HAMAS BLINKED FIRST – NOW WHAT?
July 4, 2006
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As I indicated in previous Blogs, for the terrorists to kill Shalit would be a LOSE-LOSE situation in every way. Perhaps the Islamic extremists are finally beginning to realize that the only way to win a victory over Israel is to lull her into a false sense of security. It will be interesting to see how this scenario plays itself out. Could we dare hope that this all might lead to a hudna on the part of the terrorists.
The return of Shalit to Israel alive, and the cessation of rocket launches against Israel, would start the flow of foreign monies surging back into Palestinian coffers, and a hudna would keep Israel out of Gaza to allow for a time of great preparation for an Islamic victory over Israel. Surely by now, even in the hatred filled minds of the Islamic terrorists, it is possible that they can realize to release Shalit, and stop the rocket attacks, would certainly be a WIN-WIN situation, and would be a major tool to let them realize a longtime goal, namely, to drive Israel out of the Middle East.
I suppose at times I may sound like Balaam, who advised the Moabite king how to defeat Israel, but I assure you, I am pro-Israel. Even so, I know the Scriptures concerning Israel’s future cannot be broken. The Scriptures indicate that a brief period of false peace will deceive Israel, but will abruptly end by an attack from the north by 10 Arab nations, and for some three and one half years Israel will see the land from Dan to Beersheba once again in Arab hands. Over the years I have sought to understand HOW this false peace will come to pass. It will happen, but the HOW and WHEN have always stimulated my interest.
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.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
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.
The following Jerusalem Post Article gives the latest information on the status of the Israeli prisoner situation. I find the last paragraph to be very contradictory.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Shalit’s Captors Sever Links with Egyptian Mediators
Herb Keinon and JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
July 3, 2006
The kidnappers of Gilad Shalit announced on Tuesday that they had severed links with the Egyptian mediators.
“Hamas representatives have broken off contact with members of the Egyptian delegation,” said a Hamas official.
Later, the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on the kidnappers of Gilad Shalit to spare the soldier’s life.
“The Palestinian government urges (the kidnappers) to keep the soldier alive and to ensure that he is treated well,” said Haniyeh.
Haniyeh added that negotiations were essential to ending the crisis.
“We stress the need to continue with the diplomatic efforts and not to shut the door,” said the PA Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, despite an earlier vow not to release any new information about Shalit, a spokesman for one of the groups did indeed say that the soldier would not be killed.
“There are those who believe we will kill the soldier, but the principles of Islam command us to treat prisoners with respect and not to kill them,” he said, three hours after the ultimatum to release Palestinian prisoners, which was rejected by Israel, expired.
End Jerusalem Post Article
The reason I found the last paragraph in the Jerusalem Post article to be contradictory is based on what
I wrote in Archive Prophecy Update Number 178B, more than two years ago.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 178B
June 30, 2004
The Sacred Religious Rite of Islamic Beheading
The bulk of what follows comes from an article by Andrew G.
Bostom, which appeared last month on the site FrontPagemagazine.com.
“According to Muhammad’s sacralized biography by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe. He appointed an “arbiter” who soon rendered this concise verdict: the men were to be put to death, the women and children sold into slavery, the spoils to be divided among the Muslims.
Muhammad ratified this judgment stating that it was a decree of God pronounced from above the Seven Heavens. Thus some 600 to 900 men from the Qurayza were led, on Muhammad’s order, to the Market of Medina.
Trenches were dug and the men
were beheaded, and their decapitated corpses buried in the trenches while Prophet Muhammad watched in attendance. The Women and children were sold into slavery, a number of them being distributed as gifts among Muhammad’s companions, and Muhammad selected one of the Qurayza women (Rayhana) for himself. Then all of the Qurayza’s property and other possessions (including weapons) were also divided up as additional “booty” among the Muslims, to support further jihad campaigns against the infidels around them.
The classical Muslim jurist al-Mawardi (a Shafi’ ite jurist, d.
1058) from Baghdad was a seminal, prolific scholar who lived during the so-called Islamic “Golden Age” of the Abbasid-Baghdadian Caliphate, and he wrote the following, based on widely accepted interpretations of the Qur’an and Sunna (i.e., the recorded words and deeds of Muhammad), regarding infidel prisoners of jihad campaigns: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you do encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)”….Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah.” [The Laws of Islamic Governance, trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192. Emphasis added.] Indeed such odious “rules” were iterated by all four classical schools of Islamic jurisprudence, found across the vast Muslim empire.
For centuries, from the Iberian peninsula to the Indian subcontinent, jihad campaigns waged by Muslim armies against ungodly infidel Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Hindus, were punctuated by massacres, including mass throat slittings and beheadings.
During the period of “enlightened” Muslim rule, the Christians of Iberian Toledo, who had first submitted to their Arab Muslim invaders in 711 or 712, revolted in 713. In the harsh Muslim reprisal that ensued, Toledo was pillaged, and all the Christian notables had their throats cut. On the Indian subcontinent, Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, who is revered as a paragon of true Muslim tolerance by modern revisionist historians, recorded the following event in his autobiographical “Baburnama,” about numerous infidel prisoners of a jihad.
“All of those who were brought in alive [having surrendered] were ordered beheaded, after which a huge tower of skulls was erected in the camp.” [The Baburnama -Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, both translated and edited by Wheeler M.
Thacktson, Oxford University Press,1996, p. 188. Emphasis added.]
Recent jihad-inspired decapitations of infidels by Muslims have occurred across the globe- Christians in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nigeria; Hindu priests and “unveiled” Hindu women in Kashmir; Wall Street Journal reporter, and Jew, Daniel Pearl. We should not be surprised that these contemporary paroxysms of the recorded jihad violence are accompanied by ritualized beheadings. Such gruesome acts are in fact sanctioned by core Islamic sacred texts, and classical Muslim jurisprudence. Empty claims that jihad decapitations are somehow “alien to true Islam,” however well-intentioned, undermine serious efforts to reform and desacralize Islamic doctrine. This process will only begin with frank discussion, both between non-Muslims and Muslims, and within the Muslim community.” (END QUOTE)
The loss of a man’s head in ancient religious rites by those who worshipped false gods symbolized the loss of his power before their god. The loss of his head, from which he worshipped another god, was thought to be a justified punishment inflicted on the one who would not worship their god. At times the head of a particularly great warrior of the unbelievers had his head placed in the worship place of their god.
The Philistines, who once occupied the Gaza Strip where the Palestinians now abide, performed such an act of religious fever on King Saul of Israel.
I Chronicles 10:8-10 – And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. [9] And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people. [10] And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
But when the Philistines decided to show their power over the God of Israel, a quite different scenario was noted when they placed his Ark of the Covenant in the temple of their God.
I Samuel 5:1-7 – And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. [2] When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. [3] And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. [4] And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
[5] Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
[6] But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. [7] And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
When the antichrist sets on the temple mound as the “abomination that maketh desolate”, claiming to be God, then his fate, as well as that of his false prophet, will be far worse then that experienced by the ones who formerly occupied the Gaza Strip.
Revelation 19:17-21 – That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
In Saudi Arabia, the country of Islam’s birth, beheadings are fairly common and are performed in a public square. The one being beheaded is made to kneel on a large square of blue plastic sheeting, and to face Mecca, the most Holy Site in Islam. A doctor is on hand to stem the flow of blood from the cranium and to suture the head back on for burial. The one beheaded is kneeling toward Mecca, displayed and helpless before Allah’s holiest site, and before his followers.
So don’t try and tell me this isn’t a religious rite of Islam, and don’t tell me it won’t be carried out on their enemies during the coming holy jihad against Israel.
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