FULFILLED PROPHECIES ON FEAST DAYS. PART 2 OF 2
From Grant Jeffries Book. Armageddon Apointment with Destiny. Pages 65-98 (Selective)
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
COLOSSIANS 2:16-17
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
THE ISRAELI BIBLICAL CALENDAR
01-Nisan or Abib-March/April
02-Zif or Iyar-April/May
03-Sivan-May/June
04-Tammuz-June/July
05-Ab or Av-July/August
06-Elul-August/September
07-Tishri-September/October
08-Bul-October/November
09-Chisleu-November/December
10-Tebeth-December/January
11-Sebat-January/February
12-Adar-February/March
Ve-Adar (the Intercalary Month)
THE SIXTH DAY OF SIVAN (MAY/JUNE)
THE FEAST OF PENTICOST
(A NEW REVELATION OF GODS WILL)
LEVITICUS 23:15-16,21
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
The fourth of the seven required feasts of Israel took place exactly fifty days after the feast of the Firstfruits-hence the name Pentecost, "Penta" meaning fifty. This feast is very significant to Christians as well as to Jews. Pentecost, or Shavuot to the Jews, celebrated the end of the grain harvest, the summer harvest. It is also known as the Zeman Matan Tortenu, the "giving of the Law" to Israel. The
Feast of Pentecost is the second of the three great feasts that all male Jews were required to celebrate at the Temple in Jerusalem every year.
Two Major events took place on the sixth day of Sivan; each one introduced a special time of spiritual stewardship to a specific revelation of God: The Giving of the Ten Commandments and the giving of the Holy Spirit.
1-The Giving of the Ten Commandments.
EXODUS 19:11
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
LEVITICUS 23:22
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
RUTH 1;16
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
MATTHEW 1:5-6
5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias.
2-The Giving of the Holy Spirit.
ACTS 1:8
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
ACTS 2:1,4
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
A Jewish Writer says Enoch was raptured to heaven on this very day of Pentecost, the sixth day of Sivan.
GENESIS 5:24
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF TAMMUZ (JUNE/JULY)
THE FAST OF MOURNING
ZECHARIAH 8:19
19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
Each of the four fasts mentioned by the prophet Zechariah were in commemoration of some tragic event connected with the destruction of the Temple, Jerusalem and the independence of Israel when the Babylonian army conquered Israel successively from 606 B.C to 587 B.C. Zechariah promised that, once the Messiah has come to set up his Kingdom, these four tragic fasts will be transformed into feasts of joy and gladness to celebrate the eternal peace and blessings of the Messianic Age. The fast of the fourth - month Tammuz, occured on the seventeenth day of Tammuz (JULY). The fast of
the fifth month - Av occurred on the nineth day of Av (AUGUST).
The next historically important anniversary is not a feast day but rather is a day of fasting and mourning, Nevertheless, this day has been significant in God's dealing with Israel. It is the seventeenth day of Tammuz and occures in the month of July on Our calendar.
The seventeenth day of Tammuz begins a three-wek period of national mourning leading up to the fast of Tisha Be-av, the ninth day of Anv. Three spiritually significant events have happened on the seventeenth day of Tammuz and each involved the breaking of a spiritual symbol which signified that God's disfavor had been incurred as a result of national disobedience. The mourning followed due to the people's consciousness of their sin and their recognition that God's punishment would follow.
1-Moses breaks the Tablets of the Law.
EXODUS 19:18
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
EXODUS 32:19,26
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
2-The Babylonians Broke through the Walls of Jerusalem and Caused the Daily Sacrifice to cease.
3-The Roman Army Forces the Cessation of the Daily Sacrifice.
THE NINTH DAY OF AV
A FAST OF MOURNING
ZECHARIAH 7:5
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
This day of fasting, known as Tisha Be-av, is a day of mourning and rememberence of Israel's loss of their sacred Temple. It is one of the most historically significant anniversaries in the life of their nation and is commemorated by Jews throughout the world as the tragic day when God withdrew His Presence and they wept as their precious Temple burned to the ground.
Throughout Israel's history, the ninth of Av (in our August) has witnessed eight of the greatest disasters in their nations history.
In the future will be a Joyous feast.
ZECHARIAH 8:19
19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
1-The twelve spies Return with their report.
NUMBERS 14:1-10,39
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Thus, the ninth of Av became a fast of mourning as Israel wept over their lack of obedience to God and the tragedies which would follow so many times during the next thirty-five centuries.
2-The Destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Babylonians.
JEREMIAH 52:5-14
5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
LAMENTATIONS 2:7
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
ZECHARIAH 8:9
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
3-The Destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans.
LUKE 19:41-44
41 And when he (JESUS) was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
DANIEL 9:26
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
4-The Romans plowed Jerusalem and the temple.
MICAH 3:12 1 YR later this happens
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
5-The destruction of Bar Kochba's Army.
MATTHEW 24:23-24
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Amoung those false prophets was a dynamic Jewish leader named Simon Bar Kochba. As Jesus predicted, many people, including the famous Jewish scholar Rabbi Akiba, acclaimed him as the "Messiah" Jesus prophesied before his rejection.
JOHN 5:43
43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
In the future sometime Israel will once again be decieved into believing a false Messiah, the future EU DICTATOR will be that final false Messiah, before the true Messiah Jesus returns to Earth Bodily.
6-England Expelled all Jews in A.D 1290 on Av.
7-Spain Expelled all Jews in A.D 1492 on Av.
8-Russia Mobbilized for World War one and Launched Persecutions against the Jews.
The odds that all eight events would occur by chance on the ninth of Av, rather than by God's design, is equal to: 1X365X365X365X365X365X365X365X365 = one chance in 863,078,009,300,000,000 or 1 chance in 863 Zillion.
THE FIRST DAY OF TISHRI (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER)(ROSH HA'SHANAH)
FEAST OF TRUMPETS
LEVITICUS 23:23:24
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The feast of Trumpets occurs on the first of Tishri, in the fall (September/October). As soon as the new moon was sighted in eastern Israel, the watcherswould trumpet the signal from hill to hill untill the signal finally reached the Temple. Then the High Priest would blow the ram's horn (The Shofar) and announce the beginning of the New Year.
Rosh Ha'shanah the ancient New Year's day for Israel as well as most middle east cultures, is celebrated on the first day of Tishri, Jewish tradition reveals its four-fold meaning:
1-NEW YEAR'S DAY
2-THE DAY OF REMEMBERENCE.
3-THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT
4-THE DAY OF BLOWING THE SHOFAR (RAM'S HORN)
On this day the synagogue lesson of Isaiah, Chapters 60 and 61, teaches of that long-awaited day when the Lord is revealed as King and he will be accepted as the ruler of the world. Two spiritually important events have already occured on the anniversary of the Feast of Trumpets. One still remains to be fulfilled in our future.
This is the future date I believe the 7 YR treaty of Daniel 9:27 will be signed on. The Beginning of the Tribulation of hell on Earth.
1-Joshua Brought the First Offering to the New Altar.
EZRA 3:1-6
1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
5 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
2-Ezra Read the Law to the Returned Exiles.
Nehemiah 8:2-3
2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
FUTURE
3-The possible Day for the Battle of Armageddon.
JOEL 1:14-15
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
JOEL 2:1-2
1 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;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
JEREMIAH 4:5-6
5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
THE TENTH DAY OF TISHRI (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER)
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT - YOM KIPPUR
LEVITICUS 23:26-32
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement is the Holiest day in the Jewish Calendar. It is the day when all Israel mourns for their sins. On this day, the tenth day of Tishri, and only on this day the High Priest would enter the Most Holy of Holies in the Temple, the place where the Shekinah glory dwelt.
Two historically important events have already occurred on the tenth day of Tishri, and one future event will possibly transpire on this date.
HEBREWS 9:12,14
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
LEVITICUS 25:9-10
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1-Aaron, the High Priest made Atonement for Israel for the First Time in the Wilderness.
LEVITICUS 16:1-28
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
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.
20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.
25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.
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.
2-Israel saved from Annihilation in 1973 Yom Kippur War.
FUTURE
3-Israel will mourn when they see their Messiah whom they Pierced.
ZECHARIAH 12:10-11
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
EZEKIEL 36:26,33
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
ROMANS 9:26
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF TISHRI (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER)
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES - SUKKOT
LEVITICUS 23:33-34,42-43
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
The feast of Tabernacles was the third of the three annuak feasts which all Jewish men were required to attend in Jerusalem each year. This feast known as Sukkot was instituted by God in the wilderness of Sinai. It begins on the fifteenth day of Tishri, five days after the solemn Day of Atonement. It is sometimes referred to as the great Harvest Home which occurred at the end of the fruit harvest (September-October).
There are two notable historical anniversary events connected with The Feast of Tabernacles and one possible future fulfillment.
1-The Dedication of Solomom's Temple on the feast of Tabernacles.
2 CHRONICLES 5:2-3,12-14
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
1 KINGS 8:1-2
1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month
2-The Possible Birthday of Jesus Christ.
JOHN 1:14
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
FUTURE
3-The Beginning of the Kingdom Age-The Millenium.
ZECHARIAH 14:9,16
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF CHISLEU (NOVEMBER/DECEMBER)
THE FEAST OF HANUKKAH
Chisleu, the ninth month in the Jewish calendar, corresponds to our months of november-December. On the twenty-fifth day of the month, the Jews celebrate the Feast of Hanukkah-which was not one of the appointed feasts but which commemorates the cleansing and rededication of the Second Temple in 165 B.C.
On the day before the Feast of Hanukkah, on the twenty-fourth day of chisleu, israel has witnessed four major historical events.
1-The foundation of the Second Temple - 520 B.C.
HAGGAI 2:18-19
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid, consider it.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
2-The Abolition of the Temple Sacrifice - 168 B.C.
3-The Recapture of the Temple and Cleansing of the Sanctuary - 165 B.C.
4-Jerusalem Freed from Turkish Rule - A.D 1917.
SO HERE WE HAVE THE FEAST DAYS AND HOLY DAYS AS FULFILLED PROPHECY, WE WILL SEE LOTS MORE PROPHECIES ON THESE DAYS IN THE FUTURE....KEEP WATCHIN THE NEWS AND KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS AND PRAYER ON JERUSALEM, ISRAEL AND THE FEAST AND HOLY DAYS.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Saturday, March 17, 2007
ISRAELI FEASTS DAYS AND PROPHECY P 1
FULFILLED PROPHECIES ON FEAST DAYS. PART 1 OF 2
From Grant Jeffries Book. Armageddon Apointment with Destiny. Pages 44-64 (Selective)
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:14
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
COLOSSIANS 2:16-17
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
WE SEE RIGHT OFF GOD WILL FULFILL PROPHECY ON THE ISRAELI FEAST DAYS. SO KEEP WATCH ON THE FEAST DAYS OF ISRAEL FOR PROPHECY TO BE FULFILLED.
NOW LETS GET STARTED OF HOW PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED ON THESE FEAST DAYS IN THE PAST AND FUTURE.
THE ISRAELI BIBLICAL CALENDAR
01-Nisan or Abib-March/April
02-Zif or Iyar-April/May
03-Sivan-May/June
04-Tammuz-June/July
05-Ab or Av-July/August
06-Elul-August/September
07-Tishri-September/October
08-Bul-October/November
09-Chisleu-November/December
10-Tebeth-December/January
11-Sebat-January/February
12-Adar-February/March
Ve-Adar (the Intercalary Month)
LEVITICUS 23:44
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
NUMBERS 10:10
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
In giving the laws for his people, God set several appointed feasts of the Lord for Israel to observe at specific times during the year (Leviticus 23). These feasts were to be celebrated from that time in the wilderness when God gave the law and would carry on into the future. The first feast day God set aside is the Sabbath day, which is to be observed every week. The following seven feasts in Leviticus 23 were to be celebrated annually: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Penticost, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles.
Each feast commemorated a specific event. But that is not all. Looking back from the vantage point of our history, we discover also that additional specific prophesied events were fulfilled on the exact feast days that God instituted to commemorate the events. For example, the feast of Passover commemorated the deliverence of the Hebrew people from the destroyer that passed over their blood sprinkled homes as he visited the homes of the Egyptians, taking the lives of the firstborn of every
family-human and cattle.
The blood that the people were told to put on their doorposts was from a sacrificial lamb. The event that was prefigured, of course, was the offering of the lamb of God on Calvary. Four of the seven feasts have already been fulfilled, each one on the same day of the month on which God commanded that the feast should be commemorated.
Therefore, because of this phenomenon, we can expect those prophecies which are still in our future to also be fulfilled on the exact calendar day these feasts are to be celebrated.
4 FEASTS FULFILLED, 3 TO GO
The first four of the feasts-Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Passover, Feast of First Fruits, and Feast of Penticost-were fulfilled at the first advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. The final three feasts, the feast of trumpets, the feast of atonement and the feast of Tabernacles-will be fulfilled, it is believed, at our Lord's second coming. We will study each of these feasts and the prophecy it symbolizes, as well
as the events that have occured already in Israel's history on the exact calendar day of the feast.
On Rosh Hodesh, the first day of each month of the Jewish calendar, the appearence of even a tiny sliver of the new moon signaled the beginning of the month. This first day was announced through the blowing of the Shofar, the ram's horn, in the cities and by signal fires on each mountain top which fanned out the news to the most distant villages in Israel.
PSALMS 81:3-5
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
During the first temple period, in King Solomon's day, the high priest announced the appearence of the new moon. Later, the Sanhedrin (the highest legal authority) announced the first day of the first month to set the calendar for the new year and set the dates for the seven feasts.
FIRST DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
CLEANSING AND NEW BEGINNINGS
The theme of the first day of the month of Nisan was a time for ritual cleansing and new beginnings for the Jews. From the time of the Exodus, God declared that Israel would change their New Year's day from the fall to a new system where the first day of Nisan, in the spring (MARCH-APRIL) became the beginning of the calendar year. Nisan, then, became the first month in the Jewish calendar.
Four events have already transpired in Israel's history on this first important biblical anniversary that have to do with cleansing and new beginnings. One still remains to be fulfilled.
1-The dedication of the tabernacle during Exodus.
EXODUS 40:17
17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
2-The cleansing of the Temple by King Hezekiah.
2 CHRONICLES 29:2-3,17
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
3-Ezra and the exiles begin their return from Babylon
EZRA 7:9,23
7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
4-The decree is given to Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
NEHEMIAH 2:1-8
1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
FUTURE
5-The cleansing of the millennial Temple.
EZEKIEL 45:18
18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
THE TENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
SANCTIFICATION
Sanctification is the theme associated with the tenth day of Nisan. It was the day connected with the setting apart of the Passover Lamb for a holy purpose. There are four major events associated with this special day.
1-The sanctification of the Passover Lamb during the Exodus.EXODUS 12:3-6
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:7
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
2-Israel Crossed the Jordan River and Entered the Promised Land.
JOSHUA 3:5,16
5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
JOSHUA 4:19
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
3-Christ our Passover Lamb was cut off on Palm Sunday.
On the tenth day of Nisan in A.D 32 Christ was cut off.
DANIEL 9:26
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
FUTURE
4-Ezekiels Vision of the Millennial Temple.
EZEKIEL 40:1-2
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
THE PASSOVER SUPER
LEVITICUS 23:4-5
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Passover always falls on a full moon, the first full moon of spring. All Jewish males were required by God to go to Jerusalem three times each year to commemorate these feasts - passover, Penticost and the Feast of Tabernacles. Passover was the first of these feasts.
The biblical calendar reckons the beginning of a new day from sunset as God did at creation.
GENESIS 1:5
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Haggadah, the Jewish liturgy, says In every generation , each person should feel as though she or he were personally redeemed from Egypt. In the sacred cycle of festivals, the Passover Supper on the evening of the fourteenth of Nisan, allows all Jews in all the generations since the Exodus to participate personally in the miracle of God's redemption of the enslaved Israelites. The Passover holds forth the promise of that final redemption when the Messiah will redeem all those who look to
him for salvation.
Passover is probably the most significant of all the festivals which Israel celebrates. For almost thirty-five hundred years, Jewish families have gathered to commemorate what God did for them when he delivered them from hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt.
Six times in their history on this day, the fourteenth day of Nisan, the evening Passover Supper has marked a milestone in the spiritual and national life of Israel.
1-God makes a Covenant with Abraham regarding the promised land.
GENESIS 15:13-18
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
GENESIS 18:14
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
2-The Exodus Passover Supper.
EXODUS 12:41
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
3-The First Passover in Canaan.
GENESIS 17:10-11,23
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
JOSHUA 5:3,8,11-12
3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins
8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
4-The Book of Law was discovered.
2 CHRONICLES 34:2-3,14,31
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
5-The dedication of the second Temple.
2 CHRONICLES 36:19
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
EZRA 6:16-19
16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
6-The Last Supper.
LUKE 22:19-20
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:26
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.
LEVITICUS 23:6-7,10-11
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Although the Feast of Unleavned Bread (Hag-Ha-Matzot) is quite distinct from the Passover Feast, it occures at the same time and lasts seven days from the fifteenth day of Nisan (March/April) through the twenty-first. During these seven days, Israel was to eat bread without leaven (leaven symbolized sin) in rememberance of their baking unleavened bread in their haste to escape Egypt. The Jews in the Old and new Testament usually treated the first day of Unleavened Bread and the Passover as one,
due to its historical connection and proximity.
The Apostle Paul was thinking of this unleavened bread when he told the church at Corinth to
1 CORINTHIANS 5:7-8
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
There have been three notable anniversary events on the feast of Unleavened Bread.
1-The Exodus from Egypt.
EXODUS 12:41
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
DEUTORONOMY 16:3
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
2-The Crucifixion of Christ, our Passover Lamb.
JOHN 6:35
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
JOHN 12:23-24,27-28
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
3-The Final fall of the Jews Resistance at Massada.
For two years following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the remaining Jewish resistance, under the command of Eleazar, retreated to the mountain fortress of Massada. The impregnable fortress sits on a mountain top overlooking the Dead Sea. It could only be approached by a narrow snakepath which wound its way up the steep cliffs. A small group of Soldiers was able to bravely hold off the Roman Legions for almost two years until the Roman general Silva built a huge earthen
ramp up the western side to enable their battering rams to break through. When the ramp was completed, the Jewish defenders knew that the war was lost and that by early morning the Roman Soldiers would overcome the 960 men, women and children who were the last remnant of a free Israel. They knew, from grim experience, that their fate at the hands of the Romans included rape, torture and death for every last one of them.
Rather then submit their wives and children to the cruelties of Roman victory, the defenders decided to take their own lives and die as free men. Flavius Josephus states, This calamitous slaughter was made on the fifteenth day of the month Nisan (Feast of Unleavened Bread).
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS.
EXODUS 23:19
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
The third of the seven feasts is celebrated on the seventeenth day of Nisan, the Feast of firstfruits.
This was the time for the harvesting of the early crops of spring. God wanted Israel to acknowledge that they owed Him not only the firstfruits, but that all they had was from God, a daily gift from his gracious land.
Four historically important anniversary events have happened on the Feast of Firstfruits, the seventeenth day of Nisan.
1-Noahs Ark rested on Mountains of Ararat.GENESIS 8:4
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Most ancient nations, including Israel, began their calendar year in the fall (September/October). However God changed Israels calendar by rotating it six months so that, from the time of the Exodus, their New Year's Day began in the Spring on the first day of the month of Nisan (March/April). In order to commemorate Israel's miraculas deliverence from the bondage of Egypt in the month of Nisan. God instructed Moses to change the order of the month of Exodus, Nisan, which had formerly been their Seventh month of the year, into their first month of their year.
EXODUS 12:1-2
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Thus, when Genesis 8:4 describes Noah's ark resting on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeeth day of the ancient calendar's seventh month (Nisan-March), it is the same day exactly as the seventeenth day of the new calendar's first month (Nisan-March) which ultimately became the Feast of Firstfruits.
2-Israel Miraculously Crossed over the Red Sea.
EXODUS 14:11-14
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
3-Israel Eats the Firstfruits of the Promised Land.
JOSHUA 5:10-12
10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
4-Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
As Jesus hung on the cross in death, Satan, the Romans, the Pharisees, those who called for his death, and even his followers looked at him and saw only defeat and death:; the death of a great vision. Yet, as Jesus himself had said,
JOHN 12:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
But when it falls to the ground and takes root it is soon transformed into new life. It was essential for Jesus to die in order to triumph over death, sin, and Satan.
The most significant event that took place on the seventeenth day of Nisan is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the "firstfruits" of all future resurrections into eternal life.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:20
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Jesus celebrated this feast by first conquering death himself, then by offering the firstfruits to all future resurrections when
MATTHEW 27:52-53
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Christ proved that His power over death was not limited to Himself by resurrecting many of the Old Testament saints on this feast of Firstfruits. Other ancient writers, including Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata fefer to this miraculas resurrection of the dead which, together with more than five hundred eyewitnesses to the risen Christ, assisted in the rapid, early spread of the Christian faith
1 CORINTHIANS 15:4-6
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
What an impressive way to present to God the firstfruits of the harvest. JESUS the FIRSTFRUITS,
1 CORINTHIANS 15:18
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
and finally all believers who are alive at His second advent at the Rapture, raised imperishable and immortal.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:54-55
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?
TOMORROW WE WILL FINISH THE FINAL HAPPENINGS OF PROPHECIES FULFILLED ON FEAST DAYS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. PART 2
From Grant Jeffries Book. Armageddon Apointment with Destiny. Pages 44-64 (Selective)
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:14
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
COLOSSIANS 2:16-17
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
WE SEE RIGHT OFF GOD WILL FULFILL PROPHECY ON THE ISRAELI FEAST DAYS. SO KEEP WATCH ON THE FEAST DAYS OF ISRAEL FOR PROPHECY TO BE FULFILLED.
NOW LETS GET STARTED OF HOW PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED ON THESE FEAST DAYS IN THE PAST AND FUTURE.
THE ISRAELI BIBLICAL CALENDAR
01-Nisan or Abib-March/April
02-Zif or Iyar-April/May
03-Sivan-May/June
04-Tammuz-June/July
05-Ab or Av-July/August
06-Elul-August/September
07-Tishri-September/October
08-Bul-October/November
09-Chisleu-November/December
10-Tebeth-December/January
11-Sebat-January/February
12-Adar-February/March
Ve-Adar (the Intercalary Month)
LEVITICUS 23:44
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
NUMBERS 10:10
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
In giving the laws for his people, God set several appointed feasts of the Lord for Israel to observe at specific times during the year (Leviticus 23). These feasts were to be celebrated from that time in the wilderness when God gave the law and would carry on into the future. The first feast day God set aside is the Sabbath day, which is to be observed every week. The following seven feasts in Leviticus 23 were to be celebrated annually: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Penticost, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles.
Each feast commemorated a specific event. But that is not all. Looking back from the vantage point of our history, we discover also that additional specific prophesied events were fulfilled on the exact feast days that God instituted to commemorate the events. For example, the feast of Passover commemorated the deliverence of the Hebrew people from the destroyer that passed over their blood sprinkled homes as he visited the homes of the Egyptians, taking the lives of the firstborn of every
family-human and cattle.
The blood that the people were told to put on their doorposts was from a sacrificial lamb. The event that was prefigured, of course, was the offering of the lamb of God on Calvary. Four of the seven feasts have already been fulfilled, each one on the same day of the month on which God commanded that the feast should be commemorated.
Therefore, because of this phenomenon, we can expect those prophecies which are still in our future to also be fulfilled on the exact calendar day these feasts are to be celebrated.
4 FEASTS FULFILLED, 3 TO GO
The first four of the feasts-Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Passover, Feast of First Fruits, and Feast of Penticost-were fulfilled at the first advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. The final three feasts, the feast of trumpets, the feast of atonement and the feast of Tabernacles-will be fulfilled, it is believed, at our Lord's second coming. We will study each of these feasts and the prophecy it symbolizes, as well
as the events that have occured already in Israel's history on the exact calendar day of the feast.
On Rosh Hodesh, the first day of each month of the Jewish calendar, the appearence of even a tiny sliver of the new moon signaled the beginning of the month. This first day was announced through the blowing of the Shofar, the ram's horn, in the cities and by signal fires on each mountain top which fanned out the news to the most distant villages in Israel.
PSALMS 81:3-5
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
During the first temple period, in King Solomon's day, the high priest announced the appearence of the new moon. Later, the Sanhedrin (the highest legal authority) announced the first day of the first month to set the calendar for the new year and set the dates for the seven feasts.
FIRST DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
CLEANSING AND NEW BEGINNINGS
The theme of the first day of the month of Nisan was a time for ritual cleansing and new beginnings for the Jews. From the time of the Exodus, God declared that Israel would change their New Year's day from the fall to a new system where the first day of Nisan, in the spring (MARCH-APRIL) became the beginning of the calendar year. Nisan, then, became the first month in the Jewish calendar.
Four events have already transpired in Israel's history on this first important biblical anniversary that have to do with cleansing and new beginnings. One still remains to be fulfilled.
1-The dedication of the tabernacle during Exodus.
EXODUS 40:17
17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
2-The cleansing of the Temple by King Hezekiah.
2 CHRONICLES 29:2-3,17
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
3-Ezra and the exiles begin their return from Babylon
EZRA 7:9,23
7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
4-The decree is given to Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
NEHEMIAH 2:1-8
1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
FUTURE
5-The cleansing of the millennial Temple.
EZEKIEL 45:18
18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
THE TENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
SANCTIFICATION
Sanctification is the theme associated with the tenth day of Nisan. It was the day connected with the setting apart of the Passover Lamb for a holy purpose. There are four major events associated with this special day.
1-The sanctification of the Passover Lamb during the Exodus.EXODUS 12:3-6
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:7
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
2-Israel Crossed the Jordan River and Entered the Promised Land.
JOSHUA 3:5,16
5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
JOSHUA 4:19
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
3-Christ our Passover Lamb was cut off on Palm Sunday.
On the tenth day of Nisan in A.D 32 Christ was cut off.
DANIEL 9:26
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
FUTURE
4-Ezekiels Vision of the Millennial Temple.
EZEKIEL 40:1-2
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
THE PASSOVER SUPER
LEVITICUS 23:4-5
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Passover always falls on a full moon, the first full moon of spring. All Jewish males were required by God to go to Jerusalem three times each year to commemorate these feasts - passover, Penticost and the Feast of Tabernacles. Passover was the first of these feasts.
The biblical calendar reckons the beginning of a new day from sunset as God did at creation.
GENESIS 1:5
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Haggadah, the Jewish liturgy, says In every generation , each person should feel as though she or he were personally redeemed from Egypt. In the sacred cycle of festivals, the Passover Supper on the evening of the fourteenth of Nisan, allows all Jews in all the generations since the Exodus to participate personally in the miracle of God's redemption of the enslaved Israelites. The Passover holds forth the promise of that final redemption when the Messiah will redeem all those who look to
him for salvation.
Passover is probably the most significant of all the festivals which Israel celebrates. For almost thirty-five hundred years, Jewish families have gathered to commemorate what God did for them when he delivered them from hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt.
Six times in their history on this day, the fourteenth day of Nisan, the evening Passover Supper has marked a milestone in the spiritual and national life of Israel.
1-God makes a Covenant with Abraham regarding the promised land.
GENESIS 15:13-18
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
GENESIS 18:14
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
2-The Exodus Passover Supper.
EXODUS 12:41
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
3-The First Passover in Canaan.
GENESIS 17:10-11,23
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
JOSHUA 5:3,8,11-12
3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins
8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
4-The Book of Law was discovered.
2 CHRONICLES 34:2-3,14,31
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
5-The dedication of the second Temple.
2 CHRONICLES 36:19
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
EZRA 6:16-19
16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
6-The Last Supper.
LUKE 22:19-20
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:26
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.
LEVITICUS 23:6-7,10-11
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Although the Feast of Unleavned Bread (Hag-Ha-Matzot) is quite distinct from the Passover Feast, it occures at the same time and lasts seven days from the fifteenth day of Nisan (March/April) through the twenty-first. During these seven days, Israel was to eat bread without leaven (leaven symbolized sin) in rememberance of their baking unleavened bread in their haste to escape Egypt. The Jews in the Old and new Testament usually treated the first day of Unleavened Bread and the Passover as one,
due to its historical connection and proximity.
The Apostle Paul was thinking of this unleavened bread when he told the church at Corinth to
1 CORINTHIANS 5:7-8
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
There have been three notable anniversary events on the feast of Unleavened Bread.
1-The Exodus from Egypt.
EXODUS 12:41
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
DEUTORONOMY 16:3
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
2-The Crucifixion of Christ, our Passover Lamb.
JOHN 6:35
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
JOHN 12:23-24,27-28
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
3-The Final fall of the Jews Resistance at Massada.
For two years following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the remaining Jewish resistance, under the command of Eleazar, retreated to the mountain fortress of Massada. The impregnable fortress sits on a mountain top overlooking the Dead Sea. It could only be approached by a narrow snakepath which wound its way up the steep cliffs. A small group of Soldiers was able to bravely hold off the Roman Legions for almost two years until the Roman general Silva built a huge earthen
ramp up the western side to enable their battering rams to break through. When the ramp was completed, the Jewish defenders knew that the war was lost and that by early morning the Roman Soldiers would overcome the 960 men, women and children who were the last remnant of a free Israel. They knew, from grim experience, that their fate at the hands of the Romans included rape, torture and death for every last one of them.
Rather then submit their wives and children to the cruelties of Roman victory, the defenders decided to take their own lives and die as free men. Flavius Josephus states, This calamitous slaughter was made on the fifteenth day of the month Nisan (Feast of Unleavened Bread).
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF NISAN (MARCH/APRIL)
THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS.
EXODUS 23:19
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
The third of the seven feasts is celebrated on the seventeenth day of Nisan, the Feast of firstfruits.
This was the time for the harvesting of the early crops of spring. God wanted Israel to acknowledge that they owed Him not only the firstfruits, but that all they had was from God, a daily gift from his gracious land.
Four historically important anniversary events have happened on the Feast of Firstfruits, the seventeenth day of Nisan.
1-Noahs Ark rested on Mountains of Ararat.GENESIS 8:4
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Most ancient nations, including Israel, began their calendar year in the fall (September/October). However God changed Israels calendar by rotating it six months so that, from the time of the Exodus, their New Year's Day began in the Spring on the first day of the month of Nisan (March/April). In order to commemorate Israel's miraculas deliverence from the bondage of Egypt in the month of Nisan. God instructed Moses to change the order of the month of Exodus, Nisan, which had formerly been their Seventh month of the year, into their first month of their year.
EXODUS 12:1-2
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Thus, when Genesis 8:4 describes Noah's ark resting on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeeth day of the ancient calendar's seventh month (Nisan-March), it is the same day exactly as the seventeenth day of the new calendar's first month (Nisan-March) which ultimately became the Feast of Firstfruits.
2-Israel Miraculously Crossed over the Red Sea.
EXODUS 14:11-14
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
3-Israel Eats the Firstfruits of the Promised Land.
JOSHUA 5:10-12
10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
4-Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
As Jesus hung on the cross in death, Satan, the Romans, the Pharisees, those who called for his death, and even his followers looked at him and saw only defeat and death:; the death of a great vision. Yet, as Jesus himself had said,
JOHN 12:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
But when it falls to the ground and takes root it is soon transformed into new life. It was essential for Jesus to die in order to triumph over death, sin, and Satan.
The most significant event that took place on the seventeenth day of Nisan is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the "firstfruits" of all future resurrections into eternal life.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:20
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Jesus celebrated this feast by first conquering death himself, then by offering the firstfruits to all future resurrections when
MATTHEW 27:52-53
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Christ proved that His power over death was not limited to Himself by resurrecting many of the Old Testament saints on this feast of Firstfruits. Other ancient writers, including Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata fefer to this miraculas resurrection of the dead which, together with more than five hundred eyewitnesses to the risen Christ, assisted in the rapid, early spread of the Christian faith
1 CORINTHIANS 15:4-6
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
What an impressive way to present to God the firstfruits of the harvest. JESUS the FIRSTFRUITS,
1 CORINTHIANS 15:18
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
and finally all believers who are alive at His second advent at the Rapture, raised imperishable and immortal.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:54-55
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?
TOMORROW WE WILL FINISH THE FINAL HAPPENINGS OF PROPHECIES FULFILLED ON FEAST DAYS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. PART 2
Friday, March 16, 2007
MOSES - JESUS PROPHETS OF ISLAM
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Tornado damages buildings in Ohio. 3-Flood fears deepen in Vermont capital. 4-Flood concerns pepper spring forecast. 5-Berlin to stress EU social side in birthday text. 6-EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Damascus. 7-World powers agree on new Iran sanctions. 8-Palestinians unify; Israel demurs. 9-Dearly Beloved in Christ Jesus, MAR 15,07 DR JACK VAN IMPE. 10-March 14, 2007 ARLENE KUSHNER. 11-EU FM Calls For a Syrian Golan; Lieberman vs. Europe. 12-Secretary-General welcomes news of Palestinian unity government. 13-Moses, Jesus really prophets of Islam.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Fri Mar 16 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 15,07
MAP 2.9 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 OAXACA, MEXICO
MAP 4.8 BURU, INDONESIA
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.6 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
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MAP 2.6 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.3 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.7 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 4.6 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.5 PUERTO RICO
MAR 14,07
MAP 5.2 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 5.5 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tornado damages buildings in Ohio MAR 15,07
ELYRIA, Ohio - Flood warnings were issued across the state Thursday following a day of severe storms, which spawned a small tornado that ripped siding from an office supply store, flattened residential garages and forced some schools to cancel classes because of a power outage. No injuries were reported from the tornado, which briefly touched down Wednesday evening in northeast Ohio.
Elyria is about 25 miles west of Cleveland.The tornado was weak and on the ground only a few minutes, said Jim Kosarik, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland. Investigators will have to assess the damage to determine wind speed, said NWS meteorologist Mike Abair.Strong winds downed power lines and trees, and tossed a shopping cart through the window of an empty building, said Lt. Bob Krugman of the Elyria Fire Department.Classes were canceled at some schools because power was out and officials didn't know when it would be restored, school board member Kathryn Carpus said.On Thursday, authorities closed roads in areas from Auglaize County in western Ohio to Belmont County in eastern Ohio because of high water, sheriff's offices said.The rain changed to freezing rain and sleet in Union County, northwest of Columbus, possibly contributing to numerous accidents, some involving injuries, a sheriff's dispatcher said.
Flood fears deepen in Vermont capital Wed Mar 14, 7:22 PM ET
MONTPELIER, Vt. - The National Weather Service added to the jitters of residents of Vermont's capital city Wednesday, issuing a flood watch for an area including the ice-jammed Winooski River.
The watch is in effect through 11 a.m. Thursday and came after a night when mild weather accelerated snowmelt on the river, which flooded in 1992 and devastated downtown Montpelier.The river rose about 1.5 feet early Wednesday but later dropped, said City Manager William Fraser.
A construction crane lowering a steel I-beam onto the river ice continued breaking up portions Wednesday.It's fair to say that in this week's weather cycle, this is the highest-risk evening, Fraser said Wednesday. If we can get past this rain tonight, we'll be good.Merchants and homeowners continued preparing for the worst. Most downtown businesses have fortified storefronts with sandbags, plywood or both.We're doing all we can do, said Kathy Berry, co-owner of Pinky's on State, a sandwich shop. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. What are you going to do? We'll serve soggy sandwiches.
Flood concerns pepper spring forecast MAR 15,07
WASHINGTON - The government's spring weather outlook raises concerns for flooding in the Midwest and continued drought in the Southwest. The outlook for April through June includes potential flooding in the Ohio Valley and as far west as Colorado, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.The soil moisture is high, due to the melting of an above normal snowpack, which resulted from record snowfall in December and January, said David L. Johnson, director of NOAA's National Weather Service.According to the forecast, warmer than normal temperatures in recent weeks have increased the risk of flooding due to ice jams over portions of eastern South Dakota, eastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin and northern
Illinois.
In addition, high soil moisture over northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania and extreme southwestern New York state could lead to flooding if additional heavy precipitation occurs, the agency said. Snow and rainfall in December through February were above average in much of the center of the nation, while large sections of the East, Southeast and West were drier than average.
Much of southern California just experienced its driest fall and winter in more than a century, the report said.With the dry season fast approaching, there are major concerns that drought conditions will not only fail to improve but actually worsen in coming months, said Doug Lecomte, drought specialist for the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. The outlook for any significant drought improvement from now through spring looks grim for not only southern California but for much of the Southwest as well.Florida also is approaching its dry season and dry winter weather over the southern half of the peninsula has brought fire danger indices to abnormally high conditions.
The National Interagency Fire Center's Seasonal Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for February through June 2007 calls for the potential for significant wildfire activity to be higher than normal this spring over portions of the southern tier of states and northern Minnesota, said Tom Wordell, Wildland National Interagency Fire Center fire analyst.The outlook calls for drought to continue or worsen through June over much of the Southwest, potentially spreading into portions of Utah and western Colorado.Drought also is expected to persist across Florida, while improvement is predicted over the extreme northern Plains as well as portions of Texas and Oklahoma.
Berlin to stress EU social side in birthday text
14.03.2007 - 17:42 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday (14 March)
received some more specifics on the text of the EU's 50th anniversary declaration when talking to German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who revealed that Berlin wants to stress the EU's social dimension.
Less than two weeks to go before EU leaders will sign the birthday declaration at a meeting in Berlin on 25 March, MEPs like the rest of Europe have been left in the dark by the German EU presidency on what exactly the text will look like. Wednesday's debate with Mr Steinmeier took place with no draft text on the table, sparking some vocal criticism towards Berlin from the Greens and Liberals in the EU assembly.
To debate the declaration without having seen a draft is bizarre, said liberal leader Graham Watson.I'm sure the spin doctors in the Bundeskanzleramt [the office of chancellor Angela Merkel] are still at work... but don't feel surprised if many of us feel we're being bounced, he added. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, chief of the Greens, stated I am opposed to secret deliberations in smoke-filled rooms.
I don't believe in sherpas and networks, he added, referring to Berlin's covert working method which involves confidential talks with member states' so-called sherpas special appointees for the birthday declaration as well as the EU constitution issue. But Mr Steinmeier was spared criticism from the parliament's largest two groups the conservatives and the socialists which include the German CDU and SPD parties forming the government coalition in Berlin. The German minister said the Berlin declaration will contain four parts, more or less confirming earlier reports on the structure of the text.
The first part will be on the EU's achievements, like peace, stability, prosperity, including a strong reference to the the bloc's 2004 enlargement. Particular characteristics of EU integration such as the equality of all member states will also be mentioned in this part, according to Mr Steinmeier.The second part will cover EU values, such as human dignity, freedom, tolerance and mutual solidarity.
The third part termed the heart of the declaration by Mr Steinmeier will discuss current and future challenges. These are set to include climate change, a common EU foreign policy, common responses to illegal immigration and the fight against crime and terrorism.
The social dimension
The German politician highlighted that Berlin really wants to underscore the social dimension in this third part of the declaration. Europe stands for a social model based on economic competition but reconciling that competition with social and ecological responsibility, he stated. A strong social paragraph is important to France which in 2005 saw a failed referendum on the EU constitution partly due to fears that the EU would become too liberal. But too much social talk in the declaration is disliked by free market-oriented states like the UK and the Czech Republic. The final, fourth part of the text will mark a commitment to take necessary steps in the reform process of the EU before 2009, Mr Steinmeier said. This vague kind of reference to the need for institutional reform was already used
by EU leaders in conclusions last June, when dealing with the question of what to do with the disputed EU constitution. Contrary to what German diplomats had originally envisaged, the text will not mention deadlines for re-negotiating the EU constitution, which was rejected by France and the Netherlands, nor will it refer to words like constitution or constitutional.Meanwhile, Mr Steinmeier avoided the topic of future enlargement, which had emerged as a subject of controversy surrounding the declaration during an EU leaders' dinner last week, with France opposing explicit calls for further expansion of the bloc.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Damascus MAR 15,07
Damascus, 14 March - On the third leg of his Mideast-tour, that began in Beirut, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, coming from Riyadh, arrived in Syria yesterday. In talks with Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem and Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa and finally with President Bashar al-Assad, Solana outlined the European Union's demands on Syria: voicing out the persistent Israeli complaints of alleged weapons' smuggling to the Lebanese Hezbollah, Solana requested that Syria put an end to this activity.
He furthermore requested that Syria exert a maximum effort to disarm Hezbollah, insinuating that it was Syria's responsiblity to implement UN Security Council resolution 1701 which ended Israel's military offensive against Lebanon last September. In a press conference with Walid al-Mouallem, Solana declared that I told the President ... that we would like to see Syria making a maximum effort to help implement Security Council Resolution 1701. That is fundamental to reach peace, stability and independence of Lebanon. One of the chief concerns of Javier Solana was to win Syria's commitment to persuading the Lebanese opposition to drop any objections against the UN Security Council-appointed international tribunal to try the suspects in the murder of Rafiq Hariri. Syrian Foreign Minister commented this issue saying that Syria has no objections against this tribunal and pointed out that it was among the Lebanese themselves that differences have risen regarding the statutes of the international tribunal.
The statutes indeed, set up by the UN Security Council, are apt to severely curtail Lebanese sovereignty in the judicial sphere. Regarding the weapons smuggling issue, al-Mouallem denied any responsibility on the part of Syria and renewed Syria's commitment to implement the resolution 1701, saying I would like to stress that Syria will always stay part of the solution that seeks the security and stability of the region. For his part, Javier Solana declared at the news conference that the European Union was determined to do its best to help Syria recover the Golan Heights, still under Israeli occupation, saying that we would like to work as much as possible to see your country, Syria, recuperating the territories that were taken in the year 1967.
World powers agree on new Iran sanctions By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 15, 6:33 AM ET
UNITED NATIONS - A proposed new package of sanctions against Iran for enriching uranium appeared headed to the U.N. Security Council after ambassadors for six world powers resolved remaining differences.
The six-nation show of unity would be unlikely to meet strong opposition from the other 10 members on the council, which must approve the measures. A vote was expected in the days to come.We have an agreement in principle based on some additional changes that were introduced and presented today by some delegations, acting U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff said Wednesday.He said the new elements still needed to be approved by government officials in the five countries that hold permanent council seats — the U.S., Russia, China, France and Britain.
But he and other envoys expressed confidence the package would be presented to the council on Thursday with support from those governments and the sixth nation involved in the negotiations, Germany.Our hope is now that we've overcome a particular hurdle ... and the council will have the text before it by tomorrow morning, said Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones-Parry.Iran insists its enrichment program is peaceful and aimed solely at producing nuclear energy, but the U.S., European nations and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are concerned that Iran's goal is to produce nuclear weapons.
The modest package includes an embargo on Iranian arms exports and an asset freeze on more individuals and companies associated with Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, council diplomats said.The United States and the Europeans would certainly favor tougher sanctions, but knew they had to settle for less to ensure that Russia and China, which have close commercial ties with Iran, will not use their veto power to block a resolution.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said while there was agreement on the proposals by and large, some of the council members still want to consult with their governments on the details.I assume as they double-check, they will get a positive response from the capitals, and they expect that this is going to be the case, too, he said.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday warned the West that it would deepen the rift with his country by imposing more U.N. sanctions.
You are wrong if you think you can sit and draft ... something in order to isolate the Iranian nation, Ahmadinejad said in a speech to several thousand people in the Iranian city of Yazd.Not only are you unable to hurt Iran, but you would further isolate yourselves and make yourselves more hated, he added.In December, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose limited sanctions against Iran for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment. It ordered all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs and to freeze assets of 10 key Iranian companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.The council said it would consider further nonmilitary sanctions if Iran refused to suspend enrichment. Iran's response was to accelerate its enrichment program.
The new resolution also would call on all U.N. member states to exercise vigilance and restraint on arms imports and on the entry or transit through their territory of Iranians subject to the asset freeze, a council diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the text has not been circulated.It would call on governments to make no new commitments of grants, financial assistance, or concessional loans to the government of Iran, the diplomat said.
China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said he wasn't happy with the list of additional individuals and entities that would be subject to sanctions, but he added: I think one has to reach agreement, so there has to be a package.Earlier Wednesday, Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz met with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss Iran's nuclear program. Afterward, Livni urged the Security Council to strengthen its sanctions on Iran. She said Iran's government, which speaks publicly of wiping Israel off the map and denies the Holocaust, is a threat not only by Israel but to Iran's Arab Muslim neighbors. She said it is clear that their goal is to pursue a nuclear weapon. Time is of the essence because while we are talking, they are working ... to master the technology and to achieve this goal. So we have to stop it.Associated Press writers Sarah DiLorenzo and Lily Hindy contributed to this report.
Palestinians unify; Israel demurs
MAR 15,07 - By Adel Hana, AP
GAZA CITY (AP) — The rival Hamas and Fatah movements formed a long-elusive unity government Thursday, hoping to end bloody infighting and lead the Palestinians out of a year-long international isolation. Israel immediately said, however, that it would not deal with the new government.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of the Islamic militant Hamas announced the final coalition agreement and platform after months of stop-and-go negotiations. It is to be approved by the Palestinian parliament on Saturday.The coalition platform posted on Hamas and Fatah websites calls for continued observance of a truce with Israel but falls short of Israeli, U.S. and European requirements that the new government recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace deals.The new government's platform includes only a vague pledge to respect past peace deals; it does not explicitly recognize Israel.It also affirms the Palestinians' right to resist and defend themselves against any Israeli aggression.
While many in the West consider resistance to be a code word for violent attacks, Palestinians have a wide variety of definitions that can encompass anything from armed attacks to street protests.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said his government will boycott the coalition government and encourage other countries to do the same because its program falls short of the international conditions for acceptance that include recognition of the Jewish state.Unfortunately the new Palestinian government seems to have said no to the three benchmarks of the international community, Regev said. Accordingly, Israel will not deal with this new government and we hope the international community will stand firmly by its own principles and refuse to deal with a government that says no to peace and no to reconciliation.Western countries have said they will wait for the new government to take office before deciding whether to lift economic sanctions against the Palestinian government.Haniyeh said the Palestinians have received encouraging signals from Europe.No doubt, there is a different position by the American administration and the Israelis, he said, adding that the new government would do its best to bring about an end to the boycott and maintain relations with all the international community.Haniyeh said he hoped the new government will launch a new era for the Palestinians.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a senior aide to moderate President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, said the new coalition opens the way for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
This is the right moment to move toward the peace process, he told reporters. If it (the international community) is serious, if it is looking toward stability in the Middle East, this is the right moment to go ahead by implementing the U.S.-backed road map peace plan.Another Abbas aide, Nimr Hamad, said the new government
represents all Palestinians.When Israel says it doesn't want to deal with it, it means it does not want to deal with the Palestinians, he said.Haniyeh presented the Cabinet lineup Thursday — nine ministers from Hamas and six from Fatah — to Abbas, who accepted it. Haniyeh and Abbas agreed to the power-sharing deal last month in Saudi Arabia, but had spent the past few weeks ironing out the final details.
The final stage of the coalition talks dealt with one of the most difficult issues — who would fill the post of interior minister and assume control over the security forces. Most of the veteran members are loyal to Fatah, but Hamas last year formed its own 5,600-member militia.Officials identified the new minister as Hani Kawasmi, a senior Interior Ministry civil servant who has good relations with Hamas and Fatah, but does not belong to either party. Mustafa Barghouti, the incoming information minister, confirmed the appointment.Barghouti said other key appointments included Salam Fayyad, an internationally respected economist, as finance minister, and Ziad Abu Amr, an independent lawmaker, as foreign minister. Haniyeh will remain as prime minister, and Azzam al-Ahmed, head of Fatah's parliament bloc, will be deputy prime minister.Hamas trounced the more moderate Fatah in parliamentary elections last year, giving it control over most government functions. But the Hamas-led government was crippled by Western sanctions imposed over its refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.
Abbas, who was elected separately in 2005, has been pushing Hamas since last autumn to join Fatah in a more moderate coalition in hopes of lifting the Western boycott. The negotiations collapsed repeatedly, often sparking rounds of deadly factional fighting in Gaza.As negotiations continued, there was an exchange of fire between Hamas and Fatah forces in the northern Gaza Strip. Security officials said nine people, including five bystanders, were slightly wounded in the shootout. More than 130 people have died in the infighting since last May.On Thursday, a Fatah activist died of wounds he sustained the previous night in a shootout with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials said.The Associated Press.
Dearly Beloved in Christ Jesus, MAR 15,07 DR JACK VAN IMPE
Rexella and I are often amazed at the way God leads and guides us. What do I mean? A number of months ago, after much prayer, we decided to produce a new video on the subject of Heaven.
As final preparations were being made, a stunning and stupendous television event occurred a two-hour Barbara Walters special on Heaven. It was just what we needed to study and deliver a no punches pulled reply to the celebrities being interviewed who were mainly wrong about their opinions and guesses about Eternity.Famous personalities including Barbara Walters, Mitch Albom, Cardinal McCarrick, Rabbi Jackie Mason, Rev. Joel Osteen, The Dahli Lama and Ellen Johnson, the President of the American Atheists presented their viewpoints. Oprah Winfrey and Joe Louis appeared in other news releases.
Then, under the anointing and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we set the record straight concerning the 559 Biblical texts about Heaven. In the Barbara Walters special not one scriptural text was used even by the purported religious experts. What a reproach when John 17:17 states: Thy Word is Truth.
Well, by contrast, Rexella and I used hundreds of the 559 Biblical verses to answer the interviewed celebrities’ statements right and wrong, wise and foolish.You need this shocking one-hour and fifty minute study to make a trip around Heaven! Test yourself and see how many of the following questions you can answer in this in-depth enlightening study:
Where is Heaven past, present and future?
Is the new birth a reincarnation?
Do suicide bombers go directly to Paradise?
Why did Christ descend into Hades?
Will the third Heaven, of II Corinthians 12:2, be relocated upon earth?
Will we know our loved ones and friends in Heaven?
What age will every believer be?
Will our beloved pets be with us eternally?
Did Paul have an out of body experience?
Does each child of God have a guardian angel to transport him or her to Heaven both at death and at the Rapture?
What is life like in Heaven?
Will we eat, laugh and sing?
Will we eventually live in the Holy City?
How large will our new and everlasting mansion be?
Will the Holy City contain billions of mansions? How many?
Will the mansions be beautiful masterpieces prepared by Christ? (John 14:3).
In conclusion, let me tell you how we exit earth to reach Heaven. Job 26:7 states: God stretched out the north over the empty place. That empty place is the way out of our universe to reach heaven (II Corinthians 12:2)
The global astronomers describe this glorious opening located in the constellation of Orion as follows:One of the most inspiring and thrilling recent disclosures is that there is a great empty space in the North in the nebula of the constellation of Orion a heavenly cavern so gigantic the mind of man cannot comprehend it, and so brilliantly beautiful that words cannot adequately describe it. All astronomers agree that this huge opening in Orion is perhaps more than 16,740,000,000,000 (sixteen trillion, seven hundred forty billion) miles in diameter, which is incomprehensible to man. WOW!
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Yours in world evangelism,
Jack Van Impe President of Jack Van Impe Ministries
March 14, 2007 ARLENE KUSHNER
The Arabs are playing games, but there is nothing funny about it. They're attempting to put the squeeze on Israel as a step towards destroying her. And a prime facilitator of this squeeze is the moderate Saudi Arabia.The issue is the Saudi peace plan. They're not happy that Israel wants changes, primarily with regard to the return of refugees. Saudi foreign affairs minister Saud Al-Faisal indicated that there was nothing to talk about. This is not a good way to do business, he declared. We have no desire to negotiate over this...Another of the regions vaunted moderates, Jordan's king Abdullah, commented last night that extremism would increase if Israel refused to come to the negotiating table. (Actually, I've observed that terrorism increases when we are too conciliatory in negotiations.)
And a spokesman for that third moderate, Mubarak of Egypt, said 'Israel cannot pick and choose from the initiative and then jump into establishing normal relations with Arabs.
Farouk al-Sharaa, vice president of Syria, which isn't even pretending moderation, made a fairly straightforward statement: We have the Arab peace plan and we are committed to it as a whole. Talk about amending it is baseless. What we want is returning all the occupied land including Jerusalem [eastern Jerusalem and the old city].(emphasis added) Including Jerusalem: No sharing of holy places. They want it in their hands exclusively.On the one hand, I am infuriated by their deviousness and lack of sincerity. They are talking about negotiations, but they have set non-negotiable terms before coming to the table.
What would we negotiate the speed with which we were to pull out? But their lack of genuine desire to negotiate peace is clear for all to see. And ultimately this intransigence is going to save us from ourselves just one more time. Even Olmert who would love to give them Judea and Samaria cannot accede to what they propose.
EU FM Calls For a Syrian Golan; Lieberman vs. Europe
by Ezra HaLevi (INN) MAR 15,07
EU Foreign Minister Javier Solana said Wednesday he believes the Golan rightfully belongs to Syria. Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said later in the day that Europe is selling Israel out for money.Solana, who handles foreign policy for the European Union, made the remark after he met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The EU would like to work as much as possible to see your country Syria recuperate the territory taken in 1967, Solana told him. Solana and his Syrian
counterpart later held a joint press conference.Solana visited Syria for the first time in two years. His visit was preceded by stops in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
Earlier Wednesday, speaking before a delegation of visiting Jewish American establishment leaders, Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman had said that Europe is selling out Israel for economic interests. He cited Europes objections to the placement of strong sanctions on Iran to deter the Islamic Republic from going nuclear.Lieberman said Europe was acting out of the same considerations that led it to allow the Holocaust to happen. There is no other explanation, he said.
Lieberman said last week that if the international community failed to stop Iran, Israel could and would take the necessary steps on its own. We can face [Iran] even if we are left to face them one-on-one, he said.
Secretary-General welcomes news of Palestinian unity government MAR 15,07
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
15 March 2007 – Welcoming reports that negotiations for a Palestinian national unity government have been completed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he hoped the new administration would respect existing agreements and reflect widely held principles on the conflict in the Middle East.
United Nations spokesperson Michele Montas told journalists at the daily briefing, in response to questions on the intra-Palestinian talks, that Mr. Ban is now looking forward to the formation of both the Government and its programme.She said he hoped that the Palestinian Government would respect all existing agreements and reflect principles outlined by the diplomatic Quartet, the international grouping that includes the UN as well as the European Union, Russian Federation and the United States.
Those principles include a commitment to the Road Map, the plan that envisages two States, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security. They also include the recognition of Israel and a rejection of violence.The negotiations follow an accord reached in Mecca last month by Palestinian groups to end the intra-Palestinian violence and to try to work together to form a unity government.
JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
SATAN COMES AGAINST ISRAEL
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
SATAN BOOTED OUT OF HEAVEN
ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.
REVELATION 12:3-4
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,(SATAN) having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,( 1/3 OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (MARY JESUS MOTHER) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(JESUS WAS JEWISH,THIS IS PERSECUSSION AGAINST ISRAEL).
REVELATION 20:2
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Well the GODLESS headed by SATAN and the DEMONIC FALLIN ANGELS are really trying to discredit JESUS AS GOD by decieving all these different people, the De Vinci Code, The Lost Tomb of Jesus and now This headline Moses, Jesus really prophets of Islam.
All this is complete nonsense, and true Christians, do not let it disturb you because Jesus warned us his name would be dug through the mud in the last days so the GODLESS DICTATOR could decieve the world into believing the lie, the ones that are perishing because they would not believe the truth.
Moses, Jesus really prophets of Islam
Chief Muslim claims Jewish Temples never existed, Al Aqsa built by angels
March 15, 2007 - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – The Jewish Temples never existed, the Western Wall really was a tying post for Muhammad's horse, the Al Aqsa Mosque was built by angels, and Abraham, Moses and Jesus were prophets for Islam. All this according to Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, chief Palestinian Justice and one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel. Tamimi is considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In a WND exclusive interview, Tamimi, who preaches regularly from the Al Aqsa Mosque, claimed Jews have no historical connection to Jerusalem or Israel and that the Jewish Temples never existed. Israel started since 1967 making archeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880's, said Tamimi.
About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at the Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount), Tamimi said.The Palestinian cleric denied the validity of dozens of digs verified by experts worldwide revealing Jewish artifacts from the First and Second Temples throughout Jerusalem, including on the Temple Mount itself; excavations revealing Jewish homes and a synagogue in a site in Jerusalem called the City of David; or even the recent discovery of a Second Temple Jewish city in the vicinity of Jerusalem. He said descriptions of the Jewish Temples in the Hebrew Tanach, in the Talmud and in Byzantine and Roman writings from the Temple periods were forged, and that the Torah was falsified to claim Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs were Jewish when indeed they were prophets for Islam. All this is not real. We don't believe in all your versions. Your Torah was falsified.
The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the Torah, which was falsified by the Jews.
He said Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus were prophets for the Israelites sent by Allah as to usher in Islam.Asked about the Western Wall, Tamimi said the structure was a tying post for Muhammad's horse and that it is part of the Al Aqsa Mosque, even though the Wall predates the mosque by over 1,000 years.
The Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's where Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to receive the revelations of Allah.The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed in about 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark what Muslims came to believe was the place at which Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven to receive revelations from Allah. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran.
Islamic tradition states Mohammed took a journey in a single night on a horse from a sacred mosque believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia to the farthest mosque and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with Jerusalem.
The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. Tamimi went on to claim to WND the Al Aqsa Mosque , which has sprung multiple leaks and has had to be repainted several times, was built by angels. Al Aqsa was build by the angels forty years after the building of Al-Haram in Mecca. This we have no doubt is true, he told WND.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Fri Mar 16 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 15,07
MAP 2.9 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 OAXACA, MEXICO
MAP 4.8 BURU, INDONESIA
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.6 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
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MAP 3.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.3 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.7 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 4.6 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.5 PUERTO RICO
MAR 14,07
MAP 5.2 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 5.5 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 3.1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tornado damages buildings in Ohio MAR 15,07
ELYRIA, Ohio - Flood warnings were issued across the state Thursday following a day of severe storms, which spawned a small tornado that ripped siding from an office supply store, flattened residential garages and forced some schools to cancel classes because of a power outage. No injuries were reported from the tornado, which briefly touched down Wednesday evening in northeast Ohio.
Elyria is about 25 miles west of Cleveland.The tornado was weak and on the ground only a few minutes, said Jim Kosarik, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland. Investigators will have to assess the damage to determine wind speed, said NWS meteorologist Mike Abair.Strong winds downed power lines and trees, and tossed a shopping cart through the window of an empty building, said Lt. Bob Krugman of the Elyria Fire Department.Classes were canceled at some schools because power was out and officials didn't know when it would be restored, school board member Kathryn Carpus said.On Thursday, authorities closed roads in areas from Auglaize County in western Ohio to Belmont County in eastern Ohio because of high water, sheriff's offices said.The rain changed to freezing rain and sleet in Union County, northwest of Columbus, possibly contributing to numerous accidents, some involving injuries, a sheriff's dispatcher said.
Flood fears deepen in Vermont capital Wed Mar 14, 7:22 PM ET
MONTPELIER, Vt. - The National Weather Service added to the jitters of residents of Vermont's capital city Wednesday, issuing a flood watch for an area including the ice-jammed Winooski River.
The watch is in effect through 11 a.m. Thursday and came after a night when mild weather accelerated snowmelt on the river, which flooded in 1992 and devastated downtown Montpelier.The river rose about 1.5 feet early Wednesday but later dropped, said City Manager William Fraser.
A construction crane lowering a steel I-beam onto the river ice continued breaking up portions Wednesday.It's fair to say that in this week's weather cycle, this is the highest-risk evening, Fraser said Wednesday. If we can get past this rain tonight, we'll be good.Merchants and homeowners continued preparing for the worst. Most downtown businesses have fortified storefronts with sandbags, plywood or both.We're doing all we can do, said Kathy Berry, co-owner of Pinky's on State, a sandwich shop. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. What are you going to do? We'll serve soggy sandwiches.
Flood concerns pepper spring forecast MAR 15,07
WASHINGTON - The government's spring weather outlook raises concerns for flooding in the Midwest and continued drought in the Southwest. The outlook for April through June includes potential flooding in the Ohio Valley and as far west as Colorado, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.The soil moisture is high, due to the melting of an above normal snowpack, which resulted from record snowfall in December and January, said David L. Johnson, director of NOAA's National Weather Service.According to the forecast, warmer than normal temperatures in recent weeks have increased the risk of flooding due to ice jams over portions of eastern South Dakota, eastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin and northern
Illinois.
In addition, high soil moisture over northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania and extreme southwestern New York state could lead to flooding if additional heavy precipitation occurs, the agency said. Snow and rainfall in December through February were above average in much of the center of the nation, while large sections of the East, Southeast and West were drier than average.
Much of southern California just experienced its driest fall and winter in more than a century, the report said.With the dry season fast approaching, there are major concerns that drought conditions will not only fail to improve but actually worsen in coming months, said Doug Lecomte, drought specialist for the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. The outlook for any significant drought improvement from now through spring looks grim for not only southern California but for much of the Southwest as well.Florida also is approaching its dry season and dry winter weather over the southern half of the peninsula has brought fire danger indices to abnormally high conditions.
The National Interagency Fire Center's Seasonal Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for February through June 2007 calls for the potential for significant wildfire activity to be higher than normal this spring over portions of the southern tier of states and northern Minnesota, said Tom Wordell, Wildland National Interagency Fire Center fire analyst.The outlook calls for drought to continue or worsen through June over much of the Southwest, potentially spreading into portions of Utah and western Colorado.Drought also is expected to persist across Florida, while improvement is predicted over the extreme northern Plains as well as portions of Texas and Oklahoma.
Berlin to stress EU social side in birthday text
14.03.2007 - 17:42 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday (14 March)
received some more specifics on the text of the EU's 50th anniversary declaration when talking to German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who revealed that Berlin wants to stress the EU's social dimension.
Less than two weeks to go before EU leaders will sign the birthday declaration at a meeting in Berlin on 25 March, MEPs like the rest of Europe have been left in the dark by the German EU presidency on what exactly the text will look like. Wednesday's debate with Mr Steinmeier took place with no draft text on the table, sparking some vocal criticism towards Berlin from the Greens and Liberals in the EU assembly.
To debate the declaration without having seen a draft is bizarre, said liberal leader Graham Watson.I'm sure the spin doctors in the Bundeskanzleramt [the office of chancellor Angela Merkel] are still at work... but don't feel surprised if many of us feel we're being bounced, he added. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, chief of the Greens, stated I am opposed to secret deliberations in smoke-filled rooms.
I don't believe in sherpas and networks, he added, referring to Berlin's covert working method which involves confidential talks with member states' so-called sherpas special appointees for the birthday declaration as well as the EU constitution issue. But Mr Steinmeier was spared criticism from the parliament's largest two groups the conservatives and the socialists which include the German CDU and SPD parties forming the government coalition in Berlin. The German minister said the Berlin declaration will contain four parts, more or less confirming earlier reports on the structure of the text.
The first part will be on the EU's achievements, like peace, stability, prosperity, including a strong reference to the the bloc's 2004 enlargement. Particular characteristics of EU integration such as the equality of all member states will also be mentioned in this part, according to Mr Steinmeier.The second part will cover EU values, such as human dignity, freedom, tolerance and mutual solidarity.
The third part termed the heart of the declaration by Mr Steinmeier will discuss current and future challenges. These are set to include climate change, a common EU foreign policy, common responses to illegal immigration and the fight against crime and terrorism.
The social dimension
The German politician highlighted that Berlin really wants to underscore the social dimension in this third part of the declaration. Europe stands for a social model based on economic competition but reconciling that competition with social and ecological responsibility, he stated. A strong social paragraph is important to France which in 2005 saw a failed referendum on the EU constitution partly due to fears that the EU would become too liberal. But too much social talk in the declaration is disliked by free market-oriented states like the UK and the Czech Republic. The final, fourth part of the text will mark a commitment to take necessary steps in the reform process of the EU before 2009, Mr Steinmeier said. This vague kind of reference to the need for institutional reform was already used
by EU leaders in conclusions last June, when dealing with the question of what to do with the disputed EU constitution. Contrary to what German diplomats had originally envisaged, the text will not mention deadlines for re-negotiating the EU constitution, which was rejected by France and the Netherlands, nor will it refer to words like constitution or constitutional.Meanwhile, Mr Steinmeier avoided the topic of future enlargement, which had emerged as a subject of controversy surrounding the declaration during an EU leaders' dinner last week, with France opposing explicit calls for further expansion of the bloc.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Damascus MAR 15,07
Damascus, 14 March - On the third leg of his Mideast-tour, that began in Beirut, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, coming from Riyadh, arrived in Syria yesterday. In talks with Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem and Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa and finally with President Bashar al-Assad, Solana outlined the European Union's demands on Syria: voicing out the persistent Israeli complaints of alleged weapons' smuggling to the Lebanese Hezbollah, Solana requested that Syria put an end to this activity.
He furthermore requested that Syria exert a maximum effort to disarm Hezbollah, insinuating that it was Syria's responsiblity to implement UN Security Council resolution 1701 which ended Israel's military offensive against Lebanon last September. In a press conference with Walid al-Mouallem, Solana declared that I told the President ... that we would like to see Syria making a maximum effort to help implement Security Council Resolution 1701. That is fundamental to reach peace, stability and independence of Lebanon. One of the chief concerns of Javier Solana was to win Syria's commitment to persuading the Lebanese opposition to drop any objections against the UN Security Council-appointed international tribunal to try the suspects in the murder of Rafiq Hariri. Syrian Foreign Minister commented this issue saying that Syria has no objections against this tribunal and pointed out that it was among the Lebanese themselves that differences have risen regarding the statutes of the international tribunal.
The statutes indeed, set up by the UN Security Council, are apt to severely curtail Lebanese sovereignty in the judicial sphere. Regarding the weapons smuggling issue, al-Mouallem denied any responsibility on the part of Syria and renewed Syria's commitment to implement the resolution 1701, saying I would like to stress that Syria will always stay part of the solution that seeks the security and stability of the region. For his part, Javier Solana declared at the news conference that the European Union was determined to do its best to help Syria recover the Golan Heights, still under Israeli occupation, saying that we would like to work as much as possible to see your country, Syria, recuperating the territories that were taken in the year 1967.
World powers agree on new Iran sanctions By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 15, 6:33 AM ET
UNITED NATIONS - A proposed new package of sanctions against Iran for enriching uranium appeared headed to the U.N. Security Council after ambassadors for six world powers resolved remaining differences.
The six-nation show of unity would be unlikely to meet strong opposition from the other 10 members on the council, which must approve the measures. A vote was expected in the days to come.We have an agreement in principle based on some additional changes that were introduced and presented today by some delegations, acting U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff said Wednesday.He said the new elements still needed to be approved by government officials in the five countries that hold permanent council seats — the U.S., Russia, China, France and Britain.
But he and other envoys expressed confidence the package would be presented to the council on Thursday with support from those governments and the sixth nation involved in the negotiations, Germany.Our hope is now that we've overcome a particular hurdle ... and the council will have the text before it by tomorrow morning, said Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones-Parry.Iran insists its enrichment program is peaceful and aimed solely at producing nuclear energy, but the U.S., European nations and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are concerned that Iran's goal is to produce nuclear weapons.
The modest package includes an embargo on Iranian arms exports and an asset freeze on more individuals and companies associated with Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, council diplomats said.The United States and the Europeans would certainly favor tougher sanctions, but knew they had to settle for less to ensure that Russia and China, which have close commercial ties with Iran, will not use their veto power to block a resolution.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said while there was agreement on the proposals by and large, some of the council members still want to consult with their governments on the details.I assume as they double-check, they will get a positive response from the capitals, and they expect that this is going to be the case, too, he said.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday warned the West that it would deepen the rift with his country by imposing more U.N. sanctions.
You are wrong if you think you can sit and draft ... something in order to isolate the Iranian nation, Ahmadinejad said in a speech to several thousand people in the Iranian city of Yazd.Not only are you unable to hurt Iran, but you would further isolate yourselves and make yourselves more hated, he added.In December, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose limited sanctions against Iran for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment. It ordered all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs and to freeze assets of 10 key Iranian companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.The council said it would consider further nonmilitary sanctions if Iran refused to suspend enrichment. Iran's response was to accelerate its enrichment program.
The new resolution also would call on all U.N. member states to exercise vigilance and restraint on arms imports and on the entry or transit through their territory of Iranians subject to the asset freeze, a council diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the text has not been circulated.It would call on governments to make no new commitments of grants, financial assistance, or concessional loans to the government of Iran, the diplomat said.
China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said he wasn't happy with the list of additional individuals and entities that would be subject to sanctions, but he added: I think one has to reach agreement, so there has to be a package.Earlier Wednesday, Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz met with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss Iran's nuclear program. Afterward, Livni urged the Security Council to strengthen its sanctions on Iran. She said Iran's government, which speaks publicly of wiping Israel off the map and denies the Holocaust, is a threat not only by Israel but to Iran's Arab Muslim neighbors. She said it is clear that their goal is to pursue a nuclear weapon. Time is of the essence because while we are talking, they are working ... to master the technology and to achieve this goal. So we have to stop it.Associated Press writers Sarah DiLorenzo and Lily Hindy contributed to this report.
Palestinians unify; Israel demurs
MAR 15,07 - By Adel Hana, AP
GAZA CITY (AP) — The rival Hamas and Fatah movements formed a long-elusive unity government Thursday, hoping to end bloody infighting and lead the Palestinians out of a year-long international isolation. Israel immediately said, however, that it would not deal with the new government.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of the Islamic militant Hamas announced the final coalition agreement and platform after months of stop-and-go negotiations. It is to be approved by the Palestinian parliament on Saturday.The coalition platform posted on Hamas and Fatah websites calls for continued observance of a truce with Israel but falls short of Israeli, U.S. and European requirements that the new government recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace deals.The new government's platform includes only a vague pledge to respect past peace deals; it does not explicitly recognize Israel.It also affirms the Palestinians' right to resist and defend themselves against any Israeli aggression.
While many in the West consider resistance to be a code word for violent attacks, Palestinians have a wide variety of definitions that can encompass anything from armed attacks to street protests.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said his government will boycott the coalition government and encourage other countries to do the same because its program falls short of the international conditions for acceptance that include recognition of the Jewish state.Unfortunately the new Palestinian government seems to have said no to the three benchmarks of the international community, Regev said. Accordingly, Israel will not deal with this new government and we hope the international community will stand firmly by its own principles and refuse to deal with a government that says no to peace and no to reconciliation.Western countries have said they will wait for the new government to take office before deciding whether to lift economic sanctions against the Palestinian government.Haniyeh said the Palestinians have received encouraging signals from Europe.No doubt, there is a different position by the American administration and the Israelis, he said, adding that the new government would do its best to bring about an end to the boycott and maintain relations with all the international community.Haniyeh said he hoped the new government will launch a new era for the Palestinians.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a senior aide to moderate President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, said the new coalition opens the way for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
This is the right moment to move toward the peace process, he told reporters. If it (the international community) is serious, if it is looking toward stability in the Middle East, this is the right moment to go ahead by implementing the U.S.-backed road map peace plan.Another Abbas aide, Nimr Hamad, said the new government
represents all Palestinians.When Israel says it doesn't want to deal with it, it means it does not want to deal with the Palestinians, he said.Haniyeh presented the Cabinet lineup Thursday — nine ministers from Hamas and six from Fatah — to Abbas, who accepted it. Haniyeh and Abbas agreed to the power-sharing deal last month in Saudi Arabia, but had spent the past few weeks ironing out the final details.
The final stage of the coalition talks dealt with one of the most difficult issues — who would fill the post of interior minister and assume control over the security forces. Most of the veteran members are loyal to Fatah, but Hamas last year formed its own 5,600-member militia.Officials identified the new minister as Hani Kawasmi, a senior Interior Ministry civil servant who has good relations with Hamas and Fatah, but does not belong to either party. Mustafa Barghouti, the incoming information minister, confirmed the appointment.Barghouti said other key appointments included Salam Fayyad, an internationally respected economist, as finance minister, and Ziad Abu Amr, an independent lawmaker, as foreign minister. Haniyeh will remain as prime minister, and Azzam al-Ahmed, head of Fatah's parliament bloc, will be deputy prime minister.Hamas trounced the more moderate Fatah in parliamentary elections last year, giving it control over most government functions. But the Hamas-led government was crippled by Western sanctions imposed over its refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.
Abbas, who was elected separately in 2005, has been pushing Hamas since last autumn to join Fatah in a more moderate coalition in hopes of lifting the Western boycott. The negotiations collapsed repeatedly, often sparking rounds of deadly factional fighting in Gaza.As negotiations continued, there was an exchange of fire between Hamas and Fatah forces in the northern Gaza Strip. Security officials said nine people, including five bystanders, were slightly wounded in the shootout. More than 130 people have died in the infighting since last May.On Thursday, a Fatah activist died of wounds he sustained the previous night in a shootout with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials said.The Associated Press.
Dearly Beloved in Christ Jesus, MAR 15,07 DR JACK VAN IMPE
Rexella and I are often amazed at the way God leads and guides us. What do I mean? A number of months ago, after much prayer, we decided to produce a new video on the subject of Heaven.
As final preparations were being made, a stunning and stupendous television event occurred a two-hour Barbara Walters special on Heaven. It was just what we needed to study and deliver a no punches pulled reply to the celebrities being interviewed who were mainly wrong about their opinions and guesses about Eternity.Famous personalities including Barbara Walters, Mitch Albom, Cardinal McCarrick, Rabbi Jackie Mason, Rev. Joel Osteen, The Dahli Lama and Ellen Johnson, the President of the American Atheists presented their viewpoints. Oprah Winfrey and Joe Louis appeared in other news releases.
Then, under the anointing and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we set the record straight concerning the 559 Biblical texts about Heaven. In the Barbara Walters special not one scriptural text was used even by the purported religious experts. What a reproach when John 17:17 states: Thy Word is Truth.
Well, by contrast, Rexella and I used hundreds of the 559 Biblical verses to answer the interviewed celebrities’ statements right and wrong, wise and foolish.You need this shocking one-hour and fifty minute study to make a trip around Heaven! Test yourself and see how many of the following questions you can answer in this in-depth enlightening study:
Where is Heaven past, present and future?
Is the new birth a reincarnation?
Do suicide bombers go directly to Paradise?
Why did Christ descend into Hades?
Will the third Heaven, of II Corinthians 12:2, be relocated upon earth?
Will we know our loved ones and friends in Heaven?
What age will every believer be?
Will our beloved pets be with us eternally?
Did Paul have an out of body experience?
Does each child of God have a guardian angel to transport him or her to Heaven both at death and at the Rapture?
What is life like in Heaven?
Will we eat, laugh and sing?
Will we eventually live in the Holy City?
How large will our new and everlasting mansion be?
Will the Holy City contain billions of mansions? How many?
Will the mansions be beautiful masterpieces prepared by Christ? (John 14:3).
In conclusion, let me tell you how we exit earth to reach Heaven. Job 26:7 states: God stretched out the north over the empty place. That empty place is the way out of our universe to reach heaven (II Corinthians 12:2)
The global astronomers describe this glorious opening located in the constellation of Orion as follows:One of the most inspiring and thrilling recent disclosures is that there is a great empty space in the North in the nebula of the constellation of Orion a heavenly cavern so gigantic the mind of man cannot comprehend it, and so brilliantly beautiful that words cannot adequately describe it. All astronomers agree that this huge opening in Orion is perhaps more than 16,740,000,000,000 (sixteen trillion, seven hundred forty billion) miles in diameter, which is incomprehensible to man. WOW!
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Yours in world evangelism,
Jack Van Impe President of Jack Van Impe Ministries
March 14, 2007 ARLENE KUSHNER
The Arabs are playing games, but there is nothing funny about it. They're attempting to put the squeeze on Israel as a step towards destroying her. And a prime facilitator of this squeeze is the moderate Saudi Arabia.The issue is the Saudi peace plan. They're not happy that Israel wants changes, primarily with regard to the return of refugees. Saudi foreign affairs minister Saud Al-Faisal indicated that there was nothing to talk about. This is not a good way to do business, he declared. We have no desire to negotiate over this...Another of the regions vaunted moderates, Jordan's king Abdullah, commented last night that extremism would increase if Israel refused to come to the negotiating table. (Actually, I've observed that terrorism increases when we are too conciliatory in negotiations.)
And a spokesman for that third moderate, Mubarak of Egypt, said 'Israel cannot pick and choose from the initiative and then jump into establishing normal relations with Arabs.
Farouk al-Sharaa, vice president of Syria, which isn't even pretending moderation, made a fairly straightforward statement: We have the Arab peace plan and we are committed to it as a whole. Talk about amending it is baseless. What we want is returning all the occupied land including Jerusalem [eastern Jerusalem and the old city].(emphasis added) Including Jerusalem: No sharing of holy places. They want it in their hands exclusively.On the one hand, I am infuriated by their deviousness and lack of sincerity. They are talking about negotiations, but they have set non-negotiable terms before coming to the table.
What would we negotiate the speed with which we were to pull out? But their lack of genuine desire to negotiate peace is clear for all to see. And ultimately this intransigence is going to save us from ourselves just one more time. Even Olmert who would love to give them Judea and Samaria cannot accede to what they propose.
EU FM Calls For a Syrian Golan; Lieberman vs. Europe
by Ezra HaLevi (INN) MAR 15,07
EU Foreign Minister Javier Solana said Wednesday he believes the Golan rightfully belongs to Syria. Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said later in the day that Europe is selling Israel out for money.Solana, who handles foreign policy for the European Union, made the remark after he met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The EU would like to work as much as possible to see your country Syria recuperate the territory taken in 1967, Solana told him. Solana and his Syrian
counterpart later held a joint press conference.Solana visited Syria for the first time in two years. His visit was preceded by stops in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
Earlier Wednesday, speaking before a delegation of visiting Jewish American establishment leaders, Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman had said that Europe is selling out Israel for economic interests. He cited Europes objections to the placement of strong sanctions on Iran to deter the Islamic Republic from going nuclear.Lieberman said Europe was acting out of the same considerations that led it to allow the Holocaust to happen. There is no other explanation, he said.
Lieberman said last week that if the international community failed to stop Iran, Israel could and would take the necessary steps on its own. We can face [Iran] even if we are left to face them one-on-one, he said.
Secretary-General welcomes news of Palestinian unity government MAR 15,07
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
15 March 2007 – Welcoming reports that negotiations for a Palestinian national unity government have been completed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he hoped the new administration would respect existing agreements and reflect widely held principles on the conflict in the Middle East.
United Nations spokesperson Michele Montas told journalists at the daily briefing, in response to questions on the intra-Palestinian talks, that Mr. Ban is now looking forward to the formation of both the Government and its programme.She said he hoped that the Palestinian Government would respect all existing agreements and reflect principles outlined by the diplomatic Quartet, the international grouping that includes the UN as well as the European Union, Russian Federation and the United States.
Those principles include a commitment to the Road Map, the plan that envisages two States, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security. They also include the recognition of Israel and a rejection of violence.The negotiations follow an accord reached in Mecca last month by Palestinian groups to end the intra-Palestinian violence and to try to work together to form a unity government.
JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.(JESUS)
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
SATAN COMES AGAINST ISRAEL
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
SATAN BOOTED OUT OF HEAVEN
ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.
REVELATION 12:3-4
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,(SATAN) having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,( 1/3 OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (MARY JESUS MOTHER) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(JESUS WAS JEWISH,THIS IS PERSECUSSION AGAINST ISRAEL).
REVELATION 20:2
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Well the GODLESS headed by SATAN and the DEMONIC FALLIN ANGELS are really trying to discredit JESUS AS GOD by decieving all these different people, the De Vinci Code, The Lost Tomb of Jesus and now This headline Moses, Jesus really prophets of Islam.
All this is complete nonsense, and true Christians, do not let it disturb you because Jesus warned us his name would be dug through the mud in the last days so the GODLESS DICTATOR could decieve the world into believing the lie, the ones that are perishing because they would not believe the truth.
Moses, Jesus really prophets of Islam
Chief Muslim claims Jewish Temples never existed, Al Aqsa built by angels
March 15, 2007 - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – The Jewish Temples never existed, the Western Wall really was a tying post for Muhammad's horse, the Al Aqsa Mosque was built by angels, and Abraham, Moses and Jesus were prophets for Islam. All this according to Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, chief Palestinian Justice and one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel. Tamimi is considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In a WND exclusive interview, Tamimi, who preaches regularly from the Al Aqsa Mosque, claimed Jews have no historical connection to Jerusalem or Israel and that the Jewish Temples never existed. Israel started since 1967 making archeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880's, said Tamimi.
About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at the Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount), Tamimi said.The Palestinian cleric denied the validity of dozens of digs verified by experts worldwide revealing Jewish artifacts from the First and Second Temples throughout Jerusalem, including on the Temple Mount itself; excavations revealing Jewish homes and a synagogue in a site in Jerusalem called the City of David; or even the recent discovery of a Second Temple Jewish city in the vicinity of Jerusalem. He said descriptions of the Jewish Temples in the Hebrew Tanach, in the Talmud and in Byzantine and Roman writings from the Temple periods were forged, and that the Torah was falsified to claim Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs were Jewish when indeed they were prophets for Islam. All this is not real. We don't believe in all your versions. Your Torah was falsified.
The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the Torah, which was falsified by the Jews.
He said Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus were prophets for the Israelites sent by Allah as to usher in Islam.Asked about the Western Wall, Tamimi said the structure was a tying post for Muhammad's horse and that it is part of the Al Aqsa Mosque, even though the Wall predates the mosque by over 1,000 years.
The Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's where Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to receive the revelations of Allah.The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed in about 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark what Muslims came to believe was the place at which Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven to receive revelations from Allah. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran.
Islamic tradition states Mohammed took a journey in a single night on a horse from a sacred mosque believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia to the farthest mosque and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with Jerusalem.
The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. Tamimi went on to claim to WND the Al Aqsa Mosque , which has sprung multiple leaks and has had to be repainted several times, was built by angels. Al Aqsa was build by the angels forty years after the building of Al-Haram in Mecca. This we have no doubt is true, he told WND.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
ARABS - ISRAEL DOESNOT WANT PEACE
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South. 3-2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem. 4-Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran. 5-US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off. 6-Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert. 7-GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel. 8-Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Thur Mar 15 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 14,07
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA
MAR 13,07
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 NORTHERN PERU
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.5 SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 14,07
Northeast
A cold front accompanied by rain and isolated thunderstorms will push southward through the Northeast tomorrow reaching central Virginia by evening. In parts of Upstate New York and northern New England the rain may change to wet snow before ending during the afternoon. An inch or two of slush is possible, especially in the higher terrain. The combination of rain, snowmelt and ice jams could lead to some river and stream flooding in northern Pennsylvania, New York and western New England. High temperatures will range from the 30s in western New York, the Adirondacks and far northern New England to the low 80s in southeastern Virginia. Readings in many locations may hold steady or retreat during the day.
South
Rain, showers and thunderstorms will dampen much of the South tomorrow, mainly from Louisiana eastward. The heaviest downpours are expected underneath an upper-air low in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Florida, the showers and storms should be primarily of the scattered afternoon pop-up variety. In the western reaches of the region, dry weather is forecast for the vast majority of Texas and Oklahoma. Temperatures, meanwhile, will continue to run well above March averages in most spots with highs in the 70s and 80s. Only the northern half of the Texas Panhandle and portions of northern Oklahoma will be limited to the 60s as gusty northerly winds push cooler air southward.
Midwest
Showers in the lower Midwest tomorrow should push gradually southward to south of the Ohio Valley by evening. Farther west, isolated showers may dot Kansas and Missouri throughout the day. To the north, a weak surface low followed by a reinforcing push of colder air is expected to deposit a few inches of snow on eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota. High temperatures are expected to range from the 20s in much of northern North Dakota and far northern Minnesota to the 60s from extreme southeastern Kansas eastward through Kentucky. Readings in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio will be noticeably lower than today's topping out in the 40s and 50s in the wake of cold front.
West
Except for an orphaned shower or snow flurry here and there in the Rocky Mountain states tomorrow, the West will be dry. Temperatures will be near to above end-of-winter means with more record highs possible at some locations in the Southwest. Maxima are forecast to range from the 30s at a few spots in the northern Rockies to the 90s in southeast California and southwest Arizona. Most of the Great Basin will reach the 50s and 60s.
2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 13,07
In the course of preparing tracks for the new light-rail system in Jerusalem, remains of an ancient Jewish community just north of the Holy Temple have been uncovered. Rescue digs, required by law before any major construction work in Jerusalem and environs, have found a major set of remains of a Jewish town from post-Second Temple times. A long strip of land, 400 dunams (100 acres) in size, has been uncovered in which can be seen roads, alleys, houses, public buildings, a mikveh (ritual bath), and more. The community was located east of the old Roman highway leading from Jerusalem to Shechem (Nablus) - roughly along the same route as today's Shechem Way, or Highway 60.
Evidence shows that the community - the largest from that period yet uncovered in the Jerusalem vicinity - was inhabited by a well-to-do and religiously observant populace. In addition to the mikveh, many stone utensils were found - popularly used because they could not become ritually defiled, according to Jewish Law. Many coins were also found, including a rare gold one (pictured above) depicting Trainus Caesar (98-117 CE). Trainus began his reign 30 years after the Second Temple was destroyed. Antiquities Authority dig manager Rachel Bar-Natan said that this was only the second coin of its type found in Israel, and the first one within the Green Line. Nearly 1,000 4th-to-6th graders have visited the site on school trips. The site was first discovered during infrastructure work for the light-rail system being built in Jerusalem by the Moriah Company. In a related item, the National Infrastructures Planning and Construction Committee of the Interior Ministry has made its choice from among five alternatives for the establishment of Jerusalem's fifth water supply line. The project, which will be one of Israel's largest over the coming decade, will involve the placing of an 8-foot wide pipe deep underground, running from south of Rehovot to the western-Jerusalem reservoir in Beit Zayit. The 2-billion shekels project is being planned to meet the water needs of Jerusalem, Ramallah and the Jerusalem Corridor for the years 2015-2065.
Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran
By Peter Finn - Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 13, 2007; Page A13
MOSCOW, March 12 -- Russian officials said Monday that nuclear fuel will not be delivered to Iran this month as planned and that the September completion of a Russian-built nuclear power plant will be postponed because of an escalating dispute between the two countries.Moscow and Tehran have been arguing for weeks over what Russia calls Iran's failure to make $25 million monthly payments on the $1 billion plant in the southern city of Bushehr. Iran insists that it has made all scheduled payments.It will be impossible to launch the reactor in September, and there can be no talk about supplying fuel this month, the state-owned Russian contractor Atomstroiexport said in a statement Monday.Underlying the financial dispute appears to be increasing Russian hostility to Iran's suspected desire to build nuclear weapons and its flouting of international demands that it stop the enrichment of uranium and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The delivery of nuclear fuel would be a major boost for the Iranians. We hope the Russians won't politicize the delivery, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Sunday, according to news agencies. This should be done within the next two weeks. We expect the Russians to fulfill their commitments.The U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran in December after it refused to stop uranium enrichment. Iran says it has no intention of producing highly enriched uranium necessary for making nuclear weapons. Construction of the Bushehr plant was not affected by the sanctions, but Russia has in the past slowed construction as a lever to pressure Iran.The Security Council is considering further penalties against Tehran.We do not need a nuclear Iran or an Iran with the potential to create them, a Russian official whose name was not disclosed told Russian news agencies Monday. We will not play any anti-U.S. games with it, should [Iran] decide against giving any answers to the IAEA's questions. Let them answer for themselves.
The unidentified source accused Iran of abusing its good relations with Moscow. The Iranians have done nothing to help us convince our colleagues of Tehran's consistency, the official said. This is detrimental to us, especially to our foreign policy and our image.Russia has been building the Bushehr nuclear plant under a contract signed in 1995, and the two countries have close economic ties. Russia has repeatedly defended Iran's right to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program and has resisted efforts by the United States and the European Union to level harsher sanctions against the country.
Iran reportedly wants to make payments in euros, not dollars, which Russia has refused to accept without renegotiating the contract. There are reports here that the contract has become unprofitable and Russia may want to extract additional financial and political concessions.Talks broke down last week when Russian officials became angered by public statements from the head of the Iranian delegation blaming Moscow for the standoff.Iran's central bank issued a new bank note Monday that includes a nuclear symbol, the Associated Press reported. The note shows electrons flying around a nucleus on a map of Iran.
US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and James Quinn
GMT 14/03/2007
A surge in arrears across the US mortgage industry and warnings of mass defaults have sent shivers through the US stock and junk bond markets, as Capitol Hill floated proposals for the biggest homeowner bail-out in US history.Chris Dodd called for direct aid
On Wall Street, the Dow tumbled 242.6 points to 12,076.0 - almost 2pc - in near panic trading as investors fled bank stocks led by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while shares of sub-prime lender Accredited Home Lenders crashed 64pc as creditors invoked repayment clauses.Ominously, the Mortgage Bankers Association revealed that 4.95pc all loans tracked were in arrears of 30 days or more, the highest since the depths of the 2002 recession. Deliquencies on sub-prime loans have reached 13.3pc, even though the economy has barely begun to slow.US Federal Reserve governor Susan Bies said the turmoil in the $1,200bn (£620bn) sub-prime sector would get worse as people struggled to pay costs on over-sized properties bought on assumptions of capital gain. This is not the end of the wave, this is the beginning, she said, accusing brokers of issuing loans without even asking for proof of income.Median US house prices have fallen 9.3pc since April, leading to endemic cancellations on new homes. The market is now deteriorating so fast that top Democrats on Capitol Hill discussed plans yesterday for emergency measures to prevent the foreclosure on some 2.2m homes at risk from sub-prime defaults. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the federal government would have to step in with direct aid. The impact of losing 2.2m homes, I suspect, will be in a lot of areas of our cities and towns that are already pretty hard hit, so we clearly want to look at that and legislate, he said.
advertisementHe proposed some from of forbearance or a new financial instrument to allow distressed households to work their way through the crisis.Meanwhile, chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Berney Frank said he wanted legislation to restrict risky mortgages.The grim mood in Washington comes after Lehman Brothers warned that defaults could $300bn over the next two years if the distress sales of property lead to contagion into the prime segment. There was a risk the sub-prime meltdown could be a catalyst to drag down the entire housing market.Some 20pc of US mortgages issued in the past two years have been sub-prime, but lax practices have also spread to the prime sector. Some 29pc of homes bought from mid-2005 to mid-2006 were purchased with no equity.Nouriel Roubini, of New York University, estimates that half of the entire mortgage issuance since early 2005 is garbage, warning of a seizure in housing. We have the beginning of a much broader credit crunch that could have severe macro-economic effects, Prof Roubini said. Home equity withdrawals reached 6pc of GDP at the height of the property boom, allowing overstretched consumers to meet their bills.
Federal regulators have now clamped down on lender New Century Financial, which seems headed for bankruptcy after its banks switched off support on Monday.The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing accounting errors that led to New Century's share suspension earlier this week. The Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry.In London, shares in HSBC, which has a big exposure to the sub-prime market, fell 8½ to 902½p.
Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert MAR 1407
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is not enthusiastic about using military means to stop Iran's controversial nuclear programme, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday. The central issue bothering Israel nowadays is Iran, Olmert's office quoted him as telling representatives of the American Jewish Council.I have said before, and I still believe, that we prefer a diplomatic solution to the issue, and we are not enthusiastic about a military solution, he said during the meeting in Jerusalem.Believed to be the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel has accused Iran of trying to make an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies.Israel considers Iran's nuclear programme to be an existential threat after its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.Olmert has in the past said Israel did not rule out taking military steps against Iran.
Also Wednesday, ultra-nationalist Minister for for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman accused European leaders of willing to sacrifice the Jewish state to preserve economic ties with Tehran.
There are elements in Europe that are ready to sacrifice Israel on the alter of their security, of their trade contracts with Iran, Lieberman said.We saw the same phenomenon before World War II. That is how they sacrificed Czechoslovakia. That is how they ignored the Jewish problem, he said, referring to when European powers allowed Nazi Germany to annex areas in central Europe on the eve of World War II.I can see no other explanation to the opposition of some elements in Europe to imposing severe sanctions against Iran, he told public radio.Six world powers -- the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -- were set on Wednesday to resume efforts to agree new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear defiance amid signs they are nearing agreement on a new resolution.The Security Council slapped a first round of sanctions on Iran in December.
GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel
by Hillel Fendel MAR 13,07 (INN)
An internal Shabak document says Israel's Arabs are a long-range strategic danger to Israel's character and very existence. Though many believe that Iran is currently Israel's greatest danger, the General Secret Service believes that the worst threat may actually come from within. An internal General Security Service document says that Israel's Arab population is a genuine long-range danger to the Jewish character and very existence of the State of Israel.A recent meeting in the Prime Minister's office presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with worrisome data in various spheres, including increasing Israeli-Arab solidarity and identification with terrorist elements, Hizbullah and the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority. The GSS has found that in the year 2006, 21 Israeli-Arab terror cells were uncovered, involving 24 Arab citizens. In 2005, the numbers were 17 terror cells involving 22 Arabs.
Arabs of Israel are generally recruited into terrorist gangs based on their family or business ties with Arabs of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), usually those of Samaria. The terrorists in Yesha find it easier to transport weapons using the services of Israeli-Arabs who are not bound by restrictions at checkpoints and the like. For instance, in November 2006, a smuggling cell of ten Israeli-Arabs was found to be active in smuggling weapons from pre-1967 Israel to Judea and Samaria. In the Negev, as well, Bedouin Arabs help out in smuggling weapons - to Gaza. Six such smuggling gangs were cracked open in 2006. Involvement of Hizbullah in Israeli-Arab terrorist initiatives has also been long noted. In July 2006, an Israeli-Arab was arrested who admitted to his interrogators that during the recent war with Hizbullah, he transmitted information to a Lebanese Hizbullah drug-dealer regarding IDF forces, military plans, and location of rocket hits. Some 40% of the Israeli-Arabs involved in terrorism originated in Yesha, but were permitted to come to pre-'67 Israel and receive Israeli residency after marrying Israeli-Arabs. They are then permitted to travel freely throughout the country.
Just this morning, six Israeli-Arabs from a Galilee village were indicted on charges of four brutal rapes over the past two years. The rapes were apparently another form of anti-Israel terrorism, as one victim told investigators that the rapists had told her that he was avenging" IDF operations in Gaza. This was echoed by one of the Arabs during police questioning.
Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace
by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 14,07
Arab nations have expressed outrage over Israeli contentions that their 2002 peace plan, known as the Saui Arabian plan, equires changes in order to work for both sides, and charge that Israel doesnt want peace.The 5-year-old Arab initiative was recently dragged out of mothballs for re-examination in light of the Palestinian Authority failures to make headway on creating peace on its own neither with Israel nor internally between its own terrorist factions. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said last week that there were elements of the plan that needed to be changed a comment that evoked the ire of Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Arabs Say Saudi Plan is Best Offer Take It or Leave It
Saudi Arabia has taken a take it or leave it stance on the 2002 Arab peace plan authored by Saudi King Abdullah. That view has been backed by other Arab leaders who will meet late this month at the Arab League summit in Riyadh. The 5-year-old peace plan is expected to be a main focus of the discussions. Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister Saud Al-Faisal said, in response to comments by Israeli officials that some of the language of the proposal was problematic,that there was nothing to talk about. We have no desire to negotiate over this, he said. They accept the resolution and then they talk about putting preconditions that should be accepted before negotiations or discussions or even the acceptance of the proposal. This is not a good way to do business.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak joined in the chorus. A spokesman for the Egyptian leader told reporters after a meeting with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa that Israel cannot pick and choose from the initiative and then jump into establishing normal relations with Arabs. Mubarak's spokesman rejected Israel's insistence that some of the plans elements were unacceptable. The Arab plan requires full withdrawal for full peace, he said. Foreign Minister Livni, responding to the attacks in New York, said that Israel had never accepted the plan in toto, and that it was always said to be a matter for negotiations. To the best of my understanding, she said, peace initiatives are not yes-or-no affairs or package deals... they must be negotiated.
Professor: Arab Peace Plans Have One Goal - to Destroy Israel
Historian and Middle East expert Prof. Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine today, We must understand that the goal of all Arab peace initiatives is the same - the liquidation of the State of Israel. There is no Arab initiative that is not Islamic in essence. As far as the Arabs are concerned, Israel is a reversal of Allah's promise that Islam can and must rule over the entire world, and this reversal must be corrected... The State of Israel is not led by wise leaders who understand this.Syria too has expressed support for Saudi Arabias stance that its 2002 Arab peace plan cannot be amended or changed in any way. We have the Arab peace plan and we are committed to it as a whole, said Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara. Talk about amending it is baseless. Al-Shara bluntly told reporters Tuesday, after his talks Mubarak, What we want is returning all the occupied land including Jerusalem.Jordans King Abdullah II also warned Tuesday evening that violence and Islamic extremism is likely to return to the region if Israel does not come to the negotiating table.
Israel-PA Talks Less Than Promising
Talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which were revived in December 2006, have been less than promising, as expected. Both the U.S. and Israel have remained firm that the Hamas-led PA government must meet the criteria of the four- member Quartet of nations, comprised of the U.S., Russia, the United Nations and European Union official recognition of the State of Israel, renunciation of terrorism and fulfillment of agreements signed by previous PA governments. Hamas has repeatedly refused to comply with those demands, which the international community has set as a precondition for serious negotiations. The most recent Olmert-Abbas meeting, held in Jerusalem this past Sunday, was tense according to sources on both sides of the negotiating table, a description applied to the previous talks refereed personally last month by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. That assessment came less than a day after sources in the Prime Ministers office reported that the talks were conducted in a good atmosphere.
Despite weeks of groundwork by Rice, who met for weeks with Arab leaders and Quartet representatives, there was little accomplished other than Israeli concessions to the Hamas-led PA government. These included relaxation of travel restrictions on PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria, removal of a number of security checkpoints, and the transfer of $100 million in tax monies, collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, to Abbass office. Moreover, Reuters reported Tuesday that Hamas terrorists revealed that a portion of those funds, allegedly earmarked for partial salaries for Abbas's forces and for humanitarian purposes, nonetheless reached the hands of Hamas security personnel.
At their meeting this week, Olmert demanded that Abbas provide an accounting of how the tax funds were spent; Abbas was unable to do so. He did promise to have it by the end of the week.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Thur Mar 15 12:00 AM EDT
MAR 14,07
MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 4.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 OREGON
MAP 5.1 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA
MAR 13,07
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 NORTHERN PERU
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 5.5 SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 3.4 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Damp Thursday Northeast, Deep South Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel MAR 14,07
Northeast
A cold front accompanied by rain and isolated thunderstorms will push southward through the Northeast tomorrow reaching central Virginia by evening. In parts of Upstate New York and northern New England the rain may change to wet snow before ending during the afternoon. An inch or two of slush is possible, especially in the higher terrain. The combination of rain, snowmelt and ice jams could lead to some river and stream flooding in northern Pennsylvania, New York and western New England. High temperatures will range from the 30s in western New York, the Adirondacks and far northern New England to the low 80s in southeastern Virginia. Readings in many locations may hold steady or retreat during the day.
South
Rain, showers and thunderstorms will dampen much of the South tomorrow, mainly from Louisiana eastward. The heaviest downpours are expected underneath an upper-air low in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Florida, the showers and storms should be primarily of the scattered afternoon pop-up variety. In the western reaches of the region, dry weather is forecast for the vast majority of Texas and Oklahoma. Temperatures, meanwhile, will continue to run well above March averages in most spots with highs in the 70s and 80s. Only the northern half of the Texas Panhandle and portions of northern Oklahoma will be limited to the 60s as gusty northerly winds push cooler air southward.
Midwest
Showers in the lower Midwest tomorrow should push gradually southward to south of the Ohio Valley by evening. Farther west, isolated showers may dot Kansas and Missouri throughout the day. To the north, a weak surface low followed by a reinforcing push of colder air is expected to deposit a few inches of snow on eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota. High temperatures are expected to range from the 20s in much of northern North Dakota and far northern Minnesota to the 60s from extreme southeastern Kansas eastward through Kentucky. Readings in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio will be noticeably lower than today's topping out in the 40s and 50s in the wake of cold front.
West
Except for an orphaned shower or snow flurry here and there in the Rocky Mountain states tomorrow, the West will be dry. Temperatures will be near to above end-of-winter means with more record highs possible at some locations in the Southwest. Maxima are forecast to range from the 30s at a few spots in the northern Rockies to the 90s in southeast California and southwest Arizona. Most of the Great Basin will reach the 50s and 60s.
2nd-Temple Jewish Town Uncovered in Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 13,07
In the course of preparing tracks for the new light-rail system in Jerusalem, remains of an ancient Jewish community just north of the Holy Temple have been uncovered. Rescue digs, required by law before any major construction work in Jerusalem and environs, have found a major set of remains of a Jewish town from post-Second Temple times. A long strip of land, 400 dunams (100 acres) in size, has been uncovered in which can be seen roads, alleys, houses, public buildings, a mikveh (ritual bath), and more. The community was located east of the old Roman highway leading from Jerusalem to Shechem (Nablus) - roughly along the same route as today's Shechem Way, or Highway 60.
Evidence shows that the community - the largest from that period yet uncovered in the Jerusalem vicinity - was inhabited by a well-to-do and religiously observant populace. In addition to the mikveh, many stone utensils were found - popularly used because they could not become ritually defiled, according to Jewish Law. Many coins were also found, including a rare gold one (pictured above) depicting Trainus Caesar (98-117 CE). Trainus began his reign 30 years after the Second Temple was destroyed. Antiquities Authority dig manager Rachel Bar-Natan said that this was only the second coin of its type found in Israel, and the first one within the Green Line. Nearly 1,000 4th-to-6th graders have visited the site on school trips. The site was first discovered during infrastructure work for the light-rail system being built in Jerusalem by the Moriah Company. In a related item, the National Infrastructures Planning and Construction Committee of the Interior Ministry has made its choice from among five alternatives for the establishment of Jerusalem's fifth water supply line. The project, which will be one of Israel's largest over the coming decade, will involve the placing of an 8-foot wide pipe deep underground, running from south of Rehovot to the western-Jerusalem reservoir in Beit Zayit. The 2-billion shekels project is being planned to meet the water needs of Jerusalem, Ramallah and the Jerusalem Corridor for the years 2015-2065.
Dispute Halts Delivery Of Atomic Fuel to Iran
By Peter Finn - Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 13, 2007; Page A13
MOSCOW, March 12 -- Russian officials said Monday that nuclear fuel will not be delivered to Iran this month as planned and that the September completion of a Russian-built nuclear power plant will be postponed because of an escalating dispute between the two countries.Moscow and Tehran have been arguing for weeks over what Russia calls Iran's failure to make $25 million monthly payments on the $1 billion plant in the southern city of Bushehr. Iran insists that it has made all scheduled payments.It will be impossible to launch the reactor in September, and there can be no talk about supplying fuel this month, the state-owned Russian contractor Atomstroiexport said in a statement Monday.Underlying the financial dispute appears to be increasing Russian hostility to Iran's suspected desire to build nuclear weapons and its flouting of international demands that it stop the enrichment of uranium and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The delivery of nuclear fuel would be a major boost for the Iranians. We hope the Russians won't politicize the delivery, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Sunday, according to news agencies. This should be done within the next two weeks. We expect the Russians to fulfill their commitments.The U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran in December after it refused to stop uranium enrichment. Iran says it has no intention of producing highly enriched uranium necessary for making nuclear weapons. Construction of the Bushehr plant was not affected by the sanctions, but Russia has in the past slowed construction as a lever to pressure Iran.The Security Council is considering further penalties against Tehran.We do not need a nuclear Iran or an Iran with the potential to create them, a Russian official whose name was not disclosed told Russian news agencies Monday. We will not play any anti-U.S. games with it, should [Iran] decide against giving any answers to the IAEA's questions. Let them answer for themselves.
The unidentified source accused Iran of abusing its good relations with Moscow. The Iranians have done nothing to help us convince our colleagues of Tehran's consistency, the official said. This is detrimental to us, especially to our foreign policy and our image.Russia has been building the Bushehr nuclear plant under a contract signed in 1995, and the two countries have close economic ties. Russia has repeatedly defended Iran's right to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program and has resisted efforts by the United States and the European Union to level harsher sanctions against the country.
Iran reportedly wants to make payments in euros, not dollars, which Russia has refused to accept without renegotiating the contract. There are reports here that the contract has become unprofitable and Russia may want to extract additional financial and political concessions.Talks broke down last week when Russian officials became angered by public statements from the head of the Iranian delegation blaming Moscow for the standoff.Iran's central bank issued a new bank note Monday that includes a nuclear symbol, the Associated Press reported. The note shows electrons flying around a nucleus on a map of Iran.
US mortgage mayhem prompts sell-off
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and James Quinn
GMT 14/03/2007
A surge in arrears across the US mortgage industry and warnings of mass defaults have sent shivers through the US stock and junk bond markets, as Capitol Hill floated proposals for the biggest homeowner bail-out in US history.Chris Dodd called for direct aid
On Wall Street, the Dow tumbled 242.6 points to 12,076.0 - almost 2pc - in near panic trading as investors fled bank stocks led by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while shares of sub-prime lender Accredited Home Lenders crashed 64pc as creditors invoked repayment clauses.Ominously, the Mortgage Bankers Association revealed that 4.95pc all loans tracked were in arrears of 30 days or more, the highest since the depths of the 2002 recession. Deliquencies on sub-prime loans have reached 13.3pc, even though the economy has barely begun to slow.US Federal Reserve governor Susan Bies said the turmoil in the $1,200bn (£620bn) sub-prime sector would get worse as people struggled to pay costs on over-sized properties bought on assumptions of capital gain. This is not the end of the wave, this is the beginning, she said, accusing brokers of issuing loans without even asking for proof of income.Median US house prices have fallen 9.3pc since April, leading to endemic cancellations on new homes. The market is now deteriorating so fast that top Democrats on Capitol Hill discussed plans yesterday for emergency measures to prevent the foreclosure on some 2.2m homes at risk from sub-prime defaults. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the federal government would have to step in with direct aid. The impact of losing 2.2m homes, I suspect, will be in a lot of areas of our cities and towns that are already pretty hard hit, so we clearly want to look at that and legislate, he said.
advertisementHe proposed some from of forbearance or a new financial instrument to allow distressed households to work their way through the crisis.Meanwhile, chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Berney Frank said he wanted legislation to restrict risky mortgages.The grim mood in Washington comes after Lehman Brothers warned that defaults could $300bn over the next two years if the distress sales of property lead to contagion into the prime segment. There was a risk the sub-prime meltdown could be a catalyst to drag down the entire housing market.Some 20pc of US mortgages issued in the past two years have been sub-prime, but lax practices have also spread to the prime sector. Some 29pc of homes bought from mid-2005 to mid-2006 were purchased with no equity.Nouriel Roubini, of New York University, estimates that half of the entire mortgage issuance since early 2005 is garbage, warning of a seizure in housing. We have the beginning of a much broader credit crunch that could have severe macro-economic effects, Prof Roubini said. Home equity withdrawals reached 6pc of GDP at the height of the property boom, allowing overstretched consumers to meet their bills.
Federal regulators have now clamped down on lender New Century Financial, which seems headed for bankruptcy after its banks switched off support on Monday.The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing accounting errors that led to New Century's share suspension earlier this week. The Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry.In London, shares in HSBC, which has a big exposure to the sub-prime market, fell 8½ to 902½p.
Israel not enthusiastic about strike on Iran: Olmert MAR 1407
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is not enthusiastic about using military means to stop Iran's controversial nuclear programme, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday. The central issue bothering Israel nowadays is Iran, Olmert's office quoted him as telling representatives of the American Jewish Council.I have said before, and I still believe, that we prefer a diplomatic solution to the issue, and we are not enthusiastic about a military solution, he said during the meeting in Jerusalem.Believed to be the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel has accused Iran of trying to make an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies.Israel considers Iran's nuclear programme to be an existential threat after its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.Olmert has in the past said Israel did not rule out taking military steps against Iran.
Also Wednesday, ultra-nationalist Minister for for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman accused European leaders of willing to sacrifice the Jewish state to preserve economic ties with Tehran.
There are elements in Europe that are ready to sacrifice Israel on the alter of their security, of their trade contracts with Iran, Lieberman said.We saw the same phenomenon before World War II. That is how they sacrificed Czechoslovakia. That is how they ignored the Jewish problem, he said, referring to when European powers allowed Nazi Germany to annex areas in central Europe on the eve of World War II.I can see no other explanation to the opposition of some elements in Europe to imposing severe sanctions against Iran, he told public radio.Six world powers -- the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -- were set on Wednesday to resume efforts to agree new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear defiance amid signs they are nearing agreement on a new resolution.The Security Council slapped a first round of sanctions on Iran in December.
GSS: Israeli-Arabs are Existential Danger to Israel
by Hillel Fendel MAR 13,07 (INN)
An internal Shabak document says Israel's Arabs are a long-range strategic danger to Israel's character and very existence. Though many believe that Iran is currently Israel's greatest danger, the General Secret Service believes that the worst threat may actually come from within. An internal General Security Service document says that Israel's Arab population is a genuine long-range danger to the Jewish character and very existence of the State of Israel.A recent meeting in the Prime Minister's office presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with worrisome data in various spheres, including increasing Israeli-Arab solidarity and identification with terrorist elements, Hizbullah and the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority. The GSS has found that in the year 2006, 21 Israeli-Arab terror cells were uncovered, involving 24 Arab citizens. In 2005, the numbers were 17 terror cells involving 22 Arabs.
Arabs of Israel are generally recruited into terrorist gangs based on their family or business ties with Arabs of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), usually those of Samaria. The terrorists in Yesha find it easier to transport weapons using the services of Israeli-Arabs who are not bound by restrictions at checkpoints and the like. For instance, in November 2006, a smuggling cell of ten Israeli-Arabs was found to be active in smuggling weapons from pre-1967 Israel to Judea and Samaria. In the Negev, as well, Bedouin Arabs help out in smuggling weapons - to Gaza. Six such smuggling gangs were cracked open in 2006. Involvement of Hizbullah in Israeli-Arab terrorist initiatives has also been long noted. In July 2006, an Israeli-Arab was arrested who admitted to his interrogators that during the recent war with Hizbullah, he transmitted information to a Lebanese Hizbullah drug-dealer regarding IDF forces, military plans, and location of rocket hits. Some 40% of the Israeli-Arabs involved in terrorism originated in Yesha, but were permitted to come to pre-'67 Israel and receive Israeli residency after marrying Israeli-Arabs. They are then permitted to travel freely throughout the country.
Just this morning, six Israeli-Arabs from a Galilee village were indicted on charges of four brutal rapes over the past two years. The rapes were apparently another form of anti-Israel terrorism, as one victim told investigators that the rapists had told her that he was avenging" IDF operations in Gaza. This was echoed by one of the Arabs during police questioning.
Arab Nations Charge Israel Doesn't Want Peace
by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 14,07
Arab nations have expressed outrage over Israeli contentions that their 2002 peace plan, known as the Saui Arabian plan, equires changes in order to work for both sides, and charge that Israel doesnt want peace.The 5-year-old Arab initiative was recently dragged out of mothballs for re-examination in light of the Palestinian Authority failures to make headway on creating peace on its own neither with Israel nor internally between its own terrorist factions. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said last week that there were elements of the plan that needed to be changed a comment that evoked the ire of Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Arabs Say Saudi Plan is Best Offer Take It or Leave It
Saudi Arabia has taken a take it or leave it stance on the 2002 Arab peace plan authored by Saudi King Abdullah. That view has been backed by other Arab leaders who will meet late this month at the Arab League summit in Riyadh. The 5-year-old peace plan is expected to be a main focus of the discussions. Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister Saud Al-Faisal said, in response to comments by Israeli officials that some of the language of the proposal was problematic,that there was nothing to talk about. We have no desire to negotiate over this, he said. They accept the resolution and then they talk about putting preconditions that should be accepted before negotiations or discussions or even the acceptance of the proposal. This is not a good way to do business.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak joined in the chorus. A spokesman for the Egyptian leader told reporters after a meeting with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa that Israel cannot pick and choose from the initiative and then jump into establishing normal relations with Arabs. Mubarak's spokesman rejected Israel's insistence that some of the plans elements were unacceptable. The Arab plan requires full withdrawal for full peace, he said. Foreign Minister Livni, responding to the attacks in New York, said that Israel had never accepted the plan in toto, and that it was always said to be a matter for negotiations. To the best of my understanding, she said, peace initiatives are not yes-or-no affairs or package deals... they must be negotiated.
Professor: Arab Peace Plans Have One Goal - to Destroy Israel
Historian and Middle East expert Prof. Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine today, We must understand that the goal of all Arab peace initiatives is the same - the liquidation of the State of Israel. There is no Arab initiative that is not Islamic in essence. As far as the Arabs are concerned, Israel is a reversal of Allah's promise that Islam can and must rule over the entire world, and this reversal must be corrected... The State of Israel is not led by wise leaders who understand this.Syria too has expressed support for Saudi Arabias stance that its 2002 Arab peace plan cannot be amended or changed in any way. We have the Arab peace plan and we are committed to it as a whole, said Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara. Talk about amending it is baseless. Al-Shara bluntly told reporters Tuesday, after his talks Mubarak, What we want is returning all the occupied land including Jerusalem.Jordans King Abdullah II also warned Tuesday evening that violence and Islamic extremism is likely to return to the region if Israel does not come to the negotiating table.
Israel-PA Talks Less Than Promising
Talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which were revived in December 2006, have been less than promising, as expected. Both the U.S. and Israel have remained firm that the Hamas-led PA government must meet the criteria of the four- member Quartet of nations, comprised of the U.S., Russia, the United Nations and European Union official recognition of the State of Israel, renunciation of terrorism and fulfillment of agreements signed by previous PA governments. Hamas has repeatedly refused to comply with those demands, which the international community has set as a precondition for serious negotiations. The most recent Olmert-Abbas meeting, held in Jerusalem this past Sunday, was tense according to sources on both sides of the negotiating table, a description applied to the previous talks refereed personally last month by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. That assessment came less than a day after sources in the Prime Ministers office reported that the talks were conducted in a good atmosphere.
Despite weeks of groundwork by Rice, who met for weeks with Arab leaders and Quartet representatives, there was little accomplished other than Israeli concessions to the Hamas-led PA government. These included relaxation of travel restrictions on PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria, removal of a number of security checkpoints, and the transfer of $100 million in tax monies, collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, to Abbass office. Moreover, Reuters reported Tuesday that Hamas terrorists revealed that a portion of those funds, allegedly earmarked for partial salaries for Abbas's forces and for humanitarian purposes, nonetheless reached the hands of Hamas security personnel.
At their meeting this week, Olmert demanded that Abbas provide an accounting of how the tax funds were spent; Abbas was unable to do so. He did promise to have it by the end of the week.
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