EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Multi-million EU push to police the West Bank by Jennie Matthew Mon Nov 12, 3:16 AM ET
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Behind the wheel of his four-by-four in Bethlehem, retired Scotland Yard counter-terrorism expert Colin Smith twiddles his thumbs as he and five European advisers sit and wait. The Palestinian police forgot they were coming. Smith's mission is to advise, train and equip local police so they can impose order on West Bank chaos, laying the groundwork for a Palestinian state that Israel says is conditional on security.This is a good example of why the Palestinian police need our advice, jokes Jose Vericat, press officer for the multi-million-dollar mission codenamed EUPOL COPPS.They need equipment and resources. We're trying to work from bottom up and from top down. But we want to actually do something, not just create plans, says Smith, optimistic that in 18 months there will be a marked improvement.
The 19,000 Palestinian Authority policemen are motivated, skilled and capable. But they are also frustrated, disappointed and sometimes confused, he says.Fifty million euros (73 million dollars) would be a good start for training courses, vehicles and computers, Smith adds.But to create detention centres, prisons and infrastructure such as forensic labs would skyrocket the cost to 650 million euros. European countries have committed just 10 million euros so far.Iraq, where he was Britain's chief adviser on rebuilding the police after the 2003 US-led invasion, was a disaster. But Smith believes the Palestinians have a real chance if there is political stability.An audit in July revealed a staggering lack of equipment. Less than half of 70 West Bank police stations have patrol cars. There were only 40 pairs of handcuffs and 130 computers -- 110 of them more than two years out of date.There is no IT system. Stations need to be rebuilt. There are not enough holding cells. The police headquarters in Jenin, a governorate of 269,300 residents, has one incoming phone and fax line.
The second Palestinian uprising, after the last US-sponsored Middle East peace talks broke down in 2000, had a devastating effect. Israeli raids destroyed police stations and investment and resources dwindled.The 2006 landslide election win by the radical Islamist movement Hamas, which the West considers a terrorist organisation, put EU reform projects on ice.Only since President Mahmud Abbas broke with Hamas and set up a government headed by former World Bank employee Salam Fayyad in the West Bank in June has the EU mission got off the ground.The 7,000 police in the territory are now subject to a multi-million euro programme manned by 25 international police officers and a local staff of five geared towards radically improving law and order.In the Gaza Strip, however, 12,000 officers are paid to sit at home, their police stations and equipment impounded by the Hamas regime.
We're here now to embed with the Palestinian police. This is to develop a Palestinian police force, not Scotland Yard, says Smith, who spent 15 years in Northern Ireland in police intelligence and counter-terrorism.His energetic chief of staff, Tony Shaw, also ex-Scotland Yard, has enjoyed a second career using his expertise on overseas missions in troublespots such as Sudan and the Balkans.
In Darfur I lived in a tent for 12 months so it's a distinct improvement on my last mission, Shaw says. We came to an agreement in Darfur with my colleagues that it was better than pushing a trolley round Tesco's (the British supermarket chain).Brigadier General Dahoud Abu Ghaith commands 550 policemen in Bethlehem and oversees four operational police stations on a monthly budget of 12,000 shekels (3,060 dollars) -- barely enough to make ends meet.
Bethlehem is a relatively quiet Palestinian town but is the Biblical birthplace of Christ, lending it an international exposure out of proportion to its size. Israel's controversial separation barrier has sealed it off from the Jewish state. Crime in Bethlehem is mainly clan fighting, theft and drugs trafficking from Israel. Unemployment and isolation breed both crime and discontent. Abu Ghaith looks pensive as he listens to Smith say that two Czech and Finnish officers will be sent to Bethlehem as part of plans to create a good department that would stand up anywhere in the world.The most important things we need are cars and computers. What we have is not up to date and I bought my own laptop from my own salary, says Abu Ghaith. He blames Israel for the shortcomings, a point underlined by the roar of F-16 warplanes overhead as he and Smith sip their Arabic coffee. Israeli raids cause problems for our work day and night. How can we provide security if we don't control all the land? asks Abu Ghaith. Israel fears the police have been infiltrated by militants who must be expunged if the Palestinian Authority is serious about imposing security in exchange for Israel withdrawing from West Bank towns.
Smith recognises there is some militia and elements opposed to order, but hopes most will be weeded out in time. Arming the police, a sensitive subject in Israel, is not part of the EU mandate. Criminals play cat and mouse with police all over the West Bank, smuggling goods and slipping deftly between Israel and areas of Palestinian and mixed autonomy. EUPOL COPPS have their own issues with Israel. They want official accreditation rather than being signed up through their respective consulates. They also need properly armoured vehicles. Technical discussions continue on the EUPOL COPPS mandate, but for now Smith is looking to next month's Palestinian donor conference in Paris as a source of the funding he so desperately needs.
SPAIN #11 IN THE EU
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Spanish king tells Chávez to shut up
Financial Times Nov. 12, 2007
King Juan Carlos of Spain lost his royal cool at the weekend when he snapped at Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's outspoken president, telling him to shut up.Mr Chávez, whose long and incendiary speeches are notorious, repeatedly called José María Aznar, the former Spanish prime minister, a fascist during the 17th Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile.Fascists are not human. A snake is more human, said the Venezuelan president, who describes himself as a Bolivárian socialist.José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain's prime minister, hit back, saying: Ex-president Aznar was elected by the Spanish people and I demand respect. You can disagree radically with the ideas of others, denounce their ideas and their behaviour without being disrespectful. His reply won applause.However, Mr Chávez's repeated attempts to interrupt Mr Zapatero's calm admonition provoked a hot-headed outburst from the Spanish king.
Why don't you just shut up? he said, angrily jabbing his finger at Mr Chávez. He later stormed out of the summit meeting during a speech by Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, who supported Mr Chávez's comments, as did the vice-president of Cuba, Carlos Lage.
With the truth, I do not offend, I do not fear, Mr Chávez responded to Mr Zapatero. The Venezuelan government reserves the right to respond to any aggression, anywhere, in any space and in any manner, he added, later observing that he too was democratically elected and deserved respect.It is not the first time that Mr Chávez's inflammatory remarks have stirred anger. He last year described George W. Bush, US president, as the devil at the United Nations general assembly.El País, the Spanish newspaper, wrote that Mr Chávez's tirade had surpassed all tolerable limits in a relationship between two countries. But Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Spain's foreign minister, said the incident would have no effect on bilateral relations.The acrimonious clash overshadowed the summit, which was attended by the heads of state and government of Spain, Portugal, Andorra and the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America.
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.
Russian oil tanker breaks up off Crimea By Dmitry Solovyov
Sun Nov 11, 10:35 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A severe storm broke a small Russian oil tanker in two off the Ukrainian port of Kerch on Sunday, spilling up to 2,000 tonnes of fuel oil in what a Russian official said was an environmental disaster.The same storm in the Black Sea and Azov Sea also sank four freighters, three carrying sulphur and one with a cargo of scrap metal. The heavy seas also cracked the hull of another oil tanker, but the ship was afloat and not leaking.The sunken tanker, Volganeft-139, had traveled from the Russian port of Azov and was anchored outside Kerch in Ukraine's eastern Crimea to ride out the weather, when high waves broke its back at around 8:45 p.m. EST on Sunday, media reported.The 1978-built tanker, designed primarily for inland and coastal service, was carrying 4,000 tonnes of fuel oil in total when it was hit by the storm, which has knocked out electricity supplies to much of Crimea.
This problem may take a few years to solve. Fuel oil is a heavy substance and it is now sinking to the seabed, Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of Russia's environment agency Rosprirodnadzor told state-run Vesti-24 television channel.This is a very serious environmental disaster.Environment agency Rosprirodnadzor said some 2,000 tonnes of fuel oil had spilt, but Emergencies Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov told Reuters not more than 1,200 tonnes had leaked.The tanker's 13 crew members drifted for hours in waves up to 6 meters high aboard the ship's stern before beaching safely a few miles from the bow section, the emergencies ministry said. The crew were safe, it added.The likely effects of the spill were not immediately clear. A spill over 700 tonnes is considered large, but the biggest ones run into the tens or even hundreds of thousands.The polluted area is at the heart of the migration route from central Siberia into the Black Sea of red-throated and black-throated Siberian divers.The peak of the migration season is right now, Kees Camphuysen, a marine ornithologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, told Reuters by telephone.
The quantity (of oil spilt) doesn't matter. One tonne in the wrong place will do a lot of damage while a 100,000 tonnes will do no damage in the centre of the ocean, he said.The area is also home to porpoises.
STORM TOLL
Almost at the same time as the Volganeft-139 broke up, a freighter carrying 2,000 tonnes of sulphur sank off the port of Kavkaz in the Kerch Strait. Its crew of nine was rescued.We hope that in the water sulphur will not form any substances dangerous to humans, Mitvol said.Several hours later, another freighter carrying sulphur sank off Kavkaz, Interfax news agency quoted the port administration as saying, adding three of its crew had been rescued by a Ukrainian ship. The fate of the other eight sailors was unclear.The same storm, which is expected to rage for up to 3 days, also sank a freighter with scrap metal off Sevastopol in southern Crimea. Two of its crew were rescued, but the fate of the other 15 was unknown, Ukraine's emergencies ministry said. The hull of the oil tanker, Volganeft-123, cracked after being hit by high waves, but Maxim Stepanenko, Novorossiisk transport prosecutor, told Russian television this tanker was afloat and its oil products were not leaking. (Additional reporting by Peter Graff in London and Natalya Zinets in Kiev; Editing by Matthew Jones)
1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED
REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Feds launch criminal probe into San Francisco oil spillStory Searchers to look for sickened birds Monday, after some 200 birds found dead NOV 12,07
More than 12,000 of 58,000 gallons spilled has been recovered so far - NTSB is reviewing the ship's voyage data recorder. Some lawmakers criticize the Coast Guard's initial handling of spill
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into a cargo ship collision and oil spill, the Coast Guard said, which killed hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay.The oil spilled from a South Korea-bound container ship in dense fog Wednesday.The container ship MV Cosco Busan hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Wednesday and is being held in Oakland for repairs, said Adm. Thad Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard on Sunday night.Twenty wildlife teams are expected to search the bay Monday for birds sickened by the an estimated 58,000 gallons of heavy-duty bunker oil that oozed into the water after the collision, said a Department of Fish and Games official.
The Cosco Busan was departing Oakland for South Korea in dense fog when it hit a tower supporting the western suspension span of the Bay Bridge, the Coast Guard said. After the accident, the ship moored near Treasure Island, which the bridge crosses. The spilled oil formed globules along the San Francisco city waterfront and out of San Francisco Bay, beneath the Golden Gate Bridge toward Marin County.Seven miles of containment equipment stretched across the bay has collected 12,271 gallons of oil so far, while another 4,000 gallons has evaporated, officials said.The 902-foot container ship has a 212-foot-long, 12-foot-wide gash in its side that allowed the oil to leak from partially filled fuel tanks, according to National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Debbie Hersman.The NTSB is reviewing the ship's voyage data recorder, which should have recorded captain and crew conversations on the bridge and other information in the 12 hours leading up to the bridge collision, Hersman said.Nearly 200 dead birds have been recovered from the bay, while another 465 birds have been rescued alive but oiled, according to Lisa Curtis, administrator of Department of Fish and Games office of spill prevention and response. he crew was new to the ship, which was built six years ago in South Korea but purchased just last month by the current owner, Hersman said. They were on their first voyage in the vessel, she said.The U.S. attorney in San Francisco opened a criminal investigation over the weekend to see if federal maritime laws may have been violated by the captain and crew, Allen said.The captain and crew have not been detained and there have been no limits placed on them, Allen said.The vessel is detained in port under a captain of the port order because it is unsafe to sail, Allen said. There are no restrictions placed on the crew.
Several beaches and shorelines were closed to the public and fishing was banned in certain locations on Port of San Francisco property.This an incident which, in my view, should not have happened, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said Sunday after being briefed by Coast Guard officials.Rear Adm. Craig E. Bone, the Coast Guard's director of inspection and compliance, echoed Feinstein's comments.There's systems, there's capabilities, there's licensed operators, there's a pilot on board the vessel, there's the capacity and the capability to safely navigate through this port and waterways every day, he said.He added, But we have to move beyond the incident and the fact that it occurred and move forward into the response.On Friday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency, freeing money to clean up the spill.
Some lawmakers -- including the state's other U.S. senator, Democrat Barbara Boxer, and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe -- initially criticized the Coast Guard's handling of the collision and resulting spill.I am deeply concerned about the recent news reports that the Coast Guard had underestimated the severity of the spill and after learning of the spill's true size failed to report that information for more than four hours, Snowe said in a statement Saturday. Snowe is the ranking member of the Senate's Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and the Coast Guard.
I am very troubled by the Coast Guard's delay in delivering accurate information to the public and to the city of San Francisco, Boxer wrote Thursday in a letter to Allen.The Coast Guard initially reported that the ship's owner had said only 140 gallons had spilled from the Cosco Busan, Boxer said.Feinstein touched on the criticism Sunday. There's room for improvement, obviously, in how the accident and spill were handled, she said. But she acknowledged that fog had hindered initial aerial reviews of the accident site.On Saturday, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it was sending a team to San Francisco to investigate the accident.If there are people responsible or accountable for the causal factors of this, they'll be held accountable, Bone said.The California Department of Transportation said the collision did no structural damage to the bridge and there was no interruption of bridge traffic -- more than 250,000 vehicles daily.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
NEHEMIAHS WALL DISCOVERED
NEHEMIAHS WALL DISCOVERD MAJOR PROPHECY HAPPENING
JOHN 17:17
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
2 PETER 1:19
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;(THE BIBLE) whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
MUCH ABOUT HISTORY
Archaeologist uncovers Scriptures famed wall
Emergency dig finds tower built by Bible's Nehemiah
November 11, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Present-day wall of Jerusalem
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may want to see Israel wiped off the map and its Jews sent to Europe or Alaska, but an archaeological discovery announced this week marks an event recorded in the Bible when his country – Persia, at the time – literally helped put the Jewish people back on the map in their capital city of Jerusalem. Dr. Eilat Mazar, one of Israel's top archaeologists, ended her presentation Wednesday to the 13th Annual Conference of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies on New Studies on Jerusalem, with a surprise announcement. She had discovered remnants of the fifth century B.C. wall built by Nehemiah, the account recorded in the Old Testament book of the same name. According to the biblical account, Nehemiah served as cupbearer for the Persian King Artaxerxes in the city of Susa. The Persians had conquered the Babylonian empire that had destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and taken most of the inhabitants of Judah into captivity in what is now modern Iraq.
The account reads:
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire? Then the king said to me, What are you requesting? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the city began with its walls, a project that was resisted by hostile neighbors who had occupied the area around Jerusalem in the Jews' absence. But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. With tools in one hand and weapons in the other, Nehemiah's workmen toiled dawn to dusk, completing the wall in a record 52 days.
Archaeological evidence for Nehemiah's project has been lacking. Jerusalem has been rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt in the almost 2,500 years since. Mazar, who is perhaps best known for her recent excavation that many believe has revealed the palace of King David, was working on an emergency project to shore up remains of a tower long believed to date from the Hasmonean period, 142-37 B.C., that was in danger of collapsing. According to an account of the conference in The Trumpet, Mazar said, Under the tower, we found the bones of two large dogs – and under those bones a rich assemblage of pottery and finds from the Persian period. No later finds from that period were found under the tower.Had the tower been built during the Hasmonean dynasty, the Persian-era artifacts would represent an unexplained chronological gap of several hundred years. The tower, said Mazar, had to have been built much earlier than previously thought and the pottery data placed it at the time the Bible says Nehemiah was building it. Todd Bolen, of BiblePlaces.com, noted that excavations in the Philistine city of Ashkelon during the same Persian era, found 800 dog burials like those uncovered by Mazar. Nehemiah described 10 gates in the wall around Jerusalem as well as several towers designed to protect the entrances to the city, among them the Tower of the Hundred, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Ovens, and an unnamed tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard in the vicinity of Mazar's most recent dig. WND reported Mazar's confirmation that what appeared to be chopped-up carved stone, unearthed by recent trenching on the Temple Mount by the holy site's Islamic custodians, were indeed antiquities with attributes of the Second Temple-era during the ministry of Jesus.
Mazar has urged Christians to help save the holy site.
The Christian world and all those who care about safeguarding the Temple Mount must immediately join us in our efforts to protect the holy site and demand that the Israeli government stop the Waqf construction, she said. The Temple Mount is important to people of all religions. Now is the time to act before more antiquities are erased.
SKEPTIC ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY WE WILL BELIEVE THE BIBLE IF 2 THINGS HAPPEN. IF WE FIND NOAHS ARK, THEY DID GENESIS CHAPTER 7. THE CIA HAS FOUND NOAHS ARK WITH INFRERED CAMERAS, BUT WON'T TELL ABOUT IT. AND THE SECOND THING TO HAPPEN IS IF THEY WOULD FIND NEHEMIAHS WALL. THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL 9:24'S FULFILLMENT
HERE ARE THE SCRIPTURES FOR THIS STORY.
NOTICE DANIELS TIMELINE OF HISTORY IS INVOLVED HERE.
DANIEL 9:24-27
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
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.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
DANIEL 9:24 (GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM)
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
THE SEVENTY WEEKS OR SHABBOS ARE 70 WEEKS TIMES 7 YEARS. 70X7=490 YEARS. SO GOD WILL DEAL WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOR 490 YEARS THEN THE MESSIAH WILL RULE FROM ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOREVER AFTER THAT.
DANIEL 9:25 (NEHEMIAHS WALL START OF DANIELS PROPHECY)
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
HERES WERE NEHEMIAHS WALL COMES IN. THIS WALL WAS BUILT IN 52 DAYS AND JERUSALEM WAS REBUILT IN 49 YEARS. 7 WEEKS OR SHABBOS IS 7X7=49 YEARS. THEN WE ADD ON ANOTHER 62 WEEKS OR SHABBOS TILL THE MESSIAH GETS CUT OFF. 7X7=49 years and 62X7=434 years. 434+49=483 YEARS.
DANIEL 9:26 (MESSIAH JESUS CUT OFF)
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.
AFTER THE CALL TO REBUILD JERUSALEM 7x7=49 YEARS + 62X7=434 YEARS WHEN JESUS WAS CUT OFF.
OK SO AFTER 69 WEEKS OR SHABBOS 69X7=483 YEARS WAS JESUS CUT OFF. DID THIS HAPPEN TO THE EXACT DAY..YES IT DID. FROM THE CALL TO REBUILD JERUSALEM AND THE WALL AROUND IT WAS MARCH 14,445 B.C. ADD TO THAT 483 YEARS X 360 DAYS IN THE JEWISH CALENDAR IN THE BIBLE AND THAT COMES OUT TO BE 173,880 DAYS. SO FROM MARCH 14, 445 B.C TO THE EXACT DAY JESUS ENTERED JERUSALEM (APRIL 6, 32 A.D)WAS 173,880 DAYS THE EXACT AMOUNT THAT DANIEL WAS LEAD BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD TO PREDICT.
SO IF THIS PROPHECY CAME TO PASS LITERALLY AND EXACTLY AS DANIEL WROTE IT DOWN, WE KNOW FOR SURE THE LAST 7 YEAR PERIOD WILL COME TO PASS AS WELL IN THE FUTURE.
SO THE 483 OF THE 490 YEARS ARE FULFILLED AND DANIEL 9:26 SAYS OF THIS FINAL 7 YEAR PERIOD. THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY. WELL ANOTHER OF THIS PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED: IN A.D 70 THE ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY. THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY IN DANIEL 9:27
DANIEL 9:27 (THE FINAL 7 YEAR PERIOD TO RING IN MESSIAH)
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
AND WHO IS HE IN 9:27, HE IS THE FUTURE ROMAN (EU) LEADER TO MAKE THE FINAL 7 YEAR TREATY (COVENANT) WITH MANY AND ISRAEL FOR THE FINAL WEEK OR 1X7 SHABBOS = 7 YEARS. THIS WILL END DANIELS 70 WEEKS OR 490 YEARS THAT GOD HAS DEALT WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM, TO USHER IN THE RULE OF THE MESSIAH TO RULE FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM (NO END)FOREVER MEANS FOREVER.
WE ALSO SEE THAT THE 3RD TEMPLE HAS TO BE REBUILT IN JERUSALEM BEFORE THIS LAST 7 YEAR COVENANT IS MADE, WHY? BECAUSE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YEAR COVENANT THE SACRIFICES ARE CUT OFF. FOR THE FIRST THREE AND ONE HALF YEARS THIS ROMAN (EU) LEADER HAS LET ISRAEL SACRIFICE ANIMALS LIKE IN BIBLE TIMES. HE THEN CUTS IT OFF AND HE HIMSELF SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE PROCLAIMING HIMSELF GOD.
NOW HERE IS THE STORY OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT PROPHECY THAT HAD TO START THE 490 YEAR COUNTDOWN TO THE MESSIAHS RULE.
Nehemiah 2:1-20 King James Bible
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.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3:1-32 King James Bible
1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.
6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.
18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall.
20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner.
25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.
29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Nehemiah 4:1-23 King James Bible
1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Nehemiah 5:1-19 King James Bible
1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 6:1-19 King James Bible
1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
Nehemiah 12:1-47 King James Bible
1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:
18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;
29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
35 And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:
36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
JOHN 17:17
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
2 PETER 1:19
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;(THE BIBLE) whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
MUCH ABOUT HISTORY
Archaeologist uncovers Scriptures famed wall
Emergency dig finds tower built by Bible's Nehemiah
November 11, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Present-day wall of Jerusalem
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may want to see Israel wiped off the map and its Jews sent to Europe or Alaska, but an archaeological discovery announced this week marks an event recorded in the Bible when his country – Persia, at the time – literally helped put the Jewish people back on the map in their capital city of Jerusalem. Dr. Eilat Mazar, one of Israel's top archaeologists, ended her presentation Wednesday to the 13th Annual Conference of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies on New Studies on Jerusalem, with a surprise announcement. She had discovered remnants of the fifth century B.C. wall built by Nehemiah, the account recorded in the Old Testament book of the same name. According to the biblical account, Nehemiah served as cupbearer for the Persian King Artaxerxes in the city of Susa. The Persians had conquered the Babylonian empire that had destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and taken most of the inhabitants of Judah into captivity in what is now modern Iraq.
The account reads:
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire? Then the king said to me, What are you requesting? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the city began with its walls, a project that was resisted by hostile neighbors who had occupied the area around Jerusalem in the Jews' absence. But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. With tools in one hand and weapons in the other, Nehemiah's workmen toiled dawn to dusk, completing the wall in a record 52 days.
Archaeological evidence for Nehemiah's project has been lacking. Jerusalem has been rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt in the almost 2,500 years since. Mazar, who is perhaps best known for her recent excavation that many believe has revealed the palace of King David, was working on an emergency project to shore up remains of a tower long believed to date from the Hasmonean period, 142-37 B.C., that was in danger of collapsing. According to an account of the conference in The Trumpet, Mazar said, Under the tower, we found the bones of two large dogs – and under those bones a rich assemblage of pottery and finds from the Persian period. No later finds from that period were found under the tower.Had the tower been built during the Hasmonean dynasty, the Persian-era artifacts would represent an unexplained chronological gap of several hundred years. The tower, said Mazar, had to have been built much earlier than previously thought and the pottery data placed it at the time the Bible says Nehemiah was building it. Todd Bolen, of BiblePlaces.com, noted that excavations in the Philistine city of Ashkelon during the same Persian era, found 800 dog burials like those uncovered by Mazar. Nehemiah described 10 gates in the wall around Jerusalem as well as several towers designed to protect the entrances to the city, among them the Tower of the Hundred, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Ovens, and an unnamed tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard in the vicinity of Mazar's most recent dig. WND reported Mazar's confirmation that what appeared to be chopped-up carved stone, unearthed by recent trenching on the Temple Mount by the holy site's Islamic custodians, were indeed antiquities with attributes of the Second Temple-era during the ministry of Jesus.
Mazar has urged Christians to help save the holy site.
The Christian world and all those who care about safeguarding the Temple Mount must immediately join us in our efforts to protect the holy site and demand that the Israeli government stop the Waqf construction, she said. The Temple Mount is important to people of all religions. Now is the time to act before more antiquities are erased.
SKEPTIC ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY WE WILL BELIEVE THE BIBLE IF 2 THINGS HAPPEN. IF WE FIND NOAHS ARK, THEY DID GENESIS CHAPTER 7. THE CIA HAS FOUND NOAHS ARK WITH INFRERED CAMERAS, BUT WON'T TELL ABOUT IT. AND THE SECOND THING TO HAPPEN IS IF THEY WOULD FIND NEHEMIAHS WALL. THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL 9:24'S FULFILLMENT
HERE ARE THE SCRIPTURES FOR THIS STORY.
NOTICE DANIELS TIMELINE OF HISTORY IS INVOLVED HERE.
DANIEL 9:24-27
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
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.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
DANIEL 9:24 (GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM)
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
THE SEVENTY WEEKS OR SHABBOS ARE 70 WEEKS TIMES 7 YEARS. 70X7=490 YEARS. SO GOD WILL DEAL WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOR 490 YEARS THEN THE MESSIAH WILL RULE FROM ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOREVER AFTER THAT.
DANIEL 9:25 (NEHEMIAHS WALL START OF DANIELS PROPHECY)
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
HERES WERE NEHEMIAHS WALL COMES IN. THIS WALL WAS BUILT IN 52 DAYS AND JERUSALEM WAS REBUILT IN 49 YEARS. 7 WEEKS OR SHABBOS IS 7X7=49 YEARS. THEN WE ADD ON ANOTHER 62 WEEKS OR SHABBOS TILL THE MESSIAH GETS CUT OFF. 7X7=49 years and 62X7=434 years. 434+49=483 YEARS.
DANIEL 9:26 (MESSIAH JESUS CUT OFF)
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.
AFTER THE CALL TO REBUILD JERUSALEM 7x7=49 YEARS + 62X7=434 YEARS WHEN JESUS WAS CUT OFF.
OK SO AFTER 69 WEEKS OR SHABBOS 69X7=483 YEARS WAS JESUS CUT OFF. DID THIS HAPPEN TO THE EXACT DAY..YES IT DID. FROM THE CALL TO REBUILD JERUSALEM AND THE WALL AROUND IT WAS MARCH 14,445 B.C. ADD TO THAT 483 YEARS X 360 DAYS IN THE JEWISH CALENDAR IN THE BIBLE AND THAT COMES OUT TO BE 173,880 DAYS. SO FROM MARCH 14, 445 B.C TO THE EXACT DAY JESUS ENTERED JERUSALEM (APRIL 6, 32 A.D)WAS 173,880 DAYS THE EXACT AMOUNT THAT DANIEL WAS LEAD BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD TO PREDICT.
SO IF THIS PROPHECY CAME TO PASS LITERALLY AND EXACTLY AS DANIEL WROTE IT DOWN, WE KNOW FOR SURE THE LAST 7 YEAR PERIOD WILL COME TO PASS AS WELL IN THE FUTURE.
SO THE 483 OF THE 490 YEARS ARE FULFILLED AND DANIEL 9:26 SAYS OF THIS FINAL 7 YEAR PERIOD. THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY. WELL ANOTHER OF THIS PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED: IN A.D 70 THE ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY. THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY IN DANIEL 9:27
DANIEL 9:27 (THE FINAL 7 YEAR PERIOD TO RING IN MESSIAH)
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
AND WHO IS HE IN 9:27, HE IS THE FUTURE ROMAN (EU) LEADER TO MAKE THE FINAL 7 YEAR TREATY (COVENANT) WITH MANY AND ISRAEL FOR THE FINAL WEEK OR 1X7 SHABBOS = 7 YEARS. THIS WILL END DANIELS 70 WEEKS OR 490 YEARS THAT GOD HAS DEALT WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM, TO USHER IN THE RULE OF THE MESSIAH TO RULE FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM (NO END)FOREVER MEANS FOREVER.
WE ALSO SEE THAT THE 3RD TEMPLE HAS TO BE REBUILT IN JERUSALEM BEFORE THIS LAST 7 YEAR COVENANT IS MADE, WHY? BECAUSE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YEAR COVENANT THE SACRIFICES ARE CUT OFF. FOR THE FIRST THREE AND ONE HALF YEARS THIS ROMAN (EU) LEADER HAS LET ISRAEL SACRIFICE ANIMALS LIKE IN BIBLE TIMES. HE THEN CUTS IT OFF AND HE HIMSELF SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE PROCLAIMING HIMSELF GOD.
NOW HERE IS THE STORY OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT PROPHECY THAT HAD TO START THE 490 YEAR COUNTDOWN TO THE MESSIAHS RULE.
Nehemiah 2:1-20 King James Bible
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.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3:1-32 King James Bible
1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.
6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.
18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall.
20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner.
25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.
29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Nehemiah 4:1-23 King James Bible
1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Nehemiah 5:1-19 King James Bible
1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 6:1-19 King James Bible
1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
Nehemiah 12:1-47 King James Bible
1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:
18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;
29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
35 And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:
36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
BLAIR HINTS AT 1ST PRESIDENT OF EU
All options on the table in facing Iran: Israel's Deputy PM Sat Nov 10, 6:09 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli deputy prime minister said on Saturday after a US visit that all options are on the table to halt Iran's nuclear drive , which Israel considers a threat to its existence. The strategy for now is one of sanctions, of a united front of nations in that context, and the strategy of declaring without any doubt that all options are on the table, Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz told public radio.Israel and the United States accuse Iran of pursuing atomic weapons under the guise of a peaceful nuclear energy programme, charges Tehran has repeatedly denied.I think like others that the option of using military force is the last resort, Mofaz said.But it's clear that the opportunity for a negotiated solution is diminishing if by the diplomatic path we should not succeed to stop the advancement of the Iranian nuclear programme, he added.Israel and the United States agreed to appoint two working committees to hone a joint strategy against Iran's nuclear ambitions, public radio reported on Friday, following the talks which Mofaz held in Washington this week.
Israel -- the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power -- has been pressing the UN Security Council for tougher sanctions ahead of a new and widely anticipated report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
GLOBAL INSECURITY
Gunmen storm high-security nuclear facility
Worker shot as 4 armed men gain access to sealed control room
November 9, 2007 - 9:50 p.m. Eastern
Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center
An early morning attack by four gunmen who stormed and reached the emergency-response control room of a secured nuclear facility in South Africa has left one of the plant's operational officers hospitalized and officials with the country's nuclear agency threatening a newspaper with charges of violating national security laws for publishing an account of the intrusion. The attack at the Pelindaba nuclear facility took place early Thursday morning, reported the Pretoria News. According to Anton Gerber, an emergency services operational officer working for the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa, he was in the control room with his fiancée Ria Meiring, who is also the control room supervisor, when he heard a loud bang and saw the men coming into the facility's eastern block. Gerber pushed Meiring beneath a desk for safety and attempted to stop the intruders from entering the electronically sealed control room. Two forced their way through the door and ran straight for the control panel. I did not know what they were going to do. I just kept on hitting them even when one of them attacked me with a screwdriver, Gerber said from his hospital bed. I knew that if I stopped they would attack Ria or do something to the panel. I could not let anything like that happen.
Investigators at the Pelindaba plant believe the attackers gained access to the building by using a ladder belonging to the facility's fire department to scale a wall, then forced open a window by pulling out several louvers. The facility is meant to be safe. There are security guards, electric fences and security control points. These things are not meant to happen, Gerber said.
During the struggle, Gerber was shot in the chest by one of the attackers, the bullet narrowly missing his heart and spine but hitting his lung and breaking a rib. A NESCA spokeswoman confirmed the attack but would not say how the intruders gained entry to one of the country's most secure sites or whether anything was taken in the attack. NESCA, she said, was conducting its own internal investigation and would publicize its findings after police finished their work. Prior to publication, Pretoria News was contacted by a man identifying himself as a legal adviser to NESCA who warned the paper would be violating South Africa's National Keypoints Act and said the agency might obtain a court order to prevent publication. A police spokesman told Pretoria News there had been no arrests in the attack. Reports make no mention of terrorism as a possible motive. A case of armed robbery and attempted murder are being investigated, the spokesman said. The attack came a day after authorities arrested two men in connection with the murder of the general manager of NESCA during a carjacking earlier this year.
Abbas vows to continue path for statehood By Wafa Amr
NOV 10,07
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday inaugurated a mausoleum built over Yasser Arafat's grave and vowed to continue on his iconic predecessor's path in seeking statehood. Abbas said he hoped Arafat's wish to be buried in Jerusalem could still be fulfilled, along with Palestinians' dream of making the disputed city the capital of their future state.We will continue on the path to set up the independent Palestinian state with (Jerusalem) as its capital, God willing, Abbas said at an unveiling ceremony in the occupied West Bank.Arafat, founder of the secular Fatah movement in the 1960s, spearheaded the Arab fight against Israel before signing an interim peace deal in 1993. That agreement broke down in botched talks over a final accord, leading to a 2000 Palestinian revolt.
The Palestinian Authority under Abbas, having broken with Hamas Islamists who seized control of the Gaza Strip in June, has sought rapprochement with Israel. Abbas expects to discuss Palestinian statehood at an upcoming U.S.-hosted conference.Ahead of the talks in Annapolis, Maryland, Palestinian forces have deployed in Nablus, a tinderbox West Bank city seen as the proving ground for a vow by Abbas to curb militants. On Saturday, police reported a significant arms haul in Nablus.The police and other security forces have seized dozens of suspicious objects and home-made explosive devices ... we found more than 100 devices and suspect objects hidden in various places and we have detonated many of them, Ahmad Sharqawi, the chief of Palestinian police in Nablus, told Reuters.Israel, which is trying to bolster Abbas against Hamas rivals who seized the Gaza Strip in June, approved the Nablus deployment. If it is successful, Palestinian forces could assume control in other West Bank towns, Israeli officials say.
PINING FOR ARAFAT
Though Arafat failed to deliver them a state in territory occupied by Israel in a 1967 Middle East war, many Palestinians miss the charisma, cunning and street clout with which he cobbled together a national consensus among rival factions.Arafat died in a French hospital on November 11, 2004 after being shunned by Israel and the United States as an obstacle to peace. Abbas enjoys broad foreign support yet his domestic mandate is in doubt given the rift with Hamas and Israel's West Bank grip.Yasser Arafat has departed, but he left you, President Abbas, with a heavy burden and a difficult legacy, Mohammed Ishtayeh, a former Palestinian cabinet minister who supervised the construction of the mausoleum, told Abbas in a speech.The new structure, built of marble and Jerusalem stone adorned with Koranic verses, features a mosque and a minaret as well as an ornamental pool. The Palestinians also plan to open an Arafat memorial museum in the nearby government headquarters.Israel seized control of West Bank cities, handed to the Palestinian Authority under the 1993 interim Oslo peace deal, after the outbreak of the uprising and had barred Palestinian security forces from operating in them until recently.Israel also launches frequent raids against Palestinian militants in Nablus and controls entry to the city through checkpoints, which it says are needed to stop suicide bombers.In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian ambulance workers said they recovered the bodies of two teenagers who were shot dead on Friday by Israeli troops close to the border fence in the northern part of the territory.An Israeli army spokesman said the two men had been spotted crawling towards the fence and were shot by troops.(Additional reporting by Atef Saad in Nablus and Haitham Tamimi in Hebron; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Palestinian Authority accepts US mechanism to implement road map Posted : Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:50:03 GMT DPA
Ramallah - The Palestinian Authority (PA) has accepted a US mechanism to implement the road map peace plan and the first phase is supposed to start immediately, chief negotiator Ahmed Qurei said on Saturday. The so-called Mideast Quartet - the US, the EU, the UN and Russia - was supposed to follow up the applying of the plan since it was finalized in 2003 but Israel refused to stick to its obligations. We have accepted the American offer which stipulates that the US administration be the judge, Qurei told Ramallah-based al-Ayyam daily. It would be the first time the US has taken this role. According to Qurei, a three-way Palestinian, Israeli and US committee is being formed to be responsible for supporting the plan's implementation. In exchange for statehood, the road map plan requires the PA to make constitutional reforms and abandon violence. Israel is also required to stop settlement activities in the West Bank. Reports say that acting Palestinian Premier Salam Fayyad, who was appointed after the Islamic Hamas movement took over the Gaza Strip in June, would represent the PA at the trilateral committee while Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak would represent Israel.
US President George W Bush has called for an international peace conference as part of efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. It is expected late this month in Annapolis, Maryland. Qurei described the current talks with Israel as serious but hard, focusing on all issues, mainly a timetabled mechanism for the negotiations that will follow the Annapolis meetings.
US, EU to reduce trade barriers
Associated Press Saturday, November 10, 2007 (Washington):
The United States and the European Union said on Friday that they had made progress in reducing regulatory barriers to trade.Among other issues, financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic were nearing an agreement for mutual recognition of accounting standards. The move would remove requirements for companies operating in both markets to produce two sets of accounting records.The progress was made in talks of the Transatlantic Economic Council launched by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President George W. Bush in April. EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen and Allan Hubbard, chief of the White House National Economic Council, who chair the forum for the EU and US to discuss strategic economic issues, said they were optimistic it would help significantly boost trans-Atlantic trade over time.
But Hubbard said that the United States remained frustrated by a poultry matter. We were able to accomplish just about everything we set out to accomplish in this first six months except for one item which has to do with the ability of American producers of chickens to export those chickens to Europe, he said. It is an extraordinary frustration to America.On biofuels, the two sides were more successful, reaching a preliminary agreement on compatibility of regulatory standards.Business people told us today that they believe that non-tarriff barriers cost businesses on both sides of the Atlantic three per cent of (the economies), Verheugen said.Annual EU-US trade totals ($909.3 billion) and accounts for 40 per cent of world trade. Two-way investments provide 14 million jobs, according to EU data.
Blair hints at top EU job
5:00AM Sunday November 11, 2007
Tony Blair
Tony Blair has hinted he might become president of the European Union. Following a speech at the National University of Singapore, Blair sleekly sidestepped questions about his interest in the job. In relation to [the] question about the presidency of the European Union we will move swiftly on, he joked. It's a pity, but that's the way it is. A shortage of time, you know! He then spoke for five minutes about the Middle East peace process and the challenges of global leadership.French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently suggested the job of EU president - a key element of the planned constitution - would be a smart move for Blair.Diplomatic and political convention means that no one has formally declared themselves for the EU presidency, a job which looks set to be in place for June 2009.But jockeying for position has begun. Candidates include former Polish President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Irish leader Bertie Ahern and Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Blair arrived in Singapore on Friday from China, where he was accused of gold digging and money sucking by local media after charging NZ$654,000 for a single speech. It is thought he might have earned as much as NZ$2.7 million from several speeches during his Asia tour.But Singapore University dean Professor Kishore Mahbubani said Blair was not paid for his campus speech.In a country where protesting is illegal and the ruling party holds 97 per cent of the seats in Parliament, several people were impressed by Blair's openness. He actually answers questions, said one.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli deputy prime minister said on Saturday after a US visit that all options are on the table to halt Iran's nuclear drive , which Israel considers a threat to its existence. The strategy for now is one of sanctions, of a united front of nations in that context, and the strategy of declaring without any doubt that all options are on the table, Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz told public radio.Israel and the United States accuse Iran of pursuing atomic weapons under the guise of a peaceful nuclear energy programme, charges Tehran has repeatedly denied.I think like others that the option of using military force is the last resort, Mofaz said.But it's clear that the opportunity for a negotiated solution is diminishing if by the diplomatic path we should not succeed to stop the advancement of the Iranian nuclear programme, he added.Israel and the United States agreed to appoint two working committees to hone a joint strategy against Iran's nuclear ambitions, public radio reported on Friday, following the talks which Mofaz held in Washington this week.
Israel -- the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power -- has been pressing the UN Security Council for tougher sanctions ahead of a new and widely anticipated report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
GLOBAL INSECURITY
Gunmen storm high-security nuclear facility
Worker shot as 4 armed men gain access to sealed control room
November 9, 2007 - 9:50 p.m. Eastern
Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center
An early morning attack by four gunmen who stormed and reached the emergency-response control room of a secured nuclear facility in South Africa has left one of the plant's operational officers hospitalized and officials with the country's nuclear agency threatening a newspaper with charges of violating national security laws for publishing an account of the intrusion. The attack at the Pelindaba nuclear facility took place early Thursday morning, reported the Pretoria News. According to Anton Gerber, an emergency services operational officer working for the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa, he was in the control room with his fiancée Ria Meiring, who is also the control room supervisor, when he heard a loud bang and saw the men coming into the facility's eastern block. Gerber pushed Meiring beneath a desk for safety and attempted to stop the intruders from entering the electronically sealed control room. Two forced their way through the door and ran straight for the control panel. I did not know what they were going to do. I just kept on hitting them even when one of them attacked me with a screwdriver, Gerber said from his hospital bed. I knew that if I stopped they would attack Ria or do something to the panel. I could not let anything like that happen.
Investigators at the Pelindaba plant believe the attackers gained access to the building by using a ladder belonging to the facility's fire department to scale a wall, then forced open a window by pulling out several louvers. The facility is meant to be safe. There are security guards, electric fences and security control points. These things are not meant to happen, Gerber said.
During the struggle, Gerber was shot in the chest by one of the attackers, the bullet narrowly missing his heart and spine but hitting his lung and breaking a rib. A NESCA spokeswoman confirmed the attack but would not say how the intruders gained entry to one of the country's most secure sites or whether anything was taken in the attack. NESCA, she said, was conducting its own internal investigation and would publicize its findings after police finished their work. Prior to publication, Pretoria News was contacted by a man identifying himself as a legal adviser to NESCA who warned the paper would be violating South Africa's National Keypoints Act and said the agency might obtain a court order to prevent publication. A police spokesman told Pretoria News there had been no arrests in the attack. Reports make no mention of terrorism as a possible motive. A case of armed robbery and attempted murder are being investigated, the spokesman said. The attack came a day after authorities arrested two men in connection with the murder of the general manager of NESCA during a carjacking earlier this year.
Abbas vows to continue path for statehood By Wafa Amr
NOV 10,07
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday inaugurated a mausoleum built over Yasser Arafat's grave and vowed to continue on his iconic predecessor's path in seeking statehood. Abbas said he hoped Arafat's wish to be buried in Jerusalem could still be fulfilled, along with Palestinians' dream of making the disputed city the capital of their future state.We will continue on the path to set up the independent Palestinian state with (Jerusalem) as its capital, God willing, Abbas said at an unveiling ceremony in the occupied West Bank.Arafat, founder of the secular Fatah movement in the 1960s, spearheaded the Arab fight against Israel before signing an interim peace deal in 1993. That agreement broke down in botched talks over a final accord, leading to a 2000 Palestinian revolt.
The Palestinian Authority under Abbas, having broken with Hamas Islamists who seized control of the Gaza Strip in June, has sought rapprochement with Israel. Abbas expects to discuss Palestinian statehood at an upcoming U.S.-hosted conference.Ahead of the talks in Annapolis, Maryland, Palestinian forces have deployed in Nablus, a tinderbox West Bank city seen as the proving ground for a vow by Abbas to curb militants. On Saturday, police reported a significant arms haul in Nablus.The police and other security forces have seized dozens of suspicious objects and home-made explosive devices ... we found more than 100 devices and suspect objects hidden in various places and we have detonated many of them, Ahmad Sharqawi, the chief of Palestinian police in Nablus, told Reuters.Israel, which is trying to bolster Abbas against Hamas rivals who seized the Gaza Strip in June, approved the Nablus deployment. If it is successful, Palestinian forces could assume control in other West Bank towns, Israeli officials say.
PINING FOR ARAFAT
Though Arafat failed to deliver them a state in territory occupied by Israel in a 1967 Middle East war, many Palestinians miss the charisma, cunning and street clout with which he cobbled together a national consensus among rival factions.Arafat died in a French hospital on November 11, 2004 after being shunned by Israel and the United States as an obstacle to peace. Abbas enjoys broad foreign support yet his domestic mandate is in doubt given the rift with Hamas and Israel's West Bank grip.Yasser Arafat has departed, but he left you, President Abbas, with a heavy burden and a difficult legacy, Mohammed Ishtayeh, a former Palestinian cabinet minister who supervised the construction of the mausoleum, told Abbas in a speech.The new structure, built of marble and Jerusalem stone adorned with Koranic verses, features a mosque and a minaret as well as an ornamental pool. The Palestinians also plan to open an Arafat memorial museum in the nearby government headquarters.Israel seized control of West Bank cities, handed to the Palestinian Authority under the 1993 interim Oslo peace deal, after the outbreak of the uprising and had barred Palestinian security forces from operating in them until recently.Israel also launches frequent raids against Palestinian militants in Nablus and controls entry to the city through checkpoints, which it says are needed to stop suicide bombers.In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian ambulance workers said they recovered the bodies of two teenagers who were shot dead on Friday by Israeli troops close to the border fence in the northern part of the territory.An Israeli army spokesman said the two men had been spotted crawling towards the fence and were shot by troops.(Additional reporting by Atef Saad in Nablus and Haitham Tamimi in Hebron; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Palestinian Authority accepts US mechanism to implement road map Posted : Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:50:03 GMT DPA
Ramallah - The Palestinian Authority (PA) has accepted a US mechanism to implement the road map peace plan and the first phase is supposed to start immediately, chief negotiator Ahmed Qurei said on Saturday. The so-called Mideast Quartet - the US, the EU, the UN and Russia - was supposed to follow up the applying of the plan since it was finalized in 2003 but Israel refused to stick to its obligations. We have accepted the American offer which stipulates that the US administration be the judge, Qurei told Ramallah-based al-Ayyam daily. It would be the first time the US has taken this role. According to Qurei, a three-way Palestinian, Israeli and US committee is being formed to be responsible for supporting the plan's implementation. In exchange for statehood, the road map plan requires the PA to make constitutional reforms and abandon violence. Israel is also required to stop settlement activities in the West Bank. Reports say that acting Palestinian Premier Salam Fayyad, who was appointed after the Islamic Hamas movement took over the Gaza Strip in June, would represent the PA at the trilateral committee while Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak would represent Israel.
US President George W Bush has called for an international peace conference as part of efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. It is expected late this month in Annapolis, Maryland. Qurei described the current talks with Israel as serious but hard, focusing on all issues, mainly a timetabled mechanism for the negotiations that will follow the Annapolis meetings.
US, EU to reduce trade barriers
Associated Press Saturday, November 10, 2007 (Washington):
The United States and the European Union said on Friday that they had made progress in reducing regulatory barriers to trade.Among other issues, financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic were nearing an agreement for mutual recognition of accounting standards. The move would remove requirements for companies operating in both markets to produce two sets of accounting records.The progress was made in talks of the Transatlantic Economic Council launched by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President George W. Bush in April. EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen and Allan Hubbard, chief of the White House National Economic Council, who chair the forum for the EU and US to discuss strategic economic issues, said they were optimistic it would help significantly boost trans-Atlantic trade over time.
But Hubbard said that the United States remained frustrated by a poultry matter. We were able to accomplish just about everything we set out to accomplish in this first six months except for one item which has to do with the ability of American producers of chickens to export those chickens to Europe, he said. It is an extraordinary frustration to America.On biofuels, the two sides were more successful, reaching a preliminary agreement on compatibility of regulatory standards.Business people told us today that they believe that non-tarriff barriers cost businesses on both sides of the Atlantic three per cent of (the economies), Verheugen said.Annual EU-US trade totals ($909.3 billion) and accounts for 40 per cent of world trade. Two-way investments provide 14 million jobs, according to EU data.
Blair hints at top EU job
5:00AM Sunday November 11, 2007
Tony Blair
Tony Blair has hinted he might become president of the European Union. Following a speech at the National University of Singapore, Blair sleekly sidestepped questions about his interest in the job. In relation to [the] question about the presidency of the European Union we will move swiftly on, he joked. It's a pity, but that's the way it is. A shortage of time, you know! He then spoke for five minutes about the Middle East peace process and the challenges of global leadership.French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently suggested the job of EU president - a key element of the planned constitution - would be a smart move for Blair.Diplomatic and political convention means that no one has formally declared themselves for the EU presidency, a job which looks set to be in place for June 2009.But jockeying for position has begun. Candidates include former Polish President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Irish leader Bertie Ahern and Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Blair arrived in Singapore on Friday from China, where he was accused of gold digging and money sucking by local media after charging NZ$654,000 for a single speech. It is thought he might have earned as much as NZ$2.7 million from several speeches during his Asia tour.But Singapore University dean Professor Kishore Mahbubani said Blair was not paid for his campus speech.In a country where protesting is illegal and the ruling party holds 97 per cent of the seats in Parliament, several people were impressed by Blair's openness. He actually answers questions, said one.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
MINISTRIES RAKED OVER THE COALS
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.
Dutch, British flood fears ease after surge passes By Niclas Mika Fri Nov 9, 7:48 AM ET
HEADLAND NEAR ROZENBURG, Netherlands (Reuters) - The Netherlands and Britain closed sea defense barriers, airlifted hundreds of North Sea oil rig workers and evacuated thousands of people as wind-driven storm swells coincided with high tides. The Dutch coast and the east of England were hit in the early hours of Friday, but no major flooding was reported and North Sea oil production was starting up again.The surge did not breach the storm barrier near Rotterdam, although Europe's biggest port, which is a major transit point for oil and other commodities, was expected to stay shut to shipping until the evening despite the tides receding.About 60 ships will be affected as result of the barrier, built in the 1990s, being closed for the first time.
The oil and gas workers were airlifted from North Sea platforms after forecasters predicted 20-metre (66 foot) waves in the open sea and strong winds. At least nine platforms producing several hundred thousands barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) were shut down.
StatoilHydro, the biggest operator in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, said on Friday that production had been hit less than feared and fields were restarting.In the Netherlands, some sea defenses were being reopened while in Britain police said flood defenses had been breached in Great Yarmouth in eastern England, but there was no danger to homes. A few surfers in wet suits tried to catch a wave as the sun rose.
NO LONGER HIGH TIDE
Further surges were expected south along the coast towards Kent, in the south east, and London, but they would not coincide with high tide. The Thames barrier protecting the capital was closed on Thursday.Dutch officials reported minimal flooding after water levels peaked at 3.16 meters above mean sea level on the south coast. Floods in 1953, that killed over 2,000 people, peaked at 3.85 meters in the Netherlands and 3.28 meters in Britain.Dutch forecasters predicted continuing storms along the coast with wind gusts of more than 100 km per hour (62 mph).A spokesman for Britain's Environment Agency said Friday's tides peaked at 2.75 meters above normal compared with fears they would reach 3 meters.
You can say that you're through the worst of it, but vigilance is the word. It is still wild and windy out there, a he said. The difference between now and 1958 is we've got far improved flood defense systems and warning systems in place.British police in Norfolk said people in 7,500 homes in the Great Yarmouth area had been advised to leave and more than 200 elderly residents were evacuated from care homes.Hundreds of families moved into school buildings where local authorities said they had room for 3,500 people. Highways and railways to Great Yarmouth were closed.(Additional reporting by Harro ten Wolde, Catherine Hornby in Amsterdam; Tim Castle and Peter Graff in London; Editing by Matthew Jones)
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
November 9, 2007
Dear Friend of Israel,
On November 9-10, 1938, Jews in Germany endured two nights of terror. It was Kristallnacht the night of broken glass. With the encouragement of the German government, Nazis and their supporters attacked Jews and destroyed synagogues and Jewish-owned homes and businesses. German Jews had suffered under oppressive laws for years. But Kristallnacht was a turning point the beginning in earnest of the Holocaust that ultimately led to the slaughter of millions of European Jews.The Holocaust was a uniquely horrible chapter in human history. But, as we mark this somber anniversary of Kristallnacht, it is important to note that the hatred of Jews that ultimately resulted in the Holocaust is not a thing of the past. I long for the time when I can say that Jews were no longer in danger simply for being Jews. But, sadly, that time is not now. Across the globe, there appears to be a rise in violence against Jews, hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and vandalism against Jewish property. Here are just a few of the most recent incidents:
Last week, in what officials described as arson, a Jewish school in Kiev, Ukraine, burned to the ground. The vandals who perpetrated this act had earlier hurled a rock through the window of the school with a note attached that read Death to Jews.In a recent radio address, Alexander Lukashenko, president of the former Soviet republic of Belarus, complained that Jewish residents of the city of Bobruisk turned the city into a pig sty. Twelve years earlier, he spoke admiringly of the Nazi regime that ruled Germany during World War II, saying that the country attained its peak under Hitler.In Wellington, New Zealand, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated for the third time in as many years. Vandals painted anti-Semitic slogans such as Hitler RIP and Terror state Israel burn across gravestones. The Jewish community in suburban Melbourne, Australia, is on alert after two attacks by baseball bat-wielding thugs against Jewish teenagers. While vacationing in Greece last month, a young man from Tel Aviv was beaten by a group of youngsters shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
The incidents above and there have been many more like them in recent months show why those of us who love Israel and are committed to supporting the Jewish people must always be vigilant. What has been called the longest and deepest hatred of human history is not just a historic relic. Tragically, it is alive and well around the globe.Rescuing Jewish people from anti-Semitic oppression is one of the urgent goals of The Fellowship’s On Wings of Eagles program. Since its launch, The Fellowship and its caring partners have helped tens of thousands of Jews return to Israel, the land given to them by God, where they are free to live and openly practice their faith as Jews. On Wings of Eagles also helps them become established as full, productive citizens in Israel.
I thank God for the you and the caring friends of The Fellowship who pray and provide support to help rescue those suffering from the cruel injustice of anti-Semitism through On Wings of Eagles. May you be blessed, as you have blessed His children.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International fellowship of Christians and Jews.
France, Spain and Italy back European Union blue card
09 Nov 2007 bbj.huThe European Commission’s recent proposal for a blue card to attract highly skilled talent from outside the European Union has garnered some unlikely supporters.France, Italy and Spain, the southern EU states most affected by illegal immigration, are backing the plan. We need to have integrated (EU) policies, not only in fighting illegal immigration but also ... to channel in an orderly fashion immigrants who come to work on the EU territory, said Spanish Secretary of State for Migration, Maria Consuelo Rumi Ibanez.France’s ambassador to the EU also praised the blue card as a move forward in attracting highly skilled migrants to the 27-member bloc. Italy also supports the plan. However, Austria kept the proposal at arms length, with Interior Minister Gunter Platter stating that his nation should exercise due caution not to produce unwished for further migratory flows. He said that each EU nations should be responsible in determining the amount of immigration into their countries and that preference should be given to EU workers. Finland Immigration Minister Astrid Thors wondered how a scheme could work which - as one of its main features - allows a highly skilled migrant to move from one EU nation to another, when each EU state wants to control the amount of migration over its borders. Franco Frattini of the European Commission stated that highly skilled migrants only accounted for 0.9% of the EU labor force, compared with 9.9% in Australia and 3.5% in the United States.
The blue card, inspired by the US green card, would require a qualified highly skilled migrant to have a job offer for at least one year, a salary three times the local minimum wage, and health insurance. It would be valid for an renewable period of two years. After two years, a blue card holder could move to another EU state. (workpermit.com)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
None dare call it conspiracy
By Hal Lindsey - November 9, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Crude oil prices hit an all-time high this week, closing above $98 a barrel for the first time in history. According to the AAA, many drivers in my home state of California are already paying more than $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gas. And in one town south of Big Sur, unleaded gas topped $5 a gallon. The U.S. dollar is at an all-time low, even when compared against the hapless Canadian loonie. Five years ago, a loonie was worth 60 cents. Today, it's worth $1.12 and climbing. Yesterday, WorldNetDaily reported that the Chinese are considering abandoning the U.S. dollar as their national reserve currency. WND quoted Craig Smith's assessment of the consequences of such a move by Beijing on our economy: If that were to happen, all bets are off, and we will be in a depression that makes 1929 look like child's play, or we will experience Weimar Republic inflation as the dollar makes extreme moves toward devaluations.
On Tuesday, the U.S. national debt topped $9 trillion for the first time in history, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's daily accounting of the national debt. Nine trillion dollars! The number is so staggeringly high that it exceeds our ability to comprehend it in monetary units. Million, billion, trillion – in financial terms, for most of us, it means a lot of money, really a lot of money, but that is about as specific a picture as most ordinary people can grasp. Let's put all these illions into perspective. A million seconds is roughly 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is approximately 32 years. We understand dollars. And we understand time. So it would take 12 days to pay back a million dollars at a dollar a second. But if you started right now, you'd pay back a BILLION dollars, at a dollar a second, in the year 2039. A trillion seconds is roughly 32 thousand years. At a dollar a second, you'd pay back a TRILLION dollars in the year 34007. The U.S. debt stands at $9 trillion. If my calculator is working, then at a dollar a second, the U.S. could be debt- free in the year 290007. The point of that little exercise was two-fold. The first was to clarify the sheer volume of the debt; the second was to demonstrate the possibility that anybody in government really believes we can ever pay it off. Each U.S. citizen's share of the national debt works out, according to the National Debt clock, to $29,947.50. That means the average American family of five owes, collectively, $149,737.50.
It also means that unless the average American family of five has a net worth of at least $149,737,50 in assets excluding liabilities (they don't), America is already bankrupt. Over the past few years, there has been growing public concern about the emerging Security and Prosperity Partnership plan that some say is really a deceptive roadmap to a coming North American Union and a new, unified currency tentatively called the amero.The feds steadfastly deny such a plan exists, even as it opens the borders to Mexican truck traffic, widens the I-35 corridor from Mexico to Canada and, counterintuitively, refuses to tighten the borders with either Mexico or Canada, despite both logic and widespread public demand. All of these things have brought me to believe that powerful forces outside of our government – like the shadowy international Money Trust members of the Bilderberg Group – made a decision to force the formation of the North American Union along with the amero. There decisions have been instituted in the past via the Trilateral Commission, which is the dba for the nefarious Conference on Foreign Relations. Destroying the American dollar could force the crisis that would force the creation of the North American Union. To quote the title of a book of the 1960s era, None Dare Call It Conspiracy.Ordinary Americans may not fully grasp just how dire the true economic picture is, but you can bet our leaders do. Yet from the White House to the Federal Reserve, nobody seems particularly eager to address the issue, preferring instead to talk about the budget, as if the budget WERE the debt, rather than merely a measure of our ability to keep up with our payments on the debt. It is almost as if they already have a Plan B in reserve, ready and waiting to be triumphantly introduced – just in the nick of time. I wonder what it might be?
SATAN CAN ONLY TRY TO DESTROY MINISTRIES BY COMING AGAINST THEIR PROSPERITY. THE WORLD DOES NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RICH SKINFLINTS OF THE WORLD, BUT PROSPER IN A MINISTRY AND YOUR DOOMED. THE BIBLE SAYS THE WEALTH OF THE SINNER IS BUILT UP FOR THE CHRISTIANS SO DON"T WORRY THE TABLES WILL BE TURNED IN THESE LAST DAYS.
Senate Panel Probes 6 Top Televangelists
Sen. Charles Grassley Asks Ministries To Turn Over Financial Records Within One Month Nov. 6, 2007
Senator Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked six televangelist ministries to provide, by Dec. 6th, financial statements and records for an investigation into possible impropriety. (AP)(CBS) This story was written and reported by Laura Strickler of the CBS News Investigative Unit. CBS News has learned Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating six prominent televangelist ministries for possible financial misconduct. Letters were sent Monday to the ministries demanding that financial statements and records be turned over to the committee by December 6th. According to Grassley's office, the Iowa Republican is trying to determine whether or not these ministries are improperly using their tax-exempt status as churches to shield lavish lifestyles. The six ministries identified as being under investigation by the committee are led by: Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn. Three of the six - Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar - also sit on the Board of Regents for the Oral Roberts University.
A spokesperson for Joyce Meyer Ministries provided CBS News with an IRS letter to the ministry dated October 10, 2007, that stated: We determined that you continue to qualify as an organization exempt from Federal income tax. The letter could not be independently verified in time for this story. The ministry also pointed to audited financial statements for the last three years that are posted on the organization's Web site. In a statement, Benny Hinn's spokesperson, Ronn Torossian, said the ministry is in the process of determining the best course of action in response to the Senate investigation. World Healing Center Church complies with the laws that govern church and non-profit organizations and will continue to do so, Torossian wrote. Eddie Long's New Birth Ministries says he has received the request for information from the U.S. Senate and plans to fully comply. New Birth Ministries has several safeguards put in place to ensure all transactions are in compliance with laws applicable to churches.In a statement to CBS News, Creflo Dollar called his ministry an open book and said he would comply with any valid request from Grassley. But he noted that the inquiry raised questions that could affect the privacy of every community church in America.Paula White is also expressing concern about precedents that could be set by turning over the requested information. We take our financial responsibilities to our partners very seriously and to the best of our knowledge we comply with all tax laws. Our audited financial statements appear on our website, said White, in a statement. However, we are concerned about the possible precedent and ramifications of this request. We will be reviewing the request and its implications in detail over the coming weeks as we prepare our response.Because they have tax status as churches, the ministries do not have to file IRS 990 forms like other non-profit organizations - leaving much financial information largely behind closed doors.
The letters sent Monday were the culmination of a long investigation fueled in part by complaints from Ole Anthony, a crusader against religious fraud who operates the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, which describes itself as a watchdog monitoring religious media, fraud and abuse. We've been working with them for two years, Anthony told CBS News. We have furnished them with enough information to fill a small Volkswagen.Anthony said after twenty years of working with media organizations to expose televangelists, he saw little reform. He says that's why he turned to another tactic, going straight to Grassley. He is confident that Grassley's inquiry will be different, What we hope is that this will lead to reform in religious nonprofits.The structure of many televangelist organizations - in which the leadership is often concentrated in one person or one family - has itself been the target of criticism. Churches like these are ruled as a dictatorship, says Rod Pitzer, who directs research at Ministry Watch in North Carolina, which provides advice for donors to Christian organizations. Pitzer welcomes the Senate committee investigation. Ministries lacking accountability, he says, give a black eye to churches and Christians who are trying to do things in the right manner.By Laura Strickler © MMVII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
REVELATION 17:1-2
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)
IM NOT IMPRESED WITH THIS STORY TONY BLAIR WILL BE CONVERTING TO CATHLCISM OUCH.
Tony Blair will covert to Catholic faith within weeks
08.11.07
Tony Blair is preparing to convert to Roman Catholicism within weeks, it emerged last night. The news prompted demands from followers of the faith for the former prime minister to renounce his previous support for abortion. Mr Blair's long-expected switch to the faith of his wife and four children is expected to come at a Mass in the private chapel of Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O'Connor, the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales. The Catholic newspaper The Tablet says the service of conversion will take place this month. Mr Blair has regularly attended Catholic services in recent years, both with his family and alone. He has also visited Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II.
The Tablet said Mr Blair has received instruction from two priests, RAF chaplain John Walsh and Father Mark O'Toole, the cardinal's secretary. A candidate for reception into the Catholic Church is usually received by their parish priest. The cardinal's involvement, as Archbishop of Westminster, would suggest Mr Blair's process of conversion began while he was in Downing Street. Mr Blair's spokesman did not deny the report, saying: This is the same old speculation, but a friend said it was not without substance. News of the imminent move drew calls from leading Catholics for Mr Blair to renounce his backing in Parliament for abortion up to 24 weeks. Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, who converted to Catholicism over her opposition to women priests in the Church of England, said: I hope we will get a public statement repudiating his votes on abortion. Indeed, the Church will require it. The Church requires that we say at the point of reception that everything the Church teaches is revealed truth. There's no hedging.
Mr Blair has taken a very public stand on the matter of abortion, and the Church stand being very publicly different, we are entitled to know what he now thinks. Without that, it cannot possibly be a serious move.As premier, Mr Blair clashed frequently with Catholic leaders over his liberal attitudes to gay rights and other issues.
• Roman Polanski is to make the film version of The Ghost, a novel about a disgraced former premier which author Robert Harris admits was inspired by Mr Blair. Mr Harris was once a trusted friend of Mr Blair, but they fell out over the invasion of Iraq.
Mideast religious leaders say they vital to peace
Wed Nov 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - In an unusual joint appearance, senior Israeli and Palestinian religious leaders said on Wednesday they were not a roadblock to peace in the Middle East but a vital part of the process.Dressed in traditional religious garb, the chief rabbis of Israel sat alongside Muslim leaders and Christian patriarchs and said they had agreed on steps to help resolve the conflict.It is our responsibility to find the right way to live together in peace rather than to fight and kill one another, the leaders, who make up the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, said in a joint statement.The leaders said they had agreed that each religious community should respect other faiths' holy sites. They said they wanted to set up a hot line of rapid communication among the groups to deal with issues of protection and access to holy sites to avoid clashes.They also said they wanted to demonstrate through their relations that differences could be addressed through dialogue, not violence.This opportunity and this interfaith dialogue can really much help in moving the peace process forward, said Salah Zuhayka, assistant secretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs.
While they had not reached any agreement on the status of Jerusalem, the council agreed to seek a common vision for this city which all of us regard as holy.The statement was issued during a gathering of the council in Washington, where they were also meeting with U.S. lawmakers.Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, said the united front should help in the quest for peace.This gathering here today is really proof that it is important for political leaders to recognize and to take comfort in the fact that the religious leaders are on their side in working for peace, McCarrick told a news conference.The meeting of religious leaders comes weeks before a Middle East conference with Israelis and Palestinians was expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland.We are not a problem. We are part of the solution, said Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Catholic Church's leader in the Holy Land.We are here to say no political solution can work without the religious dimension. To ignore it is a guarantee that it will fail, said Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee, who spoke on behalf of the chief rabbis of Israel.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Rabbis slam Jerusalem share plan
09/11/2007 By Mordechai Beck Jerusalem
The prospect of Israel returning parts of Jerusalem to Arab control has sparked widespread dismay in the Orthodox world. Israel’s Deputy Premier, Haim Ramon, recently suggested that the ceding of all-Arab neighbourhoods in the city to the Palestinian Authority could be on the agenda of the forthcoming Annapolis peace talks. But Orthodox rabbis have been lining up to condemn the very thought of compromise over the city, whose sanctity to the Jewish people they consider of such transcendent value that it brooks no argument.Around 100 strictly Orthodox rabbis recited special prayers in the Old City’s Ramban synagogue last month in order to rescind what the influential Charedi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv bewailed as the dreadful decree. Pikuach Nefesh, a rabbinic organisation claiming 1,200 members in Israel and abroad, has also bid them to speak out against Ramon’s proposals. Rabbi Yakov Yosef, of Jerusalem, urging others to join a call for the minister to resign, accused him of attempting to steal from the people of Israel the remnants of our Holy Temple.Rabbi Yosef Gorelitsky, who chairs Pikuach Nefesh, also weighed in: In addition to the desecration of the Temple Mount, [Ramon’s] plan will lead directly –– Heaven forfend –– to the spilling of Jewish blood throughout the land. Does anyone have any doubt that every centimetre handed over to the Palestinians will become the base for yet more terror?
Rabbi David Druckman, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Motskin, near Haifa, hoped the government will wake up and change the direction of the horrendous path upon which it is marching, and take a firm stand regarding the borders of the Holy Land; this is the only way to receive God’s promised blessing of peace.Eli Yishai, head of Shas, the Sephardi Orthodox party, and a member of Israel’s ruling coalition, was adamant that Jerusalem is not for negotiation… He who begins by relinquishing Shu’afat, and Anata [Arab neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem] will end up with a foreign rule over Rehavia [a particularly plush district in West Jerusalem].
Rabbi Daniel Sperber, a British-born professor at Bar Ilan University, and a resident of the Old City, emphasised the consequences of previous concessions by Israeli governments. The Oslo Accords of 1993 led to the second intifada, and the withdrawal from Gush Katif has encouraged the endless rocket attacks from Gaza, he argued: Why would a withdrawal from part of Jerusalem be any different?
Protests have also come from beyond Israel. The leaders of America’s mainstream Orthodox organisation, the Orthodox Union, told Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a letter that they were mandated to undertake all efforts that are necessary to secure and maintain Yerushalayim as the eternal and undivided capital of the State of Israel.One of the few Orthodox rabbis who could be said to support Mr Ramon’s suggestions is fellow MK Rabbi Michael Melchior (Labour-Meimad), a former Minister for Diaspora Affairs. But even he has reservations about the Deputy Prime Minister’s plans for the Old City and the Temple Mount.His proposals mostly repeat those accepted by the government in 2001, Rabbi Melchior said. These divide East Jerusalem between Israel and the PA, and place the holy sites under the aegis of the appropriate religious authority, with no national flags in sight. I see no reason why not to continue to accept this now. Obviously there has to be a creative solution for the Old City, a special type of jurisprudence to govern it.But other rabbis strike a more ominous note. Rabbi Shimon Naftalis, a Lubavitcher, who professes little faith in politicians, says: They say one thing today, and another tomorrow. They talk and talk but in the end they give everything away. This is even more true of Likud. Ramon in Kadima is basically a Likudnik. I’m very pessimistic. The Satmarer Rebbe [the late Rabbi Yoel Teitenbaum] predicted that the secular Zionist state would fall apart in this manner. I think the Arabs have already won and it’s only a question of time before the state disappears.
LUKE 19:37-40
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
2,000 year old tunnel discovered in Jerusalem
Dennis Rodriquez - 11/7/07 Section:
Technology is taking the world into the future at warp speed and yet the past will not be left behind. Recently, the Associated Press reported that archaeologists, under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, discovered a tunnel while looking for ancient Jerusalem's main road. In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Nadav Shragai quoted archaeologists Roni Reich and Eli Shukrun as confirming that this was the tunnel that Flavius Josephus, eyewitness to the city's siege, occupation, and destruction, had recorded as a place of refuge for the Jewish people.After three years of fierce and courageous resistance, the city of Jerusalem fell to the Roman armies, who in turn leveled the city to its foundations. This included tearing down the center of Jewish life, the Temple.In the Bible, Jesus had prophesied that this destruction would take place approximately 40 years prior to its occurrence.
The year was 70 A.D. and the Romans enslaved or slaughtered many of the Jewish inhabitants. Some escaped into a water drainage tunnel under the city's main road where they hid before fleeing through the city's southern gate.Pottery shards and coins, dating from the Second Temple period, which coincided with the period of the city's destruction, were found in the tunnel.The 70 meter section that was unearthed is located between the Temple Mount and the Pool of Siloam. It is believed that the tunnel connects to another major tunnel in the Western wall area and reaches down to the Kidron River. The tunnel passes through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and the western part of the City of David.Important simply on its existence, the tunnel attests to the intelligence, ingenuity, and long-standing presence of the Jewish people in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem in particular.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Israel gets US aid for anti-missile system Thu Nov 8, 10:24 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The United States has given Israel 155 million dollars to develop an advanced missile interception system, Defence Minister Ehud Barak's office said in a statement on Thursday. The money, which Congress approved on Wednesday, will help advance the development of a multi-layered anti-missile system that Barak presented to his US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington last month, the statement said.The system, dubbed David's Sling, is intended to counter projectiles ranging from rudimentary rockets of the sort frequently used by Gaza militants to long-range missiles like those in the arsenal of Israel's arch foe Iran.Israel has already successfully tested and deployed its Arrow anti-missile system, jointly developed with the United States, which is said to be able to deflect most missile strikes against the Jewish state.Widely seen as the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel considers Iran its chief enemy after repeated statements from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.
PA Document Demands 6-Month Max on Final Status Talks
(IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian Authority is demanding a ceiling of six months on final status talks to take place following the Middle East summit to be held in Annapolis.According to PA sources quoted by Haaretz, a document prepared recently by the PA insists that the guarantee be written into the joint statement with Israel to be signed at the summit.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice already informed PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) that America will veto the demand.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
Post-enlargement stress
Nov 8th 2007 From The Economist print edition
Support for European Union expansion is under new threat
Illustration by Peter Schrank
EVEN by the standards of Brussels, where rhetoric and reality lead separate lives, this week has been jarring. The highlight, on November 6th, was the unveiling by the European Commission of its annual reports on the countries next in line for European Union membership. Over the years, the commission has tried to make the accession process as technocratic as possible, in the hope that procedural momentum can carry it over political potholes. As usual, this year's reports had a deadpan tone, mixing nicely understated criticism (in Croatia, the concept of conflict of interest is little understood) with slightly alarming praise (complaints about torture in Turkey are down, Albania has a handy new law aimed at instigators of blood feuds).An accompanying strategy paper was more stirring, reminding national governments why it is important to keep the door open. EU expansion has made Europe more democratic and stable, reunited a once-divided continent and injected competitiveness into a block only patchily prepared for globalisation. But then came the jarring moment, as breaking news intruded.
Even as enlargement bosses were making the case for offering EU citizenship to millions of Turks, as well as Croats and other Balkan inhabitants in the medium to long term, other officials were dealing with events in Italy, where the government has passed a decree to permit the expulsion of EU immigrants deemed a threat to public order. Commission officials confirmed that an EU citizen's freedom to travel can be trumped in this way, as long as expulsions do not target whole ethnic groups or nationalities. Even that proviso looked threadbare when grim-faced Italian police, backed by bulldozers, swept through shanty towns full of Romanians. Giuliano Amato, Italy's interior minister, said that the EU's rules on free movement were inadequate in the face of the arrival of 500,000 Romanians.Enlargement already conjures up scary images for many: factories being moved east in search of low-cost labour, cheap workers (Polish plumbers) moving west, gripes about new members being too pro-American and too quick to provoke Russia. If it comes to be associated with uncontrolled migration, that will have serious consequences.In a 2006 opinion poll, for example, British voters narrowly backed the entry of Turkey by 42-39%, even though this prospect gives others the vapours (81% of Austrians were against, said the same poll). British ministers have long led the camp making the strategic case for Turkey's admission (often in vain, as many in Brussels assume that British enthusiasm is just a ploy to widen the club to the point of irrelevance, following the principle that one can also kill a cat with cream). Yet even in Britain the ground may be shifting, as the press fills with shrill stories about new migrants from central and eastern Europe. For years, Neil O'Brien, director of a Eurosceptic campaign outfit, Open Europe, has asked British focus groups what the words European Union bring to mind. In the past, the reply has usually been red tape and gravy trains. But his most recent focus group offered a new word: immigration.
One does not, in any case, have to be an opponent of enlargement to feel uneasy about the countries now waiting in line. Turkey and the remaining Balkan candidates are hard cases: that is why they are still in the queue. The easy bits of the ex-communist world—fast-growing countries run by former dissidents or suave businessmen, their capitals filled with gems of Hanseatic or Habsburg architecture—joined the club in 2004. There is also a belief that, to quote a diplomat, Romania and Bulgaria came in too soon, and have been sliding away from reforms ever since. Admittedly, there have been problems absorbing new countries in the past—Greece and Portugal, for instance. But the process is more demanding now that the EU does so much. In the old days, new members were pressed to catch up economically and open their markets in exchange for dollops of aid. Now they must aim for membership of the single currency (Slovenia already uses the euro) and the border-free Schengen area (set to expand next month). The police and courts in all EU members are under closer scrutiny, thanks to the push for mutual recognition of each others' court judgments, and such new wheezes as the Europe-wide arrest warrant.
The grand bargain
The strategy for Turkey and the Balkans has so far meant avoiding two bad options: either letting new countries in too soon, or pushing entry so far off that they give up on reforms and turn their backs on Europe. This strategy has been pursued by means of a grand bargain: the EU gets to impose tough, painful conditions for entry, in return for being believed when it says that eventual membership is the destination. Alas, too many national governments have been muddling both messages.Thus France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said that Turkey should never join the EU, and indeed hinted that any further enlargement is by no means inevitable (although a committee on French constitutional reform chaired by a former prime minister, Edouard Balladur, recently recommended scrapping a provision dreamt up by Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, to put any EU enlargement after Croatia to French voters). On the other hand, there have also been mixed messages about the entry conditions. Croatia is not really ready to join, says one official (organised crime remains a big concern). But it will probably get the nod by 2010 or so, thanks to its friends in the Habsburg club of countries formerly in the Austro-Hungarian empire.The EU gets into its worst pickles when the gap between rhetoric and reality becomes too wide. Over enlargement, that moment may be near. The grand bargain with applicants is wobbling, and the pact of trust with EU citizens is in bad shape. Political leaders need to give this closer attention. Or it will not only be Brussels that is jarred by breaking news.
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.
Dutch, British flood fears ease after surge passes By Niclas Mika Fri Nov 9, 7:48 AM ET
HEADLAND NEAR ROZENBURG, Netherlands (Reuters) - The Netherlands and Britain closed sea defense barriers, airlifted hundreds of North Sea oil rig workers and evacuated thousands of people as wind-driven storm swells coincided with high tides. The Dutch coast and the east of England were hit in the early hours of Friday, but no major flooding was reported and North Sea oil production was starting up again.The surge did not breach the storm barrier near Rotterdam, although Europe's biggest port, which is a major transit point for oil and other commodities, was expected to stay shut to shipping until the evening despite the tides receding.About 60 ships will be affected as result of the barrier, built in the 1990s, being closed for the first time.
The oil and gas workers were airlifted from North Sea platforms after forecasters predicted 20-metre (66 foot) waves in the open sea and strong winds. At least nine platforms producing several hundred thousands barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) were shut down.
StatoilHydro, the biggest operator in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, said on Friday that production had been hit less than feared and fields were restarting.In the Netherlands, some sea defenses were being reopened while in Britain police said flood defenses had been breached in Great Yarmouth in eastern England, but there was no danger to homes. A few surfers in wet suits tried to catch a wave as the sun rose.
NO LONGER HIGH TIDE
Further surges were expected south along the coast towards Kent, in the south east, and London, but they would not coincide with high tide. The Thames barrier protecting the capital was closed on Thursday.Dutch officials reported minimal flooding after water levels peaked at 3.16 meters above mean sea level on the south coast. Floods in 1953, that killed over 2,000 people, peaked at 3.85 meters in the Netherlands and 3.28 meters in Britain.Dutch forecasters predicted continuing storms along the coast with wind gusts of more than 100 km per hour (62 mph).A spokesman for Britain's Environment Agency said Friday's tides peaked at 2.75 meters above normal compared with fears they would reach 3 meters.
You can say that you're through the worst of it, but vigilance is the word. It is still wild and windy out there, a he said. The difference between now and 1958 is we've got far improved flood defense systems and warning systems in place.British police in Norfolk said people in 7,500 homes in the Great Yarmouth area had been advised to leave and more than 200 elderly residents were evacuated from care homes.Hundreds of families moved into school buildings where local authorities said they had room for 3,500 people. Highways and railways to Great Yarmouth were closed.(Additional reporting by Harro ten Wolde, Catherine Hornby in Amsterdam; Tim Castle and Peter Graff in London; Editing by Matthew Jones)
This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
November 9, 2007
Dear Friend of Israel,
On November 9-10, 1938, Jews in Germany endured two nights of terror. It was Kristallnacht the night of broken glass. With the encouragement of the German government, Nazis and their supporters attacked Jews and destroyed synagogues and Jewish-owned homes and businesses. German Jews had suffered under oppressive laws for years. But Kristallnacht was a turning point the beginning in earnest of the Holocaust that ultimately led to the slaughter of millions of European Jews.The Holocaust was a uniquely horrible chapter in human history. But, as we mark this somber anniversary of Kristallnacht, it is important to note that the hatred of Jews that ultimately resulted in the Holocaust is not a thing of the past. I long for the time when I can say that Jews were no longer in danger simply for being Jews. But, sadly, that time is not now. Across the globe, there appears to be a rise in violence against Jews, hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and vandalism against Jewish property. Here are just a few of the most recent incidents:
Last week, in what officials described as arson, a Jewish school in Kiev, Ukraine, burned to the ground. The vandals who perpetrated this act had earlier hurled a rock through the window of the school with a note attached that read Death to Jews.In a recent radio address, Alexander Lukashenko, president of the former Soviet republic of Belarus, complained that Jewish residents of the city of Bobruisk turned the city into a pig sty. Twelve years earlier, he spoke admiringly of the Nazi regime that ruled Germany during World War II, saying that the country attained its peak under Hitler.In Wellington, New Zealand, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated for the third time in as many years. Vandals painted anti-Semitic slogans such as Hitler RIP and Terror state Israel burn across gravestones. The Jewish community in suburban Melbourne, Australia, is on alert after two attacks by baseball bat-wielding thugs against Jewish teenagers. While vacationing in Greece last month, a young man from Tel Aviv was beaten by a group of youngsters shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
The incidents above and there have been many more like them in recent months show why those of us who love Israel and are committed to supporting the Jewish people must always be vigilant. What has been called the longest and deepest hatred of human history is not just a historic relic. Tragically, it is alive and well around the globe.Rescuing Jewish people from anti-Semitic oppression is one of the urgent goals of The Fellowship’s On Wings of Eagles program. Since its launch, The Fellowship and its caring partners have helped tens of thousands of Jews return to Israel, the land given to them by God, where they are free to live and openly practice their faith as Jews. On Wings of Eagles also helps them become established as full, productive citizens in Israel.
I thank God for the you and the caring friends of The Fellowship who pray and provide support to help rescue those suffering from the cruel injustice of anti-Semitism through On Wings of Eagles. May you be blessed, as you have blessed His children.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International fellowship of Christians and Jews.
France, Spain and Italy back European Union blue card
09 Nov 2007 bbj.huThe European Commission’s recent proposal for a blue card to attract highly skilled talent from outside the European Union has garnered some unlikely supporters.France, Italy and Spain, the southern EU states most affected by illegal immigration, are backing the plan. We need to have integrated (EU) policies, not only in fighting illegal immigration but also ... to channel in an orderly fashion immigrants who come to work on the EU territory, said Spanish Secretary of State for Migration, Maria Consuelo Rumi Ibanez.France’s ambassador to the EU also praised the blue card as a move forward in attracting highly skilled migrants to the 27-member bloc. Italy also supports the plan. However, Austria kept the proposal at arms length, with Interior Minister Gunter Platter stating that his nation should exercise due caution not to produce unwished for further migratory flows. He said that each EU nations should be responsible in determining the amount of immigration into their countries and that preference should be given to EU workers. Finland Immigration Minister Astrid Thors wondered how a scheme could work which - as one of its main features - allows a highly skilled migrant to move from one EU nation to another, when each EU state wants to control the amount of migration over its borders. Franco Frattini of the European Commission stated that highly skilled migrants only accounted for 0.9% of the EU labor force, compared with 9.9% in Australia and 3.5% in the United States.
The blue card, inspired by the US green card, would require a qualified highly skilled migrant to have a job offer for at least one year, a salary three times the local minimum wage, and health insurance. It would be valid for an renewable period of two years. After two years, a blue card holder could move to another EU state. (workpermit.com)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
None dare call it conspiracy
By Hal Lindsey - November 9, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Crude oil prices hit an all-time high this week, closing above $98 a barrel for the first time in history. According to the AAA, many drivers in my home state of California are already paying more than $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gas. And in one town south of Big Sur, unleaded gas topped $5 a gallon. The U.S. dollar is at an all-time low, even when compared against the hapless Canadian loonie. Five years ago, a loonie was worth 60 cents. Today, it's worth $1.12 and climbing. Yesterday, WorldNetDaily reported that the Chinese are considering abandoning the U.S. dollar as their national reserve currency. WND quoted Craig Smith's assessment of the consequences of such a move by Beijing on our economy: If that were to happen, all bets are off, and we will be in a depression that makes 1929 look like child's play, or we will experience Weimar Republic inflation as the dollar makes extreme moves toward devaluations.
On Tuesday, the U.S. national debt topped $9 trillion for the first time in history, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's daily accounting of the national debt. Nine trillion dollars! The number is so staggeringly high that it exceeds our ability to comprehend it in monetary units. Million, billion, trillion – in financial terms, for most of us, it means a lot of money, really a lot of money, but that is about as specific a picture as most ordinary people can grasp. Let's put all these illions into perspective. A million seconds is roughly 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is approximately 32 years. We understand dollars. And we understand time. So it would take 12 days to pay back a million dollars at a dollar a second. But if you started right now, you'd pay back a BILLION dollars, at a dollar a second, in the year 2039. A trillion seconds is roughly 32 thousand years. At a dollar a second, you'd pay back a TRILLION dollars in the year 34007. The U.S. debt stands at $9 trillion. If my calculator is working, then at a dollar a second, the U.S. could be debt- free in the year 290007. The point of that little exercise was two-fold. The first was to clarify the sheer volume of the debt; the second was to demonstrate the possibility that anybody in government really believes we can ever pay it off. Each U.S. citizen's share of the national debt works out, according to the National Debt clock, to $29,947.50. That means the average American family of five owes, collectively, $149,737.50.
It also means that unless the average American family of five has a net worth of at least $149,737,50 in assets excluding liabilities (they don't), America is already bankrupt. Over the past few years, there has been growing public concern about the emerging Security and Prosperity Partnership plan that some say is really a deceptive roadmap to a coming North American Union and a new, unified currency tentatively called the amero.The feds steadfastly deny such a plan exists, even as it opens the borders to Mexican truck traffic, widens the I-35 corridor from Mexico to Canada and, counterintuitively, refuses to tighten the borders with either Mexico or Canada, despite both logic and widespread public demand. All of these things have brought me to believe that powerful forces outside of our government – like the shadowy international Money Trust members of the Bilderberg Group – made a decision to force the formation of the North American Union along with the amero. There decisions have been instituted in the past via the Trilateral Commission, which is the dba for the nefarious Conference on Foreign Relations. Destroying the American dollar could force the crisis that would force the creation of the North American Union. To quote the title of a book of the 1960s era, None Dare Call It Conspiracy.Ordinary Americans may not fully grasp just how dire the true economic picture is, but you can bet our leaders do. Yet from the White House to the Federal Reserve, nobody seems particularly eager to address the issue, preferring instead to talk about the budget, as if the budget WERE the debt, rather than merely a measure of our ability to keep up with our payments on the debt. It is almost as if they already have a Plan B in reserve, ready and waiting to be triumphantly introduced – just in the nick of time. I wonder what it might be?
SATAN CAN ONLY TRY TO DESTROY MINISTRIES BY COMING AGAINST THEIR PROSPERITY. THE WORLD DOES NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RICH SKINFLINTS OF THE WORLD, BUT PROSPER IN A MINISTRY AND YOUR DOOMED. THE BIBLE SAYS THE WEALTH OF THE SINNER IS BUILT UP FOR THE CHRISTIANS SO DON"T WORRY THE TABLES WILL BE TURNED IN THESE LAST DAYS.
Senate Panel Probes 6 Top Televangelists
Sen. Charles Grassley Asks Ministries To Turn Over Financial Records Within One Month Nov. 6, 2007
Senator Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked six televangelist ministries to provide, by Dec. 6th, financial statements and records for an investigation into possible impropriety. (AP)(CBS) This story was written and reported by Laura Strickler of the CBS News Investigative Unit. CBS News has learned Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating six prominent televangelist ministries for possible financial misconduct. Letters were sent Monday to the ministries demanding that financial statements and records be turned over to the committee by December 6th. According to Grassley's office, the Iowa Republican is trying to determine whether or not these ministries are improperly using their tax-exempt status as churches to shield lavish lifestyles. The six ministries identified as being under investigation by the committee are led by: Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn. Three of the six - Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar - also sit on the Board of Regents for the Oral Roberts University.
A spokesperson for Joyce Meyer Ministries provided CBS News with an IRS letter to the ministry dated October 10, 2007, that stated: We determined that you continue to qualify as an organization exempt from Federal income tax. The letter could not be independently verified in time for this story. The ministry also pointed to audited financial statements for the last three years that are posted on the organization's Web site. In a statement, Benny Hinn's spokesperson, Ronn Torossian, said the ministry is in the process of determining the best course of action in response to the Senate investigation. World Healing Center Church complies with the laws that govern church and non-profit organizations and will continue to do so, Torossian wrote. Eddie Long's New Birth Ministries says he has received the request for information from the U.S. Senate and plans to fully comply. New Birth Ministries has several safeguards put in place to ensure all transactions are in compliance with laws applicable to churches.In a statement to CBS News, Creflo Dollar called his ministry an open book and said he would comply with any valid request from Grassley. But he noted that the inquiry raised questions that could affect the privacy of every community church in America.Paula White is also expressing concern about precedents that could be set by turning over the requested information. We take our financial responsibilities to our partners very seriously and to the best of our knowledge we comply with all tax laws. Our audited financial statements appear on our website, said White, in a statement. However, we are concerned about the possible precedent and ramifications of this request. We will be reviewing the request and its implications in detail over the coming weeks as we prepare our response.Because they have tax status as churches, the ministries do not have to file IRS 990 forms like other non-profit organizations - leaving much financial information largely behind closed doors.
The letters sent Monday were the culmination of a long investigation fueled in part by complaints from Ole Anthony, a crusader against religious fraud who operates the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, which describes itself as a watchdog monitoring religious media, fraud and abuse. We've been working with them for two years, Anthony told CBS News. We have furnished them with enough information to fill a small Volkswagen.Anthony said after twenty years of working with media organizations to expose televangelists, he saw little reform. He says that's why he turned to another tactic, going straight to Grassley. He is confident that Grassley's inquiry will be different, What we hope is that this will lead to reform in religious nonprofits.The structure of many televangelist organizations - in which the leadership is often concentrated in one person or one family - has itself been the target of criticism. Churches like these are ruled as a dictatorship, says Rod Pitzer, who directs research at Ministry Watch in North Carolina, which provides advice for donors to Christian organizations. Pitzer welcomes the Senate committee investigation. Ministries lacking accountability, he says, give a black eye to churches and Christians who are trying to do things in the right manner.By Laura Strickler © MMVII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
REVELATION 17:1-2
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)
IM NOT IMPRESED WITH THIS STORY TONY BLAIR WILL BE CONVERTING TO CATHLCISM OUCH.
Tony Blair will covert to Catholic faith within weeks
08.11.07
Tony Blair is preparing to convert to Roman Catholicism within weeks, it emerged last night. The news prompted demands from followers of the faith for the former prime minister to renounce his previous support for abortion. Mr Blair's long-expected switch to the faith of his wife and four children is expected to come at a Mass in the private chapel of Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O'Connor, the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales. The Catholic newspaper The Tablet says the service of conversion will take place this month. Mr Blair has regularly attended Catholic services in recent years, both with his family and alone. He has also visited Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II.
The Tablet said Mr Blair has received instruction from two priests, RAF chaplain John Walsh and Father Mark O'Toole, the cardinal's secretary. A candidate for reception into the Catholic Church is usually received by their parish priest. The cardinal's involvement, as Archbishop of Westminster, would suggest Mr Blair's process of conversion began while he was in Downing Street. Mr Blair's spokesman did not deny the report, saying: This is the same old speculation, but a friend said it was not without substance. News of the imminent move drew calls from leading Catholics for Mr Blair to renounce his backing in Parliament for abortion up to 24 weeks. Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, who converted to Catholicism over her opposition to women priests in the Church of England, said: I hope we will get a public statement repudiating his votes on abortion. Indeed, the Church will require it. The Church requires that we say at the point of reception that everything the Church teaches is revealed truth. There's no hedging.
Mr Blair has taken a very public stand on the matter of abortion, and the Church stand being very publicly different, we are entitled to know what he now thinks. Without that, it cannot possibly be a serious move.As premier, Mr Blair clashed frequently with Catholic leaders over his liberal attitudes to gay rights and other issues.
• Roman Polanski is to make the film version of The Ghost, a novel about a disgraced former premier which author Robert Harris admits was inspired by Mr Blair. Mr Harris was once a trusted friend of Mr Blair, but they fell out over the invasion of Iraq.
Mideast religious leaders say they vital to peace
Wed Nov 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - In an unusual joint appearance, senior Israeli and Palestinian religious leaders said on Wednesday they were not a roadblock to peace in the Middle East but a vital part of the process.Dressed in traditional religious garb, the chief rabbis of Israel sat alongside Muslim leaders and Christian patriarchs and said they had agreed on steps to help resolve the conflict.It is our responsibility to find the right way to live together in peace rather than to fight and kill one another, the leaders, who make up the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, said in a joint statement.The leaders said they had agreed that each religious community should respect other faiths' holy sites. They said they wanted to set up a hot line of rapid communication among the groups to deal with issues of protection and access to holy sites to avoid clashes.They also said they wanted to demonstrate through their relations that differences could be addressed through dialogue, not violence.This opportunity and this interfaith dialogue can really much help in moving the peace process forward, said Salah Zuhayka, assistant secretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs.
While they had not reached any agreement on the status of Jerusalem, the council agreed to seek a common vision for this city which all of us regard as holy.The statement was issued during a gathering of the council in Washington, where they were also meeting with U.S. lawmakers.Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, said the united front should help in the quest for peace.This gathering here today is really proof that it is important for political leaders to recognize and to take comfort in the fact that the religious leaders are on their side in working for peace, McCarrick told a news conference.The meeting of religious leaders comes weeks before a Middle East conference with Israelis and Palestinians was expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland.We are not a problem. We are part of the solution, said Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Catholic Church's leader in the Holy Land.We are here to say no political solution can work without the religious dimension. To ignore it is a guarantee that it will fail, said Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee, who spoke on behalf of the chief rabbis of Israel.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Rabbis slam Jerusalem share plan
09/11/2007 By Mordechai Beck Jerusalem
The prospect of Israel returning parts of Jerusalem to Arab control has sparked widespread dismay in the Orthodox world. Israel’s Deputy Premier, Haim Ramon, recently suggested that the ceding of all-Arab neighbourhoods in the city to the Palestinian Authority could be on the agenda of the forthcoming Annapolis peace talks. But Orthodox rabbis have been lining up to condemn the very thought of compromise over the city, whose sanctity to the Jewish people they consider of such transcendent value that it brooks no argument.Around 100 strictly Orthodox rabbis recited special prayers in the Old City’s Ramban synagogue last month in order to rescind what the influential Charedi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv bewailed as the dreadful decree. Pikuach Nefesh, a rabbinic organisation claiming 1,200 members in Israel and abroad, has also bid them to speak out against Ramon’s proposals. Rabbi Yakov Yosef, of Jerusalem, urging others to join a call for the minister to resign, accused him of attempting to steal from the people of Israel the remnants of our Holy Temple.Rabbi Yosef Gorelitsky, who chairs Pikuach Nefesh, also weighed in: In addition to the desecration of the Temple Mount, [Ramon’s] plan will lead directly –– Heaven forfend –– to the spilling of Jewish blood throughout the land. Does anyone have any doubt that every centimetre handed over to the Palestinians will become the base for yet more terror?
Rabbi David Druckman, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Motskin, near Haifa, hoped the government will wake up and change the direction of the horrendous path upon which it is marching, and take a firm stand regarding the borders of the Holy Land; this is the only way to receive God’s promised blessing of peace.Eli Yishai, head of Shas, the Sephardi Orthodox party, and a member of Israel’s ruling coalition, was adamant that Jerusalem is not for negotiation… He who begins by relinquishing Shu’afat, and Anata [Arab neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem] will end up with a foreign rule over Rehavia [a particularly plush district in West Jerusalem].
Rabbi Daniel Sperber, a British-born professor at Bar Ilan University, and a resident of the Old City, emphasised the consequences of previous concessions by Israeli governments. The Oslo Accords of 1993 led to the second intifada, and the withdrawal from Gush Katif has encouraged the endless rocket attacks from Gaza, he argued: Why would a withdrawal from part of Jerusalem be any different?
Protests have also come from beyond Israel. The leaders of America’s mainstream Orthodox organisation, the Orthodox Union, told Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a letter that they were mandated to undertake all efforts that are necessary to secure and maintain Yerushalayim as the eternal and undivided capital of the State of Israel.One of the few Orthodox rabbis who could be said to support Mr Ramon’s suggestions is fellow MK Rabbi Michael Melchior (Labour-Meimad), a former Minister for Diaspora Affairs. But even he has reservations about the Deputy Prime Minister’s plans for the Old City and the Temple Mount.His proposals mostly repeat those accepted by the government in 2001, Rabbi Melchior said. These divide East Jerusalem between Israel and the PA, and place the holy sites under the aegis of the appropriate religious authority, with no national flags in sight. I see no reason why not to continue to accept this now. Obviously there has to be a creative solution for the Old City, a special type of jurisprudence to govern it.But other rabbis strike a more ominous note. Rabbi Shimon Naftalis, a Lubavitcher, who professes little faith in politicians, says: They say one thing today, and another tomorrow. They talk and talk but in the end they give everything away. This is even more true of Likud. Ramon in Kadima is basically a Likudnik. I’m very pessimistic. The Satmarer Rebbe [the late Rabbi Yoel Teitenbaum] predicted that the secular Zionist state would fall apart in this manner. I think the Arabs have already won and it’s only a question of time before the state disappears.
LUKE 19:37-40
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
2,000 year old tunnel discovered in Jerusalem
Dennis Rodriquez - 11/7/07 Section:
Technology is taking the world into the future at warp speed and yet the past will not be left behind. Recently, the Associated Press reported that archaeologists, under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, discovered a tunnel while looking for ancient Jerusalem's main road. In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Nadav Shragai quoted archaeologists Roni Reich and Eli Shukrun as confirming that this was the tunnel that Flavius Josephus, eyewitness to the city's siege, occupation, and destruction, had recorded as a place of refuge for the Jewish people.After three years of fierce and courageous resistance, the city of Jerusalem fell to the Roman armies, who in turn leveled the city to its foundations. This included tearing down the center of Jewish life, the Temple.In the Bible, Jesus had prophesied that this destruction would take place approximately 40 years prior to its occurrence.
The year was 70 A.D. and the Romans enslaved or slaughtered many of the Jewish inhabitants. Some escaped into a water drainage tunnel under the city's main road where they hid before fleeing through the city's southern gate.Pottery shards and coins, dating from the Second Temple period, which coincided with the period of the city's destruction, were found in the tunnel.The 70 meter section that was unearthed is located between the Temple Mount and the Pool of Siloam. It is believed that the tunnel connects to another major tunnel in the Western wall area and reaches down to the Kidron River. The tunnel passes through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and the western part of the City of David.Important simply on its existence, the tunnel attests to the intelligence, ingenuity, and long-standing presence of the Jewish people in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem in particular.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Israel gets US aid for anti-missile system Thu Nov 8, 10:24 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The United States has given Israel 155 million dollars to develop an advanced missile interception system, Defence Minister Ehud Barak's office said in a statement on Thursday. The money, which Congress approved on Wednesday, will help advance the development of a multi-layered anti-missile system that Barak presented to his US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington last month, the statement said.The system, dubbed David's Sling, is intended to counter projectiles ranging from rudimentary rockets of the sort frequently used by Gaza militants to long-range missiles like those in the arsenal of Israel's arch foe Iran.Israel has already successfully tested and deployed its Arrow anti-missile system, jointly developed with the United States, which is said to be able to deflect most missile strikes against the Jewish state.Widely seen as the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel considers Iran its chief enemy after repeated statements from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.
PA Document Demands 6-Month Max on Final Status Talks
(IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian Authority is demanding a ceiling of six months on final status talks to take place following the Middle East summit to be held in Annapolis.According to PA sources quoted by Haaretz, a document prepared recently by the PA insists that the guarantee be written into the joint statement with Israel to be signed at the summit.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice already informed PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) that America will veto the demand.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
Post-enlargement stress
Nov 8th 2007 From The Economist print edition
Support for European Union expansion is under new threat
Illustration by Peter Schrank
EVEN by the standards of Brussels, where rhetoric and reality lead separate lives, this week has been jarring. The highlight, on November 6th, was the unveiling by the European Commission of its annual reports on the countries next in line for European Union membership. Over the years, the commission has tried to make the accession process as technocratic as possible, in the hope that procedural momentum can carry it over political potholes. As usual, this year's reports had a deadpan tone, mixing nicely understated criticism (in Croatia, the concept of conflict of interest is little understood) with slightly alarming praise (complaints about torture in Turkey are down, Albania has a handy new law aimed at instigators of blood feuds).An accompanying strategy paper was more stirring, reminding national governments why it is important to keep the door open. EU expansion has made Europe more democratic and stable, reunited a once-divided continent and injected competitiveness into a block only patchily prepared for globalisation. But then came the jarring moment, as breaking news intruded.
Even as enlargement bosses were making the case for offering EU citizenship to millions of Turks, as well as Croats and other Balkan inhabitants in the medium to long term, other officials were dealing with events in Italy, where the government has passed a decree to permit the expulsion of EU immigrants deemed a threat to public order. Commission officials confirmed that an EU citizen's freedom to travel can be trumped in this way, as long as expulsions do not target whole ethnic groups or nationalities. Even that proviso looked threadbare when grim-faced Italian police, backed by bulldozers, swept through shanty towns full of Romanians. Giuliano Amato, Italy's interior minister, said that the EU's rules on free movement were inadequate in the face of the arrival of 500,000 Romanians.Enlargement already conjures up scary images for many: factories being moved east in search of low-cost labour, cheap workers (Polish plumbers) moving west, gripes about new members being too pro-American and too quick to provoke Russia. If it comes to be associated with uncontrolled migration, that will have serious consequences.In a 2006 opinion poll, for example, British voters narrowly backed the entry of Turkey by 42-39%, even though this prospect gives others the vapours (81% of Austrians were against, said the same poll). British ministers have long led the camp making the strategic case for Turkey's admission (often in vain, as many in Brussels assume that British enthusiasm is just a ploy to widen the club to the point of irrelevance, following the principle that one can also kill a cat with cream). Yet even in Britain the ground may be shifting, as the press fills with shrill stories about new migrants from central and eastern Europe. For years, Neil O'Brien, director of a Eurosceptic campaign outfit, Open Europe, has asked British focus groups what the words European Union bring to mind. In the past, the reply has usually been red tape and gravy trains. But his most recent focus group offered a new word: immigration.
One does not, in any case, have to be an opponent of enlargement to feel uneasy about the countries now waiting in line. Turkey and the remaining Balkan candidates are hard cases: that is why they are still in the queue. The easy bits of the ex-communist world—fast-growing countries run by former dissidents or suave businessmen, their capitals filled with gems of Hanseatic or Habsburg architecture—joined the club in 2004. There is also a belief that, to quote a diplomat, Romania and Bulgaria came in too soon, and have been sliding away from reforms ever since. Admittedly, there have been problems absorbing new countries in the past—Greece and Portugal, for instance. But the process is more demanding now that the EU does so much. In the old days, new members were pressed to catch up economically and open their markets in exchange for dollops of aid. Now they must aim for membership of the single currency (Slovenia already uses the euro) and the border-free Schengen area (set to expand next month). The police and courts in all EU members are under closer scrutiny, thanks to the push for mutual recognition of each others' court judgments, and such new wheezes as the Europe-wide arrest warrant.
The grand bargain
The strategy for Turkey and the Balkans has so far meant avoiding two bad options: either letting new countries in too soon, or pushing entry so far off that they give up on reforms and turn their backs on Europe. This strategy has been pursued by means of a grand bargain: the EU gets to impose tough, painful conditions for entry, in return for being believed when it says that eventual membership is the destination. Alas, too many national governments have been muddling both messages.Thus France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said that Turkey should never join the EU, and indeed hinted that any further enlargement is by no means inevitable (although a committee on French constitutional reform chaired by a former prime minister, Edouard Balladur, recently recommended scrapping a provision dreamt up by Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, to put any EU enlargement after Croatia to French voters). On the other hand, there have also been mixed messages about the entry conditions. Croatia is not really ready to join, says one official (organised crime remains a big concern). But it will probably get the nod by 2010 or so, thanks to its friends in the Habsburg club of countries formerly in the Austro-Hungarian empire.The EU gets into its worst pickles when the gap between rhetoric and reality becomes too wide. Over enlargement, that moment may be near. The grand bargain with applicants is wobbling, and the pact of trust with EU citizens is in bad shape. Political leaders need to give this closer attention. Or it will not only be Brussels that is jarred by breaking news.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)