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The Spring Equinox Has Come And Gone … Has The 1260 Day Countdown Begun?

03/23/2013 1 comment

Here’s an update on this story. The Spring Equinox has come and gone without any obvious fulfilment of the theory set forth by 119 Ministries in their “End of Days” teachings series, specifically part 4 of the series titled “Daniel Unsealed“. Though I strongly disagree with some of the teachings set forth by 119 Ministries, they admittedly offered a number of compelling reasons why the final 1260 days leading up to the Second Advent could begin around March 21st or 22nd, 2013. But it didn’t happen. Now, does this mean that Christ will not return in 2016 as 119 Ministries and others have theorized? No, of course not. Although most of us view the 1260 days as literal days, which they very well could be (a view that I still hold myself), we need not turn a blind eye to the possibility that they were intended as days of years, more along the lines of an historicist view of Church history (albeit non-papal). If that is the case, then we could still be well on our way to witnessing the glorious return of our Saviour and King in a few short years. As always, test all things and let us not sleep as others do, but let us continue to watch …

119 Ministries Statement: “Shalom to those who love YHWH and all of His Word,

It is with mixed feelings that 119 acknowledges that the seemingly compelling data points brought forth in the teaching ‘Daniel Unsealed’ resulted in no substantial and quantifiable edifying value.

From the beginning, we admitted that possibility, and firmly stated that ‘Daniel Unsealed’ was either one of 119’s most important teachings, or the least important. We are sad to say that reality proves that it was 119’s least important teachings.

This by no means reflects negatively on our Creator. He is in control of all things, and though His prophecy is perfect, those that make every humble attempt to interpret it are by no means perfect, including us. We pray that this does not reflect negatively on 119 Ministries, though we understand that there will be those that consider this as a mark against 119 Ministries. For those that share that sentiment, we apologize deeply for any disappointment or frustration that may have resulted from our decision to share what we considered to be a prophetic possibility.

We by no means regret our decision to create and publish the teaching, but regret any way that we may have fallen short to mitigate any ill feelings toward the fact that the data proved inconsequential. The data was compelling, and should have been interpreted as a Read more…

Categories: Anything Else, Theology and Eschatology

With A Straight Face, Obama Compares Israel-Palestinian Conflict To U.S.-Canada Relationship

03/22/2013 1 comment

Despite the flatteries he showered on Israel over past couple of days, Barack Obama’s understanding of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict specifically still remains completely detached from reality …

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch – “He’s got a point. Turn on Canadian TV anytime, and you’re liable to see some fanatical Church of Canada preacher preaching a fiery sermon about how all Canadians must pray and work for America’s destruction, and how Canadian mothers should thank God for their children who get killed while in the process of murdering Americans. Just think about all those Canadians who throw rocks at U.S. border guards, blow themselves up at border checkpoints, and talk about how from Seattle to Key West, Canada will be free.

Got to hand it to Barack Obama. He’s an analyst of unusual acuity. We are so lucky to have him as President.” Source – Jihad Watch.

MK Yogev: Two-State Solution Delusional – “MK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) responded to the Hamas rocket fire from Gaza, ‘this morning’s rocket fire is the best Israeli PR in time for the visit of President Obama, witnessed worldwide. This is why we must not withdraw from Judea and Samaria. This is the Land given to us by G-d, and the two-state solution is contradictory to the Eternity of Israel, and is completely detached from reality.'” Source – INN.

Flashback: Netanyahu Associate: Obama Detached From Regional Realities – “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s associates expressed their disappointment with Barack Obama’s speech Thursday, with one aide saying that the US president is detached from regional realities… Referring to the US president’s Mideast policy speech, a Netanyahu associate said: ‘He (Obama) didn’t deliver the goods…Obama apparently does not understand the reality in the Mideast.’” Read more.

Categories: Anything Else, Radical Islam

Former Muslim: Islam Is “Not Merely A Religion But A Cult Belief System” Of A Man — “The Cult Of Muhammad”

03/22/2013 24 comments

Revelation 13:18, “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count [‘psēphizō‘ – reckon] the number [‘arithmos‘ – multitude] of the beast: for it is the number [‘arithmos‘ – multitude] of a man; and his number [‘arithmos‘ – multitude] is ‘χξς‘ …”

Exegetically and hermeneutically, the “number” (arithmos) of the Beast does not necessitate the use of mathematics or gammatria to “reckon” what it is, as many prophecy teachers have often assumed. The reason for this is simple. The word “arithmos” is used a total of 18 times in the New Testament, and aside from Revelation 5:11 when John is referring to the number of angels around the throne of God, every other time “arithmos” is used it is always referring to a group of people. This therefore suggests that the understanding intended by John is again referring us to a specific group of people, as in “the multitude of the beast: for it is the multitude of a man.” But what man would that be and who are the people associated with him? First, there is absolutely nothing in the text telling us that the man who John was referring to must be someone alive at that specific time of the end, another assumption often espoused by many teachers. Second, the Greek word “chi-xi-stigma” — which is often translated as “666″ — is nearly identical to the Arabic Bismallah, which means “In The Name Of Allah”. Thirdly, of significance is the fact that in order to convert to “Allah’s religion” one must recite the Islamic creed, called the Shahada, by declaring that “There is no god but Allah, and MOHAMMED is his messenger.” Without Christ, there can be no Christianity. Likewise, without Mohammed, there can be no Islam. Thus, if one does not acknowledge the man Mohammed, they cannot become a Muslim and will not be counted as part of the people of Islam — the Ummah. In this light, it therefore only stands to reason that “the number (multitude) of a man” is not referring to an eschatonic Antichrist, but rather to Mohammed — the founder and (false) prophet of Islam — whose teachings even today, and in increasing measure, continues to force all those under Islamic rule to worship Allah — the god of Islam — who should otherwise be killed if they refuse …

See: Turkish Writer: 10 Million Muslims Killed By Muslims Since 1948 Thanks To Mohammed
See: Arab Writer: Islam’s Uncivilized ‘Civilization’ Has Accomplished Nothing Thanks To Mohammed

Revelation 13:15, “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.”

By Clare M. Lopez, Islam Watch – “The Iraqi-born native Arabic-speaker who goes by the name ‘I. Q. Rassooli’ has lived in Europe since his university days studying engineering in England. His mind is an inquiring and a questioning one, characteristics not much appreciated among the conformist Muslim community of his origins. And so he stayed in the West and, for the next 23 years, undertook ‘as thorough a study of Islam as humanly possible,’ as he says.

His research and analysis about Muhammad, the Qur’an, Hadiths, Shariah, Arab and Islamic history, and a comparative, contrasting study of those with the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Zoroastrian (Persian) beliefs, pagan Arab religions and more culminated in a thesis that no publisher would print. Instead, al-Rassooli created a website, www.inthenameofallah.org that now contains over 780 chapters. He also put up over 280 audio/video chapters on YouTube that collectively received over 1.59 million visitors and 3,976 subscribers in the two years before YouTube removed took them down. Luckily, al-Rassooli had them all backed up on his blog site at www.the-koran.blogspot.com and he then put them back up on YouTube under another name. His website is at www.alrassooli.com

Al-Rassooli also founded a movement called the Ummat al Kuffar (Nation of Infidels) that he hopes will develop and grow, given that some 80% of all humanity are not Muslims but rather the object of Islamic supremacist conquest intentions. He says his mission is the exposure of the facts and reality about Islam, based on the primary Arabic language sources themselves.

Family Security Matters Contributing Writer Clare Lopez recently was granted the opportunity to interview I.Q. al-Rassooli about Islam. Here are his replies to her questions

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Categories: Radical Islam, Theology and Eschatology

Iranian Supreme Leader: Our Islamic Republic Will Destroy Israeli Cities If Attacked

03/21/2013 1 comment

By Marcus George and Zahra Hosseinian, Reuters – ” DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday that the Islamic Republic would destroy the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if its nuclear infrastructure came under attack from the Jewish state.

Israel puts little stock in big power negotiations aimed at curbing Iran’s uranium enrichment – which Western nations suspect is a conduit to nuclear weapons capability – and has repeatedly hinted at pre-emptive war against its arch-enemy.

During a visit to Israel on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged its security concerns, saying, ‘America will do what we must to prevent a nuclear Iran.’ But he also said big powers believed there was still time for a diplomatic solution.

Russia said Iran and six global powers made headway in expert-level talks this week to ease the 10-year-long standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, but the risk of backsliding towards confrontation remained.

Higher-level political talks between the powers and Iran are to resume in the Kazakh city of Almaty early next month, part of a concerted effort to avert another Middle East war that could balloon oil prices and wreak havoc on the global economy.

Khamenei, in a televised speech marking the Iranian new year, said: ‘At times the officials of the Zionist regime (Israel) threaten to launch a military invasion but they themselves know that if they make the slightest mistake the Islamic Republic will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.'” Read more.

Flashback: Iran: ‘When the Entire World is Armed With Nuclear Weapons, it is Permissible to Use These Weapons as a Counter-[Measure]’ – “‘The spiritual leaders of the ultra-conservatives [in Iran] have accepted the use of nuclear weapons as lawful in the eyes of shari’a… [Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s spiritual mentor Gharavian] has spoken for the first time of using nuclear weapons as a counter-measure. He stated that ‘in terms of shari’a, it all depends on the goal.’… Gharavian is a lecturer at the religious schools of Qom, and is a disciple of [Ayatollah] Mesbah Yazdi. In his recent remarks, he said for the first time that the use of nuclear weapons may not constitute a problem according to shari’a. He further said that ‘when the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is permissible to use these weapons as a counter-[measure]. According to shari’a, too, only the goal is important…’” Read more.

Flashback: Iran Ayatollah: Kill All Jews Worldwide, Annihilate Israel – “The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people. The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide. Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove ‘this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification’ to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.’” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam, Wars and Rumors of War

Residents Unnerved After The Earth Shakes Beneath South Jersey, ‘We Still Don’t Know Exactly What Caused It’

03/21/2013 Leave a comment

NBC40 – “SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY – Just after 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon residents in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties say they felt multiple earthquake-like tremors that rattled their homes and offices.

Absecon resident, Kay Stadlmeir, said, ‘I don’t think it would be an earthquake, but what could it be? It’s just really odd.’ Somers Point resident, Bob Mower, explained, ‘There was a rattling of my windows and I felt the house shake just a little bit – it was unusual.’ Stadlmeir told NBC40, ‘It has to be something really big to be witnessed in such a widespread area of South Jersey.’

The reports vary from region to region.

Atlantic county emergency management officials confirmed with the U.S. Geological Survey that it was not an earthquake. The next thought was that military training or an aircraft flying by might have caused the shakes.

Both the 177th Fighter Wing in Egg Harbor Township and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst confirmed none of their aircrafts were in the area at that time.

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is still working to confirm whether or not any ground training was happening at the time, although it is unlikely that would cause such a widespread shake.

Stadlmeir said, ‘I really don’t think it’s a sonic boom because, you know as I said before, I’ve experienced them before and this is nothing like that.’ Mower told NBC40, ‘That was real unusual. I almost wondered if I was dreaming on that one.'” Read more.

Categories: Anything Else, Natural Disasters

NASA: Large Asteroid Heading To Earth? Pray …

03/21/2013 2 comments

Good advice. Just be sure that you’re praying to Someone who can actually listen …

By Irene Klotz, Reuters via Yahoo! News – ” CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.

That’s about all the United States – or anyone for that matter – could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.

An asteroid estimated to be have been about 55 feet in diameter exploded on February 15 over Chelyabinsk, Russia, generating shock waves that shattered windows and damaged buildings. More than 1,500 people were injured.

Later that day, a larger, unrelated asteroid discovered last year passed about 17,200 miles from Earth, closer than the network of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.

The events ‘serve as evidence that we live in an active solar system with potentially hazardous objects passing through our neighborhood with surprising frequency,’ said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat.

‘We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe,’ said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet.

NASA has found and is tracking about 95 percent of the largest objects flying near Earth, those that are .62 miles or larger in diameter.

‘An asteroid of that size, a kilometer or bigger, could plausibly end civilization,’ White House science advisor John Holdren told legislators at the same hearing.

But only about 10 percent of an estimated 10,000 potential ‘city-killer’ asteroids, those with a diameter of about 165 feet have been found, Holdren added.

On average, objects of that size are estimated to hit Earth about once every 1,000 years.

‘From the information we have, we don’t know of an asteroid that will threaten the population of the United States,’ Bolden said. ‘But if it’s coming in three weeks, pray.'” Read more.

Categories: Cosmic Craziness

Report: Colorado’s ‘Dark Knight’ Killer James Holmes Converts To Islam, ‘Is Now A Muslim Who Prays Five Times A Day’

03/21/2013 4 comments

Say what? Like any conversion, it can often be a process that takes place over time. If this report is true, it begs the question of whether or not James Holmes was inspired by and/or was having radical Islamic proclivities during his murderous rampage in July 2012. At any rate, it seems that he is now using his “new-found faith” to JUSTIFY his mass slaughter of innocent “infidels” …

Daily Mail Reporter – “James Holmes, the gunman behind the Dark Knight massacre in Colorado last July, has reportedly turned Muslim and prays five times a day.

The killer showed off a lengthy, thick beard during a court appearance earlier this month, and a prison source has claimed it is a symbol of his new-found faith.

The source said Holmes has turned to Islam as a way of justifying his horrific murder spree in an Aurora, Colorado cinema on July 20 which left 12 people dead and 58 people wounded.

‘He has brainwashed himself into believing he was on his own personal jihad and that his victims were infidels,’ a prison source told the National Enquirer.

He now prays five times a day, sticks to a strict Muslim diet and spends hours each day studying the Qur’an, the source said. But his new routine has upset Muslim inmates.

‘None of them condone forms of terrorism or extremism,’ the source added. ‘And they don’t want their religion to be connected to that awful shooting.’

Holmes sported a thick, bushy beard and unkempt dark brown hair during his appearance earlier this month – a stark difference to his bright orange hair at the time of the massacre.

Holmes is charged with 166 counts, mostly murder and attempted murder, in the assault on moviegoers at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora.” Read more.

Categories: Anything Else, Radical Islam

Mali: Al-Qaeda Beheads French Hostage In Retaliation For France’s Military Intervention Against Islamists

03/20/2013 3 comments

The New York Times – “NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (Reuters) — Al Qaeda’s North African arm said on Tuesday that it had beheaded a French hostage in retaliation for France’s intervention in Mali, Mauritania’s ANI news agency reported, citing a commander for the group.

ANI reported that in a telephone call to the agency, which has close links to Islamist militants, the commander said the hostage, Philippe Verdon, was beheaded on March 10 ‘in response to the French military intervention in the north of Mali.’

Mr. Verdon was one of two French hostages kidnapped in Hombori, a town in northern Mali, in November 2011.

The French Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the report, which could not be independently verified.

Fourteen other French hostages are detained in Western Africa, including seven believed to be held by the Qaeda group, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and its affiliates.

One militant leader in the region, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, pledged revenge after France began a campaign in January to dislodge Islamist militants who had hijacked a Tuareg rebellion in Mali and seized the northern half of the country.” Read more.

Flashback: Mali: 200,000 Christians Flee Country To Escape Islamic Persecution As Islamists Impose Sharia Law – “In the Northern part of the African nation of Mali, a refugee crisis is quickly escalating. The front page of the Vatican newspaper expressed concern over the gravity of the situation. It noted that many of the refugees were Christians that were trying to escape persecution from a version of Sharia law that has been imposed in parts of the country by a group known as the ‘Ansar Dine’ movement. The Algerian newspaper El Khabar has reported that some 200,000 people have fled to refugee camps in Mauritania and Algeria.” Read more.

Flashback: Mali: Christian Leader Beheaded as Islamists Terrorize Country, Create List of All Christians They Intend to Execute by Beheading – “A Christian leader has been beheaded and others are being threatened with similar treatment as Islamic militants run amok in Mali, West Africa. Christians have fled the town of Timbuktu in the north of the country where harsh Sharia Law has already been imposed amid reports that churches in Gao, 200 miles to the east, have been completely destroyed… ‘We have escaped in the wake of horrible death threats as the Islamists have a list of all the Christians in Timbuktu whom they intend to execute by beheading.’” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam

US: Homeland ‘Security’ To Extend ‘Trusted Traveler’ Status To Citizens Of Saudi Arabia (That Still Actively Promotes Islamic Terror)

03/20/2013 6 comments

Saudi Arabia is the birthplace and the spiritual homestead of Islam and Islamic extremism. Does it make any logical sense whatsoever to believe that the number one country still actively encouraging world-wide Islamic terror will all of a sudden change the hearts and minds of “closet radicals” into never again thinking about taking advantage of America’s accommodating position on Islam and its politically correct security apparatus? With 80% of all mosques in America today teaching violent jihad and Islamic supremacy (while often issuing words of peace and brotherly love publicly) we’re already seeing the fruit produced, with hundreds of thousands of American Muslims believing that anyone mocking Islam should be put to death, not to mention a substantial increase in homegrown Islamic terror during Obama’s Presidency or global terrorism in general since 9/11. And this is something that isn’t going to change any time soon regardless of the so-called “bond between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” …

InsecurityFox News – “A Department of Homeland Security program intended to give ‘trusted traveler’ status to low-risk airline passengers soon will be extended to Saudi travelers, opening the program to criticism for accommodating the country that produced 15 of the 19 hijackers behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Sources voiced concern about the decision to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which issued a report Wednesday on the under-the-radar announcement — which was first made by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after meeting in January with her Saudi counterpart. According to the IPT, this would be the first time the Saudi government has been given such a direct role in fast-tracking people for entry into the United States.

‘I think you have radical Wahhabism in certain elements in Saudi Arabia, and I think to be more lenient there than in other places would be a mistake,’ Rep. Frank Wolf told the Investigative Project on Terrorism. ‘There were 15 [hijackers] from that country, and there is a lot taking place in that region.’

Only an exclusive handful of countries enjoy inclusion in the Global Entry program — Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Netherlands. According to the IPT, some officials are questioning why Saudi Arabia gets to reap the benefits of the program, when key U.S. allies like Germany and France are not enrolled; Israel has reached a deal with the U.S., but that partnership has not yet been implemented.

Any Saudi travelers cleared through the program will be able to bypass the normal customs line after providing passports and fingerprints. The status lasts for five years.

The decision is a turnaround, the IPT notes, from when Saudi Arabia was briefly placed on a list of countries whose U.S.-bound travelers would face higher scrutiny, in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt in 2009.

But Napolitano spoke highly of ‘the bond between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’ when she announced the change in January.

‘By enhancing collaboration with the government of Saudi Arabia, we reaffirm our commitment to more effectively secure our two countries against evolving threats while facilitating legitimate trade and travel,’ Napolitano said.” Read more.

Categories: Anything Else, Man-Made Disasters, Radical Islam

The Palestinian Lie Machine ‘Welcomes’ Obama, Defames America And Declares Its Love For Hitler

03/20/2013 1 comment

Behold, the true face of Israel’s “peace partners” …

By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, PMW – “Two days before US President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel and the PA, the official PA daily chose to print anti-American hate speech along with pro-Hitler comments in an op-ed:

“Our history is replete with lies… [including] the lie about Al-Qaeda and the September 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons.”

The op-ed further implies that Hitler was greater than both Churchill and Roosevelt, who were ‘alcoholics’:

“Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics, and in their youth were questioned more than once about brawls they started in bars, while Hitler hated alcohol and was not addicted to it. He used to go to sleep early and wake up early, and was very organized. These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels’ wings.”

The PA daily op-ed further asserts that negative attitudes toward Nazism are not objective but the result of the West’s victory:

“Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law.”

Palestinian Media Watch has documented anti-US messages promoted by the PA. PMW has also documented the PA’s praise for the September 11 terror attacks.” Read more.

Categories: Anything Else, Radical Islam

Nigeria: Over A Dozen Killed And Wounded After Devout Muslims Spray Christian Funeral Attendees With Bullets

03/20/2013 2 comments

For peaceful purposes …

Christian Today – “Christian children fleeing from gunmen saved their lives by hiding among the rock formations towering over the eastern side of this northern village, but a 6-month-old baby and a 13-year-old girl never got the chance.

The infant, Alexander Blessed, and the girl, Happiness Adamu, were the youngest of five people from five churches who were slain. Christians were still gathered in and about a home where a funeral for the village chief had taken place in the predominantly Muslim state of Kaduna when, under cover of darkness on a Saturday night (Feb. 23), marauding, black-clad gunmen arrived from the west and began firing.

Eleven Christians were hospitalized with wounds, including Martha Blessed, who was shot as she tried to protect her infant son. Bullets broke both legs of another 13-year-old Christian girl, Gloria Livinus, of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Aduwan.

The raid came as a shock as area Christians had been living without enmity toward anyone, said John Audi, 45-year-old grandson of the village chief and a member of St. Patrick’s church.

‘We were all scattered, and some that were shot were crying,’ he told Morning Star News. ‘We all ran for cover where we believed we could avoid being hit by the bullets.’

Witnesses reportedly said the gunmen spoke in Fulani dialect, but church leaders said the area had been free of the land and property conflicts that have marked relations between Muslim, ethnic Fulanis and predominantly Christian tribes. Islamic extremist groups have increasingly incited Fulani Muslims to attack Christian areas, and witnesses reportedly said the assailants carried sophisticated weapons.

Area church leaders questioned how the shooting could have gone on for three hours without response from authorities in a north-central state that has been blanketed with military security forces to counteract terrorist violence.

‘This village was attacked for three hours, yet no help came to our people here,’ said the Rt. Rev. Danlami Bello, bishop of the First African Church, Kafanchan Diocese, whose headquarters are in Aduwan. ‘These attacks have gone unhindered without security agencies coming to the scenes of the attacks to assist Christian victims.'” Read more.

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Ahead Of Trip, Obama’s Middle East Map Erases Israeli Territory And Implies That Jerusalem Does Not Belong To Israel

03/19/2013 7 comments

Zechariah 12:3, “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.”

The Washington Free Beacon – “The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital.

The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.

The itinerary on the White House website also implies that Jerusalem is neither Israel’s capital nor even part of Israel.

The president’s schedule lists two stops in ‘Tel Aviv, Israel’ and one in ‘Amman, Jordan’ but his activities in Israel’s capital city are identified as taking place only in ‘Jerusalem’ — with no country name attached. This keeps with a reluctantly-acknowledged administration policy of denying that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital or even a part of Israel.” Source – The Washington Free Beacon.

Former Knesset Member: Obama’s Knesset Snub ‘Worrying’ – “Former Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin expressed concern Tuesday over United States President Barack Obama’s decision not to speak in Knesset during his visit to Israel this week. Instead, Obama will speak in the Binyanei Hauma convention center in Jerusalem. ‘President Obama must speak to the Israeli nation directly, but opposite its leaders,’ he said. ‘When President Obama avoids the Knesset in Jerusalem, that’s a worrying sign, it’s a statement of lack of faith in the representatives of the nation he’s addressing.'” Read more.

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