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originally posted by: DerekJR321
While I don't particularly believe in the religious ramifications, I do believe that the ultimate goal is the full takeover and the expulsion of Palestinians.
I believe Netanyahu and his cohorts knew this was coming and let it happen. You're telling me that Hamas put this years long plan into effect and no one in Israel knew? Mossad? IDF? CIA? No one? Egypt warned them and publicly Israel claims it was a lie. How did they get rockets, manpads, heavy machine guns, drones with grenades, mortar rounds? I recall a few years ago the IDF storming the "Gaza Flotillas" bringing in medicine. This really isn't believable that it was a surprise.
I've noticed in the last few days, the ads being displayed on almost everything I watch are regarding the "horrors in Israel". I absolutely don't support terrorism. However, I question the validity of what's being claimed. Israel are masters of deception, remember? It's Mossad's motto. Every news outlet is wholeheartedly "standing with Israel". Every "celebrity" will too if they know what's good for them. And here comes Sniffy Joe pledging billions of dollars for Israel, even though our current support basically pays every Israeli about 50k a year. And now we're sending not one but TWO carrier groups there? And I'm hearing US troops are already on the ground? Come on... This won't end with Palestine.
My next words are going to come across as harsh. But I'm going to say it anyway. I lack a certain amount of sympathy for Israel. I've read and seen many accounts thru the years about IDF sniping children and pregnant women. Anyone remember the t-shirt saying "1 Shot 2 Kills"? I've seen "Hamas" firing rockets that always land in empty space, which is met with the IDF leveling city blocks. I've seen IDF suddenly erect checkpoints within Gaza or the West Bank and arrest Palestinians for nothing. I've watched videos of IDF soldiers saying Palestinians were nothing but animals and should all be killed. During the last major bombing of Gaza I watched Israelis set up lawn chairs to watch, saying the most vile things. Not about Hamas, but about civilians. I've seen Israeli "settlers" steal homes, beat civilians, and even outright kill them. And just for the hell of it I'm going mention Israelis spitting on Christian visitors, the USS Liberty and many other things.
So let's not pretend Israel is innocent, and it's only Hamas who are the monsters here.
originally posted by: cooperton
Jewish traditions holds that the Messiah will come only if there is a Temple for God in Jerusalem. There has not been a Temple in Jerusalem since 70AD when it was torn down by the Romans. The building of the third temple would initiate a period of time where the Messiah is elligible to arise. A key precedent to the prophecy includes the birth of a suitable red heifer without blemish that will serve as a purity ritual to cleanse the nation of Israel.
Red Heifer arrives in Israel for the preparation of the Third Temple
Christians believe this red heifer was Christ, who purified people by His sacrifice. A large portion of the Jewish nation rejected this as the Messiah, and continued waiting.
Now with the current Israel-Palestine conflict heating up there is a very good chance that this could be the precedent to allow Israel to build the third temple on Mount Moriah, the location of the previous two temples. The only thing getting in the way is that Palestine has the Dome of the Rock among other spiritually significant buildings on Mount Moriah.
I am speculating that this conflict will lead to the justification of a full takeover of Jerusalem by the nation of Israel. They will tear down all the temples of Islam and begin to build the third temple to begin the initiation process of who they suppose is the messiah.
This will be the abomination that causes desolation (Matthew 24:15), because it will be the anti-Christ rather than the Messiah that will be adorned in the temple at Mount Moriah.
People have spoken of the end times for quite some time now, but there has not been a Temple in Jerusalem since Jesus's time. The presence of the Temple is key to fulfill prophecy. The time seems ripe for this to come to fruition. Maintain your focus on this being the beginning of a New World, where death is destroyed and God's Kingdom is initiated. Stay faithful through the birthing pains.
Cause it is not "earthly" as you stated.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:6-8
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
It's an earthly inheritance, is it not?
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:6-8
It's hard to get more earthly than land. I mean, we're talking some FINE beach front real estate on the Mediterranean Sea!
Too bad Abraham didn't leave a will!
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: cooperton
Tell it to Israel. They're the ones claiming their earthly inheritance as justification to exist as a Nation, and to leverage war against their brother's children.
It's an earthly inheritance, is it not?
Too bad Abraham didn't leave a will!
Abraham did , in the tradition of a Hebrew father.
It's only Isaac's offspring that God left forsaken with no homeland, no Promise Land. It's only Israel asking strangers to arbitrate Abraham's will, saying; "Won't you force my brother to acknowledge my father's will and give me some earthly promised land!?"
During the latest period of Mohammed's activity in Medina he became still bolder, and, in developing his theory in regard to Abraham, left entirely the beaten track of Jewish and Christian Midrash. It had become necessary for him to break entirely with the Jews, who refused to acknowledge him as prophet. The ḳiblah, or direction of prayer, was still toward Jerusalem. As the Jews had refused to follow Mohammed it was necessary to dissociatehis religion from theirs, and to turn the faces and thoughts of his followers from Jerusalem to Mecca. In order that the change might be effected with as little friction as possible, Mohammed connected Mecca and its holy house, the Kaaba, with the history of Abraham, the real founder of his Islam. It is here that Ishmael comes for the first time prominently forward.
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There is no local tradition connecting Abraham with Mecca; and we are forced to put this down as a pure invention on the part of the prophet, based on political as well as on theological reasons. According to Shahrastani (Arabic text, p. 430), this Kaaba was the reproduction of the one in heaven. The "Makam Ibrahim," or Station of Abraham, is still pointed out within the sacred enclosure at Mecca; and the footsteps of the patriarch are believed by the worshipers still to be there (Snouck Hurgronje, "Het Mekkaansche Feest," p. 40; Mekka, i. 11).
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The biography of Abraham in Genesis is probably to be regarded as legendary; it has grown up around sacred places, ideas, and institutions. Yet there can be little doubt that the name involves some historical fact, and that this fact has to do with tribal migration: the name, though personal, not tribal, may represent a migration. By reason of the paucity of information the whole question is obscure, and any conclusions must be largely conjectural.
jewishencyclopedia abraham
I'll try to fix this.
both Christians and Jews acknowledge that Ishmael was Abraham's first born,
But remember, Moses never saw the Promised Land. He died on that "hill".