EXODUS 12:1-20 King James Bible
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,
2 This month (NISAN) shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month (NISAN) they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
TODAY IS NISAN 12TH IN ISRAEL.
I'M KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THIS STORY TO SEE IF THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE GET PERMISSION TO DO THE OFFICIAL SACRIFICE.
News Update:Temple Movements Request Passover Sacrifice
reprinted from Arutz 7
6 Nissan 5768, 11 April 08 01:17
(IsraelNN.com) Organizations dedicated to rebuilding the Temple submitted a request to the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday asking to be allowed to hold the Passover sacrifice on the Temple Mount. The groups named Jerusalem District Police Commander Aharon Franco, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, the state of Israel, and the Muslim Waqf in a suit alleging racist discrimination.
The organizations are demanding that those named in their suit stop preventing Jews from accessing the Temple Mount, refrain from bothering Jews who attempt to enter the area, and prevent inappropriate behavior. The groups mentioned a recent incident in which Muslim youths played soccer on the Temple Mount as an example of such behavior.
The groups said allowing them to access the Temple Mount would be a victory for freedom of religion. Forbidding Jews from holding their religious ceremonies on the Temple Mount is racism, they said.
AT LEAST THEY GOT TO DO A PRACTICE SACRIFICE THE COURT ALLOWED THAT AT LEAST.
HERE IS THE ACTUAL SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB ON APRIL 08,08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVV2pGInuW4&feature=related
THIS WILL BE TAKING PLACE SHORTLY IN THE REBUILT THIRD TEMPLE PRAISE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD KING JESUS.
Jerusalem Court Rules for Jewish Temple Movement
reprinted from Arutz 7
1 Nissan 5768, 06 April 08 09:40
(IsraelNN.com) A Jerusalem court ruled Friday that the Jewish Temple movement could slaughter a sheep on Sunday as a general rehearsal for the renewal of the Pesach (Passover) sacrifice. Animal rights group Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot (Let the Animals Live) had argued that the planned slaughter constituted illegal cruelty to an animal.
In her ruling, judge Hagit Mac-Kalmanovich said, I was not convinced by the argument that the given event would cause the animal more pain and suffering than the accepted methods of slaughter in slaughterhouses. She rejected the group's comparison of the planned slaughter to illegal fights between animals, pointing out that only one animal was involved, and that it would not be harmed in any way prior to the actual slaughter. The event must be allowed under laws protecting freedom of religion, she concluded.
Carter meets Hamas leaders in Egypt by Jailan Zayan APR 17,08
CAIRO (AFP) - Jimmy Carter met a Hamas delegation from the Gaza Strip in Cairo on Thursday after Israel barred the former US president from visiting the Palestinian territory. The delegation, which includes leaders Mahmud Zahar and Said Siam and four others, went into the meeting with Carter at a Cairo hotel amid heavy security, an AFP correspondent reported.Ahead of the talks, Hamas coordinator in Cairo Ibrahim al-Darrawy said that Carter, who has been snubbed by Israel and criticised by the US administration for wanting to meet Hamas, is well disposed and we need that.Carter had lunch with President Hosni Mubarak before the meeting amid ongoing Egyptian efforts to broker a truce between the Islamists and Israel.
The chances of such a truce hammening have been reduced by unrest in the Gaza Strip where violence on Wednesday killed 18 Palestinians, including a cameraman for an international news agency, and three Israeli soldiers.The Hamas delegation, which drove to Cairo from the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday, will inform Carter about the situation in the Gaza Strip and tell him that Hamas is a national liberation movement, Darrawy told AFP.On his arrival in Egypt, hardline Hamas leader Zahar hailed the upcoming talks.President Carter can break all the Israeli restraints that they want to place between him and Hamas and so we and our brothers in Damascus are determined to meet with him, he said.The former president is expected to meet exiled Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Friday.Zahar and Siam are considered hardline Hamas leaders who planned the violent takeover of Gaza from forces loyal to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in June.The delegation is also due to meet Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to discuss a possible ceasefire with Israel, reopening the Rafah crossing, and the fate of an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas in 2006.Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace prize, on Sunday began a nine-day tour of the region to promote the Middle East peace process.Israeli political leaders snubbed him over his plans to talk with Hamas, considered a terrorist organisation by the Jewish state as well as by the United States and European Union.Carter said Israel denied him permission to travel to the Gaza Strip. Israel sealed its borders with Gaza after Hamas took control of the territory.
Carter, who insists he is not acting as a mediator, has been urging talks with Hamas and Syria, saying a Middle East peace accord cannot be reached without them.Washington has said the former president is acting in a personal capacity.After two days in Egypt, Carter is due to travel to Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
White House: Carter, Hamas meeting not useful APR 17,08
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House said Thursday that former US president Jimmy Carter's meeting with a Hamas delegation from the Gaza Strip was not useful and again condemned the group as a terrorist organization.We do not think that meeting was useful. As we can all see by the recent violence in Gaza, Hamas is a terrorist organization, said US national security council spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Gaza simmers a day after Israeli incursion kills 18 by Adel Zaanoun APR 17,08
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement traded threats on Thursday, a day after a fierce incursion into the Gaza Strip killed 18 Palestinians, including a cameraman for an international news agency. Hamas vowed to avenge Wednesday's assault on the impoverished territory, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Islamist movement bears direct responsibility for the fighting, which killed three Israeli soldiers.We consider that Hamas bears sole, direct responsibility for what happened in Gaza and it will pay the price, Olmert said in an interview with Israel's Maariv newspaper.Israel has repeatedly threatened to launch a widescale operation to oust Hamas from Gaza, but media have speculated that it may wait until after the week-long Jewish Passover holiday, which begins on Saturday.Police have gone on high alert for Passover, one of the holiest periods of the year. They have deployed thousands of reinforcements around the country, and the army is strictly limiting Palestinian movement into and out of the occupied West Bank.
Reacting to Wednesday's violence, which also saw the deaths of five Palestinians under the age of 15, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum told AFP that all options are open to repel this aggression against our people.In an Internet statement Hamas called on its fighters to attack Israel in every place and with all means available.Israel troops continued to strike Palestinian militants on Thursday.They killing two Islamic Jihad fighters during a predawn arrest operation in the West Bank and a militant in southern Gaza who the army said approached a border crossing.Witnesses said a dozen Israeli military vehicles advanced into the area near the Kerem Shalom crossing and that there was a heavy exchange of fire nearby at Gaza's abandoned and mostly demolished airport.The fighting erupted a day after militants ambushed Israeli troops near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal and crossing in the central Gaza Strip, killing three soldiers and touching off an Israeli incursion backed by helicopters.Israeli troops killed 18 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in what was the deadliest day in the Hamas-ruled territory since March 1, when more than 60 Palestinians were killed in an air and land blitz.Hundreds of people marched in Gaza City at the funeral for 23-year-old Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, who was killed by a shell fired from an Israeli tank he was filming during Wednesday's incursion.That blast also killed three other people, including two boys on a bicycle.Mourners carried Shana's body, draped in a Palestinian flag, from Al-Shifa hospital to a nearby cemetery.Alongside the body others held aloft a stretcher bearing his shattered camera.
Shana had been standing next to a jeep clearly marked with TV and Press stickers, Reuters said. A videotape found in the camera shows a wide shot with the tank on the horizon seconds before it fired the shell that killed him.After the incident an Israeli military spokesman said we regret the death of a photographer, but it must be pointed out that there's a war going on.Shana had been near the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, where at least nine Palestinian civilians were killed in an earlier air strike.
According to Dr Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, most of the Palestinians killed on Wednesday were civilians. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, on a visit to Moscow, has strongly condemned the Israeli military assault and on Thursday called for a new Middle East peace conference in the Russian capital. Moscow has already been pushing for such a meeting as a follow-up to one in Annapolis, Marlyand, last November that led to Abbas resuming peace talks with Olmert. Israel has been carrying out near-daily military operations in the Gaza Strip aimed at halting rocket fire on southern Israel, which has killed 14 people since 2000. Welfare Minister Yitzak Herzog said Wednesday's clashes showed that Israel is putting pressure on the Hamas-run government. Hamas is under very high pressure. That's why they tried to launch operations like the one yesterday, in order to try to change the rules of the game, said the minister, who serves on Israel's powerful security cabinet. The latest deaths bring to 413 the number of people killed, mostly Gaza militants, since Israel and the Palestinians relaunched formal peace talks, according to an AFP count.
Olmert says Iran will never be a nuclear power Thu Apr 17, 5:21 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Iran will never become a nuclear power, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted on Thursday as saying, as Iran's president was proclaiming his country the most powerful nation on earth. I can say... that, to my knowledge, and on the basis of what I know and read, I believe the efforts of the international community will succeed, and that Iran will not become a nuclear power, he told the Maariv daily.There is an enormous effort on the part of the international community to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country. Israel plays an important part in those efforts, without leading them.Building on that, and in an allusion to recent threats made against Iran by an Israel minister, Olmert added: That is why Israel should not resort to threats as made recently.Last week, Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned that any Iranian attack against Israel would lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation.That prompted a response from the deputy commander of Iran's army, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, that his country would eliminate Israel from the global arena if it were attacked by the Jewish state.Olmert's remarks were published as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a military parade marking Army Day that Iran is the most powerful and independent nation in the world.Ahmadinejad said all the branches of the armed forces would react forcefully in response to any attack against Iran, and boasted that no one would dare to launch a strike on the country.The United States and Israel, the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear power, accused Iran of using its civilian nuclear power programme as a cover for attempting to develop an atomic bomb.Tehran vehemently denies that, but has had three sets of United Nations Security Council sanctions slapped on it over its refusal to stop enriching uranium.
Obama would do everything to help Israel defend itself Wed Apr 16, 5:17 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic hopeful Barack Obama said Wednesday that as president he would do his utmost to help Israel defend itself from any regional threat, as he criticized ex-president Jimmy Carter for seeking to meet with Hamas. As president, I will do everything that I can to help (Israel) protect itself ... We will make sure that it can defend itself from any attack, whether it comes from as close as Gaza or as far as Tehran, Obama told a synagogue in Philadelphia, according to his campaign aides.He said US-Israeli cooperation, although successful, can be deepened and strengthened.Obama, who has said he would meet with US enemies Iran and Cuba if elected president, criticized Carter's expected meeting Wednesday in Cairo with Hamas, stressing: Hamas is not a state, Hamas is a terrorist organization.The Illinois senator, whose middle name Hussein has raised concern among critics that he harbors Muslim sympathies -- he is a Christian -- spoke to 75 representatives of the Jewish community in Pennsylvania's biggest city, a week ahead of the state's key primary in the race for the White House.Obama told to his audience he was a friend both of the Jewish community and of Israel, his campaign said.Asked about the future of Jerusalem, which Israel took over in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Obama said it was up to the parties involved to decide, but stressed that returning the city to its pre-1967 partitioned state is not an acceptable option.
Obama said that because of his background, he was uniquely positioned to help Israel.My links to the Jewish community are not political. They preceded my entry into politics.He also promised that if he were elected president, the United States would continue to veto anti-Israeli resolutions at the United Nations.Robert Wexler, Florida Democrat in the House of Representatives, told reporters after the meeting that Obama unequivocally rejects the Palestinian right of return -- a perennial sticking point in Palestinian-Israeli peace talks -- because he understands that Israel must remain a Jewish state.
Security Council urges solution to Israel-Lebanon conflict By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 15, 8:42 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council called Tuesday for the disarming of Hezbollah and other militias in Lebanon along with greater progress toward a cease-fire and a solution to the conflict between Lebanon and Israel. A statement adopted by consensus by the 15-member council reiterates its commitment to the full implementation of all provisions of Resolution 1701 which ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in August 2006.That resolution reiterates a call for the disarming of all militias and bans arms transfers to them. It calls on the government to secure its borders and entry points to prevent the entry into Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel.It also calls for Israel and Lebanon to support a permanent cease-fire and long-term solution based on full respect for the U.N.-drawn Blue Line along their border, security arrangements to prevent the resumption of hostilities, and the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon so there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state.The statement noted the progress and concerns expressed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his latest report on the issue. Ban highlighted in March that Israel says Hezbollah is rearming and has an arsenal that includes 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rockets in southern Lebanon.
The report did not confirm Israel's claim, but Ban reiterated his concern about Hezbollah's public statements and persistent reports pointing to breaches of a U.N. arms embargo. He also expressed concern at the threats of open war against Israel by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.In a report in late October, Ban drew attention to alleged breaches of the arms embargo and the transfer of sophisticated weapons from Iran and Syria — both strong backers of Hezbollah — across the Lebanon-Syria border. Syria disputed the claim.U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said negotiations on the good, acceptable statement took time because it involved different countries inside and outside the Security Council.With regard to the implementation, I think there are pluses and minuses there, he said. We would like to see more progress on disarming militias.
