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The Israeli president tells the Egyptian president that Israel has no intentions of building a temple on the Temple Mount
Nov 23rd, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

At a meeting in Cairo, Egypt, Israeli President Shimon Peres told the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that the Israeli government has no intentions of building a temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and he is sorry for the frequent rumors and lies that keep creating fabricated crises. Mubarak said that Jerusalem is not only a Palestinian problem but a pan-Arab problem and Israel will suffer if a just solution is not found for the final status of Jerusalem.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The statement by the Israeli president that Israel has no intentions of building a temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem may be Israeli government policy but it contradicts Bible prophecy.

The continuing conflict about the status of the city of Jerusalem is always on any agenda of the meetings between Israeli leaders and other world leaders. Thus was the case when recently Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hosted Israeli President Shimon Peres in Cairo, Egypt. Mubarak warned Israel that the status of Jerusalem is not only a Palestinian problem but it is a pan-Arab issue as well and especially the status of the Temple Mount. Over the years, there have been continuing rumors that Jews were going to storm the Temple Mount and build their temple on this sacred holy site. Most of these rumors originating from Moslem sources.

The claim by the Israeli president that the Israeli government has no intentions of building a temple on the Temple Mount may be correct but it indeed does contradict the prophetic scenario for the Temple Mount and the coming temple. 3000 years ago, the Lord promised King David that their would be a temple on the Temple Mount forever (Davidic Covenant - II Samuel 7). The Jewish prophet Zechariah revealed that the Messiah would come one day to build that temple (Zechariah 1:16; 6:12-13). The priest-prophet Ezekiel described the temple that Jesus will build in the future kingdom to come on the Temple Mount (Ezekiel 40-46).

Though the Israeli government has no intentions of building a temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Bible prophecy says there will be a temple there and may be very soon. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Religious Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience If Laws Don’t Respect Faith
Nov 23rd, 2009
Daily NewsNewsmax.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline

A formidable coalition of 150 Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical leaders are calling on Christians in a new manifesto to reject secular authority – and even engage in civil disobedience – if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideas that betray their religious beliefs.

On Friday, these leaders released a 4,700-word document – called the "The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience."

The document was signed by leaders ranging from evangelical leader Chuck Colson to two of the leading Catholic prelates in the U.S., Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, and calls on Christians to engage in civil disobedience to defend their doctrines.

The document also blasts the Obama administration, saying that social ills have grown since the election of President Obama, an abortion rights advocate, along with an erosion of what it calls "marriage culture" with the rise of divorce, greater acceptance of infidelity and the uncoupling of marriage from childbearing.

Colson says the project is aimed at instilling social conservative beliefs in a new generation of believers.

"We argue that there is a hierarchy of issues," he told The New York Times. "A lot of younger evangelicals say they're all alike. We're hoping to educate them that these are the three most important issues" – abortion marriage and religious liberty.

"We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them," says the declaration, which was drafted by Colson, an evangelical, and Princeton University professor Robert P. George, a Roman Catholic.

The declaration lists the "fundamental truths" as the "sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and the rights of conscience and religious liberty."

"Throughout the centuries, Christianity has taught that civil disobedience is not only permitted, but sometimes required," says the document which cited civil rights icon Martin Luther King and his willingness to go to jail for his beliefs.

"Because we honor justice and the common good," it states, "we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide or euthanasia or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family."

George and other signers backed off from specifically defining what civil disobedience may entail. Wuerl's office played down the civil disobedience wording, saying he wasn't urging Catholics to "do anything specific," his spokeswoman Susan Gibbs told The Washington Post. "That wasn't something we had talked about."

"We certainly hope it doesn't come to that," said George, who told The Washington Times that he has represented a West Virginia resident who has refused to pay a portion of her state income tax that funds abortions. "However, we see case after case of challenges to religious liberty," such as compelling pharmacists to carry abortifacient drugs or health care workers to assist in abortions, he added.

"When the limits of conscience are reached and you cannot comply, it's better to suffer a wrong than to do it," he said.

Unveiling the declaration Friday, Archbishop Wuerl appeared at a news conference in the District of Columbia even as the Church was considering a city-proposed compromise on its same-sex marriage measure.

He and other Church officials say the bill would require faith-based groups like Catholic Charities to extend benefits to married same-sex partners, thus forcing Christians to abandon their religious liberty. On Friday, Catholic Charities of Boston halted adoption services rather than comply with state law and allow children to be adopted by homosexual couples.

Other signatories to the document include Cardinal Justin Rigali, outgoing chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities; Pentecostal leader Harry Jackson, pastor of a Beltsville church; evangelical activist Tony Perkins; and National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson.

Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told Newsweek the point of the Declaration is really to avoid mistakes of the past, such as when religious leaders did not stand up early enough against no-fault divorce, which he says led directly to the breakup of families and high divorce rates.

“I’m a former police officer, and I have hard time with civil disobedience, but if it comes to the point where our religious liberty is at risk, I’d not only participate but would encourage people to resist.”

The leaders are urging the public to sign the online document.

Iran: We'll Send Our Ballistic Missiles to Tel Aviv
Nov 23rd, 2009
Daily NewsJerusalem Newswire - Stan Good Enough
Categories: Commentary;The Nation Of Israel;Anti-Israel

Before the dust settles from Israel's attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic will send its ballistic missiles into the very heart of Tel Aviv.

This was spelled out at the weekend by a deputy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative in the Revolutionary Guards, Mojtaba Zolnour.

It came hours before Iran launched what it described as "huge" war games intended to "promote [the] military power of the armed forces against any attack," according to a Brigadier General Ahmad Mighani quoted in Iranian television.

The verbal threats and military exercises comprise the latest saber rattling on the part of the Muslims in Tehran - a leadership that regularly denies the Holocaust even as it prepares to perpetuate another once against Israel.

Instead of forcefully confronting the genocidal government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the United States and European Union have done nothing more effective than repeatedly threaten sanctions.

Iran has made full use of the space afforded it by this appeasement approach to race ahead with its efforts to achieve nuclear capability.

In the words of a Christian Zionist who served for many years as a tank commander in Israel's Armored Corps - the international community is nearly ready to allow a second Holocaust to take place.

"Israel has become a thorn in the flesh of the world," he said. The sooner it is erased from the Middle East the happier mankind will be.

Iran Backers Funding U.S. Universities
Nov 23rd, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

An Islamic, Manhattan-based charity suspected of being an illegal front for Iran is funding professors at US universities, the New York Post reported Monday.

The paper said that the multimillion-dollar Alavi Foundation had given hundreds of thousands of dollars to programs at Columbia University and Rutgers University for Middle Eastern and Persian studies that employ anti-Israel professors "sympathetic" to the Islamic republic.

"We found evidence that the government of Iran really controlled everything about the foundation," the New York Post quoted Adam Kaufmann, investigations chief at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, as saying.

Feds are working to seize up to $650 million in assets from the Alavi Foundation, which they say also provides funds to a syndicate of Iranian spies based in Europe, the newspaper added.

The New York Post cited one of the biggest donations as being $100,000 to Columbia after the university hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"This is all about Iran laundering their policies through academe," the newspaper quoted Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, as saying. "And the ivory tower is prostituting itself for money."

In response, Rutgers professor Hooshang Amirahmadi Amirahmadi told the New York Post, "Grants from Alavi are made to the universities, not to the professors."

The paper noted that Amirahmadi, former head of the school's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and president of the nonprofit advocacy group American-Iranian Council, had touted Hizbullah and Hamas as legitimate organizations and not terror groups.

It quoted Columbia spokesman Robert Hornsby as saying that said Alavi's donations rarely topped more than a few thousand dollars and that the school was surprised the foundation had direct ties to the Iranian government.

The Alavi foundation declined to comment to the paper.

Baptist Leader: Obama ‘very Dangerous,’ Causing ‘severe Damage’
Nov 23rd, 2009
Daily NewsNewsmax.com - John Rossomando
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

One of the leaders of the nation’s influential Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) tells Newsmax that President Obama is “very dangerous” in his economic policies and his foreign policy is causing “severe damage” to U.S. standing in the world.

Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and author of the book “The Divided State of America: What Liberals and Conservatives Are Missing In The God And Country Shouting Match”, told Newsmax.TV that the cultural war is heating up. Christians must remember that God is not partisan.

“And on many of the most important issues we deal with as a society, God does have a side,” Land said. “God’s not a Democrat; God’s not a Republican, but God’s pro-life.”

"Religious groups need to maintain their integrity and the truth of their principles,” Land said.

He pointed out that Southern Baptist make up a “disproportionate” membership in the Armed Forces and that the SBC strongly opposes any changes to military policies relating to gays in the military. He suggested that changes Obama has stated he will make would undermine military readiness because it could cause many evangelicals serving in the military to leave.

Turning to international matters, Land offered a similar pessimistic assessment of Obama’s handling of U.S. foreign policy.

“I also think he could do severe damage to peace in the world,” Land said. “Unfortunately, I think a lot of the really bad people in the world don’t believe that Barack Obama is a tough guy.

“They see him more as Hamlet: ‘To be or not to be.’”

Land says Obama should trust the advice Gen. Stanley McChrystal has given him with regard to the number of troops he has requested in Afghanistan to ensure he is successful.

“I believe he should either fulfill general’s request and give him the troops and the materials he needs to finish the job, or we ought to withdraw,” Land said. “The most immoral thing we could do is to leave just enough troops there to get killed, but not enough to do the job we have asked them to do.”

Obama, he said, should take a stronger line against the Iranian regime and its effort to pursue nuclear weapons by imposing a gasoline embargo against the nation and supporting the opposition.

“I think it has been disgraceful that Obama has not been more supportive in his statements about the Iranian dissidents that want to overthrow the rogue regime that runs Iran,” Land said.

Helping the opposition to overthrow the Islamic government, he said, is especially important to prevent the Israelis from attack Iran and thus trigger a wider conflict. He told Newsmax he has no regrets about having sent a letter to former President George W. Bush endorsing the war in Iraq as a just war because it has led to Iraq becoming the most democratic country in the Arab world.

Land expressed particular concern over the implications of the Fort Hood shooting and the military’s embrace of political correctness and its failure to follow up on the warning signs Maj. Nidal Hasan displayed prior to the massacre.

“This guy should have been kicked out of the Army a long time ago,” Land said. “If we sacrifice that kind of political correctness that refused to remove this guy then maybe we can have diversity and safety for our troops.”

'Rabin Promised Palestine With Jordan River Border'
Nov 23rd, 2009
Daily NewsJerusalem Newswire - Stan Goodenough
Categories: Today's Headlines;Commentary;The Nation Of Israel

The so-called prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, said Sunday that the 1993 Oslo Accords signed between the Rabin government and the PLO promised the Arabs a state including the entire "West Bank" and eastern Jerusalem.

"Our goal is to stop the occupation of all the territories occupied in 1967 and to establish a state on that land," Fayyad said.

According to documented evidence, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin opposed the creation of a Palestinian state in the Land of Israel. Since his assassination in 1995, the PLO and Israel's other enemies have persistently maintained that Rabin agreed to a state.

Fayyad spun his latest version of this lie at a ceremony marking the end of a "Palestinian" police officers' course near Shechem in Samaria.

While they are called "policemen," Palestinian officers have often been identified as still enlisted members of the PLO's various terrorist organizations and the Hamas.

Shechem - site of the tomb of biblical patriarch Joseph - is one of a number of ancient Jewish towns occupied by the Palestinian Arabs. They call it Nablus.