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Enjoy this prophetic report, Lloyd
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:55 AM, Messianic Bible <news@biblesforisrael.com> wrote:
Jerusalem
"I am going to
make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.
Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem." (Zechariah 12:2)
Shalom Lloyd,
"I watched as the
Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun
became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood."
(Revelation 6:12)
The second in a series
of four consecutive Blood Moons (total lunar eclipses), which fall on the
Jewish holidays of Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015, is quickly
approaching. With it, big changes seem to be taking shape in the
Palestinian struggle for statehood, which directly affects the heritage of the
Promised Land for the Jewish People.
Pastor Mark Biltz,
founder of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington state, was first to discover the
Blood Moon Tetrad pattern when he entered Jewish feasts dates into the NASA
website.
“According to NASA,
over 5,000 years you only average one total lunar eclipse every year and a
half, and here we have four within a year and a half, and they’re falling on
feast days,” Biltz explained.
“The last time it happened was when Israel recaptured Jerusalem in 1967 and 1968."
The first of this series
of Blood Moon Tetrads was in 1949.
That was the year after
Israel was reborn as a modern nation in 1948 amidst the Arab-Israeli war.
In 1949 after the Blood
Moon, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and Israel's first
Prime Minister, Ben Gurion declared that Jerusalem would be the Eternal Capital
of Israel.
Like the last Blood Moon
Passover this year, the coming Blood Moon seems to be linked to momentous
events in the making.
(Total eclipses are
sometimes called blood moons because the moon reflects sunlight being filtered
through the earth’s atmosphere, giving it a ruddy, bloodlike appearance.)
A total lunar eclipse will occur between the two Blood Moons of 2014 and
the two of 2015. Although a Blood Moon Tetrad falling on the Jewish
holidays is something of a statistical improbability, eight fall between AD 1
and AD 2100. After this eighth tetrad is complete, another will not happen
for 600 years.
Abbas Courts World
Leaders
For the first time since
1967, a high-ranking Kuwaiti official, Foreign
Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah, has visited the West Bank (Judea and
Samaria).
On Sunday, al-Sabah met
with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian
officials in Ramallah to sign cooperation agreements with the Palestinians and
to discuss financial support.
The official Kuwait news
agency stated that the visit “signals the
long-standing commitment of Kuwait’s leadership and people towards supporting
the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle for restoring their rights
on the Arab and international levels.” (Times of
Israel)
Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah
The visit comes as
Abbas embarks on an international campaign to achieve Palestinian statehood,
sidestepping negotiation with Israel in the process.
PA spokesperson Nabil
Abu Rudeineh said the meetings come at a critical point that requires Arab
coordination and joint action.
"Kuwaiti-Palestinian
relations have a long history as Kuwait has been supporting the Palestinian
Authority and its people at all levels," he said.
He added that the
Palestinian leadership appreciates al-Sabah's unwavering efforts in support
of Palestinians in their cause to create an independent state recognized
internationally with Jerusalem as capital. (KUNA)
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (right) is set to meet with his French
counterpart, Francois Hollande (left), in Paris on Friday, ahead of a key
address to the United Nations.
Abbas is currently
rallying support before heading for the annual United Nation General Assembly
next week on September 24, which is Erev Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year’s Eve),
at which time he will endeavor to gain support for setting a date for
forcing Israel out of Judea-Samaria, Israel’s heartland.
The Arab League recently
backed his plan to end the Jewish presence there within three years.
And according to the
Arab news agency Ma’an, Abbas will be meeting with French president Francois
Hollande this Friday to ask him to recognize the “state of Palestine.”
He is also expected to
ask other European countries to do the same.
Jewish men and children pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in the Old City
of Jerusalem.
Abbas has been working
for the last several years to gain international recognition for a Palestinian
state without forming a peace agreement with Israel.
If he succeeds at
this, it will leave Israel without any guarantees of security, nor will the
Jewish homeland have gained anything in return.
An independent
Palestinian state of any type will become a launching pad for further attacks
against Israel as the Palestinians continue toward their ultimate goal of
domination of the entire Biblical homeland.
The ultimate goal to
conquer the entire Land of Israel is evidenced by the fact that every map of
the Palestinian state displayed in PA classrooms and in all public logos show
only one state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Their
intentions are clearly to eliminate any trace of the State of Israel.
Due to the Palestinian
Authority president’s efforts two years ago, on November 29, 2012, the United
Nations voted 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions, to recognize Palestine as a
“non-member observer state.”
While this vote fell
short of granting the country independence, it did provide it with several
privileges as a state, including the right to join the International Criminal
Court and other international treaty bodies. (Washington Post)
“Lord, confuse the
wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.”
(Psalm 55:9)
Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem during Sukkot.
Blood Moons Foretell of Changing Times
”The sun will be
turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD.” (Joel 2:31)
Last year on July 29,
2013, Israel and Palestinians entered direct peace negotiations, and the world
was very hopeful that at the end of the nine-month negotiations a final status
agreement would be reached.
To bring the
Palestinians to the bargaining table, Israel agreed to release 104 Palestinian
prisoners, 14 of whom were Arab-Israelis. Many were guilty of murdering
Israeli civilians and suspected Palestinian collaborators. They were to
be released over time in four groups.
For this concession, the
Palestinians agreed to not sign up for international conventions.
As talks progressed,
it seemed that anything less than total capitulation to Palestinian demands was
unacceptable, and Abbas was not willing to recognize Israel as the Jewish
state.
As it became obvious
that the talks would come to an end with no agreements, on March 28, 2014,
Israel delayed releasing the fourth round of Palestinian prisoners. By
delaying it, Israel hoped to encourage the Palestinians to commit to extending
the peace negotiations.
Consequently, on April
Fool’s Day, 15 days prior to the first Blood Moon, in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations,
Abbas moved to join 14 treaties and conventions and one United Nations
organization. The request was approved by UN General Secretary Ban
Ki-moon.
Included in the 15 was
the Geneva Conventions which articulate the laws of war.
“We [Palestinians] have
not only signed these [agreements], but we have become officially bound by them
now,” Randa Siniora, the Director General of the Palestinian Independent
Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), told Al Jazeera in late April. Most
of the memberships became official in May.
A time lapse shot of the Blood Moon at Pesach (Passover). (Photo: Cass Letson)
All of this happened at
the outset of a very auspicious time: on April 15, 2014, the
first of a series of four Blood Moons over a two year period occurred.
They coincide with the 2014 and 2015 Jewish festivals of Passover
(Pesach) and Tabernacles (Sukkot).
Just after the first
Blood Moon, Abbas announced the formation a unity government with the terrorist
group Hamas.
Israel responded by
formally cancelling the release of the prisoners and imposing financial
penalties in the form of withholding tax levies collected by Israel on the
Palestinian Authority’s behalf.
That government was
sworn in on June 2nd with immediate discord breaking out over issues of
security and over relations with the Israelis.
Hamas’ kidnapping of the
three yeshiva students took place only three weeks after the unity government
was announced.
Although Abbas initially
said that he would dissolve the unity government if Hamas was behind the
kidnapping, when Israel presented evidence of Hamas' involvement nothing was
done.
After Hamas launched an
intensive rocket campaign against Israel, Israel responded with “Operation
Protective Edge,” during which Hamas fired more than 4,500 rockets and mortar
shells at Israeli population centers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits an Israeli soldier who was
wounded during Operation Protective Edge.
Following the ultimate
collapse of the peace talks, Abbas proceeded to seek membership in a total of
63 international agencies and treaties, including the World Court in Geneva.
At the end of April,
Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the PLO’s central council told reporters, “We
will proceed with the [United Nations] treaties and gradually join different
agencies and the last will be the International Criminal Court.”
If the PLO succeeds in
gaining access to the International Court, they will be able to bring cases
against Israel for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The current ceasefire is
accompanied by Hamas’ full support of Abbas’ attempt to join the World Court.
While Israeli soldiers entered Gaza with a reminder not to harm civilians,
Hamas produced a manual that encouraged its terrorists to harm
Palestinian civilians by using them as human shields and by storing
weapons in their homes.
On August 23rd, the
Associate Press reported that Hamas had signed a
pledge to back any Palestinian bid to join the court. While their intent might be to bring charges of war crimes
against Israel, the reverse would also be possible.
Any such move on the
part of Abbas would definitely cause relations with Israel to deteriorate, but
it would also strain his ties with the US.
Nevertheless, if the
Palestinians were to join the court, Hamas could be investigated for its
indiscriminate shelling of Israel and the use of civilians as human shields.
Still, due to one-sided
reporting during Operation Protective Edge and the number of civilians injured
as Hamas militants fired bombs from civilian centers, many around the world
hold Israel responsible for Palestinian civilian casualties. Abbas is
counting on this tide of negative opinion against Israel as he lobbies for
support for the Palestinian cause.
Mahmoud Abbas shakes the hand of EU High Representative for Foreign
Affairs Catherine Ashton.
Lloyd, over the next few weeks, please keep Israel in your
prayers as Abbas tries to consolidate world opinion against Israel.
A Palestinian State in the Sinai?
“On that day the LORD
made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land,
from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.’” (Genesis
15:18)
Abbas continues to claim
Judea and Samaria for his Palestinian state, along with East Jerusalem as its
capital.
This despite an alleged
apparent plan proposed by Egypt recently that offered land in the Sinai
Peninsula to be annexed to the Gaza Strip to settle Palestinian refugees.
This proposal for a Sinai enclave is said to have come from the Israeli
national security adviser Giora Eiland during the time in which Mohammed Morsi
was Egypt’s president.
According to the plan,
an area approximately five times the size of Gaza would be created in the Sinai
and be referred to as “Greater Gaza.”
It would contain PA
citizens together with Palestinian refugees living in other countries.
Under the plan the Palestinian Authority would continue to retain
autonomy in Arab cities in Judea and Samaria but only if Abbas is able to
maintain a viable administration in those areas. (BIN)
Although some have
denied that such a plan was even proposed, Abbas told a Fatah gathering on
August 31 that the plan, which was originally Israeli and dated back to 1956,
was now being proposed again.
“A senior leader in
Egypt said that ‘a refuge must be found for the Palestinians and we have all
this open land.’ This was said to me personally. But it’s illogical
for the problem to be solved at Egypt’s expense. We won’t have it,” Abbas
said.
Creating a Greater Gaza
would disrupt Abbas' greater goal: takeover Israel’s heartland.
“The Palestinian and Egyptian leaderships have one position,
namely the establishment of a Palestinian state on the lands occupied in 1967
with Jerusalem as its capital. President Mahmoud
Abbas has updated President el-Sissi on his future moves on all levels to reach
that goal,” a presidential spokesperson said recently.
An Orthodox Jewish man looks out over the Western Wall Plaza in the Old
City of Jerusalem.
Abbas and the Second Blood Moon of 2014
The second blood moon in
the series of four is just a couple of weeks away. It will occur on the
first day of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) on October 8, 2014, just after Abbas
once again goes to the UN.
According to Nabil
Sha’ath, a senior Palestinian Authority official, Abbas now wants the UN to
replace the US as the leading peace broker in negotiations between the Israel
and the Palestinians.
Sha’ath warned that if
Israel does not complete a full withdrawal from Judea-Samaria (the West Bank),
the Palestinians will turn to the international community and request that it
deal with Israel “as it did apartheid South Africa.” Such a unilateral
withdrawal by Israel is highly unlikely.
Noting that the Palestinian
people are completely disillusioned with the US’s role in the peace process, Abbas’ top aide said that the Palestinian president will be
asking the UN to set a deadline for a complete withdrawal of Israel to pre-1967
lines within three years. (JPost)
The Blood Moon
Thus, it is at the time
of the next Blood Moon that Abbas is expected to go to the UN General Assembly
to demand that it take control of the so-called peace process and set a
deadline for the removal of Israel from Judea and Samaria, Israel's ancient
heartland.
While the events of 1949
and 1967 Blood Moons were directly linked to Jerusalem, we await to see if more
is to come during the Festival of Sukkot where the Jewish people will make
their pilgrimage to celebrate the Jewish Biblical Feast.
Will the war from this
summer start up again during the Biblical Fall Holidays? The first
missile was launched yesterday from Gaza into Israel, since the
cease-fire.
Hamas is busy rearming
itself and digging terrorist tunnels under Israel, again.
And Iran is arming
Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.
Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the
commander of Iran’s Basij paramilitary network, said on Iranian TV, “Arming the
West Bank has started and weapons will be supplied to the people of this
region.”
He also said that “much
of Hamas’s arsenal, training and technical knowhow” had come from Iran.
(Times of Israel)
An Israeli soldier helps a civilian during a Hamas bombing of Israel.
Abbas Claims Jerusalem as Capital
One of the central
issues of a two-state solution is the Temple Mount. Who will be worshiped there—the God of Israel or another
god—and who will control its access—the Jewish People or the Palestinians?
Although ostensibly,
Israel has had control of the Temple Mount since June of 1967, Moshe Dayan, who
was Israel's defense minister in 1967, gave Jordan control of the Mount through
the Muslim Waqf or trust.
They have used this
authority to mostly bar Jewish worshipers from praying on the Temple Plaza,
even silently, harassing them while on the Mount, and sometimes banning them
from entering all together.
Furthermore, visits from
key Israeli leaders can have explosive results; for instance, when former Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon entered the Temple Mount in September 2000, it resulted
in the Second Intifada.
If Abbas takes the
entire issue of a Palestinian state to the UN, there is no telling what the
status of East Jerusalem might become.
The original UN
Partition Plan of 1947 called for the internationalization of Jerusalem.
The rejection of that
plan by the Palestinians and the following 1948 war when Israel declared
independence resulted in Jerusalem once again being re-established as the
capital of the Jewish People.
Nevertheless, Jordan
captured the eastern portion that included the Old City, where the Jewish
People have lived since antiquity, and the Temple Mount, where the First and
Second Temples once stood, and kept control of it until 1967.
Today, the Temple
Mount Faithful prepare for the construction of the Third Temple while we await
the return of the Messiah who will come to the rebuilt Temple.
Only the Jewish People
can rebuild that Temple, not the Muslims.
A model of the Second Temple
So it seems that in
these “last days” it could be God’s plan that the Jews will maintain ultimate
control of the Temple Mount and not the Muslims, regardless of what Abbas has
planned.
That said, the Bible
also indicates that in the Last Days, the anti-Messiah will establish a
temporary, false peace in the Holy Land.
This Third Temple might
also be built after the false peace begins the final seven-year period.
Half way through that period, the anti-Messiah will stop the sacrifices
and declare that he is God (Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:4).
Abbas’ struggle for
Jerusalem may be connected to these Last Days events, which is perhaps why his
current activities are coinciding with the rare celestial cycle called a Blood
Moon Tetrad.
“All these signs, coming
together at one time, are potentially the culminating signals that God is
closing this chapter of human history,” Mark Biltz recently told Sid Roth on It's
Supernatural. “This could be the final curtain call before the
Great Tribulation mentioned in the Bible. God has always wanted to
warn His people, and the rest of the world, before He intervenes. What
better way to communicate to us than through the universal language of heavenly
signs that speak to every tribe, tongue and nation?”
A young man reads the Bible in Jerusalem
Lloyd, when Yeshua
(Jesus) instructed His disciples concerning the end times, He mentioned wars,
rumors of wars, celestial signs, earthquakes, rebellion against parents, and
great treachery.
We certainly seem to be
experiencing all of that, which makes it ever the more important to share the
Good News of Yeshua with Israel and the nations! So many lives hang in
the balance.
Please help us reach out
with the Love of God and the Messianic Prophecy Bible, which will be an
effective ministry tool in these last days.
"The moon will be
dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and
in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory." (Isaiah 24:23)
"For I am ready
to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now! I am ready
to save Jerusalem and show My glory to Israel." (Isaiah 46:13)
