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Three Possibilities worth Watching!

Possible Golan Heights Negotiations – Possible Return to PA Welfare Payments – Possible Suppression of Hamas in Government – Could the Fulfillment of the Three Possibilities be the Pre amble to

a False Peac

e?

October 5, 2006

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Syria needs the Golan Heights back in its possession to enhance its chances of driving Israel into the Negev in a future Jihad.

The PA is in need of western money to become strong enough to be effective in a future Jihad against Israel.

Hamas cannot be in power in order for the west to restart the welfare payments to the Palestinian Authority, nor can they be in any false peace negotiations because of their: (1) Refusal to recognize Israel as a state, (2) Stated determination to destroy her as a nation, and (3) Refusal to honor any pre-agreements made with the previous Palestinian government.

With Hizbollah settling back into its old offensive positions just across Israel’s northern border in Lebanon, Syria making a renewed effort to get Israel to return the Golan Heights, the Palestinian Authority’s effort to get a renewed flow of foreign money to rebuild its forces, and the Fatah, Israeli, and American attempt to suppress Hamas, I am very hopeful it will lead to the long awaited false peace of I Thessalonians.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

The following articles from the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz indicate that Syria and the Palestinians

are attempting to work their way around these three obstacles to get a false peace and eventual Jihad.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

Rice compliments Abbas’ Leadership

JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

October 3, 2006

“We have great admiration for you and leadership,” US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference on Wednesday following their meeting in Ramallah.

Rice added that the US was “very concerned” about the plight of the Palestinians and pledged to improve living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

She said that the US would “redouble efforts” to help the Palestinians.

The secretary of state went on to say that the US was aware of the hard work that needed to be done in order to achieve a two state solution but said that the US remained committed to the cause.

“You have the strong support of the US and a pe

rsonnel commitment from President George Bush and I,” she pledged.

Abbas, speaking alongside Rice, said any new Palestinian government must honor signed agreements with Israel.

The PA chairman laid down the demand shortly after saying that his efforts to reach a power-sharing agreement with the Hamas had broken down.

Abbas said there was “no indication” of a new dialogue with Hamas.

AP contributed to this report.

End Jerusalem Post Article

Begin Haaretz Article

Abbas: ‘No indication’ of fresh unity government talks with Hamas

October 4, 2006

By the Associated Press

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that there is “no indication” of fresh dialogue with Hamas, after talks on forming a more moderate unity government broke down several days ago.

Speaking a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Abbas said any new Palestinian government must honor signed agreements with Israel.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Wednesday accused the U.S. of trying to “rearrange” the Middle East to suit American and Israeli interests.

“She cares only to rearrange this region and to rearrange the Palestinian scene in a way that serves the American and Israeli agenda,” Haniyeh said.

The international community has imposed sanctions on the Hamas-led government, which has rejected key demands to renounce violence, recognize Israel and respect previous peace deals between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Palestinians had hoped that the formation of a unity government would ease the crippling aid embargo.

Abbas, who also heads the Fatah movement, ousted by Hamas in the January parliamentary elections, said earlier in the day that a new cabinet must be formed to end the recent surge in violence that erupted after coalition talks collapsed and which has claimed more than 10 lives in three days.

He did not elaborate.

“There is no dialogue now,” Abbas said at a news conference with Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa.

A preliminary coalition agreement announced on September 11 “is over now, and we have to start from square one,” he said.

Hamas-Fatah violence enters third day

Interfactional violence continued throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for the third consecutive day since unity government talks broke down.

End Haaretz Article

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

‘PM would agree to talks with Syria’

JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

October 2, 2006

Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Tuesday that Israel would agree to engage in peace talks with Syria in the event of an official Syrian approach.

According to the senior Labor Party member, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would agree to hold negotiations if the Syrians entered without pre-conditions and only if the recognition of Israel’s right to exist were promised, Army Radio reported.

On Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he was ready to negotiate with Israel. In an interview with Spanish newspaper El-Pais, Assad said it would take six months to reach an agreement with Israel.

If a peace agreement would not be reached, he added, war would break out.

With that, Ben-Eliezer also said that Isarel must take into account Assad’s recent threats towards Israel, and prepare accordingly.

End Jerusalem Post Article

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Interesting Message coming from President Bashar Assad in Syria

October 4, 2006

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I believe Syria, Iran, and Hizbollah are becoming quite definite in their plan to eventually launch a Jihad against Israel.

Since I believe that to be the case, there is no question their attack would have its chances of success astronomically improved if they could get Israel to return the Golan Heights

to Israel as part of a peace agreement.

I have spent a great deal of time in the Golan Heights and on top of Mt.

Herman, and am acutely aware of its great strategic value by both radar and visual observation of Syria to the east, and the north-south tank trails in the valleys to its west.

The Syrians and Iranians are not without cunning. They would be very foolish not to agree between themselves that having the Golan Heights in their possession would greatly enhance their chances of surprise and success in a lightning blitzkrieg Jihad down the tank trails into northern Israel. I believe that is why Syria is now renewing its efforts to secure a peace agreement with Israel before launching such an attack.

Syria has tried several times in the past to get the stalled negotiations for the Golan Heights started again, and each time the process has been unsuccessful, but this seems to be the most determined request I have seen for some time. I am including a previous request by Syria in 2003 in Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 128C.

The first Jerusalem Post article, which follows, entails the offer by the Syrian President to negotiate for peace with Israel. Assad’s statements in the first article brought a quick response from Israel Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in the second Jerusalem Post Article.

The scenario, along with other recent happenings in the Middle East, are in line with my guesstimate the attack against Israel will occur at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.

Begin First Jerusalem Post Article

Assad gives Israel 6 Months for Peace

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Post Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

October 2, 2006

Syrian president Bashar Assad continued to give clashing messages to the international community with an announcement that he was ready to negotiate with Israel. In an interview with Spanish newspaper El-Pais on Saturday, the president said it would take six months to reach an agreement with Israel. If a peace agreement would not be reached, he added, war would break out.

“Two sides are responsible for the current situation (with Israel) – not just one side. The situation is based on one topic only, the peace process… and perhaps war if no peace is established,” Assad said.

The president said that Syria’s vision has to this point proven itself, as opposed to the Israeli dream, based on military power, which has failed.

“We have a clear vision, and events have proven that we foresee the future in the right direction. It is not based on the ideas of strength and weakness, but rather it is based upon values, history and human ambition, while the Israeli dream, unfortunately, is based solely on a strong army.”

He also said that he has increased the number of troops on the border with Lebanon, a move apparently aimed to appease international demands to bolster security following the Israel-Hizbullah war.

But the troop movement was still likely to draw criticism from the US and Iraqi governments, as President Bashar Assad said Syria shifted forces away from its eastern border with Iraq to fortify its frontier with Lebanon.

The US and Iraq have long accused Syria of not doing enough to stop insurgents crossing into Iraq to fight US troops. Syria denies the allegation, saying it is impossible to fully control

the long desert border it shares with Iraq.

“We have strengthened the border with Lebanon, but of course, this made us move some of our forces guarding the border with Iraq to the border with Lebanon,” Assad said in an interview with Spain’s El Pais newspaper that was released Sunday by Syria’s state-run SANA news agency.

After the 34-day war between Hizbullah and Israel that ended on Aug. 14, the Jewish state said it wanted international troops to deploy on the Lebanon-Syrian border to enforce a halt in weapons shipments.

Hizbullah is widely believed to have received weapons and other support from its backers, Syria and Iran.

But Syria strongly rejected the idea, warning it would close the border with Lebanon. Instead, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said during his recent trip to the Middle East that Assad had assured him Damascus was prepared to delineate its border with Lebanon and increase the number of forces there. It said it would also provide the troops with training and supplies.

Assad said other nations “should have faith in Syria” over controlling its borders.

“If there is a real desire to smuggle (weapons), neither (UN) Security Council resolutions nor surveillance nor the whole armies of the world can prevent this,” he said, according to SANA.

In the interview, Assad also said the United States “was not a fair co-sponsor” of the stalled Mideast peace process and called on Europe to take an active role.

“Regrettably there is not another international power that can replace it (the US), and at the same time, the United States should not be alone, and here is where Europe’s role comes in,” he said.

End First Jerusalem Post Article

Begin Second Jerusalem Post Excerpt

‘PM would agree to talks with Syria’

JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

October 2, 2006

Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Tuesday that Israel would agree to engage in peace talks with Syria in the event of an official Syrian approach.

According to the senior Labor Party member, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would agree to hold negotiations if the Syrians entered without pre-conditions and only if the recognition of Israel’s right to exist were promised, Army Radio reported.

On Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he was ready to negotiate with Israel. In an interview with Spanish newspaper El-Pais, Assad said it would take six months to reach an agreement with Israel. If a peace agreement would not be reached, he added, war would break out.

With that, Ben-Eliezer also said that Isarel must take into account Assad’s recent threats towards Israel, and prepare accordingly.

End Jerusalem Post Second Excerpt

Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 128C

This is the update we issued more than three years ago. It did not meet with success. Israel still retains the Golan Heights.

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 128C

July 15, 2003

Golan Heights Back in the False Peace Pie

In order to assure the success of a surprise lightning Jihad attack against Israel from the north, it would be most advantageous for a large part of the Golan Heights to be returned to Syrian control. It was taken from the Syrians by Israel in the 1967 War.

Its high levels give a distinct advantage to Israel in that it provides it with a magnificent view of all enemy troop movements along its northern border in southern Lebanon and western Syria. It gives a clear view of the major tank trails that would be used by enemy tanks coming south against Israel. The two countries were close to an agreement on Israeli withdrawal in 2000, but the talks broke down when Syria demanded a portion of the shoreline

of the Sea of Galilee in its southeastern corner, which it controlled prior to the 1967 war.

Syria has now stated that is it ready to resume peace talks with Israel on the return of the Golan Heights for its recognition of Israel as a nation.

The Tishrin Daily, which reflects Syrian government views, said last week that talks should pick up where they left off three years ago. This is a statement often made by government officials. The paper stated: “it is not permissible that peace negotiations return to a zero point and cancels all that was achieved and had required strenuous efforts.”

Last week Syrian President Bashar Assad asked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to help ease tensions between the U.S. and Syria. And Mubarak pressed Assad to get the ten hard-line Palestinian terrorist organizations, whose headquarters are in Damascus, to cooperate in the continuation of the latest ceasefire in Israel.

I am certainly hopeful that this action by Syria means it has put all the terrorist groups it sponsors on notice to cease their actions against the nation of Israel in order to facilitate any negotiations with Israel on the Golan Heights. And, if so, judging by the recent flurry of diplomatic contacts between Syria and Iran, I am also hopeful this has been agreed to by Iran, and they have likewise put the terrorist groups they sponsor on the same footing. This would open the door for a “negotiated,” rather than a “forced” peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which would be more conducive to Israel being lulled into a false sense of security. The next few weeks may well validate or deny that such a scenario has gone on behind closed doors. A false peace must arrive in the Middle East, but Israel will be lulled into a false sense of security before it is possible for such an attack by Islam to be successful.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

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BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN! (Out where the UN is their Friend)

October 3, 2006

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Some 65 years ago, as I sat in the Melba theatre in Batesville, Arkansas, I heard Gene Autry sing the lyrics to “Back in the Saddle Again.” I was reminded of that song by the title of a DEBKAfile Military Report on the day before Yom Kipper, the Day of Atonement.

Please forgive me for the terrible change in lyrics that went through my mind as I read the Military Report, which follows.

Hizballah’s in the saddle again

Out where the UN is their friend

Where ole Ishmael’s wild asses feed

Launching Katyushas from the weeds

Hizballah’s in the saddle again

Hidin’ in caves and in dens

Toten’ the launchers with their kin

Where they sleep in bunkers every night

And only Islam’s Law is right

Hizballah’s in the saddle again

Whoopi-ty-ay-oh

Rockets goin’ to and fro

Hizballah’s in the saddle again

If you want to read an excellent assessment of the frustration Israel is experiencing, as they watch all the promises and commitments of UN Resolution 1701 being flushed down an international toilet, and what it may lead to in future Middle East problems because of UN failure to enforce it, please read the DEBKAfile Military Report which follows. It is an excellent article.

Begin DEBKAfile Report

Israel Quits Lebanon Leaving Hizballah Back in the Saddle under UN Auspices

DEBKAfile Special Military Report

October 1, 2006, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s military sources saw the Iast Israeli soldier quit Lebanon before dawn of Oct.

1, Yom Kippur eve, leaving in captivity Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, the two soldiers whose abduction by Hizballah provoked the 34-day Lebanon war on July 12.

Only one third of the 15,000 international peacekeepers the UN Security Council pledged for an expanded UNIFIL has in fact been deployed in South Lebanon. And even that paltry force has made no effort to stop Hizballah restoring its presence and replenishing its stocks of rockets and missiles to points in South Lebanon within firing range of Israel. In most ways, therefore, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of Aug.

14 is a dead letter.

While withdrawing the bulk of its force gradually, Israel kept the last units behind in a futile effort to persuade UNIFIL commanders to uphold key provisions of the resolution. They refused even the minimal demand to restrict Hizballah’s military movements along the Israeli border.

They claimed they could only act with the permission of the Lebanese government. By finally giving way on this point, the Israeli government accepted the determination that UNIFIL is the instrument of the Lebanese government – not the enforcer of UN resolutions or Israeli security.

This concession makes nonsense of the claim that the most important gain of the Lebanon operation was the removal of Hizballah’s fighting forces from access to the Israeli border. This claim was made in a desperate attempt by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Amir Peretz and chief of staff Lt.-Gen Dan Halutz, to justify the war and its losses.

Looking slightly further ahead, Israel’s policy-makers had better hurry up and form a plan to meet an exacerbated threat from Lebanon, the possible displacement of the Fouad Siniora government in Beirut with a pro-Syrian, Hizballah-dominated administration. This further deterioration in Israel’s national security situation is far from being a remote hypothesis.

Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah used the war to forge alliances with the Lebanese parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, head of the rival Shiite movement Amal, and the Christian Maronite strongman Michel Aoun.

This bloc intends to make a bid to install a pro-Syrian government after Ramadan is over next month.

Our sources in Beirut report a last-minute US-French initiative to frustrate this development.

Siniora had his interior minister Ahmed Fatfat post decree No. 2403 for Lebanon’s five intelligence and security agencies to pool their intelligence data and so provide his government and national army with the means of asserting control over national security. Two pro-Syrian officers, General Security chief Wafic Jezzini, and Director-General of Internal Security forces, Maj.-Gen Ashraf Rifi, stamped hard on this decree. The Siniora government was thus denied a key resource for dominating the country at large, not just the South, and is more vulnerable than ever to a hostile push.

As for Israel’s policy-makers, their handling of the bargaining with UNIFIL was as muddled, vacillating and feeble as their conduct of the Lebanon war itself. By accepting the Aug.

14 truce, they agreed to handing over the Lebanese-Israeli border to an international peacekeeping force without teeth; its rules of engagement are so constrictive that without Lebanese government authorization its members may not fire a single shot – even when necessary to prevent Hizballah moving back to its former aggressive positions or smuggling in fresh supplies of weapons – both of which are out-and-out violations of the same Resolution 1701 which mandated its own deployment.

By removing its troops in keeping with that same resolution, Israel has bargained away its last option for extracting information about the fate of the two soldiers seized by Hizballah; Red Cross access has brusquely refused.

In the view of DEBKAfile’s political sources, the last IDF units were kept in Lebanon after the truce for no discernible military or diplomatic purpose but to lull the Israeli public into not looking too closely at their leaders’ feeble negotiating stance and assuming Israel was still a str ong player

on the Lebanese scene.

By Yom Kippur eve, most people were caught up in seasonal pursuits and less inclined to continue their painful in-depth calculation of the war’s net results.

Those results can be summed up in four negative developments which the Olmert government failed to thwart:

1. The wholesale smuggling through Syria of fresh weapons supplies to Hizballah from Syria and Iran, which neither the Lebanese army nor UNIFIL is lifting a finger to stop despite an explicit UN embargo. The heads of Israel’s government neglected to draw lessons from the failed deal on the Gaza crossings and the Philadelphi route, which never prevented arms flowing freely from Egyptian Sinai to Palestinian terrorists, notably the ruling Hamas.

Syria stays technically in the clear of the UN arms embargo by setting up huge arms dumps on its border with Lebanon, ready to be pushed across at a moment’s notice by land.

2. Expanded UNIFIL, which Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni did her best to present as a force with teeth, rather than monitoring Hizballah’s movements and disarming its combatants, is busy monitoring the feuds of Lebanese political and military factions.

3. These international units refrain from entering S.

Lebanese villages. There is therefore no hindrance to Hizballah re-occupying those villages and restoring its strongholds within range of the Israeli border. The UN
force is not setting up checkpoints to control banned traffic in the South. At best, the units are using makeshift roadblocks which go up for an hour at most before being removed and leaving Hizballah a free field for moving around the South.

4. The naval blockade against illegal arms imports, purportedly maintained by French, Italian, German and Greek war vessels, is about effective as UNIFIL’s ephemeral roadblocks. Their governments consented to the vessels being barred from entering Lebanese territorial waters.

And so a strip of ocean 12 miles wide up to the Lebanese coast remains wide open for Hizballah’s arms ships to freely ply the route between Syrian and Lebanese ports.

Anxious to turn disaffected popular attention away from Hizballah’s recovery under the benign auspices of the UN’s European contingents, Israeli ministers and military chiefs have been debating out loud the need to carry out a major ground operation in the Gaza Strip, whence Qassam missiles continue to be fired into Israeli communities and where the Palestinians are building up their arms stocks, unhindered by international monitors and Egyptian police.

End DEBKAfile Report

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Rosh Hashana – Judgment of Individuals and Nations and Yom Kippur – Life or Death

October 2, 2006

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Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) began at sunset on September 23. Yom Kipper (Day of Atonement) began at sunset October 1. Between these two times there is a moral process from corruption to cleanliness that is supposed to take place in the believer’s life.

I recently came across an article by Meir Tamari, who is the founder, and was the first director of the Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem. It was an excellent article appearing in the Jerusalem Post, and was t itl

ed “From Corruption to Cleanliness,” an apt description of the moral process supposed to occur between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The following three paragraphs were extracted from the article “[ ].”

“[On Rosh Hashana individuals and nations are judged, and on Yom Kippur their futures are determined – whether they are deserving of life or death, peace or strife, prosperity or poverty, war or peace, exile or tranquility.

In that process we repetitively search and confess our wrongdoings in the knowledge that if we are sincere, atonement is assured.

The shorter form of that verbal confession is the Ashamnu prayer,

comprising just 24 words dealing with a litany of sins relating to our earning and spending money, our social treatment of each other, even our macro-economic policies.

These are evils that work their way through all aspects of life, until the whole society becomes corrupt.]”

I was not familiar with the Ashamnu prayer. The thirteen confessions offered in it are as follows:

Ashamnu, bagadnu – “We have done wrong”:

Gazalnu – “We have robbed”:

Dibarnu dofi – “We have blasphemed”:

He’evinu – “We have caused perversion”:

Vehirshanu – “We have encouraged lawlessness”:

Zadnu – “We have sinned willfully”:

Hamasnu – “We have extorted”:

Tafalnu sheker – “We have forged lies”:

Kizavnu – “We have been deceitful”:

Latznu – “We have scoffed”:

Maradnu – “We have rebelled”:

Niatznu – “We have been scornful”:

Sararnu – “We have turned away”:

Avinu – “We have been perverse”:

Pashanu – “We have oppressed”:

Tzaranu – “We have persecuted”:

Kishinu oref – “We have been obstinate”:

Rashanu – “We have been lawless”:

Shihatnu – “We have corrupted”:

Ti’avnu – “We have committed abominations”:

Ta’inu – “We have gone astray”:

Ti’tanu – “We have led others astray”:

Please allow me to quote from the second quoted paragraph preceding the thirteen confessions of the Ashamnu prayer.

‘[In that process we repetitively search and confess our wrongdoings in the knowledge that if we are sincere, atonement is assured.]’

“IF WE ARE SINCERE, ATONEMENT IS ASSURED!”

The Basic Root meaning of the Word “Sincere” is “Not Pretending.”

If a person has committed these sins, then how could such a person ever be “sincere?” These 13 confessions are indeed a thorough cross section of “THE LAW.” I am guilty of every one of them, so how could I ever consider myself capable of being “sincere?”

James 2:10 – For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Only a “righteous” person is capable of standing “sincere” before God.

Romans 3:10 – As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Only a “good” person is capable of standing “sincere” before God.

Romans 3:12 – They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

A person who “pretends” to be capable of keeping “THE LAW” cannot stand “sincere” before God, because that person is neither “good” nor “righteous.”

THE LAW was given to teach all human beings they cannot possibly make themselves “righteous” or “good” before God, no matter how “sincere” they are in their efforts to keep God’s standard of “righteous” and “good.” Only God in Christ could reconcile me to himself by His sincerity, His righteousness and His goodness.

II Corinthians 5:18-21 – And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; [19] To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. [20] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

[21] For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

THE LAW was a schoolmaster to teach me that the only man who ever lived who was sincere, good, and righteous is Jesus Christ,

the living Son of God, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily. It also taught me I stand complete in him by faith because he lives in me, and he is my sincerity, righteousness, and goodness before God.

Galatians 3:24-26 – Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [25] But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

[26] For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 2:9-10 – For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

[10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

I Corinthians 1:30,31 – But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: [31] That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

II Corinthians 3:7-18 – But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: [8] How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? [9] For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. [10] For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

[11] For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

[12] Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: [13] And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: [14] But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Chr

ist. [15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. [16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

Romans 11:25-29 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. [28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. [29] For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

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