Posted on 01/11/2014 9:02:15 AM PST by robowombat
Ariel Sharon — the military hero and prime minister who was among the most controversial figures in the history of Israel — has died, eight years after the massive stroke that left him comatose. He was 85.
He died Saturday at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv, where he has been cared for since 2006.
Over his long career Sharon served as Israel's 11th prime minister, headed several ministries including Defense, and rose to the rank of general in the Israeli army, seeing action in all four of Israel's major wars.
Sharon was born on Feb. 26, 1928, in Kfar Malal, then in the British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1942, at the age of 14, Sharon joined the Gadna, a paramilitary youth battalion, and later the Haganah, an underground paramilitary force.
He was a platoon commander in the Israeli military at the outset of the 1948 War of Independence, and rose swiftly up the ranks during the war.
In the 1956 Suez War, Sharon commanded a paratrooper brigade, and he headed Israel's most powerful armored division as a major general in the 1967 Six-Day War. His actions on the Sinai front brought Sharon international commendation by military strategists.
Sharon retired from military service in 1973, but was called back to active duty at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in October of that year.
Sharon's bold maneuver in crossing the Suez Canal and encircling Egypt's Third Army was considered the key to Israel's ultimate victory and led the Israeli public to nickname him "The King of Israel" and "The Lion of God."
Following the 1981 elections, he was appointed Minister of Defense, the post he held during the 1982 Lebanon War.
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Great man and Leader
Blood Moons in 2014 and 2015?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2013/07/12/lunar-eclipses-cause-blood-moons
Four ‘blood-red’ total lunar eclipses will fall on Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015, the same back-to-back occurrences at the time of 1492, 1948 and 1967
http://watch.org/showprint.php3?idx=104119&mcat=24&rtn=index.html
The Rabbi, the Note and the Messiah
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23877/Default.aspx
Prophetic twist to Sharon’s imminent death
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/prophetic-twist-to-sharons-imminent-death/
12th-century rabbi predicted Israel’s future (Messiah in 2017)
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/12th-century-rabbi-predicted-israels-future/
Egyptian Astrologer: The Jews Will be Stronger in 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175827#.UtBpPbR1ItI
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4088.htm
Obama will send a deputy assistant undersecretary to represennt the U.S.
Being kept alive but comatose for so long just seems counter to the life Sharon lived. I’m wondering if or why he didn’t have a directive for such an occurrence, or if the branch of Judaism he belonged to would prohibit a directive to ‘pull the plug?’
May his soul now rest in peace.
That said, who knows who will be coming. Will it by the Moshiach or the AC?
May he rest in peace. He was a hero in his time.
The Evangelical end-times narrative is based on the Dispensationalist theology of John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), which was later popularised by the Scofield Reference Bible. Because of this narrative, an entire eschatological (last things) belief system has developed which is wrapped around the headlines in the news. Usually, Evangelicals are very particular about using only Biblical sources for their belief system, but I think their willingness to reach out into the headlines of the news, as a means of validating their Dispensational eschatology models, has led them into a trap.
RIP Ariel Sharon
ping
RIP.
RIP, “lion of God”.
Just came back from RCIA team training when I came up the article. Also did the meaning of the name Ariel. Here is a website:
thank you for the ping.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachLookup !
Yah'shua is coming soon.
Rest in peace, hero.
AMEN, second it.
Christians in gerneral, would do wise to heed what Jesus has said, to leave all end times speculation to the Heavenly Father and to witness for both Jesus and the Gospel.
He was a great hero in the earlier wars. But when he became Prime Minister, something went wrong with him, and he sold the country out. I have always speculated that maybe it was a minor, early stroke. At any rate, he handed over a big part of Israel to the Muslims, without getting any return at all (as was predictable), and that has greatly increased Israel’s problems ever since.
It’s as if there were two different Sharons, the hero and the traitor. Sorry, but there it is. In any case, R.I.P.
Both!
I don’t believe in any of that Catholic or Protestant spin on the Tanach (aka ‘the Bible’ for those of you in Rio Linda).
Sorry, but you are so 40 years ago about the Darby thing.
There have been several scholarly translations of multiple sources, but here is one:
“On the Last Times...” Ephraem the Syrian, A.D. 373-—you can find this one free on the internet.
FYI...if you have two “Dispensationalists” you have three theologies, but...
we know not to set dates.
We do agree on Israel.
The God of Israel will protect her and any country, (including this one) who curses the apple of His eye will be the victims of cursing themselves.
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