THINK ABOUT IT: FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
Hope everyone is enjoying a good Lords Day. It is a chilly 48 in Georgia and is raining! I guess we are about to experience winter in the South.
I received this email from the Temple Mount Faithful this morning and I want to share it with all of you. I have always taught in my Sunday School classes that to understand end time prophecies, you need to keep your eye on Israel.
Gershon Salmon who is Founder of the Temple Mount Faithful, wrote this commentary. He was part of the military that took Jerusalem and the Temple Mount for Israel during the Six Day War in 1967. This group feels they have been ordained to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and they love the God of the Bible very much. Gershon speaks all over the world and is loved by Christians the world over. Here is a view by one planning to build the Temple for Mishiach ben David ( The Messiah) . After the article, there is a link posted to their site and I thoroughly love going there to look at world events through a Jewish perspective. Note they spell the name of the Lord as G-d. They view His name so Holy that they will not write the complete name out. I wish more Christians could get a view of the Holiness of our Heavenly Father. The Temple Mount Faithful are determined to build the Temple of God on Mount Moriah. Most prophetic scholars believe that this is the one the Anti-Christ will desecrate at the 31/2 year period of the Great Tribulation.
Let us all pray for Israel. My heart grieves at how the people are suffering. I pray also that many there will soon come to realize that Jesus of Nazareth is Mishiach ben David, He is their Redeemer and that He loves them so much! Also, let us pray for the leaders of Israel and the United States that our Father will open their eyes to His will for the task ahead.
God Bless
Elaine
Here is the post:
12 Israelis Murdered in a Terrorist Attack on Jewish Worshippers Near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by Terrorists of the Islamic Jihad
The Are Trying to Destroy and Prevent the Return of the Jewish People to the City of The Jewish Forefathers
They Will Not Succeed! G–d Will Not Allow Them To!
The Israeli Army Re-Liberated Hebron after the Terror Attack
On the evening of 15th November, 2002 , 12 Israelis were murdered by terrorists from the Islamic Jihad terrorist group in an ambush which they set near the Cave of the Patriarchs. The attack was launched against Jewish worshippers walking on their way from the Cave of the Patriarchs back to their homes in nearby Kiriat Arba. Amongst the 12 who were murdered were soldiers and a colonel in the IDF who came to protect the worshippers. In the battle, the terrorists were eventually killed by the Israeli Army but Israel paid a high price in the blood of her people.
These terrorists intended to make a mega-attack and to attack the Jewish population in Kiriat Arba-Hebron by carrying out the slaughter of the Jews in the area and the murder of families and innocent Jewish civilians. Thanks to G–d they were stopped by the Israeli army before they came to this area.
At the time of writing this report, the Israeli army again entered Hebron and re-liberated the city. The army is attacking and destroying the terrorist’s bases and has caught and arrested many of them. The decision has been taken that the army will not leave the city again. The Israeli inhabitants of Hebron have decided to settle all the area from where the terrorists shot and killed the Israelis. They stated that there is no power in the world which will again remove the G–d and people of Israel from the holy city of Hebron and from the Cave of the Patriarchs. They also said that this inhuman attack will strengthen their roots and the roots of the Jewish People in Hebron forever. New Jewish life will grow up out of the blood and death of these heroes. The terrorists will destroy, the only thing that they know how to do, and the Israelis will build Hebron and all the land of Israel for the honour of the G–d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
As stated above, the result price was a very heavy and dear price of blood. The Israeli colonel, Colonel Dror Weinberg, 34,was a heroic soldier of the Israeli Army and the commander of the paratroop forces in the area of Judaea. It is no wonder that he fell while storming the terrorist position at the head of his soldiers with no fear of the terrible fire of the ambush. He was one of the best commanders in the Israeli Army and his death is a very great loss. This is the character of the Israeli commanders. They lead their soldiers into battle. Often they are the first to fall in the battles. Colonel Weinberg was a religious man and graduated from the Yeshiva of Rabbi Kook. Some of the best of the Jewish settlers have come from this Yeshiva. They were educated their in the prophetic godly values and they are the messengers of this generation to fulfil G–d’s end-time mission to redeem the land, to re-settle it and to re-establish the kingdom of G–d in the land of Israel that He gave to them in an eternal covenant. Colonel Weinberg was an end-time Israeli hero of the G–d of Israel exactly like the biblical heroes of King David. He is now together with G–d to stand and fight together with Him for His people, Israel, and for His prophetic end-time plans. He left a pregnant wife and 5 young children. His name will be written in letters of gold in G–d’s book and the history of this critical time in Israel.
All the others who fell in this battle were also heroes. They did not hesitate to storm these evil enemies in the face of their fire. One of them sacrificed his life in this battle in an especially heroic way when he ran towards the ambush to draw the fire of the terrorists so that the other Israeli soldiers could identify the source of the terrorist fire and where they were located and in this way kill the murderers.
This evil attack came one week after another group of Arab terrorists murdered a mother and her 2 children and 2 other innocent adults on Kibbutz Metzer in a satanic way. Only the messengers of the devil could attack and murder Jewish worshippers in one of the holiest places in the land of Israel.
This cruel terror attack came after the Israel army had recently left the city of Hebron under the pressure of George W. Bush, President of the United States, and the European Union. The withdrawal from the city by the Israeli army allowed this terrorist group to return to the city and attack the Jewish worshippers.
These inhuman murderers have no respect for any godly, moral or human laws and values. They murder babies, children, women, and the elderly in cold blood. They have no respect for worshippers coming to this very holy place to worship the G–d of Israel. They murder people in the name of their pagan god. A god which sends his people to murder such innocent people in cold blood can only be a pagan idol or satan himself.
Israeli is mourning her very dear losses but she stands strongly with her G–d to protect the land that G–d gave her against any enemy which will come to destroy the great prophetic end-time event of the redemption of the people and land of Israel, Jerusalem and the holy house of G–d on the Temple Mount. This is another one of the evil attacks against the G–d and people of Israel which have never stopped since G–d sent Abraham to the land of Israel to start his godly mission to his seed and to all the nations. The people of Israel have not stopped sacrificing their children, fathers and mothers on their way to fulfilling the mission of G–d . Many millions of Jews have fallen on this mission when, in a heroic way, they were ready to be faithful to the mission and the land which G–d gave them no matter how heavy the price of blood.
So many evil powers have tried to destroy the people of Israel, the mission which G–d gave them and His Word through many attacks in Biblical times, in the 2000-year exile and again now. Many nations which were attacked throughout history have disappeared and so have all the powers which have attacked Israel. Only Israel, the small people which G–d created thousands of years ago, the most ancient people in the world, has survived so many bloody attacks, destructions, holocausts, pogroms and cruel terror attacks. Despite this they have returned to the same land which G–d gave them and promised to them thousands of years ago.
What is the secret of the eternal survival of the small Israeli nation? There is only one answer! It is the G–d of Israel and the Universe Who created the Israeli nation and gave it eternal life. G–d chose this people to fulfil an eternal godly mission and He has now regathered them to the land which He gave only to them to be the land where He dwells together with them and from where His mission to the seed of Abraham and all the world will be fulfilled to be the focus of all His end-time plans and activities.
The destiny of the evil Arab and Islamic enemies of Israel will be like that of all the past enemies of Israel. Like all of their predecessors they will soon be removed from the Promised Land of Israel and will disappear under the judgement of G–d. Like Nehemiah, we tell them today in the Name of the G–d of Israel, what he said to another Arab enemy, named Geshem, who, together with his friends, tried to destroy the godly redemption of Israel in his time - “Then I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build; but you have no portion, no right, no memorial, in Jerusalem.” (Nehemiah2:20)
Again in this difficult and critical time, the people of Israel swears faithfulness to the G–d of Israel, the Holy Land that He gave to them, to His Word and to the eternal godly mission that He gave them. We shall continue to rebuild Jerusalem, Hebron, Shechem and all the other Biblical cities. We shall continue to rebuild the land which G–d gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their seed, Israel. We shall continue to plant many trees in the honour of G–d and plant our roots deeply in this blessed land. We shall continue to struggle for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of G–d, for His prophetic end-time plans with Israel and all the world and for the soon coming of Mashiach ben David.
There is no enemy in the world, including the devil himself, which can stop the G–d and people of Israel from bringing to fulfilment these exciting prophetic end-time words and plans. We swore that all of these words will come to pass as G–d expects us to do in the life of this generation no matter what will be the price. Not only the destiny of Israel is dependent on it but the destiny of all the world and mankind. We pray that one day soon all mankind will understand this and stand with Israel in her critical battle to protect and to bring all of this to pass for the sake of all mankind.
The holy city of Hebron, to where the Jewish people are now regathered by G–d, and Jerusalem are the most ancient Biblical Jewish cities. The deepest roots of the Jewish People are in these cities. The childhood of the Jewish People started here when Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the fathers of the Jewish People, together with Sarah, Rebecah, Leah and Rachel, were sent by G–d to this city and, except for Rachel, were buried there in the Machpela Cave. Hebron is next to Jerusalem in holiness. Here the Jewish People was born and, together with Jerusalem and all the land, here is the very rock of the existence of the Jewish People. Hebron and all the area south of Jerusalem was allocated to the tribe of Judah when G–d gave the land to the 12 tribes in the time of Joshua. According to the commandment of G–d to Joshua, it was to be an important focus not only to the tribe of Judah but to all the people of Israel. Throughout the Biblical times, Hebron and the mountains around it were settled by a large Jewish population. Together with Jerusalem it was the focus of the Kingdom of Judah. It was not easy for the major powers of the Biblical times to destroy the Kingdom of Judah when they repeatedly attacked them. The Israeli kingdom survived until 70CE when the Romans destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem but even after the destruction and after most of the Jewish people were taken into exile by the Roman and Arab occupations, Jewish life and settlements never ceased in Hebron and the surrounding mountains. It is no accident that the greatest king of Israel, King David, who established the united Israeli kingdom of all the 12 tribes, made Hebron his first capital of Israel. Hebron was the capital for 7 years until King David moved the capital to Jerusalem according to the Word of G–d. Even after the capital was moved to Jerusalem, Hebron was like a part of Jerusalem in holiness and an important focus of the Israeli kingdom second only to Jerusalem. As with Jerusalem, the Israeli People held on tightly to Hebron as a foundation and symbol of their hold on all the land which G–d gave to them.
The Jewish settlement in Hebron never ceased throughout history even after the destruction in 70CE and the Arab occupation of the land of Israel in the 7th Century. The Jewish settlement in Hebron continued until 1929 when the Arabs carried out a cruel pogrom against the Jewish inhabitants and murdered hundreds of Jews including babies, children and the elderly, innocent civilians. They murdered them in terribly cruel and satanic ways for which there are no words to describe. They did not even have mercy on the dead bodies and abused them. The Jewish presence in Hebron ceased after this cruel pogrom until 1967 when the G–d of Israel brought His people back to Hebron and the Israeli army liberated this Jewish holy city from a long Arab occupation and re-united it with their forefathers who are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs and waited for the return of their children. Throughout the Arab occupation of Hebron up until 1967, Jews were not allowed by the foreign Arab occupiers of the city to visit their forefathers and to pray there in the building which King Herod built for the Jewish people more than 2000 years ago. In an anti-godly and inhuman way they only allowed the Jews to come up to 7 steps away from the cave. This is exactly as they did to Jews who came to worship on the Temple Mount. As on the Temple Mount, the hearts of the Jews were broken when they prevented from visiting and unite with their forefathers by a cruel foreign enemy.
On Friday 15th November, they again tried to prevent the Jews from uniting with their forefathers in the Cave of the Patriarchs and from worshipping their G–d in this very holy place. Much Jewish blood has been spilled in this holy place and all over the land of Israel over the last 4000 years and now again. The goal of the Arab Islamic enemy is to destroy the great godly prophetic end-time event in Israel. They want to stop G–d from His end-time activities with Israel. They want to stop the rebuilding of Jerusalem, Hebron and all the land by the people of G–d and to destroy the kingdom of G–d that Israel is now so busily rebuilding and preparing to be the focus of G–d and all mankind as G–d promised in His prophetic Word. They want to carry out another pogrom as the did in Hebron not only in Hebron but all over the land and to make another Holocaust in Israel and push the Israeli people into the Mediterranean. They will not succeed. They have never learnt from their own experience when they were defeated 7 times since 1948 when they attacked Israel with the same goal. G–d promised that never again will their be destruction in Israel and, together with His Israeli army, He defeated all of them. The G–d of Israel is determined to complete what He started in 1948 when He re-established the State of Israel in the same land that He promised them in an eternal covenant and He is determined to redeem all the world through Israel. The current Arab Islamic enemy of Israel cannot stop this major godly prophetic event and soon they will be removed from the Holy Land of the G–d and people of Israel. The innocent Jewish blood that they again spilled in Hebron, Metzer and other places will never be forgotten and they will be judged by G–d on the Day of Judgement which is soon to come.
The G–d of Israel is speaking His prophetic Word to all the Arab enemies and all the nations of the world. They had better listen to it and understand and accept what G–d is doing with Israel in this Holy Land which He gave to them. -
“And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: And you, son of man, take one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the people of Israel his companions; then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions; And join them one to the other into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand. And when your people shall speak to you, saying: Will you not tell us what you mean by these? Say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. And say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land; And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; ... And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall also follow my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, where your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their grandchildren for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the nations shall know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.” (Ezekiel37:15-22,24-28) “And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that was in the sight of all who passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities have become fortified, and are inhabited. Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places, and have replanted that which was desolate; I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel, ask me to do for them; I will increase their men like a flock. Like the flock of sacrifices, like the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts, shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the Lord.” (Ezekiel36:34-38) “For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return upon your own head. For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; indeed, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.” (Obadiah15,16)
Today the people of Israel are praying the lamentation of David for king Saul and his son Jonathon for the heroes who died in the battle against the evil terrorists in Hebron who fell and through their deaths gave life to the people of Israel.
“And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son; And he said To teach the sons of Judah the use of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar. The beauty, O Israel, is slain upon your high places; how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. You, Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty. Saul and Jonathan were loved and dear in their lives, and in their death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, you were slain in your high places. I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very dear have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!” (2Samuel1:17-27)
In G–d we trust.
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