P andor
a’s Middle East Box Lid is Quivering!
March 29, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box is the box carried by Pandora that contained all the evils of mankind — greed, vanity, slander, lies, envy, pining — and hope.
The original Greek word translated “box’ w as pithos which is
a large jar.
The mistranslation of pithos as “box” is usually attributed to the 16th century humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam when he translated Hesiod’s tale of Pandora into Latin.
In 1516 Erasmus published his now famous annotated New Testament.
Hesiod’s pithos refers to a storage jar for oil or grain. Erasmus, however, translated pithos into the Latin word pyxis, meaning “box”.The phrase “Pandora’s box” has endured ever since. This misconception was futher backed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting ‘Pandora.”
Pandora had been given a jar and instructed by Zeus to keep it closed, but she had also been given the gift of curios
ity, and ultimately opened it.
When she did, all of the evils
of mankind escaped from the jar, although Pandora was quick enough to close it again and keep one value inside, and that was Hope.
I am afraid the only Hope left for mankind comes from Erasmus’ New Testament translation as follows:
Titus 2:13-15 – Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; [14] Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. [15] These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
The seeds of evil have hatched again in Pandora’s Box to produce the children of its original occupants, who first escaped when Satan fell, and the seeds are more evil than their parents.
II Timothy 3:1-5 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Jude:14,15 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
At the present time we are observing the future events of the tribulation period anxiously stirring inside Pandora’s Box in anticipation of a very great outward explosion at a future date.
I believe the lid is likely to suddenly blow off at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, to begin to release the horror of the great tribulation period.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
The following set of news release excerpts, from across the globe, are events which will eventually lead to
the release of the horror in the box.
Begin OrlandoSentinel.com Excerpt 1
Al-Sadr Wants Arabs to Back ‘Resistance’
By Associated Press
4:23 AM EDT, March 29, 2008
BAGHDAD
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Arab leaders
meeting in Syria to voice their support for Iraq’s “resistance” to what he calls foreign occupation.
Al-Jazeera television has shown a brief clip of an interview with the Mahdi Army militia leader. It says the full interview will be shown later Saturday.
The broadcast is the first word from the reclusive cleric since the Iraqi government launched a crackdown against militia violence in the southern oil port of Basra earlier this week.
Al-Sadr is believed to be in Iran, but Al-Jazeera doesn’t say where or when the interview took place.
The portly al-Sadr, who is in his mid-30s, appears to have lost a great deal of weight in the clip.
Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Post – Number 2
Abbas urges Arab, int’l forces to protect Palestinians from IDF
JPost. com Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
March 29, 2008
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called on Arab and international forces in the Palestinian territories to protect his people against Israeli attacks.
Abbas has called in the past for international peacekeepers in the Gaza Strip, but his call Saturday at the Arab Summit in Damascus marked the first time he has urged Arab countries to send forces.
In his speech at the summit, Abbas accused Israel of undermining the basis for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of attacking Gaza “brutally,” killing innocent Palestinians.
He asked Arab countries to “think seriously of Arab and international protection for our people.”
Abbas took a sharply pessimistic tone over Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations launched in December. […….]
[…….] Earlier, in his opening speech at the gathering, Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Israel of rejecting every peace initiative offered over the last three decades.
Assad singled out the Madrid conference and the 2002 Arab peace initiative, saying that Israel had responded to those proposals by massacring Palestinians, continuing settlement activity and building the security barrier.
The Syrian president said Israel had used every possible chance to prove how uncooperative it is and questioned how long Arab nations can keep offering Israel a land-for-peace proposal.
Assad said peace was the only way for Israel to gain security in the region, and “peace will not come except through withdrawal from occupied Arab land and giving back (Arab) rights.”
He added that Israel was “exploiting the internal Palestinian divisions for its own benefit.”
Assad warned that Arab countries may have to seek alternatives to the Arab peace initiative if Israel continues to refuse to accept it. The proposal offers Israel full peace with Arab nations if it withdraws from “occupied lands” and allows for the creation of a Palestinian state.
“The question is: Do we leave the peace process and initiatives hostage to the whims of successive Israeli governments, or do we search for choices and substitutes that can achieve a just and comprehensive peace?” Assad said.
Assad went on to accuse Israel of stalling on peace negotiations with Syria.
“The foot-dragging Israel is displaying on the issue of peace with Syria for the return of Golan Heights is not working in its favor and the passing time won’t help it achieve better conditions in the future,” he said. […….]
[…….]Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi slammed Arab countries for calling on Israel to only pull back to the 1967 borders. “The occupation did not start in 1967 and Palestine is not only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,” he said.
Gadhafi reiterated his proposal to establish one state for Israelis and Palestinians between Jordan and the Mediterranean. He said the state should be a haven for all Palestinian refugees, it should disarm its nuclear weapons and hold democratic elections.
Saturday’s session comes amid anger among pro-US Arab countries over what they say is Syria’s obstruction of the election of a new president in Lebanon. They are also worried about Damascus’s close alliance with Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah.
Begin Excerpt from Haaretz Article Number 3
Hamas chiefs tout Israel truce, call for internal reconciliation
By News Agencies
March 29, 2008
Hamas’ exiled leader Khaled Meshal wants reconciliation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ rival group Fatah and is interested in a conditional truce with Israel, a pro-Hamas Web site quoted him as saying Friday.
Meshal urged Arab leaders to support the group’s fight against Israel and to protest against an Israeli-led blockade of Gaza, defending daily cross-border Qassam attacks as self-defense, according to the Web site.
But he also reiterated Hamas was ready to discuss a “comprehensive” cease-fire with Israel.
“All Palestinian factions of resistance have expressed full readiness to deal with the issue of calm, on condition that it be comprehensive, reciprocal and simultaneous,” Meshal was quoted as saying.
The Gaza-based Web site also said Meshal wrote to Arab leaders requesting support for Hamas-Fatah dialogue, after a Yemen-brokered agreement to revive talks between the rival factions appeared to falter this week.
Meshal, along with Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, urged Arab leaders to back the Yemen proposal for Palestinian reconciliation. […..]
[…….] Hamas has said any cease-fire would depend on an end to Israeli acts of “aggression” in Gaza and the West Bank and the reopening of Gaza border crossings.
Egypt, with U.S. blessing, has been trying to broker a cessation of hostilities between Israel and militants in Gaza.
Israel, denying it is involved in cease-fire negotiations says it would have no reason to strike Hamas if rocket salvoes ceased.
Meanwhile, Hamas members in the Gaza Strip on Friday called on Arab states to drop their proposal for a comprehensive peace deal with Israel, and support the militant group’s policy of violence.
On Thursday, Arab foreign ministers re-endorsed the Saudi plan for peace with Israel originally launched in 2002.
About 2,000 people gathered at a Hamas-organized rally in Gaza, as delegates convened in Damascus ahead of the annual Arab summit. Hamas was not invited to the summit hosted by its closest ally in the region.
Hamas official Khalil al-Haya said Israel would only respond to violence, and encouraged others to join it.
“Cut all ties with Israel, withdraw the Arab initiative,” he shouted. “The Zionist enemy doesn’t have a vision of peace. Only force … fighting and holy war works with [Israel.]”
The Saudi-sponsored peace initiative offers Israel peace with all Arab countries in return for withdrawal from all the lands it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, the creation of a Palestinian state with a Jerusalem as its capital and a solution to the refugee issue.
Mushir al-Masri, another Hamas official, said the Arab initiative was a burden on Palestinians.
“Hamas is defending the honor and dignity of this nation on the [Arabs’] behalf,” he said.
The rally was peppered with pleas from children for a lifting of the closure imposed on Gaza after Hamas violently seized the territory. “Your summit will be useless if you don’t lift the siege on Gaza,” a young boy screamed into a microphone.
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