JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
By backing ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill, is PM leaning toward annexing settlements? Comments by Netanyahu on a visit to Ma'ale Adumin this week were interpreted by some as a major move toward annexation. The true picture is a little foggier-By Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid-October 5, 2017, 12:07 am-TOI
Is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planning on annexing parts of the West Bank? After a statement he made Tuesday during a visit to the settlement city of Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, the Palestinians and some Western media outlets are convinced he is. His office, however, was hesitant to discuss the matter.“I support this law of Greater Jerusalem, which will enable Jerusalem and its communities to develop in many aspects. This is a great and important news,” Netanyahu declared Tuesday, sitting next to Ma’ale Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel at a Likud party faction meeting.The legislation to which he was referring to was proposed by Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz and fellow Likud MK Yoav Kisch, and seeks to extend the capital’s municipal boundaries. If passed into law, the residents of settlements including Ma’ale Adumim, Givat Ze’ev, Beitar Illit, Efrat and the Etzion Bloc would be able to vote in Jerusalem municipal elections.These localities would “become part of Greater Metropolitan Jerusalem. Similar to Greater London and Greater Paris,” Kisch told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.A separate, new municipal structure, meanwhile would be created for the Arab villages surrounding Jerusalem.The move would make Jerusalem’s official demographic balance significantly more Jewish and would “bring back Jerusalem’s status as a symbol,” according to the proposal’s preamble.In total, the settlements in question are currently home to some 150,000 Israelis, the bill’s sponsors say.The bill is reminiscent of an initiative led by former Labor and Kadima lawmaker Haim Ramon. Similarly concerned about the possibility of Jerusalem losing its Jewish majority, Ramon had called for Israel to separate from the city’s eastern part if it hopes to maintain control of its capital. However, his plan called for relinquishing control entirely of those Arab neighborhoods, which the “Greater Jerusalem” bill does not suggest.Although Katz and Kisch, along with most senior politicians from the ruling Likud party, support applying Israeli law to the West Bank, they insist their “Greater Jerusalem” law would not amount to annexation.“The difference is clear: this is not annexation or the application of sovereignty, but rather the inclusion of the localities surrounding Jerusalem within its municipal boundaries,” Kisch said. He then added, “From my standpoint, this is the first step toward enacting sovereignty.”The Yesha settlement umbrella council expressed an outlook similar to that of Kisch. “The time has come to impose sovereignty on all of Judea and Samaria,” Yesha Council spokesman Yigal Dilmoni told The Times of Israel Wednesday. “This legislation is the start of that effort. Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem are ten minutes away from each other, so it’s only natural that they be placed under the same municipal boundaries,” he added.Indeed, critics of the move call it a de facto annexation. Israel formally annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, and if the city’s municipal boundaries were to be extended to include West Bank settlement cities such as Ma’ale Adumim and Efrat, they reason, there is no way other than to conclude that Israel has effectively annexed them.The British Guardian newspaper, for instance, reported Wednesday that Netanyahu is now backing legislation “that would in effect annex settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.”Palestinian officials, too, understood the prime minister’s comment as a statement of support for annexation.According to US-Israeli international law expert Eugene Kontorovich, it is not so simple to define what constitutes annexation. In the Israeli-Palestinian context, it is usually understood as applying Israeli law to a certain area to which it has hitherto not been applied.“Annexation really does not have a precise meaning. One can annex without applying one’s law, [for example] by saying this is our sovereign territory. And one can have one’s law apply to a territory without annexing it,” Kontorovich said, pointing to the British model in Hong Kong as an example.Some nationalists abhor the term “annexation” because it implies that a certain piece of land is added to the state, which could be interpreted as conceding that Israel has no valid claims to said land.By contrast, “applying sovereignty means we have a preexisting claim,” Kontorovich said.Netanyahu has so far resisted all calls from within his political camp to apply Israeli law to the West Bank. He has also ruled out annexing the entire West Bank.“I said it before, and I will repeat it here again: I don’t want to annex close to 2.5 millions Palestinians to Israel. I do not want them to be our subjects,” he told reporters after his first meeting with US President Donald Trump in February.But some on the right argue that they are not interested in annexing all of the West Bank, rather only Area C where all 400,000 Israeli settlers live.The number of Palestinians living in what amounts to 61% of the West Bank has long been disputed. Education Minister Naftali Bennett of the right-wing, nationalist Jewish Home party recognizes just 48,000 Palestinians in Area C, while the UN’s estimate stands nearly at 300,000.On the other hand, the localities that would be affected by the “Greater Jerusalem” bill are largely inside the Israeli consensus, with many dovish politicians vowing they will be part of Israel in any future peace deal.The Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday declined to clarify Netanyahu’s statement in Ma’ale Adumim. Curiously, the segment from the faction meeting in which he expressed support for the controversial legislation was omitted from the PMO’s English language readout, but was included in the Hebrew equivalent.Speaking at a late September ceremony marking 50 years of Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights, Netanyahu vowed that the Jewish communities over the Green Line will never be uprooted.“Settlement is important to you in the same way that it is important to me, so I say very clearly: There will be no further uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel.”But even such apparently definitive statements from the prime minister evidently leave room for a degree of confusion.
The Jews of the US Coast Guard: ‘always ready’ during hurricane season-Whether providing disaster relief or rescuing terror victims, these Members of the Tribe are on call with America's domestic maritime outfit-By Rich Tenorio-October 5, 2017, 7:20 pmTOI
When Hurricane Irma menaced Florida last month, Rabbi Isaac Rosenberg was ready: The assistant rabbi at Miami Beach’s Congregation Ohev Shalom is also a pilot and officer with the US Coast Guard (USCG).The nation’s oldest continuous seafaring service responded to the crisis in the Florida Keys, where “a large community lives on boats and lots of docks and sailboats are just floating around or lying on sand beaches or piled up together,” Rosenberg wrote in an email to The Times of Israel. Overall, he said, there was “no power, downed power lines and trees, not a pretty site to fly over.”Nevertheless, he and his District 7 colleagues at Air Station Miami in Opa-locka responded to every call of help.Help has been sorely needed this hurricane season. Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, followed by Irma’s impact on the Caribbean and Florida and Maria’s destruction in Puerto Rico — all resulting in a Coast Guard response.Jewish members of the Coast Guard are helping with the rescue efforts — including Rosenberg in Florida and Ensign Kyle Levy in Puerto Rico.Their efforts are just the latest story of Jewish heroics in the Coast Guard. Recent retiree Chief Warrant Officer James Todd rescued hundreds during 9/11, and Petty Officer Nathan Bruckenthal became the first Coast Guardsman killed in action since the Vietnam War when he died in a suicide attack during the Iraq War.-Sanctifying God’s name-As Irma approached Florida, Rosenberg and his colleagues secured all buildings on their base, commissioned extended food and water supplies, and maintained generators for backup power.They stored their aircraft at “brotherhood stations” away from the danger zone. This was done “to be able to respond as soon as the hurricane passed by and start the life saving support,” Rosenberg explained.Flying is something Rosenberg loves dearly, ever since his childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He fulfilled his dream by becoming a pilot in 2007.He joined the Coast Guard in May 2011. As he explained, he “wanted to fly and make a difference and give back to my community and as well make a kiddush Hashem [sanctification of God’s name].”He wrote, “Every time I walk on the base ramp and hear the engines run, you’ll hear me say that’s the ‘sound of freedom.’”“So far I have not turned down a flight,” he added, “it’s just a great and relaxed feeling if all is planned right.”Life became more challenging last April, when in addition to a lifelong mobility challenge, Rosenberg sustained a foot injury while vacationing in Israel. It has kept him on crutches for the last year and a half, and meant less flight time, but he hopes to be off the crutches within a few weeks.Throughout, he has been resilient. He wrote that he loves challenges and would not give up until they are successfully achieved.“It is no secret that I have a mobility challenge and often work harder than others to accomplish goals, missions,” he wrote, “but I never allow it to bring me down and often when people first meet me they are not sure what to expect or what my limits are so in the [Coast Guard] we have [Messenger] when you can post a status.”Rosenberg’s status is: “For most people the sky is the limit, for me the sky is home.”He wrote that the Coast Guard has been very accommodating to his mobility issues, “but with limitations for my safety. And as well I have an assigned golf cart to get around on base.”Judaism on the high seas-Ensign Levy is now dealing with the same types of hurricane challenges that Rosenberg faced.A recent graduate of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, Levy is serving aboard the cutter Forward outside San Juan, assisting with hurricane relief from Maria.“I think the USCG has done an outstanding job in responding to the recent hurricanes,” Levy wrote in an email. “The Coast Guard has worked with several other organizations to bring relief and aid to the areas and people affected by these disasters.“USCGC Forward in particular has sent its attached helicopter to the scene of several of the hurricanes to conduct damage assessment as well as sending teams from the crew to assist with the clean-up of debris and as liaisons for the Coast Guard to the Incident Command center.”In his four months to date, Levy has had to learn quickly. “I am still fairly new to the Coast Guard, so I do not have many experiences at all, but I would have to say the most challenging part of my job so far has been transitioning from academy life to being on a boat,” he wrote.“The two are very different worlds, and there are a lot of things that I had to learn and still have to learn in order to be successful,” he added.Levy was deployed during the High Holidays, but was able to celebrate them on his own time.“The command and crew are very sensitive to my needs as a member of the Jewish faith and are always willing to work with me and my schedule to accommodate me,” he wrote.He noted that, “Being the humanitarian service it is, the Coast Guard is very good at helping people, including its own people.”The Coast Guard has also provided humanitarian assistance in the wake of terrorism.Sixteen years ago, James Todd led a crew of just seven people on the cutter Hawser to help rescue hundreds during 9/11. The rescue was initiated after Todd learned that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.We responded. We did not wait for orders to be told. Now it was a search and rescue case“We responded,” Todd said. “We did not wait for orders to be told. Now it was a search and rescue case.”It became more critical after they learned that a second plane had hit the Twin Towers. The Hawser joined a multi-vessel rescue transporting people off Manhattan to Ellis Island.“People were in shock,” he remembered. “I told them, ‘You’re not going to work today. You get a free pass.’” A federal court judge needed assurance that court would not be in session.And, Todd recalled, “One guy from the mayor’s office said, ‘I’m commandeering this boat for the City of New York.’ I said, ‘You’re on federal government [property]. We’re not subservient.’ He was physically thrown off.”Some were simply scared. “They wanted to get off the island,” Todd said. “They were thankful… It was a whole range of human emotions.”After their rescue work, he and his crew worked into the next morning responding to bomb threats — 72 alone on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. Over the next eight days, they dealt with threats at the George Washington and Tappan Zee bridges and the nuclear power plant at Indian Point.“They rose to the occasion,” Todd said. “I’m very proud of my crew.”Todd’s own career began serendipitously. Divorced and job-hunting in his native North Carolina, he saw a recruitment announcement while eating a sandwich at a Subway restaurant. He would rise to chief warrant officer over his 30-year career.For two years, he served as Hillel advisor at the Coast Guard Academy. He told students to appreciate the matzoh-pizza served on Passover and other ways in which the school reached out to its Jewish students. Life at sea, with kosher food stored next to pork bellies in the kitchen, would be much different.“You make a decision about how you are going to live,” he said. “It’s between you and God. Me, I’m doing this so America remains free” — and so others could practice their religion. And when his time of service would end, “another Jew would stand up to keep America safe, a democratic country.”You make a decision about how you are going to live. It’s between you and God. Me, I’m doing this so America remains free-He retired on May 5 as a 100 percent disabled veteran, in a ceremony in Louisville, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife Theresa — whom he met in the Coast Guard — and their son Joseph, whom he is preparing for a bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Shalom. The temple’s rabbi, Beth Jacobowitz Chottiner, served as the chaplain for the ceremony.“I did not spend Thanksgiving at home my first five years in the Coast Guard,” Todd reflected. “I was always deployed somewhere. It’s the same thing with Jewish holidays. … I put some of it off to the side and made that great sacrifice.”-The supreme sacrifice-On April 24, 2004, Petty Officer Nathan Bruckenthal made the supreme sacrifice. “The Coast Guard guys had finished their job for the day,” Bruckenthal’s father, Eric Bruckenthal, said of that day in Khawr Al Amaya, in the northern Arabian Gulf. “They did what they had to do, guarding an oil platform.”But a suspect vessel had been maneuvering in the area’s no-travel zone, and both Bruckenthal and fellow Coast Guardsman Joe Ruggiero noticed from their rubber boat. As they moved on the vessel, it increased speed.“Nate, Joe, and six other guys intercepted the boat,” Eric Bruckenthal said. “They saved 110 lives on the USS Firebolt and 250 people on the oil platform. There was a suicide bomber on the vessel. He blew himself up.”The attack killed Navy Petty Officers Michael Pernaselli and Christopher Watts instantly. While Nathan Bruckenthal made it to a hospital, he succumbed to his wounds.The attack occurred weeks after he learned that he would become a father. His wife, Pattie Bruckenthal, gave birth to their daughter, Harper Natalie, on November 19, 2004. Mother and daughter now live in Pattie Bruckenthal’s native Sweden.Bruckenthal was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. “He had never been bar mitzvahed,” his father recalled. “He expressed a desire to be bar mitzvahed. At his funeral, he was bar mitzvahed. He was buried with a tallit and his uniform… There’s a big Jewish star on his tombstone in Arlington. He acknowledged that. It’s the way he wanted to go.”He was posthumously honored with a Purple Heart and a Gold Star with Valor, as well as a Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal with oak leaf and a Combat Service Ribbon. Next summer, Eric Bruckenthal anticipates that a new Coast Guard cutter named after his son will be launched.“We lost a son, but gained 40,000 other surrogate sons and daughters [in the Coast Guard],” he said. “There’s sort of some solace there.”-The future of the Jewish guardsmen-At the Coast Guard Academy, the next generation of Jews in the Coast Guard is looking to make an impact.“I joined the Coast Guard because I identified with the humanitarian missions,” academy Hillel President and Second Class Cadet Jill Friedman wrote in an email. “I love how we execute the mission we train for [every day] and it has a direct impact on the people we serve.”Hillel Vice President Quinn Levy, a Third Class Cadet and brother of Ensign Kyle Levy, wrote in a separate email that “I was inspired to come to the Academy because I wanted to serve my country by helping people and doing my part to do something for the greater good.”As part of the relatively small Jewish population at the Academy, Friedman and Levy are active in Hillel, which meets twice a month for lunches of challah, matzoh ball soup “and other foods depending on the holiday we’re nearing,” Friedman wrote.And they join the entire student body in following the Coast Guard’s response to the recent hurricanes.“We have been organizing drives to collect supplies and money to donate to the hurricane relief,” Friedman wrote. “One of my classmates came up with a program to scan social media for people posting they are in need of rescue. Over 100 cadets volunteered to help with this, and we were able to provide information to units working in the affected areas of people in need of rescue and where assistance was needed the most.”And, as Levy noted, “The Coast Guard trains every day and is very experienced in these efforts. Even so, it was still awe-inspiring.”
Hamas appoints alleged West Bank terror chief as deputy leader-Saleh al-Arouri, expelled from Qatar earlier this year, will serve under Ismail Haniyeh in the terror group's political bureau-By TOI staff-October 5, 2017, 2:34 pm
Hamas on Thursday announced that top commander Saleh al-Arouri, who in recent years served as the terror group’s head of West Bank operations, will be appointed as the organization’s deputy political leader.Arouri will thus serve under Ismail Haniyeh, who himself replaced Khaled Mashaal as the group’s political bureau chief in May.Arouri, who is believed by Israel to have planned the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank, was expelled from Doha in June along with other Hamas officials due to pressures it faced by other Arab states.He is believed to have since settled in Lebanon, and was publicly spotted in Beirut in August.Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has said Arouri continues to plan terror attacks against Israel and has been attempting “to boost the relationship between Hamas and Hezbollah” with Iranian support.Arouri served several terms in Israeli jails, and was released in March 2010 as part of efforts to reach a larger prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit, an IDF corporal kidnapped by Hamas in 2006. Arouri went on to be involved in sewing up the deal that provided for the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in return for the freeing of Shalit.He operated from Turkey for several years during a low in diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Ankara, but was required to leave when the sides reconciled in 2016. He then moved to Qatar before being driven out in June of this year.Israeli intelligence officials believe that Arouri helped plan the June 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens — Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel — as well as numerous other attacks.Agencies contributed to this report.
Decaying body found outside Israeli army base in West Bank-Unable to identify the gender of the deceased due to advanced decomposition, police open investigation-By Jacob Magid-October 5, 2017, 6:37 pm-TOI
A decomposing body was found outside an Israeli military training base in the West Bank’s Negohot Regional Council on Thursday.Israel Police, who were unable to even identify the gender of the deceased due to the extent of the decay, have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the death.After collecting all findings and DNA traces at the scene in the western Hebron hills, the police transferred the body to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.On Wednesday, the body of 69-year-old Reuven Schmerling from the West Bank settlement of Elkana, was found lifeless in the Israeli Arab city of Kfar Qassem.Initial reports indicated he was stabbed; some Hebrew reports said he had also been badly beaten.Schmerling, a father of four, was set to celebrate his 70th birthday on Thursday. He owned a coal business in Kafr Qassem, about a half-hour drive from Elkana. His body was found in one of the business’s storage units.The motive for the suspected murder was still being investigated as the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, joined the probe. Security forces said they were looking at all possible avenues, including a possible work-related row between Schmerling and his workers.The Shin Bet said earlier it was also checking whether the suspected murder was perpetrated for nationalistic reasons. Hours after Schmerling was found, a court imposed a gag order on details of the joint police-Shin Bet investigation into the suspected murder.
Bedouin man suspected of forcibly marrying, raping Palestinian girl-14-year-old in protective custody in Israel after reportedly walking up to Border Police in Hebron and asking for their help-By TOI staff-October 5, 2017, 3:13 pm
A Bedouin man from Israel’s south was arrested this week on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Palestinian girl from the West Bank city of Hebron, after allegedly purchasing her from her family and forcibly marrying her.The girl has been placed under the protection of Israeli social services after reportedly walking up to Border Police officers in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs and asking for their assistance.The 25-year-old man, whose remand was extended Tuesday by the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court, faces charges of rape as well as physical and emotional abuse.The girl, who was reportedly given to the man by her father in exchange for NIS 10,000 (around $2800) several months ago, initially ran away from her husband’s Segev Shalom home and returned to her family’s home in Hebron.But her father’s subsequent behavior towards her led her to escape back into Israel, were she has been placed in a shelter.The girl also has family members in Israel’s north, who have requested that she be allowed to live with them, a request the authorities are considering.The Israeli family’s attorney Nachmi Feinblatt said the girl’s father had also beaten her in the past.“He’s apparently not right in the head and sold her to a Negev resident for financial reasons,” Feinblatt told Ynet. “Somehow she managed to escape, ran up to Border Policemen at a post at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and told them everything that happened.”He said he has asked authorities not to return the girl to Hebron, due to the threat to her life.One Israeli relative of the girl told Haaretz: “When I heard what happened to the girl I was horrified. The girl grew up in a bad place for her children, she grew up in a difficult environment. Her father beat her all [her] life and then sold her like property to a husband who also beat her and did horrible things to her.“She is a brave girl. She has already gone through and seen many more things in life than she needed to see. The time has come for her to have an easy life,” the relative added.An attorney for the Bedouin man said the marriage was “legitimate” and that his client was misled about her age.“As far as the suspect is concerned this is a legitimate marriage. He was shown a presentation according to which she was 17-years-old,” the lawyer told Ynet.“He treated her well and with respect and when he learned it was not her real age he stopped having sexual relations with her. He never used violence against her,” he added.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
By backing ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill, is PM leaning toward annexing settlements? Comments by Netanyahu on a visit to Ma'ale Adumin this week were interpreted by some as a major move toward annexation. The true picture is a little foggier-By Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid-October 5, 2017, 12:07 am-TOI
Is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planning on annexing parts of the West Bank? After a statement he made Tuesday during a visit to the settlement city of Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, the Palestinians and some Western media outlets are convinced he is. His office, however, was hesitant to discuss the matter.“I support this law of Greater Jerusalem, which will enable Jerusalem and its communities to develop in many aspects. This is a great and important news,” Netanyahu declared Tuesday, sitting next to Ma’ale Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel at a Likud party faction meeting.The legislation to which he was referring to was proposed by Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz and fellow Likud MK Yoav Kisch, and seeks to extend the capital’s municipal boundaries. If passed into law, the residents of settlements including Ma’ale Adumim, Givat Ze’ev, Beitar Illit, Efrat and the Etzion Bloc would be able to vote in Jerusalem municipal elections.These localities would “become part of Greater Metropolitan Jerusalem. Similar to Greater London and Greater Paris,” Kisch told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.A separate, new municipal structure, meanwhile would be created for the Arab villages surrounding Jerusalem.The move would make Jerusalem’s official demographic balance significantly more Jewish and would “bring back Jerusalem’s status as a symbol,” according to the proposal’s preamble.In total, the settlements in question are currently home to some 150,000 Israelis, the bill’s sponsors say.The bill is reminiscent of an initiative led by former Labor and Kadima lawmaker Haim Ramon. Similarly concerned about the possibility of Jerusalem losing its Jewish majority, Ramon had called for Israel to separate from the city’s eastern part if it hopes to maintain control of its capital. However, his plan called for relinquishing control entirely of those Arab neighborhoods, which the “Greater Jerusalem” bill does not suggest.Although Katz and Kisch, along with most senior politicians from the ruling Likud party, support applying Israeli law to the West Bank, they insist their “Greater Jerusalem” law would not amount to annexation.“The difference is clear: this is not annexation or the application of sovereignty, but rather the inclusion of the localities surrounding Jerusalem within its municipal boundaries,” Kisch said. He then added, “From my standpoint, this is the first step toward enacting sovereignty.”The Yesha settlement umbrella council expressed an outlook similar to that of Kisch. “The time has come to impose sovereignty on all of Judea and Samaria,” Yesha Council spokesman Yigal Dilmoni told The Times of Israel Wednesday. “This legislation is the start of that effort. Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem are ten minutes away from each other, so it’s only natural that they be placed under the same municipal boundaries,” he added.Indeed, critics of the move call it a de facto annexation. Israel formally annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, and if the city’s municipal boundaries were to be extended to include West Bank settlement cities such as Ma’ale Adumim and Efrat, they reason, there is no way other than to conclude that Israel has effectively annexed them.The British Guardian newspaper, for instance, reported Wednesday that Netanyahu is now backing legislation “that would in effect annex settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.”Palestinian officials, too, understood the prime minister’s comment as a statement of support for annexation.According to US-Israeli international law expert Eugene Kontorovich, it is not so simple to define what constitutes annexation. In the Israeli-Palestinian context, it is usually understood as applying Israeli law to a certain area to which it has hitherto not been applied.“Annexation really does not have a precise meaning. One can annex without applying one’s law, [for example] by saying this is our sovereign territory. And one can have one’s law apply to a territory without annexing it,” Kontorovich said, pointing to the British model in Hong Kong as an example.Some nationalists abhor the term “annexation” because it implies that a certain piece of land is added to the state, which could be interpreted as conceding that Israel has no valid claims to said land.By contrast, “applying sovereignty means we have a preexisting claim,” Kontorovich said.Netanyahu has so far resisted all calls from within his political camp to apply Israeli law to the West Bank. He has also ruled out annexing the entire West Bank.“I said it before, and I will repeat it here again: I don’t want to annex close to 2.5 millions Palestinians to Israel. I do not want them to be our subjects,” he told reporters after his first meeting with US President Donald Trump in February.But some on the right argue that they are not interested in annexing all of the West Bank, rather only Area C where all 400,000 Israeli settlers live.The number of Palestinians living in what amounts to 61% of the West Bank has long been disputed. Education Minister Naftali Bennett of the right-wing, nationalist Jewish Home party recognizes just 48,000 Palestinians in Area C, while the UN’s estimate stands nearly at 300,000.On the other hand, the localities that would be affected by the “Greater Jerusalem” bill are largely inside the Israeli consensus, with many dovish politicians vowing they will be part of Israel in any future peace deal.The Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday declined to clarify Netanyahu’s statement in Ma’ale Adumim. Curiously, the segment from the faction meeting in which he expressed support for the controversial legislation was omitted from the PMO’s English language readout, but was included in the Hebrew equivalent.Speaking at a late September ceremony marking 50 years of Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights, Netanyahu vowed that the Jewish communities over the Green Line will never be uprooted.“Settlement is important to you in the same way that it is important to me, so I say very clearly: There will be no further uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel.”But even such apparently definitive statements from the prime minister evidently leave room for a degree of confusion.
The Jews of the US Coast Guard: ‘always ready’ during hurricane season-Whether providing disaster relief or rescuing terror victims, these Members of the Tribe are on call with America's domestic maritime outfit-By Rich Tenorio-October 5, 2017, 7:20 pmTOI
When Hurricane Irma menaced Florida last month, Rabbi Isaac Rosenberg was ready: The assistant rabbi at Miami Beach’s Congregation Ohev Shalom is also a pilot and officer with the US Coast Guard (USCG).The nation’s oldest continuous seafaring service responded to the crisis in the Florida Keys, where “a large community lives on boats and lots of docks and sailboats are just floating around or lying on sand beaches or piled up together,” Rosenberg wrote in an email to The Times of Israel. Overall, he said, there was “no power, downed power lines and trees, not a pretty site to fly over.”Nevertheless, he and his District 7 colleagues at Air Station Miami in Opa-locka responded to every call of help.Help has been sorely needed this hurricane season. Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, followed by Irma’s impact on the Caribbean and Florida and Maria’s destruction in Puerto Rico — all resulting in a Coast Guard response.Jewish members of the Coast Guard are helping with the rescue efforts — including Rosenberg in Florida and Ensign Kyle Levy in Puerto Rico.Their efforts are just the latest story of Jewish heroics in the Coast Guard. Recent retiree Chief Warrant Officer James Todd rescued hundreds during 9/11, and Petty Officer Nathan Bruckenthal became the first Coast Guardsman killed in action since the Vietnam War when he died in a suicide attack during the Iraq War.-Sanctifying God’s name-As Irma approached Florida, Rosenberg and his colleagues secured all buildings on their base, commissioned extended food and water supplies, and maintained generators for backup power.They stored their aircraft at “brotherhood stations” away from the danger zone. This was done “to be able to respond as soon as the hurricane passed by and start the life saving support,” Rosenberg explained.Flying is something Rosenberg loves dearly, ever since his childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He fulfilled his dream by becoming a pilot in 2007.He joined the Coast Guard in May 2011. As he explained, he “wanted to fly and make a difference and give back to my community and as well make a kiddush Hashem [sanctification of God’s name].”He wrote, “Every time I walk on the base ramp and hear the engines run, you’ll hear me say that’s the ‘sound of freedom.’”“So far I have not turned down a flight,” he added, “it’s just a great and relaxed feeling if all is planned right.”Life became more challenging last April, when in addition to a lifelong mobility challenge, Rosenberg sustained a foot injury while vacationing in Israel. It has kept him on crutches for the last year and a half, and meant less flight time, but he hopes to be off the crutches within a few weeks.Throughout, he has been resilient. He wrote that he loves challenges and would not give up until they are successfully achieved.“It is no secret that I have a mobility challenge and often work harder than others to accomplish goals, missions,” he wrote, “but I never allow it to bring me down and often when people first meet me they are not sure what to expect or what my limits are so in the [Coast Guard] we have [Messenger] when you can post a status.”Rosenberg’s status is: “For most people the sky is the limit, for me the sky is home.”He wrote that the Coast Guard has been very accommodating to his mobility issues, “but with limitations for my safety. And as well I have an assigned golf cart to get around on base.”Judaism on the high seas-Ensign Levy is now dealing with the same types of hurricane challenges that Rosenberg faced.A recent graduate of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, Levy is serving aboard the cutter Forward outside San Juan, assisting with hurricane relief from Maria.“I think the USCG has done an outstanding job in responding to the recent hurricanes,” Levy wrote in an email. “The Coast Guard has worked with several other organizations to bring relief and aid to the areas and people affected by these disasters.“USCGC Forward in particular has sent its attached helicopter to the scene of several of the hurricanes to conduct damage assessment as well as sending teams from the crew to assist with the clean-up of debris and as liaisons for the Coast Guard to the Incident Command center.”In his four months to date, Levy has had to learn quickly. “I am still fairly new to the Coast Guard, so I do not have many experiences at all, but I would have to say the most challenging part of my job so far has been transitioning from academy life to being on a boat,” he wrote.“The two are very different worlds, and there are a lot of things that I had to learn and still have to learn in order to be successful,” he added.Levy was deployed during the High Holidays, but was able to celebrate them on his own time.“The command and crew are very sensitive to my needs as a member of the Jewish faith and are always willing to work with me and my schedule to accommodate me,” he wrote.He noted that, “Being the humanitarian service it is, the Coast Guard is very good at helping people, including its own people.”The Coast Guard has also provided humanitarian assistance in the wake of terrorism.Sixteen years ago, James Todd led a crew of just seven people on the cutter Hawser to help rescue hundreds during 9/11. The rescue was initiated after Todd learned that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.We responded. We did not wait for orders to be told. Now it was a search and rescue case“We responded,” Todd said. “We did not wait for orders to be told. Now it was a search and rescue case.”It became more critical after they learned that a second plane had hit the Twin Towers. The Hawser joined a multi-vessel rescue transporting people off Manhattan to Ellis Island.“People were in shock,” he remembered. “I told them, ‘You’re not going to work today. You get a free pass.’” A federal court judge needed assurance that court would not be in session.And, Todd recalled, “One guy from the mayor’s office said, ‘I’m commandeering this boat for the City of New York.’ I said, ‘You’re on federal government [property]. We’re not subservient.’ He was physically thrown off.”Some were simply scared. “They wanted to get off the island,” Todd said. “They were thankful… It was a whole range of human emotions.”After their rescue work, he and his crew worked into the next morning responding to bomb threats — 72 alone on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. Over the next eight days, they dealt with threats at the George Washington and Tappan Zee bridges and the nuclear power plant at Indian Point.“They rose to the occasion,” Todd said. “I’m very proud of my crew.”Todd’s own career began serendipitously. Divorced and job-hunting in his native North Carolina, he saw a recruitment announcement while eating a sandwich at a Subway restaurant. He would rise to chief warrant officer over his 30-year career.For two years, he served as Hillel advisor at the Coast Guard Academy. He told students to appreciate the matzoh-pizza served on Passover and other ways in which the school reached out to its Jewish students. Life at sea, with kosher food stored next to pork bellies in the kitchen, would be much different.“You make a decision about how you are going to live,” he said. “It’s between you and God. Me, I’m doing this so America remains free” — and so others could practice their religion. And when his time of service would end, “another Jew would stand up to keep America safe, a democratic country.”You make a decision about how you are going to live. It’s between you and God. Me, I’m doing this so America remains free-He retired on May 5 as a 100 percent disabled veteran, in a ceremony in Louisville, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife Theresa — whom he met in the Coast Guard — and their son Joseph, whom he is preparing for a bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Shalom. The temple’s rabbi, Beth Jacobowitz Chottiner, served as the chaplain for the ceremony.“I did not spend Thanksgiving at home my first five years in the Coast Guard,” Todd reflected. “I was always deployed somewhere. It’s the same thing with Jewish holidays. … I put some of it off to the side and made that great sacrifice.”-The supreme sacrifice-On April 24, 2004, Petty Officer Nathan Bruckenthal made the supreme sacrifice. “The Coast Guard guys had finished their job for the day,” Bruckenthal’s father, Eric Bruckenthal, said of that day in Khawr Al Amaya, in the northern Arabian Gulf. “They did what they had to do, guarding an oil platform.”But a suspect vessel had been maneuvering in the area’s no-travel zone, and both Bruckenthal and fellow Coast Guardsman Joe Ruggiero noticed from their rubber boat. As they moved on the vessel, it increased speed.“Nate, Joe, and six other guys intercepted the boat,” Eric Bruckenthal said. “They saved 110 lives on the USS Firebolt and 250 people on the oil platform. There was a suicide bomber on the vessel. He blew himself up.”The attack killed Navy Petty Officers Michael Pernaselli and Christopher Watts instantly. While Nathan Bruckenthal made it to a hospital, he succumbed to his wounds.The attack occurred weeks after he learned that he would become a father. His wife, Pattie Bruckenthal, gave birth to their daughter, Harper Natalie, on November 19, 2004. Mother and daughter now live in Pattie Bruckenthal’s native Sweden.Bruckenthal was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. “He had never been bar mitzvahed,” his father recalled. “He expressed a desire to be bar mitzvahed. At his funeral, he was bar mitzvahed. He was buried with a tallit and his uniform… There’s a big Jewish star on his tombstone in Arlington. He acknowledged that. It’s the way he wanted to go.”He was posthumously honored with a Purple Heart and a Gold Star with Valor, as well as a Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal with oak leaf and a Combat Service Ribbon. Next summer, Eric Bruckenthal anticipates that a new Coast Guard cutter named after his son will be launched.“We lost a son, but gained 40,000 other surrogate sons and daughters [in the Coast Guard],” he said. “There’s sort of some solace there.”-The future of the Jewish guardsmen-At the Coast Guard Academy, the next generation of Jews in the Coast Guard is looking to make an impact.“I joined the Coast Guard because I identified with the humanitarian missions,” academy Hillel President and Second Class Cadet Jill Friedman wrote in an email. “I love how we execute the mission we train for [every day] and it has a direct impact on the people we serve.”Hillel Vice President Quinn Levy, a Third Class Cadet and brother of Ensign Kyle Levy, wrote in a separate email that “I was inspired to come to the Academy because I wanted to serve my country by helping people and doing my part to do something for the greater good.”As part of the relatively small Jewish population at the Academy, Friedman and Levy are active in Hillel, which meets twice a month for lunches of challah, matzoh ball soup “and other foods depending on the holiday we’re nearing,” Friedman wrote.And they join the entire student body in following the Coast Guard’s response to the recent hurricanes.“We have been organizing drives to collect supplies and money to donate to the hurricane relief,” Friedman wrote. “One of my classmates came up with a program to scan social media for people posting they are in need of rescue. Over 100 cadets volunteered to help with this, and we were able to provide information to units working in the affected areas of people in need of rescue and where assistance was needed the most.”And, as Levy noted, “The Coast Guard trains every day and is very experienced in these efforts. Even so, it was still awe-inspiring.”
Hamas appoints alleged West Bank terror chief as deputy leader-Saleh al-Arouri, expelled from Qatar earlier this year, will serve under Ismail Haniyeh in the terror group's political bureau-By TOI staff-October 5, 2017, 2:34 pm
Hamas on Thursday announced that top commander Saleh al-Arouri, who in recent years served as the terror group’s head of West Bank operations, will be appointed as the organization’s deputy political leader.Arouri will thus serve under Ismail Haniyeh, who himself replaced Khaled Mashaal as the group’s political bureau chief in May.Arouri, who is believed by Israel to have planned the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank, was expelled from Doha in June along with other Hamas officials due to pressures it faced by other Arab states.He is believed to have since settled in Lebanon, and was publicly spotted in Beirut in August.Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has said Arouri continues to plan terror attacks against Israel and has been attempting “to boost the relationship between Hamas and Hezbollah” with Iranian support.Arouri served several terms in Israeli jails, and was released in March 2010 as part of efforts to reach a larger prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit, an IDF corporal kidnapped by Hamas in 2006. Arouri went on to be involved in sewing up the deal that provided for the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in return for the freeing of Shalit.He operated from Turkey for several years during a low in diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Ankara, but was required to leave when the sides reconciled in 2016. He then moved to Qatar before being driven out in June of this year.Israeli intelligence officials believe that Arouri helped plan the June 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens — Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel — as well as numerous other attacks.Agencies contributed to this report.
Decaying body found outside Israeli army base in West Bank-Unable to identify the gender of the deceased due to advanced decomposition, police open investigation-By Jacob Magid-October 5, 2017, 6:37 pm-TOI
A decomposing body was found outside an Israeli military training base in the West Bank’s Negohot Regional Council on Thursday.Israel Police, who were unable to even identify the gender of the deceased due to the extent of the decay, have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the death.After collecting all findings and DNA traces at the scene in the western Hebron hills, the police transferred the body to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.On Wednesday, the body of 69-year-old Reuven Schmerling from the West Bank settlement of Elkana, was found lifeless in the Israeli Arab city of Kfar Qassem.Initial reports indicated he was stabbed; some Hebrew reports said he had also been badly beaten.Schmerling, a father of four, was set to celebrate his 70th birthday on Thursday. He owned a coal business in Kafr Qassem, about a half-hour drive from Elkana. His body was found in one of the business’s storage units.The motive for the suspected murder was still being investigated as the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, joined the probe. Security forces said they were looking at all possible avenues, including a possible work-related row between Schmerling and his workers.The Shin Bet said earlier it was also checking whether the suspected murder was perpetrated for nationalistic reasons. Hours after Schmerling was found, a court imposed a gag order on details of the joint police-Shin Bet investigation into the suspected murder.
Bedouin man suspected of forcibly marrying, raping Palestinian girl-14-year-old in protective custody in Israel after reportedly walking up to Border Police in Hebron and asking for their help-By TOI staff-October 5, 2017, 3:13 pm
A Bedouin man from Israel’s south was arrested this week on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Palestinian girl from the West Bank city of Hebron, after allegedly purchasing her from her family and forcibly marrying her.The girl has been placed under the protection of Israeli social services after reportedly walking up to Border Police officers in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs and asking for their assistance.The 25-year-old man, whose remand was extended Tuesday by the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court, faces charges of rape as well as physical and emotional abuse.The girl, who was reportedly given to the man by her father in exchange for NIS 10,000 (around $2800) several months ago, initially ran away from her husband’s Segev Shalom home and returned to her family’s home in Hebron.But her father’s subsequent behavior towards her led her to escape back into Israel, were she has been placed in a shelter.The girl also has family members in Israel’s north, who have requested that she be allowed to live with them, a request the authorities are considering.The Israeli family’s attorney Nachmi Feinblatt said the girl’s father had also beaten her in the past.“He’s apparently not right in the head and sold her to a Negev resident for financial reasons,” Feinblatt told Ynet. “Somehow she managed to escape, ran up to Border Policemen at a post at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and told them everything that happened.”He said he has asked authorities not to return the girl to Hebron, due to the threat to her life.One Israeli relative of the girl told Haaretz: “When I heard what happened to the girl I was horrified. The girl grew up in a bad place for her children, she grew up in a difficult environment. Her father beat her all [her] life and then sold her like property to a husband who also beat her and did horrible things to her.“She is a brave girl. She has already gone through and seen many more things in life than she needed to see. The time has come for her to have an easy life,” the relative added.An attorney for the Bedouin man said the marriage was “legitimate” and that his client was misled about her age.“As far as the suspect is concerned this is a legitimate marriage. He was shown a presentation according to which she was 17-years-old,” the lawyer told Ynet.“He treated her well and with respect and when he learned it was not her real age he stopped having sexual relations with her. He never used violence against her,” he added.
