JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
3rd AND 4th TEMPLES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2008/01/israeli-temples.html
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EZEKIEL 36:25-26
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
THE RED HEIFER
https://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/red_heifer_contents.htm
New Red Heifer Update-templeinstitute-june 12,14
We are pleased to share this new photograph of our red heifer, candidate for playing an important role in the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. This photograph was taken last week. The heifer, in an undisclosed location, is currently six months old. This photo shows that she has now completely shed her winter coat, revealing her summer coat of deep auburn. We hope to update with more photos soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAoFbA6cr8&feature=youtu.be
Yehuda Glick Recalls Assassination Attempt for the First Time-Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau visits Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in hospital; 'together we will offer thanksgiving in the Temple.'By Uzi Baruch and Ari Soffer-First Publish: 11/17/2014, 3:53 PM-israel national news
Israel's Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau paid a visit to Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in hospital Monday, as he continues to recover from an assassination attempt last month which left him fighting for his life."I'm not in hospital because I have appendicitis, I'm not here because they shot me for being ginger," the red-headed advocate for Jewish prayer quipped to the Chief Rabbi."I'm here because someone thought he could 'defy the armies of God'," he said, paraphrasing the words uttered by King David - another red-headed Jewish leader - to the Philistine general Goliath, who had just previously been mocking the Israelite forces.Glick recounted to Rabbi Lau the terrifying moment he was shot by Mu'taz Hijazi, an Islamic Jihad terrorist who had in fact been employed at a restaurant in the same building where Glick had been giving a speech just minutes before."He approached me, stood opposite me, and of course I naively trusted him," he recalled."He said to me: 'I'm terribly sorry, but you are an enemy of Al Aqsa,' and then he shot - boom boom... and then I saw someone, Shai [Shai Malka, CEO of the Likud party MK Moshe Feiglin's Jewish Leadership faction - ed.], and he said to me 'Yehuda, we need you here, come!' so we ran..."Glick had been shot four times in the chest, and was taken to hospital in critical condition. His would-be assassin was shot dead hours later during a police raid at his home.The veteran activist also told of the intensive treatment he has been receiving since the shooting - which has seen him make a remarkable recovery.Rabbi Lau related to him how the entire Chief Rabbinate had been praying for his recovery and has closely follwed every development since the assassination attempt. "Even after a week we did not stop praying," he said.
Concerning the Temple Mount itself, the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi - who opposes visits to the Mount due to issues of ritual purity - struck a sympathetic note."I have not yet succeeded in finding the right place to say that at this moment I am able to go up. But I pray together with you that with the help of God the two of us will stand there to give thanks.""Remember, we will stand together to give a thanksgiving offering (in the Temple)," he added.Rabbinic opinion is divided over whether anyone (Jews or non-Jews) are allowed to step foot on the Temple Mount according to Jewish law. Some, including the Chief Rabbis, oppose it, whereas others actively encourage it.Glick said that he had received countless requests from prominent figures to visit him, but that at this time it was extremely difficult for him to receive visitors and so he had specifically asked that the first one should be the Israeli Chief Rabbi."Our answer is the fact that the nation of Israel is here despite everything, and our eyes hope and yearn for Zion," he said.
EU Denies it Planned Sanctions Against Israel-Mogherini: EU document proposing sanctions for 'settlement building' was only a 'hypothesis', still 'deplores' construction.By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 11/17/2014, 8:46 PM-israelnationalnews
The European Union (EU) said Monday it deplored Israeli plans to build Jewish homes on land it deems to be "occupied Palestinian territory," but denied outright that it planned sanctions against Israel as a result, AFP reports.There was "no plan of this type," new EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said when asked about an Israeli press report on the issue."I saw an article in Haaretz which apparently referred to an internal working document requested by some member states some time ago," Mogherini told a press conference after chairing her first regular EU foreign ministers meeting."They were only a working hypothesis, did not go to ministers and today they were absolutely not part of our discussion," she said.She added: "Our discussions today were all about getting a positive engagement with Israel and the Palestinians so as to restart the peace process; they were not about isolating or sanctioning anyone."A statement issued after the foreign ministers meeting said the 28-member bloc "deeply deplores and strongly opposes the recent expropriation of land near Bethlehem, recent announcements of plans for new settlement construction... as well as plans to displace Bedouins in the West Bank [Judea-Samaria - ed.] and the continued demolitions, including of EU and member states funded projects."Israel should reverse these decisions which "run counter to international law and directly threaten the two state (peace) solution," it said.The EU has recently stepped up its vehement disapproval of building Jewish homes in the capital. Over the past several weeks, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave instructions for the building of about 660 homes in Ramat Shlomo and about 400 more in Har Homa, as well as approving 2,610 building tenders from 2012 to be approved for full construction.The EU has stressed that building Jewish homes would see 'a return to violence' and threatened Israel multiple times to further its agenda in the Middle East, dangling unprecedented aid packages to both Jerusalem and Ramallah if a two-state solution were to be implemented.In response, Jerusalem has stepped up its own defense of Jewish building in the capital, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman stressing Sunday that Israel 'will never accept' the labels the EU has ascribed to the building project."One thing should be clear: we will never accept the definition of building in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem as settlement activity," Liberman said Sunday. "We won't accept any limitation on building in Jewish areas of (east) Jerusalem.""We do not accept any restrictions on construction in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem and there will be no compromise about it," he continued. "Anyone who thinks that the Israeli government is about to give in and limit construction in Jerusalem is wrong, we will defend our independence and sovereignty."
11/17/2014-vatican insider-Pope confirms visit to Philadelphia: “Family is foundation of co-existence”-A Catholic family-Francis took part in the International Interreligious Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman promoted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-Pope Francis will be in Philadelphia in September 2015 to participate in the 8th World Meeting of Families. He announced his decision today at the end of this morning’s address to participants of the International Interreligious Colloquium on Complementarity between Man and Woman in the Synod Hall. The meetings has been organised by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in collaboration with the Pontifical Councils for the Family, for Interreligious Dialogue and for Promoting Christian Unity. “It is becoming increasingly apparent that the decline of the marriage culture is associated with increased poverty and a host of other social ills, disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly. It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.”Speaking about “complementarity”, Francis said that reflecting on it “involves meditation on the dynamic harmonies that are at the centre of Creation. This is the keyword: harmony. The Creator created all these complementarities so that the Holy Spirit, maker of harmony, can create this harmony.” The Pope explained that in this context, the complementarity between man and woman, must not be confused “with the simplistic idea that all the roles and relations of the two sexes are fixed in a single, static pattern. Complementarity will take many forms as each man and woman brings his or her distinctive contributions to their marriage and to the formation of their children.”The Pope reminded his audience that marriage and the family are facing a crisis today. “We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment. This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.”"The crisis in the family has produced crisis of human ecology, for social environments, like natural environments, need protection. And although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well, slower in our culture, and also in our Catholic Church. It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology and advance it,” Francis said.Francis insisted on the importance of “the fundamental pillars that govern a nation: its non-material goods. The family is the foundation of co-existence and a guarantee against social fragmentation. Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity.” Francis thanked participants of the Colloquium for the emphasis placed on the benefits of marriage for children, spouses and society in general.The Pope went on to underline another important aspect of marriage: “that permanent commitment to solidarity, fidelity, and fruitful love responds to the deepest longings of the human heart. Let us bear in mind especially the young people, who represent our future. It is important that they do not give themselves over to the poisonous mentality of the temporary, but rather be revolutionaries with the courage to seek true and lasting love, going against the common pattern: this must be done.”Finally, Francis urged, “Let us not fall into the trap of being qualified by ideological concepts. Family is an anthropological fact - a socially and culturally related fact. We cannot qualify it with concepts of an ideological nature, that are relevant only in a single moment of history, and then pass by. We can't speak today of a conservative notion of family or a progressive notion of family: Family is family! It can't be qualified by ideological notions. Family has a strength of its own [per se].”
11/17/2014 - vatican insider-Strasbourg and Turkey: The Pope’s visit to the heart of Europe and the Blue Mosque-Francis’ visit to Strasbourg will be the shortest a Pope has ever been on: three hours and fifty minutes. Vatican spokesman, Fr. Lombardi, clarified that Erdoğan’s extravagant presidential palace is of no concern to the Holy See-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-Francis is about to embark on the briefest visit a Pope has even paid to a country; his visit to Strasbourg in the heart of Europe will last all but three hours and fifty minutes. Three days later he will travel to Turkey, the doorstep to Asia and a Muslim-majority country, where he will spend three days. Here he will meet Turkey’s small flock of Catholic and Orthodox faithful, the latter led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with whom the Pope already has close ties. Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi presented Pope Francis’ fifth and sixth international visits at a press conference in the Vatican today. The Pope will visit Strasbourg on 25 November and Turkey from 28 to 30 November. Both trips were scheduled for after the European Parliamentary and Turkish elections which are now over.Pope Francis’ visit to Strasbourg “will be the briefest apostolic journey a Pope has ever made”. Francis will address the Plenary Assemblies of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe “for a total of 3 hours and 50 minutes,” Fr. Lombardi underlined. “No pastoral, religious or liturgical events have been planned as part of the meeting with the big European institutions, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe,” the spokesman said, adding that the Pope will not even be visiting Strasbourg cathedral which celebrates its millennial anniversary this year. Consequently, as per protocol, French President François Hollande will not be present, but the Secretary of State for European Affairs will. The Pope will also not be taking a tour on the Popemobile to meet and greet the locals. During this trip, Francis will be speaking to the whole of Europe and despite the brevity of the visit, is will be an occasion or enormous importance, the Vatican spokesman said.The Pope will speak to the European Parliament first and then to the Council of Europe, two very distinct European institutions: the first is formed through elections and is part of the European Union, while the latter was created well before the former and is made up of national members of parliament and stretches well beyond the EU, toward the East and includes countries such as Ukraine and Russia. So although the Pope’s two addresses will overlap in certain places, they need to be carefully tailored to each audience. Francis’ Strasbourg visit will be introduced by the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz. Before moving onto the Council of Europe, the Pope will meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who is currently President of the Council of the European Union and Herman Van Rompuy, outgoing President of the Council of Europe. “All of us, especially the Pope, are well aware of the fact that he is not a political head of state with military and economic powers or special interests,” Fr. Lombardi said in response to questions relating to one European member of parliament’s objections to the Pope’s visit. “The Pope’s presence in the international organisation sphere is significant because he is an important religious and moral authority who is recognised internationally and globally.” At the Council of Europe Francis will be received by Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland and Swiss President of the Parliamentary Assembly Anne Brasseur. He will then give his second address to the second extraordinary session of a European institution. The Nuncios to the two institutions will be presenta long with Budapest’s Cardinal Peter Erdő President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the Archbishop of Munich, Reinhard Marx, President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMETE). The Pope will arrive in Strasbourg at 10 am and depart for Rome at 1:50 pm.Fr. Federico Lombardi began his briefing on the Pope’s trip to the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Ankara by underlining that before the trips undertaken by Paul VI (1967), John Paul II(1979) and Benedict XVI (2006), the Holy See owes its existing relations with Turkey to John XXIII, who was Nuncio there for ten years. Francis will not be going to Smirne (Izmir). Fr. Lombardi recalled how busy the Pope’s schedule is going to be: meeting with civil authorities, with the minister for religious affairs, joint message by the Pope and Bartholomew, orthodox Divine Liturgy and mass celebration for the local Catholic community. The Vatican spokesman also clarified that the extravagant and highly controversial palace built for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is “a matter which is of no concern to the Holy See”. Francis will be received in the presidential palace on 28 November. “We have heard about the controversies surrounding the new presidential palace,” the Vatican spokesman said. “As you know, a palace is not built in one day, work on it started a long time before the Pope decided to visit Turkey, this has been an ongoing issue in Turkey for a long time and is not linked to the Pope’s visit.” “When the Pope is invited somewhere, he goes wherever the President decides to receive him, as any other educated person would.” Pope Francis may pray when he visits the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, but it will not be a formal or public prayer as it was when Benedict XVI visited. It would be a moment of private reflection in a place where many people go to pray, without any gestures or specific words relating to another religion being expressed, Fr. Lombardi specified. Fr. Lombardi added that no public moments of prayer have been scheduled for the Pope’s visit to Hagia Sophia. Concerning security, the Vatican spokesman said: “I recall there was tight security in place in Istanbul last time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same this time.” Nevertheless, “when one is invited to a country, the level of security is decided by the local government.” Regarding the possibility of a papal visit to the House of the Virgin Mary near Ephesus, mentioned on the web in recent days, Fr. Lombardi said: “Websites say all sorts of things, it doesn’t mean it’s all true… Squeezing a trip to Ephesus in would be difficult. One can’t fit everything in in three days.”Today the Pope received the new Turkish ambassador to the Holy See in audience, for the presentation of his Letters of Credence.
Merkel: Russia cannot veto EU expansion-17.11.14 @ 12:36-By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - Germany has warned that Russia might try to spread its “sphere of influence” to the Western Balkans, while seeking new ways to make peace on Ukraine.“Who would have thought it possible that 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War and the division of the world into two blocs, that such a thing could happen in the middle of Europe: old thinking about spheres of influence, which runs roughshod over international law?” German chancellor Angela Merkel told an audience at the Lowy Institution for International Policy, a think tank in Brisbane, on Sunday (16 November).Such an approach, she said, puts the “entire European peace order into question”.She warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin that the EU will not bow to Moscow the same way that former Eastern Germany used to, while making reference to further EU expansion.“Otherwise you would have to say: ‘We're too weak. We can't take anyone else on board. We will ask Moscow first if that is possible’. That's how it was for 40 years and I don't want to go back to that”."It’s not just about Ukraine. It’s about Moldova, about Georgia – if it continues likes this, we would have to ask about Serbia; we would have to ask about the Western Balkan states,” she added at the Lowy event, according to German news agency DPA.She noted that if the majority of Ukrainians had wanted to join Russia’s economic bloc - the Eurasian Union - instead of seeking EU integration then the West would not have started making “noise” on the Polish-Ukrainian border.But she ruled out European military support for Ukraine, saying: “It would lead to military confrontation with Russia, which would certainly not be local”.“We have to leave no stone unturned to get into talks with Russia on a diplomatic solution to the [Ukraine] conflict”.
Confidential talks
Merkel’s Lowy remarks came after she spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at his hotel for six hours in the margins of Australia’s G20 summit.They spoke alone - with no aides present - for two hours, before inviting European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to join them.Merkel told press the “talks were confidential, of course, so I will not go into details”.She also told media “the present situation [in Ukraine] is not satisfying … at present the [EU] listing of further persons is on the agenda”.There was no Juncker comment on the hotel meeting.Putin’s statement said only the “discussion with Angela Merkel covered Russian-German relations, while the talks with Jean-Claude Juncker focused on relations between Moscow and Brussels”.He later told press: “It might sound strange to you, but I think there are good hopes for being able to settle the situation”.“After all, both sides have at least established organisations that can act with greater responsibility to resolve the tasks ahead”.German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also indicated the Merkel-Juncker-Putin talks led to some kind of breakthrough.“Maybe we should look for new approaches to reduce the tension in the EU's relations with Russia?”, he told German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag.Recalling Putin’s comment on “established organisations”, he added that “representatives of the EU and the Eurasian Union could come together for first contacts … a meeting of both organisations on an equal footing could be a contribution to the easing of the relationship”.He also told press on Monday in Brussels, while arriving at an EU foreign ministers’ meeting, that EU-Eurasian Union talks on trade could be a “starting point” for better Russia ties.
Western leaders echo Merkel
The G20 summit took place amid Nato reports that Russia is pouring fresh troops and armour into Ukraine.It also comes after Russia-controlled fighters in east Ukraine held elections in two self-declared republics in violation of peace accords.Referring to Russia, US president Barack Obama told the G20 meeting: “You don’t invade other countries or finance proxies and support them in ways that break up a country”.But he added that if Russia falls in line with Western demands “then I will be the first to suggest that we roll back the sanctions”.British PM David Cameron warned Putin that “if he continues to destabilise Ukraine, there will be further sanctions”.He added: “He [Putin] also knows there is a different path that he could take. He could recognise, as he put it to me last night, that Ukraine is a single political space and recognise that that single political space should be respected … if he takes that path, then we can see sanctions eased”.French PM Francois Hollande said he is “always ready” to take part in fresh EU-mediated Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Putin wants ‘federal’ Ukraine
The G20 aside, Putin also set out his view on Ukraine to the German people on Sunday.The Russian leader told German broadcaster ARD in a lengthy interview that he did nothing wrong by annexing Crimea.He said the West and the UN created a “clear precedent – Kosovo” for the Crimea referendum on independence and on joining Russia.“The main point [of Kosovo] was that when making a decision concerning their self-determination, the people living in a certain territory need not ask the opinion of the central authorities of the state where they presently live”.“What was done in Crimea was not in any way different from what had been done in Kosovo.”He indicated the solution to the conflict is for Western powers to “influence [their] clients in Kiev” to accept a break-up of Ukraine.“The people who live on this territory [Ukraine], regardless of the language they speak - Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian or Polish - must feel that this territory is their homeland,” he said.“I do not understand the unwillingness of some political forces in Ukraine to even hear about the possibility of federalisation.”“We’ve been hearing lately that the question at issue should be not federalisation but decentralisation. It is all really a play on words … the people living in these territories must realise that they have rights to something, that they can decide something for themselves”.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
3rd AND 4th TEMPLES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2008/01/israeli-temples.html
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EZEKIEL 36:25-26
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
THE RED HEIFER
https://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/red_heifer_contents.htm
New Red Heifer Update-templeinstitute-june 12,14
We are pleased to share this new photograph of our red heifer, candidate for playing an important role in the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. This photograph was taken last week. The heifer, in an undisclosed location, is currently six months old. This photo shows that she has now completely shed her winter coat, revealing her summer coat of deep auburn. We hope to update with more photos soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAoFbA6cr8&feature=youtu.be
Yehuda Glick Recalls Assassination Attempt for the First Time-Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau visits Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in hospital; 'together we will offer thanksgiving in the Temple.'By Uzi Baruch and Ari Soffer-First Publish: 11/17/2014, 3:53 PM-israel national news
Israel's Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau paid a visit to Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in hospital Monday, as he continues to recover from an assassination attempt last month which left him fighting for his life."I'm not in hospital because I have appendicitis, I'm not here because they shot me for being ginger," the red-headed advocate for Jewish prayer quipped to the Chief Rabbi."I'm here because someone thought he could 'defy the armies of God'," he said, paraphrasing the words uttered by King David - another red-headed Jewish leader - to the Philistine general Goliath, who had just previously been mocking the Israelite forces.Glick recounted to Rabbi Lau the terrifying moment he was shot by Mu'taz Hijazi, an Islamic Jihad terrorist who had in fact been employed at a restaurant in the same building where Glick had been giving a speech just minutes before."He approached me, stood opposite me, and of course I naively trusted him," he recalled."He said to me: 'I'm terribly sorry, but you are an enemy of Al Aqsa,' and then he shot - boom boom... and then I saw someone, Shai [Shai Malka, CEO of the Likud party MK Moshe Feiglin's Jewish Leadership faction - ed.], and he said to me 'Yehuda, we need you here, come!' so we ran..."Glick had been shot four times in the chest, and was taken to hospital in critical condition. His would-be assassin was shot dead hours later during a police raid at his home.The veteran activist also told of the intensive treatment he has been receiving since the shooting - which has seen him make a remarkable recovery.Rabbi Lau related to him how the entire Chief Rabbinate had been praying for his recovery and has closely follwed every development since the assassination attempt. "Even after a week we did not stop praying," he said.
Concerning the Temple Mount itself, the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi - who opposes visits to the Mount due to issues of ritual purity - struck a sympathetic note."I have not yet succeeded in finding the right place to say that at this moment I am able to go up. But I pray together with you that with the help of God the two of us will stand there to give thanks.""Remember, we will stand together to give a thanksgiving offering (in the Temple)," he added.Rabbinic opinion is divided over whether anyone (Jews or non-Jews) are allowed to step foot on the Temple Mount according to Jewish law. Some, including the Chief Rabbis, oppose it, whereas others actively encourage it.Glick said that he had received countless requests from prominent figures to visit him, but that at this time it was extremely difficult for him to receive visitors and so he had specifically asked that the first one should be the Israeli Chief Rabbi."Our answer is the fact that the nation of Israel is here despite everything, and our eyes hope and yearn for Zion," he said.
EU Denies it Planned Sanctions Against Israel-Mogherini: EU document proposing sanctions for 'settlement building' was only a 'hypothesis', still 'deplores' construction.By Arutz Sheva Staff-First Publish: 11/17/2014, 8:46 PM-israelnationalnews
The European Union (EU) said Monday it deplored Israeli plans to build Jewish homes on land it deems to be "occupied Palestinian territory," but denied outright that it planned sanctions against Israel as a result, AFP reports.There was "no plan of this type," new EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said when asked about an Israeli press report on the issue."I saw an article in Haaretz which apparently referred to an internal working document requested by some member states some time ago," Mogherini told a press conference after chairing her first regular EU foreign ministers meeting."They were only a working hypothesis, did not go to ministers and today they were absolutely not part of our discussion," she said.She added: "Our discussions today were all about getting a positive engagement with Israel and the Palestinians so as to restart the peace process; they were not about isolating or sanctioning anyone."A statement issued after the foreign ministers meeting said the 28-member bloc "deeply deplores and strongly opposes the recent expropriation of land near Bethlehem, recent announcements of plans for new settlement construction... as well as plans to displace Bedouins in the West Bank [Judea-Samaria - ed.] and the continued demolitions, including of EU and member states funded projects."Israel should reverse these decisions which "run counter to international law and directly threaten the two state (peace) solution," it said.The EU has recently stepped up its vehement disapproval of building Jewish homes in the capital. Over the past several weeks, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave instructions for the building of about 660 homes in Ramat Shlomo and about 400 more in Har Homa, as well as approving 2,610 building tenders from 2012 to be approved for full construction.The EU has stressed that building Jewish homes would see 'a return to violence' and threatened Israel multiple times to further its agenda in the Middle East, dangling unprecedented aid packages to both Jerusalem and Ramallah if a two-state solution were to be implemented.In response, Jerusalem has stepped up its own defense of Jewish building in the capital, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman stressing Sunday that Israel 'will never accept' the labels the EU has ascribed to the building project."One thing should be clear: we will never accept the definition of building in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem as settlement activity," Liberman said Sunday. "We won't accept any limitation on building in Jewish areas of (east) Jerusalem.""We do not accept any restrictions on construction in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem and there will be no compromise about it," he continued. "Anyone who thinks that the Israeli government is about to give in and limit construction in Jerusalem is wrong, we will defend our independence and sovereignty."
11/17/2014-vatican insider-Pope confirms visit to Philadelphia: “Family is foundation of co-existence”-A Catholic family-Francis took part in the International Interreligious Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman promoted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-Pope Francis will be in Philadelphia in September 2015 to participate in the 8th World Meeting of Families. He announced his decision today at the end of this morning’s address to participants of the International Interreligious Colloquium on Complementarity between Man and Woman in the Synod Hall. The meetings has been organised by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in collaboration with the Pontifical Councils for the Family, for Interreligious Dialogue and for Promoting Christian Unity. “It is becoming increasingly apparent that the decline of the marriage culture is associated with increased poverty and a host of other social ills, disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly. It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.”Speaking about “complementarity”, Francis said that reflecting on it “involves meditation on the dynamic harmonies that are at the centre of Creation. This is the keyword: harmony. The Creator created all these complementarities so that the Holy Spirit, maker of harmony, can create this harmony.” The Pope explained that in this context, the complementarity between man and woman, must not be confused “with the simplistic idea that all the roles and relations of the two sexes are fixed in a single, static pattern. Complementarity will take many forms as each man and woman brings his or her distinctive contributions to their marriage and to the formation of their children.”The Pope reminded his audience that marriage and the family are facing a crisis today. “We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment. This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.”"The crisis in the family has produced crisis of human ecology, for social environments, like natural environments, need protection. And although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well, slower in our culture, and also in our Catholic Church. It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology and advance it,” Francis said.Francis insisted on the importance of “the fundamental pillars that govern a nation: its non-material goods. The family is the foundation of co-existence and a guarantee against social fragmentation. Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity.” Francis thanked participants of the Colloquium for the emphasis placed on the benefits of marriage for children, spouses and society in general.The Pope went on to underline another important aspect of marriage: “that permanent commitment to solidarity, fidelity, and fruitful love responds to the deepest longings of the human heart. Let us bear in mind especially the young people, who represent our future. It is important that they do not give themselves over to the poisonous mentality of the temporary, but rather be revolutionaries with the courage to seek true and lasting love, going against the common pattern: this must be done.”Finally, Francis urged, “Let us not fall into the trap of being qualified by ideological concepts. Family is an anthropological fact - a socially and culturally related fact. We cannot qualify it with concepts of an ideological nature, that are relevant only in a single moment of history, and then pass by. We can't speak today of a conservative notion of family or a progressive notion of family: Family is family! It can't be qualified by ideological notions. Family has a strength of its own [per se].”
11/17/2014 - vatican insider-Strasbourg and Turkey: The Pope’s visit to the heart of Europe and the Blue Mosque-Francis’ visit to Strasbourg will be the shortest a Pope has ever been on: three hours and fifty minutes. Vatican spokesman, Fr. Lombardi, clarified that Erdoğan’s extravagant presidential palace is of no concern to the Holy See-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-Francis is about to embark on the briefest visit a Pope has even paid to a country; his visit to Strasbourg in the heart of Europe will last all but three hours and fifty minutes. Three days later he will travel to Turkey, the doorstep to Asia and a Muslim-majority country, where he will spend three days. Here he will meet Turkey’s small flock of Catholic and Orthodox faithful, the latter led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with whom the Pope already has close ties. Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi presented Pope Francis’ fifth and sixth international visits at a press conference in the Vatican today. The Pope will visit Strasbourg on 25 November and Turkey from 28 to 30 November. Both trips were scheduled for after the European Parliamentary and Turkish elections which are now over.Pope Francis’ visit to Strasbourg “will be the briefest apostolic journey a Pope has ever made”. Francis will address the Plenary Assemblies of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe “for a total of 3 hours and 50 minutes,” Fr. Lombardi underlined. “No pastoral, religious or liturgical events have been planned as part of the meeting with the big European institutions, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe,” the spokesman said, adding that the Pope will not even be visiting Strasbourg cathedral which celebrates its millennial anniversary this year. Consequently, as per protocol, French President François Hollande will not be present, but the Secretary of State for European Affairs will. The Pope will also not be taking a tour on the Popemobile to meet and greet the locals. During this trip, Francis will be speaking to the whole of Europe and despite the brevity of the visit, is will be an occasion or enormous importance, the Vatican spokesman said.The Pope will speak to the European Parliament first and then to the Council of Europe, two very distinct European institutions: the first is formed through elections and is part of the European Union, while the latter was created well before the former and is made up of national members of parliament and stretches well beyond the EU, toward the East and includes countries such as Ukraine and Russia. So although the Pope’s two addresses will overlap in certain places, they need to be carefully tailored to each audience. Francis’ Strasbourg visit will be introduced by the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz. Before moving onto the Council of Europe, the Pope will meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who is currently President of the Council of the European Union and Herman Van Rompuy, outgoing President of the Council of Europe. “All of us, especially the Pope, are well aware of the fact that he is not a political head of state with military and economic powers or special interests,” Fr. Lombardi said in response to questions relating to one European member of parliament’s objections to the Pope’s visit. “The Pope’s presence in the international organisation sphere is significant because he is an important religious and moral authority who is recognised internationally and globally.” At the Council of Europe Francis will be received by Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland and Swiss President of the Parliamentary Assembly Anne Brasseur. He will then give his second address to the second extraordinary session of a European institution. The Nuncios to the two institutions will be presenta long with Budapest’s Cardinal Peter Erdő President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the Archbishop of Munich, Reinhard Marx, President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMETE). The Pope will arrive in Strasbourg at 10 am and depart for Rome at 1:50 pm.Fr. Federico Lombardi began his briefing on the Pope’s trip to the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Ankara by underlining that before the trips undertaken by Paul VI (1967), John Paul II(1979) and Benedict XVI (2006), the Holy See owes its existing relations with Turkey to John XXIII, who was Nuncio there for ten years. Francis will not be going to Smirne (Izmir). Fr. Lombardi recalled how busy the Pope’s schedule is going to be: meeting with civil authorities, with the minister for religious affairs, joint message by the Pope and Bartholomew, orthodox Divine Liturgy and mass celebration for the local Catholic community. The Vatican spokesman also clarified that the extravagant and highly controversial palace built for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is “a matter which is of no concern to the Holy See”. Francis will be received in the presidential palace on 28 November. “We have heard about the controversies surrounding the new presidential palace,” the Vatican spokesman said. “As you know, a palace is not built in one day, work on it started a long time before the Pope decided to visit Turkey, this has been an ongoing issue in Turkey for a long time and is not linked to the Pope’s visit.” “When the Pope is invited somewhere, he goes wherever the President decides to receive him, as any other educated person would.” Pope Francis may pray when he visits the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, but it will not be a formal or public prayer as it was when Benedict XVI visited. It would be a moment of private reflection in a place where many people go to pray, without any gestures or specific words relating to another religion being expressed, Fr. Lombardi specified. Fr. Lombardi added that no public moments of prayer have been scheduled for the Pope’s visit to Hagia Sophia. Concerning security, the Vatican spokesman said: “I recall there was tight security in place in Istanbul last time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same this time.” Nevertheless, “when one is invited to a country, the level of security is decided by the local government.” Regarding the possibility of a papal visit to the House of the Virgin Mary near Ephesus, mentioned on the web in recent days, Fr. Lombardi said: “Websites say all sorts of things, it doesn’t mean it’s all true… Squeezing a trip to Ephesus in would be difficult. One can’t fit everything in in three days.”Today the Pope received the new Turkish ambassador to the Holy See in audience, for the presentation of his Letters of Credence.
Merkel: Russia cannot veto EU expansion-17.11.14 @ 12:36-By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - Germany has warned that Russia might try to spread its “sphere of influence” to the Western Balkans, while seeking new ways to make peace on Ukraine.“Who would have thought it possible that 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War and the division of the world into two blocs, that such a thing could happen in the middle of Europe: old thinking about spheres of influence, which runs roughshod over international law?” German chancellor Angela Merkel told an audience at the Lowy Institution for International Policy, a think tank in Brisbane, on Sunday (16 November).Such an approach, she said, puts the “entire European peace order into question”.She warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin that the EU will not bow to Moscow the same way that former Eastern Germany used to, while making reference to further EU expansion.“Otherwise you would have to say: ‘We're too weak. We can't take anyone else on board. We will ask Moscow first if that is possible’. That's how it was for 40 years and I don't want to go back to that”."It’s not just about Ukraine. It’s about Moldova, about Georgia – if it continues likes this, we would have to ask about Serbia; we would have to ask about the Western Balkan states,” she added at the Lowy event, according to German news agency DPA.She noted that if the majority of Ukrainians had wanted to join Russia’s economic bloc - the Eurasian Union - instead of seeking EU integration then the West would not have started making “noise” on the Polish-Ukrainian border.But she ruled out European military support for Ukraine, saying: “It would lead to military confrontation with Russia, which would certainly not be local”.“We have to leave no stone unturned to get into talks with Russia on a diplomatic solution to the [Ukraine] conflict”.
Confidential talks
Merkel’s Lowy remarks came after she spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at his hotel for six hours in the margins of Australia’s G20 summit.They spoke alone - with no aides present - for two hours, before inviting European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to join them.Merkel told press the “talks were confidential, of course, so I will not go into details”.She also told media “the present situation [in Ukraine] is not satisfying … at present the [EU] listing of further persons is on the agenda”.There was no Juncker comment on the hotel meeting.Putin’s statement said only the “discussion with Angela Merkel covered Russian-German relations, while the talks with Jean-Claude Juncker focused on relations between Moscow and Brussels”.He later told press: “It might sound strange to you, but I think there are good hopes for being able to settle the situation”.“After all, both sides have at least established organisations that can act with greater responsibility to resolve the tasks ahead”.German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also indicated the Merkel-Juncker-Putin talks led to some kind of breakthrough.“Maybe we should look for new approaches to reduce the tension in the EU's relations with Russia?”, he told German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag.Recalling Putin’s comment on “established organisations”, he added that “representatives of the EU and the Eurasian Union could come together for first contacts … a meeting of both organisations on an equal footing could be a contribution to the easing of the relationship”.He also told press on Monday in Brussels, while arriving at an EU foreign ministers’ meeting, that EU-Eurasian Union talks on trade could be a “starting point” for better Russia ties.
Western leaders echo Merkel
The G20 summit took place amid Nato reports that Russia is pouring fresh troops and armour into Ukraine.It also comes after Russia-controlled fighters in east Ukraine held elections in two self-declared republics in violation of peace accords.Referring to Russia, US president Barack Obama told the G20 meeting: “You don’t invade other countries or finance proxies and support them in ways that break up a country”.But he added that if Russia falls in line with Western demands “then I will be the first to suggest that we roll back the sanctions”.British PM David Cameron warned Putin that “if he continues to destabilise Ukraine, there will be further sanctions”.He added: “He [Putin] also knows there is a different path that he could take. He could recognise, as he put it to me last night, that Ukraine is a single political space and recognise that that single political space should be respected … if he takes that path, then we can see sanctions eased”.French PM Francois Hollande said he is “always ready” to take part in fresh EU-mediated Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Putin wants ‘federal’ Ukraine
The G20 aside, Putin also set out his view on Ukraine to the German people on Sunday.The Russian leader told German broadcaster ARD in a lengthy interview that he did nothing wrong by annexing Crimea.He said the West and the UN created a “clear precedent – Kosovo” for the Crimea referendum on independence and on joining Russia.“The main point [of Kosovo] was that when making a decision concerning their self-determination, the people living in a certain territory need not ask the opinion of the central authorities of the state where they presently live”.“What was done in Crimea was not in any way different from what had been done in Kosovo.”He indicated the solution to the conflict is for Western powers to “influence [their] clients in Kiev” to accept a break-up of Ukraine.“The people who live on this territory [Ukraine], regardless of the language they speak - Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian or Polish - must feel that this territory is their homeland,” he said.“I do not understand the unwillingness of some political forces in Ukraine to even hear about the possibility of federalisation.”“We’ve been hearing lately that the question at issue should be not federalisation but decentralisation. It is all really a play on words … the people living in these territories must realise that they have rights to something, that they can decide something for themselves”.
