THE COWARDLY LION, TEMPLE MOUNT, POPE FRANCIS AND THE NEW WORLD RELIGION
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3.22.14 BIBLE STUDY 19 ADAR 5774
THE COWARDLY LION, TEMPLE MOUNT, POPE FRANCIS
AND THE NEW WORLD RELIGION
Father, in the name of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray that you will strengthen your
people with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith;
help us to be rooted and grounded in love that we may be able to comprehend with all the saints
what is the width and depth and length and height; and to know the love of Christ that surpasses
knowledge so that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen!
Welcome to Bible study. I think that we are living in the end of days and the coming of Messiah
is close. Prophecy is being fulfilled. A lot of people are uninformed about Christ and his coming.
Many others do not believe the Bible and its prophecies that are being fulfilled. Looking at the
rising trouble in the world today and the growing anti-Christian feeling and divisions, deception
and blindness have covered the nations. The concept of Christian martyrdom may seem like
something from a bygone, uncivilized era when believers were mercilessly thrown to the lions.
Not so. Christians are persecuted in more than 65 countries around the world, with the vast
majority in Asia and Africa — and especially in the Middle East, where Islamist rulers often
purport to make faith in Christ a crime.
The number of Christians murdered for their faith almost doubled in 2013 over the previous year,
according to an annual survey by Open Doors, a non-denominational ministry that monitors the
persecution of believers and supports persecuted Christians worldwide. Overall, the report
documented 2,123 murders of Christians for their faith in 2013—Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Indonesia, and Egypt. 2013 is a tragedy for Christians in Syria. . . kidnapping, killings, ransom,
and rape. After the Christian villages have been occupied, the churches have been destroyed and
even mass graves were found in Saddad. The Islamists have put to the Christians the alternative:
“Islam or death.” Among other atrocities carried out against Christians for their faith:
imprisonment, torture, rape, execution, expulsion and forced labor. Hard-line Islamist regimes
and Islamic terrorists — many funded by the Obama administration and other Western
governments — were behind most of the slaughter. Some of the most harrowing stories about
how Christians are persecuted have come from the African country of Eritrea. However, for the
12th year in a row, the barbaric communist autocracy lording over North Korea was ranked as
the number one persecutor of Christians in the world.
The media is strangely silent about the genocide going on in Syria against Christians,
much like the genocide against Jews and Christians prior to and during WW II by the
actions of Nazi Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between Christian and
Jewish Poles, perished during WWII. Throughout the entire course of foreign occupation
1the territory of Poland was divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
(USSR). Neville Chamberlain of England had negotiated a signed peace agreement
with Hitler. A few months later Hitler bombed Poland and made an agreement with
Russia that they would divide Poland between their two nations. That led to WW II. The
Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the
Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance seeking to stop
German, Italian and Japanese aggression.
After his arrival home from the notorious Munich conference with Germany’s Adolph
Hitler (1938), Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain had in his hand a
signed peace agreement with the Germans and declared the accord signaled "peace for
our time.” The paper meant nothing to Hitler and Germany who invaded Poland on
September 1, 1939. The anti-German coalition at the start of the war consisted of
France, Poland and Great Britain, soon to be joined by the British Commonwealth
(Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa.). Russia first
cooperated with Germany in partitioning Poland while remaining neutral in the Allied-
Axis conflict, but the Soviet Union joined the Allies in June-1941 after being invaded by
Germany and its allies. The United States joined in December 1941 after the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor. As of 1942, the "Big Three" leaders of Britain, the Soviet Union,
and the United States controlled Allied policy.
The Wenatchee World News (3.21.14) The Invasion will be Catered — by Charles Krauthammer.
“Early in the Ukraine crisis, when the Europeans were working on bringing Ukraine into the EU
system and Vladimir Putin was countering with threats and bribes, one British analyst lamented
that ‘we went to a knife fight with a baguette (cupcake).’ That was three months ago. Life
overtakes parody. During the Ukrainian prime minister’s visit to Washington last week, his
government urgently requested military assistance. The Pentagon refused. It offered instead
military ration kits.” The Pentagon did not refuse help brethren, President Obama refused help in
principle and fact as “dictator”, although according to the U.S. Constitution we do not have a
dictator. In reality, the Pentagon does what the President says. Putin in the meantime “mobilizes
thousands of troops, artillery and attack helicopters on Ukraine’s borders and Washington
counters with baguettes, American-style. One thing we can say for sure in these uncertain times:
The invasion of Ukraine will be catered by the United States.”
The U.S. is not invited to the party, the U.S. but will serve (cater) the party. “Why, after
all, did Obama delay responding to Putin’s infiltration, military occupation and seizure of
Crimea in the first place? In order to provide Putin with a path to de-escalation, “an off-
ramp,” the preferred White House phrase. Why did we deny Ukraine weapons? Barack
Obama-John Kerry’s worldview held that arming the victim might be taken as a
provocation. This kind of mind-bending illogic has marked the administration’s response
to the whole Crimea affair. America’s response of indecision, fear and trepidation has
been broadcast to the whole world which is sitting up and taking notice of America’s
absolute weakness.” Why, after all, did Obama delay responding to Putin’s infiltration,
military occupation and seizure of Crimea in the first place? In order to provide Putin
with a path to de-escalation, “an off-ramp,” the preferred White House phrase.
2“An off-ramp? Did they actually think that Putin was losing —that his invasion of Crimea
was a disaster from which he needed some face-saving way out? It’s delusional enough
to think that Putin — in seizing Crimea, threatening eastern Ukraine, destabilizing Kiev,
shaking NATO, terrifying America’s East European allies and making the West look
utterly helpless — was actually losing. But to imagine that Putin saw it that way as well
and was waiting for American diplomacy to save him from a monumental blunder is
totally divorced from reality.” The Russians move in like a bear pushing where there is
no opposition. Both parties, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree that the U.S.
does not want to be involved in a war.”
Krauthammer has become one of my favorite conservative commentators with a sharp, incisive
mind and an in-depth understanding of world happenings and politics in general. He is a
contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and a nightly panelist on Fox News' Special Report
with Bret Baier and his weekly news column is syndicated to more than 400 newspapers
worldwide. During Krauthammer's first year of medical school a diving-board accident in 1971
left him paralyzed and wheel-chair bound since that time. However, he earned his M.D and
graduated from Harvard with his class in 1975. He began contributing articles about politics to
The New Republic and in 1980 served as a speech writer to vice president Walter Mondale. In
January 1981, Krauthammer joined The New Republic as both a writer and editor. In 1983, he
began writing essays for Time magazine, one of which first brought him national acclaim for his
development of the "Reagan Doctrine". In 1984 he became the chief resident in psychiatry at the
Massachusetts General Hospital. The weekly column he began writing for The Washington Post
in 1985 won him the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987. In 2006, the Financial Times named
Krauthammer the most influential commentator in America, saying "Krauthammer has
influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades.”
In particular, China is flexing its muscle in threatening military seizure of the South China Sea
Zhongye island from the Philippines and also taking over the islands Senkakus by Japan called and
Diaoyus by China, located in the East China Sea near China. China claims the islands as its
inherent territory without any fear of America. The area is believed to be rich with minerals and
oil. Tensions escalated between the two countries after Shinzo Abe took over as Prime Minister
last year and made efforts to modernise the Self Defence Force, changing its pacifist nature
adopted since the Japanese defeat in Second World War. China claims almost all of South China
Sea as its own which is strongly contested by Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
The South China Sea Zhongye (Pag-asa) island belongs to the Philippine municipality of
Kalayaan. It boasts a civilian population of nearly two hundred. Pag-asa contains a number of
structures including a municipal building, a community hall, health center, nursery school, water
plant, communications tower and an airstrip. The airstrip, known as Rancudo Airfield, is 1,400
meters in length and services both civilian and military aircraft, including the Philippine Air
Force’s C-130 cargo plane. In March 2011, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) Eduardo Oban announced plans to upgrade the airfield and repair army
barracks. About fifty AFP soldiers are stationed on Pag-asa. Control over Zhongye (Pag-asa)
Island would enable China to exert control over a vast expanse of the South China Sea if it
constructed naval and air bases there.
3America’s power has been decreasing. We are soon going to have an army smaller in
size than we had prior to WW II. Obama can say to his wife, “Look, honey, how I have
shrunk America.” He has other goals and ambitions in mind.
I have always been interested in geopolitics. When I was about nine years old, I read
the local newspaper and followed the published daily story and map detailing the
Korean War which showed the American line retreating southward on the peninsula and
the North Korean forces advancing deeper into South Korea. I was furious, and wanted
to know: ‘Why are we losing Dad? We have the Battleship Missouri, the biggest Army,
Navy and the atomic bomb!” America was missing the courage of conviction and did not
have righteous conviction.
After WW II and the defeat of Japan, the Soviet Union took responsibility for accepting
the surrender of Japanese troops in the part of the Korean peninsula north of the 38th
parallel, whereas U.S. troops would receive the surrender south of that line as a
temporary administrative solution. The two sides of Korea were to continue negotiations
over elections to reunify the country. Both sides periodically instigated skirmishes
across the 38th parallel. But the civil Korean War (1950-1953) formally began when the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, (northern part Korean Peninsula) crossed the
demarcation line and attacked the official Republic of Korea (ROK) which is the
southern part of the Korean Peninsula on June 25, 1950 The DPRK army (250,000)
quickly pushed into South Korea, and by September, it had engulfed almost the entire
peninsula and had forced the ROK army into a small area around Pusan. The U.S.
viewed the attack on the South as evidence that communism would actively challenge
the free world and revised its security perimeter to include maintaining a non-communist
South Korea. Under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea
and sent forces composed of 15 nations to the peninsula to stop the communist
advance. Concerned that recent communist successes in Korea would encourage The
People’s Republic of China (PRC) to take action, U.S. President Truman moved the
U.S. Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait to discourage the spread of military conflict in
the region.
UN forces led by U.S. General Douglas McArthur launched an amphibious attack to
regain lost ground in South Korea and pushed north nearly reaching the Yalu River,
which marks the border between China and North Korea. The PRC considered this
action of UN forces approaching the Chinese border as interference in China’s internal
affairs and a genuine threat to its security. Although all units in the Chinese People’s
Volunteer Army belonged to the People's Liberation Army (the official name of the
Chinese armed forces), the PCA was separately constituted in order to prevent an
official war with the United States. The Chinese counterattacked in (April 22 – June 10,
1951) with the Fifth Phase Campaign (also known as the "Chinese Spring Offensive")
and with three field armies (approximately 700,000 men). As a result General McArthur
and the UN troops were quickly forced to retreat behind the 38th parallel. McArthur
wanted to counter attack China by bombing the bridges across the Yalu River, but
instead Truman fired McArthur and brought him back to the U.S.
4The U.S. and UN had grossly underestimated the Chinese forces that entered Korea
because China deployed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) under the name "volunteer
army” and managed to deceive the US intelligence about the size, strength, and tactical
determination of the Chinese. Eventually about 3 million Chinese civilian and military
personnel served in Korea by July 1953 when fighting ended. The goal of South Korean
and allied forces to recapture all of what had been South Korea before an agreement
was reached in order to avoid loss of any territory was achieved, although there was no
peace agreement. The Korean War ended in an armistice which was only a ceasefire
agreement, not a formal peace treaty ending the war. Both the United States and China
had, at this point, achieved the short-term goal of maintaining the demarcation line at
the 38th parallel, while the North and South Koreans had failed in the larger goal of
uniting the country under their preferred political systems.
The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm
(January 17, 1991 –February 28, 1991) was a war waged by coalition forces from 34
nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and
annexation of Kuwait. The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an
aerial bombardment on 17 January 1991. This was followed by a ground assault on 24
February. This was a decisive victory for the Coalition forces, which liberated Kuwait and
advanced into Iraqi territory. The Coalition ceased its advance, and declared a cease-fire
100 hours after the ground campaign started. Aerial and ground combat was confined to
Iraq, Kuwait, and areas on Saudi Arabia's border. Iraq launched Scud missiles against
Coalition military targets in Saudi Arabia and against Israel. Kuwait gained freedom but
we did not finish the job. Sadam Hussein of Iraq was left in power and rebuilt. President
George Bush was afraid of provoking Russia, even after the iron curtain had fallen.
The Iraq War was an armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. The first was an
invasion of Iraq starting on 20 March 2003 by an invasion force led by the United States.
It was followed by a longer phase of fighting, in which an insurgency emerged to oppose
the occupying forces and the newly formed Iraqi government. Prior to the war, the
governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged
possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and
that of their coalition/regional allies. After investigation following the invasion, the US-led
Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical and biological
programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they
intended to resume production if the Iraq sanctions were lifted.
Vladimir Putin has added Crimea to the map of Russia with the stroke of a pen, two days
after its citizens voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine. Putin reclaims a 200-year
old Russian patrimony with hardly a shot. In Revelation the West and the East will
eventually have a confrontation described as the 5th and 6th trumpets or the 1st and 2nd
woes in the Day of the Lord. The real story of the Ukraine is not just Russia invading
Crimea and the Ukraine. The other side of the story is the politics that have been going
on in the West. Europe wants the Ukraine to become part of the European Union which
would greatly weaken Russia and keep Russia weak. So you might say that Russia is
fighting in self-defense. There are only three places that Russia can directly trade with
5the wider world: the Pacific (Vladivostok), the Baltic (St. Petersburg) and the Black Sea
(Crimea). The Ukrainian port city of Sevastopol on the Black Sea which gives Russia
access to the Mediterranean Sea, recently agreed to allow Russia to extend the lease on
its naval base there until 2042. Sevastopol harbor, one of the most naturally protected
ports from the elements in the world is a warm water port (never freezes over)—critical
for Russia which is landlocked except in the cold north. In the east, China and Korea
separate her from the South China Sea, while Vladivostok, her sole warm water port, is
"neutralized" by South Korean and Japanese domination of the strait of Tsushima.
Personalliberty (3/1/20)—“Elected Ukrainian pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych
was ousted after he rejected the international Monetary fund’s demands to raise taxes
and devalue the currency. So the U.S. and the EU installed central banker and hand
puppet Arseniy ‘Yats’ Yatsenyuk. A Forbes article described Yats as “the kind of
technocrat you want if you want austerity, with the veneer of professionalism.” He’s the
type of guy who can hobnob with the European elite. A Mario Monti type: unelected and
willing to do the IMFs bidding. On March 2, the U.S. took possession of Ukraine’s $1.8
billion (estimated value) gold reserves. That’s partial payback for the $5 billion the U.S.
invested in dragging Ukraine toward the EU. It’s also gold (supposedly held by the
Federal Reserve) that the U.S. can “return” to Germany who has been seeking its return.
Recall that after the U.S. sacked Iraq to overthrow a dictator, free its people and find
“weapons of mass destruction,” it confiscated that country’s gold reserves. Moammar
Gadhafi had to be overthrown not because he was a dictator, but because he planned
to stop selling oil in U.S. dollars. The U.S. then abandoned Iraq and left it to fall apart
into chaos and anarchy and terror bombings. It treated Libya even worse. In order to
“help” the Libyan people, President Barack Obama used NATO to bomb whole cities. It
sacked Libya’s gold reserves (150 tons, estimated) and that gold disappeared, leaving
the country ruled by gangs and al-Qaida-related terrorists. Do you see a sign of avarice
and greed with these moves? Why did we really attack Iraq? We got their oil and their
gold. We attacked Libya and have now taken their gold. Now, we have taken
possession of Ukraine’s gold. America continues to defend the dollar, although deeply
in debt over $17 trillion dollars. That is $400, 000 owed by every man, woman and child
in America because it’s our country’s debt. The story is about money, gold, wealth and a
political power play between the east and the west for world dominion. The front line
runs through the Ukraine today and Putin’s appetite is unsatisfied and growing.
America used to be bold and courageous. The first flag or one of its variations we know
today as the Navy Jack (sometimes known as the "Culpepper Flag") that was used
throughout the Revolutionary War featured thirteen red and white stripes. Stretched
across them was the rippling form of a rattlesnake, and the words, "DON'T TREAD ON
ME" gives a striking indication of the colonists' courage and fierce desire for
independence. This powerful American symbol was used by the Continental Navy in
1776.
Why is it that we have become a nation of cowards today? Because of wickedness men
fear. “All unrighteousness is sin and the whole world lies in wickedness”—1 John 5:17,
619. Genesis 6:5--“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Proverbs 28:1-5—“The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold
as a lion.” David was bold as a lion and confronted Goliath the giant of Gath, whose
height was six cubits and a span. 1 Samuel 17:45-50—“David said to the Philistine,
‘You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in
the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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This day will the LORD deliver you into my hand; and I will smite you, and take your
head from you; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto
the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel. The LORD saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is
the LORD's, and he will give you into our hand.’ ” God gave David the victory. But those
who don’t have righteousness, do not have fearlessness. The key to bravery and
courage is contact with and knowing God—trusting in and praying to God. Our country
has lost its confidence and contact with God. Those who trust in the arm of flesh will be
destroyed. Those who trust in the arm of the Almighty will be delivered.
When Sadam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President George Bush did nothing but try to
work through the U.N. because he was seeking to build a New World Order. Seeing his
lack of righteous action and courage stirred me to write a letter to the Editor of our local
newspaper. I questioned, “What would President Theodore Roosevelt do” and brought
to mind that in the time of former President Teddy Roosevelt, America would have acted
with courage. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt took immediate
action and called for war. He instructed Admiral Dewey who commanded the U.S. fleet
in the Asian Pacific, that if war should erupt between Spain and the United States to
take offensive action against the Philippine Islands, which were then part of the Spanish
Empire. Dewey followed his orders. Within days after war was declared, Dewy launched
a surprise attack on the Spanish fleet anchored in the bay. Within a few hours, Dewey
had simultaneously captured the Philippines and demonstrated the power of the United
States Navy for the very first time. Roosevelt gained national fame in the Spanish War
of 1898 for personally organizing the famous Rough Riders and courageously leading
them in battle in Cuba.
Actor and film maker and surprise guest speaker, Eastwood transfixed the Republican
National Convention (8.30.12) with his speech addressing the “invisible man”
representing President Barack Obama in the empty chair to the left of the podium.
Completing his conversation with the empty chair, Eastwood turned his focus to the
delegates and the audience at home, stating in part: "I'd just like to say something, you
and me, we own this country. It's not politicians owning it; politicians are employees of
ours. And whether you're Democrat or whether you're Republican or whether you're
Libertarian or whatever, you're the best. We should not ever forget that; and when
somebody does not do the job, we got to let 'em go."
Clint Eastwood also penned the following thought ~ My Twilight Years. “As I enjoy my
twilight years, I am often struck by the inevitability that the party must end. There will be
a clear, cold morning when there isn't any "more." No more hugs, no more special
7moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat. It seems to me that
one of the important things to do before that morning comes, is to let every one of your
family and friends know that you care for them by finding simple ways to let them know
your heartfelt beliefs and the guiding principles of your life so they can always say, ‘He
was my friend, and I know where he stood.’ So, just in case I'm gone tomorrow, please
know this: I voted against that incompetent, lying, flip-flopping, insincere, double-talking,
radical socialist, terrorist excusing, bleeding heart, and narcissistic, and economic
moron currently in the White House! Participating in a gun buy-back program because
you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because
you think your neighbors have too many kids. Regards, Clint. ”
God sets up and takes down rulers, kings, and governments. In a sense, President Obama is doing
God’s work. God has allowed Obama to rise to the top of the heap in our country today because
of the wickedness of the people. The people wanted change and they are getting changes that
they had not anticipated. They though Obama would solve all their problems. Yet unemployment
has increased, millions more people are on food stamps, our national debt is exploding, the U.S.
economy is going down the tubes. All I can say is I did not help elect Obama. The people voted
him in. Hosea 8:7—“They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
Did you know the devil does God’s work also? Did you know that Satan works for God? He is
under God’s authority, and cannot do anything except those things that God allows him to do.
Pharaoh became ruler of Egypt, but his disposition was of evil character and of a stubborn
temperament. He followed his own natural will and inclinations which God allowed and used to
bring about His own purpose.
We need to keep our eyes focused on the Middle East and Israel and what is happening there.
Once again America is stubbing its toe on its foreign policy which is creating havoc and a
vacuum of power. The Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda are our sworn enemies. To show how
diabolical our foreign policy is, our country is supporting Al Qaeda and their affiliates in the
civil war raging in Syria. We may not have liked President Assad of Syria, however, he gave his
country stability and did protect the Christians. The Al Qaeda militants are the insurgents
running the show with American military and financial support. We are also making a mess in
the Middle East by forcing the “pathway to Peace” in Israel.
Jerusalem Post (3.20.14) — by Daniel Eisenbud .“Hundreds of Palestinian youth,
incensed by the politician’s visit to the Temple Mount, hurled stones in protest at the
Israeli lawmaker Moshe Feiglin and a group of supporters on Thursday morning. Police
protecting Feiglin and his entourage ordered them to leave the site, which is holy to
Jews and Muslims. Although the Supreme Court upheld Jewish prayer rights on the
site, the court allows police to prevent any form of worship there if they believe such
activity will incite a disturbance to the public order. When Arabs riot on the Temple
Mount, Israel Police deploys its officers there, in part to protect tourists as well as Jews
praying at the Western Wall below.” Feiglin stated, “If there is a reason for the Temple
Mount to be a powder keg, it is because it has been proven that violence pays off.
Weakness invites more violence. By cutting the visit short and extracting the Jewish
visitors from the Temple Mount while leaving the Muslim rioters, the violent party
prevailed, which invites the continuation of violence and its escalation.” Feiglin initiated
8a Knesset debate last month on applying Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount and
allowing Jews to pray there. At the first ever plenum discussion of Israeli sovereignty
over the holy site on Tuesday, he opened his motion to the agenda by describing the
destruction of archeological artifacts on the Mount. He stated “behind the nation’s back,
we gave up every remnant of Israeli sovereignty on the Mount. Any terrorist
organization can wave its flag there, but the Israeli flag is unmentionable. The holiest
site in the world has been left in the hands of the Arabs.”
Israel regained sovereignty over Jerusalem, as well as Judea and Samaria (the West
Bank), from Jordan following the 1967 Six-Day War. At that time, Israel allowed the
Islamic religious trust (Wakf ) to retain supervision over the day-to-day activities on the
Temple Mount, while Israel assumed responsibility for security. The Wakf forbids non-
Muslims from praying on the Temple Mount and forbids cameras and sacred objects as
the Bible or Torah. the Israeli government goes along with the edict ostensibly to curb
rioting. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf is an Islamic trust best known for controlling and
managing the current Islamic edifices on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of
Jerusalem. Feiglin, who said he coordinated the visit in advance with police and other
officials, accused the Wakf Islamic religious trust, which oversees the compound, of
aiding and abetting his attackers. “The State of Israel is pointless without the temple
Mount,” said Feiglin. After 47 years Moshe Feiglin is beginning to complain.
Daniel 8:14-- speaks of the 2300 day prophecy after which the Temple will be restored to Israel.
“And he said unto me, ‘Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed.” You count the prophecy here from the time Alexander the Great crossed the River
Granicus into Persia and the beginning of the Greco-Persian war under Alexander in 336 B.C.
Counting 2300 years (a prophetic day equals a year) leads you to 1967 A.D. when it says the
temple will be given back to Israel (restored). In the Six-Day War, Israel recaptured eastern
Jerusalem holiest sites and the Temple Mount. So what did Israel do? Israel did not take control,
over the Temple Mount but gave administrative control to Jordan's Islamic Waqf—a Muslim
organization. Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan banned Jews from holding prayer
services there. Israel, however, retained sovereignty and security control of the area.
In 1980 I led a tour to Israel, and we went up to the Temple Mount. We were not
allowed to pray while there or have a Bible study there, and if my camera had been
seen it would have been confiscated and I would have been escorted off the Temple
Mount. Jerusalem is God’s and he gave it to his chosen people, the Jews (Israel).
Exodus 25:6-40; Exodus 26, 27, 28:1-43--- And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that
gives it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. And this is the offering which ye
shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass.4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' hair,5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
wood,6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,7 Onyx stones,
and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.8 And let them make me a
sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.9 According to all that I show thee, after the
pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye
9make it.” God chose to place his temple on the temple mount in Jerusalem, the most
holy place in the world.
Malachi 3:1—“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and
the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.” Exodus 25:8-9—God said
to Moses: “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” There is no
sanctuary of God on the temple mount today. God does not dwell among the Jews today because
they have not returned to Him in body, mind and spirit. Israel is a secular nation. They want to be
recognized by the other nations in the world as one of them. They do not want to be called out of
God and to serve Him today. Until they do they will be under a curse, just as America who has
turned its back on God now and we are under a curse. The Muslims are on the march today, and
“Christianity” of the world is in retreat.
1 Chronicles 21:1—“And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number
Israel.” David told Joab to go number the people of Israel. 3 And Joab answered, The
LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the
king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then doth my lord require this thing? Why
will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 7 And God was displeased with this thing;
therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I
have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I
have done very foolishly. The LORD spoke unto Gad, David's seer, saying, 10 Go and tell
David, saying, thus says the LORD, ‘I offer you three things: choose you one of them,
that I may do it unto you.” Gad told David God says: “Either three years' famine; or three
months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of your enemies overtake
thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the
angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise
thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.” David chose to fall into the
hand of the Lord, not man. “let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are
his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.”
Verse 14 –“So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy
thousand men. 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that
destroyed, ‘it is enough, stay now your hand.’ And the angel of the LORD stood by the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel
of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his
hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were
clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 David said unto God, ‘Is it not I that
commanded the people to be numbered? Even I it is that have sinned and done evil
indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray thee, O
LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they
should be plagued.’ ” 18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David,
that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
10David went straight there, obtained permission from Ornan and bought the place of the
threshing floor, the oxen, the wood and the wheat for full price in gold and built the altar
unto the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the Lord;
and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 27 And the
LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath
thereof. 2 Chronicles 22:2—“Then David said, ‘This is the house of the LORD God,
and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.’ ” This was the location where the
Lord designated for His house to be built and a place for the Ark of the Covenant of God
which would be brought and placed in the completed temple. God said that David was
to gather the building materials, but his son, Solomon, was to build God’s house. The
end of this age is fast approaching and today time is racing by and the house of God
has not been rebuilt. The Jews need to think really seriously about this. They need to
exercise sovereignty over the temple mount and build God’s house.
There are two men of mystery in the world today. One of these men is Barack Hussein
Obama the current President of the United States. The vast majority of Americans do
not know who he is, but someone surely does. The fact is we know less about President
Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to
actual efforts to hide his record. No one knows where he really came from and the birth
certificate controversy and whether he is an American citizen is only the beginning of
the presidential mystery. A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt
to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built
walls around various records or simply made these disappear blocking access to
documents to which every American should have access. There is amassing evidence
in Obama’s concealment of documents attesting to his identity and activities that he will
not release. Among the many Social Security numbers assigned him in numerous
states, the one Social Security number Obama most frequently used, the one beginning
with 042, is a number issued in Connecticut sometime during 1976-1977, yet there is no
record of Obama ever living or working in Connecticut. During that time period Obama
would have been 15-16 years old and living in Hawaii. All this mystery surrounding
Obama appears to be a generational thing. For reasons no one knows, much of
Obama’s life, his mother’s life and his grandparent’s life has been erased from the
records as if they never existed.
Inside Edition released a story about President Obama growing up in Indonesia,
adopted by Lolo Soetoro. According to school records Obama was an Indonesian
citizen named Barry Soetoro whose religion was Muslim. Published photographs of
Obama from the 1980s showed that the ring Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as
an unmarried student is the same ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the
couple’s wedding ceremony in 1992. According to Arabic-language and Islamic experts,
the ring Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part
of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.” In an
interview with Nicholas Kristof, Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the
prettiest sounds on Earth” and recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-
class [Arabic] accent."
11The other man of mystery is Pope Francis (77) the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic
Church, in which capacity he is Bishop of Rome and absolute Sovereign of the Vatican City
State. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina of Italian parents, Francis is the first Jesuit Pope and the
first Pope from the Americas. Questions remain over his role during Argentina’s dictatorship.
Jorge Bergoglio was head of the Jesuit order in the 1970’s when the church backed the military
government and called for patriotism. The Catholic Church and Pope Francis have been accused
of a complicit silence and worse during the “dirty war” of murders and abductions carried out by
the junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. It was dangerous at that time to speak out and
risk being labeled a subversive. But many including priests and bishops did so and subsequently
disappeared.
Anyone who criticized the government were tortured. Many disappeared and their children taken
over by the government. In 2000 the Argentine Catholic church itself made a public apology for
its failure to take a stand against the generals. Bergoglio has a dubious history. Eduardo de la
Serna, coordinator of a left-wing group of priest who focus on the plight of the poor, told Radio
del Plate that: “Bergoglio is a man of power and he knows how to position himself among
powerful people.” Francis, meanwhile, has sought to push the Vatican back onto the world stage
as a voice for peace and a diplomatic player that can play a concrete role as well as providing
moral and spiritual guidance. The Vatican under Francis appears increasingly willing to take
advantage of its traditional role as a “safe space” where opposing parties can talk.
USA Today (3.13.14) –“ House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who is a practicing Catholic
extended a formal and open invitation Thursday to Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of
Congress. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also a Catholic, said she joined
welcoming Pope Francis to address Congress. The invitation would put the widely popular Pope
Francis in front of both the House and Senate for the first time in history. Congressional officials
told ABC News they did not know whether Pope Francis would accept the invitation to visit
Washington. It is an open-ended invitation, aides said. Thursday marks one year since the papal
conclave elected Pope Francis. If the pontiff accepts, it would be unprecedented. No pope or
religious leader that serves as a head of state has ever addressed Congress, according to the
U.S. House Historian's office.”
This would be a first in America’s history. We are living in a time of firsts. Obama is America’s
first black president, and the first Marxist president. President Barack Obama is to meet Pope
Francis for the first time next week (March 27) as Obama wraps up a European tour, a high-
profile encounter between two major world leaders that appears to carry especially high stakes
from the U.S. perspective. Vatican officials often speak highly of Obama in private conversations. For
his part, President Barack Obama has gone out of his way to praise and quote Pope Francis,
describing the Catholic leader as an "extraordinarily thoughtful" messenger of "peace and
justice," and quoted the Pope on income and inequality. That is no surprise: Obama got his start as
a community organizer working with the Archdiocese of Chicago fresh out of college — an
experience that helped shape his views and politics much as Francis’ ministry as a priest and
bishop in poor areas in Argentina shaped him. There’s the foundational element for Obama.
12I observe here, that President Obama as leader of America and the free world may well become
the one called the beast. Now he is going to meet with the Pope and openly admires the Pope.
They both seek income redistribution and both claim to be for the poor and want the rich to take
care of the poor in their ideology.
Article—curezone.com (2.24.14) Pope Francis and the Emerging One World Religion.
Pope Francis has been aggressively courting Muslims. During his very first ecumenical
meeting he remarked: “I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to
other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship the one God, living and
merciful, and call upon Him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence:
in it I see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem and cooperation for the
common good of humanity. The Catholic Church is aware of the importance of
promoting friendship and respect between men and women of different religious
traditions – I wish to repeat this: promoting friendship and respect between men and
women of different religious traditions – it also attests to the valuable work that the
Pontifical Council for interreligious dialogue performs.”
Pope Francis has also made it a point to say that he believes that Muslims worship and
pray to the “one God” that he also worships. This “all roads lead to the same God”
philosophy is a hallmark of the one world religion that the global elite have been slowly
building toward for decades. Does Pope Francis intend to help the global elite achieve
their goal of uniting all of the religions of the world under a single banner? Will he be
instrumental in establishing a single global religion for the glorious “new age” that the
global elite believe is coming? After he was elected, the cover of Time Magazine
declared Pope Francis to be the “New World Pope“, and since his election Pope Francis
has made it abundantly clear that he is going to make ecumenical outreach a top
priority. He has spoken of his “determination to continue on the path of ecumenical
dialogue”, and he has already held a number of very high profile ecumenical meetings.
Not only has he worked hard to reach out to leaders from various Christian traditions, he
has also made it a point to try to acknowledge the mutual bonds that he feels with all
other religions. Roman Catholicism and Islam are the two largest religious traditions on
the planet, and so any truly “global religion” would definitely require the participation of
both of them. Obama, a Muslim, is reaching out to the Pope.
There is only one God YHVH who commands us to follow Christ. He is not Allah the
moon god of the Arabs and Mohammed. How do we know? We know by reading the
Bible, the Word of God that announces Him and sets forth his name, commandments
and identity. Acts 4:10-12-- Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that
by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from
the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone
which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
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Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven
given among men, whereby we must be saved.” God the Father and the Creator of all
mankind tells us to keep the seventh day Sabbath holy (Saturday) and love your
enemies and do good to those who hate you, not “convert or be beheaded”. By
thorough study, you will find that Allah is another name for the Prince of the Power of
13the Air—Satan, the devil. He is worshiped as a god and they know not whom they
worship! As Christ said to the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:7-21— 22 “Ye
worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.”The
Samaritans today would be the Muslims.
Jesus was wearied with his journey from Judaea and when he came to Samaria about
noon sat down by Jacob’s well that was there. When a woman of Samaria came to draw
water he asked her to give him water to drink. She asked, “How is it that thou, being a
Jew, asks drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings
with the Samaritans.” Jesus replied, “If thou knew the gift of God, and who it is that said
to thee, Give me to drink; thou would have asked of him, and he would have given you
living water.” The woman replied, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is
deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father
Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle?” Jesus answered and said unto her, “whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst
again: 14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but
the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life.” The woman said, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither
come hither to draw.”
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Jesus replied, ‘Go, call thy husband, and come hither.’ 17 The woman answered, ‘I
have no husband.’ Jesus answered, ‘You have well said, I have no husband: 18 For you
have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not thy husband: in that said
you truly.’19 The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.20 Our fathers
worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men
ought to worship.’ 21 Jesus replied, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall
neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship what
you do not know: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.’ ” (Romans
3:1-2—“what advantage has the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? Much
every way: chiefly, because to the Jews were committed the oracles of God.”
Philippians 3:1-3—“we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.” John 4:3-4—“But the hour
comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in
truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” 25 The woman answered, “I know that
Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.”
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Jesus said to her, “I that speak unto thee am he.”
God does not want a person to be satisfied in being ignorant of His will and truth, God
wants every person to search out and continually study until they know the truth. And
then, “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Men
and women must hunger and thirst after God’s truth. We are to study to show ourselves
approved unto God.
2 Timothy 2:15—“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs
not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Search and dig with an open heart
14and willing mind. Persevere with diligence and a great deal of prayer asking for God’s
mercy to open our mind and heart. Matthew 13:15—“For this people's heart is waxed
gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any
time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand
with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.” The people are not
seeking God anymore, but are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.
John 4:24—“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and
in truth.” The Bible is truth. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 that the man of
God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5—“this know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady,
high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness,
but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
Zechariah 14:1-4—“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided
in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the
city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city
shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the
city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought
in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which
is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and
half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”
What day will the feet of the Lord stand on the Mount of Olives? The very day he
descends in great glory from heaven to this earth, his feet shall stand upon the Mount of
Olives. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first (1
Thessalonians 4:16): 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.” This is the “rapture” which occurs at the second coming of Christ. The
rapture is not some secret clandestine thing that occurs before the glorious coming of
Christ, but part of the same event. You can read that for yourself by comparing
1Corinthians 15:50-52 and 1Thessalonians 4:14-17.
Matthew 24:30-32—“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ” Zachariah 14:5,
158—“and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.” 8 And it shall be in
that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former
sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.9 And
the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his
name one.” This is the God of Moses who revealed himself at the burning bush, who
said this is my name. Exodus 3:13-15—“And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I
come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath
sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto
them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall thou say unto
the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto
Moses, Thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
my name for ever YHVH (Hebrew), and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
The beast and the false prophet are rising up and may soon be clearly identified as
they unite the world into the New World Order to fight against Christ when he comes.
Keep your eyes open and pray THY KINGDOM COME! Even so come Lord Yeshua.
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Wherefore comfort one another with these words.6
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