost. I'm proud of the military that followed
those evil days of the Saigon Disneyland, and drug abusing soldiers. Today we
can be proud of our military, but I warn you if Obama has his way it will
quickly turn into something worse then what it had become in those dark days of
extensive immorality. When we need them their immorality will forbid victory.
Folks, God is on the throne, and woe to all who think they can defy His moral
standards. Hard lessons are ahead if we do not learn from the Olmert experience
in Israel.
The righteous
issue in Israel today is the future dispersing of Jerusalem. The secular liberal
Jewish majority want to please the gentile world politicians by forcing the Road
Map down the nation's throat. I pray they will never succeed. The polls seem to
indicate Israel learned the Olmert lesson, and the next government is going to
be conservative once nationwide elections are held. Again, I stress
conservative, or liberal the politicians are never going to bring peace to the
Holy Land. Lasting peace anywhere is beyond their abilities. However, things
will always go better when God is part of the political process. It appears that
Palin brings this attitude as she joins the Republican ticket. I had high hopes
for the Evangelical Bush until he adopted the Road Map. I am not desiring to be
burned again by either the Evangelical conservative McCain, or the Evangelical
liberal Obama. I'm sick of all the Biblical ignorance among the Evangelicals,
and the phony lip service to our Lord and Savior. The era of the Laodicean
Church is here, and God has evaluated it as worthy only to be spewed from His
mouth. My hope is in the LORD Jesus Christ, and His soon return to the Holy
Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. It is a sure hope of which I know will
not be disappointing.
Friend, you
can be part of this sure hope if you will come to Christ for the forgiveness of
your sin. It is a personal matter between you, and the Savior. It has nothing to
do with religion. It has everything to do with the person of Christ. He came to
Calvary to provide the perfect atonement for sin. His sinless perfect sacrifice
was accepted; The proof being His resurrection. He had victory over sin and
death, and He offers you by grace His victory. Humble yourself dear friend, and
come to this Christ of the Bible. Come to Him, and live.
Psalms 98:1-2
98
O sing unto
the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and
his holy arm, hath gotten him the
victory.
2
The Lord
hath made known his salvation: his
righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
KJV
Isaiah 25:8
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.
KJV
1 Corinthians 15:54-57
54
So when
this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in
victory.
55
O death,
where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56
The
sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law.
57
But thanks
be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
KJV
1 John 5:4-5
4
For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this
is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5
Who is he
that overcometh the world, but he
that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
KJV
Tuesday - September 23, 2008
Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem,
Several Wounded
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com) An
Arab terrorist ran over several Israelis in Jerusalem several minutes ago.
The terrorist was shot and killed.
It was the
fourth terrorist attack in the capital this year and the third
in a row involving an Arab driver.
The attack took place at Kichar Tzahal near the Old City
when the terrorist aimed
his vehicle at a group of pedestrians.
At least two
people suffered serious injuries and another 13 suffered moderate to light
wounds.
Islam is
ratcheting up the cost of Jerusalem for the Jews. They are anticipating the Road
Map being put into effect, and are showing the world what kind of neighbors they
intend to be toward the Jews. Helpless women and children are always the first
targets of these lovers of Allah. The goal is to make that wonderful City of God
into a cesspool of barbarianism. Islam wants Jerusalem to be another Gaza where
it is unsafe for even Arab women and children to walk the streets. Islam knows
the Bible says the Jewish Messiah is coming to Jerusalem. Islam also knows most
Jews are secular, and don't believe the Bible. The Bible also tells the
Christians that the LORD Jesus Christ is coming again to Jerusalem. Islam knows
most Christians only give lip service to Christ, and not really believing Him as
they do Allah. Islam sees the days in which we live as opportunistic. The time
to strike all these secularized Christians, and Jews is now. Jerusalem means
nothing to them. A good push right now will push all these phony infidel
religionists into retreat. The great giveaway of Jerusalem as dictated by the
Road Map is within the grasp of the barbarians.
Folks, I pray
you understand it matters not what the woirld powers may attempt to dictate it
is still the God of the Bible who has complete control. I pray you can
understand that Jerusalem is not going to fall to these Palestinian Arabs. Yes,
Jerusalem is going to falter. She must yet face the onslaught of the antichrist,
but dear friends she is going to survive until the LORD Jesus Christ comes.
Harder days
must yet come. Friend, are you prepared for the future God has planed for the
planet? Great Tribulation is what the Bible says. The population is going to
plummet. The terrible days of death, and displacement during World War II of the
last generation was only a warning to this evil generation of what is coming
with the miraculous Third Exodus of today. The more this world resists the
return of the Jews to Jerusalem; The greater will be the tribulation. Only those
who have come to Christ have any hope. The masses have been warned, and are now
on the road to eternal condemnation. Friend, you must break from the crowd if
you want to live. Come to Christ for the forgiveness of your sin. He is revealed
as the perfect atonement for sin in the Bible. He has the power to change your
heart, but He will not force Himself on the creature. You must decide if you
want to be saved. The choice is yours. The power is His. Come to Christ, and
live.
Psalms 137:6
6
If I do not
remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not
Jerusalem above my chief joy.
KJV
Isaiah 65:19
19
And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall
be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
KJV
Joel 2:32
32
And it
shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall
be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as
the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
KJV
Amos 1:2
2
And he said,
The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall
wither.
KJV
Zephaniah 3:14-17
14
Sing, O
daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O
daughter of Jerusalem.
15
The Lord
hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of
Israel, even the Lord , is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any
more.
16
In that day
it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine
hands be slack.
17
The Lord
thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over
thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
KJV
Wednesday - September 24, 2008
Ahmadinejad:
Israel a plane without an
engine
Iranian leader at
UN to urge adoption of "one-state solution"
Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Monday that Israel is destined
like "an airplane that has lost its engine" and
again refused to
acknowledge the Holocaust,
stressing that Palestinians should not be forced to "pay for incidents
that possibly occurred during World War II."
During
a Los Angeles Times interview on Tuesday discussing the Jewish refugees
from Europe who helped establish Israel in 1948, Ahmadinejad questioned,
"Who are these people? Where did they come from....? If we agree and
accept that certain events had occurred during World War II, well, where
did they indeed happen? In Germany, in Poland…. now what exactly does this
have to do with Palestine? Why is it that the Palestinian people should
pay for it?"
While in New York for the UN General Assembly and several sideline
meetings, the
Iranian President reiterated his backing of a one state solution in
Israel and the Palestinian territories. He plans to propose to UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon the idea during his Monday meeting,
he said.
Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad blasted Israel’s efforts to interrupt Syria’s ties
with Iran via indirect peace negotiations over the Golan Heights with
Syria. "We believe that the freedom of the Golan Heights is exactly what
the Zionist regime does not want," he said. "We think it is very unlikely
it will happen as a result of the negotiations," reported The
Jerusalem Post.
I almost fell
out of my chair when i heard Ahmadinejad make the "one State solution"
statement. I thought, did this barbarian suddenly get religion? Did he for the
first time in his life open the Bible, and read what it says about the Jews and
the Promised Land? What a revelatory statement that was. Then I thought of old
Balaam, and how God squeezed his lips into saying blessings rather then the
curses he was paid to utter against the Jews.
Numbers 22:12
12
And God said
unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for
they are blessed.
KJV
Numbers 22:17
17
For I will
promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto
me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
KJV
Numbers 22:23
23
And the ass
saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his
hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and
Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
KJV
Numbers 23:11
11
And Balak
said unto Balaam, What hast thou done
unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
blessed them altogether.
KJV
Folks,
I hope you understand that the ass is again on higher ground then this pompous
Iranian President. It is very clear to me who is running without an engine when
even a dumb beast has more sense. The lesson of Balaam goes unheeded on this
evil generation that gives barbarians like Ahmadinejad a platform from which to
curse the Jews.
Dear friend.
I can only pray you have enough sense to see God is doing great things in the
Holy Land. The way is being prepared for the second coming of the LORD Jesus
Christ. He is coming as the King of the Jews. He is coming again to the Holy
Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. It will be from Zion where He will assume
His role not just as the King of the Jews, but the King of Kings. The Bible says
He will rule with a rod of iron. Woe to any on that day who would refuse to bow
down to this Jew. He is returning in the character of the LORD of hosts. He will
have the power to enforce His righteousness on the entire planet. Purity and
holiness will not be optional when the LORD Jesus Christ rules. I ask you plane
is your heart right? Is purity and absolute holiness your hearts desire, or are
you in need of cleansing? As Christ has the power to enforce His righteous
standards so also has He the power to cleanse your heart of all sin. He is the
victor over sin and death as proved at Calvary. He waits for you to come to Him
in humble repentance asking forgiveness from your sin. Oh friend, do not pass by
this opportunity to come to Christ.
Psalms 24:1-10
Psalm of David.
24
The earth
is the Lord 's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein.
2
For he hath
founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3
Who shall
ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4
He that hath
clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully.
5
He shall
receive the blessing from the Lord , and righteousness from the God of his
salvation.
6
This is the
generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7
Lift up your
heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of
glory shall come in.
8
Who is this
King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
9
Lift up your
heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of
glory shall come in.
10
Who is this
King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
KJV
Thursday - September 25, 2008
Eiland: Two-State Solution will not Work
(IsraelNN.com) Reserve Major-General Giora Eiland, who
was a senior advisor to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told a think
tank in Washington Tuesday that the current
proposal for a
new Arab state is not practical. Instead, he favors giving Jordan
control over a large part of Judea and Samaria.
A new Arab state within Israel's current borders is "a
solution that not only can't be agreed on, but probably
can't be implemented," he
stated at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Eiland also
proposed that Egypt allow the Gaza area to include part of the Sinai.
Jordan rejected his suggestion
that it take over security for the Jordan Valley and most of Judea and
Samaria. "The Jordanian option is not an option," said
Jordanian diplomat Samia Kabariti.
There has
never been a Palestinian State either Arab or Jewish. Palestine was always
considered to be the body of Jews living independently in the Holy Land
until after 1948 when the world politicians took up the mantra as representing
an all Islamic Arab Holy Land that totally excluded the Jews. Palestine to the
world changed after the formation of the State of Israel, and became redefined
as a Jewless Holy Land for the Arabs. It was a reaction to this miraculous Third
Exodus of our generation. It was an attempt to turn back the clock, get rid of
the Jews, and make the Holy Land a Jewless Palestine. The world hates what the
God of the Bible is doing in the Holy Land. The 1967 Six Day War shocked the
politicians when all were sure the Jews would be subjugated by the invading
Arabs, and most probably exterminated. Instead, it was a lightning Jewish
victory which caused the old USSR to threaten World War if the Jews did not stop
fighting. The Jordanian Army fled across the Jordan River, and swore they would
never return to the Holy Land again. All of Judah and Samaria (the West Bank)
fell into Jewish hands. The prize of prizes, the city of Jerusalem including the
Temple Mount, suddenly became Jewish again for the first time in almost 2000
years. Not since the days of Christ could the Jews claim the sovereignty over
the Temple Mount. Understand that there never was such a thing as an Arab
Islamic Palestine. Judah and Samaria were a part of Jordan until 1967. Judah and
Samaria transferred to Jewish ownership never going through Arab Palestinian
hands. The Arabs of Palestine
were Jordanians before 1967. Rebellious Jordanians
who were constantly plotting to overthrow the Jordanian Kingdom, and replace it
with an Islamic democracy much as what happened in Iran when the Shah was
disposed. This proposal to give Judah and Samaria back to the Jordanians is an
old proposal that has been made many times. It is DOA because Jordan wants no
part of the rebellious Arabs of Palestine. They enjoy watching the Jews pull out
their hair trying to appease these uncompromising barbarians who want everything
for themselves, or will die in the effort. These Palestinian Arabs know by
themselves they will never exterminate the Jews of Israel. They are satisfied to
remain in perpetual poverty as long as they can maintain forever a culture of
terror. Never ending terror of the Jewish civilian population is the reality
that the world politicians find acceptable. Driving the Jews into the bowels of
the earth to live in huge underground bunkers would be the ultimate solution to
peace in the Holy Land by the gentile world politicians.
Folks, God
did not bring the Jews back to their Promised Land in this our generation to
live in a bunker! The LORD Jesus Christ is not going to sit on His throne as
King of the Jews ducking rockets from Gaza. The rebels all face judgment. Final,
absolute, judgment that condemns them to eternity in the lake of fire. Ezekiel
39 is the Biblical answer to Islam, the Road Map, and eventual peace in the Holy
Land! Never again will the Koran, Mohammed, or Allah be returned to the world
scene. Islam is going the way of all other false religions of the past that
blasphemed the Name of the God of the Bible. The Biblical future for the Holy
Land is the LORD Jesus Christ. Friend, either you are submitted to Him, or you
are a rebel. There is no middle ground. There is no compromising. Either you are
born again, or you are lost forever in sin. Come to the Savior, and live.
Romans 6:8-10
8
Now if we be
dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9
Knowing that
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion
over him.
10
For in that
he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
KJV
Ezekiel 39:17-21
17
And, thou
son of man, thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and
to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather
yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a
great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and
drink blood.
18
Ye shall
eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the
earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of
Bashan.
19
And ye
shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my
sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20
Thus ye
shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and
with all men of war, saith the Lord God .
21
And I will
set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment
that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
KJV
Saturday - September 27, 2008
Rice to skip UN Security Council debate on
settlement issue
US
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice
will likely skip a special session of the UN Security Council on Friday
demanded by the Arab League to take up the issue of Jewish settlements
in the disputed territories. Saudi Arabia had requested the open debate at
the ministerial level, since many heads of state and foreign ministers are
currently in New York to attend the annual opening of the UN General
Assembly. Public
statements are expected from Saudi Arabia and the Arab League,
and probably an Israeli response, but no council resolution on the matter
is expected. Israel denies Palestinian charges that
Jewish settlement
expansion is undermining efforts to achieve a peace accord.
The
Quartet of
Mideast mediators - the
U.S., the European Union, Russia and the U.N.
- are also scheduled to meet Friday on the sidelines of the UNGA
to discuss
their floundering peace plan.
Today, the
best tool Satan has in his attempt to turn back the return of the LORD Jesus
Christ is the Quartet! He always had the atheistic Russians, and the agnostic
Europeans at his call. But, now he also has the lukewarm American Evangelicals
to put forth the greatest stumbling block of all time. The Road Map was just so
much wind until our Evangelical President George Bush jumped aboard. He did not
want the world politicians calling him a cowboy in the aftermath of the stunning
all American battlefield victory in Iraq so in his own words he "adopted" the
Road Map authored by the Russians, and embraced by the Europeans as the
blueprint for peace in the
Holy
Land to prove he was a team player. Satan had to have done a double flip when
the announcement was made. The blessings of God turned on that day into a curse.
The victory was short lived, and Iraq suddenly became the burden it is today.
The Bush popularity dropped to the lowest levels ever. In order to make the Road
Map work Bush put such pressure on Sharon that he jumped ship leaving his
conservative Likud Party to form the mostly liberal Kadima Party which included
many of his conservative secular Jewish politician friends all intent on joining
with Bush, and his adopted Road Map. The stage was set for Israel to join the
curse of the Road Map. Sharon was struck down with a stroke after he took the
first step in the Road Map by giving away the Gaza, and the city of Jericho.
Olmert then replaced Sharon as head of the Kadima Party becoming the next Prime
Minister. Olmert was no turn coat. He is a died in the wool liberal politician
much as Obama is here in the US. Olmert's first act in office was to politicize
the military because he knew the conservative religious officers would never
carry out his orders to forcibly remove the over 300,000 Independent Fundamental
Jewish Settlers from Judah and Samaria as Sharon had done to the 6,000 settlers
who were living in Gaza and Jericho. Continuing the curse next came the Second
Lebanon War which Olmert engaged Hizbullah with his weakened, but politically
correct military. Israel lost! The first time since they became a State the
Israeli Defense Forces lost to the Islamic Arabs. They could not stop the rain
of rockets being fired from Lebanon Hizbullah terrorists into the heartland of
Israel. Olmert had to sue for peace pulling the IDF out of Lebanon as quickly as
possible. Olmert tried to spin it as a Jewish victory, but there is not a Jew
anywhere who will buy that lie. Now, Olmert is gone, and decision time has come
to Israel. Decision time has also come the the United States. Will the Road Map
go forward? Or, will the politicians come to their senses? Will the people turn
to the politicians? Or, will the people turn to God? It is time for decision!
Joel 3:12-17
12
Let the
heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will
I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13
Put ye in
the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is
full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14
Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the
valley of decision.
15
The sun and
the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16
The Lord
also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his
people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17
So shall ye
know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any
more.
KJV
Tuesday - September 30, 2008
Rosh HaShanah Holiday, Monday Night
thru Wednesday Night
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) The Jewish People begin
nearly a month of holidays
Monday evening: Two days of Rosh Hashanah, followed on Thursday by the
Fast of Gedaliah. The fast
commemorates the end of Jewish rule in the Land of Israel following the
destruction of
the First Holy Temple some 2,500 years ago. News
updates will resume on Wednesday night.
Two days later will be the Sabbath
of Repentance, a central day in the Ten Days of Repentance between
Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur (inclusive). This is the annual period in
which Jews take upon themselves to correct their faults of the past year,
and more carefully fulfill the
Torah's commandments, vis-a-vis both G-d and fellow man.
Asked why such a reckoning is not done more often throughout the year,
Rabbi Shmuel Tal, head of the Torat HaChaim yeshiva in Yad Binyamin, has
explained [the following is paraphrased]:
"One
who plans a long journey is advised to first climb a hilltop and take a
comprehensive view of the route he plans to take. However, if he
continually climbs hilltops to take such views, he will not be able to
actually proceed on his hike! The same is true here: We are given an
opportunity once a year to take stock of our lives and where we are going,
but most of the time, we must actually be living - performing the
commandments and trying to follow G-d's way as best we understand... This
does not mean that a person should not review and note his deeds and
misdeeds every day - but the 'big picture' must be examined once a year."
Five days after Yom Kippur (Thursday, Oct. 9), the
holiday of Sukkot begins.
In Israel, the holiday is seven days long - one day of a Sabbath-like
holiday, followed by six days of Chol HaMoed, on which many every-day
activities are permitted (except for on Sabbath). Immediately afterwards,
on Tuesday, Oct. 21, is the one-day Sabbath-like holiday of Shmini Atzeret/Simchat
Torah, known as the Rejoicing of
the Law. Tuesday night will see post-holiday Hakafot Shniyot
celebrations - a continuation of the day's
singing and
dancing in honor of the Torah - all around the country.
Outside Israel, the holidays are celebrated slightly differently. Sukkot
begins with a two-day Sabbath-like holiday (Oct. 14-15), followed by five
days of Chol HaMoed, on which many every-day activities are permitted
(except for on Sabbath). Immediately afterwards, on Oct. 21-22, are two
days of Sabbath-like holidays: Shmini Atzeret, and then Simchat Torah,
known as the Rejoicing of the Law.
New Year Commemorations
As the Jewish
New Year is not a time of great joy, but rather a time for careful
stock-taking of one's relationship with G-d, the Rosh HaShanah
prayers - longer, more melodious, and more intense and inspirational than
on a normal Sabbath - concentrate on
G-d's Kingship and His judgment of
all creatures. Based on the commandment in
Numbers 29:1, 100 shofar
blasts are dramatically sounded throughout the prayers,
"awakening" us
to improve our ways. The Tashlikh prayer is recited on Tuesday afternoon,
preferably by a
live stream of water in which we ask G-d to "throw away" our sins.
Upon returning home, special foods are served, especially sweet ones for a
sweet year, as well as fruits that require a special Shehecheyanu blessing
in honor of their being eaten for the first time since the previous
season. Pomegranates are often served for this purpose.
As many as 40,000 Jews of all stripes, mainly Breslover Hassidim, are
already in Uman, in Ukraine, to spend the holiday at the gravesite
synagogues of their spiritual leader, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who passed
away in Tishrei of 1810. Many say that their "Rosh HaShanah in Uman" is a
life-changing
experience, or at least provides them the spiritual replenishment
they need for the coming year. Some rabbis, however, oppose the idea of
leaving the Holy Land to spend holy days in the Diaspora.
The High
Holidays
September 30 - October 9,
2008
Rosh
Hashana and Yom Kippur -- a day of sweetness and a day of atonement are the
culmination of a month-long process of coming back to God
A Day of
Atonement culminates the entire plan of God for mankind. God could have created
men so that they never sin, but because He intended men not to be only perfect
robots He gave them a free will. A thinking mind that could make its own
decisions, but would then have to take the responsibility of the decisions made.
The decision to sin had to be available if men were to be truly free to decide.
Satan was the first to decide to sin, but he is not, or ever was a man. He is a
fallen angel. All the angels were created in one single moment. Satan was the
greatest, and as he contemplated all his wonderment decided in his pride that he
should be God. Many of the angels followed him in his rebellion to their eternal
damnation. Many other angels refused to sin, and have functions today of which
the Bible has not elaborated. After Satan destroyed the future of all the fallen
angles he then went to mankind with his rebellion. Eve fell immediately, and
Adam quickly followed. It is at this point that God revealed the necessity of
atonement.That atonement would come through mankind, and be the end of Satan
forever. The end of all who foolishly followed the rebellion against God would
find themselves issued a mortal blow to the head, and the process of atonement
would also have a terribly painful price to pay. A painful blow, but not a
mortal blow.
Genesis 3:15
15
And I will
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
KJV
Folks, it was
Christ at Calvary who provided the only perfect acceptable atonement for sin. He
was bruised as painfully as ever could be when this Holy Christ became sin for
you and me. God the Father revealed to all of mankind that the perfect sacrifice
of Christ was acceptable when He was resurrected from the dead. The single
atonement for sin, and death was now accomplished. Jesus did not come as an
angel, but as a man. The only perfectly sinless man to ever walk the earth. He
died as a man offering atonement only to mankind. The fallen angels have no
redeemer. They have no Savior. They have no mediator to stand between their
sins, and the only singular Holy Triune God of the Bible.
My friend, you
must understand that your free will prevents God from forcing you to be saved.
The price of being made in the image of God is that you must have full freedom
to chose otherwise mankind would never have been any higher then the animals.
Jesus Christ paid the price at Calvary needed for the lost sinner to be forgiven
and saved. It is His perfectly innocent blood that provides the
justification a Holy God must have before He can forgive. The sacrifices of
fallen mankind are worthless, the sacrifices of man-made religious saints are as
worthless, but the sacrifice of the perfect Christ has merit with a Holy God. It
is only to Him any can go for atonement, and subsequent salvation.
We quickly
approach the day when many of the Jews living in Israel are going to have an
eternal life changing experience with this Christ of the Bible. Nothing will
prevent them from building the last Holy Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. A
Temple that Ezekiel tells us will have a throne! A throne for the returning King
of the Jews.
Ezekiel 43:7
7
And he said
unto me, Son of man, the place of my
throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in
the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the
house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their
whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
KJV
Friend,
understand this next coming Jewish Temple will also have an altar. An altar
where the Jews (who will be the Jewish/Christians of the next dispensation) will
offer blood sacrifices as commanded in the Book of Leviticus. In this Temple
with a throne made for the returning LORD Jesus Christ these sacrifices will
look back to Calvary as the sacrifices of the first two Temples looked forward
to Calvary. Oh friend, it is Christ, and Christ alone who saves because He is
the atonement. Won't you humble yourself, and come to Him? There is no other!
Come to Christ, and live.
Exodus 30:10
10
And Aaron
shall make an atonement upon
the horns of it once in a year
with the blood of the sin offering
of atonements: once in the year shall
he make atonement upon it
throughout your generations: it is
most holy unto the Lord .
KJV
Leviticus 16:18-19
18
And he
shall go out unto the altar
that is before the Lord , and make
an atonement for it; and shall
take of the blood of the
bullock, and of the blood of
the goat, and put it upon the horns
of the altar round about.
19
And he
shall sprinkle of the blood upon it
with his finger seven times, and
cleanse it, and hallow it
from the uncleanness of the children
of Israel.
KJV
Leviticus 16:27-30
27
And the
bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose
blood was brought in to make
atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp;
and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.
28
And he that
burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp.
29
And
this shall be a statute for ever
unto you: that in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls,
and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger
that sojourneth among you:
30
For
on that day shall the priest make an
atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins
before the Lord .
KJV
Leviticus 17:11
11
For the
life of the flesh is in the blood:
and I have given it to you upon the
altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh
an atonement for the soul.
KJV
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