Beyond Babylon

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"Torah Codes"

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God's Perfect Timing

2011-03-10T14:15:00.002-05:00

Commentary: God's Perfect Timing

By Dan Dever (guest columnist) | Thursday, March 10, 2011

As I listened to the phone ring, I was afraid to answer it. I was afraid to hear the words that I knew would change our life. I answered it and on the other end was my wife. She said, "We have to go right now to the children's hospital because the pediatrician has diagnosed our daughter with diabetes. She will have to take shots for the rest of her life and we will have to take a crash course on how to take care of child diabetes." Read more

"Secret rapture? 144,000?"

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Commentary: "Secret rapture? 144,000?"

By Wyatt Ciesielka | Saturday, February 26, 2011

As we approach the end of this age and Christ's literal return, many Christians wonder what will happen to them. Many believe in a secret rapture. Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be part of the 144,000. Others wonder about the Great Multitude. What does the Bible really teach about God's saints at the end of this age? Read more

Accounts of the Tabernacles

2011-03-05T14:57:00.000-05:00

"These are the accounts of the Tabernacle"
(Exodus 38:21)
I Adar 28, 5771/March 4, 2011

The Torah reading of Pekudei, literally "accounts" starts off mundanely enough. The first forty two verses are no more than a long list of all the details of the Tabernacle, its vessels, and the priestly raiments. We've read all this before, earlier in Exodus, so we can surely be excused for wondering where all this is leading to. But then, all of a sudden, from this earthly inventory bursts forth a beauty of cosmic proportion: "Now they brought the Tabernacle (Mishkan) to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings... Moses saw the entire work, and lo! they had done it - as HaShem had commanded, so had they done. So Moses blessed them." (ibid 39:33,43) These two verses are nothing less than references and recollections and reflections and refractions of the original account of creation that we read all the way back in the book of Genesis.

"Now they brought the Mishkan to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings... " (ibid 39:33) recalls how "G-d formed from the earth every beast of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and He brought them to man to see what he would call it, and whatever the man called each living thing, that was its name." (Genesis 2:19) That is, G-d brought to man all He had created in order that man would invest G-d's creation with meaning and purpose, and that man would understand from this accounting just what his own purpose was to be in the great G-dly scheme of things. Here too, the people of Israel bring before Moses all these sundry man-made creations of wood and animal skins, of stones and fabrics and precious metals, for Moses to behold and to determine its meaning and purpose. And Moses, rising to the occasion, sees the fullness of Israel's efforts, and "Moses saw the entire work, and lo! they had done it - as HaShem had commanded, so had they done. So Moses blessed them." (ibid 39:43)

Just as Adam, the first man understood from the parade of beasts that G-d brought before him that only he was missing a mate and that it was not good to be alone, so too, the Tabernacle, in all its various components has been brought before Moses. And the conclusion is not simply that man and G-d need not be alone, but that the Tabernacle is here to serve as the means by which G-d's presence and man's service to G-d can be united and made manifest here on this earth.

And from here we can understand that just as G-d created a Garden of Eden and placed man within it in order to "work it and to guard it" (Genesis 2:15) so too G-d has commanded Israel to construct the Tabernacle, and appoint the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, and place him within the Holy Tabernacle, so that Israel can work, (the Hebrew avodah meaning both "to work" in the profane sense, and to perform the Divine service in the Tabernacle), serving G-d from this place of purity and life.

And in both instances, that of Adam in the Garden of Eden, (who stumbled), and Israel in the Tabernacle, (subsequently, the Holy Temple), G-d, after completing the work of creation, directs, through His word, what amounts to post-creation fine-spiritual tuning, literally, taking the great cosmic symphony of creation, and perfecting it, achieving through the Divine service in the Holy Temple, an overwhelmingly beautiful harmony of purpose and aspiration for all mankind.

We also learn from Genesis, that " ... no tree of the field was yet on the earth, neither did any herb of the field yet grow, because HaShem G-d had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the soil." (ibid 2:5) Yes, before the advent of the Tabernacle and the Divine service, the world had yet to fully blossom, man had yet to fully reach his potential. Little wonder, then, that G-d commanded Moses, saying, "On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, you shall set up the Mishkan of the Tent of Meeting." (Exodus 40:1) This, of course, is the month of Nisan, the month of the exodus from Egypt, the month which heralds the onset of spring: "The blossoms have appeared in the land, the time of singing has arrived, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land." (Song of Songs 2:12) Creation will hit it's stride, the world will truly come alive when Israel again establishes G-d's Sanctuary. The time of singing, the transcendent song of the Levites will once again arrive, and the voice of Torah will come forth from Zion, and once again be heard throughout the land. It begins with an accounting, a taking stock and appreciation of every detail of G-d's creation and comes to a crescendo with the work of the Tabernacle, the establishment of G-d's Holy Temple!

Tune in to this week's Temple Talk as Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven discuss the Tabernacle & the Half-Shekel, and wax lyrical concerning the completion of the Mishkan in the desert, connecting the dots and examining the Torah portion of Pekudei, only to find to that it contains nothing new... but at the same time, it's brand new! It's that 'ol feeling of deja vu - we've read all this before. And we've built a house for the Creator before! It's not rocket science! We did it once, we did it twice - we can do it again. Really, why wait any longer for the world to begin?

Music of the Holy Temple: An All-New Light to the Nations video series: The Sweetest Music on Earth: The music of the Holy Temple was indeed the sweetest music on earth, and that is because it was the Levitical expression of the music of heaven. The music of the Levitical Choir and Orchestra was an integral part of the Divine service of the Holy Temple. Every day of the year, Shabbat and festival holidays included, the music of the Levites was heard in the Temple courtyards and throughout Jerusalem. What kind of music was played? What part did the music play in the Divine service? What instruments were used and how was the Levitical orchestra formulated? What will the music of the rebuilt Holy Temple sound like? In this five part Light to the Nations video series, Rabbi Chaim Richman and musicologist Rabbi David Louis explore the music of the Holy Temple, a fascinating and sublimely beautiful aspect of the Divine service.

To view Light to the Nations Music of the Holy Temple, Part I: The Sweetest Music on Earth, please click here.

This week features the Bat Melech video teaching with Rabbanit Rena Richman, entitled, "The Secret of Challah, Part II: Please join Rena in her special teaching for women. This lesson was originally recorded in Houston, Texas, and is being presented on UTN in four parts.

We are all created and imbued with G-d given potential to achieve many great and good things in our lives. By following the commandments given us by Torah we can learn how to discover, develop and bring to fruition the unique potential that is within us. Learn the secret of your own hidden potential and how to fulfill it by serving G-d, in this exploration of the simple commandment to take challah when preparing bread." Click here to view.

This upcoming Saturday night, motzei Shabbat, (March 5), - is Rosh Chodesh Adar II - the first day of the new month of Adar II, the twelth and final month of the yearly cycle that begins with Nisan, ("the first of your months" Exodus 12:2), the month of the exodus from Egypt. When the Holy Temple is standing and the Divine service is being performed daily, the month of Adar is full of preparations for the upcoming Passover pilgrimage festival which begins on the 15th of Nisan. In addition, the month of Adar is the month that the half-shekel is collected. To learn more, please click here.

Interview: Chaim Odem, Master Craftsman for the Temple Institute: Master craftsman Chaim Odem is the designer and creator of the the golden Menorah that currently stands in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, overlooking the Temple Mount. Chaim has also designed and produced other Temple vessels on behalf of the Temple Institute, including a model of the Ark of the Covenant. Chaim is currently working on recreating the Golden Lamp of Queen Helena, to be hung from the great entrance to the Holy Temple sanctuary. Chaim Odem personifies the two criteria spelled out by Torah concerning the craftsmen and women of the Tabernacle in the desert: "wise of heart" (Exodus 35:10) and "generous of spirit." (Exodus 35:21)

In this interview Chaim tries to answer the question how he merited building the golden Menorah for the Holy Temple. His story begins as a young man in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, where news of Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War awoke within him for the first time an awareness of his Jewish identity, something that had been denied him growing up in the communist totalitarian state. Chaim's story is one of faith, perseverance and eventual aliya (emigration) to Israel. Click here to view.

Learn more about the construction of the Tabernacle in the desert. Please click here.

The Golden Lamp of Queen Helena: The Video: Watch this beautiful presentation of a dream in the making - a work in progress. To view this 2.5 minute video, please click here.

With the completion of the Tabernacle the work of the creation of the world finally draws to a close. Moses blesses the work Israel has done, and now, the final piece in place, the world can begin! Click here to view Rabbi Richman's short teaching on parashat Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38).

Blessings from the holy city of Jerusalem,

Yitzchak Reuven

The Temple Institute

Religion and society

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Commentary: Religion and society

By John Wheeler | Thursday, February 24, 2011

Whether it be concerning the ongoing "cultural wars" in the United States, other Western nations, as well as the State of Israel, the rising tide of Islamism in vast swaths of the world, the affairs of the ascendant People's Republic of China, or the construction of the European Union, one question keeps being asked in various ways: What role, if any, should religion play in the affairs of society? Read more

Wars and rumors of wars

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Commentary: Wars and rumors of wars By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) \| Tuesday, February 22, 2011 War. It's an ugly word. It denotes death and destruction, pain and suffering, ruination and devastation. Every year it affects tens of millions of human beings. Will it ever end? Read more

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Return to Zion?

2011-02-26T13:36:00.000-05:00

Shalom Ilan, haveri! Thank you for thinking of me. We've had an ice and snow snow that came in last night and expect another tonight. My car door won't open. Frozen shut.
I would love to visit my beloved Land but probably can't for many reasons: I'm a poor white boy (I'm a poor fellow getting ready to sell my home and move with Mom and her boyfriend Doug to a nice home with my own bedroom in the country). And my AIDS doctors said I'll probably be dead and are in shock I'm not already and haven't gotten sick with infectious diseases. Blessed be God! What will be will be. I won't give up without a struggle.

Love ya Ilan,

David

Back to the Kibbutz

2011-02-21T15:52:00.000-05:00

Reunion trip - Back to the Kibbutz

June 12-19, 2011

Dear Friends,

As part of the 100 year anniversary of the Israel kibbutz, the kibbutz movement has organized a special reunion trip to Israel for former volunteers. The trip will include many unique attractions, including staying at kibbutzim, traveling around the country and meeting old friends.

If you are one of the 350,000 former volunteers who stayed and worked at a Kibbutz in the past, you are invited to re-live that experience and to meet people from all over the world who share those special memories.

Former volunteers and their families are welcome to join this unique reunion trip.
For details, please see attached brochure or send an email to: volunteers@amsalem.com

If you are just interested in attending the reunion, please see the attached link: www.kibbutzvolunteers.org.il

You are welcome to join the Kibbutz Volunteers facebook page: www.facebook.com/kibbutzvol for more updates.

Erase Me From Your Book

2011-02-20T10:07:00.002-05:00

"And now, if You forgive their sin, but if not, erase me now from Your book, which You have written."
(Exodus 32:32)
I Adar 14, 5771/February 18, 2011
Purim Katan

This week's Torah reading of Ki Tisa is sharply divided into two distinct parts. Part one continues the instruction for and description of the building of the Tabernacle and its vessels, and the service of the kohanim, the Temple priests, from the washing of their hands and feet at the brass laver, to the preparation of the incense offering and the anointing of the priests and the vessels alike. This idyllic narrative concludes with five verses concerning the sanctity and observance of the holy Shabbat. These words are spoken directly by G-d to Moshe.

Not by chance this passage mimics the opening verses of the book of Genesis which describe the six days of creation and conclude with the Sabbath, the day of rest. The mention of Shabbat here in the book of Exodus comes to express two exceedingly important ideas concerning the nature of the Tabernacle and the historical moment at which man has arrived. Our sages teach us that the mention of Shabbat following the description of all the labors involved in the construction of the Tabernacle, was to inform Israel that the work on the Tabernacle was to cease on the Sabbath, despite its own intrinsic holiness. In other words, the sanctity of the Shabbat takes preference over the sanctity of the building of the Tabernacle. But as a parallel to the verses of Genesis, the mention of Shabbat carries its own implication that the construction of the Tabernacle was an essential part of creation itself; That the world without the Tabernacle, (and subsequently, the Holy Temple), is simply incomplete. The Genesis account of the creation of the world concludes without mention of the Tabernacle. But here, in a reprise of the description of creation, creation draws to a conclusion only after the completion of the Tabernacle.

Next, in what appears on the surface to be a wholly disjointed subject, Torah describes the conclusion of Moshe's stay on Mount Sinai, his descent from the Mount, and the scene of reckless abandonment that awaited him. Having grown weary of waiting for Moshe's return, Israel, bated by the mixed multitude, has pressed Aharon into creating the infamous golden calf. Perhaps it began as an almost innocent, if misguided attempt to create a tangible sign of G-d's presence in the world, in light of Moshe's absence, to guide them through the desert. But no sooner had the golden calf emerged from the fire than the nation descended into a mad display of licentiousness, the golden calf at its center.

This painful scene is not, however, as we supposed, incongruous or detached from the contented description of the Tabernacle and the Shabbat that preceded it. On the contrary, the debacle of the golden calf is an all too familiar denouement to the completion and seeming perfection of creation. It was after the completion of creation and G-d's placement of man in the Garden of Eden, that man ate from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, the results of which are known to all. Man, by demurring from keeping G-d's sole commandment not to eat the fruit, in effect rejected G-d. So too, Israel, by attaching itself to the golden calf, likewise rejected G-d. So it would seem that man, once again, has failed G-d. Or did he?

After they ate from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve hid themselves from G-d. When G-d asks of Adam point blank, "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" (ibid 3:11) Adam, rather than assuming the responsibility for his own transgression, points the finger at Eve. "The woman whom You gave to be with me she gave me of the tree; so I ate." (ibid 3:12) Now G-d purposely imbued man with free will, both a gift and a responsibility. A gift because it enables us to cling to G-d and to heed G-d's word of our own volition. A responsibility, because when we fail to heed G-d's word, and exile Him, as it were, from our presence, we must hold ourselves, and only ourselves, responsible. It would be foolhardy to conclude, then, that G-d, having granted man free-will, expects man's actions to be flawless. But the possession of free-will does demand that we be accountable.

When G-d's wrath was kindled against Israel concerning the golden calf, He turned to Moshe and threatened to destroy Israel and make of Moshe "a great nation." (Exodus 32:10) Moshe rejected this offer out of hand, and countered G-d's anger, reminding G-d of His covenant with Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov, of His responsibility toward Israel. Moshe then went on to forcefully castigate Israel and to stamp out the evil that had spread. He was angry and disappointed with his people, but when he turned back to G-d to ask His forgiveness for Israel, his words put an end to any doubt as to where he stood on the issue: "And now, if You forgive their sin, but if not, erase me now from Your book, which You have written." (ibid 32: 32) Unlike Adam, who meekly pointed to his helpmate Eve, Moshe stood by his people and with his people. Their sin was his sin. By doing so, he became vested with the responsibility and the ability to make amends, to right the wrong.

We learn from Adam's response to G-d that it is a most basic human instinct to point the finger at others, and to hold others responsible for our own failings. It could be argued that this is what is at the root of all the world's ills today. An entire Islamicist doctrine of hatred does just this, blaming all its own failings on others, thereby threatening humanity itself. The world doesn't have to be this way. Moshe teaches us that putting oneself in harm's way and accepting upon one's shoulders the entire weight of responsibility, not just for his own actions, but for those of his people, as well, marks the beginning of change. This is the man that G-d intended. Not a perfect man, but a responsible and repentant man. The Tabernacle, the Holy Temple, the meeting place for man and G-d cannot be completed as long as man is pointing his finger, accusing the other. Only by facing G-d in a show of undivided fellowship can we complete the sacred work of creation - the building of the Holy Temple.

Tune in to this week's Temple Talk as Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven hang on tight as parashat Ki Tisa leads us through the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs of Bnei Yisrael as the sublime work on the Holy Tabernacle is interrupted by the unbridled licentiousness of the golden calf. Moshe rabbenu - Moses our master - masterfully navigates a path fraught with cosmic cataclysmic pitfalls, as he castigates Israel and seeks their forgiveness from G-d. Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven describe Moshe's unique leadership qualities, and also the well-intentioned but colossal folly of Israel as they pursued the ill-fated "shortcut" of the golden calf. Also, righteous women and their tight connection to the Copper Laver and the Golden Lamp: Making a Choice To Bring Light Into This World!

The Golden Lamp of Queen Helena: 1980 years ago a woman presented a precious gift to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. She brought the gift from afar. And with the gift she brought her husband and her children. The gift found its place in the Holy Temple and the woman and her family made the city of Jerusalem their new home. The woman's name was Helena and she was the queen of Adiabene, a small nation found in what is present day Iraq. Immersed in the prevailing Roman pagan culture, Queen Helena was searching for a way of life that was true and moral. She searched and she discovered the One G-d of Israel. Queen Helena and her family left their pagan ways and adopted the faith of Israel as their faith and the Torah of Israel as their truth.

We invite all who wish to play a part in the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem to join us in recreating the golden lamp, Queen Helena's gift to the Holy Temple. Please click here.

The Golden Lamp of Queen Helena: The Video: Watch this beautiful presentation of a dream in the making - a work in progress. To view this 2.5 minute video, please click here.

This week features the Bat Melech video teaching with Rabbanit Rena Richman, entitled, "The Secret of Challah, Part I: Please join Rena in her special teaching for women. This lesson was originally recorded in Houston, Texas, and is being presented on UTN in four parts.

This week also features the Light to the Nations teaching by Rabbi Chaim Richman, entitled, "Building the Holy Temple, Part IX: The Blessing of the Temple: Torah was given to man, not angels, and our sages tell us that one hour in this world is worth an eternity in the world to come. The Holy Temple is of this world, and it is our, and only our, responsibility to build it." (This teaching was initially posted in December 2009. Rabbi Richman will soon be recording new teachings.) Click here to view.

In an unprecedented confrontation with G-d, Moshe, by denying and defying G-d’s will, actually fulfills G-d’s will perfectly. Passing this test with flying colors, Moshe proves his mettle as a defender of his people and a true leader of Israel. Click here to view Rabbi Richman's short teaching on parashat Ki Tisa (Exodus 30:11-34:35).

Blessings from the holy city of Jerusalem,

Yitzchak Reuven

The Temple Institute

The Vatican versus the Fourth Commandment

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Commentary: The Vatican versus the Fourth Commandment

By Wyatt Ciesielka | Saturday, February 12, 2011

On January 25, Pope Benedict XVI again proclaimed his desire "to ignite a fervent missionary movement in the Catholic Church," stating he wants to advance "the entire Catholic Church into a new missionary age" in 2011 (catholic.org, January 28, 2011). While this movement will ultimately contribute to fulfilling prophecies such as Isaiah 47:8-9 and Revelation 17:2-5, an aspect of this rejuvenated "fervent missionary movement" already affects billions. This is the growing emphasis on Sunday observance. Read more

Ziggy Bear

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http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2009/11/ziggy-bear-posing-at-maumee-bay.html

http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2009/12/gladys-kravitz-ziggy-bear.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjFkURQ1g8

Egyptian freedom fighters

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Subject:		TO DAVID FROM LOWELL RE. EGYPTIAN PRO-ISRAEL ACTIVIST NABIL MAIKEL SANAD (OF COPTIC CHRISTIAN ORIGIN) HAS BEEN TORTURED BY EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE (CC: Maikel)
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Dear David,

Our friend, Egyptian pro-Israel activist Nabil Maikel Sanad (of Coptic
Christian origin), reports today (February 5th, 2011, 7:48 p.m. Egypt
time), that he has been tortured by Egyptian Intelligence, but has been
released:

http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/egyptian-intelligence-just-released-me.html

Please help publicize our friend's situation in his hour of need.


Thanks in advance,


Lowell (Aryeh Yosef)

http://lowellgallin.com
lowellgallin@lowellgallin.com

Links:

Email Address: maikel_nabil@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.maikelnabil.com/

"Nabil Maikel Sanad Message to Israel Calling for Solidarity with the
Egyptian Revolution"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdZjRHjlsck

"Egyptian refusenik: I'm pro-Israel - Maikel Nabil Sanad claims he's first
conscientious objector in Egypt, blames Palestinians for conflict, says
doesn't want to shoot Israeli defending his state"
by Roee Nahmias
YNETNEWS.COM
October 25, 2010
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3974091,00.html

Message to Egyptian Freedom Fighters from an American-Israeli Jew

(Abridged Text/English - posted by Nabil Maikel, Egypt)
http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/message-of-solidarity-from-israeli.html

(Abridged Text/Arabic translation - posted by Nabil Maikel, Egypt)
http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/blog-post_234.html

(Verbatim Text/English - posted by Fazal-ur Rehman Afridi, Paris, France)
Fazal-ur Rehman Afridi, Khyber Institute for Strategic Studies
http://balkanisationofpakistan.rsfblog.org/archive/2011/02/02/message-to-egyptian-brothers-and-sisters-from-an-american-is.html




---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: TO FRIENDS FROM LOWELL RE. MESSAGE FROM EGYPTIAN PRO-ISRAEL
ACTIVIST, AND MY MESSAGE TO EGYPTIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS (CC: Maikel) From:
 lowellgallin@lowellgallin.com
Date:    Fri, February 4, 2011 12:57 pm

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Dear Friends,

Egyptian pro-Israel activist, Nabil Maikel Sanad
http://www.maikelnabil.com/ maikel_nabil@yahoo.com , asks for our help in
publicizing his Message to Israel Calling for Solidarity with the Egyptian
Revolution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdZjRHjlsck


Please find below reports about Nabil Maikel Sanad from Ynet in Israel,
and several other sources:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3974091,00.html
http://www.wri-irg.org/node/11669
http://anti.blogsport.de/2010/11/23/eine-ehrenrettung-des-pazifismus/


You can also find Nabil Maikel Sanad on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and
other sites:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maikel-Nabil-Sanad/47900406878
http://twitter.com/maikelnabil
http://www.myspace.com/maikelnabil/friends
http://www.youtube.com/user/maikelnabil
http://www.myspace.com/maikelnabil
http://ra-shere.hi5.com/friend/p136039901--Maikel+Nabil_Sanad--html;jsessionid=D2D7E06902198BEF8F8F5A0B6DF311CC
http://maikelnabil.jaiku.com/
http://www.ahewar.org/m.asp?i=2028
http://www.mideastyouth.com/ar/?author=199
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Egyptian-Liberals/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88554461720&ref=share


Nabil posted an abridged text of my Message to Egyptian Freedom Fighters
from an American-Israeli Jew on his website, in English and Arabic:

Message to Egyptian Freedom Fighters (Abridged Text/English)

http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/message-of-solidarity-from-israeli.html

Message to Egyptian Freedom Fighters (Abridged Text/Arabic translation)

http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/blog-post_234.html

The verbatim text of my Message to Egyptian Freedom Fighters is published
by Fazal-ur Rehman Afridi, a Muslim Pathan journalist living in Paris, at
Fazal's Khyber Institute for Strategic Studies website:

http://balkanisationofpakistan.rsfblog.org/archive/2011/02/02/message-to-egyptian-brothers-and-sisters-from-an-american-is.html

Thank you very much in advance for helping to secure the widest possible
distribution for our friend Nabil Maikel Sanad's Message to Israel Calling
for Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution.

Greetings to you from Nabil in Egypt.

I am listening to this song now, about a Scottish freedom fighter, hope
you like it too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQ1pNfbe3Q



Shabbat Shalom,


Lowell (Aryeh Yosef) Gallin

http://lowellgallin.com
lowellgallin@lowellgallin.com


MESSAGE TO EGYPTIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM AN AMERICAN-ISRAEL JEW

http://balkanisationofpakistan.rsfblog.org/archive/2011/02/02/message-to-egyptian-brothers-and-sisters-from-an-american-is.html
http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/message-of-solidarity-from-israeli.html
http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/02/blog-post_234.html


Dear Egyptian Brothers and Sisters,

I have been watching your fight for freedom on TV this past week. This is
a message of support for your struggle.

I hope you will accept it in the spirit with which it is offered.

We read in chapter seven of the Qur'an, Sura A'raf, "The Heights", verse
137 (Ali Qur'an, pages 379-380; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 177):

"And We [Allah/God] made a people considered weak (and of no account)
inheritors of lands in both East and West, - lands whereon We [Allah/God]
sent down Our blessings. The fair promise of thy Lord [Allah/God] was
fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and
constancy, and We [Allah/God] leveled to the ground the great Works and
fine Buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with such pride)".

Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Note 1096 - Ali Qur'an, page 380;
"Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 177):

"Israel, which was despised, became a great and glorious nation under
Solomon. He had goodly territory and was doubly blest. His land and people
were prosperous, and He was blessed with wisdom from God. His sway and his
fame spread east and west. And thus God's promise to Israel was fulfilled.
Note that Syria and Palestine had once been under the sway of Egypt".

It seems to me that this is exactly what is happening in Egypt today. God,
through you, His Servants, is leveling "TO THE GROUND THE GREAT WORKS AND
FINE BUILDINGS WHICH PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE ERECTED (WITH SUCH PRIDE)".

The Pharaoh, in this case, is Pharaoh Mubarak.

In my book, "Cracking the Qur'an Code: God's Land, Torah and People
Covenants with Israel in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition"
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3743146 , I include many
verses from the Qur'an about Moses and Pharaoh, and how God sent Moses to
lead the Children of Israel out of Pharaoh's bondage, and how many
Egyptians believed in God, and were persecuted and martyred by Pharaoh for
their faith in Him.

I hope that these verses, from your own Qur'an, will be a source of
comfort and inspiration to you in your fight for freedom, which I have
complete faith will be victorious.

Please know that MANY, MANY, MANY people in Israel are with you in your
fight for freedom - send your wounded to us, we have very good doctors and
hospitals. They will welcome you in and help you!

I am also sending you two songs, songs of freedom from Chanukah, our
festival of freedom, The Festival of Lights, which I hope will help
inspire you to continue on to victory, until the Pharaoh who oppresses you
now is swept away into the Red Sea, as was his predecessor of old. This
excerpt if
from Maoz Tsur (Rock of Ages), and it applies to you, today:

"Your's the message sharing,
that the time is nearing,
which will see,
all men free,
and tyrants disappearing".

Here are two versions of Maoz Tsur, one sung by a lady, for Egyptian
sisters (remember, that after God's triumph at the Red Sea over Pharaoh
and his hosts, the Daughters of Israel and Miriam, sang together,
separately, from the men). The other, sung by a man, is for Egyptian
brothers.

Here they are:

For Egyptian Brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uaKrs_Kls

For Egyptian Sisters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTiKOQ8cLfY

The following excerpt is from the Book of Isaiah. God says, through His
Servant the Prophet Isaiah, the following (Isaiah 19:23-25):

"In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the
Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be
the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the
earth, for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be
Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine
inheritance'".

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1019.htm

The People of Egypt lives.

The People of Assyria lives.

The People of Israel lives.

Together, with faith in God and a commitment to live according to His
Covenants, we will plant and build a truly New Middle East.

Together.

May the God of Israel watch over you in your days of trouble and trial,
until your coming victory.



Shalom from Yerushalayim,


Lowell (Aryeh Yosef) Joseph Gallin

lowellgallin@lowellgallin.com
http://lowellgallin.com

The Arab world in crisis

2011-02-05T12:10:00.000-05:00

Commentary: The Arab world in crisis: Setting the stage for the king of the South?

By Wyatt Ciesielka | Saturday, February 05, 2011

The Arab world is undergoing a swift and increasingly violent transformation. How do these tumultuous events align with Bible prophecy? What is ahead for the Middle East? Is the stage being set for the emergence of the end-time king of the South? Read more

Criticism of the Bible

2011-02-05T12:01:00.000-05:00

Commentary: Criticism of the Bible

By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, February 01, 2011

There are many critics of the Bible. Some pass severe judgment and condemn with condescension the authenticity, origin and accuracy of the Bible. Some allege contradictions or errors in the Bible to discredit the Word of God. Is the Word of God reliable? Read more

Honor your Mother

2011-02-04T21:45:00.000-05:00

I recently returned from Florida, a trip my mother opposed for many reasons. I told Mom it would me feel alive again, on the road again...Instead I'm depressed and have been forced to face my mortality, that I can't travel like I used, that I don't have the energy I once enjoyed. I have AIDS and told I have 1-5 months to live. I don't want to die...

Bible study

2011-01-22T12:14:00.002-05:00

BibleStudy.org handles 10,000th Bible question, has record year

FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan - In 2010 God blessed THE Bible Study Web Site at BibleStudy.org with its best year in its fifteen-year history, reports full-time Webmaster and owner Alan Ruth.

In 2010 the site attracted 5,185,156 actual visitors, an increase of 30% above the previous year. These visitors requested 11,540,657 pages of Bible-based study materials, an incredible 31% above the previous year and the largest raw jump in study materials viewed (+2.7 Million) ever.

Last year the site was also blessed with achieving a MAJOR milestone in reaching the whole world with the Gospel. BibleStudy.org's Personal Answers to Bible Questions service received its 10,000th Bible question from the public during the year. Alan further reported:

"The site's Question and Answer service started in September 2002 and is staffed by several hard-working, mature Christian volunteers known collectively as the Email Evangelists. Their dedication to serving God by answering sometimes difficult and heart-rending personal questions makes the service possible. The Personal Answers to Questions outreach ended 2010 with a total of 10,065 questions handled since the service began.

"BibleStudy.org's popularity, in terms of visitors, has increase an amazing 428% compared to year 2004 totals. The total number of Bible articles viewed since 2004 has also dramatically increased by 260%.

"The Bible teaches not to despise the day of small things (Zech. 4:10) and that with God involved anything is possible. God has used the less than $2,000 donated for the year to do some great things."

BibleStudy.org's goal for 2011 is to serve 7 Million visitors who request 15 Million of its Web pages.

PERSONAL ANSWERS TO BIBLE QUESTIONS SERVICE FAST FACTS

* In its first year the site handled 1,811 questions from the public!

* 95%+ of all questions are submitted by those with NO church of God background or exposure.

* The current group of Email Evangelists answering Bible questions from the public are:

Rick and Eileen Beltz, Charlotte Grantham, Arnold Mendez Sr., Al and Debra Murrey, Eric Snow, Mike Summers, Les Turvey, Tommy West, Margaret Vidal and Clay Willis

* Seven of the ten current Email Evangelists have been faithfully answering Bible questions since the service started in 2002!

* Answers from the Email Evangelists, posted on BibleStudy.org, are collectively the MOST POPULAR part of the site. In 2010 Email Evangelist answers were read a total of 2.4 MILLION times!

The Five Most Read Answers to Bible Questions in 2010

1. HOW and WHERE did the Apostle Paul die?

2. Does the Bible APPROVE of smoking POT (marijuana)?

3. When was Satan THROWN OUT of heaven?

4. What does THOU SHALL NOT KILL in the Ten Commandments MEAN?

5. What is meaning of ELI ELI LAMA SABACHTHANI cried out by Jesus on the cross?

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Mind of God

2011-01-22T11:23:00.002-05:00

Commentary: The awesome mind of God

By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, January 04, 2011

A Yale University astronomer recently suggested that the estimate of the number of stars could be as much as three times more than previously estimated. The new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This number is called 300 sextillion in the United States, or 300 trilliard in Europe. Did you know that the Great God calls them all by name? Read more

Catholic destruction of the Word of God

2011-01-09T11:13:00.000-05:00

What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.

[John Adams, letter to John Taylor]

Congressman Paul's Texas Straight Talk

2011-01-04T20:39:00.000-05:00

Recipe for a Successful 2011

“The year 2011 brings in a host of opportunities and challenges to America. Will we accelerate toward economic insolvency by continuing the policies that have created this crisis, or will a new Congress elected on the energy of the Tea Party movement find the courage to change course?

With the new Republican majority in the House I will have the opportunity as a subcommittee chairman to take a careful look at our domestic monetary policy. I am excited by the prospect of real oversight of the Federal Reserve, but I also hope to focus on the important ways in which our foreign policy and monetary policy are related. Just last week the Financial Times reported that the limited oversight of the Federal Reserve allowed by the passage of a watered-down version of my Audit the Fed bill revealed that approximately 55 percent of the loans made available under the largest Federal Reserve bailout program, the Term Auction Facility, went to foreign banks! This is but one example of the real cost to Americans of maintaining its empire overseas, and it cries out for more transparency and oversight…”

Click here to read the full article: http://bit.ly/fpwaEQ

The awesome mind of God

2011-01-04T15:36:00.004-05:00

Commentary: The awesome mind of God

By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Is religious syncretism a good thing?

2010-12-28T10:10:00.000-05:00

Commentary: Is religious syncretism a good thing?

By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Most people don't realize it, but their religion is a blend of paganism and Christianity. Is that a good thing? Does it make any difference to God that at least part of one's beliefs and practices came from a pagan religion? Read more

Call for Christmas tree sellers to repent!

2010-12-24T14:36:00.002-05:00

Call for Christmas tree sellers to repent!

Even as the apostle Paul was dangerously unpopular with those who made a living off of making idols (Acts 19: 23-41), dependent on pagan superstitions, the plain truth about the pagan practices of "Christmas" and "Christmas trees" isn't well received by those entangled in the Christmas tree industry! I sent Jeremiah 10 condemns Christmas trees! to many Christmas tree farms and received this hypocritical response from one woman:

We keep the Christ in Christmas. We hope that you can open your heart and embrace the true meaning of the season - Love - Peace - Joy to all of God's children.

The Bible IS the greatest book ever written - however - much was lost in translation. In your daily prayers, ask God to open your heart and mind to love - not criticize.

God's Blessings,

[name withheld since she didn't want to go public when I asked for permission]

As the article links within Jeremiah 10 condemns Christmas trees! proved beyond any shadow of a doubt: Christ was NEVER in Christmas!

Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas

Christmas is About Giving -- Says Who?

C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas and Roman Catholicism

Will God Curse Our Countries for Christmas?

The Plain Truth about Christmas

I've opened my heart and mind to hear what God's Word has to say about baptized paganism, popular pagan practices and whitewashed heathen customs, rather than just blindly follow idolatrous traditions. Those who are truly God's children love and obey Him:

1 Corinthians 10:19-21
19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. [No mixing and matching of pagan error with biblical truth]

2 Corinthians 6:14-18
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? [No diluting, adulterating and polluting of God's truth with pagan blends]Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

"I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people."

17 Therefore
"Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord. [Don't stay stuck in the rut of tradition, but let the plain truth set you free!]
Do not touch what is unclean,
And [then] I will receive you.

18 [on these conditions] I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says the LORD Almighty."

Those who are proud and stubborn and insist on tinsel traditions (like pagan Christmas) are not God's children! They're of their father Satan the devil, spiritual drunks and whores, since they prefer religious lies to the plain truth of the Bible. They're "Christians" in denial - refusing to see Christmas is adultery!

Nothing has been lost in "translation," a dishonest argument, especially concerning the clear cut commands against modifying pagan holidays to worship the true God:

Deuteronomy 12
30 and after they [the pagans] have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same." 31 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates.

God isn't fooled by sanctimonious purrings about the "mass of Christ" or the new wrapping the old religious bull of Saturnalia is covered in today. Some are stuck in the muck of Babylon and don't even know it, but those who have received a God-given opportunity to know the truth and be set free and rejected it condemn themselves and curse our countries!

Don't criticize? Don't rock the boat? Don't slaughter your sacred cows? Don't disturb your darkness?

Is the Plain Truth Too Strong?
"Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression [the Church and Synagogue], And the house of Jacob [the family of Israelite nations - all Twelve Tribes of Israel] their sins. 2 Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God" (Isaiah 58).

God's blessings are upon those who love and obey Him - who receive the pardon and the power to go and sin no more, and submit to His Word - not to accursed Rome and its mass deception!

I trust many of the Christmas tree farms are beautiful (although abusing God's good creation for pagan purposes) and those who own them or work on them are sincere, even if sincerely wrong, but it's past time to move on, to repent of throwing fuel on the fires of pagan practices and heathen customs the Bible and history condemn, and receive God's blessing.

Christmas tree owner's deceitful responses

2010-12-20T13:49:00.000-05:00

I wrote this last year and the following is one of two Christmas tree owners response:

Jeremiah 10 condemns Christmas trees!

Jeremiah 10
1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
2 Thus says the LORD:

“ Do not learn the way of the Gentiles;
Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven,
For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the peoples are futile;
For one cuts a tree from the forest,
The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
4 They decorate it with silver and gold;
They fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it will not topple.
5 They are upright, like a palm tree,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot go by themselves.
Do not be afraid of them,
For they cannot do evil,
Nor can they do any good.”
6 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD
(You are great, and Your name is great in might),
7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?
For this is Your rightful due.
For among all the wise men of the nations,
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
8 But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish;
A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.
9 Silver is beaten into plates;
It is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of the craftsman
And of the hands of the metalsmith;
Blue and purple are their clothing;
They are all the work of skillful men.
10 But the LORD is the true God;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth will tremble,
And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

Jeremiah 10 condemns idolatry, both in the letter and in the spirit, whether a physical idol or an idolatrous tradition based upon HEATHEN CUSTOMS like the "Christmas tree" that history clearly exposes as pagan in origin. Those who adorn their Christmas trees and remain in denial about its pagan origin, who play deaf, dumb and blind to the facts, who attempt to dismiss or downplay how it's a heathen custom, are living a lie and shamefully reject the clear commandments of God that speak against such spiritual adultery, mixing and matching pagan error with biblical truth, and will suffer the consequences for being so dishonest and deceitful.

Pagan holidays like Christmas and pagan customs like Christmas trees are both abominations to God. True Christians shun both, we avoid them like the plague, because we love God more than idolatrous traditions of apostate men!

Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas

Christmas is About Giving -- Says Who?

C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas and Roman Catholicism

Will God Curse Our Countries for Christmas?

The Plain Truth about Christmas

www.davidbenariel.org

David,

We keep the Christ in Christmas. We hope that you can open your heart and embrace the true meaning of the season - Love - Peace - Joy to all of God's children.

The Bible IS the greatest book ever written - however - much was lost in translation. In your daily prayers, ask God to open your heart and mind to love - not criticize.

God's Blessings,

Kitty Treichel

Treichel's Trees

God hates Christmas!

2010-12-06T18:51:00.000-05:00

Jeremiah 10 condemns Christmas trees!

Jeremiah 10
1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
2 Thus says the LORD:

Do not learn the way of the Gentiles;
Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven,
For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the peoples are futile;
For one cuts a tree from the forest,
The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
4 They decorate it with silver and gold;
They fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it will not topple.
5 They are upright, like a palm tree,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot go by themselves.
Do not be afraid of them,
For they cannot do evil,
Nor can they do any good.
6 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD
(You are great, and Your name is great in might),
7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?
For this is Your rightful due.
For among all the wise men of the nations,
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
8 But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish;
A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.
9 Silver is beaten into plates;
It is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of the craftsman
And of the hands of the metalsmith;
Blue and purple are their clothing;
They are all the work of skillful men.
10 But the LORD is the true God;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth will tremble,
And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

Jeremiah 10 condemns idolatry, both in the letter and in the spirit, whether a physical idol or an idolatrous tradition based upon HEATHEN CUSTOMS like the "Christmas tree" that history clearly exposes as pagan in origin. Those who adorn their Christmas trees and remain in denial about its pagan origin, who play deaf, dumb and blind to the facts, who attempt to dismiss or downplay how it's a heathen custom, are living a lie and shamefully reject the clear commandments of God that speak against such spiritual adultery, mixing and matching pagan error with biblical truth, and will suffer the consequences for being so dishonest and deceitful.

Pagan holidays like Christmas and pagan customs like Christmas trees are both abominations to God. True Christians shun both, we avoid them like the plague, because we love God more than idolatrous traditions of apostate men!

Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas

Christmas is About Giving -- Says Who?

C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas and Roman Catholicism

Will God Curse Our Countries for Christmas?

The Plain Truth about Christmas

Fire in Northern Israel

2010-12-06T09:25:00.000-05:00

An out-of-control fire in the north of Israel has people questioning if the country is prepared to deal with an emergency.

Here's the video.

Nigel Farage insults Belgium and EU President

2010-12-02T11:57:00.001-05:00

A gracious song for healing from Jerusalem!

2010-12-01T08:46:00.006-05:00

May the Lord heal you from all your ailments! Refuah Sheleimah (a complete healing). Here is a song to help you get well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deafN_ZosKQ

Death to Eurabia?

2010-11-29T15:05:00.000-05:00

Eurabia: A Voice Cries Out in Defense of Europe's Heritage

With birthrates among traditional Europeans in decline while population growth in Europe's Muslim communities soars, one European voice asks whether Europe wants to preserve its cultural and religious identity. Will anyone listen before it's too late?

3 Missing Boys

2010-11-29T08:56:00.000-05:00

Community Searches for 3 Missing Boys

Planes, search dogs, and a behavioral science team have formed a search party for three missing boys from Morenci. Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner, 5, were reported missing Friday.

Posted: 11:59 PM Nov 28, 2010
Reporter: Rachel Thomas
Email Address: rachel.thomas@wilx.com

God and the Gays

2010-11-23T18:54:00.000-05:00

God and the Gays - To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)

Homosexuality.... Is it a matter of choice? Are some born that way? And if so, then how could God condemn it? Or does He? Does it make a difference?

God and the Gays - All That Glitters Isn't Gold (Part 2)

The gay bar scene or high risk promiscuous sex... Is it so happy-go-lucky? Something so sweet and wonderful we'd "wish you were here?" Or is it actually something you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy?

The forgotten scourge

2010-11-23T18:41:00.003-05:00

Commentary: The forgotten scourge

By Davy Crockett | Sabbath, November 20, 2010

What a mixed up age we live in today. Abnormal behavior is promoted as "normal" by special interest groups who aggressively press forward their agenda with public demonstrations, litigation, and organized pressure to accept what was, for millennia, considered taboo in society. Read more

Will to live

2010-11-16T09:22:00.001-05:00

"Don't let the darkness destroy your will to live in the light."
- a friend years ago

Heaven, Hell and Purgatory?

2010-11-13T15:56:00.002-05:00

Commentary: The truth about heaven, hell and purgatory

By Wyatt Ciesielka | Sabbath, November 13, 2010

What of the false doctrines of heaven, hell and purgatory? And what of the Scriptures that supposedly support these fabrications of human reasoning? Read more

The End of America?

2010-11-11T09:39:00.000-05:00

The beginning of a U.S. currency crisis and hyperinflation. Become a member of NIA for free at http://inflation.us

Enjoy life?

2010-11-11T08:07:00.000-05:00

Don't just endure life, enjoy life!

QE2 and the acceleration of America’s economic demise

2010-11-06T09:44:00.001-05:00

Commentary: QE2 and the acceleration of America's economic demise
By Wyatt Ciesielka | Sabbath, November 06, 2010
Will America's economy collapse in 2011? From Ireland to Zimbabwe, and from Iceland to Greece, the world has learned that a modern economy can suddenly and painfully come crashing down. Now, a leading U.S. senator warns that the United States may be next, and the crash may be imminent. What can America do? Read more

EzineArticles.com Reports

2010-11-05T19:29:00.002-05:00

Top 3 Performing Articles (October 2010):

Not All Twelve Tribes of Israel are Jewish?
October 2010 Views: 480

David Pack & the Restored Church of God
October 2010 Views: 263

The Plain Truth About The "Lost Ten Tribes" And Why You Need To Know
October 2010 Views: 234

Britain and France flirting with disaster

2010-11-05T08:51:00.001-05:00

Commentary: The new British-French alliance: Wise strategy, or doomed to fail?

By Wyatt Ciesielka | Thursday, November 04, 2010

Britain and France are grappling now with what the United States will be forced to confront very soon - they are financially unable to maintain the military power to which they were once accustomed. Consequently, Britain and France recently signed military and nuclear weapons treaties ensuring unprecedented cooperation. Can these two nations really trust their military alliance to provide for their national security in the years ahead? And, what are the lessons for them ... and for America? Read more

Jesus' Gentile background

2010-11-02T10:39:00.001-05:00

Jesus' ancestry had Gentiles in it - especially since Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were all Gentiles.

God also permitted Adam and Eve's children to marry amongst themselves and yet later forbad it.

Those who promote the sin of interracial marriage are promoting adultery - adulterating both races involved, destroying our God-given diversity, causing confusion - and dishonoring their heritage, their father and mother, their ethnic background. Why covet what God has forbidden and make an idol out of it?

Deuteronomy 32:8
8 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam [even though we're all family], He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

Acts 17:26
26 And [although] He [God] has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth [we're all human]... [yet He] has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings...

Black Invention Myths

2010-11-01T10:12:00.001-05:00

Black Invention Myths

Perhaps you've heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.

Such beliefs usually originate in books or articles about black history. Since many of the authors have little interest in the history of technology outside of advertising black contributions to it, their stories tend to be fraught with misunderstandings, wishful thinking, or fanciful embellishments with no historical basis. The lack of historical perspective leads to extravagant overestimations of originality and importance: sometimes a slightly modified version of a pre-existing piece of technology is mistaken for the first invention of its type; sometimes a patent or innovation with little or no lasting value is portrayed as a major advance, even if there's no real evidence it was ever used.

Unfortunately, some of the errors and exaggerations have acquired an illusion of credibility by repetition in mainstream outlets, especially during Black History Month (see examples for the traffic light and ironing board). When myths go unchallenged for too long, they begin to eclipse the truth. Thus I decided to put some records straight. Although this page does not cover every dubious invention claim floating around out there, it should at least serve as a warning never to take any such claim for granted.

Each item below is listed with its supposed black originator beneath it along with the year it was supposedly invented, followed by something about the real origin of the invention or at least an earlier instance of it.

http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/

What is Israel waiting for?

2010-10-31T19:32:00.003-05:00

God commands Israel to build Temple

How should Christians view efforts to build the Temple?

The Ezekiel Temple

Zion National Park

2010-10-31T09:37:00.001-05:00

Zion National Park
Originally uploaded by DavidBenAriel

Obama dogs Ohio

2010-10-31T07:19:00.002-05:00

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have...a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers."
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.9C15

Obama dogs America.

The President usurper, the fraud and foreigner, the bastard from Africa, the con man from Kenya, reveals his shady character by refusing to be transparent with many important documents from his educational records to long form birth certificate. Emperor Obama must go!

Why darkness?

2010-10-30T17:06:00.000-05:00

Commentary: Why darkness?

By Davy Crockett | Sabbath, October 30, 2010

A generation ago, audiences around the world were enthralled by the Star Wars Trilogy, an epic story about the struggle between good and evil. The colorful, memorable characters were either on the side of the "force" representing good or the "dark side" representing evil. One could envision a number of obvious analogies in this tale and it made for exciting entertainment. Read more

It's black and white

2010-10-29T07:48:00.001-05:00

Interracial marriage is unnatural!

Interracial dating and marriage is sin, sin, sin. It is UNNATURAL and looks unnatural - just like homosexual relationships and marriages (read God and the Gays). This common sense, this salt (preserving knowledge and irritating wounds but offering healing in the process) and light (exposing darkness), was once known and continues to be faithfully taught by those who haven't become friends with this world and enemies of God.

James 4:4
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Common Sense Quotes about Race

"… Equality! Fudge! How long in this government of God, great enough to make and maintain this universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp so low a piece of demagoguism as this?"
- Abraham Lincoln, September 1859

"There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of white and black races."
- Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, 1857

"We are opposed to integration. It is a bad thing and we condemn it. Why should we destroy our identity? We love our black skins and we are proud of our heritage. Our country is open to all people of African descent."
- President Tubman of Liberia

"Bluebirds like to be together, eagles hang out with eagles, sparrows stick with sparrows, buzzards go with buzzards. They're all birds, but they go with their own."
- Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)

"It is against God's law to integrate. It's only nature, not hatred, to keep people among their own kind. A man has to be a fool to want to live in any other culture but his own."

- Muhammad Ali

"The people of England will not passively watch the transformation of whole areas into alien territory.... a deep and dangerous gulf."
- Rt. Hon. Enoch Powell, MP, November 1968

"The right of any nation ... to regulate its demographic composition should be considered as sacred by any liberal-minded man."
- Don Salvador de Madariaga, The Times, October 1964

"If I were Black, I would be for the Blacks; being White, I am for the Whites."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The idea that all men are equal is a palpable incredibility and a delirious absurdity."
- Thomas Carlyle

Two witnesses against interracial marriage that would destroy diversity and commit genocide against the distinct races:

Deuteronomy 32:8
8 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam [even though we're all family], He set the boundaries [borders we're to respect and not trespass] of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel [everything in the ethnocentric Bible - with its focus on the family of Jacob - centers around Israel, nationally, internationally].

Acts 17:26
26 And [although] He [God] has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth [we're all human]... [yet He] has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries [sinners don't want to have rules and borders they're commanded not to cross] of their dwellings...

"This world says that the cause of racial problems is segregation, when in fact the opposite is the case...The Supreme Court of the USA, without God's wisdom, but has human 'wisdom', wants to mix the races."
- Herbert W. Armstrong

The Sin of Interracial Marriage

Diversity Demands: Segregate Now!

Black to Africa: Facing the Crisis in Black America

Chocolate Continent Awaits the Great Black Return!

Yitzhak Rabin

2010-10-28T11:48:00.000-05:00

Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
I met Yitzhak Rabin in the Israeli Parliament in 1982 during Hanukkah. I was able to talk with him briefly and mention I was associated with Ambassador College in Pasadena, California.

Avishai Raviv, Eyal, and Yitzhak Rabin
Avishai Raviv was an Israeli government agent provocateur (whose code name was "Champagne" for the bubbles of incitement he created to tarnish the right-wing Israelis) who goaded Yigal Amir to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (although this is hotly disputed by investigative reporters like Barry Chamish)...

Vatican Linked to the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin?
The dark powers of the European Union, under evil influence of the very real German-Jesuit cabal, are intent on ripping out the heart of Israel and sacrificing Israeli sovereignty to their wannabe divine emperor about to take the world by storm, pimped by the sorcerer-pope.

What is Halloween all about?

2010-10-28T11:35:00.001-05:00

Commentary: Halloween - a treat or a trick?
By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tens of millions of children the world over are getting ready to dress up in strange costumes and scary-faced masks to go door to door and beg for candy treats by saying, "Trick or treat!" At the same time, teens and adults are also getting ready to attend parties and gatherings to celebrate this strange holiday by donning costumes that are ghoulish, bizarre or risqué. Read more

Death of the dollar?

2010-10-24T10:08:00.000-05:00

Commentary: Will the mighty U.S. dollar fall?
By Wallace G. Smith | Sabbath, October 23, 2010
The front page headline of the Wall Street Journal on October 8, 2010, should grab every American's attention: "Dollar's Fall Roils World." The article points out how the U.S. dollar has fallen to historic lows against many of the world's currencies. Why? Other nations' continuing fear of the Federal Reserve's reckless injections of "Monopoly money" into the financial markets to prop up America's faltering economy. Read more

10 Famous Megachurch Founders and the Story Behind Them

2010-10-22T07:59:00.000-05:00

By Tim Dalton

The megachurch movement, most commonly associated with evangelical, fundamentalist, or “prosperity gospel” Christianity (generally Protestant) in America, actually stretches much further than many realize. Because these institutions attract thousands of followers, it probably comes as little surprise that their founders and pastors generally garner a considerable amount of fame as a result. Most of them enjoy recognition from outside their religious or political niches as well – sometimes in the form of activism, participation in various conferences and summits, lectures, book deals, television appearances, and shocking scandals. The following list briefly summarizes some of the more prominent megachurch founders out there, focusing mainly on their relationships with the congregations they started rather than their public humiliations. It was, after all, not compiled by Perez Hilton. These men are who they are (or were who they were), and it is up to the reader to decide if he or she finds their messages and lives inspiring or appalling.

Read more, if you please, at 10 Famous Megachurch Founders and the Story Behind Them

Three-fifths of a man?

2010-10-21T10:54:00.002-05:00

From the beginning a black man was considered three-fifths of a man (as spelled out in Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution).

Healthy families

2010-10-21T09:43:00.001-05:00

Commentary: Quality dinners and healthy families

By Mike DeSimone (guest columnist) | Thursday, October 21, 2010

A couple of years ago, I was speaking with a gentleman who told me about a tradition in his family that would come to shape some of the traditions in my own family. He explained that his mother would read books aloud to the family during dinnertime! This put into action a thought process that would change the dynamics of dinnertime in my own family. Read more

Armageddon?

2010-10-16T09:34:00.003-05:00

Commentary: Can you escape Armageddon?

By Michael Heykoop | Sabbath, October 16, 2010

When you hear the term "Armageddon," what images come to mind? Perhaps you picture an asteroid crashing into the earth, a nuclear war ravaging the world or an epidemic snuffing out all life from the planet. The term has become synonymous with the phrase "the end of the world," and many believe that it marks the end of all life on earth! Read more

God commands Israel to build the Temple!

2010-10-12T10:58:00.001-05:00

God commands Israel to build the Temple!

Will the pope act like Belshazzar or Cyrus?Will Rome learn from history and receive instruction from the Bible or harden their hearts and be destroyed like pharaoh and Babylon?

A House of Prayer For All Peoples?
Jewish guards prevent Christians and Jews from exercising their religious right to pray on the Temple Mount? That's right! Only Muslims have unlimited access to Judaism's most holy site. Only the Koran is permitted within. The Tanach (Jewish Scripture, known to much of the world as the "Old Testament") and Christian Scriptures (the New Testament) are forbidden. Yet Israel claims to respect the religious rights of all people.

Major Upheaval in Israel?
Will an EARTHQUAKE shake Israel to its foundations and rock the world? Would the destruction of the Western/Wailing Wall and the demolition of the "Dome of the Rock" and Al-Aksa mosques—by an ACT OF GOD—serve further notice that it's time to build the Temple?

Third Temple Coming Soon to Jerusalem!
"And let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them" (Ex. 25:8). This holy command in the Scriptures seems clear enough, so what's the problem? Why has Israel tolerated Jerusalem’s "abomination of desolation" — a Temple Mount without a Temple? Why haven't the religious leaders encouraged the people to do what they can in fulfilling this mitzva?

The Temple of God in Holy Jerusalem
Paul, speaking of the imminent Third Temple, the holy TEMPLE OF GOD (the Temple of God - not just of the Jews or any other conspiracy theory that contradicts Scripture), that Europe's wannabe divine emperor will pollute, coveting it since Satan knows (even if some religious folks don't) it is the TEMPLE OF GOD...

Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount
During a 1995 Root and Branch lecture in Jerusalem, Professor Nahum Rakover, author and then Deputy Attorney General of Israel, publicly agreed with me that it isn't illegal for Christians or Jews to pray upon the Temple Mount, even though it is forcibly prevented by the police.

The Issue of the Temple MountThe common knowledge of our time is that the vast majority of Rabbis of this generation have prohibited the Jewish people from entering the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit), the holiest site in Judaism. The Temple Mount is the site of where the Beit HaMikdash (the Jewish Temple) once stood and the place where the Moslems have erected one mosque, the al-Aqsa and a site of pilgrimage, the Dome of the Rock.

Restore Israeli Sovereignty Over Temple Mount
The Wakf, the militant Muslim authority that oversees Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site and Islam's alleged third holiest site (following Mecca and Medina) continue to show blatant disregard for Jewish, Christian and biblical history and non-Muslim sensitivities.

Where's the Temple On the Temple Mount?
Something's missing. Rome is synonymous with the Vatican, Mecca with the Kaaba, and Jerusalem's known for its Western Wall. But why should we stand before the wall, letting it obstruct our vision, when we could be praying in a Temple? Why should Jews continue to bow before an illegitimate Gentile decree that tells them where to pray? (Isaiah 10:1).

The Vatican Must Return the Temple Treasures
The Jews have prayed for 2,000 years to again see the Temple upon the Temple Mount. It's past time for prayers alone: ACTION is necessary to put faith into practice!

G-d Doesn't Listen to Jewish Prayers at the Western Wall
Gershon Salomon warned Israel and its leadership that as long as the shameful situation on the Temple Mount continues, and as long as they do not obey the call of G-d, peace will not come to the land. The enemies of Israel will continue to desire her land and will pressure those in power to divide it. Obedience to the call of G-d will bring peace, all of Israel's enemies will be removed and no one will wish to divide or desire the land.

Why Edward Abington, Jr. Must Be Investigated!
"The American Diplomat in Arafat's Corner," published in The Jerusalem Report, came as no surprise to me. It was referring to Edward Abington, Jr., the United States' former consul general in Jerusalem who is now "guiding the Palestinians through the labyrinths of Washington. And his firm is being paid $2.25 million for his expertise."

Israel's Unjust Deportation of David Ben-Ariel
As a Christian-American member of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement, I had been privileged to participate in their legal demonstrations during my 10-month stay in Jerusalem awaiting dual citizenship. Israeli television often showed me with my Jewish friends carrying Israeli flags throughout the Old City.

Blow Up the Mosques or An Expired Visa?
Once again, an attempt to spread DISinformation about my unjust deportation from Israel, only provides me with another opportunity to clearly state my case and continue to highlight the plight of the Temple Mount suffering under a Nazi-Muslim occupation...

From Toledo to Jerusalem
You could say I have a God-given love for the Jews and the nation of Israel (Isaiah 62:6-7). That sacred bond has been strengthened over the years by the fact that I've been blessed to have lived all over Israel, getting to know its land and people quite well.

Dangerous Ideas?
During my brief appearance before Israel's High Court, the prosecution charged that I hold "dangerous ideas." I suppose the short-sighted prosecution would ban the Bible if he could since it contains the "dangerous ideas" that millions believe in! What are those "dangerous ideas?"

American Detained in Jerusalem's Russian Compound
Nobody arrested me. I was detained when I faithfully reported to the police office at 9 a.m. Monday morning, January 9, 1996 (day before my birthday) the day after The Jerusalem Post published on their front page an article shedding light on what they were doing in the dark: "GSS Seeks to Deport American Citizen for Plot to Blow Up Al Aksa Mosque."

Singing Stars

2010-10-09T17:53:00.000-05:00

Commentary: Big beautiful diamonds

By Wyatt Ciesielka | Sabbath, October 09, 2010

Have you ever held a really big, beautiful diamond? A "GIA grade F" diamond is considered flawless. These are the rarest diamonds on earth, revealing no visible internal or external imperfections. Three to four carat "grade Fs" are valued at $250,000 to $300,000 or more. But these diamonds are unimpressive specks compared to the diamonds the Creator God possesses. His diamonds are thousands of miles across - and, they sing for Him. Read more

Gerald Flurry & the Philadelphia Church of God

2010-10-07T08:04:00.002-05:00

Many of these articles were written years ago, so I don't necessarily agree with everything in them.

Philadelphia Church of God Leads the Laodicean Era (Part 1)
When Gerald Flurry wasn't anything in his own sight or mind God used him and now, unfortunately, it appears to have gone to his head, all the new revelation (simply a deeper understanding of some things), and he forgets that all truth is from and belongs to GOD and that God can use a donkey to deliver it (1 Cor. 4:7). Gerald Flurry has become so swollen in his own imagination that he fails to see that he is the leader of LAODICEA! He knows what warning God is giving the Laodiceans, of which he is chief! He had better heed his own words...

Philadelphia Church of God Leads Laodicean Era (Conclusion)
"It's certainly not my place to determine if what you believe God has shown you is true or not, but would you mind presenting Mr. Flurry with an abbreviated version of what you feel is inspired... as I highly doubt that he would have time to read your whole book."

Stephen Flurry and The Philadelphia Church of God
Stephen Flurry, son of Gerald Flurry, pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God (based in Edmond, Oklahoma), has published a book that Amazon sells, Raising the Ruins: The Fight to Revive the Legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong.

The Work of God Must Go Forward!
The Work of God must go forward. The only work that's left to do now is focus on the NATIONAL LEVEL. We must get out God's ultimatum and fast! Europe is on the rise and Jerusalem is getting international attention (Zech. 14:2). Soon God's two witnesses will rise and shine in a world of darkness (Isa. 60:1-2). God's about to restore His lamp to the Middle East! (Rev. 11:3; 1 Kgs. 11:36; Amos 9:11; Zech. 12:8).

PCG: Carrying on Business as Usual
If you truly saw what is coming on this Earth, and had a vision of tomorrow, you would know that the Gathering Storm darkens as you sip champagne and boast that you're rich and in need of nothing, woefully ignorant that the Two Witnesses will soon be wearing sackcloth and fasting, not wining and dining at black tie dinners!

The Church of God Must Warn the World!
We know that certain prophecies were not to be fulfilled until these "last days." Therefore their sealed messages weren't to break their silence until the appointed time (Dan. 12:9). With the advent of the nuclear age, we've been living, for the first time in history, with the weapons of mass destruction that can erase all life from off planet Earth! (Matt. 24:21-22).

Politics in the Church of God Hinders Progress
Gerald Flurry refused to go forward with Beyond Babylon and fell backwards, treading old ground and is now going in circles, business as usual, as Europe rises and Judah and Israel have yet to be warned.

Worldwide Church Of God All Over Again?
Let’s see to it that Philadelphia Church of God (Judah) doesn’t go the way of the Worldwide Church of God (Israel). These biblical principles still apply: don’t put undue trust in men; work out your own salvation, it’s not a group affair; beware the scholarly approach that demands you rely on men - not God’s Spirit or personal Bible study.

The Watchmen
"I have set Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem"God has called us to do a Work! Anyone can and should do good works in private, but God has called us collectively to COME OUT OF THE CLOSET and deliver His Message! We're to help save individuals and nations from the coming Holocaust!

Fox 25 Special Report on Philadelphia Church of God

Gerald Flurry

Philadelphia Church of God minister's review of Beyond Babylon

The Philadephia Church of God & David Ben-Ariel

I'm not a terrorist
Is David Ben-Ariel a terrorist? Did he try to blow up the mosques in Israel? Is that why he was deported from Israel? Or is he simply somebody who has been targeted for exposing the German-Vatican plot against Jerusalem and highlighting the Nazi Muslim occupation of the Temple Mount?

God-given love for Jews (mentions my volunteer service on 8 kibbutzim throughout Israel)

Gerald Flurry's Outrageous Attack Against David Ben-Ariel

Is David Ben-Ariel a Terrorist? (Apparently Gerald Flurry and Stephen Flurry would mislead you to believe so!)

The Temple Mount Faithful is not a terrorist organization! (Although Gerald Flurry and Stephen Flurry strongly insinuate it is, to their shame)

A little known blogger

Dresden: Never Forget!

2010-10-06T18:33:00.001-05:00

"You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

On the evening of February 13, 1945, an orgy of genocide and barbarism began against a defenseless German city, one of the greatest cultural centers of northern Europe. Within less than 14 hours not only was it reduced to flaming ruins, but an estimated one-third of its inhabitants, possibly as many as a half a million, had perished in what was the worst single event massacre of all time.

http://www.rense.com/general19/flame.htm

Germany will rule the world?

2010-10-02T16:56:00.001-05:00

Commentary: The sleeping giant awakens

By Adam J. West | Sabbath, October 02, 2010

Don't speak of the past because "we've gotten past it." That was the sentiment of the daughter of film director Volker Schlondorff according to an article published by The New York Times September 10, 2010. Read more

Last Great Day

2010-09-30T17:22:00.001-05:00

Holy Days:
Last Great Day
by Martin G. Collins
Forerunner, "Bible Study," September-October 1996

This study concludes the series on God's annual holy days. We have seen that Passover, the first festival, memorializes Jesus' sacrifice for man. The Days of Unleavened Bread instruct Christ's disciples in holy conduct. Pentecost pictures God's Holy Spirit given to His church. The Feast of Trumpets warns mankind of impending war and the return of Jesus Christ. Atonement depicts Satan being restrained and man finally becoming one with God. The Feast of Tabernacles pictures Christ's thousand-year reign of unprecedented peace and prosperity.

The final festival is the Last Great Day. It looks forward to a time after the Millennium when an awesomely wonderful period of salvation will take place. During this time the majority of mankind—rich and poor, young and old, men and women—will be resurrected and have an opportunity to inherit eternal life. Billions will qualify to enter the God Family! On the other hand, those who will not repent, who will not submit to God and His way, will be cast into the Lake of Fire and die the second—eternal—death. What a fair and merciful God we have!

Read more: http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/BS/k/404/Holy-Days-Last-Great-Day.htm#ixzz113Pj4cJ0

Muslim confiscates Christian Bible on Temple Mount

2010-09-30T12:17:00.001-05:00

Jewish guards prevent Christians and Jews from exercising their religious right to pray on the Temple Mount? That's right! Only Muslims have unlimited access to Judaism's most holy site. Only the Koran is permitted within. The Tanach (Jewish Scripture, known to much of the world as the "Old Testament") and Christian Scriptures (the New Testament) are forbidden. Yet Israel claims to respect the religious rights of all people.

Read more...

A House of Prayer For All Peoples?

Jew Arrested on Temple Mount?

2010-09-27T10:31:00.001-05:00

Jew Arrested on Temple Mount for Daring to Seem to be Praying

by Elad Benari
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

A Jewish man in his 30s, who took advantage of the holiday of Sukkot in order to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, was arrested on Sunday morning simply because an Arab security guard suspected that he was praying during the tour of the complex.

David Ha'ivri, Executive Director of the Shomron Liaison Office, who was on the scene of the incident, told Arutz 7 what had taken place:

“At 7:30 this morning I had the privilege of going up to Temple Mount with 20 other Jews,” said Ha’Ivri and added that Israeli police officers as well as inspectors from the Waqf accompanied the Jews who took part in the tour of the area. Among their responsibilities, explained Ha’Ivri, is to ensure that no Jew violates the instructions he receives upon entering the complex, which include a prohibition to pray at Judaism's holiest site.

“After the checkpoint at the Mugrabi Gate, a police officer gives a list of guidelines in a cold and dry voice,” described Ha’Ivri. “Do not pray. Do not tear a garment. Do not prostrate yourself. It is forbidden to take any action that the Muslims may see as a religious act.

Read more

Priestly Blessing

2010-09-26T19:37:00.000-05:00

Priestly Blessing in Pictures

by Maayana Miskin

Members of the Biblical priestly class, Kohanim, blessed tens of thousands of worshipers at the Kotel (Western Wall) on Sunday morning. The entire Kotel plaza filled with Jews seeking their blessing, and many more crowded balconies and streets overlooking the Wall.

The Kohanim blessed the crowd twice, once during the Shacharit (morning) service and again during Mussaf.

Kohanim are those related by direct patrilineal descent from the first High Priest of the Jewish people, Aharon, the brother of Moshe (Moses) . They blessed the congregants using the three Torah verses traditionally recited by Kohanim during the time of the First and Second Temples (Numbers 6:24-26).

Continue to see pictures

Brokebank Mountain

2010-09-26T09:33:00.001-05:00

A Nation of Peasants?
By Victor Davis Hanson

"We are all getting poorer in hopes that a few don't get richer."

Facebook: friend or foe?

2010-09-25T10:07:00.001-05:00

Commentary: Facebook: friend or foe?

By William Bowmer | Sabbath, September 25, 2010

Researchers have found that heavy users of the social networking site Facebook tend to be more insecure and self-absorbed than others who do not use the popular site. "Individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem spent more time on the site and filled their pages with more self-promotional content," according to a recent York University press release. Read more

New World Order?

2010-09-24T09:07:00.001-05:00

"Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA."
-- David Rockefeller
(1915- ) Internationalist billionaire, CFR kingpin, founder of the Trilateralist Commission, World Order Godfather
Source: Wall Street Journal, October 1, 1993
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Rockefeller.Quote.B593

"NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order."
-- Henry Kissinger
(1923- ) Former US Secretary of State
Source: Aug.1993, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.Kissinger.Quote.B58F

Worldwide Church of God Feast of Tabernacles

2010-09-23T16:51:00.001-05:00

The first time I visited Israel was with the Worldwide Church of God in 1980 to celebrate Sukkot -- the biblical Feast of Tabernacles. (Some Christians understand that Israel's harvest festival foreshadows the peace and prosperity that everyone will soon enjoy under the Messiah's golden rule). But that whirlwind experience only whet my appetite...

From Toledo to Jerusalem

Obama in drag?

2010-09-23T13:59:00.002-05:00

She's not so "honored" by the president usurper, the fraud and foreigner, since Obama/Soetoro/Obama abandoned her to welfare. Dishonesty apparently runs deep in that criminal family.

Chag Sukkot: Festival of Joy

2010-09-23T12:47:00.000-05:00

Chag Sukkot: Festival of Joy

Tishrei 14, 5771/ September 22, 2010

The festival of Sukkot is referred to in our holiday prayers as zeman simchatenu, "the Season of Our Joy," and this of course derives from the scriptural commandment, "And you should rejoice before HaShem your G-d for seven days." (Leviticus 23:40) Indeed, there is an irrepressible joy that fills and overflows the heart of every sukkah dweller, from the first day of the seven day festival to the last. To fulfill the commandment of building a temporary dwelling, and then to immerse our entire physical and spiritual beings in it for seven full nights and days is the closest thing we experience today to being within the courtyards of the Holy Temple itself, and this, no doubt, is a source of the intense joy of the sukkah. It is also a timely reminder that, just as everyone builds his and her own sukkah, and nobody expects it to descend from the heavens, fully accoutred and beckoning us to enter it, we should not deceive ourselves that the Holy Temple itself will one day descend from heaven, ready for us to bless it with our presence. On the contrary, the G-d that has commanded us to build each year a sukkah is the very same G-d who has commanded us to "Build for Me a sanctuary that I may dwell amongst them." (Exodus 25:8)

THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE WISHES ONE AND ALL A JOY FILLED FESTIVAL OF SUKKOT!

Tune in to this week's Temple Talk and join Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven in the annual Temple Talk Sukkot Extravaganza - just what you need to start the joyous festival of Sukkot. What is the secret of Sukkot joy? What were the original "booths" of the Children of Israel in the desert (Lev. 23:43) - real booths, or Divine clouds of glory? Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman can hardly wait to take up residence in their respective temporary dwellings, to enjoy the rarified atmosphere of basking in the Divine Presence and feeling the enveloping embrace. May the lessons learned from these "temporary dwellings" stay with us all through the coming year!

This week features the new Bat Melech video teaching with Rabbanit Rena Richman, entitled, "Living in the House of G-d: We emerge from seven weeks of soul searching, spiritual rebirth and reckoning and find ourselves victorious and stronger than ever. What better place for us to live, eat, sleep, breath and imbibe Torah for the next seven days and nights than our own heavenly sukkah made with our own hands out of leaves and branches, fabric and wood. Via our seven day sukkah sojourn we will emerge yet again, ready to march forward into our new year." Click here to view.

Today also features the new Light to the Nations teaching by Rabbi Chaim Richman, entitled, "Living with G-d: Over the Rainbow and into the Sukkah: We all long for that perfect spot where bluebirds sing and all contradictions fade away. It can be attained, we can place ourselves on the other side of the rainbow, even in our own back yards, in the sukkot booths that we are commanded to build. Part cloud of glory and part earthly dwelling, our sukkot create for us a harmonious environment in which to dwell within G-d’s presence, the holy Shechina. Jews and Gentiles alike have a place in the sukkah." Click here to view.

Sukkot in the Holy Temple: As glorious as the festival of Sukkot is today, it is only a shadow of what it will be when the Holy Temple has been rebuilt and the Divine service renewed. To learn how the sublime holiday of Sukkot is celebrated in the Holy Temple, please click here.

The The Sukkot Building Special: Back by special demand! Last year's sukkah building special has become a cult classic! There is no time better spent than the time we spend in the sukkah, and this remarkable spiritual odyssey begins with the building of the sukkah. Join Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven as they build their classic Jerusalem sukkah. Along the way the Rabbi shares his pearls of Torah wisdom. Chock-full of adventure, breathtaking insights, and occasional mishap, you will not want to miss a minute of this timeless documentary. Truly a must-see! Click here.

Chag Sameach Sukkot from Jerusalem!

Yitzchak Reuven

The Temple Institute

Holidays or Holy Days - Does it Matter Which Days We Observe?

2010-09-22T19:16:00.001-05:00

Crucial Questions
Many people are shocked to discover the origins of our most popular religious holidays. They are also surprised to find that the days God commands us to observe in the Bible—the same days Jesus Christ and the apostles kept—are almost universally ignored. Why? Also, why are today's supposedly Christian holidays observed with so many rituals and customs that are not sanctioned anywhere in the Bible? In this booklet you'll discover detailed answers to these questions.

Christmas: The Untold Story
Christmas is one of the world's most popular holidays, celebrated by people of many faiths. Yet the holiday has a strange and convoluted past, one hinted at in such puzzling symbols as decorated trees, holly wreaths and mistletoe.

How Christmas Grew

Christmas vs. the Bible

Biblical Evidence Shows Jesus Wasn't Born on December 25

Easter: Masking a Biblical Truth

Many millions of people believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday morning. But do the Scriptures tell a different story? And how did rabbits and colored eggs come to be associated with Christ's resurrection?

The Resurrection Connection

Fertility Symbols: Beneath the Dignity of God

The Chronology of Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection

Halloween: A Celebration of Evil
Why would anyone celebrate a holiday emphasizing the morbid and macabre? Where did such strange customs originate?

What About Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Purim?
An important distinction between acceptable holidays and those rooted in paganism (like Christmas and Easter) is that they do not alter, replace or distort the meaning of a festival of God or other biblical truths.

God's Days of Worship
Many are surprised to learn that the Bible nowhere encourages us to celebrate Easter and Christmas. It does, however, show that God revealed a series of festivals that teach mankind about His great plan for all of us!

God's Festivals in the New Testament

Does It Matter to God?
History shows that religious authorities systematically set aside the Bible's days of worship and substituted other practices and celebrations with distinctly non-Christian origins. Is God pleased and honored with such worship?

An Ancient Cultural Clash

The Delights of Obedience

Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam

2010-09-18T15:10:00.003-05:00

Tradition - even empty, hollow, shallow - has assisted Jewry to preserve this Day, however imperfectly; yet I also couldn't help but think of God & Kahane who might dismiss such "worship" as vain and such "devotions" as void. Liberal, Hellenist, humanists who have nothing to do with God and are ignorant of or deny His Word as a general rule, as hypocritical & unacceptable as professing Christianity on the pagan days of Christmas and Easter...

Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam

LCG Commentary: The devil's end

2010-09-17T09:53:00.003-05:00

Commentary: The devil's end

By Michael Heykoop | Thursday, September 16, 2010

As a society, we love a good story. Writers can make millions of dollars crafting thrilling tales to keep us on the edge of our seat. The most common formula used is that of good versus evil. Read more

Think-Israel July-August 2010 Issue

2010-09-15T07:57:00.001-05:00

This is what's in the July-August 2010 issue. You can access any article from the home page of http://www.Think-Israel.org by scrolling down to its introduction. This has the advantage of providing context for the article. Or you can go directly to the article by clicking its highlighted area in this email.

Editorial: Israel's Exceptionalism
DISTORTED MORALITY. DOUBLE STANDARDS. BEINART-STYLE LIES
The ubiquitous Muslim Brotherhood
The Ground Zero Mosque and Promoting Sharia

It's About Sharia: Newt Gingrich Resets Our National-Security Debate by Andrew C. McCarthy
The Muslim Mosque: A State Within A State by Vijay Kumar
The Mosques Of War by Victor Sharpe
Loyalty To Islam Is Primary. It Has No Borders, No Exceptions by Ashraf Ramelah

Fallout from the Flotilla

Gaza Snapshots by Tom Gross
The Gaza Flotilla Confrontation: Facts Versus The Academicians by David Meir-Levi
Israel And The Flotilla: On The Dangers Of A Binary View by Qanta Ahmed, MD

The immoral lies of intellectuals, politicians and the NGOs

Woefully Ignorant Or Willfully Misleading? by Martin Sherman
Failed Zionism — Liberal Utopianism And The Abandonment Of Israel by D.L. Adams
Exposing How Post-Zionists Manipulate History by Avi Beker
Precision-Guided Or Indiscriminate? Ngo Reporting On Compliance With The Laws Of Armed Conflic by Asher Fredman
Don't Take Hamas's Goals Out Of The Equation by Michelle Sieff
Hizb Ut Tahrir Is Not A Gateway To Terrorism, Claims Whitehall Report by Andrew Gilligan
The Hidden Costs Of Jew-Baiting In England by Richard Landes
Assessing Islam's Reach: An Interview With Daniel Pipes by Elwood McQuaid
Islamic Cognitive Dissonance And Liberal Incentives by Babu Suseelan
Albert The Alligator And The British Ambassador by Barry Rubin
Hollow Men by Lee Smith

Media anti-semitism

The Media's Anti-Semitic Hate Machine by Daniel Greenfield
Wikipedia's Jewish Problem by Karin McQuillan

DESTABILIZATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST

The Soft Power Fallacy by Abe Greenwald
Iran's Global Terrorist Reach by Walid Phares
Losing Turkey To The Islamists by Barbara Lerner
Lebanon: Ayatollah Fadlallah's Death And The Expansion Of Iranian Hegemony by Shimon Shapira
Rethinking Security In The New Nuclear Age by Andrew McKillop

THE WRONG PRIORITY: A NEW ROUND OF PEACE TALKS

What Can Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks Achieve? by Editor, Family Security Matters
The Nakba Obsession: The Palestinian National Narrative Is The Biggest Obstacle To Peace In The Middle East by Sol Stern
Direct Talk About Direct Talks by Paul Lademain
The Blackmailer's Paradox: Arab-Israel Negotiations Are A Game by Prof. Yisrael Aumann
The Truth About "Palestine" by Steven Simpson
The Truth About The Occupation And The Settlements by Ted Belman
The Legal Consequences Of The Israeli Government's Abandonment Of Judea And Samaria by Howard Grief

THE RIGHT PRIORITY: COUNTERING SHARIA AND RESURGENT ISLAM

Sharia Law For Non-Muslims: Chapters 4 And 5 by Bill Warner
Terrorism For Dummies -- A Beginners' Guide by John Miller
Who Rules In Palestine? by Joe Settler
A Terrorist's Guide To Improving Israel's Media Coverage by Daniel Greenfield
The Long March Of Islam: Chapter 6 by R.K. Ohri

ISRAELI SOCIETY

Israeli Demographics 101. E Pluribus Unum by Norman Berdichevsky
Israel's Ruling Class by Caroline Glick
Academic Brainwashing by Ben Dror Yemini

THE 5TH YEAR COMMEMORATION OF THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM GUSH KATIF, GAZA

Five Years After The Expulsion; Response To A Leftist Jew by Rachel Saperstein
The Price Israel Paid For The Disengagement by Hillel Fendel
5 Years After Disengagement And Its Results by Dror Vanunu
Why Gush Katif Still Matters by Moshe Dann

HISTORY SECTION

The Lone Palm Tree by Shalom Pollack
Blood On The Tracks by Matthew Price
The Mount Of Olives In Jerusalem: Why Continued Israeli Control Is Vital by Nadav Shragai

And, finally, the Readers' Blog-Ed page. The monthly Blog-Ed page is updated every few days. You can click on the Blog-Eds List (middle item, top Blue Banner), find any author/title posted, click and go directly to that blog-ed. And we provide direct links to websites that supply accurate background information and news relating to Israel.

Do look at the web site.

And please, if you have a blog-ed piece or a comment or commentary, contact the website. Write to comments@think-israel.org Pieces for THINK-ISRAEL should be informative and accurate. Fortunately, those of us who are pro-Israel can show our love of Israel without distorting the truth. We don't need to play by the rules laid down by the Arab-favoring media, which distort the news and omit important items of information.

Bernice Lipkin
Editor, Think-Israel

LCG Commentary: "Blasphemers and naysayers"

2010-09-14T14:52:00.002-05:00

Commentary: "Blasphemers and naysayers"

By Adam J. West | Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The world continues its toboggan slide into depravity, and, frankly, into the Great Tribulation. This is a stark reality, but one that we must realize and understand fully. We are living in the end times and the signs of this are becoming more evident and poignant with each passing day. Read more

Mankind continues its Satanically inspired quest to -- unwittingly in some cases -- support Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s claim that “God is dead.” Others are saying that God, in the form of Jesus Christ, anyway, never existed -- while some even slander the Son of God openly, and pop culture is latching on, “hook, line, and sinker.”

A documentary movie titled, “The God Who Wasn’t There,” has recently been released. It’s not only an attack on Christianity; it’s a full-scale war against the idea that Jesus Christ even existed. It’s designed to undermine the faith of those who believe that Jesus Christ of Nazareth was real, that He walked the earth as a human being, and that He gave His life for the sins of mankind.

The movie’s producers say that the story of Christ’s life fits the ancient mold of “the hero pattern,” which they also identify in many other belief systems. And they present other common criticisms of the Bible and its concepts and tenets. Promotional text on the movie’s website proclaims:

The taboo-shattering documentary that Newsweek says, “irreverently lays out the case that Jesus Christ never existed.”

If we haven’t already, we all need to begin the quest to answer the ultimate question, “Does God exist?” Reading the booklet The Real God: Proofs and Promises is an excellent place to start.

There are others who, while not denying Jesus’ existence, terribly distort who and what He is. In a Parade Magazine interview, February 17, 2010, the pop singer Elton John said:

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don’t know what makes people so cruel...

The better question might be: What brings a person to this depth of blasphemy and lack of biblical understanding in his mind?

The thought of Christ being homosexual is not even worth commenting on, it is so ludicrous. But, because some say that Christ never spoke directly against homosexuality, I feel compelled to address the issue. Christ was the God of the Old Testament (1 Corinthians 10:1-4) and condemned homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22). We need to prove these things for ourselves... we are without question living in the end times, and time is short. Elton John’s comments are indicative of the depravity of this society.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 states:

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

Elton John is slinging blasphemous mud at Jesus Christ, the Savior of all mankind. But who really is behind all this? There is a spirit war going on and Satan, the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2), continues to step up his game in deceiving society (Revelation 12:9). He is the real culprit, instilling doubt and cynicism at an unprecedented worldwide scale. We have to be ready; we must be prepared to combat in our own minds these onslaughts against the Bible, and against the very concept of Christ Himself.

Naysayers are launching an all-out attack on Christ, and railing blasphemous statements against Him. How much do we need God’s Kingdom, ruled by Jesus Christ, to come? He will, without question, set these matters straight!

To learn more about this soon-coming time of right knowledge and understanding, request The World Ahead: What Will It Be Like?

Ohio Mosque Promotes Murder!

2010-09-11T16:54:00.001-05:00

Ohio Mosque Promotes Murder!

Summary of 9/11 scepticism

2010-09-11T09:55:00.001-05:00

Summary of 9/11 scepticism:
http://outsidethebluepillcave.blogspo...

#1

For a full list of doubters:
http://patriotsquestion911.com/

Military leaders questioning the OCT:
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/...

CIA veterans doubting:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/gene...

Engineers & architects doubting:
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Physicists doubting:
http://physics911.net/

Pilots doubting:
http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/

High-level officials doubting:
http://911proof.com/7.html

In a recent Zogby International poll (September 06, 2007):
51% of Americans want Congress to probe Bush/Cheney regarding 9/11 attacks;
over 30% seek immediate impeachment;
67% fault 9/11 Commission for not investigating anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7
http://911truth.org/article.php?story...

Protest in Brussels for 911 Truth (09 Sep 2007):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyuwQY...

Violence is the answer!

2010-09-11T08:28:00.001-05:00

Living Church of God Commentary: Violence is not the answer
Many people have the idea that God loves war and is a bloodthirsty, violent God. What these critics fail to understand is that the true God of the Bible is actually a God of peace. Read more

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The Bible condemns senseless violence, however the God of War will enforce peace through strength, won't He? The Prince of Peace will speak in the only language some seem to understand. Why pretend otherwise? Why try to be more righteous than God?

The God of Jacob will force folks to learn His ways or else. After all, He's going to rule with a rod of iron - not a pussy willow; He's the Lion of God, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah - not some pussy.

Violence, as necessary, is the answer and it is called for in the Law of Moses. The wise know to make this biblical distinction (Ezekiel 44:23).

Exodus 15:3
The LORD is a man of war; The LORD is His name.

Psalm 2:9
You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.

Revelation 2:27
‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’

Zechariah 14
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Onward Christian Soldiers!

Separation of Church and State? Says Who?

God's One Government Has Two Branches!

http://www.davidbenariel.org/

War, Europe (European Army)

2010-09-09T08:52:00.001-05:00

Newsletter 2010/09/09 - War, Europe's Backbone

BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Own report) - Politicians in Berlin are using the German imposed dictate of EU austerity to renew the demand for the creation of an EU Army. The strict application of the so-called stability criteria, put through by the German government, imposes drastic austerity measures on all EU member states, which could even cut into their military budgets, according to Berlin. This cannot be achieved except at the expense of a loss of military power, unless steps are taken toward consolidating all of the individual armed forces in Europe using the synergic effects to reinforce the united European army. Berlin has been pursuing this objective for years, confronting - at times open - resistance inside the EU as well as from the United States. Germany has been pushing these plans to enhance its position - with military means - in the new constellation of global forces being created by China's rise to become a world power. The German liberal press explains that a combat-ready EU Army would "almost be like a new backbone for Europe."

more
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/57867

Is Sunday the Mark of the Beast?

2010-09-09T07:47:00.001-05:00

The MARK of the BEAST
by Herbert W. Armstrong
1952

Better be sure whether this brand is upon you! Without it, no man will be able to buy or sell! Without it, you may be tortured even unto death! But with it, you shall suffer the SEVEN LAST PLAGUES OF GOD

The MARK of the BEAST

Islam is evil!

2010-09-08T15:14:00.001-05:00

Death to America: Major American Cities Targeted by Terrorists?

Will Providence permit foreign murderers in our midst (in attitude, if not yet in action) to unleash nuclear fires within our major cities? Will militant minorities work with them against us? Won't our British-Israelite brethren suffer the same within their respective biblical inheritances?

Ohio Mosque Promotes Murder!

I repeated the "spiritual lesson" to the imam and asked him if the Muslims had any such saying. He replied that the Jews create such spurious sayings in order to discredit Islam and Arabs. I then shocked him, and the audience, when I asked: "If that's not a Muslim story, and is spurious and created by the Jews, then why would you, as the leader of this Islamic community permit that very story to be published in your newsletter last month?" He was speechless.

Toledo, Islam, and Terrorists
One day they purposely showed me a newsletter from the Islamic Center in Perrysburg that had a story from the Haddith -- saying attributed to Mohammad -- that spoke of a war in the last days between Jews and Muslims, and how Jews would hide behind trees and the trees would say, "There's a Jew behind me, kill him!" except for one tree that would shelter the Jews.

Behind the Veil of Islam

It's sad to see some pull the veil over the eyes of innocent Americans with disarming and deceitful portrayals of Islam as well-assimilated and innocuous. Let the rest of the story be told

Rosh Hashana Greetings from the Temple Institute 5771

2010-09-08T08:31:00.001-05:00

The Temple Institute wishes to all our friends and supporters, to all the House of Israel, and to all who love the G-d of Israel, a very sweet new year.

May this year of health and happiness, peace and prosperity for all, also be the year of the rebuilding of the Holy Temple and the renewal of the Divine service.

It's none of the government's business!

2010-09-08T07:05:00.001-05:00

"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve."
-- Henry George
(1839-1897) American political economist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.George.Quote.3F9B

"One of the most profound and exciting times of my life"

2010-09-07T17:30:00.000-05:00

Rob Acquroff from Australia writes in response to Kibbutz Dan photos -

Hi, I was a volunteer on Kibbutz Dan in 1972, I left just prior to the October War. I spent 3 months there and I was 20 years old. There were about 50 volunteers on the Kibbutz at the time from all over the world. It was one of the most profound and exciting times of my life, full of new experiences, interesting travel and all mixed in with hard work and meeting new people. I am not Jewish but had been attracted to kibbutz life since learning about it at school in Australia where I grew up and still reside. If you still keep in contact with the families of Kibbutz Dan please pass on my regards and tell them of the very fond memories I have of my time there.

Rob Acquroff

Tomorrow night is Rosh Hashana! Get ready with Aish.com

2010-09-07T15:08:00.000-05:00

Rosh Hashana: Why Judgment Day?
by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky God's memory and the substance of eternity.

Rosh Hashana: Two Tracks to God
by Lori Palatnik Thanking God and struggling with Him at the same time.

We Are All Miners
by Ari Taback The Chile mine saga and a message for the High Holidays.

Holocaust Overload?
by Rabbi Yaakov Salomon Should a French history teacher be suspended for “over-emphasizing” the Holocaust?

Acceptance
by Emuna Braverman The healthy response to all of life’s challenges, including Rosh Hashana.

The Jewish Ethicist: Hiring Miring
by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir, Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem How fair does fair consideration have to be?

Dating Maze #316: Uncertain Future
by Rosie Einhorn, L.C.S.W. and Sherry Zimmerman, J.D., M.Sc. He’s not fazed by her moving halfway across the world.

Great Expectations
by Rabbi Avi Shafran During the first days of the Jewish year everything matters.

Revisiting the Infamous Photo
by HonestReporting.com 10 years later, Tuvia Grossman meets the soldier who saved his life.

Aish.com's High Holiday Reader
by Aish.com Staff An inspiring and thought-provoking compendium of 12 articles that will transform your High Holiday experience. Free!

Living Church of God Commentary: "In pastures green"

2010-09-07T13:39:00.001-05:00

Commentary: "In pastures green"

By Davy Crockett | Tuesday, September 07, 2010

In this time when we are all being urged to "go green" in every part of our daily lives, we may lose sight of the word picture painted in the 23rd Psalm, which is probably the most oft quoted Psalm in the Bible. I like the way it is expressed in the old English hymn by William Havergal, a well-known writer of hymns (1793-1870).
Read more

Successful Economic Policies? For Whom?

2010-09-07T13:24:00.001-05:00

Congressman Paul's Texas Straight Talk

“Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an unemployment rate of 7.7% and promised a peak of no higher than 8% if their policies were followed. Not only does the administration have a funny way of ending a war, but now they claim their economic policies are successful. For whom, I wonder?”

Click here to read the full article: http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1769:successful-economic-policies-for-whom&catid=31:texas-straight-talk

Alternate link: http://paul.house.gov/

Secret Societies

2010-09-07T07:16:00.001-05:00

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist
Source: 1876
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Disraeli.Quote.504C

David Ben-Ariel: August 2010 Monthly Article Performance Summary

2010-09-06T08:10:00.001-05:00

Obama dogs Ohio!

2010-09-05T17:17:00.001-05:00

The Jew Returns - The Arab Awakens

2010-09-04T17:54:00.000-05:00

Pillar Of Fire

These clips are from the best documentary series ever made on the creation of Israel. It Appeared on Israel TV in 1986. You can select any part or clip from the menu on You Tube. Worth watching. Yamit

Pillar of Fire – Part 1 4/6 The Jew Returns – The Arab Awakens (1896-1920)

Click here to view the embedded video.
Pillar of Fire – Part 1 5/6 The Jew Returns – The Arab Awakens (1896-1920)

Click here to view the embedded video.
Pillar of Fire – Part 1 6/6 The Jew Returns – The Arab Awakens (1896-1920)

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Adolf and Controversy

2010-09-04T17:39:00.002-05:00

Living Church of God Commentary: The quiet life

2010-09-04T10:52:00.001-05:00

The quiet life

By Richard A. Wilson (guest columnist) | Sabbath, September 04, 2010

Almost any time of the day, you can open your front door and get slammed in the face with a noisy, busy world based on false values and false education. Bravely, we say we aren’t really affected by what’s going on in the world. We can even claim that “we aren’t really part of what the world’s about these days.”

Peach Spotlight - David Hoover

2010-09-02T17:11:00.001-05:00

Peach Spotlight - David Hoover
Originally uploaded by DavidBenAriel

Losing the war on AIDS or losing foolish donors?

2010-09-02T12:22:00.001-05:00

Africa: Still Losing the War on AIDS
By Tomorrow’s World News Bureau
From Cape of Good Hope to southern edge of the Sahara, AIDS is gaining by leaps and bounds. Unaids, the United Nations agency charged with fighting the epidemic, reports that for every 100 people being treated, 250 are newly infected. Why is this deadly disease intensifying its spread, and what if anything can be done to stop it?

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It appears Tomorrow's World News Bureau has become another victim of the AIDS scam, assuming HIV causes AIDS when there is no concrete medical proof (as I've reminded my infectious disease doctor). Perhaps donor nations (and individuals) are down because they're suffering Africa fatigue. When isn't the Dark Continent constantly suffering from war or starvation? Many now realize that much of the money and concern has been dumped into a Black Hole (the coffers of the leaders of those nations who are supposedly being helped, the corrupt UN and the AIDS industry - the pharmaceutical companies) and basically benefits those promoting Africa's latest "crisis" and wonder why we should care more about Africa than they do, especially when we have plenty of our own people who could use our help and have it accounted for responsibly.

Here are a few resources to consider and come to a more balanced view:

How AIDS in Africa Was Overstated
Reliance on Data From Urban Prenatal Clinics Skewed Early Projections

The AIDS Scam
By Cliff Kincaid | August 23, 2006
Some of the money raised to fight AIDS has been spent on big salaries.

Dr. Peter Duesberg - Author of Inventing the AIDS Virus, this is Dr. Peter Duesberg's HIV/AIDS research website.

Duesberg's Pharmacology & Therapeutics monograph - This is Dr. Peter's Duesberg's definitive paper on AIDS and HIV, with links to each reference.

Rethinking AIDS - This is the official website of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis. It contains archives of their past newsletters, a large original document library, detailed information about the Group, who belongs to it, and how to join.

"Great principles of freedom and the rights of man..."

2010-09-01T07:33:00.001-05:00

"We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence."
-- Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: To Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1946
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.54BE

Four Israelis Murdered, including pregnant woman

2010-08-31T15:17:00.001-05:00

Israeli Naomi Ragen writes:

Friends,

Every time some well-meaning fool starts floating the word "peace" around, here in the Middle East, Israelis start getting murdered. Now is no exception. A car with two Israeli couples from Beit Chagai near Hebron was deliberately ambushed and all the passengers were shot at close range, including a pregnant woman. "Peace" talks? With whom? About what?

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For more articles,
please visit my Web page at: http://www.NaomiRagen.com

“10 Church Leaders Surrounded by Scandal”

2010-08-31T08:03:00.002-05:00

Hi David,
I recently discovered your blog, and I have become a frequent reader. My name is Mike with. christiancollegesonline.org and we recently published an article “10 Church Leaders Surrounded by Scandal” that dovetails well with your audience. Perhaps you would be interested in sharing with them? Here's the link to the article if you would like to take a quick look for yourself: (http://www.christiancollegesonline.org/blog/2010/10-church-leaders-surrounded-by-scandal/ ). You can also simply go to our homepage and check it out there.
Thanks again for the great content, and I hope the article I've linked primes your interest.

Regards,

Mike Vogt

Butterflly on Sunflower

2010-08-30T09:06:00.001-05:00

Butterflly on Sunflower
Originally uploaded by DavidBenAriel

Butterfly on Sunflower

2010-08-30T09:05:00.001-05:00

Butterfly on Sunflower
Originally uploaded by DavidBenAriel

Shimon Peres came to power over Rabin's dead body

2010-08-30T08:46:00.001-05:00

Restore America!

2010-08-29T21:15:00.001-05:00

The United States by Grand Design (White and Christian)

President Teddy Roosevelt said, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."

Renew America by Restoring White Dominance

We must renew America by restoring the racial dominance of people of white color as our former immigration policy insured (that the treacherous drunk and murderer Senator Ted Kennedy perverted in 1965).

Bosnian-Serb conflict

2010-08-29T17:48:00.000-05:00

How America Helped Hitler Kill Jews....."THE NAZI NEXUS"

DavidBenAriel says:

August 29, 2010 at 8:39 pm

Bosnian-Serb conflict

I remember when we were being bombarded with how the “Serbs are evil,” and I thought who says so? By what standard? Then The Philadelphia Trumpet began to expose how the United States was fighting Germany and the Vatican’s opposition, how we were betraying our former Serbian allies and supporting our former enemies!

US has Bosnian blood on its hands
A Jewish Albatross: the Serbs
Why are we fighting Germany’s wars?

Beyond Babylon

English Language Lecture and Conference Series

God's Perfect Timing

"Secret rapture? 144,000?"

Accounts of the Tabernacles

Religion and society

Wars and rumors of wars

Return to Zion?

Back to the Kibbutz

Erase Me From Your Book

The Vatican versus the Fourth Commandment

Ziggy Bear

Egyptian freedom fighters

The Arab world in crisis

Criticism of the Bible

Honor your Mother

Bible study

Mind of God

Catholic destruction of the Word of God

Congressman Paul's Texas Straight Talk

The awesome mind of God

Is religious syncretism a good thing?

Call for Christmas tree sellers to repent!

Call for Christmas tree sellers to repent!

Christmas tree owner's deceitful responses

God hates Christmas!

Fire in Northern Israel

Nigel Farage insults Belgium and EU President

A gracious song for healing from Jerusalem!

Death to Eurabia?

Eurabia: A Voice Cries Out in Defense of Europe's Heritage

With birthrates among traditional Europeans in decline while population growth in Europe's Muslim communities soars, one European voice asks whether Europe wants to preserve its cultural and religious identity. Will anyone listen before it's too late?

Read more - Eurabia

3 Missing Boys

God and the Gays

The forgotten scourge

Will to live

Heaven, Hell and Purgatory?

The End of America?

Enjoy life?

QE2 and the acceleration of America’s economic demise

EzineArticles.com Reports

Britain and France flirting with disaster

Jesus' Gentile background

Black Invention Myths

What is Israel waiting for?

Zion National Park

Obama dogs Ohio

Why darkness?

It's black and white

Yitzhak Rabin

What is Halloween all about?

Death of the dollar?

10 Famous Megachurch Founders and the Story Behind Them

Three-fifths of a man?

Healthy families

Armageddon?

God commands Israel to build the Temple!

Singing Stars

Gerald Flurry & the Philadelphia Church of God

Dresden: Never Forget!

Germany will rule the world?

Last Great Day

Muslim confiscates Christian Bible on Temple Mount

Jew Arrested on Temple Mount?

Priestly Blessing

Brokebank Mountain

Facebook: friend or foe?

New World Order?

Worldwide Church of God Feast of Tabernacles

Obama in drag?

Chag Sukkot: Festival of Joy

Holidays or Holy Days - Does it Matter Which Days We Observe?

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