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To: topcat54

Zechariah 12:3: And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

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ALL the PEOPLE of the earth will be gathered together against it (Jerusalem)! They are going to come up against Israel, God's Chosen, The Apple of His Eye and try to take something that DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM any way they can. They will then attempt - attempt to reign in a NEW ONE WORLD Government, a New Leader to rule over all the Earth and they will ATTEMPT (but fail) to bring Peace to the World. Those who do this to Israel and God's Chosen, Israel, those who curse them, will themselves be Cursed by God.

Yes we are very close!!


42 posted on 07/19/2005 1:08:05 PM PDT by Esther Ruth (Every Knee shall bow, Every Tongue Confess that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!!!!)
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To: Esther Ruth
Evidently you need to read the New Testament to get God's complete perspective on thie things of which you wish to write:

"Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar-- for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children-- but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband." Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman." So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free." (Gal. 4:-21-31)

"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel." (Heb. 12:22-24)

God delights in His heavenly Jerusalem, the Church. We are the apple of His eye.

Jerusalem below represents what is fleshly and in bondage.

"For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh," (Phil. 3:3)

"Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,'" (1 Peter 2:7)

Zechariah 12:3: And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Funny how people never quote the next verse: In that day," says the Lord, "I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ..."

Horses and riders? One could see where this was fulfilled long ago in the days of Messiah's first appearance when horses and riders were prominent.

48 posted on 07/19/2005 1:30:13 PM PDT by topcat54
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To: Esther Ruth; jkl1122
Yes we are very close!!

Sez who? Give us a drop-dead date. Will it absolutely happen within the next decade? The next 50 years? 100 years?

"Very close" is nonsense unless you can back it up with something other than "dreams and visions".

51 posted on 07/19/2005 1:35:39 PM PDT by topcat54
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