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MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE
MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET
SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO
OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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.
MICAH 4:1-5
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
With secret prayers, Jews challenge 'status quo' at Jerusalem holy site-By Luke Baker | Reuters – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As the group of Orthodox Jews came near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, one began to mumble while staring down at his mobile phone. Another looked up in awe, eyes half shut in concentration. The woman's lips moved silently.Asked afterwards whether they had prayed, a violation of an 800-year-old ban on non-Muslim worship at the holy site, two of the group said they had done so in their hearts, while the woman declared proudly: "I prayed with my mouth moving."Monday's visit to the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount was low-key by most standards - no fighting broke out, no one was ejected by the police, everyone left calmly and life returned to normal.But in critical ways it cut to the heart of an issue fuelling the worst violence between Palestinians and Israel in years: whether the status quo at the site, also known as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, is being properly enforced.In a region full of complexity, the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount status quo occupies a special place. It upholds a rule that has effectively existed since 1187, when Muslim warrior Saladin defeated the Christian crusaders and held on to Jerusalem: non-Muslims may enter the sacred compound, but only Muslims can pray.Before Muslims built the Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa mosque in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, two Jewish temples, the second destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, stood at the site, which is both the holiest place in Islam outside Saudi Arabia and the most sacred place in Judaism.After Israel seized the Old City and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, it agreed to continue the status quo, recognising the risks of igniting a religious war if anything were changed. It gave Jordan special responsibility for overseeing the Muslim holy sites via the Waqf, an Islamic trust.That agreement was reinforced when Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. There have been many periods of friction over the years, but to all intents and purposes, the status quo has held.Over the last decade or so, since then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the site in 2000, the Waqf says Israel has been slowly chipping away at the rules, with increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the area and many of them surreptitiously praying.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected those suggestions, saying repeatedly that the government has not changed the rules and has no intention of doing so.He reiterated that position after meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week, and Kerry said after talks with Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that there was a renewed commitment from all sides to ensure the status quo was respected.Yet despite the verbal efforts to quell the problem, the Muslim authorities at the site remain convinced the status quo is being slowly eroded by steady Jewish encroachment.-CHANGING TIMES?-In the past, said Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of the Aqsa mosque, the Waqf was responsible for letting visitors into the compound. But since the mid-2000s, Israeli authorities have taken over. As a result, the Waqf says, more and more religious and ultra-nationalist Jews are visiting as tourists.The Israeli government points out that only about 12,000 Jews visit the site each year, as against four million Muslims.Figures from the Israeli police show a steady increase in Israeli Jewish visitors. Combined with that, groups that advocate more Jewish access to the site, and the rebuilding of a Jewish temple there, have become more organised in their efforts, casting it as an issue of religious freedom."If a religious war is to be avoided, it is up to Israel to enforce the rules," Sheikh Kiswani told Reuters on Monday.As well as the increased number of visitors, and the heavy presence of Israeli police and army units to protect them, the Waqf is angry at what it sees as clear efforts to pray.Before ultra-nationalist or religious Jews enter the site, Israeli guards confiscate any prayer accoutrements they have. They are allowed in only in closely monitored groups of five or ten.Some walk barefoot on the ancient marble stones in obeisance. Many walk backwards away from the holiest places, never withdrawing their gaze. Others carry mobile phones that they say display prayers on the screen.While no one prays openly - they are warned and ejected by police if they do - the groups usually drift off into a grove of olive trees at the eastern edge of the compound where more secretive prayer is possible. Some have written on blogs about worshipping there, proud to have violated the rules."If they say prayers in their heads, how can we know?" said Nader Shaheen, a Waqf guard, who says he frequently sees Jews praying and is frustrated when the police do nothing.As the group of Orthodox Jews came to the end of their visit on Monday, they stopped near the Dome of the Rock, close to where Jews believe the Ark of the Covenant once held the stone tablets of the ten commandments inscribed by God. They looked up silently, their faces fixed in concentration.All around them, kept back by the police, Muslims crowded in, chanting loudly "Allahu-Akbar" (God is Greatest).(Writing by Luke Baker; Editing by Peter Graff) @YahooCanadaNews on Twitter,.
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 FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(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.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Israeli premier orders review that could strip Jerusalem residency rights of some Palestinians-By Josef Federman, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a review of the status of certain Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem, an official confirmed Monday, a decision that could potentially strip tens of thousands of Palestinians of their Israeli residency rights.Such a move is unlikely to overcome Israeli legal hurdles, but the very prospect has unnerved Palestinians in the city. The review comes after weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence, much of it concentrated in east Jerusalem, the section of the city claimed by the Palestinians for their future capital. Many of the Palestinian attackers involved in deadly assaults came from east Jerusalem neighbourhoods. Any move to change the status of the city's Palestinians would threaten unleashing new unrest and draw international condemnations.The current round of violence began last month with clashes at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, a hilltop compound in the Old City that is revered by Jews and Muslims. The clashes quickly spread to other areas of east Jerusalem, across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In all, 10 Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 52 Palestinians, including 30 identified by Israel as attackers, have been killed by Israeli fire. Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem have experienced frequent clashes between stone-throwing youths and Israeli security forces.The Israeli official said that Netanyahu recently ordered a review of Palestinian neighbourhoods located outside of Israel's West Bank separate barrier. Roughly-one third of the city's Palestinian population, about 100,000 people, live outside the barrier.Israel captured east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. It immediately annexed east Jerusalem as part of its capital in a move that has never been internationally recognized.Few Palestinians accepted Israeli citizenship, fearing it would recognize Israeli occupation, and the vast majority now holds residency rights.As residents, they enjoy freedom of movement, the right to work in Israel and access to Israeli social services and health care. But Palestinians claim that this status is fragile, noting that people can be stripped of residency if they leave the city for extended periods of time. Israeli rights groups, citing official Israeli statistics, say a total of about 14,000 Palestinians have lost residency rights since 1967.Israel's West Bank separation barrier, built a decade ago, slices through Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, leaving about 100,000 city residents on the "West Bank" side of the barrier."The separation barrier has fully cut off eight Palestinian neighbourhoods from the city. Netanyahu's statement exploits the current emergency situation to further undermine Palestinian existence in east Jerusalem by threatening to expel an estimated 100,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites from the city," said Yudith Oppenheimer, executive director of Ir Amim, an advocacy group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem.Netanyahu has said the current wave of violence is the result of Palestinian incitement. But Palestinians say it is the result of years of Israeli occupation, failed peace efforts and dwindling hopes of ever gaining independence.Neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem suffer from poor infrastructure, and a lack of classrooms, resources and services when compared to wealthier Jewish neighbourhoods. Some 75 per cent of the city's Palestinians live in poverty, according to Israeli statistics.The situation is especially dire in those areas outside the barrier, which suffer from overcrowding and lack of municipal services as Palestinians have fled a housing crunch in Arab neighbourhoods inside the barrier. Israeli police often do not venture into these areas, and Israeli utilities offer only limited services.Netanyahu's plans to review the residency of these Palestinians was first reported by Channel 2 TV.The Israeli official said no decisions have been made. "The prime minister has asked that there be a discussion on the status" of these areas, he said. Asked whether residency rights were included, he said the matter "deserves a serious discussion."The issue is front page news on all three major Palestinian newspapers and has sent a shockwave through the Palestinian public."If this desire by Netanyahu is translated into a decision, then this will be an act of ethnic cleansing because it targets one-third of the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem," said Adnan Husseini, Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs.He said Israeli officials have been pressuring Palestinians in attempts to reduce their numbers in the city. "They demolish houses and don't give permits for building, they besiege the Palestinian quarters in the city. All of this will only lead to more deterioration in the city," Husseini said.Mohannad Khaled, a resident of Kufur Aqab, a Jerusalem neighbourhood located outside the barrier, said his life is tied to the city."I pay city taxes all the time, and also the national insurance fees. My work is in Jerusalem, my kids study in the schools of the city, my parents live in the Old City," said Khaled. "If this decision is implemented ... I will be cut off from my life."Violence continued in the West Bank Monday. A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the neck and severely wounded him near the West Bank city of Hebron, before being shot and killed by forces, the military said. A few hours later, a Palestinian who attempted to stab a soldier was shot near a Hebron holy site revered by Jews and Muslims, the military said.Later in the day, a Palestinian was killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank, Palestinians said.The latest violence is linked to tensions over a sensitive Jerusalem holy site revered by Jews and Muslims. Palestinians have accused Israel of trying to expand the Jewish presence at the site in violation of decades-old arrangements. Israel adamantly denies such allegations, saying they amount to incitement to violence.Also Monday, Israeli police blocked Muslim officials from installing security cameras at the city's most sensitive religious site, the officials said, despite a new agreement to place the surveillance equipment there.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced over the weekend an agreement between Israel and Jordan to install security cameras at the hilltop compound that has been at the centre of weeks of unrest.Netanyahu has welcomed the plan, saying the cameras will prove that Israel is not doing anything wrong at the site.But Azzam Khatib, director of the Islamic authority that oversees Muslim affairs at the site, said Monday that Israeli police prevented work crews from installing cameras at the entrance to the compound.Israeli police said they "would not permit tampering with the status quo" at the site, and that the arrangement to set up cameras at the site was still being discussed by officials. "When a decision is made it will be implemented with co-ordination and approval of all the relevant parties," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
U.S. says it would be concerned if Palestinian travel rights curbed-Reuters – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it would be concerned if reports that Israel could revoke the travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem were true."If it was true it would certainly be of concern to us," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of revoking benefits and travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem in response to a wave of Palestinian violence, a government official said on Monday.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Eric Beech)
Netanyahu mulls revoking benefits for some Palestinians in East Jerusalem-By Jeffrey Heller | Reuters – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of revoking benefits and travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem in response to a wave of Palestinian violence, a government official said on Monday,Such a move did not appear to be imminent or feasible but its mere mention ran counter to a decades-old Israeli assertion that Jerusalem is a united city where Arab and Jewish residents enjoy equal rights.Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the step, if adopted, would deprive Palestinians in Jerusalem of the most basic rights and services and provoke confrontations. "This alarming escalation, an inhuman and illegal measure, must be stopped immediately," Ashrawi said in a statement.Israel regards all the city, including East Jerusalem, which was captured along with the West Bank in 1967, as its indivisible capital. Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem receive Israeli social benefits and can move freely in Israel.Many of the Arab assailants in one of the worst waves of Palestinian-Israeli street violence in decades, fuelled in part by tensions over a holy site sacred to Muslims and Jews, have come from East Jerusalem.Many of the attacks on Israelis are now occurring in the West Bank, rather than in Jerusalem where they started.Israeli forces on Monday shot dead a Palestinian assailant who the army said had stabbed and wounded a soldier at an intersection near the town of Hebron. Hours later, another Palestinian was shot and killed by soldiers after he tried to stab an Israeli inside the town, the military said.Separately, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during stone-throwing confrontations at a nearby village, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment.Since Oct. 1, at least 56 Palestinians, 29 of whom Israel has said were armed attackers, have been shot and killed by Israelis at the scene of attacks or during protests in the West Bank and Gaza. Ten Israelis have been killed in Palestinian stabbings or shootings. REVOKING RIGHTS-Citing comments at a security cabinet meeting held two weeks ago, the government official said Netanyahu mentioned the possibility of revoking some rights for Palestinians who live within Jerusalem's municipal borders but outside the barrier Israel built during a Palestinian suicide bombing campaign a decade ago.Rights groups estimate that about 100,000, or almost a third of Jerusalem's Palestinians, live beyond the barrier.The official, however, said there was no discussion of the matter at the forum and Netanyahu did not ask that it be included on the agenda of a future meeting.In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing, "If it was true it would certainly be of concern to us."At the security cabinet meeting, Netanyahu complained of lawlessness in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem's outlying areas, where sporadic Israeli raids to arrest suspected militants are usually met with violent protests.After the 1967 Middle East war, Israel expanded Jerusalem's municipal borders by annexing parts of the West Bank to the city. Jerusalem Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, but they hold Israeli-issued blue IDs that grant them permanent resident status.(Additional reporting Lesley Wroughton in Washington and by Ori Lewis and Ali Sawafta; Editing by Maayan Lubell, Richard Balmforth, Toni Reinhold)
Jerusalem unrest has tour operators praying for calm-By Joe Dyke | Agence France-Presse – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - In good years, Vittorio Di Cesare's tours of Jerusalem's holy sites for November and December are booked up well in advance. This year, he doesn't have a single booking.A wave of gun, knife and car-ramming attacks in Jerusalem and other cities, as well as clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters, have sparked fears of a full-scale Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation.At least 54 Palestinians and one Israeli Arab have been killed while carrying out attacks or in violent clashes with police, while eight Israelis have died in attacks.Amid such tensions, usually bustling markets have had only a fraction of their shoppers and the tourism industry, worth an estimated $5 billion (4.5 billion euros) a year and employing some six percent of the Israeli workforce, is under threat.With Christmas on the horizon and the potential for its usual flood of visitors to the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, tour operators are praying calm can be restored soon.Tourist numbers were finally starting to rebound after last summer's Gaza war before the latest violence broke out in early October, usually the country's busiest month for visits."We... had almost one year of very few incoming (tourists)... but we started to work well in the last months," Cesare said."Because of the new situation, things are going very badly," added the 58-year-old Italian tour guide, who has lived in Israel for 30 years.Business at the central Mahane Yehuda market in west Jerusalem, a popular destination for tourists, has been around five times lower than normal, shopkeepers there say.In east Jerusalem's Old City, where Christians follow the path of Jesus's Stations of the Cross and tourists wander mazes of souvenir stalls and hummus joints, policemen and security guards have been posted in the narrow alleyways.- 'Getting worse and worse' -John Jessor, a 50-year-old Palestinian who runs a small shop at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the location of Jesus's crucifixion and tomb, said trade had fallen since the beginning of the month."The situation keeps getting worse and worse," he said.In Bethlehem clashes have taken place only a few hundred metres (yards) from the Church of the Nativity, with coaches of tourists occasionally caught up in violence.While many of the most popular tourist sites, including Bethlehem and Jerusalem's Old City, are technically in Palestinian areas, tour operations are predominantly based in Israel and tend to organise only brief visits.The sector still makes up around 15 percent of the Palestinian economy, according to the International Chamber of Commerce, though the Palestinian economy is more than 20 times smaller than its Israeli counterpart."We feel that there is a decline in tourism," said a representative of Bethlehem's chamber of commerce. So far no figures have been released and the Palestinian tourism ministry is studying the impact of the unrest.Sitting outside the Holy Sepulchre, Slovak tourist Marek, 22, said he and his parents were not too worried about their safety despite the violence."Nothing will happen to you in Israel, because for every tourist there is a policeman," he said.Last year's Gaza war cost the tourism industry around one billion shekels ($260 million/230 million euros) in lost bookings, according to the Israel Hotel Association (IHA). Tourist numbers for the first eight months of the year were down eight percent on 2014, according to the Israeli tourism ministry.It is too early to assess the longer-term impact of the violence, said Amir Halevi, director general at the ministry."Right now (tourists) are continuing to come," he told AFP. "There are cancellations but they are small numbers.""There are people that changed and (are) going more to Tel Aviv and less to Jerusalem, but we can understand that."Pnina Shalev, spokeswoman for the IHA, said Israeli hoteliers were anxious about the coming months."October and November should be the best months during the year for incoming tourism. But we are (concerned) about December, January and February," she said.- Palestinian economy at risk -For Israel's economy more generally, the unrest could have a significant impact. The previous Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which ran from 2000 to 2005, slowed growth by seven percent, according to Assaf Razin, economics professor at Tel Aviv University.He said small short-term impacts of the recent turmoil were already being felt, with a weakening in the currency. A drawn-out crisis could have a more "formidable" effect, he said."Israel will have to increase security and defence expenditure at the expense of social expenditures such as education," said Razin.A decrease in foreign investment and an exodus of the country's brightest minds were other threats, he added.But the impact for the Palestinian economy would be even more pronounced, said C. Ross Anthony, director of the Israeli-Palestinian Initiative at the US-based RAND think tank.In a recent study, he assessed the economic impact of potential political scenarios over 10 years.A return to outright conflict would overall hurt the Palestinian economy more than four times more than the Israeli economy in terms of percentage of GDP lost, it concluded.
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.
MICAH 4:1-5
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
With secret prayers, Jews challenge 'status quo' at Jerusalem holy site-By Luke Baker | Reuters – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As the group of Orthodox Jews came near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, one began to mumble while staring down at his mobile phone. Another looked up in awe, eyes half shut in concentration. The woman's lips moved silently.Asked afterwards whether they had prayed, a violation of an 800-year-old ban on non-Muslim worship at the holy site, two of the group said they had done so in their hearts, while the woman declared proudly: "I prayed with my mouth moving."Monday's visit to the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount was low-key by most standards - no fighting broke out, no one was ejected by the police, everyone left calmly and life returned to normal.But in critical ways it cut to the heart of an issue fuelling the worst violence between Palestinians and Israel in years: whether the status quo at the site, also known as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, is being properly enforced.In a region full of complexity, the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount status quo occupies a special place. It upholds a rule that has effectively existed since 1187, when Muslim warrior Saladin defeated the Christian crusaders and held on to Jerusalem: non-Muslims may enter the sacred compound, but only Muslims can pray.Before Muslims built the Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa mosque in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, two Jewish temples, the second destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, stood at the site, which is both the holiest place in Islam outside Saudi Arabia and the most sacred place in Judaism.After Israel seized the Old City and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, it agreed to continue the status quo, recognising the risks of igniting a religious war if anything were changed. It gave Jordan special responsibility for overseeing the Muslim holy sites via the Waqf, an Islamic trust.That agreement was reinforced when Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. There have been many periods of friction over the years, but to all intents and purposes, the status quo has held.Over the last decade or so, since then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the site in 2000, the Waqf says Israel has been slowly chipping away at the rules, with increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the area and many of them surreptitiously praying.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected those suggestions, saying repeatedly that the government has not changed the rules and has no intention of doing so.He reiterated that position after meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week, and Kerry said after talks with Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that there was a renewed commitment from all sides to ensure the status quo was respected.Yet despite the verbal efforts to quell the problem, the Muslim authorities at the site remain convinced the status quo is being slowly eroded by steady Jewish encroachment.-CHANGING TIMES?-In the past, said Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of the Aqsa mosque, the Waqf was responsible for letting visitors into the compound. But since the mid-2000s, Israeli authorities have taken over. As a result, the Waqf says, more and more religious and ultra-nationalist Jews are visiting as tourists.The Israeli government points out that only about 12,000 Jews visit the site each year, as against four million Muslims.Figures from the Israeli police show a steady increase in Israeli Jewish visitors. Combined with that, groups that advocate more Jewish access to the site, and the rebuilding of a Jewish temple there, have become more organised in their efforts, casting it as an issue of religious freedom."If a religious war is to be avoided, it is up to Israel to enforce the rules," Sheikh Kiswani told Reuters on Monday.As well as the increased number of visitors, and the heavy presence of Israeli police and army units to protect them, the Waqf is angry at what it sees as clear efforts to pray.Before ultra-nationalist or religious Jews enter the site, Israeli guards confiscate any prayer accoutrements they have. They are allowed in only in closely monitored groups of five or ten.Some walk barefoot on the ancient marble stones in obeisance. Many walk backwards away from the holiest places, never withdrawing their gaze. Others carry mobile phones that they say display prayers on the screen.While no one prays openly - they are warned and ejected by police if they do - the groups usually drift off into a grove of olive trees at the eastern edge of the compound where more secretive prayer is possible. Some have written on blogs about worshipping there, proud to have violated the rules."If they say prayers in their heads, how can we know?" said Nader Shaheen, a Waqf guard, who says he frequently sees Jews praying and is frustrated when the police do nothing.As the group of Orthodox Jews came to the end of their visit on Monday, they stopped near the Dome of the Rock, close to where Jews believe the Ark of the Covenant once held the stone tablets of the ten commandments inscribed by God. They looked up silently, their faces fixed in concentration.All around them, kept back by the police, Muslims crowded in, chanting loudly "Allahu-Akbar" (God is Greatest).(Writing by Luke Baker; Editing by Peter Graff) @YahooCanadaNews on Twitter,.
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 FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(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.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Israeli premier orders review that could strip Jerusalem residency rights of some Palestinians-By Josef Federman, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a review of the status of certain Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem, an official confirmed Monday, a decision that could potentially strip tens of thousands of Palestinians of their Israeli residency rights.Such a move is unlikely to overcome Israeli legal hurdles, but the very prospect has unnerved Palestinians in the city. The review comes after weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence, much of it concentrated in east Jerusalem, the section of the city claimed by the Palestinians for their future capital. Many of the Palestinian attackers involved in deadly assaults came from east Jerusalem neighbourhoods. Any move to change the status of the city's Palestinians would threaten unleashing new unrest and draw international condemnations.The current round of violence began last month with clashes at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, a hilltop compound in the Old City that is revered by Jews and Muslims. The clashes quickly spread to other areas of east Jerusalem, across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In all, 10 Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 52 Palestinians, including 30 identified by Israel as attackers, have been killed by Israeli fire. Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem have experienced frequent clashes between stone-throwing youths and Israeli security forces.The Israeli official said that Netanyahu recently ordered a review of Palestinian neighbourhoods located outside of Israel's West Bank separate barrier. Roughly-one third of the city's Palestinian population, about 100,000 people, live outside the barrier.Israel captured east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. It immediately annexed east Jerusalem as part of its capital in a move that has never been internationally recognized.Few Palestinians accepted Israeli citizenship, fearing it would recognize Israeli occupation, and the vast majority now holds residency rights.As residents, they enjoy freedom of movement, the right to work in Israel and access to Israeli social services and health care. But Palestinians claim that this status is fragile, noting that people can be stripped of residency if they leave the city for extended periods of time. Israeli rights groups, citing official Israeli statistics, say a total of about 14,000 Palestinians have lost residency rights since 1967.Israel's West Bank separation barrier, built a decade ago, slices through Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, leaving about 100,000 city residents on the "West Bank" side of the barrier."The separation barrier has fully cut off eight Palestinian neighbourhoods from the city. Netanyahu's statement exploits the current emergency situation to further undermine Palestinian existence in east Jerusalem by threatening to expel an estimated 100,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites from the city," said Yudith Oppenheimer, executive director of Ir Amim, an advocacy group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem.Netanyahu has said the current wave of violence is the result of Palestinian incitement. But Palestinians say it is the result of years of Israeli occupation, failed peace efforts and dwindling hopes of ever gaining independence.Neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem suffer from poor infrastructure, and a lack of classrooms, resources and services when compared to wealthier Jewish neighbourhoods. Some 75 per cent of the city's Palestinians live in poverty, according to Israeli statistics.The situation is especially dire in those areas outside the barrier, which suffer from overcrowding and lack of municipal services as Palestinians have fled a housing crunch in Arab neighbourhoods inside the barrier. Israeli police often do not venture into these areas, and Israeli utilities offer only limited services.Netanyahu's plans to review the residency of these Palestinians was first reported by Channel 2 TV.The Israeli official said no decisions have been made. "The prime minister has asked that there be a discussion on the status" of these areas, he said. Asked whether residency rights were included, he said the matter "deserves a serious discussion."The issue is front page news on all three major Palestinian newspapers and has sent a shockwave through the Palestinian public."If this desire by Netanyahu is translated into a decision, then this will be an act of ethnic cleansing because it targets one-third of the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem," said Adnan Husseini, Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs.He said Israeli officials have been pressuring Palestinians in attempts to reduce their numbers in the city. "They demolish houses and don't give permits for building, they besiege the Palestinian quarters in the city. All of this will only lead to more deterioration in the city," Husseini said.Mohannad Khaled, a resident of Kufur Aqab, a Jerusalem neighbourhood located outside the barrier, said his life is tied to the city."I pay city taxes all the time, and also the national insurance fees. My work is in Jerusalem, my kids study in the schools of the city, my parents live in the Old City," said Khaled. "If this decision is implemented ... I will be cut off from my life."Violence continued in the West Bank Monday. A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the neck and severely wounded him near the West Bank city of Hebron, before being shot and killed by forces, the military said. A few hours later, a Palestinian who attempted to stab a soldier was shot near a Hebron holy site revered by Jews and Muslims, the military said.Later in the day, a Palestinian was killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank, Palestinians said.The latest violence is linked to tensions over a sensitive Jerusalem holy site revered by Jews and Muslims. Palestinians have accused Israel of trying to expand the Jewish presence at the site in violation of decades-old arrangements. Israel adamantly denies such allegations, saying they amount to incitement to violence.Also Monday, Israeli police blocked Muslim officials from installing security cameras at the city's most sensitive religious site, the officials said, despite a new agreement to place the surveillance equipment there.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced over the weekend an agreement between Israel and Jordan to install security cameras at the hilltop compound that has been at the centre of weeks of unrest.Netanyahu has welcomed the plan, saying the cameras will prove that Israel is not doing anything wrong at the site.But Azzam Khatib, director of the Islamic authority that oversees Muslim affairs at the site, said Monday that Israeli police prevented work crews from installing cameras at the entrance to the compound.Israeli police said they "would not permit tampering with the status quo" at the site, and that the arrangement to set up cameras at the site was still being discussed by officials. "When a decision is made it will be implemented with co-ordination and approval of all the relevant parties," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
U.S. says it would be concerned if Palestinian travel rights curbed-Reuters – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it would be concerned if reports that Israel could revoke the travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem were true."If it was true it would certainly be of concern to us," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of revoking benefits and travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem in response to a wave of Palestinian violence, a government official said on Monday.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Eric Beech)
Netanyahu mulls revoking benefits for some Palestinians in East Jerusalem-By Jeffrey Heller | Reuters – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of revoking benefits and travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem in response to a wave of Palestinian violence, a government official said on Monday,Such a move did not appear to be imminent or feasible but its mere mention ran counter to a decades-old Israeli assertion that Jerusalem is a united city where Arab and Jewish residents enjoy equal rights.Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the step, if adopted, would deprive Palestinians in Jerusalem of the most basic rights and services and provoke confrontations. "This alarming escalation, an inhuman and illegal measure, must be stopped immediately," Ashrawi said in a statement.Israel regards all the city, including East Jerusalem, which was captured along with the West Bank in 1967, as its indivisible capital. Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem receive Israeli social benefits and can move freely in Israel.Many of the Arab assailants in one of the worst waves of Palestinian-Israeli street violence in decades, fuelled in part by tensions over a holy site sacred to Muslims and Jews, have come from East Jerusalem.Many of the attacks on Israelis are now occurring in the West Bank, rather than in Jerusalem where they started.Israeli forces on Monday shot dead a Palestinian assailant who the army said had stabbed and wounded a soldier at an intersection near the town of Hebron. Hours later, another Palestinian was shot and killed by soldiers after he tried to stab an Israeli inside the town, the military said.Separately, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during stone-throwing confrontations at a nearby village, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment.Since Oct. 1, at least 56 Palestinians, 29 of whom Israel has said were armed attackers, have been shot and killed by Israelis at the scene of attacks or during protests in the West Bank and Gaza. Ten Israelis have been killed in Palestinian stabbings or shootings. REVOKING RIGHTS-Citing comments at a security cabinet meeting held two weeks ago, the government official said Netanyahu mentioned the possibility of revoking some rights for Palestinians who live within Jerusalem's municipal borders but outside the barrier Israel built during a Palestinian suicide bombing campaign a decade ago.Rights groups estimate that about 100,000, or almost a third of Jerusalem's Palestinians, live beyond the barrier.The official, however, said there was no discussion of the matter at the forum and Netanyahu did not ask that it be included on the agenda of a future meeting.In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing, "If it was true it would certainly be of concern to us."At the security cabinet meeting, Netanyahu complained of lawlessness in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem's outlying areas, where sporadic Israeli raids to arrest suspected militants are usually met with violent protests.After the 1967 Middle East war, Israel expanded Jerusalem's municipal borders by annexing parts of the West Bank to the city. Jerusalem Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, but they hold Israeli-issued blue IDs that grant them permanent resident status.(Additional reporting Lesley Wroughton in Washington and by Ori Lewis and Ali Sawafta; Editing by Maayan Lubell, Richard Balmforth, Toni Reinhold)
Jerusalem unrest has tour operators praying for calm-By Joe Dyke | Agence France-Presse – OCT 26,15-YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - In good years, Vittorio Di Cesare's tours of Jerusalem's holy sites for November and December are booked up well in advance. This year, he doesn't have a single booking.A wave of gun, knife and car-ramming attacks in Jerusalem and other cities, as well as clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters, have sparked fears of a full-scale Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation.At least 54 Palestinians and one Israeli Arab have been killed while carrying out attacks or in violent clashes with police, while eight Israelis have died in attacks.Amid such tensions, usually bustling markets have had only a fraction of their shoppers and the tourism industry, worth an estimated $5 billion (4.5 billion euros) a year and employing some six percent of the Israeli workforce, is under threat.With Christmas on the horizon and the potential for its usual flood of visitors to the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, tour operators are praying calm can be restored soon.Tourist numbers were finally starting to rebound after last summer's Gaza war before the latest violence broke out in early October, usually the country's busiest month for visits."We... had almost one year of very few incoming (tourists)... but we started to work well in the last months," Cesare said."Because of the new situation, things are going very badly," added the 58-year-old Italian tour guide, who has lived in Israel for 30 years.Business at the central Mahane Yehuda market in west Jerusalem, a popular destination for tourists, has been around five times lower than normal, shopkeepers there say.In east Jerusalem's Old City, where Christians follow the path of Jesus's Stations of the Cross and tourists wander mazes of souvenir stalls and hummus joints, policemen and security guards have been posted in the narrow alleyways.- 'Getting worse and worse' -John Jessor, a 50-year-old Palestinian who runs a small shop at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the location of Jesus's crucifixion and tomb, said trade had fallen since the beginning of the month."The situation keeps getting worse and worse," he said.In Bethlehem clashes have taken place only a few hundred metres (yards) from the Church of the Nativity, with coaches of tourists occasionally caught up in violence.While many of the most popular tourist sites, including Bethlehem and Jerusalem's Old City, are technically in Palestinian areas, tour operations are predominantly based in Israel and tend to organise only brief visits.The sector still makes up around 15 percent of the Palestinian economy, according to the International Chamber of Commerce, though the Palestinian economy is more than 20 times smaller than its Israeli counterpart."We feel that there is a decline in tourism," said a representative of Bethlehem's chamber of commerce. So far no figures have been released and the Palestinian tourism ministry is studying the impact of the unrest.Sitting outside the Holy Sepulchre, Slovak tourist Marek, 22, said he and his parents were not too worried about their safety despite the violence."Nothing will happen to you in Israel, because for every tourist there is a policeman," he said.Last year's Gaza war cost the tourism industry around one billion shekels ($260 million/230 million euros) in lost bookings, according to the Israel Hotel Association (IHA). Tourist numbers for the first eight months of the year were down eight percent on 2014, according to the Israeli tourism ministry.It is too early to assess the longer-term impact of the violence, said Amir Halevi, director general at the ministry."Right now (tourists) are continuing to come," he told AFP. "There are cancellations but they are small numbers.""There are people that changed and (are) going more to Tel Aviv and less to Jerusalem, but we can understand that."Pnina Shalev, spokeswoman for the IHA, said Israeli hoteliers were anxious about the coming months."October and November should be the best months during the year for incoming tourism. But we are (concerned) about December, January and February," she said.- Palestinian economy at risk -For Israel's economy more generally, the unrest could have a significant impact. The previous Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which ran from 2000 to 2005, slowed growth by seven percent, according to Assaf Razin, economics professor at Tel Aviv University.He said small short-term impacts of the recent turmoil were already being felt, with a weakening in the currency. A drawn-out crisis could have a more "formidable" effect, he said."Israel will have to increase security and defence expenditure at the expense of social expenditures such as education," said Razin.A decrease in foreign investment and an exodus of the country's brightest minds were other threats, he added.But the impact for the Palestinian economy would be even more pronounced, said C. Ross Anthony, director of the Israeli-Palestinian Initiative at the US-based RAND think tank.In a recent study, he assessed the economic impact of potential political scenarios over 10 years.A return to outright conflict would overall hurt the Palestinian economy more than four times more than the Israeli economy in terms of percentage of GDP lost, it concluded.
