"Jews have no history in Jerusalem" (JP News Story)

The Palestinian Authority's chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, said on Wednesday that there was no evidence to back up claims that Jews had ever lived in Jerusalem or that the Temple ever existed.

Tamimi claimed that Israeli archaeologists had "admitted" that Jerusalem was never inhabited by Jews.

Tamimi's announcement came in response to statements made earlier this week by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who said that Jerusalem "is not a settlement," and that "the Jews built it 3,000 years ago."

"Netanyahu's claims are baseless and untrue," said Tamimi, the highest religious authority in the PA. "Jerusalem is an Arab and Islamic city and it always has been so."

Tamimi claimed that all excavation work conducted by Israel after 1967 have "failed to prove that Jews had a history or presence in Jerusalem or that their ostensible temple had ever existed."

He condemned Netanyahu and "all Jewish rabbis and extremist organizations" as liars because of their assertion that Jerusalem was a Jewish city.

Tamimi accused Israel of distorting the facts and forging history "with the aim of erasing the Arab and Islamic character of Jerusalem." He also accused Israel of launching an "ethnic cleansing" campaign to squeeze Arabs out of the city.

"By desecrating its holy sites, expelling its Arab residents and demolishing their homes and confiscating their lands and building settlements in Jerusalem, Israel is seeking, through the use of weapons, to turn it into a Jewish city," he said. "This is a flagrant violation of all religious, legal, moral and human values." (Jerusalem Post News Article)

The above news article makes me very angry for a reason that is not obvious in the content: The learned judge did not say these untrue things because he believes what he is saying but that he knows that the bulk of his audience will believe anything that he tells them because of his position and his office.

We as Christians need to remember to pray for Israel and to continue to support her in word and deed. Here is Love: We need to also pray for those that are being deceived to further hate and evil against Israel. Remember: JHVH G-D calls Israel His Inheritance. (For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. (Deuteronomy 32:9, King James Version)

See this link from Wikipedia about the History of Jerusalem.

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Audio of the day: Dr. Chuck Missler and part Six of Twenty-two in his study of the Book of John.

Study #6 - John Chapter Six (21.18MB MP3)

This collection of audio is from the 1990's and is not the most recent series of studies in this book. You can find the most recent recordings for sale at Dr. Missler's website Khouse.org. The audio that I am offering can be found at Firefighters For Christ free of charge.

I am VERY happy that Romans Eight is in the Bible

The title of today's post says it all. If you are not familiar with Romans chapter Eight then you are in for a blessing that will make your day and calm your mind; the enemy whispers all sorts of things in our ears to make us doubt our salvation and our ability to be or stay saved.

If you have never had these doubts, then I admire your faith, that it can not be shaken. I know that there were times in the past that I felt that I had blown my chance to be saved because I was such a sinner that God had never thought could exist. And that I played some part in the ongoing process.

When I came to the understanding that I am not the one responsible for keeping me saved and that it is God and God alone, I quit worrying. I still blow it so bad sometimes that doubt slips in and that gives the enemy an opportunity to whisper to me, "Are you sure that you are saved? No true born again person would ever do that, knowingly."

That is when I pray and ask for forgiveness for my sin. And then I look to John Ten and I know that the only way for me to loose my salvation is for me to fall out of the Father's hand. That is not possible:

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. (John 10:27-30, King James Version)

When I give the enemy the opportunity to attack me - yes, I still sin - I remember that Romans Eight was penned over nineteen hundred years ago:

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:33-39, King James Version)


These verses seem to make the whispering stop. Thank you Jesus for your love.

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I have a Pro MediaFire account that allows almost unlimited bandwidth for the uploading and downloading of files and I want to take full advantage of the service and use this blog to make the Word of God available to all who want it. So then faith (cometh) by hearing and hearing by the word of God - Romans 10:17.

Audio of the day: Dr. Chuck Missler and all Ten sessions of his study in the Book of Romans.

The Book of Romans (The Folder size is 187MB MP3)

This collection of audio is from the 1990's and is not the most recent series of studies in this book. You can find the most recent recordings for sale at Dr. Missler's website Khouse.org. The audio that I am offering can be found at Firefighters For Christ free of charge.

Today is a day of Great Expectation and Hope

Constant Reader and Sibling in the Lord, Spitfire, reminded me today of something that I have not considered for a while. When we see Jesus, we will be transformed into beings different than we are at this time and in this place. We will be just like He is now in His risen form; Sin will not be part of our DNA and we will not be constrained to only four dimensions of reality.

My proof texts for this is view is: (Luke 24:36-43), (John 20:26-29) and (1 John 3:2)
(Note: Links open in a new tab/window depending on which web browser you use.( Go Firefox!).


Please forgive today's short post. My current body is tired and wants to go to bed and dream of (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).

Maranatha!

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Audio of the day: Dr. Chuck Missler and part Two of Twenty-two in his study of the Book of John.

Study #2 - John Chapter Two (17.62MB MP3)

This collection of audio is from the 1990's and is not the most recent series of studies in this book. You can find the most recent recordings for sale at Dr. Missler's website Khouse.org. The audio that I am offering can be found at Firefighters For Christ free of charge.

Today is a day of Song and Sonship

Are you in Christ?

Have you confessed with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and do you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead? Then you are and will be saved.

⁸But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; ⁹That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:8-10, King James Version)


Then, through Christ, by the faith that God has given to you, you have two things that are very special: Righteousness and Salvation. They are both gifts from God that only He, through His Son, could give to you.

So, what do you do when given so special a gift? What you do is say 'Thank You' by Loving and Worshiping Him and giving all of your Devotion to Him. Then at some time in the future do something nice for Him.

Like singing a song to Him (In person):

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:9-15, King James Version)


Gentle reader, now is the time to learn this song. You would not want to be the only one not singing when the time comes. It will be okay if you can't carry a tune in a bucket so long as you know the words and they come from the heart.

Trust me, I will be singing loud enough to drown all of you out anyway.

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Audio of the day: Dr. Chuck Missler and part One of Twenty-two in his study of the Book of John.

Study #1 - John Chapter One (21.48MB MP3)

This collection of audio is from the 1990's and is not the most recent series of studies in this book. You can find the most recent recordings for sale at Dr. Missler's website Khouse.org. The audio that I am offering can be found at Firefighters For Christ free of charge.

Technology Update

I decided to purchase a 'Pro' account at MediaFire so I could create direct links to the audio files that I want to promote and share with the readers of this blog. I feel that it is a small price to pay to spread the word of God to those that would desire to hear it.

I ran into a slight problem last night when I tried to download the first file in Chuck Missler's series on the Book of John from my MediaFire account, Instead of the download dialog popping up, I was redirected to the MediaFire home page and the URL came up 'Connection: Close'. This is not how it is supposed to work.

I checked other files in the series and they seem to be there. In short: I sent an email to the MediaFire help desk and reported the problem I was having. We'll see just how serious they take there customer support by the response time in which my email is responded to.

If you attempt to download a file and the same thing occurs for you, then please leave a comment about it to let me know. A temporary fix will be to post an alternate link to that file from the Firefighters For Christ servers. I will state again that the audio files that I am offering are free to download from the Firefighters For Christ MP3 download site and since I am not charging any fees to make them available then it is leagle for me to offer them to the readers of this blog.

If you are not familiar with the Firefighters For Christ, they are a not for profit organization that has for many years given away tapes and cd's of various speakers to further the spread of the Gospel. They have two sites that I know of and here are links to both of them. http://firefighters.org/ http://server.firefighters.org/

You can download their 2009 catalog in Adobe PDF format and print it from your computer to mail in to them. They are also offering a link to a page that lists all of the recordings available from their 2009 catalog.

Below is from the Firefighters For Christ website and it is also their mission statement:

We encourage you to download as many MP3's as you like for non-commercial individual use.

"Freely you have received, freely give." Matthew 10:8


Praise the Lord for the work that He is doing in you as you are being conformed to the image of His son.

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Audio of the day: Dr. Chuck Missler and part Six of Seven in his study of the Book of Ephesians.

The Church Mystery - Ephesians Chapter 5 (18.43MB MP3)

This collection of audio is from the 1990's and is not the most recent series of studies in this book. You can find the most recent recordings for sale at Dr. Missler's website Khouse.org. The audio that I am offering can be found at Firefighters For Christ free of charge.

Someday is NOW!

Greetings to all! It is Saturday, August 15th, 2009 and today is the day that that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. It is also the day that I set the format for my weekend posts at RomansThirteenTen.

Saturday will be the day of the week that I post links to media downloads. I will still include 'Audio of the Day' links throughout the week and use Saturdays to feature entire collections of audio files.

Sunday will be a day of rest and I will only post a scripture passage for the day. (This Sundays scripture post will be one of my favorite chapters from the book of Isaiah. Can you guess which one it might be?)

I have a Free MediaFire account that allows almost unlimited bandwidth for uploading and downloading of files and I want to take full advantage of the service and use this blog to make the Word of God available to all who want it. So then faith (cometh) by hearing and hearing by the word of God - Romans 10:17.

Audio of the day: Dr. Chuck Missler and all Twenty-one sessions of his study in the Gospel of John.

The Gospel of John (The Folder size is 345MB MP3)

This collection of audio is from the 1990's and is not the most recent series of studies in this book. You can find the most recent recordings for sale at Dr. Missler's website Khouse.org. The audio that I am offering can be found at Firefighters For Christ free of charge.