Massive snowstorm shuts down Jerusalem - 20 inches of snow - an unprecedented stormJerusalem on Friday night was in the midst of a storm feared to be “three times worse” than the snows that had hit Thursday and earlier Friday, and much of the rest of the country was grappling with stormy conditions expected to last into Saturday...Haifa was hit with its first snowfall in 22 years...a rare and punishing winter storm dumped several centimeters of snow on the capital, shutting it down and stranding thousands of people on area roads...And it’s not over. After setting a December record for snowfall on Thursday with some 30-50 centimeters across the country, flurries are expected to continue in Jerusalem throughout the day Friday...Around 2,000 people were rescued from vehicles during the night...http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-braces-for-storm-three-times-worse-than-what-has-been-seen-so-far/...http://www.timesofisrael.com/mayor-barkat-were-facing-a-storm-like-weve-never-seen-before/...Snow is the symbol of purity and cleanness, giving us some of our most beautiful passages of Scripture: "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalms 51:7); "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isaiah 1:18). Carrying the figure farther, snow-water might be expected to have a special value for cleansing: "If I wash myself with snow-water" (Job 9:30). The most common use in Scripture is to denote whiteness in color and implying purity as well: "His raiment was white as snow" (Daniel 7:9; Matthew 28:3; Mark 9:3; Revelation 1:14)...Prominent kabbalist Rabbi David Batzri says white flakes falling on Israel are a message to Jewish people that their sins have been forgiven...In the coming prophetic wars, specifically Psalm 83, Jeremiah 49 and Ezekiel 38,39, it is the hand of the Lord with and on the IDF and directly the hand of God against the armies of the War of Gog & Magog that bring a staggering victory, and here is the kicker - read Ezekiel 38, 39 again and specifically 39:21-29 “...So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward...Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel...then they shall know that I am the Lord their God...And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”...These very soon coming Wars as prophesied may be just prior to the Rapture, concurrent with the Rapture or very close after the Rapture of the church...at the appointed time thereafter starts the Tribulation period (at the confirmation of the covenant Daniel 9:27) ...God’s purpose for the Tribulation is 1) a punishment upon the whole world for its sins against God; 2) a world-wide revival as God will evangelize the world by the means of the 144,000 Jews and thus fulfill the prophecy found in Matthew 24:14; and 3) the most glorious and important purposes of the tribulation will be the conversion of Israel...In the Tribulation, after the wars and judgements of God where He purges the unrepentant and ungodly of the Jews Ezekiel 20:37-38 their will be a remnant of believing Jews left “And so ALL Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS” Romans 11:26-27 - see the picture? "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalms 51:7); "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isaiah 1:18) ...this “unprecedented” snow storm hits Israel on the very day when (Obama/Kerry) John Kerry is back in Israel (his ninth trip of the year) to force a peace agreement, the dividing of Jerusalem and of their land. Normally a 20-minute drive, it took Kerry over 2 hours to get back to Jerusalem after a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4464974,00.html)...clearly, this entire unprecedented snow storm seems to be a Harbinger (something that presages or foreshadows what is to come) for Israel. While the U.S. is putting profound pressure on Israel by the Iran nuke agreement and a forced “peace and security” agreement with Palestine. The God of Israel sends them (and the world) a picture, a reminder, a harbinger message that He is the Lord their God and willing to have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and take away their sins washing them whiter than snow. “Pray for the peace (and salvation) of Jerusalem (Israel)” Psalm 122:6Watchman @ www.WatchmansView.comOn Dec 13, 2013, at 10:30 PM, Watchman wrote:Massive snowstorm shuts down Jerusalem - 20 inches of snow - an unprecedented stormJerusalem on Friday night was in the midst of a storm feared to be “three times worse” than the snows that had hit Thursday and earlier Friday, and much of the rest of the country was grappling with stormy conditions expected to last into Saturday...Haifa was hit with its first snowfall in 22 years...a rare and punishing winter storm dumped several centimeters of snow on the capital, shutting it down and stranding thousands of people on area roads...And it’s not over. After setting a December record for snowfall on Thursday with some 30-50 centimeters across the country, flurries are expected to continue in Jerusalem throughout the day Friday...Around 2,000 people were rescued from vehicles during the night...http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-braces-for-storm-three-times-worse-than-what-has-been-seen-so-far/...http://www.timesofisrael.com/mayor-barkat-were-facing-a-storm-like-weve-never-seen-before/...Snow is the symbol of purity and cleanness, giving us some of our most beautiful passages of Scripture: "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalms 51:7); "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isaiah 1:18). Carrying the figure farther, snow-water might be expected to have a special value for cleansing: "If I wash myself with snow-water" (Job 9:30). The most common use in Scripture is to denote whiteness in color and implying purity as well: "His raiment was white as snow" (Daniel 7:9; Matthew 28:3; Mark 9:3; Revelation 1:14)...Prominent kabbalist Rabbi David Batzri says white flakes falling on Israel are a message to Jewish people that their sins have been forgiven...In the coming prophetic wars, specifically Psalm 83, Jeremiah 49 and Ezekiel 38,39, it is the hand of the Lord with and on the IDF and directly the hand of God against the armies of the War of Gog & Magog that bring a staggering victory, and here is the kicker - read Ezekiel 38, 39 again and specifically 39:21-29 “...So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward...Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel...then they shall know that I am the Lord their God...And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”...These very soon coming Wars as prophesied may be just prior to the Rapture, concurrent with the Rapture or very close after the Rapture of the church...God’s purpose for the Tribulation is 1) a punishment upon the whole world for its sins against God; 2) a world-wide revival as God will evangelize the world by the means of the 144,000 Jews and thus fulfill the prophecy found in Matthew 24:14; and 3) the most glorious and important purposes of the tribulation will be the conversion of Israel...In the Tribulation, after the wars and judgements of God where He purges the unrepentant and ungodly of the Jews Ezekiel 20:37-38 their will be a remnant of believing Jews left “And so ALL Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS” Romans 11:26-27 - see the picture? "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalms 51:7); "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isaiah 1:18) ...this “unprecedented” snow storm hits Israel on the very day when (Obama/Kerry) John Kerry is back in Israel (his ninth trip of the year) to force a peace agreement, the dividing of Jerusalem and of their land. Normally 20-minute drive, it took Kerrry over 2 hours to get back to Jerusalem after a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4464974,00.html)...clearly, this entire unprecedented snow storm seems to be a Harbinger (something that presages or foreshadows what is to come) for Israel. While the U.S. is putting profound pressure on Israel by the Iran nuke agreement and a forced “peace and security” agreement with Palestine. The God of Israel sends them (and the world) a picture, a reminder, a harbinger message that He is the Lord their God and willing to have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and take away their sins washing them whiter than snow. “Pray for the peace (and salvation) of Jerusalem (Israel)” Psalm 122:6Watchman