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vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <!--#include virtual="/logo.txt"--> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Lebanon></a><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="http://earth.esa.int/ers/ers_action/Damascus_Syria_SAR_IM_Orbit_50762_20050104.htm"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Damascus, on the bottom central bright area, at 690 metres above sea level surrounded by the Al Ghutah Oasis,&nbsp; bordered by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to its west (top)  Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR) multipemporeal color composite image satellite </span></b></a></span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> 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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=377 height=396 src="zech9-2_files/image001.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image001.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><a href="http://earth.esa.int/ers/ers_action/Damascus_Syria_SAR_IM_Orbit_50762_20050104.htm"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>imaging</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:purple'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#660066'> The God of Israel wants Damascus to be One of His  Zions </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#000054'>The Oracles of God in Zechariah 9-14 and the Beginning Days of Redemption</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Translation of text by the New English Bible</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#660066'>Translation of text and Rabbinic Commentary by Maggid ben Yoseif</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid'><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.torah-voice.org">www.torah-voice.org</a></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Biblical Commentary - Robert D. Mock MD (revised)</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:rmock@biblesearchers.com"><b>robertmock@biblesearchers.com</b></a></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Read archived article - September 6, 2002</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Rewritten and Graphics July 30, 2006  Reedited June 2008</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Introduction><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>&nbsp; </span></b></a><span style='mso-bookmark:Introduction'></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Calligrapher;color:#660066'>Zechariah 9:1</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'> </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#660066'>Part Two </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#333399'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#333399'>Topics</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Introduction"><b>Introduction</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Hadrach"><b>The Lord of hosts lays claim to Damascus in the Land of Hadrach</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Zions"><b>The  Zions of the Lord</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Hermon"><b>Mount Hermon as the  First Zion and the  Gateway to Heaven </b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Damascus"><b>Damascus: The Mother of International Terrorism</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#JudgmentsDamascus"><b>The Judgments of the Lord upon Damascus</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Judgments"><b>The Judgments of the Lord upon Israel and the Nations surrounding Her Land</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Kidnappings"><b>Kidnappings by Hamas and Hezbollah in the Prelude to the War</b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Qassam"><b> Qassam Rockets in Ashkelon are a Sword of Vengeance against Immodesty and Promiscuity </b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2.shtml#Shabbatean"><b>Shabbatean Destruction of Israel -  The Disengagement from the Shomron ( The Fields of Ephraim )</b></a><b><span style='color:blue'> </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>Introduction</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Before we begin this awesome Oracle of the God of Israel</b> and <b>study it in depth</b>, it is <b>important to stand back</b> and look <b>at it from the viewpoint of the eagle soaring in the heavens</b>, the <b>astronauts circling our globe</b> or <b>trying to reach into the vision of the Almighty One</b>. The <b>Lord of hosts will be re-introducing His  Word </b> into the <b>lives and consciousness </b>not only of <b>Israel,</b> the entire <b>Middle East</b> but the <b>entire world</b>.&nbsp; The <b>land of Israel is the stage</b> for the <b>Grand Finale</b> as <b>all the streams of prophesies</b> that were <b>given to the prophets of Israel</b> reach their <b>final conclusion</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>We find</b> the <b>written  Word given to the Israelites</b> at the <b>base of that mount called Sinai</b>. <b>We later find</b> the <b> Word in the flesh</b> given to the <b>remnant of the Israelites, the Jews in Judea</b> at the <b>apex of the last great empire</b> of the <b>ancient world: Rome</b>.&nbsp; The <b>hand of the Lord that molded</b> the <b>geo-political stage of the world</b> into the <b>greatest era of peace</b>, the <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>Pax Romana</span> of Caesar Augustus, </b>sent <b>His Son </b>on a<b>  salvation mission </b>to this<b> planet earth.</b>&nbsp; At that time <b>something happened</b>:</p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Luke 2:1</b>   And <b>it came to pass in those days</b> that a <b>decree went out from Caesar Augustus</b> that <b>all the world should be registered. </b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>John 1:14, 16-19</b>   And <b><span style='color:navy'>the  Word became flesh</span></b> and <b><span style='color:navy'>dwelt among us</span></b>, and <b><span style='color:navy'>we beheld His glory</span></b>, the <b><span style='color:navy'>glory as of the only begotten of the Father</span></b><span style='color:navy'>, <b>full of grace and truth</b></span>& and of <b>His fullness we have all received</b>, and <b>grace for grace</b>.&nbsp; For the <b>law was given through Moses</b>, but <b>grace and truth came through Jesus Christ</b>.&nbsp; <b>No one has seen God at any time</b>.&nbsp; The <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrews/man/spiritsoul.shtml#Begotten"><b>only begotten Son</b></a>, who is in the <b>bosom of the Father</b>, He has declared Him. &nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Now this</b> is the <b>testimony of John (the Baptizer)</b>, who <b>was an authentic Torah observing Jew</b>, who came from the <b>regions of the Essene settlement in Qumran.</b> He <b>practiced in words and action</b>s the <b>entire halachah (how the Torah is applied to everyday life) of the Jewish people</b>.&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>At the same time</b>, he <b>carried the mantle of Elijah</b> and <b>preached </b>of the <b> Kingdom-Repentance (Tshuva) message </b> of the <b>coming Kingdom of God;  Prepare ye the Way of the Lord. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>Jewish people in the province of Judea</b> were in a <b>state of political and spiritual crisis</b>.&nbsp; The <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/yahshua/beithillel/falk.shtml#ExodusDamascus"><b>disciples of Hillel</b></a>, the <b>true Torah voice of the Jewish people</b>, had <b>fled into the wilderness about </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>20 BCE</span>.&nbsp; </b>There they <b>lived with the disciples of Menahem the Essene</b>, the <b>former Bet Ad Bin (Vice President)</b> of <b>Hillel s Sanhedrin</b> who also had <b>exited Jerusalem due to Jerusalem s state of spiritual corruption</b>.&nbsp; Out of the land of the <b>Essenes </b>came forth <b>two cousins, Yochanan (John)</b> and <b>Yahshua (Jesus) </b>bringing forth the <b><span style='color:navy'>Kingdom Repentance Message to the Jews</span></b>, <b> Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>At that same time the <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/yahshua/beithillel/falk.shtml#BeitShammai"><b>School of Shammai (Beit Shammai)</b></a> became the <b>ascendant group of Pharisees</b> who <b>controlled the educational and religious activities of the Jewish people</b>.&nbsp; As the <b>brooding, rigid and isolationist camp of the Pharisees</b>, they began to <b>build up religious  apartheid walls</b> <b>around the Jews</b> in order to <b>separate the Jewish people</b> from the <b>Gentile world</b>.&nbsp; They were <b>concerned about religious and physical assimilation</b> of the <b>Jewish people into the Gentile world</b>.&nbsp; They developed a <b>theology that despised the Gentiles</b> while the <b>School of (Beit) Hillel</b> sought to <b>open the gates of Judaism</b> to bring the <b>knowledge of the Creator God of Israel</b> and <b>share it</b> with the <b>entire gentile world</b>.&nbsp; It was the <b>Beit Hillel</b> that <b>believed</b> that the <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/yahshua/beithillel/righteousgentile.shtml"><b>Righteous Gentile did have merit to share in the world to come</b></a>.&nbsp; <span style='color:#000099'>It was the <b>Beit Shammai</b> who believed <b>that no gentile</b> could obtain the <b>privilege of eternal life, resurrection</b> or could <b>become a participant in the future messianic kingdom.</b> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Like their <b>ancestors in ancient Egypt</b>, the <b>Jewish people in this era of rampant priestly corruption</b> <b>descended</b> to the <b><span style='color:navy'>49<sup>th</sup> level of personal degradation</span></b>. It was in this era where the <b>high priest s office</b> was <b>no longer held by the family of Zadok,</b> the <b>divinely authorized lineage</b> of the <b>high priest of King David</b>.&nbsp; The <b>religious and political governance of Judea</b> was <b> owned </b> by the <b>wealthy aristocratic families of the Sadducees</b>.&nbsp; They <b>bought the office of the high priest</b> from the <b>Roman procurators and governors.&nbsp; </b>The <b>Temple of Herod Inc. was the largest and most corrupt money laundering enterprise in the entire Roman world</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>most famous of these Sadducee families</b> was the <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive10.shtml#House"><b>House of Ananus</b></a>.&nbsp; It was <b>Ananus the Elder</b> who came to <b>rule as the high priest</b> in the <b>year that Yahshua ben Yosef (Jesus son of Joseph), </b>the<b> Davidian prince</b>, came to <b>visit the temple of Herod at Passover</b> in the <b>year of His Bar Mitzvoth in 6 CE. </b>&nbsp;It was the <b>son in law of Ananus the Elder, Caiphas</b>, who along with <b>Ananus staged a trumped up mini-court of the Sanhedrin</b> in the <b>middle of the night</b> to <b>illegally prosecute the charges</b> against <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/yahshua/beithillel/falk.shtml#JesusDebates"><b>Yahshua, the rabbi in defense of the School of Hillel</b></a>.&nbsp; <b>Jesus proclaimed</b> that he came as an <b>emissary (messenger) of His  Abba in heaven</b> to <b>restore spirituality to the Jewish people.&nbsp; </b>He was to bring to their <b>consciousness </b>the <b>divine concept of the coming of the </b><b><span style='color:navy'> Kingdom of God by repentance (Tshuva).</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>House of Ananus</b> also had a <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive11.shtml#Blood"><b> blood libel </b></a> against the <b>House of Joseph son of David</b>.&nbsp; After the <b>death of Yahshua</b>, it was the <b>son of Ananus</b> <b>the Elder</b>, <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive11.shtml"><b>Jonathan ben Ananus</b></a> who became the <b>high priest in Herod s Temple</b>.&nbsp; It was he who <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive7.shtml#Nazarene"><b>framed Stephen the Deacon</b></a><b> of the Hebrew</b> <b>Nazarene Ecclesia (Jerusalem Church in the Book of Acts)</b> and <b>stoned him to death</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>It was <b><span style='color:navy'>Jonathan ben Ananus (son of Ananus)</span></b> who <b>authorized the Shammaite influenced Pharisee student, Shaul of Tarsus</b> to <b>persecute the Nazarenes</b> (the <b>proto-Christians</b>) all the way <b>to the gates of Damascus</b>.&nbsp; It was here that the <b>future Apostle Paul met His Lord, Jesus the Messiah</b>, and with <b>Jesus instructions</b> remained under the <b>tutelage of the Nazarenes-Hillel-Essenes</b> in <b>Arabia </b>for the next<b> three years.&nbsp; </b>It was then that the <b>Shaul, now the Apostle Paul</b> received a <b>letter of authorization </b>from <b>James</b>, the <b>brother of Jesus,</b> now the <b>leader </b>of the <b>Nazarenes.&nbsp; </b>With <b>James letter</b>, Paul <b>embarking</b> on the <b>bold Hillel inspired Jewish mission</b> to bring the <b>message of the God of Israel</b> to the <b>gentile races.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>At the same time, it was the <b>Apostle Peter</b> who took the <b>Kingdom-Repentance (Tshuva) message of Yahshua (Jesus)</b> to the <b>Lost Tribes of the House of Israel.&nbsp; </b>These were the <b>former Israelites</b> that had now <b>assimilated into the gentile world</b> to <b>such an extent</b> that many of them <b>had lost their own identity. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>It was <b><span style='color:navy'>Theophilus the son of Ananus the Elder</span></b> who also became the <b>high priest of Herod s Temple.&nbsp; </b>During his reign, <b>he cast Peter, John and the other apostles in prison.&nbsp; </b>Under the <b>advice of Gamaliel</b>, the <b>grandson of Hillel the Elder, </b>the <b>apostles were released.&nbsp; </b>According <b>to Gamaliel, their actions</b> would <b>become the cause</b> of their <b>own demise or success</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>It was later <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive11.shtml#Jews"><b>Ananus the son of Ananus the Elder</b></a> who <b>framed the </b><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive11.shtml#High"><b>brother of Jesus, James the Just</b></a><b> </b>(<b>Yakov haTzaddik</b>), now as the <b>Nasi (President) of the Nazarene Sanhedrin.&nbsp; </b>He <b>incited the temple priests</b> to <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive11.shtml#Jews"><b>stone James the Just</b></a><b>, beat </b>his <b>head </b>with the<b>  fuller s club </b> and then <b>threw to his body over the walls of the temple </b>to the<b> Kidron Valley </b>below.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>Jewish people in the first century CE were like their ancestors</b>, the <b>Israelites of Egypt</b>.&nbsp; They <b>left the land of Egypt</b> in what is <b>called today by the Jews</b>, the <b>forty-ninth state of degradation</b>.&nbsp; For the <b>next forty nine days fleeing</b> on the <b>road towards the mount called Sinai</b>, they <b>daily had to re-learn a new lesson of spiritual sanctification</b> as they <b>embarked on the path of becoming right with their Creator, the God of Israel</b>.&nbsp; These <b>lessons are yearly rehearsed</b> by the <b>Jewish people</b> today in the <b>forty-nine days from Passover to the fiftieth day of Pentecost</b>.&nbsp; The <b>Israelites had to learn to leave behind all the cultural entrapments of Egypt</b>.&nbsp; The <b> golden calf of Egypt</b> and the <b>Erev Rav, the  mixed multitude </b> that came with them out of Egypt <b>had to be conquered and eliminated</b> <b>before</b> they could <b>stand in the Presence of the Almighty One of Israel. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Today, the <b>Jewish people are in the process of learning to conquer and eliminate</b> the <b>entrapments of the modern world global assimilation </b>that they <b>call the modern </b><b><span style='color:navy'> Golden Calf. </span></b>&nbsp; <span style='color:#000099'>Those that <b>survived the horrors of the holocaust</b> were given their <b>freedom </b>when at the <b>end</b> of the <b>2300 Hundred Days (years)</b> <b>prophetically told</b> to their <b>prophet Daniel</b>, the <b>National Home of Israel</b> <b>rose</b> out of the <b>ashes of Hitler s crematoriums.&nbsp; </b>There in <b>1948,</b> <b>they immediately had to face</b> the <b>five largest Arab nations</b> of their <b>cousins the Ishmaelites</b> that <b>tried to drive them </b>from the <b>land of Roman Palestine.</b>&nbsp;</span> <span style='color:navy'>Yet on that day, <b>May 15, 1948</b>, the <b>Land of Roman Palestine</b> became <b>not the Province of Judea</b> but the <b>Land of Israel.&nbsp; </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Today also</b>, the <b>Jewish people find themselves in the same corrupt state</b> as their <b>ancestors in Egypt</b> and later in <b>Roman Judea</b>. <b>Today, they have</b> to <b>come into the realization</b> that <b>they</b>, as a <b>national people</b>, again are in the <b> </b><b><span style='color:#000099'>forty-ninth state of degradation</span>. </b>&nbsp; The <b>government of Labor Zionist Israel</b> is <b>truly corrupt through and through. </b>&nbsp;The <b>concept </b>of the <b> State of Degradation </b> is <b>explained clearer</b> from the <b>words</b> of the <a href="http://us.share.geocities.com/ravjglass/netivotshalom.htm"><b>Hassidic Master, Rabbi Shalom Noach Berezovsky Z  L, Rebbe of Slonim</b></a> as <b>he spoke</b> on the <b>verse in Proverbs:</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='color:#001A00'>Proverbs 3:11</span></b><span style='color:#001A00'>   <b>My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord</b>,</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='color:#001A00'>Nor detest His correction</span></b><span style='color:#001A00'>;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#001A00'>For <b>whom the Lord loves He corrects</b>,</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#001A00'>Just as a <b>father the son in whom he delights. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Rabbi Shalom Berezovsky Z  L, Rebbe of Slonim</b>   <b><i><span style='color:windowtext'>Do not despise the rebuke of Hashem, my son</span></i></b><i><span style='color:windowtext'> </span></i><span style='color:windowtext'>as follows: The <b>rebuke that Hashem gives Israel is,  You are my son a child of the King!</b> Do <b>not despise yourself through unfitting conduct. </b> This is the <b>most effective manner of rebuke</b> and the <b>Blessed Holy One used it</b> while the <b>people were still in Egypt.</b> They were </span><b><span style='color:navy'>sunk in the lowest levels of degradation the forty-ninth level of defilement </span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>yet the <b>Blessed Holy One called them <i>My first-born</i></b><i> </i></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'>(Exodus 4)</span><span style='color:windowtext'> a <b>term of endearment the likes of which we do not find anywhere else in the Torah</b>. Through <b>this the Blessed One elevated them to a status that entails responsibility. </b>This is also the meaning of the <b>words that the Blessed Holy One communicated to the people prior to the giving of the Torah</b>. <b><i>I carried you on eagles wings and brought you to me</i></b><i>.</i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Where do we see that the Holy One carried the people on eagles wings?</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> The intent of the verse, however, is that the Holy One caused the <b>people great elevation by calling them <i>My firstborn son</i></b><i>. </i>Through this endearment <i>I brought you to me </i>to hold close to Me. </span><b><span style='color:navy'>During the exodus</span></b><b><span style='color:windowtext'> the impetus for this relationship of closeness came from Above</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>. </span><b><span style='color:navy'>After the exodus</span></b><b><span style='color:windowtext'>, however, the impetus must come from below</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><i><span style='color:windowtext'>Now if you listen to My voice and keep My covenant</span></i></b><i><span style='color:windowtext'> </span></i><span style='color:windowtext'>this refers to <b>Hashem s covenant between the Blessed Holy One and Israel</b>, a covenant in which <b>Israel is to hold close to the Blessed One <i>you will be My treasure</i></b><i>& </i>In his commentary on the Torah, <b>Nachmanides writes</b>,  You will <b>be as something dear to Me</b> something that the <b>King will not give away. </b>&nbsp; In the <b>Midrash Mechilta</b> we read, </span><b><span style='color:navy'> <i>You shall be mine </i>I am not placing any intermediate authority over you; rather <i>I am the Authority.</i> </span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> The verse concludes, <b><i>You shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. </i></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>As <b>we will learn through the </b><b><span style='color:#660066'>2006 War between Israel and Hezbollah</span>, </b>the <b>Jewish people are coming into a new awakening</b> <b>no different</b> than the <b>Israelites encamped around about Sinai</b> <b>waiting impatiently for Moses</b> to come <b>down from the mount.&nbsp; </b>He was to <b>bring to them the revelations from the Almighty God of Israel</b>. In their <b>frustrations</b>, they decided to <b>go alone without HaShem their God</b>.&nbsp; <span style='color:#000099'>With the <b>prodding and assistance of the Erev Rav</b>, the <b> mixed multitude from Egypt</b>, they built the <b> Golden Calf </b>trying to<b> bring salvation through material prosperity.</b>&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Today, <b>National Israel</b>, <b>who left Egypt after the holocaust</b> is now again <b>spiritually </b>at the <b>foot of the mount called Sinai</b>.&nbsp; <b><span style='color:navy'>Ariel Sharon</span></b><span style='color:navy'> and now <b>Ehud Olmert</b></span>, the <b>last two Prime Ministers of Israel</b> have become <b>recognized by many rabbis</b> to be the <b>last</b> of the <b><span style='color:navy'>Erev Rav</span></b><span style='color:navy'>, the <b> mixed multitude. </b></span> They can now be seen as <b><span style='color:navy'>protégées of that messianic heritage</span></b><span style='color:navy'> of <b>Shabbatai Zevi</b></span> that became <b>foundation for the union</b> of the <b>international banking house of the Rothschilds</b>, the <b>Roman Catholic Jesuit  Illuminate </b> inspired by <b>Jesuit Adam Weishaupt</b> and the <b>Frankists,</b> the most <b>prominent disciples and heir of Shabbatai Zevi, Jacob Frank</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Known as the <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/reflections/2004/augustkerry.shtml#Jewish"><b>Shabbatean Jews</b></a>, the <b> American Neo-Cons </b> and the <b> Labor Zionists Jews </b> are in <b>control of the Nation of Israel today</b>.&nbsp; They are seen as the <b>children of the </b><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/christian/vatican/JPII.shtml#Golden"><b> Golden Internationale, </b></a> the <b>economic internationalists</b> and <b>transnationalists of the European Union and the United States</b> who carry the <b>pedestal with the  Golden Calf. &nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Today, the <b>government of Labor Zionist Israel is fully in the hands</b> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations"><b>Council on Foreign Relations in the United States</b></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group"><b>Bilderbergs</b> <b>of the European Union</b></a>.&nbsp; It has been documented by <b>veteran Israeli journalist, Barry Chamish</b> in his books, <b> </b><a href="http://www.barrychamish.com/shopingcart/cataluge.htm"><b>Israel Betrayed</b></a><b> </b>, <b> </b><a href="http://www.barrychamish.com/shopingcart/cataluge.htm"><b>Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promise Land</b></a><b> </b> and <b> </b><a href="http://www.barrychamish.com/shopingcart/cataluge.htm"><b>Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust</b></a><b> </b> that almost <b><span style='color:navy'>ninety percent</span> </b>of the<b> </b><b><span style='color:navy'>national media</span> of Israel is </b><b><span style='color:navy'>owned by the Council of Foreign Relations.&nbsp; </span></b>Up to <b><span style='color:navy'>ninety percent</span> of the </b><b><span style='color:navy'>military and domestic industry</span></b> is also <b>owned by members of the Council of Foreign Relations</b>.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>problem with the prophets of Israel</b> is that the <b>Jewish people who represented the majority of Israel</b> who <b>voted for the  Last Zionist Government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert</b> have <b>sunk to such a degraded spiritual state</b> that they <b>no longer recognize</b> that their <b>legitimacy to the </b><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrews/israel/theland.shtml"><b>Land of Israel</b></a> only comes <b>from the God of Israel</b>, <b><span style='color:navy'>not </span>George Bush</b>, the <b>State Department of Condoleezza Rice</b>, the <b>European Union</b>, the <b>United Nations</b> nor <b>Russia.</b>&nbsp; The <b>chastisement of their Lord is now upon them.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#000099'>These <b>were the Jewish people who voted for the expulsion </b>of all the <b>orthodox Jewish Gaza residents at Gush Katif</b> as the <b>sun was setting </b>over the<b> horizon on the </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>9<sup>th</sup> of Av 5765 (August 2005).</span></b>&nbsp; These were the <b>Jews along with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his wife</b> who <b>invited</b> the <b><span style='color:navy'>International Gay Pride Parade</span></b> called the <b> </b><a href="http://www.biblesearchers.com/reflections/2006/augusthezbollahwar1.shtml#Impurade"><b>Impurade</b></a><b> </b> by the <b>orthodox Jews</b>, to the <b>city of Jerusalem.&nbsp; </b>Here they could <b>cast their spell of sexual degradation</b> within <b> God s Holy Land, </b> around the <b>site that the God of Israel calls  His Dwelling Place </b> in the <b>vicinity of the Wailing Wall of the Temple Mount,</b> up and down the <b>streets of Old City Jerusalem</b> and in the <b>halls of the Knesset of Israel in Jerusalem.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>This <b><span style='color:navy'>parade was temporarily postponed</span></b> because of the <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>2006  9<sup>th</sup> of Av War in Israel</span></b>. Now today, the <b>War of Israel and Hezbollah</b> that reached its <b>apex on the </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>9<sup>th</sup> of Av 5766 (August 2006)</span></b> when a <b>million plus Jews had fled Galilee, </b>the <b>Jews of the Shomron</b> were still <b>facing immediate eviction from their land and dwellings</b> from the <b> Fields of Ephraim </b> in the <b>Shomron or the former land of Samaria</b> had now received the <b>verdict of the World Court of Opinion</b>, it s the <b>Jews that are responsible</b> for the <b>war and the destruction</b> of the <b>land of Lebanon</b>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>At the same time, </b>the <b>vegetative state of their last Prime Minister Ariel Sharon</b> still <b>cast</b> an <b>aura over the Nation of Israel.&nbsp; </b>In the land there was a <b>rumor</b> that there was a <b>pasuk (verse from the Torah)</b> about a <b> shepherd </b> that would <b> die </b> yet <b>his body would lie </b>near the <b>gates of Jerusalem.&nbsp; </b>His body would <b>not decompose for many days</b> before it was <b>finally buried</b>.&nbsp; According to the pasuk, as <b>long as the body of Sharon rested</b> near the <b>gates (city limits) of Jerusalem</b>, the <b>enemies of Israel</b> would <b>fear</b> and <b>not attack Jerusalem. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>On <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>August 13, 2006</span></b>, the <b>Nation of Israel</b> declared a <b> cease fire, </b> <b>imposed</b> by the <b>United States, France, Russia and the United Nations</b>.&nbsp; This <b> Cease Fire </b> will allow the <b>Nation of Lebanon</b> to <b>police the land of Lebanon south of the Litani River</b> with <b>Lebanese troops</b> that are <b>imbedded with Russian-Iranian fronted military Hezbollah terrorists.&nbsp; </b>These troops <b>were initially </b>to<b> monitor </b>the<b> northern border of Israel</b> along with <b>15,000 troops</b> from the <b>international forces</b> from the <b>Vatican controlled former Roman province of France</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>This may have been</b> a <b>ruse</b> as by <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>August 18, 2006</span></b> the <b>promised forces from France</b> began to <b>diminish down to 200</b>.&nbsp; <b>Turkey</b> and <b>Germany backed</b> out but the <b>Nation of Italy</b>, according to <b><span style='color:navy'>Italy s foreign minister Massimo D Alema</span></b>, had now approved <b>3,000  peacekeeping troops</b>.&nbsp; According to <b><span style='color:navy'>Premier Romano Prodi</span></b>, <b>Italy has been trying</b> to become a <b>major international player</b> to <b>end the conflict between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah warriors. </b>&nbsp;<span style='color:#660066'>It now <b>appears</b> that the <b>Vatican will now be able to guard the gates to Jerusalem</b></span><span style='color:#660033'>.&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>North of the Litani River</b>, the <b>Hezbollah will reign supreme</b>, given the opportunity <b>to restore their military losses with more powerful</b> and potentially <b>more lethal chemical or nuclear tipped rockets.</b> There they can <b>imbed their military organization</b> with the <b>Russian, Iranian and Syrian officers and advisory staff.&nbsp; </b>This was the <b>military high command</b> that <b>engaged this war</b> from the <b>Syrian city of Anjar </b>at the <b>Syrian Army 10<sup>th</sup> Division base</b> opposite the <b>Lebanese town of Az Zabdani. &nbsp;</b>According to <a href="http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3067"><b>DEBKAfiles</b></a> on <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>August 7, 2006</span>,</b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>DEBKAfiles  </b>  W<span style='color:windowtext'>hile <b>Israeli officials</b> keep on <b>insisting that Syria must be kept out of the conflict</b>, the fact is that the <b>Assad regime is already in it up to their ears</b>  with a <b>leading role in the Hizballah rocket attacks on northern Israel</b>. The <b>command which coordinates the pace of those attacks</b> is located at the <b>Anjar base of the Syrian Army s 10th Division</b> opposite the <b>Lebanese town of Az Zabdani</b>. It is <b>manned by Iranian and Hizballah officers</b>, who take their orders from a <b>Syrian military intelligence center in Damascus</b> to which <b>Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers are attached</b>. It is <b>headed by a general</b> from one of <b>Syria s surface missile brigades</b>. This <b>joint command</b> is provided with the <b>most up-to-date intelligence and electronic data</b> available to Syria on <b>targets in Israel</b> and <b>IDF movements.</b> The <b>timing and tempo of Hizballah rocket strikes are set</b> according to that information. To keep the <b>rockets coming without interruption</b>, the <b>joint Hizballah-Syrian-Iranian command</b> is also responsible with <b>keeping Hizballah supplied with an inflow of rockets and launchers</b>. They use <b>smuggling rings to slip the supplies into Lebanon by mule and donkey</b> which ply the <b>5,000-7,000 feet mountain paths that straddle the Syrian-Lebanese frontier. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b> hand of God will wait for round two</b> as the <b> fires of tribulation </b>begin their<b> refining </b>the<b>  gold and  silver </b>and <b>cast away the chaff </b>from the<b> Land of Israel.</b> The <b>water has been tested</b>, the <b>Israeli</b> <b>military was prevented a victory </b>because the <b>people of Israel</b> would <b>not enter into a state of repentance (Tshuva).&nbsp; </b>The <b> vaulted military force</b> of the <b>Goliath of Israel</b> is now seen to be <b>vulnerable and conquerable by the Arabs</b>. They will <b>lust to destroy her</b>.&nbsp; The <b>Oracle of Zechariah</b> will <b>wait for the timing of the God of Israel</b> to <b>mark its next deadline.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Hadrach><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>The Lord of hosts lays claim to Damascus in the Land of Hadrach</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#003300'>Zechariah 9:1</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#003300'> -</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#333399'> </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>The Burden of the Word of the Lord </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>Against the land of Hadrach, </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>And Damascus its resting place. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>(For the eyes of men) And all the tribes of Israel</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>Are on the Lord. &nbsp; </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#003300'>(NKJV)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#003300'>Zechariah 9:1</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#003300'> -</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#333399'> </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>An Oracle:&nbsp; The Word of Yahweh against</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'> the <b>Land of Hadrach</b></span><span style='color:#003300'> </span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;color:#003300'>(the <b>Burden of the Word of HaShem</b>)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>And <b>Damascus (shall be) a resting place for Him</b></span><span style='color:#003300'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300'>(a <b>place of repose or domicile for Yahweh</b>),</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>For on Yahweh (shall be) the eye of humanity</span></b><b><span style='color:#003300'> </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300'>(that is, all</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300'> humans will turn their eyes toward Yahweh in Damascus)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>And <b>all of the Tribes of Israel</b> (shall also <b>turn their eyes </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>toward Yahweh in Damascus</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>). </span><span style='color:#003300'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#003300'>(transliterated by </span><a href="http://www.askelm.com/temple/t991101.htm#_ftn3"><span style='font-size: 8.0pt'>Archeologist Ernest Martin</span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt; color:#003300'>)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#003300'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#660066'>Zechariah 9:1 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#660066'>&nbsp;-  The burden of the word of Hashem in the land of Hadrach </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#660066'>(Northern Regions of Syria and the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon where the WMD are located),</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#660066'>And Damascus the rest thereof;(</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#660066'>The  rest of Syria where Lebanon resides within Syria s political boundaries);</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#660066'>When the eyes of man as of all the tribes of Israel,</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#660066'>Shall be toward the Lord. </span></b><b><span style='color:#660066'> </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#660066'>(transliterated by Maggid ben Yoseif)</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1078" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Map - Click to zoom" style='position:absolute; margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:264.75pt;height:209.25pt;z-index:2; visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image002.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=353 height=279 src="zech9-2_files/image002.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="Map - Click to zoom" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3"><![endif]>&nbsp;The <b>God of Israel is now focusing His eyes upon the Middle East</b>. He is looking at <b>one place He wants to be His own</b> and <b>that place is not Jerusalem</b>.&nbsp; So, <b>the  burden of the Lord </b> is now <b>upon that place</b> called the <b> Land of Hadrach. </b>&nbsp; So we ask, where is the <b>Land of Hadrach?&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Hadrach</b> is <b>mentioned only once</b> in the <b>TaNaKh (Old Testament),</b> in <b>Zechariah 9:1.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=34.459334870906865&amp;TextLongitude=36.65399317981704&amp;TextAltitude=9&amp;TextSelectedEntity=7457928&amp;SearchEnc=false&amp;MapStyle=Comprehensive&amp;MapSize=Small&amp;MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&amp;searchTextMap=Hamath%2C+Syria&amp;MapStylesList=Comprehensive&amp;ZoomOnMapClickCheck=o"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>The Map of </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>(</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>arrkah and Hamah, Syria</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Almost <b>all Christian Bible Commentaries</b> will <b>admit that they do not know</b> the <b>location of Hadrach.&nbsp; </b>Most <b>speculate</b> that it is <b>north of Damascus</b>.&nbsp; It has been <b>suggested</b> that <b>Hadrach or Hatarikka</b> (<b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>(</span>arrkah</b>) are the <b>same location.&nbsp; </b>This place lies <b>south-southeast of Hamath and almost directly east of the most northern border of Lebanon </b>and <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_4" o:spid="_x0000_s1077" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image003.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:23pt;margin-top:0;width:63pt;height:214.5pt; z-index:3;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image003.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=84 height=286 src="zech9-2_files/image003.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image003.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"><![endif]><b>Hims in Syria.&nbsp; </b>Still the <b>evidence is inconclusive</b>.</p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://capeone.com/oakridge/PTA/arthist/gr5/gr5les2.htm"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>The Nimrod Black Obelisk of Assyrian King Shalmanesaer III</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'> </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>This chapter</b> is also <b>associated with</b> another <b>place with a similar name</b> called <b>Hamath.</b>&nbsp; This <b>city</b> we know was and is in the <b>land called</b> <b>Coel Syria (Land of Syria).</b>&nbsp; According to the <b>partial remains</b> of the <b>battle monument</b> called the <a href="http://etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-08192005-082659/unrestricted/05chapter4b.pdf"><b>Zakir Stele</b></a>, we learn of the city called <b>Hamath.&nbsp; </b>This <b>stele commemorates</b> the <b>military battle between Zakir, the king of Hamath and Lu ash</b> against <b>Ben-Hadan the son of Hazael, the kings of Damascus.&nbsp; </b>This <b>battle</b> was located at a place called <b>Hazrack, </b>or <b>Hatarikka</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/AssyrianR/Calah%20obelisk%20showing%20Jehu%20%20Shalmaneser%20III%209th%20c%20pa.htm"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1076" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Calah obelisk showing Jehu doing homage to Shalmaneser III. 9th century BC." href="http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/AssyrianR/Calah%20obelisk%20showing%20Jehu%20%20Shalmaneser%20III%209th%20c%20pa.htm" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:201.75pt;height:151.5pt; z-index:4;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image004.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/AssyrianR/Calah%20obelisk%20showing%20Jehu%20%20Shalmaneser%20III%209th%20c%20pa.htm"><img border=0 width=269 height=202 src="zech9-2_files/image004.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="Calah obelisk showing Jehu doing homage to Shalmaneser III. 9th century BC." title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><a href="http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/AssyrianR/Calah%20obelisk%20showing%20Jehu%20%20Shalmaneser%20III%209th%20c%20pa.htm"></a></span>This <b>stele was discovered at Afis in </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>1907</span> </b>and <b>kept at the museum at Allepo.&nbsp; </b>This king called <b>Ben-Hadan </b>from <b>Damascus </b>on the<b> Zakir Stele </b>was a<b> contemporary </b>of the<b> Prophet Elijah </b>and <b>King Joash (Jehoash) of Israel </b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>(</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>2 Kings 13:24<b>) </b></span><b>about </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>755 BCE. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/AssyrianR.htm"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Israeli King Jehu paying homage to Shalmaneser III of Assyria on the Zakir Stele</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>One hundred years earlier</b>, the  <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Nimrod Black Obelisk</span></b> of <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Shalmaneser III (</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>841</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'> </span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>&nbsp;BCE</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>)</span> </b>gives an <b>account </b>of the <b>king of Hamath called Urhuleni,</b> who was <b>one of the conquered kings</b> along the <b>Orontes River.&nbsp; </b>They were conquered by the <b>Assyrians at Qarqar</b> on <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>854 BCE</span>. &nbsp;</b>What is of interest to us is that <b>King Urhuleni of Hamath</b> was the <b>ally </b>of the <b><span style='color:navy'>Israeli King Jehu</span></b>, both of which were <b>conquered </b>by the<b> Assyrians.&nbsp; </b>We even get a picture of <b>King Jehu</b> who is <b>depicted robed</b> with the <b>royal cloth cap</b>.&nbsp; The <a href="http://www.farhorizon.com/middle_east/images-syria/New_11.21.06/Hamidiye-souk-Damascus_lg.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1075" type="#_x0000_t75" alt=" Syria Tour - visit the suq, or modern bazaar, the lifeblood of the Damascus, and on through the spice market and cloth merchants' stores. " href="http://www.farhorizon.com/middle_east/images-syria/New_11.21.06/Hamidiye-souk-Damascus_lg.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:147.5pt;margin-top:0;width:187.5pt; height:124.5pt;z-index:5;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:7.5pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:7.5pt; mso-wrap-distance-right:7.5pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:7.5pt; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image005.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.farhorizon.com/middle_east/images-syria/New_11.21.06/Hamidiye-souk-Damascus_lg.jpg"><img border=0 width=250 height=166 src="zech9-2_files/image005.jpg" align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt=" Syria Tour - visit the suq, or modern bazaar, the lifeblood of the Damascus, and on through the spice market and cloth merchants' stores. " title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><a href="http://www.farhorizon.com/middle_east/images-syria/New_11.21.06/Hamidiye-souk-Damascus_lg.jpg"></a></span><b>inscription</b> on the <b>obelisk </b>states: <b>&quot;Tribute of Jehu, son of Omri</b>; <b>silver, gold</b>, a <b>golden bowl</b>, a <b>golden beaker</b>, <b>golden goblets</b>, <b>pitchers of gold</b>, <b>lead</b>, <b>staves for the bed of the king</b>, <b>javelins</b>, <b>I received from him.&quot;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.farhorizon.com/middle_east/Syria.htm">Apamea Cham Palace and the Arabian Nights</a></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Flowing north</b> between the <b>Lebanese and the anti-Lebanese Mountains</b>, the waters of the <b>Orontes River</b> (<b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Nahr Al-'asi</span></i></b>) begin in <b>Al-Biqa' (<i>i.e.,</i> the Bekáa Valley)</b> in <b>central Lebanon along the border with Syria</b>.&nbsp; This <b>gorgeous valley</b>, once <b>surrounded by the famed Cedars of Lebanon</b>, is the <b>home of the Hezbollah insurgent fighters</b>, <b>funded by Iran</b> and <b>ideologically guided by Syria</b>, in their <b>pathological hatred towards Israel.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Flowing north</b>, the <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>Orontes River</span></b> is first <b>dammed </b>at <b>Hims Lake</b>.&nbsp; It then <b>continues</b> its<b> course </b>towards the<b> rich Orontes Valley </b>beyond <b>where</b> it finally <b>exits </b>into the<b> Mediterranean Sea</b> in the <b>Antakya region of Turkey</b>.&nbsp; Called by the Muslims, the<b>  Rebellious River, </b>it <b>gains this name</b> of <b>notoriety</b> because <b>it flows away from Mecca.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>There on the banks</b> of the <b>Orontes River </b>is a <b>beautiful palace</b> that <b>bequeaths</b> the <b>imagery of the 101 Arabian Nights; </b>the <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Apamea Cham Palace.</span>&nbsp; Nearby </b>along the river banks are the <b>famed waterwheels </b>that continue to use the <b>irrigation traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#333333'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>According to the <b>late Archeologist Earnest Martin</b> in an <b>article he wrote</b> in <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>1999</span> </b>titled, <b> </b><a href="http://www.askelm.com/temple/t991101.htm#_ftn3"><b>The Damascus Phase of End-Time Prophecy</b></a><b>, </b> <b>Martin wrote</b> that the <b><span style='color:#660066'>Land of Hadrach is the entire area of the Fertile Crescent</span></b><span style='color:#660066'>.</span> </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Earnest Martin</b> - These <b>six chapters (Zechariah 9 to 14)</b> can be called the <b>&quot;</b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Damascus Prophecy</span>,&quot;</b> but the <b>divine oracle itself was directed</b> to what is called <b>&quot;</b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>The Land of </span></b><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_7" o:spid="_x0000_s1074" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image006.jpg" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0; width:256.5pt;height:193.5pt;z-index:6;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image006.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=342 height=258 src="zech9-2_files/image006.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image006.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_7"><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>Hadrach</span>& &quot;</b>&nbsp; The <b>&quot;Land of Hadrach&quot;</b> answers to the <b>land in the Middle East</b> that was <b>promised to Abraham and his progeny</b>. In a word, it means the <b>&quot;</b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Area of the Fertile Crescent</span>&quot;</b> (from <b>Egypt in the southwest</b> to the <b>head of the Persian Gulf in the southeast,</b> and also including all the <b>Arabian Peninsula</b>). </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.shelterhostel.com/Trail/pix1510.jpg"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Hermon Mountain in Northern Israel and Lebanon</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>This <b>land is described</b> in the prophecy in <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>Zechariah 9:10</span></b> as <b>&quot;from sea even to sea</b> (that is, from <b>west to east</b> which means from the <b>Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean</b>), <b>and from the River even unto the ends of the earth</b> (that is, from <b>north to south</b> which means from the <b>Euphrates River to the end of the Arabian Peninsula</b>). That was the <b>exact land mass that Solomon understood</b> to <b>mean the &quot;Land of Promise&quot; for Abraham and his children.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b>Psalms 72:8   A Song of Solomon on the  Reign of the Messiah  </b> <b>He shall have dominion also from sea to sea</b>, and from the <b>River to the ends of the earth. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>The <b>reason the City of Damascus is selected</b> to <b>head the prophecy</b> is because <b>Abraham stated in Genesis 15:2</b> that if <b>Isaac had not been born to be his heir</b>, a <b>righteous Gentile named &quot;Eliezer of Damascus&quot;</b> would have become the <b>one to inherit all his property</b> and the <b>lands promised to Abraham</b>. In <b>Greek</b>, <b>&quot;Eliezer&quot; means &quot;Lazarus,&quot;</b> the same <b>&quot;Lazarus&quot; who was mentioned in Christ s parable</b> of <b>&quot;Lazarus and the Rich Man.&quot;</b> <a name="_ftnref4"></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.askelm.com/temple/t991101.htm#_ftn4#_ftn4" title=""><b><sup><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4</span></sup></b></a></span> Had <b>Isaac not been born and lived to manhood</b>, it would have been <b>Eliezer (Lazarus)</b> who would have <b>inherited this vast territory known as the &quot;Land of Promise.&quot;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>The <b>&quot;Land of Promise&quot; is the area of the earth</b> that <b>God desires to live in more than in any other.</b> That is the <b>Land in which God chooses to reside when He is on earth</b>. If <b>God would have allowed it to happen in history</b> (that is, <b>if Isaac had not been born</b>), <b>God s capital on earth could just as well have been Damascus, not Jerusalem</b>. &nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>As we re-look at this <b>prophecy</b>, we will concentrate on its <b>pshat, (literal) interpretation</b>.&nbsp; It has been <b>accepted by the Jewish people</b> and the <b>Christians who respect the legitimacy of the Jewish guardianship to the Torah</b> that the <b><span style='color:navy'>prime dwelling of the God of Israel is at Jerusalem</span></b>.&nbsp; This is the <b>one place on this planet earth that God calls his capital residence.</b>&nbsp; What is <b>less known</b> is that the <b>important starting point in this prophecy</b> is that it is <b>directed  against the Land of Hadrach&quot;</b> because the <b>Lord of hosts is preparing to claim it for His own </b>the <b>lands </b>within the <b>Fertile Crescent. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>Land of Hadrach</span></b> appears not to be <b>a city but a land</b>.&nbsp; Careful <b>analysis suggests</b> that <span style='color:navy'>the <b>boundaries </b>of this<b> prophecy of judgment </b>are also<b> imbedded</b> <b>within </b>the <b>prophecy.</b></span> The <b>starting point of the judgments are  against Hamath </b> which is <b>recognized by some scholars to be the northern border city in Syria</b> on the <b>Euphrates.</b>&nbsp; Others recognize these <b>regions </b>to be <b>around Damascus</b> that are <b>under the influence of the land of Syria</b>.&nbsp; This would <b>include: </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Lebanon, Baalbek and the Bekáa </span></b><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_s1073" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Lebanon / Syria, Mount Hermon, 1875" style='position:absolute;margin-left:236pt;margin-top:0;width:276pt;height:214.5pt; z-index:7;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image007.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=368 height=286 src="zech9-2_files/image007.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt="Lebanon / Syria, Mount Hermon, 1875" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_8"><![endif]><b><span style='color:navy'>Valley</span>, </b>the cities of<b> </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Tyre and Sidon</span> </b>and may also include the <b><span style='color:navy'>regions governed by the Palestinian Authority.</span></b><span style='color:navy'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>According to <a href="http://www.askelm.com/newsletter/l199910.htm"><b>Earnest Martin</b></a>, the <b><span style='color:navy'> word &quot;Hadrach&quot;</span></b><span style='color:navy'> means <b>&quot;circuit&quot;</b> or something like <b>the periodic return of the moon (from crescent to crescent).</b></span> If we focus on the <b>simple language</b> of this <b>prophecy in the six chapters at the end of Zechariah, </b>we would then read the following: <b><span style='color:navy'>&quot;An Oracle Against the Countries of the Fertile Crescent.&quot;</span></b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=f0349&amp;cat=36"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&quot;Mount Hermon&quot; engraved by S. Bradshaw after a picture by H. A. Harper, published in <i>Picturesque Palestine</i>, about 1875. Steel engraved print with recent hand colour.</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#000099'>The overwhelming meaning </span></b><span style='color:#000099'>of this text is that the<b> Lord of hosts is laying claim </b>to the<b> regions of Lebanon and Damascus.&nbsp; He intends to reside at Damascus</b> in the area <b>nestled </b>and <b>surrounding the Mountain of Herman </b>on the <b>borders of Syria, Israel and Lebanon.</b>&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Our first reaction is</b>: we thought <b>Israel was the land </b>in <b>which </b>the <b>Lord of hosts claimed to be His own.</b>&nbsp; <b>That is true.&nbsp; Yet</b> in the <b>King James Version</b>, it calls, <b> Damascus, its resting place .</b>&nbsp; <b>Whose resting place</b> will it be?&nbsp; It states <b>it will be</b> the <b>resting place of the Lord of hosts</b>.&nbsp; <b>Other translations</b> call it the <b> Burden of the Lord </b> or the <b> Word of the Lord .</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Is God</b> <b>enlarging His region of influence?</b>&nbsp; <span style='color:navy'>Is <b>God</b> <b>setting His boundaries</b> in that He will <b>eventually call this land of Damascus His Holy Land?</b></span>&nbsp; Is the <b>Lord of hosts enlarging His area of influence</b> so that He will <b>eventually reclaim all the  Zions </b> that once called <b>His dwelling places?</b>&nbsp; If so, then <b>we must then reconsider</b> the <b>fact that there</b> may be <b>more than one, yes, many Zions</b> that the <b>Lord of hosts claims to be His own. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Zions><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>The  Zions of the Lord</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>God of Israel</b> is the <b> King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. </b> Without this <b>central fact in acceptance</b>, any <b>dialogue has no common focus of agreement.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>typology of earthly kingship</b> is taken directly from the <b>ancient concept that God is the  King of kings </b>and reigns above all the <b>kings that dwell on this earth.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>prime residence of the king is in his capital city</b>.&nbsp; Yet the <b>king (and president)</b> does have <b>other dwelling places</b> such as the <b>America s</b> <b>official government retreat</b> for the <b>president of the United States at  Camp David. </b> Yet, President <b>George Bush</b> also has his <b>summer home</b> and <b>official retreat</b> for <b>special international guests</b> at the <b>Texas White House </b>at the<b> Crawford Ranch. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The<span style='color:navy'> <b>chief dwelling place </b></span>of the<b><span style='color:navy'> God of Israel is  Zion </span></b>in the<b><span style='color:navy'> city of Jerusalem</span></b><span style='color:navy'>.&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Psalms 132:13</b>  <b> </b><b><span style='color:navy'>For the Lord has chosen Zion</span>;</b> He <b>has </b><b><span style='color:navy'>desired it for His dwelling place</span></b><span style='color:navy'>:</span> This is <b><span style='color:navy'>My resting place forever</span></b>; Here <b><span style='color:navy'>I will dwell, for I have desired it. &nbsp; </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Here is how <b>God looks at His home:</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Psalms 48:1-5</b>  <b> </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Great is the Lord</span></b><span style='color:navy'>, and <b>greatly to be praised in the city of our God</b></span>, in <b><span style='color:navy'>His holy mountain</span></b>. <b>Beautiful in elevation</b>, the <b><span style='color:navy'>joy of the whole earth,</span></b><span style='color:navy'> is <b>Mount Zion</b></span><b> on the sides of the north</b>, the <b>city of the great King</b>.&nbsp; <b>God is in her palaces</b>; He is <b>known as her refuge</b>.&nbsp; For behold, the <b>kings </b>(of the whole earth were)<b> assembled </b>(in the presence of Mount Zion),<b> they passed by together </b>(in union and harmony before God). <span style='font-size:8.0pt'> (transliteration by Ernest Martin)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Yet the <b><span style='color:navy'>God of Israel has other homes or places</span> where </b><b><span style='color:navy'>God desires to dwell called  Zion. </span></b>&nbsp; These <b>areas He gave His glory and divine presence</b>.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l6 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Mount Hermon</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Psalms 68:15</b>   A <b>mountain of God </b>is the<b> </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>mountain of Basham (Hermon)</span></b>; a <b>mountain of many peaks</b> is the <b>mountain of Basham</b>& .<b>This is the mountain which </b><b><span style='color:navy'>God desires to dwell in</span></b><span style='color:navy'>; yes, <b>the Lord will dwell in it forever</b>. </span>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'>&nbsp;</p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=2 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Mount Sinai</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Psalms 68:16</b>   The <b>chariots of God are twenty thousand</b>, even <b>thousands of thousands</b>; The <b><span style='color:navy'>Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the Holy Place</span></b>. You have <b>ascended on high</b>; You have <b>led captivity captive</b>; You have <b>received gifts among men</b>, even <b>from the rebellious</b>, that <b>the </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Lord God might dwell there. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'>&nbsp;</p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=3 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Lebanon at Carmel and Sharon</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Psalms 34:2</b>   The <b>glory of Lebanon shall be given to it</b>, the <b>excellence of Carmel and Sharon</b>.&nbsp; They shall <b><span style='color:navy'>see the glory of the Lord, the Excellency of our God. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=4 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Mount Tabor and Hermon </span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Psalms 89:12   Tabor and Hermon </b><b><span style='color:navy'>rejoice </span></b><span style='color:navy'>in<b> Your name. </b></span><b>&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=5 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Egypt: Altar </span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>indicates <b>a holy place </b>and a<b> Pillar </b>indicates <b>God s presence</b> <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Isaiah 19:19   In that day, </b>there will be<b> an altar to the Lord </b>in the<b> midst of the land of Egypt, </b>and a<b> pillar to the Lord </b>at<b> its border. </b>And it will be for a<b> </b><b><span style='color:navy'>sign for a witness </span></b><span style='color:navy'>to the<b> Lord of hosts</b></span><b> </b>in the<b> land of Egypt; </b>for they will<b> cry to the Lord </b>because of the<b> oppressors, </b>and <b><span style='color:navy'>He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, </span></b><span style='color:navy'>and<b> He will deliver them.</b></span><b> </b>Then the<b> Lord will be known to Egypt, </b>and the<b> </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=6 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .5in'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Mount Arafat east of Mecca</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp; - <b>Archeologist Ernest Martin </b>also<b> suggests </b>that<b> Mount Arafat </b>on the<b> eastern part of Mecca </b>is a<b> holy mountain to God. &nbsp;</b>As <b>written:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Earnest Martin   Mount Arafat east of Mecca</b>   Even the <b>early Arabs</b> (<b>long before the time of Muhammad</b>) knew that <b>Abraham had given to the twelve tribes of Ishmael</b> (the <b>son of Abraham</b> by his <b>Egyptian concubine Hagar</b>) a <b>holy site at Mecca with Mount Arafat</b> on the <b>eastern part of Mecca</b> as <b>their holy mountain.</b> &nbsp;The <b>Arabs long ago thought of the Ka aba</b> to be the <b>&quot;House of God&quot;</b> that <b>God loved for the Arabs</b>, and it was also <b>located in Arabia </b>on the <b>border of the sea in the &quot;Land of Promise.&quot;</b> Where <b>Muhammad made a mistake</b> was <b>imposing on the world a holy place </b>was<b> </b>meant <b><u>only</u> for Ishmaelites as <u>the</u> &quot;House of God&quot;</b> to be <b>honored by the world</b>. <b>Muhammad was right</b>, <b>Mecca was <u>a</u> &quot;House of God,&quot;</b> but it was <b>NOT <u>the</u><i> </i>prime &quot;House.&quot;</b> <b>God s chief &quot;House&quot; was located in Jerusalem</b>.<b> </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Hermon><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>Mount Hermon as the  First </span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher; color:navy'>Zion and the  Gateway to Heaven </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><b><i>&nbsp;</i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><b>It is of interest</b> that <span style='color:navy'>the <b>majestic Mount Hermon</b> </span>was <b>actually called</b> the<span style='color:navy'> <b>world s first  Mount Zion. </b> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><b>Moses was now dead</b> and <b>Joshua had assumed command of the children of Israel</b> as they were <b>preparing to enter their  Promised Land. </b>&nbsp; There in the <b>valley opposite Beth Peor</b>, <b>Joshua repeated the statutes and judgments of the Lord</b> that were <b>given to them on the mount called Sinai</b>.&nbsp; Then the <b>children of Israel</b> began their <b>military campaign.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_9" o:spid="_x0000_s1072" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image008.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:297pt;height:187.5pt; z-index:8;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image008.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=396 height=250 src="zech9-2_files/image008.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image008.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_9"><![endif]>Let us <b>remind ourselves</b> that in the <b>days of the children of Israel</b>, <b>neither Moses nor Joshua</b> sought the <b>world opinion</b> to <b>conquer the lands surrounding</b> the  Promised Land. </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-12187.jpg"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Mount Zion which is Mount Hermon in Syria, Lebanon and Israel</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'>The <b>Israelites did not have UN Observers</b> that were <b>collecting evidence </b>to <b>prosecute them </b>before the <b>World Court at the Hague</b> in order to <b>charge them</b> as <b>criminals of the world s military laws.</b>&nbsp; There were <b>no CNN reporters giving eyewitness accounts</b> of <b>women and children kept hostage in buildings</b> so that <b>Joshua and the Israelites </b>could be <b>accused of ruthlessly killing women and children</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'>We can <b>assume </b>that the <b>ancient military warriors, </b>with the<b> exception of the Amalekites, </b>had a <b>code of ethics</b> that they <b>did not fight their battles surrounded and imbedded in homes</b> <b>filled with women, children and the aged</b>.&nbsp; <b>Neithe</b>r <b>did Israel look to a higher national power</b> such as the <b>United States</b> for <b>permission to conquer the kings of Sidon, Bashan and the Amorites</b>.&nbsp; They <b>entered the  Promised Land </b> with the permission <b>of only one Source</b>: the <b>Almighty One of Israel.&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='page-break-after:avoid'>Their <b>first military possessions gained</b> were on the <b>other side (east) of the Jordan River</b> as <b>they conquered</b> the <b>land of Sihon </b>and the<b> king at Heshbon</b>, the <b>land of Og the king of Bashan</b>, and the <b>two kings of the Amorites</b>.&nbsp; The <b>Israelite chronicler for Moses</b> describing the extent of this <b>land</b> <b>identified for the first time the  first Mount Zion. &nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Deuteronomy 4:48</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>   And they <b>took possession of his land</b>& who were <b>on this side of the Jordan</b>, toward the rising of the sun, <b>from Aroer</b>, which is on the <b>bank of the River Arnon</b> even to </span><b><span style='color:navy'>Mount Zion; which is Hermon. </span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp; (called <b> Sion in Christian interpretations</b>)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>To</b> the <b>citizens of the city of Damascus</b>, the <b>mount of Hermon</b> was regarded to them as <b>holy and sanctified</b>.&nbsp; As <b>Ernest Martin</b> explained:&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Earnest Martin</b>   We now <b>come to Mount Hermon</b>. <b><span style='color:navy'>Damascus </span></b><span style='color:navy'>also had a<b> &quot;high place&quot;</b> as its own <b>&quot;holy place&quot;</b> and it was a <b>legitimate &quot;holy mount.&quot;</b></span><b> </b>The <b>people of Damascus </b>had <b>their own<i> </i>&quot;holy mountain.&quot;</b> It was the <b>highest of the mountains from </b><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_10" o:spid="_x0000_s1071" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image009.jpg" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:188pt; margin-top:0;width:228pt;height:210pt;z-index:9;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image009.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=304 height=280 src="zech9-2_files/image009.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image009.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_10"><![endif]><b>the Euphrates in the north</b> all the <b>way south to Egypt</b> and down to the <b>center part of the Sinai Peninsula</b>. <span style='color:navy'>That <b>mountain </b>was<b> &quot;Mount Hermon.&quot;</b> </span>It was the <b>greatest of the sacred mountains </b>of the<b> Middle East</b>. It was considered the <b>most holy mountain </b>of the<b> early Hittites</b>, of all the <b>Gentiles </b>of <b>Palestine </b>and even by the <b>Greeks and Romans</b> <span style='font-size:8.0pt'>(see <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i>, vol.5, p.876).</span> Even in the <b>Greek and Roman periods Mount Hermon s sanctity was recognized</b> as the <b>central worship of all the Gods of the world</b> (no matter who they were). </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><a href="http://www.canaan.co.il/tourism/zimers/z_hermon.html"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Map of Mount Hermon Ski Region</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Look at this fact. At the <b>bottom of Mount Hermon</b> on the <b>southwest side was a place called </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Panias </span></b>by the<b> Greeks</b> <b>after the time of Alexander the Great </b>(it is the <b>modern day, </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Banias</span></b>) which was <b><span style='color:navy'>Caesarea Philippi</span></b> in <b>New Testament times</b>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>This place was a very <b>ecumenical &quot;holy place&quot;</b> that was devoted <b>&quot;to ALL the Gods of the whole world&quot;</b> (<b>NOT simply to the single &quot;God&quot; </b>of any particular nation). Indeed, the <b>word &quot;Panias&quot; </b>at the<b> foot of Mount Hermon</b> in <b>Greek </b>meant that the <b>place was devoted </b>as a<b> divine sanctuary</b> to <b>&quot;All the Gods.&quot;</b> On the <b>northeast section of this &quot;divine mountain&quot;</b> was the <b>principal city of the area</b>. That <b>city was Damascus whose people in ancient times looked directly toward <u>their</u> Mount Hermon</b> as the <b>center place of their religious beliefs</b> (and, not only that, <b><u>this</u><i> </i>very mountain was believed to be in the eyes of most early peoples on earth</b> as being the <b>most important of all mountains in the world). </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Even</b> to the<b> ancients, Mount Hermon was known </b>as a<b> land </b>of an<b> even greater antiquity</b>. We find in the <b>sixth chapter of the Book of Enoch,</b> it spoke of that <b>day in antiquity</b> in which the <b> Watchers from Heaven </b> were <b>sent by God </b>to <b>this earth</b> to <b>instruct the children of Adam</b> in the <b>ways of divine civilization</b>.&nbsp; What is of interest is that the Book of Enoch accounted as one of the <b>most numerous of the manuscripts</b> <b>fragments</b> that were <b>found</b> in the <b><span style='color:blue'>caves at Qumran</span></b>.&nbsp; <span style='color:#000099'>If we do consider that <b>Khirbat Qumran</b> (<b>ruins of Qumran</b>) was <b>occupied</b> by the <b>secret ultra-orthodox sect of the Essenes</b>, then we must also <b>reconsider</b> that the <b>Book of Enoch</b> was <b>revered</b> as part of the <b>sacred scriptures to the Jewish Essenes. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Book of Enoch 6:1, 6  </b> And it <b>came to pass</b> when the <b>children of men</b> had <b>multiplied that in those days</b> were <b>born unto them beautiful and comely daughters</b>.&nbsp; And the <b>angels, the children of heaven</b>, <b>saw and lusted after them</b>, and <b>said to one another</b>: <b> Come let us choose us wives from among the children of men</b> and <b>beget us children</b>&  <span style='color:navy'>And they were in <b>all two hundred</b>; who <b>descended in the days of Jared</b> on the <b>summit of Mount Hermon</b>, and they <b>called it Mount Hermon</b></span>, because they had <b>sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. </b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.askelm.com/temple/t991101.htm#_ftn6"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Damascus, Mount Hermon, Golan Heights and its relationship with Israel</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'> </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Book of Jasher V, 1</b>   And it happened , when the <b>sons of the children</b> <b>of men</b> commenced to <b>increase over the face of the whole earth</b> and <b>daughters were born to them</b>, that the <b><span style='color:navy'>angels of the Lord </span>saw them</b> in one year of this jubilee, that <b>they were beautiful to look upon</b>. And they <b>took unto themselves wives</b> from all of them <b>whomever they chose</b>, and they <b>bore them sons</b>, and <b>these were giants. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:navy'>Mount Hermon</span></b>, to the<b> ancients,</b> was called the<b><span style='color:navy'>  Gateway to Heaven. </span></b> Here the reports of antiquity claim <b><span style='color:navy'>divine emissaries as inter-dimensional beings</span></b> could be seen <b><span style='color:navy'>moving from one dimension to another</span></b>.&nbsp; It we <b>take their testimony literally</b>, they could <b>see beings</b>, that <b>they called angels or  Watchers </b>, <b>appear out of nowhere</b> and <b>disappear </b>as though they were <b>walking through a  star-gate. </b>&nbsp; Here on this <b>mount</b> called <b>Hermon</b> these <b> Watchers </b> <b>entered the environment of this planet earth</b> and then <b>returned back to the heavens</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Even <b><span style='color:navy'>before the time of the Tower of Babel</span></b> in the <b><span style='color:navy'>Land of Shinar</span></b> <span style='font-size:8.0pt'>(Genesis 11:1-9)</span> the <b><span style='color:navy'> Sons of God </span></b><span style='color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>(Genesis 6)</span><span style='color:navy'> <b>came down to this earth</b> </span>and in their<span style='color:navy'> <b>union with the daughters of men procreated the  Giants or  Titans of old</b></span><b>.&nbsp; </b>The testimony about <b><span style='color:navy'>Mount of Hermon</span></b> as the <b><span style='color:navy'> First Zion </span></b> was known from the<b> days of the antediluvians (before the flood of Noah) </b>in the <b>days of the Patriarch Enoch.</b> <b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>When the <b>Tower of Babel was destroyed</b>, <b>Mount Hermon</b>, according to Martin,<b> became the most holy place</b> on <b>earth.&nbsp; </b>The citizens in the Middle East considered Mount Hermon as a <b> Bethel, </b>a<b> house of God.&nbsp; </b>They also considered <b>Mount Hermon</b> as <b> Zion, </b> a <b>favorite dwelling place of the Most High God.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>As <b>Deuteronomy continues in its summary</b>, the <b>ancient Israelites</b> <b>harkened back to the days of Babel</b> when <b>Moses, writing Deuteronomy</b>, stated that when the <b>ancients called Herman </b>by a name more ancient to the children of Israel; <b>Sirion and Senir</b>.&nbsp; Here we find a <b>linguistic variation of  Shinar: </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Deuteronomy 3:8-9 (parts)</b>   And <b>at that time</b> we <b>took the land</b> & .from the <b>River Arnon to Mount Hermon</b>, (the <b><span style='color:navy'>Sidonians call Hermon Sirion</span></b>, and the <b><span style='color:navy'>Amorites call it Senir. </span></b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>Biblical historians and archeologists</b> have long thought that the <b>Land of Shinar</b> was in the <b>land of the Euphrates River</b>, in the <b>region </b>of the <b>current Nations of Iraq</b> and <b>Iran.</b>&nbsp; Maybe we must <b>reconsider again where the Land of Shinar</b> <b>was.</b>&nbsp; <span style='color:#000099'>If the <b> Land of Hadrach </b>is the<b> Land of the Fertile Crescent</b>, then <b>Damascus </b>and<b> Mount Hermon </b>would be considered a part of the<b>  Land of Shinar. </b>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Damascus></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:#000046'>Damascus: The Mother of International Terrorism</span></b><span style='color:#000046'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_11" o:spid="_x0000_s1070" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute; left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:210.5pt;margin-top:0;width:250.5pt; height:209.25pt;z-index:10;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image010.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=334 height=279 src="zech9-2_files/image010.jpg" align=right hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_11"><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>And <b>Damascus (shall be) a resting place for Him</b> (a <b>place of repose or domicile for Yahweh.</b>)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a href="http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/syria/damascus/maps/olfert_dapper_1677_damascus.html">Picture<span style='font-weight:normal'> of </span> Damacus in Syrien overlooked by Mount Hermon, dated 1668 CE</a></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>, <b>published</b> in the <b>Book</b>, <b><i>&quot;Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, </i></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>en Palestyn of Heilige Lant...&quot;</span></i></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>, <b>page 17</b>, by <b>Author Olfert Dapper</b> and <b>Publisher Jacob van Meurs</b> from <b>Amsterdam</b></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 style='mso-cellspacing:1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1'> <td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal>Sitting at the <b>base of Mount Hermon</b> is <b>one of the most beautiful cities of the world</b>, the <b>city of Damascus</b>.&nbsp; This is the <b>site the Lord of hosts has His eyes upon</b>.&nbsp; <b>Besides the city of Jerusalem</b>, the <b>Lord of hosts calls this city </b>of <b>Damascus His own</b>.&nbsp; Yet <b>today, it is a den of terrorists</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b> claim to fame </b> of the <b>international city of Damascus</b> is that it is recognized as <b><span style='color:navy'> the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. </span></b>&nbsp; <b>Three thousand years ago</b>, it was <b>known to be the capital city </b>of the <b>ancient Aramean Kingdom</b>.&nbsp; Here was the <b>city </b>where the <b>roots of the Aramaic language </b>was <b>first used</b> and <b>written with a modified Phoenician alphabet</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Aramaic became the imperial language</b> of the <b>Cyrus the Great s Achaemenid successors </b>in the <b>Persian Empire</b>. When <b>Alexander the Great</b> <b>defeated Darius the Persian</b>, <b>Damascus</b> became a <b>Greek city</b> and <b>Aramaic lost it preeminence</b> as the <b>international language</b>.&nbsp; Under <b>Rome, Damascus kept a leading role</b> as the city where the <b>Roman governors ruled the entire Middle East.</b>&nbsp; In <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>635 CE</span></b>, the <b>city of Damascus fell</b> to the <b>Muslim invaders</b>. In <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>1200 CE</span></b>, the <b>city was sacked</b> by the <b>Mongols</b> and during the <b>Middle Ages</b>.&nbsp; Later, it was the <b>Ottomans </b>and the <b>Mamelukes </b>that made <b>Damascus their home.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Since the <b>beginning of the </b><b><span style='font-family: "arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>War on Terror in the fall of 2001</span></b>, the <b>American diplomats</b> have been putting <b>considerable pressure on Syria</b> to <b>turn against the infrastructure of terrorist organizations</b> that use <b>Syria as their main operational bases</b>.&nbsp; <b>Assad</b><b><span style='color:navy'> </span></b>was <b>handed a blunt ultimatum in </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>2002</span></b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'> </span>that he <b>close down the headquarter offices </b>of the<b> extremist Palestinian terrorist</b> <b>organizations</b> operating under the <b>guidance of the Syrian military intelligence services</b>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_12" o:spid="_x0000_s1069" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0; width:237.75pt;height:157.5pt;z-index:11;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image011.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=317 height=210 src="zech9-2_files/image011.jpg" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_12"><![endif]>The <b>channel of intelligence command</b> from the <b>President Bashar Assad </b>to the <b>terrorists groups</b> was <b>pinpointed to be </b><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Syria s deputy chief of staff, General Ali Aslan.</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp; He was <b>soon retired on </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>January 22, 2002. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://img6.travelblog.org/Photos/11053/265444/f/2194622-Dusk-at-the-Umayyad-Mosque--Damascus-Syria-1.jpg">Pulpit from which Imam Zaynul Abidin delivered sermon before Yazid</a></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#000099'>Ten of the largest terrorist organizations in the Middle East today call Damascus home</span></b>.&nbsp; These <b>included the following</b> in <b>part: </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Islamic Hamas</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> and </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Jihad Islami</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, the <b>foremost planters of human suicide bomb against Israeli civilians</b>, <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'> under the leadership of <b>George Habash</b>, <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The <b>Naif Hawatmeh s</b> </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:navy'>Democratic Popular Front</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>, <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'> called the <b>General Command</b>, headed by <b>Ahmed Jibril</b> and <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The noted violent </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Kurdish Democratic Party</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> called the <b>PKP</b>.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The <b>most powerful terrorist organization in the Middle East</b>, a <b>member of the Lebanon Parliament</b>, a <b>government within a government</b> and the <b>largest military force in the land of Lebanon</b> are the </span><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'>Hezbollah, military clients of Iran and Syria</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Damascus</b>, the <b>largest and leading city state in Aramea</b>, was the <b>capital</b> of the <b>arch-enemy of Israel, the nation of Syria.</b>&nbsp; Is it not interesting that the <b>first national empire after Egypt</b> that <b>took control of the fate of the Israelites</b> was <b>Assyria</b>; the <b>ruthless military imperialists</b> whose <b>strategy of pacification</b> was to <b>displace</b> all <b>peoples from their homeland and scatter them </b>across the extent of the <b>lands they controlled?</b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>Today <b>Damascus is the capital</b> of the <b>Nation of Syria</b>, the <b>sister Ba athist Party government</b> to <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/daniel/daniel8-5.shtml#RepublicIraq"><b>Saddam </b></a><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/daniel/daniel8-5.shtml#RepublicIraq"><b>Hussein s Party </b>in the<b> Republic of Iraq</b></a><b><span style='color:blue'> </span></b>that was <b>formed </b>with the <b>collaboration </b>of the <b><span style='color:navy'>Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem</span> in exile</b> and <b><span style='color:navy'>Khairallah Tulah</span></b><span style='color:navy'> from the <b>Syrian Nazi Party</b></span>.&nbsp; The <b>leader of Syria</b> is <b><span style='color:navy'>President Bashar</span></b><span style='color:navy'> <b>Assad, </b></span>the former <b>president of the UN Security Council for the year of 2002</b> is in control of the <b>Palestinian terror labyrinth</b> that <b>weaves itself</b> like an <b>amoeba </b>throughout the <b>entire area of Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_13" o:spid="_x0000_s1068" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image014.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:101pt;margin-top:0;width:141pt;height:176.25pt; z-index:12;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image012.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=188 height=235 src="zech9-2_files/image012.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image014.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_13"><![endif]><b>It was</b> in <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>April 1, 2003</span></b> that <b>Syrian President Bashar Assad</b> in interview just <b>prior to the invasion into Iraq</b> was recorded by <b>World Net Daily</b> in the article titled, <b> </b><a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31824"><b>Syria: Israel will Never be Legitimate</b></a><b> </b> will these words </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrews/israel/muftimuslim.shtml"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>World Net Daily</b>   <span style='color:windowtext'>In an <b>interview in a Lebanese newspaper</b>, <b>Syrian President Bashar Assad</b> has <b>lashed out at Israel</b>, saying as <b>long as the Jewish state exists it will be a threat</b>& .Israel has a <b>vested interest in dividing Iraq into small ethnic, national and ethnic mini-countries</b>, so that <b>Israel could enjoy legitimacy</b>. There are <b>countries in the Middle East with diverse nationalities</b>, but they have <b>social and historic cohesiveness.</b> Despite the <b>ethnic diversity within each nation</b>, the <b>social fabric of the region by and large is one</b>. On the other hand, the <b>[social] </b></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Damascus-sunset.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_14" o:spid="_x0000_s1067" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Damascus at sunset" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Damascus-sunset.jpg" style='position:absolute; left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:201pt;height:267.75pt; z-index:13;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image013.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Damascus-sunset.jpg"><img border=0 width=268 height=357 src="zech9-2_files/image013.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="Damascus at sunset" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_14"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Damascus-sunset.jpg"></a></span><b><span style='color:windowtext'>structure in Israel is an anomaly</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>. It is a <b>country with one characteristic</b>, which is a <b>religious characteristic</b>. Its <b>democracy stems from this characteristic</b>. It is <b>not a democracy based on the state's boundaries</b>. Therefore, it is <b>inconceivable that Israel will become a legitimate state</b> even if the <b>peace process is implemented</b>, because <b>its structure deviates from the region's norm</b>, and <b>maybe from the whole world</b>& </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>The City of Damascus at Sunset</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Asked if Syria feels threatened</b>, Assad again referred to Israel: &quot;As <b>long as Israel exists, the threat exists</b>. As <b>long as there is aggression against an Arab country</b>, and as <b>long as there is a war close to our borders, the danger continues</b>. Anyone who does not worry in such circumstances does not see reality. <b>Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation</b>. ...<b>None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israe</b>l. It is <b>natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack</b>, even <b>when it does not threaten</b>. It should be known that <b>Israel is based on treachery. </b>This is a point to be considered thoroughly. We are <b>dealing with treachery and threats</b>, which <b>accompanied the establishment of Israel.</b> Since its <b>very inception, Israel has been a threat</b>. It is the <b>Israeli nature, and for that Israel was established.</b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&quot;Based on this <b>understanding of Israel's nature</b> and role, we should deal with the <b>possibility of protracted aggression</b>. ... <b>Israel does not care about the international public opinion</b>. The <b>U.S. is unable to reign it in</b>; to the contrary, the <b>Israelis are the ones who control</b> [the U.S.] now through their lobby. ...&quot;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>Yet as a <b>charter member, Syria </b>has remained on the<b> list </b>of the<b>  state sponsors of terrorism </b>by the<b> State Department of the United States </b>since its<b> inception in </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>1979</span>. </b>&nbsp;It was <b>first implicated in </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>1986</span></b> with the <b>attempted bombing of an Israeli El Al flight</b>.&nbsp; The <b>Arms Export Amendments Act of </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>1989</span> </b>defined <b>Damascus </b>along with any other terrorist states <span style='color:windowtext'>as <b> those that allow their territory to be used as a sanctuary</b>; provide <b>logistical support to terrorists or terrorist organizations</b>; provide <b>safe haven or headquarters for terrorists</b> and their <b>organizations; plan, direct, train, or assist in activities</b>; and/or <b>provide financial support for activities</b>.</span>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>For <b>five years,</b> the <b>Syrian government</b> has <b>maneuvered like a chameleon</b> to stay out of the reach of the <b>Western globalist s</b> <b>War on Terror </b>against the <b>Islamic states</b> of<span style='color:windowtext'> </span><b>Afghanistan</b> and <b>Iraq. </b>According to the <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hitchcock/bible_names.d.html?highlight=damascus#highlight"><b>Hichcock s Bible Names Dictionary</b></a><b>,</b> <b><span style='color:navy'> Damascus </span></b> means a <b> sack full of blood;</b> the <b>similitude of burning. </b>How <b>appropriate for the city</b> that is <b>known as a  sack full of blood </b> to be <b>leading the Islamic assault</b> against the <b>Land of Israel</b> in the <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/reflections/revelation/seals/redsecond.shtml"><b>blood-Red Seal of Revelation</b></a>.<b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=JudgmentsDamascus><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher; color:navy'>The Judgments of the Lord upon </span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>Damascus</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>It was the <b>apocalyptic prophet Isaiah</b> that gave another <b> Burden or Oracle</b> against the <b>city of Damascus </b>before the days of <b>Zechariah.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Isaiah 17:1</b>   Behold, <b><span style='color:navy'>Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Some <b>Biblical scholars claim</b> that this <b>prophecy has never been fulfilled</b>.&nbsp; And <b>so it may</b>.&nbsp; Yet even as a <b>ruinous heap in past destructions</b>, it <b>may have been inhabited.&nbsp; </b>Yet <b>for a moment in time,</b> it <b>did cease to be a city</b> when the <b>forces of Tiglath-pilesar</b>  <b>went up against Damascus. </b>&nbsp; The <b>fate of Damascus</b> was <b>tied to the fate of the tribe of Ephraim</b> and the <b>cities of Aroer</b> that were <b>built by the tribe of Gad</b> to the <b>east of Jordan.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.yanabi.com/activeweb.cfm?a_id=705"><b><span style='font-size: 8.0pt'>Mausoleum of Lady Zaynab daughter of Hazarat Ali</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Isaiah 17:2-3</b>   The <b>cities of Aroer are forsaken</b>; they will <b>be for flocks which lie down</b>, and <b>no one will make them afraid</b>.&nbsp; The <b>fortress also will cease from Ephraim</b>, the <b><span style='color:navy'>kingdom from Damascus</span></b>, and the <b><span style='color:navy'>remnant of Syria</span></b><span style='color:navy'>;</span> they will <b>be as the glory of the children of Israel, </b> says the Lord of hosts. &nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>As <b>BibleSearchers</b>, it is our <b>prophetic assumption</b> that <b>every prophecy given to the children of Israel</b> and <b>their descendants</b> <b>did have literal application, in part</b>, in the <b>days in which they were prophesied</b>. Yet the final conclusion of <b>all the prophecies</b> of the <b>ancient prophets of Israel</b> will <b>converge</b> into a <b>large river of prophetic fulfillment</b> at the <b>time of the end</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Here <b>Zechariah and Isaiah</b> point to the <b>fate</b> that again, <b> Damascus will cease from being a city </b> and the <b>ruins of this mighty city</b> will <b>become as a  ruinous heap. </b>The <b>prophet Amos</b> brings to the <b>prophetic table</b> a <b>new understanding</b> that might be <b>applicable to this present era</b>.&nbsp; As stated:</p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Amos 1:3</b>   Thus says the Lord:  For <b><span style='color:navy'>three transgression of Damascus</span></b>, and for <b><span style='color:navy'>four,</span></b> I will <b>not turn away its punishment</b>, because they have <b>threshed Gilead with implements of iron.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>But I will send a <b>fire into the house of Hazael</b>, which shall <b>devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.</b>&nbsp; I will also <b>break the gate bar of Damascus</b> and <b>cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven ( sin )</b>, and the <b>one who hold the scepter from Beth Eden </b>(<b>House of Eden</b>).&nbsp; The <b>people of Syria shall go captive to Kir</b> (<b>walled place</b>), says the Lord. </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#000099'>Damascus has attacked</span></b><span style='color:#000099'> the <b>modern Nation of Israel </b>in <b>three major wars</b> since her <b>birth in 1948</b>.</span><span style='color:#660033'>&nbsp; </span>The <b><span style='color:navy'>first attack by Syria</span></b> came as the  <a href="http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/warindep.html"><b>The War of Independence in1948</b></a> when the <b>fledgling Nation of Israel</b> in <b>her infancy declared her independence</b> on the <b>day that the British Mandate</b> <b>expired on May 15, 1948</b>.&nbsp; <b>Immediately, the Arab countries of </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Syria,</span> Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon formed an Arab</b> <b>coalition.&nbsp; </b>Together they<b> invaded the homeland</b> of the <b>newborn State of Israel</b>.&nbsp; &nbsp;This <b>invasion had one purpose</b>: to <b>declare</b> <a href="http://peace.heebz.com/genocide.html"><b>genocide for the Jews</b></a> under the <b>mantra</b>, <b> to push the Jews into the sea. </b>&nbsp; The <b>leader of the Arabs,</b> who lived in the former <b>British Mandate of Palestine, </b>was <a href="http://biblesearchers.com/hebrews/israel/muftimuslim.shtml#Husseini"><b>Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem</b></a>. He was the <b>military organizer</b> of the <b>Arab wing of Hitler s Nazi Army</b> and was to have been <b>arraigned</b> for <b>charges at Nuremberg</b> when <b>he escaped with British assistance in 1946.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b><span style='color:navy'>second attack on the Nation of Israel by Syria</span></b> was the <b> </b><a href="http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/sixdaywar.html"><b>The Six-Day War in 1967</b></a><b><span style='color:windowtext'>.</span> &nbsp; </b>According to Samuel Katz, in <b> Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine </b> he <b>wrote: </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><b>Samuel Katz  &quot;Never in human history can an aggressor</b> have made his <b>purpose known in advance so clearly</b> and <b>so widely</b>. <b>Certain of victory</b>, both the <b>Arab leaders and their peoples</b> <b>threw off all restraint</b>. Between the <b>middle of May and fifth of June</b>, <b>world-wide newspapers, radio</b> and, most incisively, <b>television</b> brought home to <b>millions of people</b> the <b>threat of politicide bandied about</b> with <b>relish</b> by the <b>leaders of these modern states</b>. Even more <b>blatant was the exhilaration</b> which the <b>Arabic peoples</b> displayed as the <b>prospect of executing genocide</b> on the <b>people of Israel</b> ... In those <b>three weeks of mounting tension</b> people throughout the world <b>watched and waited in growing anxiety</b>--or in some cases, in <b>hopeful expectation</b>--for the <b>overwhelming forces of at least Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq</b> to <b>bear down from three sides</b> to <b>crush tiny Israel and slaughter her people.&quot;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>With the <b>Egyptian troops gathering</b> along the <b>Israeli border in Sinai</b>, <b><span style='color:navy'>Syrian forces</span> massing </b>on the<b> Golan Heights</b> <b>3000 feet above</b> the <b>farms and villages along Galilee</b>, the <b>nation of Israel went into complete mobilization</b>.&nbsp; &nbsp;<b>Egyptian President Nasser ordered</b> the <b>United Nations Emergency Protection forces </b>out of the<b> Sinai</b> <b>Peninsula.</b>&nbsp; The <b>inflammatory Arabic rhetoric</b> <b>shocked</b> the <b>international airwaves.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Egyptian President Gamal Nasser (</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>May 18, 1967</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>)</span></b>  &quot;As of <b>today</b> there no <b>longer exists an international emergency force to protect Israel</b>. We shall <b>exercise patience no more</b>. We shall <b>not complain any more to the UN</b> about <b>Israel.</b> <span style='color:navy'>The <b>sole method</b> we shall <b>apply against Israel is total war</b>, which will result in the <b>extermination of Zionist existence.&quot;</b> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad (</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>May 20, 1967</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>)</span></b>  <span style='color:windowtext'>&quot;Our <b>forces are now entirely ready.</b>..to <b>initiate the act of liberation</b> itself, and to <b>explode the Zionist presence</b> in the Arab homeland....</span><span style='color:navy'>The <b>time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.&quot;</b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Iraqi President Abdur Rahman Aref (</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>June 4, 1067</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>)</span></b> - &quot;The <b>existence of Israel is an error</b> which <b>must be rectified</b>. This is <b>our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy</b> which has <b>been with us since </b><b><span style='font-family: "arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>1948</span></b>. <b><span style='color: navy'>Our goal is clear</span></b><span style='color:navy'> - to <b>wipe Israel off the map.&quot; </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>On <b>June 5, 1967</b>, <b>Israel launched a pre-emptive strike</b> against <b>Egypt.</b>&nbsp; The <b>Sinai sector of the war collapsed </b>and the <b>Sinai Peninsula</b> and the <b>Gaza Strip</b> were <b>captured by Israel.</b> The <b>Nation of Jordan</b> was <b>urged to stay neutral</b>, but also <b>attacked Israel</b>.&nbsp; The <b>final conclusion</b> was that <b>Jordan lost the West Bank</b> and the <b>western side of Jerusalem</b>.&nbsp; When the <b>war was over on June 10, Israel</b> had also <b>captured the Golan Heights</b> and was <b>on the road to Damascus.</b> </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>third attack</span></b><b><span style='color:navy'> on the Nation of Israel by Syria</span></b> was <b> </b><a href="http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/yomkippurwar.html"><b>The 1973 Yom Kippur War</b></a><b><span style='color:windowtext'> </span> </b>On <b>October 6, 1973</b>, the <b>nations of </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Syria</span> and Egypt attacked Israel</b> on a <b>two pronged assault</b> trying to <b>force Israel to surrender the lands</b> she had <b>captured in the </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>1967 Six Days War</span>.</b>&nbsp; <span style='color:navy'>This <b>attack came</b> on the <b>holiest day of the Jewish festival year; Yom Kippur. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Line_at_a_gas_station,_June_15,_1979.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_15" o:spid="_x0000_s1066" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image016.jpg" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Line_at_a_gas_station,_June_15,_1979.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:258pt;height:173.25pt; z-index:14;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image014.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Line_at_a_gas_station,_June_15,_1979.jpg"><img border=0 width=344 height=231 src="zech9-2_files/image014.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image016.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_15"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Line_at_a_gas_station,_June_15,_1979.jpg"></a></span><b>The Nation</b> <b>of Israel</b>, <b>caught by surprise</b>, was <b>reeling in her human and military losses</b>.&nbsp; On <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>October 17, 1973</span></b>, <b>Saudi Arabia</b> led the <b>Arab dominated OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries </b>to call an <b>oil embargo</b> against the <b>United States</b> and <b>any country supporting Israel</b> like the <b>Netherlands.</b>&nbsp; When the <b>cease fire ended</b> on <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>October 22, 1973</span></b>, the <b>United States and Russia</b> were almost in <b>full confrontation with each other</b>. <b>Israel</b> <b><span style='font-family: "arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>captured 165 square miles from Syria</span></b> while <b>encircling</b> the <b>entire</b> <b>Egyptian Third Army</b> on the <b>west bank of the Suez Canal.</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Gas Lines at an American Filling Station on June 15, 1979</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>premeditated attack upon Israel</b> was only <b>highlighted that on </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>August 23, 1973</span></b>, <b>six weeks prior</b> to the <b>Yom Kippur War</b>, <b>Saudi King Faisal</b> met with <b>Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Riyadh</b> to <b>secretly negotiate a pact</b> to use the <b> oil weapon </b> against the <b>United States, Western Europe and Japan</b> <b>prior </b>to the <b>military assault by Egypt and </b><b><span style='color:navy'>Syria</span></b><span style='color:navy'> </span><span style='color:#660066'>on <b>October 6, 1973</b></span>. The <b>Oil Embargo against the United States</b> put that nation into an <b>economic recession in 1974</b> while the <b>American citizens waited in line </b>for<b> hours for gasoline. </b>By <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>1979,</span> </b>the <b>world price of oil</b> reached <b>US$80 a barrel (</b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>2004 prices</span>).&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>The question</b> that <b>must be asked</b>, <b><span style='color:navy'>will Syria </span></b><span style='color:navy'>for the<b> </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>fourth time</span></b><b><span style='color:navy'> attack Israel?</span></b>&nbsp; Will she be <b>willing to reap the promise of the God of Israel:</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='color:#003300'>Amos 1:3</span></b><span style='color:#003300'>  <b>&quot;...For three transgressions of Damascus</b>, and <b>for four, <br> I will not turn away the punishment thereof...&quot;</b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Judgments><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>The Judgments of the Lord upon </span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher; color:navy'>Israel and the Nations surrounding Her Land</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b> judgment against Damascus</b> then <b>moves over the Land of Lebanon</b> to the <b>Mediterranean Sea.&nbsp; </b>It goes <b>down the Lebanese coast towards Tyre and Sidon</b>.&nbsp; It then moves <b>past the Israeli coastline</b> to the <b>Palestinian regions of influence: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, Ashdod.&nbsp; </b>Then the j<b>udgment </b>goes beyond to <b>Assyria and Egypt.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Zechariah 10:11   </b>Then the<b> pride of Assyria </b>shall be<b> brought down, </b>and the<b> scepter of Egypt </b>shall <b>depart. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Finally the <b>judgments will end up in Judah and Israel</b> as noted in these words:&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Zechariah 9:8</b>   I will <b>camp around My house</b> <b><span style='color:navy'>because of the army</span></b>, because of <b><span style='color:navy'>him who passes by</span></b><span style='color:navy'> and <b>him who returns. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>What is the <b>Lord of hosts saying?</b>&nbsp; Will He <b>not be dwelling in My house at Zion in Jerusalem?&nbsp; </b>Will the <b>Lord of hosts</b> rather be found <b> camping around My house</b> as <b>like David</b> when he went <b>into temporary exile?</b>&nbsp; Has the <b>God of Israel removed Himself </b>away from the<b> approaching satanic  dark forces</b> that will <b>surround Jerusalem at the time of the end?&nbsp; </b>Will this <b>act of God</b> <b>provoke the return of the Messiah </b>and the<b> Battle of Armageddon?</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>Has the <b>Lord of hosts </b>also <b>withdrawn Himself </b>from <b>His own people</b> who have <b>lowered themselves </b>to the<b> </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>lowest 49<sup>th</sup> level of degradation</span>?&nbsp; </b>Have <b>they done</b> this by <b>allowing the vicinity of His house</b> and <b>His Land</b> to be <b>desecrated by those who hate His Holy Name?&nbsp; </b>Are these <b>Jewish people </b>the <b>ones </b>that the<b> Lord of hosts is withdrawing Himself from</b> the <b>same ones</b> who were <b>willing to bring the  Impurade </b> (<b>World Gay Pride Parade</b>) <b>into the Land of Israel</b> and also <b>into vicinity God s very own home in Jerusalem?</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>A <b>careful reading</b> suggests that in the near <b>future a great internal struggle will sweep the Land of Israel</b>, <b>not by the enemies that surround the land of Israel</b> but by what may be a<b> destructive  civil war </b> that will <b>break the </b><b><span style='color:navy'> two staffs;  the  Beauty </span></b><span style='color: navy'> and the <b> Bonds. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>These  dark forces that are surrounding Israel</b> was alluded to in the <b>blog </b>titled, <b> </b><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/08/tisha_bav_5766.html"><b>Tisha B AV, 5766</b></a><b> </b> written by <b>Rabbi Lazer Brody</b> on <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>August 3, 2006</span>:</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:#181818'>Rabbi Lazer Brody</span></b><span style='color:#181818'> - <b> Barely </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>24 hours ago</span></b><b><span style='color:#181818'>, Olmert came out with an </span></b><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/08/emuna_news_spec_1.html"><b>insane statement</b></a><span style='color:#181818'> that the <b>war in Lebanon is preparation for giving back more Jewish settlements.</b> If that's <b>not enough,</b> today he <b>expressed his willingness to post </b></span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3285668,00.html"><b>Egyptians and Saudis</b></a><b><span style='color:#181818'> on our northern border.</span></b><span style='color:#181818'> <b>Double national suicide or gross stupidity?</b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#181818'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:#181818'>Olmert is far from from stupid</span></b><span style='color:#181818'>. He's <b>highly intelligent and cunning</b>. But, though <b>it may seem to you strange</b>, from a <b>spiritual standpoint</b>, <b>he and Nasrulla play for the same team - the </b></span><b><i><span style='color:navy'>Sitra Achra</span></i></b><span style='color:#181818'>, or <b>dark side that opposes holiness</b></span><span style='color:#660033'>. </span><span style='color:#000099'>My <b>main lamentation on </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>Tisha B'av 5766</span></b><span style='color:#000099'> is that <b>Israel as a whole hasn't yet made tshuva</b> and therefore <b>remains in the clutches of dark-side leadership</b>, rather than <b>meriting the leadership of the generation's true tzaddikim</b>.</span><span style='color:#181818'> If we all <b>really knew what we were lacking</b>, our <b>eyelashes would fall out from so many tears. Tisha B'Av is a beam of light</b> from <b>within a dark cloud</b>. Our <b>lamentations are designed to connect us to Hashem</b> in a <b>greater bond</b>. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#181818'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#181818'>Just as a <b>seed is buried in the ground</b> and <b>rots before it sprouts</b> into a <b>beautiful, fruit-bearing tree</b>, so are <b>we, the Jewish people</b>; for <b>years</b>, our <b>martyrs have been buried in sanctification of Hashem's name</b>. Now, the <b>leadership of Israel is completely rotten, both morally and spiritually, across the board</b>. Now that <b>we've been buried and our leadership is rotten</b>, we <b>shall soon sprout into the People of Hashem and the generation of the renewed Beis haMikdash, speedily</b> and <b>in our time, amen. </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>And then <b>who is  Him who passes by</b> and <b>him who returns. </b>&nbsp; Are the <b>nations of the earth</b> who have <b>passed in and out of Jerusalem in over twenty five destructions</b> the <b>emissaries </b>of that <b>former angelic representative</b> of the <b>Almighty to the spiritual world of creation?</b>&nbsp; <b><span style='color:#000099'>Is it not amazing that each one of these nations</span></b><span style='color:#000099'> that took <b>possession of Israel</b>, <b>not one of them claimed it as their permanent residence?</b>&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>historical fact exists</b>, <span style='color:#000099'>the <b>Islamic people,</b> who <b>had hegemony </b>over<b> Israel and Jerusalem </b>for almost<b> fifteen centuries</b>, never sought to<b> claim Jerusalem </b>and this<b>  Land as their national homeland.&nbsp;</b></span><b> </b>Only <b>when the Jewish people began to  return to the Land of Israel</b> did <b>their Muslim cousins erupt</b> in a <b>fit of  brotherly jealousy. </b> Since then they have <b>sought to annihilate their own genetic relatives</b> by <b> driving them into the sea? </b>&nbsp; Is <b><span style='color:navy'> Him who passes by </span></b> actually the <b>inciter of all the hate and venom</b> that <b>flows from the  blood oaths of the terrorists</b>, <b>HaSatan (Satan) himself?&nbsp; </b>As the <b>Lord of hosts portrays:</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Job 1:6</b>   And the <b>Lord said to Satan</b>,  From <b>where do you come?</b> So <b>Satan answered the Lord</b> and said,  <b>From going to and fro on the earth</b> and <b>from walking back and forth on it</b>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>So begins our study of <b><span style='color:navy'>Zechariah 9</span></b> and  <b><span style='color:navy'>The Oracle of Terror against the Palestinians, the Lebanese and the Syrians. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_16" o:spid="_x0000_s1065" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/02012008/1522019/gilad_shalit_m.jpg" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:161pt; margin-top:0;width:201pt;height:127.5pt;z-index:15;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/02012008/1522019/gilad_shalit_m.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=268 height=170 src="http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/02012008/1522019/gilad_shalit_m.jpg" align=right alt="http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/02012008/1522019/gilad_shalit_m.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_16"><![endif]><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_17" o:spid="_x0000_s1064" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image017.jpg" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:52.25pt; margin-top:0;width:92.25pt;height:1in;z-index:16;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image015.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=123 height=96 src="zech9-2_files/image015.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image017.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_17"><![endif]><a name=Kidnappings></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>Kidnappings by Hamas and Hezbollah in the Prelude to the War</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.lekarev.org/newsletter/newsletter.htm"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit</span></b></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>2006 Israeli  Hezbollah War</span></b> <b>began on the </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>17<sup>th</sup> of Tammuz</span></b>, yet the <b>preparatory entrance to this war</b> began a <b>few weeks earlier.&nbsp; </b>It was <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>June 25, 2006</span></b> in the <b>middle of the night</b>, members of the <b>Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades</b> and the previously <b>unknown Islamic Army </b>came across from<b> </b>the<b> Gaza area.&nbsp; </b>They were sighted on the <b>Israeli army s electronic screens</b> and an <b>alert was sent out from the tank commander</b> for <b>permission to fire upon them</b> and <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Eldad_Regev.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_18" o:spid="_x0000_s1063" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Image:Eldad Regev.jpg" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Eldad_Regev.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:164.25pt;height:123pt; z-index:17;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image016.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Eldad_Regev.jpg"><img border=0 width=219 height=164 src="zech9-2_files/image016.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="Image:Eldad Regev.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_18"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Eldad_Regev.jpg"></a></span><b>abort their terrorist mission</b>. That <b>permission never came</b>.&nbsp; In the <b>aftermath of the Palestinian cross-border raid</b>, <b>19 year old Israeli, </b>with <b>owl-eyed glasses</b>, <b>Corporal Gilad Shalit</b> was lightly wounded by <b>three shrapnel wounds</b>.&nbsp; He was <b>captured and taken hostage to Gaza</b> in what would be a <b>bid for ransom</b>.&nbsp; <b>Two other members of his tank &nbsp;unit were killed in battle.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Eldad_Regev.jpg">&nbsp;<b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Israeli Reservist Eldad Regev from Kiryat Motzkin, Israel</span></b></a></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>About three weeks later, on</span> the <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>12<sup>th</sup> of July</span></b>, <b>two Israeli reservists</b> soldiers, <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Ehud Goldwasser</span>, </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>31</span>, from Nahariya</b>, and <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#000099'>Eldad Regev</span>, </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>26</span>, from Kiryat Motzkin</b> were <b>abducted in an unprovoked attack</b> by <b>Hezbollah terrorists</b> who entered into <b>Israeli </b><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_19" o:spid="_x0000_s1062" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Yair Goldwasser, le frère d'un soldat israélien kidnappé. (PC/Nathan Denette)" style='position:absolute;margin-left:117.5pt;margin-top:0;width:157.5pt; height:157.5pt;z-index:18;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image017.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=210 height=210 src="zech9-2_files/image017.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt="Yair Goldwasser, le frère d'un soldat israélien kidnappé. (PC/Nathan Denette)" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_19"><![endif]><b>territory and soil </b>along the <b>Northern border of Israel and Lebanon</b> in an <b>intentional raid </b>much like the<b> commando raid along the Gaza border.&nbsp; Both soldiers were students </b>who had been called to service as<b> Israeli reservists, </b>were<b> taken alive, </b>but <b>eight of their military unit </b>were killed by<b> Hezbollah soldiers </b>who were<b> planted to ambush any Israeli </b>coming <b>to retaliate during that day.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/en_francais/story.html?id=8d2586bf-cf34-4bbd-ac52-6f4f4e876dad&amp;k=91021"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Israeli Reservist Yair Goldwasser</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>capture of the </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#000099'>Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit</span></b> led to the <b>Hamas demands</b> that <b>all Palestinian women and youth</b> be <b>released from Israeli prisons</b> plus an <b>additional </b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>1000 Palestinians</span></b> that were <b>incarcerated</b>. The <b>abduction of Reservist Eldad Regev and Yair Goldwasser</b> led to the <b>demands by Hezbollah</b> that up to <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>9000 prisoners</span> be released from Israeli jail. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The <b>renewed confrontation with Hamas in Gaza firing hundred of katyusha rockets</b> led to <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_20" o:spid="_x0000_s1061" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image020.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:225pt;height:157.5pt; z-index:19;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image018.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=300 height=210 src="zech9-2_files/image018.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image020.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_20"><![endif]>the <b>first military front of engagement with the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza</b> after <b>months of relative quietness</b>.&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/kk/var/news/storage/images/home/artical_categories/nyheter/2006/appril/vedtok_aldri_kutt/1848392-1-nor-NO/vedtok_aldri_kutt1_large.jpg"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh with his Cabinet</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>By <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>July 2</span></b>, <b>two missiles were fired</b> by the <b>IDF</b> and the <b>office of the Hamas Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh went up in flames</b>. <b>Hundreds of Israeli shells</b> were <b>fired upon Kassam launch sites</b> and <b>supply routes</b> used to <b>supply or launch the Kassam rockets</b> as they sought to <b>prevent the movement of Shalit s abductors.&nbsp; </b>The <b>Israeli military offensive called  Summer Rain </b> <b>began. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>A day later, in a <b>limited IDF offensive</b>, a <b>house was targeted</b> that was <b>used by the Al Aqsa martyrs Brigades</b>, a violent offshoot of the <b>Fatah Organization</b> under the <b>control of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.&nbsp; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Nine days after Shalit s abduction</b>, on <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>July 4</span></b>, a <b>security sweep in Israel netted eight cabinet members of the Hamas government</b>.&nbsp; This was followed <b>one week after</b> a <b>similar sweep</b> that netted <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>64 Hamas government officials</span></b>, located in <b>Jerusalem, Judea and in Samaria</b>.&nbsp; With the <b>government portfolios given to the remaining government leaders,</b> Palestinian <b>Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh</b> sent his <b>remaining ministers into hiding.</b>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>During that week, the <b>Israeli Knesset came to the full realization</b> that <b>one of their own members</b>, an <b>Arab Israeli Knesset MK</b>, had <b>committed treason to the Nation of Israel.&nbsp; </b>He had <b>advised the Palestinian Authority</b> to <b>kidnap an Israeli soldier</b>.&nbsp; As written on <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>July 9, 2006</span></b> by the <b>Lekarev Report</b>, in the news note titled, <a href="http://www.lekarev.org/newsletter/newsletter.htm"><b>Arab MK: I Asvised PA to Kidnap Soldier</b></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_21" o:spid="_x0000_s1060" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image021.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:46.25pt;margin-top:0;width:86.25pt; height:67.5pt;z-index:20;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:3.75pt; mso-wrap-distance-right:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:3.75pt; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image019.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=115 height=90 src="zech9-2_files/image019.jpg" align=right hspace=5 vspace=5 alt="http://biblesearchers.com/prophecy/zechariah/zech9-2_files/image021.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_21"><![endif]><b>, </b>it states:</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:blue'>Israeli Knesset Member Wasal Taha</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Lekarev Report</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>  <b> </b></span><b>Knesset Member Wasal Taha</b>, corresponding <b>publicly with internet surfers</b> on the <b>Arabic-language IslamOnline</b> site, said he <b>repeatedly advised PA terrorists to battle and kidnap Israeli soldiers</b>& According to a report in <b>Maariv</b> today, Taha told surfers on Thursday& <b>&quot;We told them </b>more than once that the<b> Palestinians, </b>who are<b> subjected to murder and ongoing crimes </b>on the<b> part of the Israeli army, </b>have<b> two options: One is to explode and kill civilians - </b>and these are much easier operations. <b>The second option </b>is the<b> military option, </b>in the<b> framework </b>of which a<b> military unit </b>from the<b> resistance [i.e., terrorist infrastructures - ed.] is established </b>in order to<b> break into a military camp, clash with the soldiers </b>and <b>battle them and take them </b>and the<b> conquest into captivity.&quot; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'><br> </span></b><a name=Qassam><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calligrapher; color:navy'> Qassam Rockets in </span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Calligrapher;color:navy'>Ashkelon are a Sword of Vengeance against Immodesty and Promiscuity </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>As the <b>Kassam rocket attacks</b> continued to hit the <b>Israeli town of Sderot</b> located <b>south of </b></span><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Haifa</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>, the <b>Israeli Knesset was in turmoil</b>.&nbsp; The Knesset was <b>not in dissention</b> over <b>how to respond</b> to the <b>military confrontation </b>of the<b> newly elected Hamas government in Gaza</b>.&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>They were <b>not having dissention </b>over <b>how to protect the Israeli public</b> from <b>Kassam</b> <b>rocket assaults upon their homes</b>.&nbsp; They were having a <b>stormy session</b> on whether to <b>allow the World Gay Pride Parade</b> keep its <b>first International meet</b> in the <b>Holy City of Jerusalem</b> that <b>was scheduled to begin on </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>August 12, 2006</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>.&nbsp; The <b>homosexual parade was scheduled</b> to <b>parade down the city streets of West Jerusalem</b>.&nbsp; When mentioned once that it should be <b>changed to East Jerusalem</b>, the <b>Arabs refused, saying that they would kill the participants.&nbsp; </b>The parade attendees were <b>scheduled to visit the Wailing Wall </b>along the <b>Temple Mount</b> and <b>walk down the streets of Old Jerusalem</b> in the <b>public attire of their choice.</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'>The <b>rabbinic community was up in arms</b>.&nbsp; They not only <b>garnered allies with the International Christian community</b> coming in and out of Israel, but also <b>allies that never shared a common discourse</b>; the <b>Muslim clerics</b>. <b>MK Yitzchak Levy</b> </span><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knesset_jerusalem.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_23" o:spid="_x0000_s1058" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="La Knesset à Jérusalem" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knesset_jerusalem.jpg" style='position:absolute; margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:211.5pt;height:141pt;z-index:22;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image021.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knesset_jerusalem.jpg"><img border=0 width=282 height=188 src="zech9-2_files/image021.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="La Knesset à Jérusalem" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_23"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knesset_jerusalem.jpg"></a></span><span style='color:windowtext'>from the National Union/NRP presented to the Knesset a survey that showed that a <b>large majority of the public </b>was<b> against holding </b>the<b> gay pride parade in Jerusalem.&nbsp; </b>This survey showed that a surprising <b>63% of the secular public also opposed.&nbsp; </b>There was <b>one problem</b>; the <b>newly elected Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert</b> and his <b>wife </b>were <b>sponsors of the parade</b> that was now being <b>called in Israel</b>, the </span><b><span style='color:navy'> Impurade. </span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>The Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem in Turmoil over  Gay Pride, not God s Will or the Protection of the Nation of Israel</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Jerusalem councilman David Hadari </span></b><span style='color:windowtext'>speaking on Arutz-7, Israel s National News claimed, &quot;The <b>municipality of Jerusalem has been prevented by the legal system</b> from <b>trying to stop the homosexual parade</b>. This is a <b>mark of shame for the court system</b>, but that is the situation... At present, <b>only the police can stop the parade</b>, based on <b>considerations of public peace and safety. &nbsp; </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Other <b>Knesset members considered</b> that the <b>march should be scheduled in Tel Aviv</b>, but <b>Arab and Jewish concerns</b> came with the <b>warning from the religious Zionist public</b>, when <b>Rabbi Yehuda Levin of New York</b> leading the <b>campaign to stop the World Pride</b> anywhere in the Holy Land stated,  &quot;This is a <b>'measure for measure' affair: If we allow the land to be raped,</b> so to speak, by <b>perverted sexual messages, then, as the Torah says, such Canaanite acts will be punished by having the Land 'vomit you out,' Heaven forbid.&quot; </b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/melitzer.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_24" o:spid="_x0000_s1057" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Melitzer" href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/melitzer.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:149.25pt;height:198pt; z-index:23;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image022.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/melitzer.jpg"><img border=0 width=199 height=264 src="zech9-2_files/image022.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt=Melitzer title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_24"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/melitzer.jpg"></a></span><span style='color:windowtext'>As reported on <b>Lazer Beams</b> on </span><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>July 5, 2006</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> in a discussion with the <b>Melitzer Rebbe shlit a from Ashdod</b> in the article titled, </span><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/"><b>&quot;Qassam rockets in Ashkelon are a sword of vengeance against immodesty and promiscuity,&quot;</b></a><b> Rabbi Lazer Brody</b>, more affectionately called <b> Rabbi Commando </b> due to his <b>years as an Israeli Commando</b>, records this conversation:</p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/07/index.html"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Melitzer Rebbe shlit a from Ashdod</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Melitzer Rebbe shlit a from Ashdod  </span> </b>I <b>briefed the Melitzer Rebbe shlit'a</b> on the <b>latest barrages </b>(of Kassam rockets), only a few miles down the road from here in Ashdod. The <b>Melitzer Rebbe's face turned a bright crimson</b> then <b>paled.</b> With a <b>trembling voice</b>, he quoted the <b>Torah's curse</b> in <b>Parshas Bechukosai</b> of the <b>licentious who break the holy covenant</b> with <b>lewdness and lack of modesty</b>, <b><span style='color:navy'>&quot;I will bring upon you an avenging sword, vengeance of the covenant</span></b> <span style='font-size:9.0pt'>(Leviticus 26:25)&quot;.</span> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;<span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The Rebbe then <b>told me with fire in his voice</b>, &quot;The <b>immodest and unclad women</b> are bringing <b>this catastrophe on our heads</b>. A <b>woman should know that every tephach</b> (approx. <b>4 inches</b> - LB) of <b>insufficiently clad flesh</b> <b>creates an angel of destruction.</b> The <b>Hamas and the rockets</b> are the <b>physical manifestations of the spiritual impurity</b> <b>created by Israel's immodest women</b>.&quot;&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>The <b>Rebbe then quoted</b> the <b>Code of Jewish Law</b> <span style='font-size:9.0pt'>(Shulchan Oruch, Orach Chaim 75:A)</span> that's based on the <b>Gemorra</b> <span style='font-size:9.0pt'>(tractate Berachos 24a)</span> that <b>tephach b'isha erva</b>, or a <b>tephach of unclad flesh</b> is considered <b>nakedness and therefore strictly forbidden</b>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>With <b>fire in his eyes</b> the Rebbe said that&nbsp; <b>tephach - spelled</b> in Hebrew <b><span style='color:navy'>Øä×</span></b><span style='color:navy'> - stands for <b>Ø</b>ÙÜÙÝ <b>ä</b>ÙÒÕâÙÝ<b> ×</b>èÑÕê</span> - the <b>three Hebrew letters of tephach</b> stand for <b><span style='color:navy'>&quot;</span></b><span style='color:navy'>t<b>'illim, </b>p<b>'iguim, </b>ch<b>aravot&quot;,</b></span> in other words <b>rockets, terrorist attacks, and swords (of vengeance)& </b> the <b>Rebbe shlit'a said</b> that <b>people must know</b> the <b>root cause</b> of the <b>Qassam rockets</b>. <b><span style='color:navy'>Melitzer Rebbe: &quot;Qassam rockets in Ashkelon are a sword of vengeance against immodesty and promiscuity. </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>On the <b>same day that the Melitzer Rebbe shlit a spoke</b> out on <b>Kassam Rockets and Immorality</b>, <b><span style='color:navy'>Binyomin Goldin, a 35 year old autistic student</span></b> who is known as the <b>Autistic Rebbe</b> spoke out for the <b>first time in four and one-half years</b> on the <b>conditions of this planet earth</b>.&nbsp; It was <b><span style='font-family: "arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>September 2001</span></b> when he first gave this <b>first communication by FC (facilitated communication),  </b><a href="http://www.jewishfuture.com/jf_01_09_24_Gd_is_destroying_the_lie.shtml"><b>God is Destroying the Lie</b></a><b> :</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Benyomin (Ben) Goldin -</b> <b>&quot;All over the Western World fear reigns</b>. The <b>fear of an unknown army of terrorists</b> who have <b>no real identity</b>, an <b>unknown enemy with no face</b>, only <b>one face known to the world - Bin Laden</b>. But <b>how can a whole army fight against one man?</b> How could the <b>whole Western World be afraid of one man?</b> So <b>what have we really learned</b> from all of this<b>? I will explain what you should be learning</b> from all of this: <b>HaKadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, blessed be He) is destroying the lie,</b> the <b>false world we've been living</b> in, the <b>excessive, decadent gashmius (reliance on physical things for pleasure and security)</b> that has <b>become our god. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>God is destroying the false beliefs</b> that <b>security lies in the army, social security</b>, the <b>great insurance companies</b>, a <b>steady job</b> and a <b>big bank account</b>. ...So, my dear Am Yisrael, <b>if you want to save yourselves and the world</b>, <b>renounce the Egel Hazahav</b> (golden calf - LB), its <b>lies</b>, its <b>illusion,</b> and come <b>back wholly to your Father in Heaven</b>. <b>Destroy your false gods and come back!</b> When will you learn? <b>You're not frightened enough</b>. Your <b>hearts are not broken enough</b>. A <b>great selection has already begun</b>. <b><span style='color:navy'>Each Jew, each Gentile, each living thing, will choose a side</span></b>. Either <b>with man, trusting in man</b> himself, or <b>with God, trusting only in Him</b>.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;It will be <b>a terrible battle</b>, a very, <b>very torturous fight</b>, but those <b>who hold on to their trust, their love and their belief in God wil</b>l, with God's help, <b>greet Moshiach (the Messiah).</b> This <b>letter is for every Jew, religious or not</b>. This is the <b>message</b>. This is the <b>truth.</b> A <b>letter from Heaven to tell you explicitly what is expected of you</b>. <b>I bless </b><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gushkatif2.jpg"></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_25" o:spid="_x0000_s1056" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Gushkatif2" href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gushkatif2.jpg" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:160.25pt; margin-top:0;width:200.25pt;height:261pt;z-index:24;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image023.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gushkatif2.jpg"><img border=0 width=267 height=348 src="zech9-2_files/image023.jpg" align=right hspace=12 alt=Gushkatif2 title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_25"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gushkatif2.jpg"></a></span><b>you all,</b> every <b>single Jew alive</b> today, <b>man, woman, of every age</b>, that <b>all of us together</b> will <b>merit to greet the Moshiach</b>, <b>speedily in our days. Amen</b>. I want to reiterate<b>: there is no time, no time</b>. <b><span style='color:navy'>The world as you know it, the materialistic world as you know it, is crumbling...&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b>Rabbi Lazer Brody</b> wrote the <b>next day (</b><b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif";color:#660066'>July 6, 2006</span>)</b> in the blog titled, <a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/07/index.html"><b>Under Seige</b></a><b><span style='color:#333333'>:</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/07/index.html"><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>The former Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strips inhabited predominately by Orthodox Jews</span></b></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Rabbi Lazer Brody </b>- The <b>Melitzer Rebbe </b>knows what<b> </b><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/07/two_more_rocket.html">he's talking about</a><span style='color:blue'>.</span> I have <b>loads of angry emails</b> asking me why <b>I'm being such an alarmist</b>, or <b>why don't I call for improved modesty and purity in a nice way.</b> That reminds me of an <b>infantry platoon pinned down in a crossfire</b>, and the <b>sergeant yells at the machine gunner </b>to <b>reload faster.</b> &quot;Why <b>aren't you polite, sarge?&quot;</b> Under <b>fire, you don't ask others to be polite</b>. Over here, <b>we're under fire. </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Amir Oren</b> in this morning's (<b>very liberal and far from right-wing</b>) HaAretz <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/734672.html">writes</a> that <b>Israel is under siege </b>and the <b>Qassam rockets</b>, &quot;independent capabilities have shown that they can <b>hit the center of Ashkelon</b>, and their <b>ambition will be to strike</b> at the <b>Hatzor air base</b> or at <b>Ashdod </b>and the <b>hundreds of thousands living in nearby cities</b>. The <b>explosive warhead may be replaced by basic chemical or biological agents</b>, which will <b>cause panic</b>. And if <b>yesterday it was Gaza</b>, <b>tomorrow may be the West Bank.&quot; </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>LazerBeams</b> has been <b>making you crazy lately</b> with <b>calls for help, writing letters and faxes</b>, etc. <span style='color:#660033'>That's because <b>Moshiach is almost here</b>, and we're <b>fighting spiritual wars on all fronts.</b></span> The <b>Gay Parade</b>, the <b>Qassams from Gaza</b>, and the <b>war against Jewish settlements</b> is all the <b>same enemy</b> - the <b><span style='color:navy'>Yetzer Hara.</span></b> We have to <b>fight him on every front, with no compromises</b>. <b>Cherished daughters of Israel,</b> your <b>modesty will protect the south of Israel</b>. We need your help</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>It was <b><span style='font-family:"arial bold","serif"; color:#660066'>July 7, 2006</span></b> that the <b>34-yr. old autistic  Rebbe of the Autistics </b> broke his <b>silence of over four years</b>.&nbsp; Beneath the <b> veneer of mental retardation</b>, the <b>spiritual stature of this Jewish mind </b>that <b>most people would fail to grasp</b> was holding <b>enormous depth of comprehension</b> of <b>the Divine Mind</b> spoke.&nbsp; To <b>read his entire interview</b> open the article titled, <b> </b><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/geula_and_redemption/index.html"><b>Ben Golden breaks his silence - an exclusive FC interview with Lazer</b></a><b><span style='color:#990000'>.</span> </b><b><span style='color:#990000'> &nbsp;</span></b>Here is a <b>brief synopsis</b> of that interview:</p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Lazer Beams   LB</b>: I'm <b>not ashamed to trouble you</b>, because <b>if today's message helps even one soul</b> get <b>closer to Hashem</b>, then <b>it's necessary for you to speak up</b>. I often feel that the <b>Tshuva (redemption) movement</b> is taking a step forward, and the <b>religious community</b> as <b>a whole is taking a step backward</b>. Please tell me, <b>why are we losing ground? What's wrong? </b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_26" o:spid="_x0000_s1055" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Ben_golden_and_lazer_brody" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0; width:201.75pt;height:139.5pt;z-index:25;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="zech9-2_files/image024.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=269 height=186 src="zech9-2_files/image024.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="Ben_golden_and_lazer_brody" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_26"><![endif]><b>Ben</b>: <span style='color:navy'>It's the <b>Golden Calf</b></span>. People must <b>put aside their love of the material and transfer it to love of Hashem</b>; there's <b>little time left to do this</b>. Also, <span style='color:navy'>there's a <b>lack of tznius (modesty - LB) that tears our people from within</b></span>. The <b>third problem is of education - </b><b><span style='color:navy'>people lack emuna at heart</span> ( faith </b>and a<b> personal relationship </b>with the<b> Almighty </b>that gives<b> meaning to life)</b>. They <b>serve Hashem like robots</b>. <b>Hashem wants their hearts</b>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>&nbsp;</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/geula_and_redemption/index.html"><b><span style='font-size: