More Promises And Prophecies

America seems to believe that Christ was NOT the 'Messiah'...
that God gave Palestine to the Zionists...
and that it is America's duty to stand by while Israel does whatever it pleases and to defend it against the world with its UN security council veto! Why?
Because Israel is America’s best friend?
How???

Surely the half of America that believes that The Market is the prophet of profit must have realised that defending Israel has almost bankrupted America. What has Israel given America in return?

Consider not just the cost of the Iraq war (see Promises And Prophecies and note* below) but also the huge anti-terrorism bill... have we forgotten the inspiration of most of the world's terrorists?
Let us not forget that Israel has also resorted to terrorism when it has suited them.

The other half of America probably already knows that most of what I've said is true but is too terrified of being labelled anti-Semitic to dare to mention it.

You should consider how on Earth it can be a crime to simply point out the probable truth if it involves Israelis but yet be perfectly alright to suggest truly terrible things about Muslims.

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Note* Recently Colin Powell has demanded answers as to why the CIA and its military arm, the DIA, never told him about Curveball’s (Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi) dubious reliability.
Curveball’s claim that Iraq was building a substantial biological weapons capacity was viewed as dubious from the beginning by the German secret service who said so when they reluctantly passed the information on to the US... Iraqi Defectors hated Saddam and frequently made wild claims about Iraqi weapons programmes.
The foremost British biological weapons expert, David Kelly, warned that there was very little evidence that could corroborate Curveball’s claims.

This led to the claim by a UK BBC journalist that Tony Blair had ‘sexed up’ the evidence that Iraq had WMD which led to regime change at the BBC and the death of Mr Kelly.

I'm certain that Bush went to war with Iraq for the sake of Israel - the only target that Saddam could hope to reach with his missiles.
In a way Bush and Blair were telling the truth - there did seem to be a danger - but they knew they had to pretend the danger was to the West and not only to Israel and so they lied and said that Saddam had WMD that threatened the West.

Hans Blix eventually decommissioned the missiles and he was very annoyed that Bush and Blair decided to have a war anyway despite no longer having the excuse of pre-emption.

Note that ‘curveball’ has a nice house, a big Mercedes car and other ‘benefits’ from telling his lies and he has not been punished or even reprimanded for his part in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

“Janabi, an Iraqi defector, was used as the primary source by the Bush administration to justify invading Iraq in March 2003.
Doubts about his credibility circulated before the war and have been confirmed by his admission this week that he lied.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/colin-powell-cia-curveball

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I’d always realised that identifying the King of The North and the King of the South would be the key to Revelations.
I'd already done some research, as I mentioned in an earlier post, pointing out the bias of the supposedly neutral Middle East envoy Tony Blair.

I also have to point out that there appears to have been a large amount of updating of the texts of the two links I provided - but luckily I still have copies of the original texts as I’m sure others do.
I find that those who try to hide the truth merely emphasis what it is they are attempting to conceal!

'Interestingly, if any of this is related to Revelations, as I think it could be, it may be that there is some confusion regarding Daniel regarding the King of the North and the King of the South.
Being a fan of Google I simply typed in “Kingdom of North Kingdom South”
Top link was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah

Checking further I discovered that the two kingdoms were a result of Solomon’s son who got into a dispute over taxes which resulted in the split…
“Jeroboam and the people angrily rebelled; the ten northern tribes broke away and formed a separate kingdom, Israel, which was also known as Samaria, or Ephraim. The realm Rehoboam was left with was called Judah, after the Tribe of Judah that formed the largest part of the population.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehoboam
I notice in Revelations that the “Lion” is the Lion of Judah.'
http://www.abctales.com/story/mangone/which-witch-project

So what is the significance of the Lion Of Judah?

In Genesis chapter 49 - Jacob is on his deathbed -
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, ‘Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days…’
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh (the Messiah, "the peaceful one") come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Jesus as the 'Root of David' was heir to the throne.(1Kings 2:45).
King James Bible: And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.

Okay, it seems pretty clear to me that the descendents of Judah were to rule (The sceptre shall not depart from Judah) and that they were to be the inspiration of justice (nor a lawgiver from between his feet).

So why then do the 10 tribes rebel against Solomon’s blessing (his son Rehoboam) and form the Kingdom of Israel? Why did many choose to worship Baal?

It is the same old story - the love of money. They wanted to pay less taxes.
It was a similar story when Moses returned with the 10 Commandments, given him by God, to find that many had chosen to worship a different god, a god of gold.
A golden calf that would not require them to be moral and God-fearing.

I argue that such is the constant battle for the Jews and for their descendants whether they call themselves Jews, Christians or Muslims.
The battle against greed (the love of money), immorality and false gods.

Once you realise that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, "the peaceful one” then you are forced to face the fact that He became the ‘sceptre and the lawgiver’ and that Christianity was the religion which the Jews were now to gather around (unto him shall the gathering of the people be).

Yet, surely the same thing that has plagued the Jews throughout history has befallen them yet again. Not only did the Romans hijack Christianity and pervert its message but over the 2,000 years, or so, since Christ preached the New Testament Christianity has become more corrupt than the old, Roman influenced, Jewish faith He had come to supersede.

Instead of money changers creeping into the temples - the new temples BELONG to the money changers. Wall street is built on greed.

The Stock market is the true American Temple and profit is its god!
Hypocritical multi nationals pretend morality while trampling on it and almost half the American people seem to believe that the Market is a mystical phenomenon which left to itself rewards all those who deserve rewarding... set to make them rich sometime in the not too distant future. Schmucks!

Meanwhile, America, the world’s only Super power, God’s own country, fights pre-emptive wars while paying lip service to a God of peace!
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition... who can we bomb this week in the name of anti-terrorism, or world peace, or religious intolerance?

Good job they have a Peace Prize winning President or people might feel that ‘bomb the bastards’ Bush was still running the show.

The Arab Spring will no doubt increase the pressure on America’s ‘best friend’ and make it even more strident in its demands that something be done about Iran, or at least that America allows it to do something drastic itself.

Revelations predicts a final war between good and evil...
I think that it is up to all of us to consider which side we are on because it is very easy to realise too late that ’the Devil’ is in the detail and you have only ever read the headlines!

If Christ is the Lion Of Judah, and set to fulfil the prophecies, of the Old and the New Testaments, then who are the money changers, who are the enemies of Peace, who are the ones that will weep the most when the first become the last and Babylon The Great finally falls?

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In a comment posted by old pesky on Promises And Prophecies he asks :
‘Tell me, has the US policy on Israel anything to do with the Christian belief that The Lord will not return until The Jews inhabit Jerusalem...
or something like that?’

A good question. Here is the relevant info taken from Wikipedia :

‘Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups invoke religious arguments for their uncompromising positions…
Contemporary history of the Arab–Israeli conflict is very much affected by Christian and Muslim religious beliefs and their interpretations of the idea of the chosen people in their policies with regard to the "Promised Land" and the "Chosen City" of Jerusalem.

The Land of Canaan or Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) was, according to the Torah (and the Koran, The Table 5:23), promised by God to the Children of Israel. According to biblical studies, the Israelites ruled that land from the 13th or 14th century BCE to the 1st century BCE (with short periods of foreign rule), remaining an ethnic majority of the population in the area until the 7th century CE.

In his 1896 manifesto, The Jewish State, Theodor Herzl repeatedly refers to the Biblical Promised land concept. The Likud is currently the most prominent Israeli political party to include the Biblical claim to the Land of Israel in its platform.

Muslims also claim rights to that land in accordance with the Quran.
Contrary to the Jewish claim that this land was promised only to the descendants of Abraham's younger son Isaac, they argue that the Land of Canaan was promised to all descendants of Abraham, including his elder son Ishmael, from whom Arabs claim descent. Additionally, Muslims also revere many sites holy for Biblical Israelites, such as The Cave of the Patriarchs and the Temple Mount, and in the past 1,400 years have constructed Islamic landmarks on these ancient Israelite sites, such as the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Muslims also believe that Muhammad passed through Jerusalem on his first journey to heaven. Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, claims that all of the land of Palestine (the current Israel and Palestinian territories) is an Islamic waqf that must be governed by Muslims.

Christian Zionists support Israel because they recognize an ancestral right of Jews to this land, as suggested, for instance, by Paul in Romans 11. Some also believe that the return of Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Christ.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict