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20,000 Jews seeking to make Aliya to Israel as Israel, Turkey relations deteriorate | Blog – Free Christian Network
20,000 Jews seeking to make Aliya to Israel as Israel, Turkey relations deteriorate
September 12, 2011 04:34am
The spring feast would be 'Pesach" which is hebrew for Passover, this commerorates God deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The summer feast would be "Shavout" or in the greek, Pentecost, which means 50. The fall feast would be "Sukkot" or Tabernacles. Three of these sevenfeast are found in Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16:16 gives us these three feast and the Jews responsiblity to go up to Jerusalem three times a year.
Jews have been making Aliya to Israel since 1897, culminating in the rebirth of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948. Since than more Jews have been making Aliya to Israel. The Jewish prophet Zephaniah stated in Zepheniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering
In 1991 the Israeli Government and several Jewish orginizations air lifted Ethiopian Jews due to the Ethiopian Government being toppled. these Ethipian Jews also known as "Beta Jews" were air lifted to Israel. The Israeli Government in 36 hours used 34 IAF C-130s and EL Al cargo planes and transported 14,325 Ethiopian Jews. Operation Moses air lifted Beta Jews in November 21, 1984 and ending on January 5, 1984. There were 8,000 Ethiopian Jews air lifted to Israel due to severe famine in the Sudan. The Arab countries pressured the Sudan to stop the airlift. Operation Joshua in 1985 brought 800 Jews Ethiopia Jews to Israel. these last days "Aliya" of Jews coming to Israel, Opration Solomon, Moses, and Joshua all set the end time scenerio. With 20,000 Turkish Jews looking to make Aliya to Israel, due to inceasing fears of deteriorating realtions between Israel and Turkey, is setting the stage for Bile prophecy to be fulfilled.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Ethiopia celebrates New Year 7 years behind Gregorian calendar | African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com
On September 12, Ethiopians will be celebrating the dawn of a new year – 2004. For the initiated this may sound anomalous but Ethiopia, a country of more than 80 million people, is behind time... literally.
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The Horn of Africa country uses its own calendar and for them it is still 2003 which began on September 11, 2010 of the Gregorian calendar. There is a 276 year difference between the Ethiopic and Coptic calendars.
In spite of this, the Ethiopic calendar is closely associated with the rules and the different calculations influenced by the Coptic church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido church.
Based on the ancient Coptic calendar, the Ethiopian Calendar is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar, owing to alternate calculations in determining the date of the annunciation of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Ethiopia’s New Year (Enkutatash) means the "gift of jewels".
The Enkutatash tradition dates back to the time when the famous Queen of Sheba returned from her expensive jaunt to visit King Solomon in Jerusalem.
Her chiefs are believed to have welcomed her by showering her with gifts of jewels or inku. But Enkutatash is not exclusively a religious holiday.
The spring festival, which has been celebrated since early times, also symbolises the end of the rainy season accompanied by dancing and singing a cross the green countryside.
It is also the season for exchanging formal New Year greetings and cards among the urban sophisticated as well as the traditional bouquet of flowers.
Confusion
Ethiopia’s use of a different calendar has always confused foreigners visiting the country.
Keeping appointments with locals is more often than not a nightmare for foreign visitors, who are always encouraged to make it clear when they are making appointments with locals on whether they are referring to local or European time.
For example, Europeans who unknowingly fix appointments for 9 am are surprised when their Ethiopian counterparts turn up at 9 pm.
Ethiopians who usually don’t use the ante meridian (am) and post meridian (pm) timing begin their day at 01 am and end at 12 pm, which is sunset local time.
Wishes
With the New Year approaching, Ethiopians have already shifted into a festive mood.
The dawn of the New Year, no matter how tough the situation in the country might be, has some power to make people believe that things will turn out for the better. For many Ethiopians, it is a time when new resolutions are considered.
And when the New Year arrives, people seem to wish to change not only things they have control over, but also things out of the sphere of their reach.
In the meantime, many Ethiopians have been busy shopping ahead of the celebrations. In Addis Ababa, home to around five million people, the celebrations are already under way as shown by the busy streets.
And for most Ethiopians, Christian and Muslim alike, it is a must to slaughter a sheep or goat. It is also a time when the Ethiopian traditional chicken stew is most popular in kitchens cross the country.
Ethiopians spend their new year, mainly at home partaking in traditional food and drink. It is usually the women’s task to prepare food and drinks while men are tasked with the urchasing of goats or sheep as well as providing money to buy gifts for the holiday.
Men as heads of families are also supposed to slaughter the sheep or goat early in the morning of the New Year.
More wishes
The climax of the New Year celebration is when most Ethiopians finally make resolutions for the year ahead. It is common place for people to resolve to stop indulging in unhealthy habits such as smoking or drinking beer.
Mesfin Mekonnen (36), a father of one hopes to stop smoking next year. “It is really my hope to completely stop smoking in the New Year,” he says. “I promised myself, my wife and son. So 2004 will be a good year for my family.”
Like Mekonnen, Tizita Tesema (27) who works for a private company, 2004 will be a special year. “I am preparing to get married. That is one of my plans for the New Year,” Tesema aid.
But while many resolutions are made, most are broken as Ethiopians usually never live up to them.
Mekuria Berhanu says he has failed to stop smoking and chewing Khat (a popular stimulant leaf in East Africa and Yemen) for the past two years despite resolving to stop for the past two years. “I still keep smoking and chewing Khat despite my resolutions to stop. However, I am determined to stop in 2004,” Berhanu said.
Ethiopians in the Diaspora are also returning home to celebrate the New Year.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Ancient Humans Used Fine-Crafted Tools Earlier Than Thought: Researchers - International Business Times
Our human ancestors may have fashioned hand-axes and cleavers much earlier than we believe, as new research suggests ancient humans didn't take the stone tools along with them when they left Africa.
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A team from the United States and France has found newly discovered hand axes from about 1.76 million year ago. The team made the discovery after traveling to an archaeological site located along the northwest shoreline of Kenya's Lake Turkana.
They've used a refined technique to date the dirt, and were therefore able to calculate the age of the tools.
Researchers have previously found two-faced blades and other large cutting tools that were excavated there. However, the new find is said to be older than similar stone-age artifacts in Ethiopia and Tanzania, which are estimated to be between 1.4 and 1.6 million years old.
The results of the new geological study are being reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
The study was led by Christopher Lepre of Rutgers University and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
If the researchers are indeed correct in their calculations, this could mean that ancient humans were already involved in refined tool-making, which requires high-level thinking, much earlier than thought.
The new found tools are said to have more distinct and planned designs, and differ greatly from the simple stone tools made from bashing rocks together.
"There's not a tremendous amount of diligence that goes into making the Oldowan tools, you can say they are kind of haphazardly made," Lepre told Fox News. "It's pretty simple in terms of the makers were bashing stones together to make sharp edges."
"I was taken aback when I realized that the geological data indicated it was the oldest Acheulean site in the world," Lepre told The New York Times.
The stone tools are known collectively as Acheulean tools. They are said to be the achievements of human ancestor Homo Erectus.
New York University anthropologist Christian Tryon told The Associated Press that the teardrop-shaped axes were "like a stone-age Leatherman or Swiss Army knife."
The axes are believed to have been appropriate for slaughtering animals or chopping wood. The thicker picks were used for digging holes.
What still remains a mystery to researchers is how the tools ended up leaving Africa.
Acheulean culture and its tools didn't arrive in Europe until about one million years ago, and it is believed that Homo Erectus colonized Europe over 1.5 million years ago.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Libya in Bible Prophecy? :: Christian Post iPost
Is Libya Today in Bible Prophecy?
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CONCORD - Since Libya and Gaddafi is so much on the news today, I've been finding prophecy news regarding the civil war all over the blogosphere. Joel Rosenberg, one of the most popular prophecy buffs today, writes:
In Ezekiel 38-39, we learn that Libya is one of the nations that joins the Russian-Iranian alliance against Israel in “the last days.” … This tells us the no matter what the near term outcomes of the revolutions underway in North Africa are, in the not-too-distant future Libya for certain and possibly her neighbors will have virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel leadership who will eagerly join a coalition bent on destroying the Jews and occupy the land of Israel … Hopefully Gaddafi will be deposed and a more moderate leadership will rise up for a season before the prophecy of the “War of Gog and Magog” comes to fulfillment. Either way, the Church should be using this window of time to do everything possible to get the gospel into Libya and to strengthen the persecuted believers in Libya before the country faces God’s judgment for attacking Israel.
Another dispensationalist pastor offers his Libyan analysis in "Libya in End Times Prophecy":
This coalition of nations, and the Bible implies many more nations with them, will make an all-out assault on Israel, intending to destroy her. God told Ezekiel that this event would occur in the "latter years" (Ezekiel 38:8). At the last moment it will look like Israel will be wiped out, but God will intervene and Libya and the other nations, including Iran, will suffer a 7-fold judgement from God - a great earthquake, pestilence, bloodshed, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone (Ezekiel 38:19-22). To be sure, God will not need airplanes and troops to get this accomplished.
Like all prognosticators, the above writers see the whole Scripture as nothing other than God's plan for Israel, contradicting the overarching principle of Biblical interpretation in what Jesus himself declared, "everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled"(Luke 24:44; cf Luke 24:27).
In 1974, at the height of the energy crisis and soon after the Yom Kippur War between Israel and the Arabs was over, John Walvoord published his New York Timesbestseller, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis. Then, every time a major crisis erupts in the Middle East, he rewrites his book to suit the current situation: in 1991, before the Gulf War; and in 2007, Armageddon, Oil and Terror, after the 9-11 terror attacks and the War in Iraq.
Walvoord and most evangelical theologians believe that the next prophetic event will be a secret Rapture when all Christians will be taken up to heaven, and that Christ will then return to earth from heaven seven years later with all these believers. At his return, the people of the earth will defy him in a war called Armageddon, but Christ will destroy all of them and throw them all, together with Satan and his evil angels, into a lake of fire. He will then reign as King from a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem for one thousand years. But after he reigns for 1,000 years, a multitude of sinful people–called Gog and Magog–will again rebel against him. These too will be destroyed by God, and finally–finally–sin will be destroyed forever.
A different twist to this doomsday scenario is being popularized by another dispensationalist, Joel Rosenberg, in another bestseller entitled Epicenter. I first heard of Epicenter when he spoke at a prophecy conference in the Philippines last year. Rosenberg connects the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 20:8-9 to an invasion of Israel by an alliance of Russia, Iran and the Arabs.
Several misinterpretations are apparent in Rosenberg’s view. First, except for Persia, the kingdoms listed in Ezekiel are unidentifiable today. All of his identifications of Meshech, Tubal, Put, Gomer and Beth-togarmah (Ezek 38:1-6) are nothing but wild speculations. Kim Riddlebarger cites the work of noted evangelical archaeologist and historian Edwin Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier: Invading Hordes from the Russian Steppes (Baker, 1983):
as Edwin Yamauchi ... has pointed out in his book ... this identification is based upon a number of unsubstantiated assumptions. For one thing, Gog and Magog cannot be directly tied to the Scythians. Yamauchi believes that their identity is not certain at all. Furthermore, he contends that Meshech and Tubal cannot be tied to Moscow or Tobolsk in any sense. He believes these are references to ancient Assyria which did invade Israel from the north.
Andrew J. Webb, in "The Final Doom of Gog and Magog," ties the place-names of Ezekiel 38:1-6 with the same names in Genesis 10:2, concluding that these names are symbolic of an alliance of many unbelieving nations descended from Noah surrounding Israel:
[Gog] will be the head of an alliance or confederation of nations ... from the four corners of the earth. Persia to the East, and Ethiopia and Put to the South are specifically mentioned, for instance. All of these nations will be assembled and come out of the North as a "great assembly and a mighty army" (Ezek. 38:15) in order to attack God’s people, Israel (38:16).
Second, Gog’s axis of evil come from “the uttermost parts of the north” (Ezek 38:6) The prophets frequently mention Israel's enemies as coming from the north (Isa 14:21; Jer 1:15; Ezek 23:24; Zeph 2:13), referring mostly to Assyria and Babylon. Ezekiel’s invaders from the north is an innumerable army of unbelievers,"You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you" (Ezek 38:9). They attack Israel because they are against the God of Israel.
John universalizes Ezekiel 38-39 into a great war between God's people and Satan's hordes. Revelation’s hordes attack Christians, “the camp of the saints and the beloved city," and the church, ”the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” who are made up of "the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven" (Heb 12:22-23)? In fact, Gog is probably the same Antichrist figure as the Beast of Revelation 13, the one who will be given authority "over every tribe and people and language and nation ... from the four corners of the earth" (Rev 13:7; 20:8), and "utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven" (Rev 13:6). He and all his hordes will be violently opposed to Christ and his beloved people (Rev 13:7).
All of the foregoing mean that Ezekiel 38-39 is a prophecy of the Assyrian invasion of Israel in the 8th century B. C., and this invasion is typological—a foreshadow—of the great persecution of Christians by unbelievers throughout this present age until Christ returns, which John sees being fulfilled in Revelation 20:1-10.
It is no surprise then to find striking similarities between the description of the Gog and Magog rebellion in Ezekiel 38 and 39 to the Gog and Magog rebellion in Revelation 20. And both of these texts have uncanny parallelisms with Revelation 19:11-21. These three passages all describe the same endtime “battle” between God and evildoers, as seen in the following table:
As seen from the above comparison, those two texts from Revelation describe the same endtime “battle” between God and evildoers. Revelation 20:7-10 is a recap—a “replay”—of Revelation 19:11-21.
Isn't kind of interpretation “spiritualizing” instead of literal? But “spiritualizing” is exactly what John and all the other New Testament writers do with Old Testament prophecies about Christ. Revelation 20:8-9 is just one example. Everywhere, the New Testament “spiritualizes” Old Testament Israel as fulfilled in Christ and the church, the true Temple and the true Israel of God.The following articles present Biblical prophecy based on Scripture interpreting Scripture, not Scripture interpreted by CNN or CBN or the New York Times: “Gog, Magog and an Iranian-Russian Alliance?” and “A Present or Future Millennium?” by Dr. Kim Riddlebarger.
mnlpilgrim
CONCORD - Since Libya and Gaddafi is so much on the news today, I've been finding prophecy news regarding the civil war all over the blogosphere. Joel Rosenberg, one of the most popular prophecy buffs today, writes:
In Ezekiel 38-39, we learn that Libya is one of the nations that joins the Russian-Iranian alliance against Israel in “the last days.” … This tells us the no matter what the near term outcomes of the revolutions underway in North Africa are, in the not-too-distant future Libya for certain and possibly her neighbors will have virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel leadership who will eagerly join a coalition bent on destroying the Jews and occupy the land of Israel … Hopefully Gaddafi will be deposed and a more moderate leadership will rise up for a season before the prophecy of the “War of Gog and Magog” comes to fulfillment. Either way, the Church should be using this window of time to do everything possible to get the gospel into Libya and to strengthen the persecuted believers in Libya before the country faces God’s judgment for attacking Israel.
Another dispensationalist pastor offers his Libyan analysis in "Libya in End Times Prophecy":
This coalition of nations, and the Bible implies many more nations with them, will make an all-out assault on Israel, intending to destroy her. God told Ezekiel that this event would occur in the "latter years" (Ezekiel 38:8). At the last moment it will look like Israel will be wiped out, but God will intervene and Libya and the other nations, including Iran, will suffer a 7-fold judgement from God - a great earthquake, pestilence, bloodshed, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone (Ezekiel 38:19-22). To be sure, God will not need airplanes and troops to get this accomplished.
Like all prognosticators, the above writers see the whole Scripture as nothing other than God's plan for Israel, contradicting the overarching principle of Biblical interpretation in what Jesus himself declared, "everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled"(Luke 24:44; cf Luke 24:27).
In 1974, at the height of the energy crisis and soon after the Yom Kippur War between Israel and the Arabs was over, John Walvoord published his New York Timesbestseller, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis. Then, every time a major crisis erupts in the Middle East, he rewrites his book to suit the current situation: in 1991, before the Gulf War; and in 2007, Armageddon, Oil and Terror, after the 9-11 terror attacks and the War in Iraq.
Walvoord and most evangelical theologians believe that the next prophetic event will be a secret Rapture when all Christians will be taken up to heaven, and that Christ will then return to earth from heaven seven years later with all these believers. At his return, the people of the earth will defy him in a war called Armageddon, but Christ will destroy all of them and throw them all, together with Satan and his evil angels, into a lake of fire. He will then reign as King from a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem for one thousand years. But after he reigns for 1,000 years, a multitude of sinful people–called Gog and Magog–will again rebel against him. These too will be destroyed by God, and finally–finally–sin will be destroyed forever.
A different twist to this doomsday scenario is being popularized by another dispensationalist, Joel Rosenberg, in another bestseller entitled Epicenter. I first heard of Epicenter when he spoke at a prophecy conference in the Philippines last year. Rosenberg connects the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 20:8-9 to an invasion of Israel by an alliance of Russia, Iran and the Arabs.
Several misinterpretations are apparent in Rosenberg’s view. First, except for Persia, the kingdoms listed in Ezekiel are unidentifiable today. All of his identifications of Meshech, Tubal, Put, Gomer and Beth-togarmah (Ezek 38:1-6) are nothing but wild speculations. Kim Riddlebarger cites the work of noted evangelical archaeologist and historian Edwin Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier: Invading Hordes from the Russian Steppes (Baker, 1983):
as Edwin Yamauchi ... has pointed out in his book ... this identification is based upon a number of unsubstantiated assumptions. For one thing, Gog and Magog cannot be directly tied to the Scythians. Yamauchi believes that their identity is not certain at all. Furthermore, he contends that Meshech and Tubal cannot be tied to Moscow or Tobolsk in any sense. He believes these are references to ancient Assyria which did invade Israel from the north.
Andrew J. Webb, in "The Final Doom of Gog and Magog," ties the place-names of Ezekiel 38:1-6 with the same names in Genesis 10:2, concluding that these names are symbolic of an alliance of many unbelieving nations descended from Noah surrounding Israel:
[Gog] will be the head of an alliance or confederation of nations ... from the four corners of the earth. Persia to the East, and Ethiopia and Put to the South are specifically mentioned, for instance. All of these nations will be assembled and come out of the North as a "great assembly and a mighty army" (Ezek. 38:15) in order to attack God’s people, Israel (38:16).
Second, Gog’s axis of evil come from “the uttermost parts of the north” (Ezek 38:6) The prophets frequently mention Israel's enemies as coming from the north (Isa 14:21; Jer 1:15; Ezek 23:24; Zeph 2:13), referring mostly to Assyria and Babylon. Ezekiel’s invaders from the north is an innumerable army of unbelievers,"You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you" (Ezek 38:9). They attack Israel because they are against the God of Israel.
John universalizes Ezekiel 38-39 into a great war between God's people and Satan's hordes. Revelation’s hordes attack Christians, “the camp of the saints and the beloved city," and the church, ”the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” who are made up of "the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven" (Heb 12:22-23)? In fact, Gog is probably the same Antichrist figure as the Beast of Revelation 13, the one who will be given authority "over every tribe and people and language and nation ... from the four corners of the earth" (Rev 13:7; 20:8), and "utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven" (Rev 13:6). He and all his hordes will be violently opposed to Christ and his beloved people (Rev 13:7).
All of the foregoing mean that Ezekiel 38-39 is a prophecy of the Assyrian invasion of Israel in the 8th century B. C., and this invasion is typological—a foreshadow—of the great persecution of Christians by unbelievers throughout this present age until Christ returns, which John sees being fulfilled in Revelation 20:1-10.
It is no surprise then to find striking similarities between the description of the Gog and Magog rebellion in Ezekiel 38 and 39 to the Gog and Magog rebellion in Revelation 20. And both of these texts have uncanny parallelisms with Revelation 19:11-21. These three passages all describe the same endtime “battle” between God and evildoers, as seen in the following table:
As seen from the above comparison, those two texts from Revelation describe the same endtime “battle” between God and evildoers. Revelation 20:7-10 is a recap—a “replay”—of Revelation 19:11-21.
Isn't kind of interpretation “spiritualizing” instead of literal? But “spiritualizing” is exactly what John and all the other New Testament writers do with Old Testament prophecies about Christ. Revelation 20:8-9 is just one example. Everywhere, the New Testament “spiritualizes” Old Testament Israel as fulfilled in Christ and the church, the true Temple and the true Israel of God.The following articles present Biblical prophecy based on Scripture interpreting Scripture, not Scripture interpreted by CNN or CBN or the New York Times: “Gog, Magog and an Iranian-Russian Alliance?” and “A Present or Future Millennium?” by Dr. Kim Riddlebarger.
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