Attempting to Divide Jerusalem will bring Judgment!
Attempting to Divide God’s Jerusalem with the Palestinian Canaanites Will Precede His Judgment in a War of Some Three and one-half years, Ending in the Final Battle of Armageddon, Followed by the Reign of Israel’s Messiah.
November 21, 2007
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God gave Israel and her City of Worship Jerusalem to the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, the man God renamed Israel. To divide Jerusalem with Canaanites from Ham who mingled with the seed of Ishmael is to have so little regard for God’s inheritance, it compares with Esau’s act of indifference to his birthright by selling it to Israel, his brother, for a bowl of red pottage, because he was faint.
A terrible war looms in Israel’s future, but it will be followed by the full restoration of Israel as the apple of God’s eye in His Holy Temple City of Jerusalem, when “there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.”
Zechariah 14:21 – Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
Please read the two articles which follow from the Jerusalem Post and the Scriptures with follow it.
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E. Jerusalem development plan unveiled
Etgar Lefkovits, THE Jerusalem Post
November 21, 2007
As the government talks about dividing Jerusalem, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski on Wednesday proposed a NIS 200 million ‘Marshall Plan’ for east Jerusalem, in an eleventh-hour attempt to improve the infrastructure and living conditions in east Jerusalem in order to keep the city united.
The building and development proposal, which is pending municipal and state approval, comes as the government is openly discussing the possibility of ceding Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem as part of a future peace treaty with the Palestinians, and less than one year before mayoral elections.
“While many are busy talking about Jerusalem, we act,” Lupolianski said at a city hall press
conference announcing the major development plan. “Our goal is to set facts,” he said in rare, albeit brief, remarks in English geared for the international press.
Despite massive city development projects initiated in east Jerusalem during the tenure of former Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert, the long-neglected predominantly Arab half of the city still lags far behind the rest of Jerusalem in terms of infrastructure, roads, garbage collection, housing, and green areas, following four decades of uncertainty over the political future of east Jerusalem.
Lupolianski said that in order to maintain Jerusalem as a united city under Israeli sovereignty, it was incumbent upon Israel to bridge the gaps in the conditions between the Jewish and the city’s Arab sections.
“The city will be united when we remove the gaps that exist between west and east Jerusalem,” Lupolianski said.
The proposal, which is part of the city master plan, would see the construction of housing, schools, gardens public buildings and hotels throughout east Jerusalem, in coordination with the government.
Seventy-three percent of east Jerusalem residents are Arab Muslims, while 19% are Christian, and 9% are Jewish, according to city statistics.
In all, Arabs make up one-third of the city’s 750,000 residents.
The proposal was discounted by Jerusalem opposition leader Nir Barkat as a “media spin” ahead of next year’s mayoral elections and amid the continuing departure of Israelis residents of the city seeking better quality of life elsewhere.
“I am amazed that Lupolianski remembers just before the elections to strengthen [Israel’s] sovereignty in all parts of Jerusalem, after 4.5 years in which he neglected east Jerusalem and its holy sites,” Barkat said in a written response.
“All that is left to be seen is if this is another gimmick bereft of content from the ensemble of city gimmicks which never received funding for development and fruition, or for the first time this a real concrete plan which will strengthen Jerusalem,” he said.
Barkat, who has launched a public campaign to keep Jerusalem united under Israeli sovereignty in what was widely seen as an effort to court hawkish voters in the city, added that it was never too late to strengthen Jerusalem, the timing of the move notwithstanding.
Palestinians claim all of east Jerusalem – including the city’s holy sites – as the capital of their future state.
The Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Adnan Husseini on Wednesday called the mayor’s announcement “ridiculous nonsense” and pure electioneering.
“This is the first time we hear that the mayor is planning to do something for east Jerusalem,” Husseini said.
“The people are intelligent enough to understand what is going on,” he added.
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I lived through this era of Israel’s return to her God given land the next article describes, and I very much appreciate what Eliezer Whartman has written concerning Israel and the Holy City of God. Please take the time to read the Scriptures I chose to follow it.
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A letter to the world from Jerusalem
Eliezer Whartman, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 20, 2007
The following op-ed was adapted from one first written for the ‘Times of Israel,’ a fledgling weekly established shortly after the Six Day War. After the war, the Israeli government announced preparations to return all the captured territories except for Jerusalem, in exchange for peace.
The response came at the Khartoum Arab Summit Conference that year, at which it was announced that there would be no negotiations and no recognition of Israel.
Israel came under tremendous international pressure to re-divide Jerusalem, which caused the author to sit down in a “white heat of anger” and write this piece.
I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe. I am a Jerusalemite – like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.
I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you, or even persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city; you do not live in it; you did not defend it when they came to destroy it. And we will be damned if we will let you take it away.
There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin, Moscow, London and Paris were forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves – a humane moral code.
Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning.
Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning Temple rather than surrender; and when finally overwhelmed by sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their right arms wither.
For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned the Almighty: “Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us upright to our land; return in mercy to Jerusalem, Thy city, and dwell in it as Thou promised.”
On every Yom Kippur and Pessah we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem. Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the Holocaust (and worse, your terrifying disinterest in it) – all these have not broken us.
They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed, but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now, after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after Auschwitz we are frightened of your threats and blockades and sanctions? We have been to hell and back – a hell of your making.
What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?
I HAVE watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I saw women and children blown to smithereens, this after we had agreed to your request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination that did the job: British officers, Arab gunners and American-made cannons.
And then the savage sacking of the Old City; the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school; the desecration of Jewish cemeteries; the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps – even latrines.
And you never said a word. You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shut off the holiest of our holy places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges they had made after the war – a war they waged, incidentally, against a decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the legionares in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our citizens from behind the walls.
Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your airlift “to save the gallant Berliners.” But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem. You thundered against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the German capital – but not one peep out of you about the other wall, the one that tore through the heart of Jerusalem.
And when the same thing happened 19 years later, and the Arabs unleashed a savage unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again, did any of you do anything? The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of “justice” and the need for the “Christian” quality of turning the other cheek.
The truth is – and you know it deep inside your gut – some would prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the old-age prejudices seep out of every word.
If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you had better re-examine your catechisms.
For the first time since the year 70 there is now complete religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans put the torch to the Temple everyone has equal rights. (You preferred to have some more equal than others). We loathe the sword – but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace – but we are not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to.
We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We have redeemed the pledge made by our forefathers; Jerusalem is being rebuilt. “Next year” – and the year after, and after, and after until the end of time – in Jerusalem!
In memory of my son Moshe who fell in a clash with terrorists in 1975 in Lebanon.
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The following Scriptures describe the future events that will transpire in Israel and her Holy City of Jerusalem.
Zechariah 14:1-3 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people
shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name
one.
Zechariah 14:16 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Isaiah 2:1-5 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
[2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. [3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [5] O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Isaiah 62:1-12 – For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. [2] And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. [3] Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand
of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. [4] Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. [5] For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice
over thee. [6] I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, [7] And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. [8] The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: [9] But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. [10] Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out the stones; lift up a st
andard for the people. [11] Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. [12] And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
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