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The
Warning for Jerusalem & Israel
The
Birth Pains & Beginning of Sorrows is Near

By all accounts,
we are
nearing the fulfillment of God's last-days prophecies. In Matthew
23:37-39, Jesus proclaimed, "Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how
often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her
chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look,
your house is left to you desolate. For I
tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who
comes in the Name of the LORD.”
Jerusalem's religious leaders'
rejection and the Roman crucifixion of Messiah 2,000 years ago set in motion
troubles ahead. In this regard, Yeshua forewarned that Jerusalem
and her citizens would experience periods of strife and
desolation until the return of the conquering Messiah, even though Israel
would be reestablished as a nation before His return. We yearn for
peace of this beloved city and her precious citizens. Her walls and sacred ground
represent such beautiful and enduring Biblical history. However, we cannot ignore the prophetic
Scriptures, which indicate God's ultimate plan is for the exaltation of the Holy City above--the New Jerusalem,
the City of
our God (Revelation
21-22) to take sinful Jerusalem's seat as the throne of God and home of the
victors.
That's the theme of the book of Revelation; literally, the demise of the old
(disobedient/adulterous/devastated Jerusalem--the great city) and the introduction of the new (righteous/bride, New Jerusalem).
The
beginning of the end-times will mirror the end of the end-times. At the end of
the end-times--the "time of Jacob's trouble"--Jerusalem (referred to in the book of Revelation in
derogatory terms: "Egypt"; "Sodom"; and, "Babylon") will
be destroyed once and for all; likewise, at the beginning point of the counting days of
prophecy, Jerusalem will
experience massive desolation from which it will partially recover during
the
troubled last days. This is the catalyst that sets in motion Bible
prophecy and the appointed time of the end. How do we know?
There
are several reasons. First, because Zechariah
prophesied the taking down of the mighty mountain before the capstone
(finishing stone) is laid on the rebuilt temple, before the true and
living Capstone Messiah arrives: "What
are you, mighty mountain... you will
become level ground. Then he will
bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”
Zechariah 4:7. Second, Daniel
9 then clearly states, "Know and understand this: From the time the word
goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one
[Elijah], the ruler,
comes, there will be seven ‘sevens [49 days],’ and sixty-two ‘sevens
[434 days].’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in
times of trouble" (Daniel
9:25). The need to restore Jerusalem from the ground
up, including water/sewage systems and streets, indicates a massive
rebuilding from deep-ground, earth-shattered ruins. And, the fact that the
restoration of the religious sites cannot begin immediately, taking over
two years after the devastation for the rebuilding decree to be issued,
proves that enormous political/religious turmoil will follow the collapse
of the Temple Mount and its structures and the Western Wall plaza, which will delay the
restoration as arguments rage over what can and will be rebuilt and how,
including the third and last temple on the Temple Mount.
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Jewish
Tradition
"Since
the Arab Islamic foreign occupation of the land of Israel,
Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount — after building the mosque and
Dome of the Rock, it was a Jewish tradition that in the time of
the redemption of Israel when the people of Israel again dwell in
the land and the State of Israel is re-established, the G-d of
Israel will cause a strong earthquake which will completely remove
these foreign houses of pagan worship from the Temple Mount. The
Temple Mount will be ready for the rebuilding for the building of
the Third Temple... scientists stated that a very strong
earthquake will occur in the coming future and the epicenter of
the earthquake will be on the Temple Mount and the Old City."
TempleMountFaithful.org
Related
Article, March 3, 2017 Earthquake Activity in Israel Confirms
Revelation 11
Related
Article, July 11, 2018 When a major earthquake rippled through
Jerusalem
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Third, Daniel
12:11-12 speaks of daily worship that will be taken away at the
Temple Mount/Western Wall, indicating massive damage to the city's most
important sites of worship, and by implication Jerusalem as a whole.
This tragedy (Pt.
8, The Kingdom Calendar) will initiate the two longest prophetic
counting periods (1,290 and 1,335
days). When
the Temple Mount/Western Wall shakes and falls into heaps of ruin, along with the
Dome of the Rock, Muslims will rise up in fierce anger against Israel. Israelis have
already been
blamed for tunneling under the Mount in what Muslims consider a
Jewish conspiracy to destroy their sacred shrines. Fourth, Revelation
11:1-2 also indicates a rebuilding of the Temple Mount, and with it a
third temple structure, while international Gentile forces secure the area:
"I was given a reed like a measuring rod
and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its
worshipers. But
exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to
the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months."
Fifth, Zechariah warns, "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a 'cup of trembling' unto all the people round
about," (12:2),
both at the beginning of the end, and at THE END. Sixth, Jesus Himself warned of
local and global troubles--"nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom," and
"there will be... earthquakes
in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains," (Matthew
24:7-8). And finally, Gog and Magog will come from the north
against the land of Israel where walls and gates have been broken down
and leveled, but also a land protected by Gentile armies and dwelling
in a false sense of safely, "On
that Day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil
scheme. You
will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack
a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls
and without gates and bars," (Ezekiel
39:10-11).
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Muslim
Retribution
Egyptian Islamic
theologian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi seeks total war with Israel, particularly
if the al-Aqsa Mosque is destroyed for any reason. He calls upon all
Muslims to defend Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque: "Sheikh
Qaradawi represents the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood... The
Muslim Brotherhood is the god-father of all Jihadists that exist
within Islam today. Obviously, this does not bode well for Israel.
He says, "It is “obligatory upon every Muslim wherever he is
to defend Jerusalem, and al-Aqsa Mosque. This is an obligation upon
all Muslims to participate in defending Jerusalem with their souls,
money, and all that they possess.” Qaradawi warns Muslims not to
be friends with Jews, because such friendship might diminish their
desire to wage jihad against Israel." Source:
The Atlantic |
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Once the
Temple Mount collapses, Middle East war will escalate into a massive jihad against
Israel as the end-times begin. This will continue to bolster Western
alliances to protect Israel--part of the World War 3 devastation that can only be stopped
by supernatural and deceptive sky events, the new world leader
(Antichrist) and the great reset, whom Satan will reveal just weeks after the desolation
of Jerusalem. "The
coming [onto the world scene] of the lawless one will be in accordance
with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through
signs and wonders that serve the lie, and
all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish
because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For
this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe
the lie and
so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have
delighted in wickedness," (2
Thessalonians 2:9-12).
As
already mentioned, The Kingdom Calendar
indicates there will be a delay in the full rebuilding of the city due to the massive turmoil that
has hit Planet Earth and the volatile religious/political nature of the
beloved city,
but at least streets, a water system and some religious structures will
eventually be rebuilt "in times of trouble" (Daniel
9:25). However,
prophecy warns us near the end of the 70 literal weeks (490 days, not
years--Daniel
9:24) Jerusalem's religious/political leaders will then allow the Man of Sin into the city and onto the Temple
Mount as a final rejection of God's Word and the prophets' warnings.
Just before this abominable act, the city
and nations will be warned by God's two last prophets (Elijah and Moses); but their council will be rejected, and both will be killed
and left to decay in Jerusalem's streets while the nations celebrate their martyrdom (Revelation
11:8-10). Jesus said it once, and He says it again in the
prophetic warnings of Daniel and Revelation, "Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets...your
house is left to you desolate." The historical record
shows, Israel has methodically persecuted and even killed the prophets God sent to them,
including
those who warned that desolation was about to crush the city in 587/586 BC.
Yeshua, the greatest Prophet, gave the same warning of destruction and was nailed to a cross
to die; even so, Jerusalem's demise arrived 40 years later in
70 AD,
just as he had prophesied. The last days will be
no different; God's prophets will warn, but will be rejected and scorned;
and, as foretold the final
desolation will come to the city, the nation and then the world. God's
witnesses will make the case for Jerusalem's final desolation: "A
matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses,"
(Deuteronomy
17:6). Peter
wrote to the scattered Jews, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey
not the gospel of God?" (1
Peter 4:17).
Yeshua's
warning applies to the last generation in Jerusalem and Israel, "So
when you see standing in the holy place [on the Temple Mount] ‘the
abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet
Daniel—let the reader understand— then
let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let
no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house.
Let no one in the field go back to
get their cloak. How
dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing
mothers! Pray that your
flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For
then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the
world until now—and never to be equaled again," (Matthew
24:15-21). Luke adds this, when Antichrist sets up the abomination
in Jerusalem and the nations come up against Israel, surrounding the
city: “When you see Jerusalem
being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.
Then let those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains, let those in the city
[of Jerusalem] . For
this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been
written. How dreadful it
will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There
will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people,"
(Luke
21:20-23).
Whether
Jew, Christian or Muslim, we all admire the city we know as Jerusalem, and we
mourn for those who live and will die in the city and in Israel, if
they fail to run for their lives. Her history is unsurpassed and religious significance
beyond description; however, this cannot make up for her past, present and
future sins. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem, while understanding the
historical reality of the city's previous destructive events (586 BC
and 70 AD). Tranquility and eternal
protection is not a Scriptural promise for the beloved earthly city--only
of the heavenly City; and, this is where our citizenship is held (Philippians
3:20), the place Jesus Himself promised to build and take us to (John
14:1-3).
False prophets of the past proclaimed Jerusalem would never be destroyed, in trying to comfort
the wounded with words of calm. They sneered at God's chosen prophets and
their warnings and claimed "peace, peace... when there is no
peace," (Jeremiah
6:13-14). And, the warning is repeated... we will see
earthquakes and major Middle East war, along with widespread
death and destruction in Jerusalem and throughout the land of Israel. The
strife will
bring about "the beginning of birth pains," as told in Matthew
24:8. However, as in life when contractions and intense pain begin, we know that a birth is about to take
place. Likewise, spiritually speaking, the trials of Israel indicate
the
birth of a new "righteous" nation (Isaiah
66:7-11)--those faithful who will enter the eternal Kingdom of God and
the New Jerusalem. The New City is large enough for all who desire to
live there. God's grace is big enough for all who will repent and
trust in Jesus, Yeshua our Savior and King.
The
Wise Will Understand
We can
know how events of the last days will
unfold, because God promised this to the wise. The last generation of believers have the
assurance of the unsealing--a more
thorough understanding of final events: "Daniel, roll up and seal
the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and
there to increase knowledge,” (Daniel
12:4). This knowledge centers around
the
mysterious 1,290
days and 1,335 days of Daniel
12:10-12: "None of the wicked will
understand, but those who are wise will understand. From the
time that the daily [worship]... is abolished [at the Western Wall &
Temple Mount] and the abomination that causes desolation is set up [on the
Temple Mount], there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for
and reaches the end of the 1,335 days." This points to that
disastrous earth-shaking tragedy (link)
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that will stop daily worship at the Western Wall and Temple Mount soon, in
our day--quite likely in early 2021 at Purim around February 26-28. This is the
decisive Jerusalem event that will begin the prophetic counting periods of the
appointed time of the end noted on The Kingdom Calendar.
Along with widespread death and bloodshed in Israel, the
eventual devastation of Jerusalem,
and wider Middle East and World War (followed by demonic signs, likely Marian
apparitions and the introduction of the Man of sin that halts the global
devastation), Gentile troops will enter the city to
restore order, trampling on Jerusalem for 42 months (1,260 days--Revelation
11:2). The greater
part of the military forces could be European NATO troops, since the majority of Israelis
approve of a NATO presence in the West Bank (International
Troops Bound for West Bank?), which western border runs through
the city of Jerusalem.
The
Facts on the Ground
Later
during
the time of trouble that follows, by decree the city and Temple
Mount with religious structures will be rebuilt in Jerusalem (Daniel
9:25).
Randall
Price wrote, "The most volatile 35 acres on earth are undoubtedly
those comprising a rectangular platform in East Jerusalem on which the
ancient Jewish Temple once stood. Both the Old Testament (Is. 1:2-3; Ezek.
37:26-28; 40-48; Dan. 9:27; Mic. 4:1-2; Hag. 2:7-9; Zech 6:12-15; 14:20)
and the New Testament (Mt. 24:15; Mk. 13:14; 2Th.2:4; Rev. 11:1-2) affirm
that a new Temple [maybe only a partial one] will once again occupy this platform as part of God's
end-time program for the nation of Israel," Time
for a Temple."
A
survey
back in
July, 2009, found that "64%
want the Temple to be rebuilt. Almost two thirds of Israelis,
including half of seculars would like to see the Temple rebuilt, [and] believe
it is important." (see also:
What? Muslim leader wants Temple rebuilt! and World’s
Largest Temple Model Inaugurated next to Temple Mount).
However, ultimately the rebuilding will be used for the wrong purposes;
the majority of Israelis and Gentiles will admire the Man of Sin. For 42
months (1,260 days--Revelation
13:4-8) he will rule the planet, and near the end of
prophetic time the populous will rejoice at the death of God's two prophets, who prophesy
during the same 1,260 days (Revelation
11:3-4). They
will be taken out of the way, and the European Antichrist will be allowed (by political and religious
leaders in Israel)
to step in procession onto the rebuilt Temple Mount. There he will
set up the abomination and proclaim himself not just a great world leader, but
the Divine Himself (2
Thessalonians 2:1-4).
This will be the ultimate insult to Yahweh, who will quickly bring
desolation to Jerusalem and Israel which will spread out across the entire
globe through the sounding of the trumpet woes and pouring out of the vial
plagues.
When the Lawless One (see titles
given him in the Scriptures) enters rebuilt Jerusalem and onto the rebuilt
Temple
Mount to set up his abomination,
the warnings of Matthew
24:15-21, Luke
21:20-22 and Revelation
18:2-5 must be heeded at all cost.
The end of the end-times will come--called the Great Tribulation. The beloved city will burn in one day, for it is the time of punishment in
fulfillment of all that has been written. "Therefore in one day
her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be
consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her,"
(Revelation
18:8). "With such violence the great city of Babylon will
be thrown down, never to be found again...In her was found the
blood of prophets and of God’s holy people, of all who have been
slaughtered on the earth," (Revelation
18:21, 24).
Jesus Himself makes this clear when he
railed against Jerusalem's religious leaders in His day, "I
am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will
kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue
from town to town. And so
upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah
son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Truly I tell you, all this will
come on this generation. “Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how
often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers
her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look,
your house is left to you desolate," (Matthew
23:34-38).
The Wedding
in Heaven at Sukkot
These are not pleasant
predictions,
for we all hold the beloved city in our hearts. However, the armies that surround her will destroy her in
response to Antichrist's proclamation he is "God" Himself;
this is prophecy's clear warning. In turn, the adulterous Jerusalem will be replaced by
the Heavenly City, the righteous bride--the New Jerusalem, just after her
stoning. Immediately following her demise by her lovers,
recorded in Revelation
18, the wedding
will commence in Heaven at Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) recorded in Revelation
19:7-9, and the resurrected
tribulation saints--the great multitude of all nations--Jew and Gentile
alike will enter
with Yeshua the Messiah into the eternal City of God as her adornment
forevermore.
A
Jewish Teaching--the Sukkot Wedding
Jerusalem's final tragedy and the
timing of the wedding at the Feast of Tabernacles--Sukkot (see The Kingdom
Calendar--Pt 20) is emphasized by Jewish Rabbi Dr.
Shlomo Riskin: "On
Rosh HaShanah we pray that G-d be proclaimed King over the entire world,
that the Sacred Marriage, which will bring unity to the world, shall come
about immediately. On Yom Kippur we are transported to the Holy Temple,
the nuptial canopy; the High Priest proclaims everyone purified, we hear
the triumphant trumpet-shofar of the Almighty, we cry out: 'Hear Oh
Israel, the Lord our G-d, The Lord is One, Blessed be the Name of His
glorious Kingdom forever, the Lord (of Israel) he is G-d (of the world).'
"But
alas, this is all a dream - a glorious dream - but not yet a reality. And
so immediately after we awaken from the dream, with the blast of the
shofar, we must build our modest sukkah, symbol of the exile of the Divine
Presence, move into that sukkah with our entire family, and pray that the
'Merciful One re-establish for us the fallen tabernacle of King David' and
transform our small sukkah into the Eternal Temple; at that time [at
Sukkot, the
Feast of Tabernacles] all nations [see Revelation
7:9] will flock to
attend the Sacred Marriage of the Divine and the redemption of all
humanity."
Source
1: Sukkot
and the Wedding Feast.
Source
2: Think
of Sukkot as a joyous wedding under the chuppah
Jerusalem's Demise
Foretold
Revisit
the Evidence
The Scriptures speak with so much clarity
on this subject that anyone remaining in the doomed city of Jerusalem
will have no excuse. When the religious and political leaders of
Israel allow the Man of Sin with his demonic entourage into the city
against the warnings of God's Word and His prophets to set up his long foretold
abomination on the Temple Mount in the newly erect edifice, God's wrath
will quickly be unleashed and the armies of the nations will respond
with unbridled destruction upon Jerusalem and one another. The few
days that remain of human history will commence, and
with it the 40 days of Great Tribulation, which will climax at
Armageddon.
"So when you see standing in the
holy place [Temple Mount in Jerusalem] 'the abomination that causes
desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader
understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let
no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the
house. Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it
will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that
your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then
there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world
until now—and never to be equaled again," (Matthew
24:15-21).
The corresponding verses in Luke relay the
warning with added clarity, "When you see Jerusalem being
surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then
let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the
City [of Jerusalem] get out, and let those in the country not enter
the City [of Jerusalem]. For this is the time of punishment in
fulfillment of all that has been written," (Luke
21:20-22).
"Fallen!
Fallen is [Jerusalem] Babylon the Great! She has become a home for
demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and
detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of
her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and
the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries
[wealthy bankers and merchants]."
Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her
[Jerusalem], My people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that
you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to
heaven, and God has remembered her crimes," (Revelation
18:2-5).
In Conclusion:
God Warns Israel in Jeremiah 18:1-12
The
Potter and the Clay
The word
which came to Jeremiah from the Lord,
saying: “Arise
and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to
hear My words.” Then
I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making
something at the wheel. And
the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter;
so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the
potter to make. Then
the word of the Lord
came to me, saying: “O
house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord.
“Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are
you in My hand, O house of Israel! The
instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck
up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if
that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will
relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And
the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to
build and to plant it, if
it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I
will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it. “Now
therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you.
Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your
doings good.”’" But, God’s
warning is rejected: And
they said, “That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own
plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart.”
This passage and the ancient prophetic oracles recorded in the Sacred Scriptures have been given
by the Spirit of God to warn and to help us live, by faith, through the greatest trial
of human history. We will need God’s guidance day by day and hour
by hour, through some of the
most convincing satanic deceptions ever to be visited upon mankind.
Preachers, priests and rabbis, along with other popular prophetic teachers
and personalities, will
proclaim Jerusalem's safety, and that she could never be destroyed, because
her downfall does not fit their traditional views. True prophets
of old were killed for making the same predictions about Jerusalem's
destruction in the past (as will be the last two martyrs), but history
proves that Jerusalem can be destroyed and she certainly faces turmoil and ruin during the last days. Her final demise could be averted, if the
religious and governmental leaders of Israel would heed the warnings of
God and His prophetic Word.
Nevertheless, they won't listen to God's counselors, and the
people will suffer all the more. The two witnesses will proclaim one last
warning to Jerusalem and the nations, as it is stated in the Word repeatedly
"every
matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses,"
2
Corinthians 13:1. However, after the two witnesses' 1,260 day ministry
is complete, their power will be broken. "It
will be for a time, times and half a time [1,260 days], When the power
of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be
completed," (Daniel
12:7). The masses will
celebrate the demonic overthrow of God's last prophet rulers (Revelation
11:7-12), and will clamor to see Antichrist walk onto the restored Temple
Mount, admiring him as he walks up the pathway that will lead to the destruction of
Jerusalem, Israel and all nations. As predicted, he will proclaim himself the
"DIVINE"--the One long foretold who will save the planet (2
Thessalonians 2:1-4). However, upon hearing this boastful
announcement, Messiah will respond with His sudden but powerful visitation
that will shake the city and the world (Malachi
3:1-2); then, the nations will burn the city with explosive
firepower.
To
the world's dismay, the beloved city of Jerusalem and people who inhabit
her (Jews, Christians and Muslims)--those who remain and do not run
for their lives--will fall in the earthquake and fiery desolation that quickly follows. Revelation
11:13 declares, "At that very hour there was a severe
earthquake and a tenth [the sacred; that which is God's--the
Temple Mount] of the city [Jerusalem] collapsed."
Revelation
16:18-19 adds, "Then there came flashes of lightning,
rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake
like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so
tremendous was the quake. The great city [Jerusalem] split into
three parts [symbolically and literally dividing her three
religions--Judaism, Christianity, Islam], and the cities of the
nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great [Jerusalem] and
gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of His wrath."
We know the real
proof of any prophetic view is found in the actual unfolding of events.
And, if events match the predictions of The
Kingdom Calendar, please follow the guidance offered to
you. Join in this journey of discovery with us into God's prophetic Word, and together we can walk by
faith through the events of these last days and into the Kingdom of God,
which is at hand. Unrelenting disasters will hit and daily worship at the Western
Wall/Temple Mount will abruptly end; then the counting of prophetic time will begin in a
progressive march towards the end of the age. During this period of turmoil,
evil in its most vial forms will raise its ugly head with intense
persecution and hatred of others. Let us
never forget mankind's depth of depravity that unfolded in the death of
millions just 75 years ago (Auschwitz
Album).
May
God bless you and your family with wisdom, and the peace that only He can give by
trusting, day by day, in our Savior, our Friend and returning King. "The
Lord bless you and
keep you; the Lord
make His face shine on you and be
gracious to you; the
Lord turn His face toward you and
give you peace,” (Numbers
6:24-26).
EXTRA:
Israel's
Earthquake History: Source
The
Holy Land is a region where earthquakes occur frequently. Devastating
quakes have been documented during thousands of years, causing
damages to structures and people. Many structures have been repaired,
rebuilt or abandoned over the years, as attested in most of the historical
sites.
Israel
sits on the Syria-African
rift, which runs along the Dead
sea Valley. It passes through the area thought to be the sites of Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the city of Jericho, which still stands today. The
Biblical accounts of the destruction of the twin cities of evil, and the
later account of the falling walls of Jericho, could very well be
interpreted as divinely powered geologic catastrophes. Read
more at BreakingNews.com
Below
is a timeline summary of the greatest quakes, a sample list of sites where
the earthquakes caused damages, links and references to additional
information.
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Earthquake
Events |
|
Late
Bronze (LB) |
1550
BC |
1200BC |
|
|
Early
Israelite |
1200
BC |
1000BC |
- 1050BC: Earthquake in southern
Negev
|
|
Middle/Late
Israelite |
1000
BC |
586BC |
- 759BC - Earthquake in Lebanon
|
|
Babylonian/Persian |
586
BC |
332BC |
- 525BC - Earthquake and
Tsunami, west of Lebanon
|
|
Hellenistic |
332
BC |
37BC |
- 138BC - Earthquake, Tsunami
floods Acre
|
|
Early
Roman |
37BC |
70AD |
- 31BC: Major earthquake in
Jordan valley, 10,000 dead
- 33AD: Earthquake in Jerusalem
|
|
Late
Roman |
70AD |
324AD |
|
|
Byzantine |
324
AD |
634AD |
- 363: Severe earthquake in
Galilee and Israel
- 419: Earthquake in Mt Carmel
area
- 498: earthquake in
Sharon/Judea region
- 551: Severe earthquake west of
Jordan valley
|
|
Arab |
634
AD |
1099 |
- 658: Major earthquake
- 749: severe earthquake in
Jordan valley (>7 magnitude)
- 1033: severe earthquake in
Jerusalem and Samaria
- 1068: Earthquake in southern
Negev
|
|
Crusader |
1099
AD |
1250AD |
- 1160: Earthquake in Judea
- 1202: Earthquake near Sea of
Galilee
|
|
Mamluk |
1250
AD |
1517AD |
- 1293: Earthquake south of Dead
Sea
- 1458: Earthquake south of Dead
Sea
|
|
Ottoman |
1517
AD |
1920AD |
- 1546: Earthquake in Sharon
area
- 1759: Earthquake in the Golan
- 1822: Earthquake
- 1837: Earthquake in the Jordan
valley
- 1856: Major earthquake;
Tiberias destroyed
|
|
British
Mandate |
1920AD |
1948AD |
- 1927: Earthquake in Dead sea
area (6.3 magnitude)
|
|
State
of Israel |
1948AD |
present |
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