In Jerusalem’s early history, it was caught between the conquest ambitions of the great empires of antiquity. Israel sits in the middle of a land bridge that connects three continents. Anyone who wants to build an empire that embraces Asia, Africa and Europe, has to conquer the key span in the middle of that bridge — Israel. And since its capital is Jerusalem, it came in for one siege after another. The Assyrians, Hittites, Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans — all in turn sounded their war trumpets at the gates of Jerusalem. God miraculously delivered Jerusalem many times. However, their greatest danger was never from without, but from within. Because of Israel’s frequent departure from faith in their God, He brought upon Jerusalem a destruction about which His Prophets had long warned them. This happened twice in their history, exactly fulfilling the prophetic warnings they had been given. (see Israel God’s Timepiece)
In the long period since Jerusalem’s second destruction by the Romans, the battle for Jerusalem has become the flashpoint of a 4000 year-old conflict. The age-old family feud between two half brothers whose father was Abraham — Ishmael and Isaac has exploded upon our current scene and drug the world into it. The Arabs are the descendents of Ishmael. They have always believed that the Israelites cheated them out of their inheritance. About AD 622, this deep 4000 year-old resentment became part of a new religion that was started by one of Ishmael’s sons, Mohammed. The religion of Islam is intensely woven around the Arab culture and passions. So wherever Islam has been embraced, Ishmael’s passionate hatred toward the Jew has been embraced with it. Tradition Many years after Mohammed’s death, some teachers of Islam began to claim something that would bind the passions of all Muslims to Jerusalem forever. A myth was created that Muhammad and his horse were miraculously flown to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the night of his death. Muhammad ascended to heaven on his horse from the rock on which Abraham had been willing to sacrifice his son. And of course they believe that the son was Ishmael, not Isaac. Based on this teaching, Jerusalem is the third Holiest Site in Islam. Only Mecca and Medina are seen as more important. The blood that has been spilled because of this teaching is beyond calculation. And yet the past is nothing compared to the blood that is soon to be spilled over this. According to the Prophet Zechariah, this ancient conflict between Ishmael and Isaac over Jerusalem will be the fuse that starts the last war of the world. Now that this issue has been made part of Islam and Judaism, solving it is impossible. Muslims believe that to give Israel Jerusalem, is to confess that the Qur’an and the Hadith, the holiest teachings of Islam, are wrong. Israelis believe that to give up Jerusalem is the same as saying their Holy Bible is wrong, and that all of their sufferings in exile were for nothing.
religion and GOD are two different things.there are many different religions but there is only one GOD.the main point is do you believe there is a GOD who is LORD and saviour of all mankind.do you know GOD. can you believe in something you don't know.I was raised catholic it was ok but later in live was not that happy with what they were teaching and turned to the bible. it really does tell you what is going on in this world and what the future holds.btw the future does not look good.
In the first term of his presidency Barack Obama signed 923 Executive Orders in just under three and a half years. Some of these Executive Orders include the following: -EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates thereof all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. -EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority – with Iran’s full economic and military backing – have been attacking innocent Israeli citizens in this very fashion for years, recently ramping up such attacks.
The only wonder is that Israel has shown such remarkable restraint in her response.
But respond she has.
“Iran has turned Gaza into an outpost of their nation,” Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S. recently told a group of Christian leaders in a special briefing convened by Liberty Counsel. “More than 5.5 million of our citizens are now under threat of missile attack, and over 1,300 missiles have been fired at us since we took action against Hamas.”
To be sure, no reasonable, peace-loving person should have any sympathy whatsoever for the Iranian government, Hamas or the Palestinian Authority – all guilty of serial war crimes.
Indeed, we all mourn the tragic loss of innocent Arab life in Gaza and anywhere else it occurs. So do the Israeli people. So does the Israeli government.
That’s what separates the good from the evil.
Yet it is the Arab authorities who bathe in the blood of innocents. Responsibility for these deaths rests solely at the feet of those wicked men who intentionally shield themselves behind their own women and children – who deliberately place military launch sites and terrorist headquarters next to mosques, homes, playgrounds and the like.
They attack innocent Israelis and then shamelessly cower behind these human shields – their own people – as their intended victims answer back with pinpoint strikes against terrorists and military personnel.
It is purposeful. It is propaganda. And it works.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once said: “Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
But alas, their hate burns hot.
Like wild dogs, the Arab nations remain willing to eat their own young if it serves their evil ends.
And like wild dogs they encircle Israel, the Mountain Gazelle, intending to devour her.
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