TEMPLE MOUNT WORSHIP DEBATE AT THE KNESSET

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.

Debate on Temple Mount worship rocks Knesset

Tensions in the plenum run high during discussion of application of Israeli sovereignty at holy site

By Adiv Sterman and Gavriel Fiske February 25, 2014, 10:29 pm 2-The Times of Israel

Israeli riot police seen during clashes on the Temple Mount in September. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash 90)

A first-of-its-kind debate over the right of non-Muslims to enter, and pray at, the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem was held at the Knesset on Tuesday, with over 30 MKs from both right wing and left wing parties requesting to voice their opinion on the divisive topic.Almost all of the parliament’s Arab members chose not to attend the discussion in protest over the decision to hold it.The debate, headlined “the loss of Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount” and rescheduled from last week, was initiated by right-wing lawmaker MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud), whose visits to the Temple Mount have drawn media and police attention. Feiglin was arrested for praying there in October 2012 and January 2013, before he became an MK, and visited the Mount earlier this week ahead of the debate.“The Israeli leadership is shirking its calling,” Feiglin said at the opening of the session, during which he called for Jewish freedom of worship at the site where the first and second Jewish temples once stood.“Behind the back of our people we gave up on any vestige of Israeli sovereignty at the Mount. Every terrorist organization can wave their flag there, but the flag of Israel? It must not be mentioned. Reciting a psalm is grounds for arrest. Even wearing a skullcap [at the site] is inadvisable by police standards.”The Temple Mount is jointly administered by the Jordanian government and the Jerusalem-based Islamic Waqf, an arrangement that has been in place since Israel captured the Old City and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed them. Regarded as a holy site by both Judaism and Islam, proposed changes to the status quo at the Mount are often a source of unrest.Police restrictions bar Jews from praying or engaging in other religious activities while on visits to the Mount for fear that they will provoke a violent reaction from Muslims.MK Zahava Gal-on of the left-wing Meretz party stated that though she believes Jews have a right to pray at the Temple Mount, such a right must be expressed only after consulting with Palestinian and Arab representatives. Feiglin’s proposal, Gal-on said, was “a match that could ignite the powder keg on which the Middle East rests,” and implementing it “would harm the peace process.”“Anyone who today calls [on Israelis] to ascend to the Temple Mount is creating a provocation whose sole purpose is to blow up the relationship between Israel and the Arab world,” she said.Responding to Gal-on, Likud MK Miri Regev said freedom of worship was not up for debate.“Why can a Muslim cry out loud in his own language that ‘there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet and messenger,’ yet a Jew cannot enter the Temple Mount and recite out loud ‘Hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is One?’” Regev asked, concluding that “he who gives up on the [Temple] Mount will be left without a home.”Earlier Tuesday, Israeli police were showered with stones and firecrackers on the Temple Mount, as Palestinian youth protested the debate over the contested holy site.

The clashes began when officers opened the Mughrabi Gate, an entrance to the Temple Mount next to the Western Wall that only provides access for non-Muslims.Police dispersed The perpetrators, some of whom were masked, with stun grenades. Two police were lightly injured and three suspects were arrested.Palestinian media reported dozens of protesters were injured by rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.The Ma’an news agency said two Palestinians were seriously injured, one from a rubber bullet shot to the nose.Hamas and Palestinian Authority officials, together with leaders of the Islamic Movement in the Galilee, have long accused Israel of planning to take control of the Muslim sites on the Mount.Last week, the planned Knesset debate drew condemnation from Jordan’s parliament, whose Palestine Committee said a move to expand Israeli control over the sensitive site would be a violation of “Jordanian national sovereignty and is tantamount to a breach of the peace treaty signed between Jordan and Israel.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

US policy on peace process tantamount to 'rape,' MK tells the US envoy

Right-wing MKs assail US ambassador on peace, Pollard

Fraught meeting between Shapiro, Knesset Land of Israel Caucus highlights right-wing displeasure at US-brokered talks

By Haviv Rettig Gur February 25, 2014, 10:52 pm 3-The Times of Israel

A meeting on Tuesday between US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and right-wing MKs turned into a tense stand-off over the continued incarceration of convicted Israeli-American spy Jonathan Pollard and US efforts to broker a peace deal with the Palestinians.Shapiro met with 16 members of the Land of Israel Caucus, a caucus of some 40 MKs who either openly oppose or are deeply skeptical about land concessions in the framework of Israeli-Palestinian talks.The discussion, which was closed to the press, took place in “an atmosphere of respect and listening,” a source who was present at the meeting told The Times of Israel. But Shapiro also heard a great deal of criticism about American policy.Shapiro started the meeting with a discussion of the American position on the US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians, the policy issue in which the Obama administration and right-wing MKs diverge most markedly.“Nobody criticized what the Americans believe [on the Palestinian issue], but some said that these opinions don’t really fit reality, and they brought examples such as the [2006 Palestinian] elections they forced on us that brought Hamas [to power in Gaza] and more terrorism,” the source said.The MKs nevertheless asked, “Is it right to force Israel to do things that are dangerous, and to condition [America’s] friendship with Israel on our doing those things?”While the American ambassador did not suggest that American-Israeli ties were dependent on Israel’s actions in the peace talks, “people connected [Shapiro’s] gentle language with other American statements, such as what [US Secretary of State] John Kerry said in Germany” – a reference to a warning from Kerry that failure to achieve peace could shore up those who call for a boycott of Israel.Shapiro insisted during the meeting that a final peace treaty resulting from the talks would “protect Israel’s security and would be good for Israel,” according to sources familiar with the conversation.But MKs were skeptical.

“How can we trust you?” demanded MK David Rotem, of Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party. “When have you stood by us in the past?” he asked.Similar complaints were heard from MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud) and Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), who said the MKs with whom the American administration disagreed were nevertheless elected by the Israeli public, and that imposing American views on them undermined Israeli democracy.MK Nissan Slomiansky, whose Jewish Home party categorically rejects land concessions that lie at the heart of the US-backed talks, told the ambassador the American policy was tantamount to “rape,” insisting that Israel was being forced into the talks against its will. “That’s not friendship,” he said.“I think [Shapiro] was surprised at the diversity of MKs, that there were members there from Yesh Atid and Shas as well, and not just Likud or Jewish Home,” said a source.But the most tense moments came when the conversation turned to the fate of Israeli-American spy Jonathan Pollard, who was arrested in 1985 on charges of spying for Israel and remains in an American prison serving a life sentence.Shapiro defended Pollard’s continued incarceration, reiterating his statements in recent weeks on the issue, including noting that Pollard had been convicted in court.“Don’t sell us unintelligent arguments,” retorted MK Orit Strock (Jewish Home), who co-chairs the caucus together with MK Yariv Levin (Likud). Strock reportedly said the MKs were aware that the administration had the power to release Pollard at will.MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) said the American government was singling out Pollard in a way that suggested an anti-Semitic motive.The meeting with right-wing MKs followed a meeting last week with the left-leaning Knesset Caucus to Resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict. That meeting, held on February 18 in the Knesset, was attended by 15 MKs from the 40-member caucus.“At the ambassador’s request, and unlike the Land of Israel Caucus, we didn’t leak from the meeting either criticism or praise,” noted caucus chair MK Hilik Bar (Labor).Bar criticized the leaks from Tuesday’s meeting. “The far right continues to cross these lines and to harm the delicate ties we have with the Americans. It continues to attack the ambassador of our closest friend without any restraint or sense of proportion. It’s continuing to shoot Israel in the foot,” he insisted.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

After reported strike on Hezbollah, PM says Israel will defend itself

Netanyahu refuses to address reports of raid on Lebanon-Syria border, but says Israel’s defense doctrine clear

By Ilan Ben Zion February 25, 2014, 1:43 pm 1-The Times of Israel

A fully armed F-16 during take off (Photo credit: Ofer Zidon/ Flash 90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted Tuesday at Israeli involvement in a reported air raid on a Hezbollah convoy on the Lebanon Syria border a night earlier.Speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Netanyahu said he would not speak to the reports that Israeli planes struck a missile shipment or missile base in the Baalbek region on the border between the Syria and Lebanon.However, he added that Israel would defend itself through whatever means necessary.“Our policy is clear,” he said in response to a reporter’s question about the strike. “I won’t speak about what is being claimed or not being claimed. However, we will do everything we need to in order to defend the security of our citizens.”Reports out of Lebanon Monday night indicated Israeli planes had struck Hezbollah sites near Nabi Sheet and Janta, both strongholds of the Shiite terror group.Lebanon’s Daily Star reported overnight Monday that the strikes targeted a weapons shipment meant for Hezbollah. Citing unconfirmed reports, Al Arabiya said the strikes hit a moving convoy carrying ballistic missiles from Syria to Lebanon, to be put to use by Hezbollah.However, Abu al-Majd, a Syrian rebel in the nearby town of Yabroud, told The New York Times that the air raid hit Hezbollah trucks loaded with weapons heading from Lebanon into Syria.Israel has refused to comment on the report, but US officials have confirmed Israeli involvement in raids on missile shipments from Syria to Lebanon in the past.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group said Israeli warplanes bombed a rocket launcher for Hezbollah fighters near the villages of Janta and Yahfoufa along the border. It was not known if the strikes hit inside Lebanese or Syrian territory, the Observatory added.The border in the area is poorly marked, The New York Times reported.“Two Israeli raids hit a Hezbollah target on the border of Lebanon and Syria,” a Lebanese security source told AFP earlier Monday.The Israeli military declined comment.Hezbollah seemed eager to downplay the reports that there had been a strike in Lebanon, which would require the group, already stretched thin by fighting in Syria, to respond to Israel.The Hezbollah television station Al-Manar said there had been “no raid on Lebanese territory,” reporting only the “strong presence of enemy planes over the area north of Bekaa” in eastern Lebanon.Satellite image of suspected Hezbollah training site near Janta. (screen capture: Google Maps)

Janta lies along a known smuggling route for arms between Syria and Lebanon, the Daily Star reported. According to a 2012 report, Hezbollah built a training facility at Janta “which includes a suspected driver training course, a 100-meter firing range and a possible urban terrain assault course.”There was no independent confirmation of the reports.An officer in the IDF’s Northern Command told Reuters that “we have known for some time that there are efforts to move serious weaponry from Syria to Lebanon,” but would not comment on Monday night’s reports.AP and AFP contributed to this report.

The IAF ‘scalpel’ and the epidemic of weapons transfers

Monday’s alleged IAF strike against Hezbollah-bound weapons is yet another stage in the deadly game playing out in the border regions to Israel’s north

By Mitch Ginsburg February 26, 2014, 2:40 am 0-The times of Israel

In January, during his annual address at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, the commander of the Israeli Air Force, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, spoke about the current “war between wars.” The IAF, “a sledgehammer,” he said, was being asked to do the “work of a scalpel.”That appears to be what happened on Monday night. According to Lebanese sources, four “warplanes for the Israeli enemy,” flying southwest off the sea, entered Lebanese airspace at 9:50 p.m., streaking toward the Beqaa Valley. Thirty-five minutes later, the planes exited Lebanon via Nakoura and were back out over the sea.The strikes took place in the northern Beqaa Valley region, “where recruitment and training of [Hezbollah] fighters are carried out,” and along “a well-known route for arms smuggling between Lebanon and Syria,” according to the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star.Al Arabiya suggested that the target was a convoy of long-range surface-to-surface missiles. This was not confirmed. But what is clear, according to Maj. Gen. (res) Eyal Ben-Reuven, the deputy commander of the northern front during the Second Lebanon War, is that the front, ever since Hezbollah and Iran came to the aid of the then-waning Bashar Assad, has changed shape entirely. “Today Lebanon and Syria are one front, under the umbrella of Iran,” Ben-Reuven said in a conference call.

The tens of thousands of rockets and missiles Hezbollah possesses have always come largely from the stores of the Syrian army. Today, though, the balance of power has shifted. Bashar Assad won Qusayr and held the capital thanks to Hezbollah soldiers on the ground and Iranian Quds Force officers at the helm. Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, is now “running the war himself,” according to a 2013 New Yorker profile. Iran, which gave the regime a $7 billion loan in 2013, has been sending troops and arms daily to Damascus.The price for these self-serving heroics, Ben-Reuven said, is the delivery of “game-changing weapons” to Hezbollah.The transfer of those arms – the cornerstone of Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria – is a murky, deadly affair. Hezbollah troops guard an array of arms depots in Syria. They might simply be safeguarding the weapons from rebel troops or they might be watching over the arms until the order is given to move the matériel into Lebanon. Quite possibly both. Further complicating matters, many of these weapons are put into motion and then, according to a January report in The Wall Street Journal, transferred “piece by piece” to Lebanon.On Monday night, after weeks of clear skies in the region, Hezbollah may have tried to operate under the cover of stormy weather, veteran military affairs analyst Ron Ben-Yishai wrote Monday. If so, the organization’s calculations were off. Brig. Gen. (res) Asaf Agmon, the head of the Fisher Institute, said that while meteorological conditions are a factor “that always influences things,” the IAF has the sort of thermal or radar-guided capacities “to operate in this sort of weather.”Eshel did not elaborate on the difficulty of tracking weapons through the mountainous and fog-enclosed border regions. He did say, though, that the “bubbling spring” of continuous, low-grade conflict was “a daily problem,” which the IAF, on account of its flexibility and near-immediate readiness, was uniquely equipped to deal with.Acknowledging, though, that certain actions could, as in 2006, spark a full-scale conflict, he said that the test of each decision made is that “the efficacy will be immediate and will not make things worse or lead to war.”Thus far, the alleged Israeli considerations have proved correct but the Middle East, as Ben-Reuven noted, has a logic of its own.