"The next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a far country, will be appalled when they see the widespread devastation, how God made the whole land sick. They’ll see a fire-blackened wasteland of brimstone and salt flats, nothing planted, nothing growing, not so much as a blade of grass anywhere—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which God overthrew in fiery rage. All the nations will ask, “Why did God do this to this country? What on earth could have made him this angry?”"--Deuteronomy 29:22-24, The Message Bible |
| "...the writer was photographed for his visa by the Abdullah brothers, the official photographers of the “Sublime Porte” – the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire." |
The Mysteries of Jubilee with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn | Daystar Television:
"The Year of Jubilee is the time of God’s redemption, the year of restoration, return, and freedom. The Jubilee came every fifty years heralded by the sounding of the trumpet or shofar. When the trumpet sounded, the slaves were set free. When the trumpet sounded, whatever you lost since the last Jubilee was restored to you. If you lost your ancestral land, in the Year of Jubilee, you would return to claim it back – as it was written: “everyone shall return to their own possession.” The Bible foretells that in the end-times, the Jewish people will return and be restored to their own possession: the land of Israel. Thus it will be a prophetic Jubilee. The amazing thing is that the most prophetic events of the end times – and into our day – are following the blueprint of the Jubilee – even in their exact timing.
The end-times as we know it began in a single year – a secret to most of the world. In the 19th century, a series of mysterious events began manifesting in the land of Israel. These events would prepare the way for the return of the Jewish people and the restoration of the nation of Israel. They all converged in the same year: 1867, the first Jubilean year of restoration.
If one counts fifty years from that year, it pinpoints the next Jubilean year as 1917. And like clockwork, it happened. In 1917, the British Empire issued the Balfour Declaration, the first document in 2000 years pledging the land of Israel to the Jewish people. That same Jubilean year marked the end of 2000 years of hostile enemy occupation of the land as the Ottoman Empire crumbled and the British troops under General Edmund Allenby entered the gates of Jerusalem for the restoration of Israel.
Jesus said he would not come again until the Jewish people blessed Him from Jerusalem. So the Second Coming is dependent on the Jewish people returning to their holy city. Count fifty years from 1917 and the mystery pinpoints the next Jubilean year as 1967. In June, 1967, the Six Day War begins. Before the war is over, Israeli soldiers, for the first time in 2000 years, enter the gates of Jerusalem. The last time they were there was when they fought against the Roman Empire. But in the year of Jubilee, everyone “shall return to their own possession.”
The one restoration that never came in 1967 was the legal restoration. The world refused to recognize Jerusalem as belonging to the Jewish people and as the capital of Israel. Count fifty years from 1967 and it pinpoints the next Jubilean year as 2017. 2017 was the year that the legal restoration of Jerusalem was begun. It was the year that President Donald Trump issued the Jerusalem Declaration. It was the first time since ancient times that any world power had ever issued such a declaration and given recognition to Jerusalem.
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Even the rebirth of Israel followed the template of the Jubilee. Zionism, the movement that brought Israel into being, began in 1897. Israel was voted back into existence at the United Nations in 1947 – Exactly fifty years later. Beyond that, the founder of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, penned a prophecy at the end of the First World Zionist Congress. He said the whole world will know about Israel in 50 years’ time. He wrote the prophecy on September 3, 1897. The United Nations plan that would bring Israel back into existence was dated September 3, 1947 – 50 years to the exact day!
Before Moses died, he gave Israel a prophecy: God would gather them back to the land of Israel at the end of the age. But before that happened, a stranger, a foreigner, would come to the land which, at that point, would be a barren, desert wasteland. The stranger would bear witness of its desolation. And after that, the Jewish people would return. Did it ever happen? ...The stranger would come to the land in the 19th century – and his name was ‘Mark Twain.’ Mark Twain fulfilled the prophecy to the letter. He would bear witness of the desolation – and put that witness in his first book ["The Innocents Abroad"]. He would even use the same words that Moses said he would use. He would come to the land in 1867 – the first Jubilean year.
Twain’s visit would mark the beginning of a massive prophetic turning. The land would be prepared for the return of the Jewish people and the Jewish people for the land. Before he died, Twain would come into contact with another author, with whom he would become friends. It was Theodore Herzl, the ‘father of modern Israel.’ On the day that Israel came back into the world, the American president Harry Truman became the first world leader in history to recognize the newborn nation. Truman recounted that he was torn over whether he should do it. His entire State Department was opposing Israel’s rebirth. But Truman then saw the words of a quote that led him to his prophetic decision. They were the words of the stranger – Mark Twain!
And there was another mystery to the stranger. For 2000 years, the Jewish people prayed continuously “Lord, hear our prayer,” “be merciful,” “and restore us to the land.” Mark Twain’s real name was ‘Samuel Clemens.” “Samuel” means ‘the Lord has heard.’ And ‘Clemens’ means "and has been merciful.”".......
"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one quarter of one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.
His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also very out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greeks and Romans followed and made a vast noise, and they were gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, and have vanished.
The Jew saw them all, survived them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmaties, of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert but aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jews; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" --Mark Twain, September 1897
Mark Twain (circled) and the “innocents” aboard the Quaker City 1867
"A wicked fellow that will take the name of the Lord in vain," noted his shipmate William R. Denny, "that is no respector of persons, yet he is liberal, kind and obliging, and if he were only a christian would make his mark."
Mark Twain in Palestine – “A Hopeless, Dreary, Heart-Broken Land”:
Referring to the ship’s prayer hall where the pilgrims gathered, he wrote: ‘The unregenerated called this saloon the ‘Synagogue'”. It seems Twain was not impressed with the mood on board either: “…the pleasure trip was a funeral excursion without a corpse” he wrote. His more pious partners soon resented the way he chose to pass the voyage at sea: gambling with the younger passengers, drinking, smoking his pipe and taking the Lord’s name in vain whenever he felt that the ship was being unnecessarily delayed.
3 prophecy connections that truly surprised me … | Prophecy Connections
"Charles Warren / The pioneer of Jerusalem archaeology
PROPHECY OF THE MAN WITH THE MEASURING LINE (Zechariah 2:1-6)
“‘Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked, “Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
3 While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him 4 and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘”Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it. 5 And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
6 “’Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north [Russia],” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the Lord.”‘”
In this prophecy, THE MAN WITH THE MEASURING LINE is identified as an angel. Again it has layers of meaning that transcend time and space. It was spoken to God’s servant Zechariah through an angel, but it also foreshadows a human recipient — an engineer from England, who was NOT A PROPHET, but who answered a prophetic call to measure Jerusalem and write down a vision concerning the land and its future.
CHARLES WARREN was led to write down a specific plan to bring the vision to fruition — Land of Promise. Keep in mind, Warren wrote this when the land lay desolate. The same time as when MARK TWAIN was led to give testimony to the horrible condition of the Promised Land — 1867 CHARLES WARREN would lay the foundation for the restoration of Jerusalem and a call to the scattered exiles to return to the land God promised to the descendants of Jacob — ISRAEL! TWAIN and WARREN both came to Jerusalem in 1867.
“Where Twain could barely see how the land could support the most meager of populations, Warren wrote of a future where the land could accommodate millions of Jewish people.”".......
An illustration of Jerusalem found in “Innocents Abroad”.
"Shapira explained that the norm of the day was for Westerners to look at Jerusalem as an exotic place through orientalism and a Biblical lens. But Twain saw Jerusalem as it was, “A place of desolation, over population, disease, swamps, and animals,” looking past the romanticism that many artists and travelers portrayed.
Twain, who was a freemason, was cynical about organized religion and critiqued “American vandals abroad” who brought back merchandised items and called them part of reality, Shapira told Breaking Israel News. Nevertheless, Twain respected his mother’s devout Christian approach and knew that she would appreciate a Bible from Jerusalem with “Yerushalayim” – “Jerusalem” – written on it in Hebrew.
Rabbi Tuly Weisz of Breaking Israel News went so far as to suggest that Twain’s eventual fame in the American canon was a result of his unconscious role in the fulfillment of prophecy.
“He wasn’t the father of American literature until this visit, when he wrote the postscript to Jeremiah,” noted Rabbi Weisz. “As the last one to report on the destruction chronicled by Jeremiah, God used Mark Twain to be a prophet.”".......
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| Truman recognizes Israel. Interestingly, like Twain, he was also from Missouri, the "Show Me"-state |
Harry Truman: ‘I Am Cyrus’ - Commentary Magazine
“You win, you baldheaded son-of-a-bitch. I will see him.”
"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of the other sect, who believe, or pretend to believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization."--Pres. John Adams, in a letter to F. A. Vanderkemp (16 February 1809), as quoted in The Roots of American Order (1974) by Russell Kirk.
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"All the great conceptual discoveries of the intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they have been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jew has this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person; of the individual conscience and so of personal redemption; of the collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind. Without the Jews, it might have been a much emptier place."--Paul Johnson, History Man
"When I came into office, I promised to look at the world's challenges with open eyes and very fresh thinking. We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. Old challenges demand new approaches.
My announcement today marks the beginning of a new approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
In 1995, Congress adopted the Jerusalem Embassy Act, urging the federal government to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize that that city — and so importantly — is Israel's capital.
This act passed Congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was reaffirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate only six months ago. ...
While previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver. Today, I am delivering.
I’ve judged this course of action to be in the best interests of the United States of America and the pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. This is a long-overdue step to advance the peace process and to work towards a lasting agreement.
Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital. Acknowledging this as a fact is a necessary condition for achieving peace.".......
President Trump disrupts the disreputable and upholds our law again. It's a pattern.
Rest in the Vine: Funny How the Peace Process Industrial Complex Produces Only Process, Never Peace
1 Samuel 15:29 “And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent...”
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