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Is 7 billion significant?

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It took 123 years for the world to double from one billion in 1804 to two billion in 1927. From 1987, when the number hit five billion, it took just 11 years to add a billion more.  Within the last half century, the population boomed to less than 7 billion from 3 billion. By 2050, the population will reach 9.3 billion, and 97 percent of the growth will be in less developed regions. 

The world’s 7 billionth person will be born Oct. 31, 2011  in India, according to a projection by researchers working with data from the United Nations.

Where a growing population will live is not the thrust of the problem, said the UN, which estimates that the world’s entire population, standing shoulder to shoulder, could fit in the city of Los Angeles.  The challenges are high birthrates, dwindling resources such as food and water, coupled with increasing life expectancy.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, people expected a population bomb,” a UN researcher said in a telephone interview. “Now, we have mini-bombs going off in the most fragile parts of the world. Issues of inequality and poverty may spill over from less- developed countries, which will not be good for their neighbors or the rest of the world

The greatest challenge facing the world is that the highest birthrates are concentrated in the poorest countries.  Trapped in a cycle of poverty, lack of education and opportunities the cycle is repeated with the next early pregnancy.  “They are married away too often, too early and they bear children too early.  So they never meet their potential,” said a researcher.

Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, rising from today’s one billion to 3.6 billion, the report said — a sobering forecast for a continent already struggling to provide food and water for its people.

That is particularly so for some fast-growing countries whose populations are projected to skyrocket over the next century. For instance, Yemen, a country whose population has quintupled since 1950, to 25 million, would see its numbers quadruple again, to 100 million, by century’s end, if the projections prove accurate. Yemen already depends on food imports and faces critical water shortages.

In Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, the report projects that population will rise from today’s 162 million to 730 million by 2100. Malawi, a country of 15 million today, could grow to 129 million, the report projected.

The  assumption behind these numbers is that food and water will be available for the billions yet unborn, and that potential catastrophes including climate change, wars or epidemics will not serve as a brake on population growth. “It is quite possible for several of these countries that are smallish and have fewer resources, these numbers are just not sustainable,” Dr. Zlotnik said.

Is Seven Billion significant to God?  We strain our eyes into the future and excite our imagination with the possibilities presented in the events around us.   It has been 490 (7×70) years since Luther and October 31st is also Reformation day.

The bible speaks of a future time when the fullness of the Gentiles will have come in,  and then the focus shifts to Israel.  So God does keep a count.

Israels new found wealth.

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The Torah states that Israel would “suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.” (Deut 32:13) That Zebulun and Issachar “shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.” (Deut 33:19) And that Asher would “dip his foot in oil.” (Duet 33:24)

The recent finds of oil and gas have put Israel on the map with the great energy discoveries.  Data indicates that Israeli oil shale reserves could be about 250 billion barrels (that compares with 260 billion barrels of the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia).

New estimates mean “Israel may emerge as the 3rd largest deposit of oil shale, after the US and China.”  The US Geological Survey estimates that there are 122 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Levant Basin, most of which is within Israel’s jurisdiction.

These reserves will shape Israel’s relationships in the Middle East. Israel has contracted to supply Egypt with 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas annually from its Tamar offshore field, to meet the economy’s desperate shortage of energy. Israel, which already sells gas to Jordan, will shortly become Egypt’s biggest gas supplier.

All this verifies the motives, and authenticates scripture in describing the coming attack on Israel.

Ezekiel 38:1-6  The word of the Lord came to me; Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:  I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.  I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army –  Persia, Cush and Put also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops – the many nations

Ezekiel 38:1-7 gives 9 (number of judgment 3×3) names as participants in the invasion of Israel,  that will follow the regathering of the Jews to their homeland in 1948.   Turkey is that Meshech and Beth Togarmah,  while Iran is Persia, also clearly named.

An Islamic leader will arise to bring together a great coalition of nations to invade Israel.  As in the days of  Pharaoh God will bring them out to exalt His name over the heathen…and begin to show Himself to Israel and the nations.

God tells us that they also come to “seize plunder…and to capture great spoil“.  Many verses in the Quran (Koran)  advocated plundering for the benefit of Islam.

Ezekiel 38:13  “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil?  Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?

The false messiah – this leader of an Islamic invasion is but a straw man,  and he will leave 5 of 6 of his troops dead on the mountains of Israel,  as God once again intervenes for Israel. Given the Arab Spring and political shifts – these prophesied alliances are very realistic. Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia will sit this one out.

Ezekiel 38:23 So I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD   Ezekiel 39:2 And I will turn Gog and Magog back, and leave but the sixth part of them, and will cause them to come up from the north parts and will bring them to the mountains of Israel:

This war is but a preliminary event for what follows – which will be global in scale.   Do not confuse common greed and Islamic hatred of Israel,  for the one who craves the worship of the planet.  This is but the beginning of sorrows…and the Mahdi or  “12th Imam” are but the transparent stepping-stones of the real deception.

Israel and Turkey once allies?

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Israel’s souring relations with onetime ally Turkey took a turn for the worse Friday September 2nd as Turkey announced it would formally expel Israel’s ambassador and suspend military agreements.  Relations between Turkey and Israel have worsened since Israeli forces boarded the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May last year as it was heading for Gaza. Nine Turkish activists were killed during the raid. Israel has refused to apologize and said its troops acted in self-defense.

  • Turkey’s recent decision to increase its naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean – and not just to deter Israeli operations against Gaza activists – is a serious one. Turkey is protesting against the exploration of gas reserves by the government of Cyprus, because it does not recognize the area as Cypriot territorial waters. Israel has recognized them, and hopes to source future natural gas supplies there.
  • Turkish officials have hinted that they might impose economic sanctions, file legal actions against Israel in international courts and assist Palestinians in their upcoming U.N. bid for statehood recognition.
  •  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also threatened to make an official visit to Hamas-controlled Gaza, affording legitimacy to an enclave that Israel has worked to isolate.
  • Turkey has suspended diplomatic and military relations with Israel, expelling its top diplomats while Turkey had withdrawn its diplomats after the Gaza Flotilla incident.

“Today, we reached a point where Israel has, in fact, spent all the chances that were given to them. The Israeli government, however, see themselves (as being) above international laws and human conscience,” the Turkish Foreign Minister  said.

Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel’s shores.

Thursday night, Sept. 8, he announced that Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In his remarks to Al Jazeera television, the Turkish prime minister also said he had taken steps “to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean.” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan saw “grounds for war” with Israel last year after a deadly raid on a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, according to a transcript of a recent interview.

If Turkish ships breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, which a UN report last week pronounced legitimate under international law, Erdogan will become the first Muslim leader to embark on military action in the Palestinian cause. The Arab nations which fought Israel time after time in the past will be made to look ineffectual and the Turkish leader the regional big shot.

Even Iran would be put in the shade for never daring to provoke Israel the way Turkey has. The Turkish prime minister clings to the belief that the foremost Arab powers, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have watched his maneuvers with deep suspicion, will have no choice but to play ball with him now that he has confronted Israel. The first crack in the Arab ice came about Thursday, Sept. 8, in the form of Egyptian consent to join the Turkish Navy in sea maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean.

Support for Ankara suggested that Israel ought to get used to the fact that this is a “new Turkey,” that Israel must realize this is not the 1990s when Israel maintained working relations with the Turkish government and the Turkish army, “and showed disdain for what the public really wanted.” Meanwhile the generals that supported relations with Israel have long been jailed or have retired.

Turkey wants political clout and opposing Israel is a politically a unifying path to get there.

Toxic Bodies Unburied

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Japanese officials believe that hundreds of bodies lie uncollected in the 12-mile evacuation radius around the crippled nuclear power plants, but nobody wants to talk about it. A police officer from the Fukushima prefecture said that weeks after the disaster, “we find bodies  in cars, in rivers, under debris and in streets.”

Logistical difficulties and fear of radiation have slowed efforts to collect bodies within the Fukushima Dai-ichi evacuation zone, and there are also concerns about how to deal with the corpses once they’re gathered.

Even after recovering the bodies and returning them to families, how relatives choose to say goodbye to loved ones will pose health and safety dilemmas.  Cremation could spread radioactive material, while conventional burial would contaminate the soil and leach into the ground water.

Police sources said today that bodies are still being exposed to high levels of radiation after death. Officials are reconsidering their plan to inspect the bodies after removing them from the evacuation zone. ”One option is to take decontamination vehicles there and decontaminate the bodies one by one,” a radiation-treatment expert told the news agency. Officials fear that decontamination might further damage the decomposing remains.

The Eternal God of History spoke of such a time 2000 years ago, when He described this happening in Israel in the near future. There special teams would also be assembled and trained in the removal of hazardous corpses.

Ezekiel 39:12 And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean. 13 And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord. 14 And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.

Ezekiel 39  v 15 And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man’s bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog.  v 16 And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth.  So they will make the land clean.

God described the Hazardous Materials Teams before we understood what He meant.  Japan and its complications are but a foretaste of our future.


Feast of Trumpets is prophetic

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Notes to Download:  Feast of Trumpets - Rosh Hashanah

Leviticus  23:1,2  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

We have studied that Spring Feasts which have all been fulfilled on their very day. Now we look forward future events.  They are to yet be fulfilled, on their day too.

The first three feasts Yeshua fulfilled at His first appearance.  The Feast of Shavout (Pentecost) was fulfilled on its exact day with the coming of the Holy Spirit.  The book of Ruth is read by the Jewish sages and we identify with Ruth the Gentile brought home by Naomi  to work a harvest and prepare for the wedding to Boaz her kinsman Redeemer.

The summer passes and we now come to   the 7th month of the calendar.  Three feasts are yet to come.

Lev 23:23-24 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

We are accountable

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Watching a very graphic documentary on world hunger.  Similar to watching the camps of Dachau and Belsen being liberated. Except these are not camps, they are feeding stations where the black skeletons crawl to. There they wait under the sun and wind, and they wait,  for the aid that may not arrive.

Makes one truly hate obesity, being overfed, overpaid and unconcerned, our priorities, all we do and all we stand for.

Jesus identified  Himself as being Bread and Water. God himself promised His followers only Bread and Water, not luxuries. Our prayers are to be for only daily bread and water. Those were Gods priorities and His bottom line…to all of us…to all who call on Him.  Give us this day our daily bread, no more, no less!

The trials at Nuremberg will again convene and we collectively are the accused…… and then we can all say we did NOT  know!!!

Given we like to process their grain into our ethanol at a loss which we tax payers subsidize – so we push the food price beyond their means.  Then  we can pour it into a gas tank,  while the oil we have lies under the soil, so not to disturb the polar bears…?

The extremists are right. We are the great satan!  The world is their recruiting station and our policies and values, are their clarion call.

  • Every year 15 million children die of hunger
  • Throughout the 1990’s more than 100 million children did die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could have been been prevented for the price of only ten (10) US Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
  • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving.  Since you’ve entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
  • Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion – a majority of humanity – live on less than $1 per day. UNICEF
  • 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
  • Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
  • Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide – a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
  • To satisfy the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion– what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year
  • Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
  • It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

Nuremberg.  MR. JUSTICE JACKSON:  May it please Your Honors: The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility.

The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.

 

Rapture or Second Coming

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Notes to Download: Rapture or Tribulation

Today we are told that the Rapture will overtake us all and there is no preparing. Yet over and over Jesus tells us to watch and pray that we may be counted worthy to escape. One third of the bible is prophecy, most of it is still yet to happen. Why would God spell out the events that no saint will see or experience?

Why would Paul reassure the church that they are the children of light and so will not be caught unprepared. He actually says they know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will catch the unprepared by surprise. 1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.  1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord (not Rapture) so cometh as a thief in the night. 1Th 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
– Luke 21:36

God has assured us He will nothing but first reveal it to His prophets. So please review what Jesus said and compare it to what Paul said. It is my prayer that these events not be a mystery to you any longer.

POST TRIB  AND THE 2nd COMING OF YESHUA (Matt 24)

Matthew 24:29-31 says: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. [31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

IS THIS A PRETRIB  “RAPTURE??? “ (1 Thess 4 v 16)

1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 says: For the YHVH himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of YHVH, and the dead in Yeshua will rise first. [17] After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the YHVH in the air.  And so we will be with the YHVH forever.

Are these two verses speaking about the same event, or two different events?
Pre-Tribulation advocates claim that 1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 is the rapture, and that Matthew 24:29-31 is the “glorious appearing.”

Applying two separate terms to these verses makes you believe it’s two separate events.  But look at the similarities.  If it’s two separate events, then this event happens twice.  The word ‘rapture’ comes from the Latin, and means “caught up.” This word has always meant our being gathered into the clouds when Yeshua returns.  And the word was around long before Darby introduced the pre-tribulation rapture in 1830. As we can see, the rapture happens in both of these verses.  YHVH’s people are “caught up” into the clouds, by the angels, at the sound of YHVH’s trumpet.  Another passage that is commonly referred to as a “rapture passage” is 1 Corinthians 15:52. Although I would agree that this is describing the same event, the rapture is not specifically mentioned here. The reason we connect the two is because similar events are mentioned.

Both passages mention a trumpet and the resurrection of believers. Because of this, we conclude that these are both the same event. However, as I already mentioned, Matthew 24:27-31 has much more in common with the one clear rapture passage.

Notice the similarities:

Matt. 24:27-31 1 Thess. 4:15-17 1 Cor. 15:52
1. Called he parousia, “the coming” (27)2. Yeshua appears in heaven (30)3. Coming on the clouds (30)4. Angels present (31)5. Great sound of a trumpet (31)6. —7. Gathering of the elect (31) 1. Called he parousia, “the coming” (15)2. The YHVH descends from heaven (16)3. . . with them in the clouds (17)4. Archangel present (16)5. Shout and trumpet of YHVH (16)6. Dead in Yeshua will rise (16)7. We are caught up to meet him (17) 1. Called he parousia, “the coming” (23)2. —3. —4. —5. At the last trumpet (52)6. Dead will be raised (52)7. —

But pre-tribulation rapture advocates must believe these are separate events, because the verse in Matthew clearly states it happens after the tribulation.

Trumpets 2008 – Financial Crisis – of Sevens

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This month is significant
Lehman Brothers – the catalyst for the disastrous stock market crash, failed exactly 7 years after 9/11 attacks.
September 18th, 2001 – was the Feast Trumpets.
So the attacks of 9/11/2001 was exactly 1 week – or 7 days to Trumpets in 2001.
The crash of October of 1987, occurred exactly 21 years prior during the Fall Feasts.

Feast of Trumpets
7 years later since 09/11/2001
Congress was asked for $700 Billion
12 votes were needed to pass the bailout law which failed.
Stocks dropped 777 points on the Dow
The Percentage drop was 7%
S+P 500 lost $700 Billion in market cap
Overall loss for the day was 1 trillion one the 1st day of the 7th month.
So many sevens on this 1st day of the 7th month of the year.
Six (6)  months later by March the SP 500 was at 666 on the low.

Sept 29th, 2008 is Feast of Trumpets meanwhile the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the world financial system was teetering on the “brink of systemic meltdown.”

Today Olmert  Resigned as leader of Israel.

Intifada every 7 years

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It is 60 years today – God established Israel with a UN vote of 33-13 with 10 abstentions (10=Minion)

When the General Assembly voted to partition the land on Nov. 29, 1947, it was clear it would set off a war between Jews and Arabs. After losing 6, 000,0000 Jews in the 6 years of World War 2 its 600,000 Jewish inhabitants huddled around their radios to listen to the live broadcast from the United Nations.

Israel has destroyed 606 BC – Jerusalem/Temple was destroyed 19 years later 587 BC.
Israel established 1947 AD – Jerusalem/Temple Restored 19 years later in 1967 – 6-day war.

9th Sept 1993 Oslo Accord came out of talks regarding Palestine (PLO) and a divided Israel.
7 years later that fell apart – Ariel Sharon’s notorious visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on 28 September 2000 Day Before Rosh Hashanah 2000 – was the opening act of the Al Aqsa Intifada and all peace agreements and progress ended for 7 years.

7 years later the Intifada is over and the talks proceeded in Annapolis.

Its 40 years since the taking of Jerusalem/Temple Mount in 1967 today and TODAY is exactly 60 years since the establishment of the State on Nov 29th 1947 – Israel – Today they sign an agreement (shaking hands for the first time) in Annapolis to restart talks in two weeks to complete partition and perhaps allow East Jerusalem to go to the Palestinians.

Sept 1993 add 7

Sept 2000 add 7

November 2007 are the dates Israel gives away Gods Land to her enemies.

A statement, Various undersigned 29 November 2007 and The Electronic Intifada, 27 November 2007 The November 2007 London Conference. For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish peoples, or to offer a genuine process leading towards them. 

On Tuesday, 27 November, large crowds of Palestinians in Gaza poured out of their homes — as did their brothers and sisters in the West Bank — to protest what they call the “renunciation of Palestinians’ legitimate rights.”

Critics of the conference held large demonstrations and rallies in the coastal strip, voicing their strongly worded objections to the Annapolis gathering. “No recognition of Israel! No recognition of Israel!” thousands of Gaza residents chanted in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) building in Gaza City. A young woman taking part in a large women’s rally cried angrily, “We don’t want more alleged peace conferences, which bring us more suffering. We prefer poverty to accepting shameful peace.”

Jerusalem Day 2007

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Tomorrow is JERUSALEM DAY – the Israeli government proclaimed the holiday of “Jerusalem Day” for the 28th of Iyar, corresponding to the date that the Israeli military liberated those parts of Jerusalem which had previously been in Arab possession.

In 1967 – 19 years after the establishment of the State in 1948 – The Israelis captured Jerusalem in 1967. For the first time in 2520 years, she was independent.

That follows the destruction of the Jewish state 2520 years ago by the Babylonians in 606 BC followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple on 9th of AV 587 BC exactly 19 years later. Jerusalem was never to be under Jewish rule until 1967.

“This will be a sign to the house of Israel. Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year” (Ezekiel 4:3-6).

Each day represents one biblical year. 430 years (390 years plus another 40 years). “And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins” (Leviticus 26:18; see also Leviticus 26:21, 23-24,27-28). 430 years – first 70 years = 360 years x 7 = 2,520 biblical years x 360 day = 907,200 days

If we work backward from May 14, 1948 and using this information the 907,200 days (2,520 years) prophecy, we arrive at 606 BC

Israel lost its independence in 606 B.C. but Jerusalem was left intact with the Second temple. The “desolations of Jerusalem” began with the annihilation of the city of Jerusalem and the Solomon’s Temple in 587 B.C. According to Jeremiah, it was punishment for not yielding to the “Servitude of the Nation” which began in 606 B.C., with the first siege of Nebuchadnezzar – 19 years prior.

On the morning of Shavuot, June 15, 1967 — just six days after the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem in the Six Day War — the Old City was officially opened to the Israeli public.

In total, 200,000 visited the Western Wall that day. It was the first pilgrimage, en masse, of Jews to Jewish-controlled Jerusalem on a Jewish festival in 2,000 years since the pilgrimages for the festivals in Temple times Some wept, but most faces were wreathed in smiles. For 13 continuous hours, a colorful variety of all peoples trudged along in perfect order, stepping patiently when told to do so at each of six successive barriers set up by the police to regulate the flow

Enjoy the Day and ponder the fact that the generation that saw her restored would also see the end of the age.

I ponder the number 40 more so for it is a generation. God’s timepiece in the end times is Israel and Jerusalem the “cup of trembling” handed the nations.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it…

Zechariah 12:2-3