ISRAEL IN BIBLE PROPHECY   |   home INDEX   |   DANIEL'S BEASTS   |   DANIEL'S "TIMES" PROPHECIES   |   LBL   |   ANTICHRIST   |   JOHN'S EIGHT BEASTS   |   JOHN'S 1260 "DAYS"   |   BEAST 42 "MONTHS"   |   666   |   THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION   |   GENTILE 42 "MONTHS"   |   69 WEEKS   |   DANIEL'S 1290 "DAYS"   |   DANIEL'S 1335 "DAYS"   |   FIG TREE   |   SOME JEWS BLINDNESS TO THE GOSPEL   |   TWO WITNESSES   |   THAT MAN OF SIN   |   CHRISTIAN POLYTHEISM   |   ISLAM, DECEPTION, AHMED DEEDAT, AND TAQIYYAH   |   NOT THE SAME GOD   |   LAMB SLAIN   |   THE STRONG DELUSION   |   DEEDAT, ISLAM, HITLER AND HATE   |   APOLOGY TO MUSLIMS   |   ISLAMIC HATRED OF JEWS   |   ISLAM AND FRIENDSHIP   |   ISLAMIC JIHAD   |   THE TEMPLE OF GOD   |   THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13   |   TEXTUAL INTEGRITY - BIBLE VS QURAN   |   NEW COVENANT   |   ISLAM: THE PERFECT OPPOSITE   |   MOHAMMED'S HEAVEN   |   ISLAM AND SCRIPTURE   |   ISLAM 101.   |   CHURCH TRADITION   |   QURAN & ABROGATION   |   THE NAME ALLAH   |   GAZA   |   QURAN INSPIRATION   |   YHWH MANIFEST   |   BANU QURAYZA MASSACRE   |   JIHAD   |   JESUS' CRUCIFIXION IN PROPHECY   |   THE SCRIPTURES WERE CORRUPTED   |   THE PALE HORSE   |   YAHWEH YAHSHUA   |   OLD TESTAMENT VIOLENCE   |   ZIONISM   |   Anti-Zionism & Anti-Zionists GAZA & ISRAEL The following reads more like a headline than an Old Testament passage: 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. Let's begin with some background. The book of Genesis details God's covenants with His chosen people: Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee [Abram] a great nation, [Israel] and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 17:7  And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8  And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates..... Genesis 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. Genesis 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac. Abraham was grieved about kicking out his wife Sarah's bondwoman Hagar, and her son Ishmael, but God Himself reassured Abraham .... Genesis 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Thus, even if Mohammed's Yemeni Quraish tribe had been descended from Ishmael, which neither history nor geography seem to support since they were more likely Hamitic via Ethiopia, any Ishmaelites that had not been absorbed would have no scriptural claim to this covenant land anyway. During the first century Jesus prophesied... Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh   Jerusalem was surrounded by armies in 70 AD, and on many occasions after including 132, 639, 1099, 1187, 1948 and 1967.  While in 70 AD the city was trashed, and a million Jews were killed, the Romans came back to kill another 750,000 Jews a little over 60 years later in the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 to 136.   Certainly the physical and spiritual desolation of Jerusalem, following 1100 years of primarily Islamic control from 639, became virtually total desolation by the early 19th century. In "A History of the Jews" - Paul Johnson writes - page 321: "Between 1827 and 1839, largely through British efforts, the population of Jerusalem rose from 550 to 5,500 and in all Palestine it topped 10,000 - the real beginning of the Jewish return to the Promised Land. In 1838 Palmerston appointed the first western vice-consul in Jerusalem, W.T. Young, and told him 'to afford protection to the Jews generally'." So by the early 19th century nobody except a handful of Jews had any interest whatsoever in that desperately desolate land of Palestine. By 1867, even 40 years after the restoration of the Jews began, Mark Twain described the land as:  " ...[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country." What was prophesied about 600 years before the Christian era regarding this desolation? Ezekiel 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited. That tiny strip of land emerging from total desolation, to becoming the geopolitical focus of the entire world, fulfilling boatloads of old covenant prophecy in the process. Indeed the restoration of the Jews to their land in 1948 and to their city in 1967 was prophesied by Daniel 2500 years in advance, and can be pinned mathematically right to those years, through two parallel calculations. See the "Proof of God" video for more. Over the last half-century Jews turned Gaza into a vibrant productive community. In terms of agricultural miracles, in addition to reforestation, and being a world leader in innovation in irrigation, the Gush Katif greenhouses alone produced up to 70% of Israel's produce, or about a hundred million dollars worth every year. The pretense of the Gaza give-away was to bring peace between the so-called "Palestinians" and Israelis however Israel's enemies have never held up their end of any such agreement. All this deal accomplished was to provide a launch pad closer to Jerusalem from which thousands of rockets have been launched randomly into Jerusalem, as capable of hitting schools and hospitals, as anything else. International financiers promised the Gaza growers financial compensation for abandoning their greenhouses, that were to be taken over by the "Palestinians", with help from the international community. No surprise that after the Jews were forced off their land Palestinians ransacked former Gush Katif greenhouses stealing computers, and even piping, causing irreparable damage in the process. The international financiers later defaulted on their promised payments to the Jewish growers. Yet millions in the world don't seem to be able to empathize, and understand what it would be like to be forced to give away your business and home that you had built from nothing, and were compelled to leave the community you had helped to pioneer. Of course in their celebratory burning of synagogues and destruction of the greenhouses Israel's enemies rendered themselves even more destitute, destroying a 100 million dollars a year in food production, resulting in international welfare organizations throwing food off the backs of trucks to feed a people whose primary product and export is hate. Jesus also prophesied of the Jews .... Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. This was fulfilled in 1967 when the Jews regained possession of Jerusalem as a result of the "7 day war". Seems so peculiar that some folks believe that the "times of the Gentiles" in Jerusalem were fulfilled in 70 AD. But then perhaps not as peculiar as church folks believing that THE false prophet of the book of Revelation was a figure of the 1st century, while others believe he is yet to be revealed in the future, even as 1.5 billion people - that's 1/4 of mankind - are in the grip of the false prophet Mohammed's stand-alone 7th century religion. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Sura 19:88 They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous! 1 John 2:22 .... He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father... Surah 4:157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus ..... but they killed him not, nor crucified him ..... for of a surety they killed him not:- Mohammed's antichrist religion revealed as the exact opposite of the Gospel, while Mohammed himself is revealed through their own books as being the exact opposite of the sinless Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Lamb of God. One doesn't have to be the sharpest knife in the drawer to understand that: "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel" ~ Benjamin Netanyahu While Muslim leaders vow to "drive the Jews into the sea" and "kill all the Jews" Israelis are the only people in the middle east that share our Western values. Indeed Muslims enjoy more freedom in Israel's democracy today than they do in any Muslim state. AP - December 06, 2006 MOGADISHU, Somalia - "Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days." The Israeli Jews may well be the most productive people on earth. Consider that Muslims number approximately 2,000,000,000 or 33% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat 1999 - Ahmed Zewai Economics: (zero) Physics: (zero) Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar Chemistry: 1999 - Ahmed Zewail TOTAL: 6 Jews number approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 10 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pa sternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace: 8 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics: 53 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phil lips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Joseph son 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics: 13 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Mil ton Friedman 1978 - Herb ert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine: 43 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Ed elman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Ed ward B. Lewis Chemistry: 22 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1972 - William Howard Stein 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Herbert Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1989 - Sidney Altman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1998 - Walter Kohn 2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose 2006 - Roger Kornberg TOTAL: 149 The above statistics expressed in a more graphic fashion by the folks at TheReligionOfPeace.com With 43 Nobels - in medicine alone - we can truly understand. Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee [Abram] a great nation, [Israel] and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Jews aren't brain washing their children in military training camps, or teaching them how to blow themselves up among non-Jews Jews don't hijack planes, kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in restaurants. Jews do not destroy churches or protest by killing people or burning cars. Jews don't traffic in slaves nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. From the Hadith, "Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!" No surprise then to find that the Islamic Mufti of Jerusalem worked hand in hand with Hitler in their shared goal of genocide of Jews... + 2 Islamic panzer divisions in Hitler's army. = To answer the inevitable cacophony of Jew hating Muslims, skinheads, nazis and some of those indoctrinated into replacement theology - regarding that great and terrible day of the Lord .... Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zechariah 14:12 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. What kind of "plague" might manifest itself like that? Joel 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Let's check Strong's: and pillars Old Testament Hebrew Definition: 08490 tiymarah {tee-maw-raw'} or timarah {tee-maw-raw'} from the same as 08558; TWOT - 2523d; n f AV - pillar 2; 2 1) pillar, column 1a) palm-like spreading at top To our Muslim friends are you ready to stand before our judge - the very Son of God you deny - in order to follow Mohammed? John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: Links to the videos are appearing as annotations on the screen. Please join us in the Islam-Christian Forum in the first link below this video for discussion Regarding the history of Mecca the second link. An introduction to the Gospel at the third link. The drop-down menu for more videos and info. For much more, please visit BrotherPete.com . . . . . Like this adorable Hamas kindergarden graduation ceremony... Never too young to start! Even a Hamas version of Mickey Mouse August 22, the aftermath of Gush Katif:  "The sworn enemies of these fine, productive and ethical communities will now receive a one sided gift from Prime Minister Sharon, a major chunk of Holy Land. This land, which these noble and brave settlers over the last 30 years have developed from barren uninhabited desert land to one of the most productive agricultural communities in Israel, is specifically defined in the Bible as part of the Land which has been allocated to Jews by Divine Order.  Over the last year alone, the settlers of Gush Katif have endured some 6000 rocket attacks across the border from the Palestinians in Gaza."  Jews in Gaza driven from their homes thanks to U.S. brokered give-away to the Palestinians. August 23rd tropical depression #12 was born.   August 29th we watched those in New Orleans being driven from their homes and land by what became hurricane Katrina. _____________ Great book on disasters being visited (that was written before the Katrina exploration above) on those that sell-out the Jews is "Eye to Eye" by William Koenig. It logs many instances where the such sell-outs share headlines with disasters. A couple include George Bush's Maine vacation home destruction and catastrophic flooding in Texas with another. "In Eye to Eye - Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel, we document what happens the same day or within 24 hours of Israel being pressured to divide her land. Here are a few examples found in these pages: During the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, 29 record-setting catastrophes and/or major events occurred. During President George W. Bush's first 40 months in office, 24 record-setting catastrophes and/or major events occurred. From October 1, 2001, to January 9, 2004, eight periods of distruption occurred in the United Sttes following the 9-11 terror events when the President George W. Bush attempted to divide Israel's land. Thirty-one major suicide bombings in Israel occurred at the same time President George W. Bush or one of his top-level staff and/or one of Israel's top officials were working with the U.S. on either a cease-fire agreement, a peace deal, publicly stating Israel's approval of a Palestinian state, or Israel was about to evacuate property." _______________