Josh 10:26

26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
KJV
 

Israel Responds: Three Top Terrorists Dead
17:22 Feb 29, '04 / 7 Adar 5764

The Israel Air Force carried out a successful counter-terrorism strike in Gaza last night, killing three top Islamic Jihad terror leaders in a pin-pointed missile attack. One of them was Mahmoud Ouda, 23, the Gaza commander of Islamic Jihad, and all three had been wanted for involvement in previous attacks and planning future ones.

Shortly before 7 PM last night, an IDF helicopter fired missiles towards a car carrying the three terrorists as it made its way in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. Several passersby were also injured in the attack, and one boy was reported killed.

Following the attack, Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz decided - in opposition to the IDF Southern Command's recommendation - not to open the Erez Industrial Zone this morning, leaving thousands of Gaza Arabs at home. The Erez Crossing, however, was opened, enabling those who work in pre-1967 Israel to do so. Israeli police forces are on high alert for terrorist violence.

Ouda, the main target of the missile raid, masterminded the murderous attack in the Netzarim army base four months ago in which two female soldiers and a male soldier were killed. He also operated several mortar shell gangs, worked to enhance his organization's terror capabilities, and was planning attacks for the near future. The PA arrested, and released him, several times for his activities.

 

 

Every time God allowed the Jews to enter the Holy Land there was conflict! It stands to reason that at this third miraculous entrance conflict would again be present. It is a dirty business dealing with wickedness and resistance. Joshua was well aware of the force needed to accomplish the first entrance, and the Jews of today know well the force necessary at this third entrance. The gentile opposition has been driven to animalistic hate in resisting the inevitable. God's intent is to keep forcing the issue until victory is won! Compromise is not an attribute of the God of the Bible. The LORD of Hosts knows nothing but unconditional victory.

Many gentiles are of the mindset that the time is not right for God to force His will on the entire planet. They would have the nation of Israel compromise for an unattainable peace. They would have the God of the Bible cease and desist. They think the wisdom of man is greater then the wisdom of God! They force their will on the secular Jewish government to implement the gentile road map. They expect the Jewish government to remove the Independent fundamental Jewish settlers who have become a stumbling block to their peace plan.

The vast majority of the gentile religions would have this third entrance of the Jews into the Holy Land fail completely. They have all taught that they would be the victors of this age! A Jewish victory at this time would prove their theology was false! Victory for Israel over the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount has worldwide consequences of which the religions of man can not tolerate.

 

Ps 21:10-11

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
KJV
 

 

 

ISRAELI COUPLE KILLED IN GREEN LINE ATTACK

Fatah gunmen shoot at point blank range

 

Two young Israeli parents became the latest in a long line of Shabbat shooting victims, when their car was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen on Friday night as they traveled on the Ashkelon road, which runs along the southern side of the 1967 ‘green line.’ The couple is survived by a 2-year-old daughter.

 

Eitan Kukoi, 30, and Rima Novikov, 25, had left their toddler safely at home in the Livna-Shani settlement, which straddles the 1967 border southeast of Hebron, and were traveling to a party in Ashdod, when caught in a roadside ambush.

 

After the initial volley of shots forced the car to a halt, the gunmen approached the vehicle and fired another round of bullets from point-blank range, Ha’aretz reports, ensuring that both their victims were dead.

 

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to the Palestinian Authority’s governing Fatah movement, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command – both claimed responsibility for the attack. Israeli security forces believe, however, that it was probably carried out by a local Fatah cell that received funding from the Lebanon-based Popular Front.

 

According to press reports, the victims were recent immigrants who were planning to move to Be'er Sheva. Kukoi's bereaved sister, Tasya Levin, told reporters: "The terrorists are getting exactly what they want - they kill us, and are also driving us away from our homes."

 

It is the first fatal shooting in the area since the start of the armed Palestinian intifada three and a half years ago. Israeli police warn that until the Judean sections of Israel’s security fence are completed later in the year, terror groups will re-double their efforts to carry out attacks in the south. 

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CHILD’S PLAY

Three Palestinian teenagers, two 14 year-olds and a 16 year-old dispatched by Palestinian terrorist groups to carry out shooting attacks against Israelis in the northern city of Afula were arrested near Jenin late last week. All three were identified as residents of Tubas, northeast of Nablus and each told investigators they were willing to be killed for the sake of the cause. According to The Jerusalem Post the parents of only one of the youths expressed outrage at the fact that their young son was recruited. "I will complain to the Palestinian intelligence to find whoever wanted to send my son... I have to find out who these people are who wanted to send my son, my young son." Muhammed Abu Mahsen told The Post. Israeli security officials noted that Hamas frequently sends minors to conduct dangerous reconnaissance missions ahead of planned attacks.

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 BIKE BOMB

An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew himself up on Friday afternoon near an IDF jeep outside the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The bomber was killed, and no other injuries were reported in the incident. The device is believed to have detonated prematurely due to a technical malfunction.

 

The Islamic Arab Palestinians continue down the road of total depravity. They openly exploit their own children to do their wicked desires. Their hate for Jews has driven them to the most beastly of behaviors in that they viciously kill their own young. All civilized behavior has been abandoned as the hardness of their hearts drives them into mindless wild animalistic behavior.

The Jap warlords were driven to the same behavior when they released the suicide bomb pilots of their own invention at the end of World War Two. The Nazi's murdered more Germans then Americans during the end of the War as they sought any who did not stand to the death against the overwhelming Allied Armies.  This kind of desperate animalistic behavior is not something new, but it is behavior that must be crushed. The Jews must not be abandoned to forever victimization by Islam!

It is the God of the Bible not the Jews who is forcing His will on the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. Dispensational change is causing men to become the animals the Bible always said they are. Frustration because of overwhelming force has put the Islamic Arab Palestinians in the forefront of what the God of the Bible is doing during this generation. The ultimate end will be Biblical righteousness! The coming King of Jerusalem shall save all the children from the evil animalistic oppressors. Mankind hates this King's puritanical holiness. The battle over the Holy Land is engaged. The Bible says the victory will be the Lord's. He will rule from sea to sea when it is all over. The enemy that shoots His chosen People at point blank will lick His dust when the battle is over. The Coming Jewish Kingdom is in the balance. The coming victory is already a forgone conclusion!

 

Gen 15:1
15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
KJV
 

35% increase in new building starts in settlements in 2003

By Moti Bassok, Haaretz Correspondent

There was a 35 percent increase in the number of new building starts in the settlements in 2003, figures published Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics show.

The settlements were one of just two areas to see an increase in construction activity last year. Work began on just 29,670 new apartments around the country in 2003 - the lowest number since 1989 and 8 percent down on the previous year. The CBS figures show that the building industry is sinking deeper into crisis.

The only other place to see a spurt in building activity was Haifa where there was work began on 3,238 new apartments, an increase of 5 percent on the previous year.

Tel Aviv and the south of the country saw the sharpest fall in the number of building starts, 23 percent down on 2002 in both areas, while in Jerusalem the number of building starts fell 15 percent.

The last quarter of 2003 was the sixth consecutive quarter to see a fall in the number of building starts. This figure fell by a total of 14 percent in the second half of 2003 compared to the first half of the year. Most of the new buildings, 22,310, were private projects (a 10 percent fall on 2002) while 7,360 apartments were for public housing (a fall of 5 percent on the previous year).

Some 33,500 apartments were completed in 2003, down 13 percent on 2002. This is the lowest number for apartments completed since 1990. The last quarter of 2003 was also the seventh consecutive quarter to see a fall in the number of projects completed.

 

 

It is clear the Jewish people are moving overwhelmingly into Yesha. The building industry is severely depressed, and yet the independent fundamental Jewish Settler movement has grown by 35% over last year. The occupation of Judah, Samaria, and the Gaza is quickly turning into conquest. The settlement growth comes with a price. It is in your face confrontation with one of the most brutal cultures in the world today. Jewish families enter the lion's den with almost no support, and they just keep going?

Fear not is a true attribute of these settlers. Neither be dismayed is their testimony. Their own government uses them like pawns. One day they are the front line of defense, and the next day they are expendable for whatever way the political wind blows. How they keep settling without dismay is a wonderment.

This third miraculous return of the Jews to the Holy Land is as wondrous as the first two. The same fear and dismay that Joshua, and Ezra had to overcome is being encountered by these independent fundamental Jewish settlers. They are proving to a skeptical gentile world that they are as strong and as of good a courage as their forefathers. The same promise God gave to each of those past two generations of Jewish conquerors is valid for today. "For thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit it." There are no other people! It is this people of this generation. There are no others!

 

Ps 2:6

6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
KJV
 

 

AL AYYAM CONFIRMS DOME DAMAGE

 

An article in the official PA newspaper "Al Ayyam" has confirmed reports that the Dome of the Rock, the Muslim shrine built over the site of the ancient Jewish temples in Jerusalem, was damaged in the earthquake that rocked Israel on February 11, ICEJ News has learned.

 

News of damage to the gold-plated, domed roof first appeared in the Arabic paper "Al Quds" several weeks after the 5.3 quake rattled the country.

 

It is unclear if Israeli authorities have been allowed to inspect the damage yet.

 

The emir of the United Arab Emirates has offered to fund repairs to the Dome, jumping ahead of other Islamic rulers that have traditionally competed to be the main patrons of the site.

 

The Dome was re-plated with gold in the 1990's by the late King Hussein of Jordan, who reportedly sold a major Hashemite family holding to cover the $8.25 million tab.

 

In May of 1992, the Saudi regime attempted to contribute $10 million directly to the Jerusalem Waqf (Islamic trust) through UNESCO for the restoration, while Morocco's ruling dynasty has also laid claim to a special guardianship over the site.

 

Note: The scramble in the Islamic world for some claim to sovereignty over this one single place on planet earth! It should be no surprise to those familiar with Ezekiel 38 & 39 that Morocco should be attempting to enter the fray. Morocco is part of Islamic North Africa which will be part of the Southern prong of the three pronged Islamic invasion Ezekiel forecasts. The offers of such large amounts of money are hoped to give the donor guardianship rights over the Temple Mount.

The Bible says that this one place, this holy hill, belongs not to men. but to the God of the Bible. It is on this one single hill that God has long ago said He will set His King. The entire Islamic world will have to step aside when the King returns to His place. The entire world will have to step aside when the King comes to His Holy Hill.

Today, the secular Jewish government treats this Holy Hill like a hot potato. They would give it away in a heartbeat were it not for a minority of independent fundamental Jews who would die before leaving their government do such a blasphemous act. The God of the Bible has given the Jews sovereignty over this Holy Hill in 1967. It has been a stone of stumbling to the secular Jews, Islam directly, and the whole world ever since.

Read the Bible, not the Koran if you want to understand why this Holy Hill is so special.

Read article by DDSrail: This Place

Mic 5:2

2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
KJV
 

The strange case of Bethlehem
By P. David Hornik  March 1, 2004

At a time when a film about Jesus is taking America by storm, the fact that the town of his birth, Bethlehem, has become predominantly Muslim rather than Christian is not exactly a hot item. Just half a century ago Bethlehem was 80% Christian; today it's down to 20% and constantly dwindling. Like Christian Arabs elsewhere in the Palestinian Authority - an entity whose official religion is Islam and whose basic laws reflect the Shari'a - Bethlehem's Christians have been subject to discrimination and harassment and are abandoning the town to those aiming for an Islamic monolith in the Middle East.

But the home of the Church of the Nativity and of Rachel's Tomb, a focus of prayer and pilgrimage for both Christians and Jews, is not only succumbing to grim Islamic totalitarianism. Even worse, Bethlehem is now a terrorist haven. This despite the fact that it's within walking distance of Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, a country with a modern army of hundreds of thousands whose citizens are the victims of Bethlehem terror. The situation is bizarre and calls into question the competence and sanity of the Sharon government.

Last Sunday morning, February 22, a suicide bomber literally walked into Jerusalem from Bethlehem, got on a bus, and blew himself up, killing eight Israelis and wounding scores. No Pearl Harbor or September 11, this event was neither unusual nor surprising; in fact, it was predictable.

For a couple of years, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have engaged in a strange dance over Bethlehem. In April 2002, as part of Operation Defensive Shield, Israel took control of the city and terror attacks from it stopped. But in mid-May, under pressure from the Bush administration, Israel obligingly withdrew and handed the city back to the PA. On May 22, a Fatah terrorist from Bethlehem blew himself up in Rishon Letzion, killing two Israelis and wounding many more. The Israeli army then reoccupied the city for several days, arresting suspects from the Palestinian intelligence forces. But by June, it had restored the city to the willing stewardship of Dar al-Islam. Promptly, on June 18, a Bethlehem bomber killed nineteen on a Jerusalem bus. Later that month, another emissary of the town was only able to wound five on a Jerusalem street. Israel, concluding this latest experiment wasn't working so well, re-retook Bethlehem.

But the extraordinary chess game continued. In August the Israeli government, apparently concluding that two months of enforced quiet in Bethlehem heralded the messianic age, yet again withdrew from the city. Indeed, it took all of an additional three months before another Bethlehem bomber struck - killing, on November 21, eleven people on a bus in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood of Jerusalem.

This time Israel cracked down: it reentered Bethlehem and stayed there a whole eight months, a period in which no attacks were mounted from the city. But in July last year, our government decided it was time to try its - and our - luck again and withdrew. Indeed, from that point so much time went by without a made-in-Bethlehem exploit that one might have thought the Kingdom of Heaven had descended to earth. Until, that is, the morning of last January 29, when my son, sleeping in his flat in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, was woken up by a huge boom. Another raider from the enclave just to the south had struck, and the bombed-out bus eventually traveled to The Hague. The eleven dead stayed where they were.

Though I think of myself as a realist, I suffer from terminal naivete. I really thought that at that point we'd take Bethlehem again, not wait to see if the latest mishap was just an aberration. But we didn't. Our forces were instructed to blow up the home of the bomber and make some arrests - that's all. Then we waited for the Palestinians' next move. It came last Sunday.

The Islamists, among whom Yasser Arafat was a pioneer and is still at the forefront, want to drown the Judeo-Christian world in blood, and they're succeeding. They've got Bethlehem and the Temple Mount, the parts of the Holy Land they control are almost empty of Christians and the Jews are supposed to be yanked out by their government, and they're gunning for the rest. It may be that the Bush administration, out of a mix of geopolitical calculation and coziness with the Saudis and others, has a hand in making the Israeli government behave in ways that appear bizarre, suicidal, and criminally irresponsible. If Islamists can take over the town of Jesus' birth, drive the Christians out, use it as a base to slaughter Jews in Jerusalem, and get away with it - we're not doing well.

 

Oh little town of Bethlehem! It is no Hollywood passion drama put forth by the money changers of today. It represents the reality of what the Islamic Arab Palestinians are doing in the Holy Land. I'm amazed at this generation's ability to believe the lie under the auspices of political correctness. Satan, the father of lies, has this generation in his pocket. These Islamic Arab Palestinians are carbon copies of the Nazis who menaced the last generation. The great lie is that they hate the Jews with even greater fervor, but this generation wants them treated with kid gloves. The Pope, and his Roman Catholic Church have become even more forgiving and magnanimous to these wild animals then God Almighty. Official Catholicism has a paternal permissiveness with these beasts at the victimization price to the Jews. I wish they were so permissive with Christian Fundamental Missionaries in those countries controlled by militant RC priests. Last year, the terrorists who sought refuge in the Church of Nativity during the Israeli roundup of these mindless animals found a friend in the Pope who personally provided them with safe conduct to other countries. His thanks was their attempt to burn down the Church. A typical response by these admitted murderers of Jewish woman and children. Oh that this Pope had compassion for the real victims of the Palestinians? The hate for Jews among the Roman Catholics is so great they would rather have the Islamic Arab Palestinians control Bethlehem then the Jews. It is a sad indictment on this generation as to what is politically and religiously correct. Never mind what the Bible says will be the future for the Holy Land!

Everything Biblical with this generation is presented as it is not! The very gospel itself is presented by the most brazen pornography promoting culture known to mankind, and the main stream Christian Church becomes ecstatic. Some of the top Christian leaders have fallen over each other calling this Roman Catholic rendition of emotional passion as the forerunner of the next major revival of Christianity!

Let me shake you back to reality!!! Just as the modern true story of Bethlehem denies the Palestinian thugs of any passive sympathy for their calculating vicious behavior, so also would a real revival cause the Hollywood crowd to fall on their knees begging for forgiveness for their heinous crimes over the last 40 years that has corrupted an entire generation. A real revival would cause Mel Gibson to repudiate the religion that keeps him blind to the Biblical gospel message. He would be first to strip the Pope of any claim to the Biblical Christ, and the Biblical gospel message. A real Christian revival would shut down Hollywood turning it into a shame filled ghost town never to be resurrected. I'm sure Las Vegas would quickly follow as Biblical righteousness would again bless the land of the free. I've read where George Whitfield preached in the last real revival during the Great Awakening that the road houses would close after he left. It was not that Hatchet Annie followed him, but rather because the patrons stopped coming! Folks, that's what happens during a real Biblical revival. The phony revivals of this generation are all talk, but no reality. I already know the talk will be ear shattering about the latest revival of this generation. I myself will not partake of this farce. The Father of lies has not hoodwinked me only because I read, and can't be fooled by mere talk. Only the Bible helps keep me from being overly gullible to Satan's subtle lies. The fruit of this latest unholy alliance will do nothing to awaken purity and holiness in this generation. It only has the politically, and religiously correct Hollywood view.  It has long ago abandoned the real Bible for the lies of the father of lies.

 

Est 9:1
9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
KJV
 

 

 

*LATEST NEWS*- PEACE THREAT

 

A survey conducted amongst the citizens of eight American and European states shows a majority believes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has increased the threat of international terrorism.

 

According to the poll, commissioned by the Associated Press, 59% feel the situation between Israel and the Palestinians has given rise to the danger of world terror.  Conversely, only 38% view the war in Iraq as a contributing factor

 

A similar European Union sponsored poll last November found a similar number of people (59%) ranked Israel as posing the greatest threat to world peace. Some 53% identified North Korea, Iran and the United States equally.

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Purim Holiday Begins Saturday Night
16:20 Mar 05, '04 / 12 Adar 5764
 

The holiday of Purim begins on Saturday night in most of the world, and on Sunday night in Jerusalem. Several other cities, such as Tiberias, will celebrate aspects of Purim on both days.

Purim is one of Judaism's more colorful and joyous holidays. It commemorates, as described in the Book of Esther, Haman's foiled attempt to wipe out all the Jews in the wide-ranging Persian Empire 2,450 years ago. A major theme of the holiday is "abrupt and miraculous turnabout," with the Jews taking control over those who tried to kill them (Esther 9,1), and the reversal of "sorrow to joy, mourning to holiday... days of feasting and joy, sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor" (9,22). On the Sabbath before Purim, the Torah passage commanding the blotting out of the Amalekite nation, of which Haman was a descendant, is read aloud.

Though not a public holiday in Israel, schools will be closed, and many offices and stores will operate on a reduced basis, if at all. Many cities mark the day with a special parade known as the Adloyada; the most famous of these takes place in Tel Aviv. Many kindergartens, schools, synagogues, and towns will also host special Purim parties and carnivals, while yeshiva students sing and dance into the night.
 

 http://www.aish.com/a/purim.asp

 

 

Understand, if the whole world voted today it would be an overwhelming statement that the Jews are to blame! It is not the Irish. It is not Pakistan and India. It is not Bosnia. It is not North Korea, or China. It is not even the present war in Iraq. The reason why there is not peace in the world is the Jews! What is this terrible sin of which the Jews are guilty? It is following the God of the Bible who promised them He would bring them back to their Promised Land in the latter days.

Purim represents a miraculous turn around of what should have been the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from planet earth into a Jewish victory of an unparalleled historical Biblical reality. God is not finished with the Jews. The Book of Esther will find a new parallel before God is finished with His future plan for the Holy Land. What God is finished with is the Christian Church! Dispensational change can only mean the removal of all the born again believers out from the great Apostate Whore now posing as Christianity. The coming Kingdom will be centered in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. It is Jewish through and through. The gentile Church must step aside as Judaism did at the change from the last dispensation. God made very specific promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob which must be kept.

Hate and blame against the Jewish people has only begun. The antichrist controlling the great whore pf Apostate Christianity after the rapture will again represent another Haman. The world has been given little pictures of the coming treachery through Hitler, Saddam, and Arafat. The worst is yet to come, and the Bible says the world will follow him.

Only a miraculous turn about will be able to save the remnant of the Jews in those latter years. That is exactly what the Bible says will happen with the coming of the Jewish Messiah/King.

 

Est 6:6

6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
KJV

Est 6:10

10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou has spoken.
KJV
 

Numerous Purim Attacks Thwarted
14:24 Mar 07, '04 / 14 Adar 5764
 

The past 48 hours have seen a drastic spike in attempted terror attacks, but just like the Purim story – in which a genocidal plot against the Jewish people resulted in the destruction of the plotters rather than the Jews – the terrorists failed to inflict any damage.

“In addition to reading the Megilla (the Purim story) and delivering mishloach manot (gifts given to one another on Purim) Israel has had to adopt another yearly custom – foiling attempts to carry out terror attacks on Purim.” That is how the noontime IDF Radio broadcast began.

Over the Sabbath, three vehicles, two painted to look like IDF jeeps, took part in what was to have been a major multi-stage terror attack at the Erez Crossing in Gaza. The attack began when the first vehicle, a taxicab loaded with explosives, detonated near an IDF post at the southern entrance of the workers terminal at the Erez industrial zone.

Following that explosion, what looked like two IDF jeeps arrived at the scene. An Arab terrorist jumped out of one of the jeeps and opened fire at an IDF post at the terminal. The soldiers returned fire and threw a hand grenade at the terrorist. The gunman was not hit, returned to the jeep, and both jeeps continued towards the Erez terminal.

The first jeep exploded near a PA roadblock at the entrance to the Erez terminal. The other jeep continued towards the IDF post at the VIP passage of the terminal, and tried unsuccessfully to break through the metal barrier. A gunman wearing an IDF uniform exited the jeep and opened fire at the soldiers inside the post. The soldiers reacted quickly and shot the gunman and a second terrorist inside the jeep dead.

According to PA reports, several PA policemen were injured as result of the explosions. In searches conducted after the incident, two Kalashnikov assault rifles, 10 hand grenades and 10 magazines were discovered. In a press release, the IDF spokesman’s office said, “It is important to stress that thanks to the alertness of the IDF soldiers at the Erez crossing a large-scale attack was prevented. This attempt is evidence of long-term and serious planning of the three terrorist organizations (Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah), to carry out a large-scale attack and target IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians at the Erez crossing.

Following the attack, IDF forces entered the El Buriej slums near Gaza City upon receiving intelligence information about impending attacks emanating from the area. The planned attacks including planting explosive devices and shooting anti-tank missiles at Jewish targets. After IDF troops, escorted by tanks, armored personnel carriers, and helicopters, entered the slums, calls went out over the mosques’ loudspeakers calling upon residents to come out of their homes and fight.

During the operation, intense exchanges of fire erupted between armed terrorists and IDF soldiers. Terrorists fired dozens of anti-tank missiles, along with automatic fire and several explosive devices and grenades towards IDF forces.

PA sources report at least 14 killed and over 60 wounded in the battle. No IDF casualties were reported. In a statement to the press, Chief-of-Staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon stated, “It is important to stress that the terrorist organizations endanger the civilian Palestinian population with the use of buildings and infrastructures in the heart of populated areas for their terrorist activities.”

Ya’alon added that this and other operations in recent days have prevented suicide bombing attacks and are part of the ongoing war against terror. He made it clear that such operations would continue if and when they are deemed necessary.

Overnight, a Golani Brigade force uncovered a bomb factory in the village of Anza, north of Jenin. Mortar shells, gunpowder, bomb components, cellular telephones, pesticides and other related items were uncovered.

Elsewhere, security forces remain on a level III alert across the country – taking extra measures to prevent terror attacks. An IDF operation in Ramallah prevented a suicide bombing attack planned for Jerusalem on Saturday night.

Intelligence officials are reporting over 50 terror warnings throughout the country.

Chief-of-Staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon said this morning that it is possible that the recent intensification in terror attacks against Israelis could be related to talk about an impending withdrawal from Gaza.

 

 

It should be no surprise that the God who oversaw the first Purim should be watching over His chosen people this Purim also. It is not that these Islamic Arab Palestinians are working with junkyard engineers and equipment. They are given the very best training, and materials that Arab oil money can buy. Imagine going for a ride in your new Cadillac or Mercedes, and the doors and wheels fall off! That is how these murderers of Jewish woman and children must be feeling. It is not that God has given this generation of Jews a feather bed, but many Jews in Israel are rejoicing at the incontrovertible proof that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is in control. The main Stream Christian Church is looking at the Passion of Christ as it's great sign of God being in control of the USA this Purim. A movie coming from the greatest pornography culture mankind has ever known. A Roman Catholic emotional appeal reviving the passions of the faithful reminding them of a false theology that the Holy Land belongs to them. The Kingdom they pray for every day is a Christian religious Kingdom, not a Jewish Kingdom. They teach every day that the God of their Bible rejected the Jews forever. Their theology is in crises because Purim is being celebrated by the Jews of the Holy Land this year, and Christian orthodox influence over the Promised Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount is nonexistent. The reality of where God's hand is being manifested today is clear to all, but the religious blind.

There is a reason why the Evangelical Church of this generation has so completely embraced this new Hollywood style of evangelization through the Roman Catholic Christ of Mel Gibson (the only Christ he knows). The unity was long ago established when Billy Graham embraced the Catholic Church, and agreed to channel all inquiries of Catholic background to phony lip service priests. These are priests of the same priesthood that the whole world now knows is absolutely corrupted by homosexual pedophiles. It is no secret that Evangelicals have had this arrangement with the Catholics for an entire generation now. The popular Charismatic takeover of main stream Christianity which this generation has produced has been grounded in this same alliance. A Roman Catholic Priest can flip his beads, and pray to Mother Mary one day. Then appear on the 700 Club speaking in the phony Charismatic tongues the next. It is all acceptable because the emotional signs this generation of Christians consider proof of blessings are being manifested.

This generation is ready to experience the rapture where the wheat must be separated from the tares (or maybe the popcorn) of Apostate Christianity. Main stream Christianity will go on convinced they are being blessed while the real blessings will be taking place in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. Dispensational change will be God's way of correcting what careless hearts have produced. This generation of passionate Christians have finally met the criteria of the Laodicean Church!

Rev 3:17

17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
KJV
 

"To whom should God be delighted to honor in this generation more then me said the Christian in his heart, but God said in the Bible I will honor the Jew in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount!" See Esther 6:6 & 6:10 at top of page!

 

Matt 24:23

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

KJV
 

'The Passion' Climbs Past $200 Million in Second Weekend

LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson's (search) "The Passion of the Christ" took in $51.4 million in its second weekend to remain the top movie, racing past the $200 million mark in just 12 days.

Gay Bishop Takes Over Episcopal Diocese

CONCORD, N.H. — With three mighty thumps on the church door Sunday, V. Gene Robinson (search) knocked and was welcomed into St. Paul's sanctuary (search), where he officially became the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop.

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PA goes to Security Council against Israel

A Palestinian spokesman said Sunday the Palestinians will call for a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss Israeli militarism in Gaza.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a top aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, told reporters an urgent meeting would be requested to discuss Israeli Army massacres following an Israeli incursion into central Gaza that killed about 14 people.

He said the Palestinian leadership would join with leaders of Arab countries and non-aligned nations in asking the Security Council to impose sanctions on Israel.

This series of Israeli aggressions is aimed not only at foiling peace efforts, but also at dragging the whole region into great danger by constructing the separation wall and carrying out killings, Abu Rudeineh said.
 

 

Lo, which Christ is the Biblical Christ? The choices before this generation are legion. The Bible says the real Christ is going to come again. He is coming to the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and will sit on His Throne in the last Jewish Temple to be built on the Temple Mount. It makes sense to be watching the Holy Land for the answer to which Christ is the Biblical Christ.

There are many Christs being presented to this generation to whom they are being invited to ask into their heart. There is the broad minded liberal Christ who winks at the murder of babies in the womb. There is the Roman Catholic Christ who is so aloof that the faithful must go to Mother Mary, or a legion of authorized Saints for prayer. He is the Christ of the mystics who are convinced their statues can shed tears, and their perverted homosexual pedophile priests can literally turn bread and wine into the flesh and blood of their Christ. The Episcopal Church defies the reality of the homosexual problems in the Roman Catholic priesthood, and willingly follows their own similar rendition of another homosexually permissive Christ. The term "born again" has been hijacked by all the false Christs to such an extent that the Biblical Christ has been minimized into obscurity. The great Apostate Whore grows unabated during this generation of lukewarm Christian hearts.

It is in Israel where the Biblical Christ abode that the world is being turned upside-down once again. The God of the Bible is drawing the whole world into the conflict. The King of the Jews is coming again. He is coming to the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. He is none other then the only Biblical Christ! A price will be exacted on this world of apathy. That price will be Biblical righteousness with absolute judgment measured out to all the phony false religionists! The great oaks, and lavish ritual gardens of the world religions will be consumed, and all the other rebellious sinners with the Coming Kingdom of the only true Jewish King and Messiah! The Biblical Christ!

 

Matt 24:1-2
24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
KJV
 

PM Sharon Trying To Rush The Withdrawal
16:47 Mar 10, '04 / 17 Adar 5764

While the right-wing parties say they will stymie the disengagement plan in the Cabinet, Ariel Sharon continues efforts to turn the program into "facts on the ground." Journalist David Bedein of Israel Resource News Agency reports, based on "highly placed sources in the US Defense Department," that Sharon has informed the U.S. government that he intends to implement the retreat from Gush Katif as of May 1, 2004.

Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz is due to meet with US Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington today. Tomorrow, three US envoys will arrive in Israel to hear further details about the disengagement plan from Prime Minister Sharon.

Many countries have been brought into the circle of those supporting the pullback in one form or another. Jordan, Egypt, and France have lately expressed various measures of support for an Israeli retreat from Gaza. Close to 8,000 Jews live in close to 20 communities in Gaza.

A report prepared by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff after the Six Day War concluded that for self-defense reasons, Israel should retain the entire Gaza Strip, which "serves as a salient for introduction of Arab subversion and terrorism." "Subsequent US security assessments since then have supported the same conclusion," writes Dr. Menachem Kovacs of Montgomery College in Maryland, "as have independent Israeli assessments - including then-IDF Chief of Staff Ehud Barak, who said in 1993, 'The 1967 Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum is still applicable ... If Israel has to retake the territories proposed to be given up, we cannot do it without tremendous casualties.'"

Prime Minister Sharon himself said in 2002 that "evacuating Netzarim [in Jewish Gaza] will only encourage terrorism and increase the pressure upon us."

 

The last major defeat of the Jews was by Titus of Rome as represented by the above reproduction of his triumphal entry desecrating the holy objects from the Second Jewish Temple. It proved to be another gentile victory over a corrupted Jewish government. The Jews have miraculously returned to the Holy Land after almost 2000 years of humiliation for their sinfulness. Now, another corrupted government is set on giving the gentiles another victory before the Nation has a chance to humble themselves before the God of the Bible. An Islamic Arab Palestinian State forever planted in the Holy Land is what the secular US and Israeli governments are intent on producing. This plan can only be accomplished by ejecting over 250,000 independent fundamental Jewish settlers from their homes in Yesha. The plan is to start with 8,000 Jews from the Gaza. It will conclude when every settler has been ejected so the Land can be given to the Islamic Arabs. This plan is the absolute opposite of what God has said is His plan for peace not just for the Holy Land, but for the entire world.

There is only one peace plan approved by the God of the Bible. It involves building the last Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount for the return of the Prince of Peace! All other peace plans are dead before they can roll off the lips of the secular politicians. All secular governments whether that of tiny Israel, or great as the gentile giant United States are in direct defiance of the God of the Bible with any other future plan for the Holy Land. They are but historical dust in His eyes. Oh how the mighty have fallen when they defied the God of all creation!

It is the God of the Bible who brought the Jews of this generation back to the Holy Land. It is the God of the Bible who created this conflict, and it will be the God of the Bible who will bring it to a successful victorious conclusion. The only question is on what side are you? Apathy on the part of "born again" Christians is why this lukewarm generation is ready to be taken out at the rapture. They haven't a clue where to stand in these crucial days of dispensational change. They run to the money changers of this generation for comfort, and get only false direction. The seek emotional highs rather then the cold truth of reality. They desire the mystics on television to give them false hopes, and die from the diseases they were told have been healed. It is a fickle hot nor cold religion that real Christians must now step aside. Biblical righteousness (right thinking) must make a come back to planet earth. Dispensational change is how the God of the Bible intends to accomplish such a wonderment.

 

Ps 74:1-2

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
KJV
 

Waqf is Forced to Remove Illegal Wall - but Structure Remains
13:10 Mar 11, '04 / 18 Adar 5764

"How long will we have to serve as watchdogs for the Temple Mount?" So asked/pleaded this morning Dr. Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist member of the Committee to Preserve the Temple Mount Antiquities. The efforts of her committee met with partial success this morning, but, as she told Arutz-7 today, "It's not our job to patrol the Temple Mount, as we've done for the last three and a half years, and report on all the illegal activities of the Waqf. The authorities - whether it be the police, the government, the Jerusalem municipality, and even the Antiquities Authority - are simply not doing their job."

Today's incident concerns a concrete structure and a wall around it that the Waqf constructed illegally just to the south of the Temple Mount. Dr. Mazar says that the Waqf is continuing its program of "turning the entire Temple Mount compound into a large mosque, with absolutely no Jewish, Christian or other presence there. The archaeology there absolutely does not interest them; they merely want to cover up all signs of Jewish history there. The wall they built there in just a few hours this week was designed to hide the beautiful Herodian walls at the majestic south-east corner of the Temple Mount, and erase all vestiges of Jewish presence."

Waqf workers in fact removed the wall this morning - but Dr. Mazar says that the struggle is not over: "Behind the wall stands a concrete structure, which they have not removed, but which is equally illegal - and it also must be taken down."

 

 

The God of the Bible should not be too interested in what is presently happening on the Temple Mount in relation to preserving the past. God has revealed in the Bible that an entirely new structure will be built there in conjunction with the future. Everything must be cleared away to make room for Ezekiel's Temple. There are no remains of the First Temple built by Solomon. It was a corrupted Temple permissively destroyed by the Babylonians. Ezra used the old foundations, but Herod the Great expanded the Second Temple Mount to a new splendor that left nothing of Solomon's Temple for archeologists to find. Remains of the Second Temple permissively destroyed by the Romans are still visible, but the Moslem Mosques dominate the site today. Ezekiel's Temple yet to be built is the last Jewish Temple. It will be the greatest Temple of all. It will consume the present Temple Mount plus. New foundations must be laid greater then any of the past. A new Temple, and Temple Mount area is what the God of the Bible has planned. The past Temple Mount will become meaningless when God brings in the next dispensation.

There is no place for Islam, or any of the other false religions of men. Christianity and Judaism will merge in Ezekiel's Temple. It will be something the world has never seen. It will be a new Judaism geared for a new Jewish Temple. It will be Christ centered, but not Christianity as is understood today. It will be something new with an all new foundation. Two Jewish Witnesses who never leave Jerusalem, and 144,000 Jews from all over Israel and Yesha representing the 12 tribes will be that foundation. The Old Testament will merge with the New as this foundation is laid down. There will be no need for a Newer Testament for this new dispensation. The Old Testament merged with the New Testament in new ways beyond present understanding will be sufficient for all correct doctrine of this coming dispensation.

This Islamic Arab Palestinian desecration of Jewish artifacts is horrendous, but it is nothing new. It is just another nail in their coffin that will soon be cast onto the dung pile of history. A dung pile filled with mightier nations then them who also thought they could destroy the apple of God's eye.

 

Ezek 38:13

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
KJV
 

Al Qaeda Ties to Spain

MADRID, Spain  — Just months ago, a taped threat thought to be from Usama bin Laden (search) included Spain among countries that could be attacked "at the appropriate time and place."

After Thursday's train bombings in Madrid (search), the government quickly blamed the Basque separatist group ETA (search). But later the interior minister said Islamic terrorism was not ruled out.

Bin Laden's warning was contained in an audiotape in October that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (search) determined was probably authentic.

Spanish and other anti-terrorism officials say Spain was an important European center for Al Qaeda activity before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.

Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon believes that Spain, along with Germany, was an important staging ground for the hijackings. Lead suicide pilot Mohamed Atta visited Spain twice in 2001, including a trip that July which Garzon says was called to discuss last-minute details with other senior plotters.

Last September, Garzon indicted bin Laden and nine other terror suspects over the Sept. 11 attacks. Three were alleged to be members of a Spain-based terror cell. Garzon charged 25 other men with belonging to Al Qaeda.

More than 40 Al Qaeda suspects have been arrested in Spain since the attacks, although many have been released for lack of evidence. Tayssir Alouni, a reporter for pan-Arab television channel Al-Jazeera who was arrested last September on charges of belonging to Al Qaeda, also has been released on bail.

In Spain, there are fears that Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's staunch support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq has made the country a target for Islamic terrorists. Aznar has sent 1,300 troops to Iraq, even though most Spaniards opposed the war.

The first official mention of a possible Islamic angle to Thursday's attacks came when Interior Minister Angel Acebes said that police had found detonators and an Arabic-language audiotape with Quranic verses in a van in a town outside Madrid.

ETA, the separatist group that has claimed responsibility for more than 800 deaths in its decades-long campaign of assassinations and bombings for an independent Basque homeland, remains the "main line of investigation," Acebes said.

But with the van find "all kinds of lines investigation open up," he said. "Because of this, I have just given instructions to the security forces not to rule out any line."

 

There are ties to Spain other then Al Qaeda. The Bible says in the latter years Spain (Tarshish) will be looking on at the Last Jihad invasion of Israel along with Sheba and Dedan of Africa. The merchants of Spain inquire of the Islamic hordes if they have come to the Holy Land to take a spoil? Or, to take a prey? The question is left unanswered though the pillage of the Jews of Israel seems a foregone conclusion. The answer to me appears to be both for spoil and prey. The hate of Islam for Jewish blood will be too great to just pillage, or just teach them a lesson. The intent will be to hunt down every Jew, and leave not one alive. Not one man, woman, or child will be exempted from the intended carnage. Being Jewish will be the only requirement for a death sentence in that day. That kind of hate is already evident in the Islamic world. This generation of Islam seems more then capable of producing such animalistic blood lust against the Jews.

These murderers of innocent Spanish civilians have shocked the world once again into just how vicious the terrorist movements can be. We may never know if these were Christian, or Moslem terrorists at work? But, the animalistic hate of this generation can't be denied. The Islamic hate for Jews in this generation likewise can't be denied. A world on the way to Armageddon is how the Bible describes the ending of this present dispensation. It is a statement that should be compared to this generation. Wise speculation should be able to make the right conclusion as to where in God's timetable we are?

 

Josh 10:41-42

41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.

42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
KJV
 

 

It could not be more clear. This peace plan of the secular Israeli government will be a great victory for the terrorists! The terrorists openly formulate their plans for control once the IDF withdraws from the Gaza. These are the murderers of the Jewish civilian population that targets woman and children as their favorite quarry. Their concept of maintaining public order is to supply gullible Islamic Arab suicide bombers who will follow their orders. Their method of governing is extortion and murder of their own brothers for their own self interests. They are animals of the worst sort. The whole world knows this as truth, but because the Jews are their ultimate victims it is thought to be a reasonable plan. The secular Jews have become so frustrated that they are turning to Sharon rather then the God of their fathers. A terrible lesson is in the offering should Sharon (who is not a Joshua) accomplish his intentions. Many hope Sharon is sly as a fox, and will somehow turn this into a Jewish victory. Possibly the annexing of the entire West Bank, but it is only hopeful thinking without one iota of indication from Sharon himself. Reality points more to Satan having his greatest dreams come true. These are sad days for the faithful, but hard lessons must be taught before the God of the Bible acts.

I'm reminded of all the hard lessons I had to learn before the Lord Jesus Christ came into my heart. Today, the Jewish people are being prepared. Their redemption draweth nigh. Their hearts are about to be changed by the only great God of the Bible. Hard times are still ahead before that great day of the Messiah/King's appearance. There is great purpose in all God is allowing the Jews of Israel to experience. The final chapter for this generation of Israelis is yet to be written!

 

Dan 7:7

7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
KJV
 

US Sets 5 Conditions for Disengagement Plan
11:41 Mar 14, '04 / 21 Adar 5764
 

After almost six weeks of Israeli attempts to arrange a meeting for Prime Minister Sharon with U.S. President George Bush, it appears that Bush is finally ready to do so. Sharon wishes to obtain American endorsement for the unilateral withdrawal plan he presented on February 2, but the Bush Administration has not been forthcoming. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom announced last night that a meeting has been set in principle for March 29, but that the Americans have set five major conditions for their acceptance of Sharon's plan. Several of them are unacceptable to top Likud ministers. The five conditions are:

    The plan must not replace the US Road Map plan;

    the US will not bear the costs of evacuating and resettling the nearly 8,000 residents;

    the expelled residents must not be relocated in Judea and Samaria;

    the evacuation must be not only of civilians but of all military residents;

    and Israel must not annex any areas of Judea and Samaria.

The Americans have also asked that the withdrawal be carried out only after the US elections almost eight months from now.

A forum of advisors convened by President Bush at the end of last week determines that the disengagement has "historic potential" but also has dangers. They also concluded that it is important to the Bush Administration that the planned withdrawal not appear as a surrender to terrorism.

The first meeting between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and PA leader Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) is scheduled for Tuesday. Their senior aides are scheduled to meet today, once again, to lay the groundwork for the meeting.
 

 

Imagine the Pharaoh of Egypt putting similar restrictions on Joshua, and the God of the Bible at the first entrance of the Jews into the Holy Land? History already recognizes that Pharaoh as a fool for resisting God as long as he did, but such additional resistance would have made him an even greater fool. This would not be the first time a world leader of a mighty nation lost everything because he thought he needed to straighten out the God who placed the Jews in the Holy Land. Great gentile nations have often pushed their will where gentiles dare not tread.  Where are the pyramid building Egyptians? Where are the Assyrians? Where are the Babylonians? Where are the Romans? Where are the Nazis? Yet, here come the Jews again!

I have often been asked where is the United States of America in prophecy. My answer has always been consistent that The USA would be part of the ten Western nations that give the antichrist his power. It makes sense that after the rapture the great Christian heritage of America will be meaningless to those left behind. What is sad is those of today who should know better seem to know nothing. A lukewarm Church gives no Biblical direction to our elected leaders. It is sad when prominent Christians are willingly ignorant of what God is doing in the Holy Land with this generation. They actually support efforts to block what God has said He will do in the Bible, and would forestall the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is always sad when the best we have think they have a better way then what God has so clearly already revealed. Today, we have a better way to evangelize the world with the Passion. We have a better peace plan then the God of the Bible for the Holy Land. We have an Evangelical spirit of unity with the apostates so that no one knows who is saved anymore? We have better theology by willingly ignoring Bible doctrine which is meant to divide out the phony from the truth. Today, we are all brothers tolerant of all apostasy. It is a sad day in which we live. I doubt much sweet savor is whiffing up to God Almighty from this American style of Christianity? It seems to be on the road to whoredom, and the nations are going to stab this apostate system left behind after the rapture in the back. The gentile world of religions, and governments will be united  in their hate for the Jews. The character this hate produces always results in backstabbing as each looks out for their self-interests. The antichrist at the end will backstab all who gave him power by leading the entire world to Armageddon.

I watch the Western world of nations, and their alliances. The US will be one of ten, and the antichrist will backstab three leaving seven. He will assume the combined power of the three, and become the eighth. The Bible says all these kings give their power to him. He becomes leader of the Western world, and controls the entire world with Western military, financial, and technical power. The war with the sacrificed lamb of Jewish Old Testament theology will be the focus of gentile world hate. The altar of Ezekiel's Temple will be the most hated place on the planet.

 

John 2:15-16

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
KJV

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Ex 20:5

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
KJV

 

March 15, 2004

Hollywood Rethinking Films of Faith After 'Passion'

By SHARON WAXMAN
 

LOS ANGELES, March 14 — As the overwhelming success of "The Passion of the Christ" reverberates through Hollywood, producers and studio executives are asking whether the movie industry has been neglecting large segments of the American audience eager for more openly religious fare.

During the weekend the film took in another $31.6 million, increasing the total box office to $264 million in nearly three weeks, according to Exhibitor Relations, which tracks ticket sales.

Unlike many blockbusters, the movie has not dropped precipitously soon after a huge opening weekend. It is expected to finish its domestic run taking in well over $300 million in box-office receipts, easily outstripping big-budget movies like "The Hulk" or any in the "Matrix" series.

That number will only swell when the film is released internationally, beginning in Europe and Latin America in the next few weeks. The foreign audience is expected to be huge. And 20th Century Fox is in negotiations to distribute the DVD and videocassette, which is also expected to be immensely profitable.

"You can't ignore those numbers," said Mark Johnson, a veteran film producer. "You can't say it's just a fluke. There's something to be read here."

The movie's box-office success has been chewed over in studio staff meetings and at pricey watering holes all over Hollywood, echoed in interviews with numerous executives in the last week. In marketing departments the film is regarded as pure genius; its director, Mel Gibson, is credited with stoking a controversy that yanked the film from the margins of the culture to center stage, presenting it as a must-see.

There is little doubt at the studios that the movie will affect decision making in the short and the long term. Some predict, as one result, a wave of New Testament-themed movies or more religious films in general.

"Will there really be scriptural pictures — Old Testament, New Testament?" asked Peter Guber, a producer who formerly ran Sony Pictures Entertainment. "The answer seemingly is probably so."

 

The God of the Bible well knew the last generation of this present Church age would be rich, and feel in need of nothing. I have heard it said this unholy alliance with the pornography capital of the world is just another tool to be used for evangelism? Ezekiel faced a similar situation in his day. The Temple priests decorated the inside walls of the Temple with all manner of pagan gods to show the world how broadminded they assumed the God of the Bible could be.  The result was the Glory of God  left that Temple, and not long after the Jews lost sovereignty over the Holy Land. They had broken their covenant with the exclusive and jealous God of the Bible. They should have known better, but visions of compromised religious power blinded them to the truth.

Evangelicals are watering at the mouth with how they can jump on this Hollywood bandwagon of religious revival. Visions of packing the pews with the converts coming from this newest evangelistic revival are dancing like sugar plums in their heads. It matters not that the God of the Bible is a holy God, and also very jealous of His holiness. Little thought is given to what God thinks about unholy alliances with the pornographers who see only the money to be made using the Old and New Testaments. The lesson of "The Passion" is one of the modern money changers using the things of God for profit. The drooling Evangelicals can only expect a hard lesson coming out of this new Hollywood evangelization bandwagon. I expect the literal Bible will be abandoned quickly on the cutting room floor. Remakes of the Nun's Story, and Father Flanagan's Boy's Town will probably come first. I await the grand future spectacular about Mother Teresa destine surly to blockbuster proportions.

Stirring emotional religious fervor will be the new art for which the Hollywood crowd will strive. The God of the Bible will be presented as the same broadminded god of the priests of Ezekiel's day. The scripts will be written in a way as to not offend any except those who stand on the literal Bible. The pagans will feel comfortable within the walls of this expanding style of apostate Christianity. The pews will be filled, but the loss of holiness will be the price.

 

Gen 4:7

7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
KJV
 

Security sources: Tanzim intended to detonate explosives child carried

By Arnon Regular and Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondents

The Tanzim militant group intended to detonate by remote control an explosive belt carried by a 10-year-old Palestinian boy after he was caught Monday by Israel Defense Forces soldiers, Israeli security sources believe.

The boy was aprehended while trying to pass a Nablus checkpoint with bags containing the explosives.

"Ten-year-old Abdullah works at the checkpoint transporting luggage from one side to the other," the officer, who identified himself only as Lieutenant-Colonel Guy, told Reuters.

"[Someone] asked him to carry through a bag...and left," the officer said. "[The boy] just wanted to make money. We will release him. He's just a poor kid." The boy said he was offered a large sum of money to transfer the bags, and he was released after it became clear that he was not aware that the bags he was carrying contained explosives.

The officer said a military policewoman at the checkpoint spotted wires protruding from the bag and stopped Abdullah.

"The policewoman prevented a suicide attack [in Israel]," the colonel said. He said the explosive belt was also packed with nuts and bolts, which militants use to make bombs deadlier. It was also connected to a cellular telephone.

Army demolition experts detonated the device in a controlled blast. The colonel said the device contained seven to 10 kilograms of explosives.

 

 

I watched on the news as the beautiful Israeli policewoman was interviewed. The bomb was rigged with a remote telephone detonator, and as she inspected the package the boy was carrying the phone rang.  It was clear the terrorists intent was to kill both her and the boy in their foiled attempt to kill even more Jews. The detonator failed letting a little boy go home to his mother, and I suppose a young mother able to go home to her young children. The hand of the God of the Bible can be observed for those willing to look. The most sophisticated equipment the computer age can muster is still subject to the God of the Bible. I'm sure God could foil every attempt at terror, but it is not a feather bed that He promised this world of sin. Reality teaches that terrible things happen as a result of sin. The worst part of sin is the innocent victims that are always drawn into the sins of others. Sin has never been a private matter. There are always innocent victims. Abortion is a prime example.

The Jews are retaliating as I write. The helicopters are firing at known terrorist locations. These terrorists hide among the civilian populations for this very reason. Innocents are bound to become victims. This will be used for propaganda to make certain Israeli innocents pay the price.

The world closes on the day when God will be the aggressor. It will start in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount! There will be no innocents from His perspective. He has already said "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" which settles forever any claims to innocents. What the God of the Bible does offer is grace to those willing to submit to His authority, His righteousness, and His Redeemer. Mercy ends when God judges. The only victim is God Himself who absorbed all the sin of evil generation after evil generation. That must all stop! That day is near because God is forcing the Jews of Israel on this evil generation. The Bible says the Jews will turn! A few gentiles will turn also, but this will be a movement mainly among the Jews of Israel who will be preparing to welcome the coming again Messiah/King. It all happens in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount!

 

Rev 11:5-6
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
KJV
 

Egypt, Iran developing satellite plans

By Amnon Barzilai, Haaretz Correspondent

Egypt is developing a reconnaissance satellite that will be operative within one to two years, according to a recent report by the space news website SpaceDaily.Com. The development of an Iranian satellite project is also at an advanced stage.

Details about the Iranian satellite program, being conducted under academic auspices, were revealed last week in a lecture to the members of the Israeli Space Society by Major M. of the Israel Air Force department of space technology. Major M. said that the Iranian satellite will have launch capability within less than a year, and emphasized the great danger of such a program.

The Egyptian satellite project is being implemented by the Scientific Research Ministry. Egyptian officials noted that the project has been financially assisted by western countries, and added that the satellite is for civilian research purposes. The officials however also said that that the project is intended as a response to Israel's military reconnaissance satellite, Ofeq. UPI quoted officials in Cairo who stated that Egypt and other countries such as Saudi Arabia, were challenging Israel's space superiority.

"Iran and Egypt's space plans show us the great efforts being invested in space by Arab states," Tal Inbar, vice president of the Israeli Space Society, said. "The Egyptian plan to launch its own reconnaissance satellite is a sign that Israel's monopoly as the only Middle Eastern country in space is over. However the real danger is that Iran could launch a satellite within a year. Israel must advance its own space capabilities in order to preserve its qualitative edge in case an anti-satellite weapon is developed by a hostile nation."
Pakistan

 

The technology of this computer age is rushing the world toward Armageddon. The world came close to a technological crises with the super weapons of the Nazis. The war ended with little time to spare before the technology of Hitler would have changed the tide. Today, computers make that technology available to Arab countries looking for that little edge needed to defeat Israel. The Arabs would not stop as Israel has in all their wars, but would be merciless in their blood lust for Jews. Little Israel must always be a few steps ahead, or there will be no Israel. God will never allow that to happen. I only wonder how long God will extend the years before He steps in directly? The Two witnesses of Revelation 11 are recorded as manifesting miraculous powers in stopping anyone, or any country from doing harm to their ministry. There is no indication they ever leave Jerusalem throughout their ministry which lasts for the first 3-1/2 years of the 7-year Great Tribulation. The effect of their ministry however has world wide effects. They clearly are not hampered by the technology of their enemies.

The power of God will challenge the power of technology, and it will be acknowledged as no contest! The world will hate the righteousness of these Two Witnesses, and the 144,000 Jews from every tribe who join them. I believe their prophecy and ministry will be the building of Ezekiel's Temple. The world will so hate these Jews that when the antichrist is allowed to kill them a holiday is proclaimed around the world that will out do any secular Christmas celebration as the world has ever known. The inability of any gentile nation no matter how powerful to influence, or stop them will drive frustration to full blown hate. I'm convinced that when they fulfill the prophecy of building Ezekiel's Temple their ministry will be over. The antichrist kills them, and drives the 144,000 with all their converts into the wilderness. The years of a forced peace by the Witnesses for Israel ends, and the 3-1/2 years of Jacob's trouble begin.  The Temple is desecrated. The antichrist sits on the Throne that was put in the Temple for the coming Christ/Messiah/King. At the end of the Great Tribulation the antichrist will lead a world of hate to Armageddon. The Jews will return to Jerusalem for one final revival in those last days of turmoil as the nations gather. They will cleanse the Temple of the desecration by the antichrist who withdraws from Jerusalem as the nations gather. The time for Christ's return, and the Kingdom age to begin arrives. It will be a most glorious day that will come with no time left to spare. It will be like the cavalry coming in the nick of time. The timing of the Lord will be just perfect.

Read about the Second Woe

 

Recently Discovered Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Record-breaking Approach to Earth

Steven R. Chesley
Paul W. Chodas
NASA's Near Earth Object Program Office
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, will make the closest approach to Earth ever recorded. There is no danger of a collision with the Earth during this encounter.

The object, designated 2004 FH, is roughly 30 meters (100 feet) in diameter and will pass just 43,000 km (26,500 miles, or about 3.4 Earth diameters) above the Earth's surface on March 18th at 5:08 PM EST (2:08 PM PST, 22:08 UTC).

On average, objects about the size of 2004 FH pass within this distance roughly once every two years, but most of these small objects pass by undetected. This particular close approach is unusual only in the sense that scientists know about it. The fact that an object as small as asteroid 2004 FH has been discovered now is mostly a matter of perseverance by the LINEAR team, who are funded by NASA to search for larger kilometer-sized NEAs, but also routinely detect much smaller objects.

Asteroid 2004 FH's point of closest approach with the Earth will be over the South Atlantic Ocean. Using a good pair of binoculars, the object will be bright enough to be seen during this close approach from areas of Europe, Asia and most of the Southern Hemisphere.

Scientists look forward to the flyby as it will provide them an unprecedented opportunity to study a small NEA asteroid up close.

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http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/