TJ,
Thanks
for this interesting info. I was not aware that it was calculated in this
manner- 70 yr cycle. Only thing is, I was hoping that the Rapture
would be this year. As someone pointed out 2008-2009 is a Sabbath year,
and RH of 2009 would usher in a new 7 year cycle. It is quite possible
that we could be taken up on RH of ‘09, and the Peace treaty be signed on
the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). As Alexander Pope stated “Hope
springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest”
Every time RH/Pentecost comes along, we hope against hope that it would usher
into the Lord’s presence. The peace treaty has to signed on the
Festival day, so as for the Lord to return on the Festival Day. There will
be an interval of 10 days between RH and Yom Kippur, and enough time to sign a
peace treaty.
On
the other hand, it looks as if the Peace Treaty is not going to come to
fruition with her immediate neighbour....
I
agree with you re: the Mosque coming down and the Arabs going into a frenzy-
Jihad against Israel. At the same time I personally very much doubt, there
would ever be a Peace with the Palestinians. They have sworn
to destroy Israel and push the Jews into the sea. Even if the PA agrees
to some sort of truce, we know the Hamas is unbending; from the
below article (published today) one can see that this truce can never be
reached. Both sides will not give in.
Israel
‘Fed Up' with US Declarations against Yesha
Tammuz
8, 5769 / June 30, '09
“Quote:
The Prime Minister declared for the first time that he would accept the
creation of a new Arab state on part of the land of Judea and Samaria on
condition that it be de-militarized and that the Palestinian Authority recognize
Israel as a Jewish state. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has categorically rejected both conditions
after having been encouraged
by American and European
support for the
Arab-world demands that Israel surrender all of the land restored to the Jewish
state in the Six-Day War in 1967, including the Western Wall and the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem.” End Quote http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132105
In light of this situation, the Temple will not be erected, and we
can see the EU and USA are virtually pushing Israel to the wall, or into the
sea. EU and USA, for all intents and purposes, are acting unfriendly towards
Israel so as to precipitate a war in the ME and once and for all remove the thorny
issues; such as Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians. Only then the NWO and the
AC can have their temple. The AC wants the Temple erected just as bad as
the Jews want it.
Today’s
headlines are casting their shadows for the future events...
Syrian group threatens 'force' against Israel
Warns it may move to capture strategic Golan Heights
June
28, 2009
JERUSALEM –
A Syrian militant group threatened over the weekend to seize the strategic
Golan Heights by force if a peace agreement involving the strategic plateau is
not reached with Israel.
Israel's Army Radio
reported a group calling itself the Syrian Committee for the Liberation of the
Golan on Saturday said it would move to capture the Golan, adding Israel has
not shown willingness to achieve peace or to return what they called
"Syrian land." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102484
Meanwhile we can see that Israel is amassing her troops on the Lebanon
border
Israeli Army amasses troops, military hardware along
Lebanese border
Friday, June 26, 2009
BEIRUT: The Israeli
Army stepped up its presence along the border with Lebanon deploying armored
tanks and setting up fortifications as it intensified airspace violations in
the area, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported Thursday. In "unusual
military activity," the Israeli Army deployed Merkava tanks and soldier
carriers, among other armored vehicles, along the barb-wired fence separating
Shebaa Farms from liberated Lebanese territories, the NNA said. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=103494
Through the Operation Cast Lead the Israelis have
pretty much smashed up the Hamas and have left them crippled. From reading
the word of God, in Obadiah and Isaiah 34:5-13 we have a clear picture of
the eventual destruction (nuclear) of the Palestinians. The modern day
Palestinians are from the house of Esau/Edomites.
“the house of Esau will be a stubble, and they will
set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors form the house of
Esau” Obadiah 18.
Isaiah 34
“Edom’s stream will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning
sulphur: her land will become a blazing pitch! It will not be quenched night
and day; its smoke rise forever. V 9-10
“Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her
prince will vanish away.” v 12
When you go through these verses it seems to us that the Peace
Treaty will not most likely be signed, and Palestinians will be totally
annihilated and Damascus the capital of Syria, which has never been destroyed will
be destroyed according to Isaiah 17 and of course we read the destruction of
Lebanon in many of the OT books.
If these three countries are taken out, then AC would be in a
position to offer the deal: to build the Third Temple to Israel. I
believe this is the Peace Treaty that Daniel talks about in 9:27. If they
wanted they could have reached some agreement with the above mentioned 3
countries long ago, but it was never reached and it never could be hammered
out.
After the Peace treaty is signed by AC (head of EU) with US (by
this time she will be crippled- maybe some nuclear incident) and Russia, and of
course UN as well, then this will fulfil the prophecy “he shall confirm
a covenant with many” and AC would come as the Head of EU as well
as the “messiah” for Israel (proving his lineage to the house of
David).
The Russian invasion will take place, only if and when Israel
violates the Peace Treaty. The only likely scenario is when the Mosque “accidently”
comes down.
I do see your point about the Temple’s outer court being
given to the gentiles in Rev 11; this Third Temple unlike the previous temples
would be for all nations. Solomon did say that when he built the First
Temple that other nations too can come and worship and this practise was
allowed in the Temple as long as the gentiles were in the outer court. I
guess that is what they are referring to the Third Temple too. This time of
course, a whole lot of gentiles will troop to Jerusalem to pay their homage to
AC.
This is how it looks to me at this point of time, but then again
until the prophecy is actually fulfilled we can never be sure. You could
be right about the Mosque being along with the Temple and I could be wrong, or on
the other hand, the temple may be built after bringing down the
mosque. At this time it is speculation only. All that I know is that
we will not be here to see the erecting of the temple or for that matter the destruction
of the Mosque (should it happen).
Even so come Lord Jesus
God bless
Shanthi