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Pope Francis sets date for Israel visit: May 24-26
Visit to include Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Amman.
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Haaretz, Reuters and JTA
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Jan. 5, 2014 | 1:27 PM
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A handout picture released by
the Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis (L) holding a mass to
celebrate the sainthood of Pierre Favre at the Chiesa Del Gesu' in Rome
on January 3, 2014.Photo by AFP
Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he will visit Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan in May, his first trip to the region as pontiff.
The May 24-26 trip to Jerusalem,
Bethlehem and Amman will mark the 50th anniversary of a landmark trip
there by Pope Paul VI in 1964, the first by a pope in modern times. Pope
John Paul II visited in 2000 and Benedict XVI went in 2009.
On December 2, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Pope Francis in the Vatican as part of Netanyahu's
visit to Rome. Netanyahu, who was accompanied by his wife Sara, gifted
the pope a book about the Spanish inquisition written by his father
Benzion Netanyahu, a prominent historian. It bore the inscription: "To
His Holiness Pope Francis, great guardian of our common heritage." The
pontiff gave the Israeli premier a carved panel of Saint Paul.
At the end of the 25-minute meeting, Netanyahu's wife told the pope: "We are expecting you, we can't wait."
“Dialogue and friendship with the children of Israel are part of the life of Jesus’ disciples,” Francis wrote in "Evangelii Gaudium”
(The Joy of the Gospel), a 224-page document outlining the pope' vision
of the church and its mission released in November. “The friendship
which has grown between us makes us bitterly and sincerely regret the
terrible persecutions which they have endured, and continue to endure,
especially those that have involved Christians.”
An historic agreement has been drafted between Israel and the
Vatican. The Israeli authorities have granted the Pope an official seat
in the room where the Last Supper is believed to have taken place, on
Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and where David and Solomon, Jewish kings of
Judea, are considered by some researchers, to also be buried.
It
is the culmination of a long campaign by the Catholic Church to regain
religious stewardship over the place where Jesus is supposed to have
broken bread and drunk wine with his disciples on the eve of his
crucifixion.
This is an enormous issue pushed through without any public debate.
According
to our sources, the agreement, which is expected to be ratified next
June, gives the Pope a “special authority” over the second floor of the
building, so that Christian pilgrims will be able to celebrate religious
functions like Pope John Paul did in 2000.
The agreement
constitutes Israel’s capitulation to the Vatican’s efforts to
“Christianize” the holy site, like when a Catholic convent was built in
Auschwitz.
The Catholic Church has long wanted control over
part of the area on Mt. Zion so as to turn it into an international
religious center for Catholics. The blueprint of the agreement reads as
follows: “The Vatican hands over this use of the Cenacle to the Custody
of the Holy Land which will keep the Cenacle open from 6 AM to 8 AM for
the celebration of the Holy Mass”.
In the long term, the
gesture will increase tensions between Jews and the large assets of the
Vatican. The Church has long been working to reduce Jewish rights in
Jerusalem and in the Old City. Now, after the Muslim Waqf authority
expelled the Christians from the Temple Mount and turned it into a
mosque, it’s the turn of the Vatican to lay its hands on the Jewish
Jerusalem.
The Custody of the Holy Land, the Franciscan order
who, with Vatican approval, is in charge of the holy sites, campaigns
with the Arabs against Israel.
As far back as May 2000, Yasser
Arafat met Islamic and Christian clergymen at the presidential offices
in Ramallah to back Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among
the clergymen who attended the meeting, Diodoros I, patriarch of the
Greek Orthodox Church, Torkom II, patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox
Church, Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah and officials from the Custody
of the Holy Land.
"An official meeting took place in Ramallah,
Palestine, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of
Palestine". This is the official note of the Vatican press office about
the meeting between the Catholic officials and the PLO representatives
which took place this week.
The Vatican is also asking that
Israel hand over to the Vatican’s control dozens of sites, 19 in Judea
and Samaria and 28 in Jerusalem. The Catholic Church want to discuss
some properties on Mount of Olives, Har Hazeitim, which is the very
history of the Jewish people. If you want to keep Jerusalem united, you
have to keep Har Hazeitim. The Vatican knows that.
In 1989
charges were made by the Catholic authorities that Israel desecrated the
Cenacle on Mount Zion. The charges, which appeared in the Italian
bishops’ newspaper Avvenire, said that the Israelis put a
memorial plaque on the roof of the Cenacle. The plaque was put in place
after the 1948 War of Independence in memory of soldiers who fell in the
Old City and whose burial place was unknown. Every year, the bereaved
families cleaned the plaque.
Why did the Catholic authorities
complain? Last year a similar charge was made from the Catholic
authorities that Israel wants to “Judaize” Mount Zion.
Should
the Vatican gain sovereignty over Mount of Zion, millions of Christian
pilgrims will flock to the site, and this will threaten the Israeli
presence in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter and Jewish access to the
Western Wall.
The Vatican wants the Jews out of the Old City and
apparently Israel’s government is agreeing with them. Turning the
Cenacle into an active church is also a way of desecrating the holiness
of the site known as the Tomb of David.
The Vatican and the
Palestinian Liberation Organisation expressed a common position in the
Basic Agreement of 15 February 2000, intended to support the recognition
of a special statute for the City of Jerusalem. In the memorandum,
signed by Vatican officials and the PLO, an organization dedicated to
the mass deportation of Israel’s Jews, the Catholic Church wants Israel
relinquishing sovereignty at the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. The
Vatican-PLO agreement’s preamble on Jerusalem shows that the Vatican's
attitude on Israel's capital is still stuck in the unforgivable
anti-Semitic rhetoric of the 1940s.
Until 1948, Christian
access to the Cenacle was severely limited, because it was used as a
mosque. Since then, the State of Israel is committed to protecting the
holy places of all religions, and guaranteeing the right of worship for
all faiths.
But no Israeli government must tolerate any
policy of division, “shared control” or “internationalization” that
opens the door to a return to the Arab apartheid of Jordanian occupation
between 1948 and 1967.
Jerusalem is not for sale. For thousands of years, the Cenacle area was almost always totally closed off to Jews.
Sovereignty
over Mount Zion is politics, not only religion. The day after the Pope
celebrated a mass on Mt. Zion in 2000, he went to Yasser Arafat
headquarter to support the Palestinians’ right to return.
A few months later, the Oslo war began. And Jews were sacrified again on the altar of “peace”. It was their last supper.
This week, the Vatican in its official documents began referring to the "State of Palestine".
(For a site on Christian attempts to gain leverage in Israel, click here)
With
the recent election of the new Pope, Pope Francis I will now sit on the throne
of the Vatican in Rome. This new “Jesuit Saint” whose ministry to the poor and
the downtrodden in Argentina, has been carefully scripted into his future image
is now being transmitted around the world as the new personification of the
Roman Catholic “Jesus Christ” who will bring “Peace” to the Middle East. Looking
through the telescope of history, it is thereby important for descendants of
the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” to bear in mind that it was this same Orthodox
Jewish rabbi who spoke to his disciples concerning the “last days” but gave
with this prophecy a warning:
Matthew 24:4 – “Watch out! Don’t let anyone fool you! For
many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many
astray. You will hear the noise of wars nearby and the new of wars far off; see
to it that you don’t become frightened. Such this must happen, but the end is
yet to come.
For people will fight each other, nations will fight each
other, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various parts of the world;
all this is but the beginning of the ‘birth pain.’ At that time you will be
arrested and handed over to be punished and put to death, and all peoples will
hate you because of me.
At that time many will be trapped into betraying and
hating each other, many false prophets will appear and fool many people; and
many people’s love will grow cold because of increased distance from the
Torah.”
With these words in mind, recently the
outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon left his official post in the
Israeli government and when he did, it was revealed that he has left a stain of
deception which screamed out in the recent headlines in the Jerusalem Post that announced:
Jerusalem Post – “Jerusalem is on verge of signing agreement
to formalize diplomatic relations with the Holy See.”
Why would the
State of Israel be signing diplomatic relations with the Vatican? The international news has been quiet for
almost eight years on any diplomatic moves by the Vatican with the State of
Israel. With this announcement there
came the report of “conflicting and disturbing reports” concerning the status
of the “Upper Room” (Cenacle Shrine of the Coenaculum) where it is believed
that the Jewish rabbi, Yahshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Nazarene) once hosted with
his disciples the “Last Supper” that occurred on Wednesday evening according to
the Passover traditions of the Essenes.
What is most
interesting is that this Prince of David was actually presiding over a
“Passover” season meal with his disciples in a place that the Nazarene history
called the “House with the Upper Room.” What was even more amazing was that this
“Upper Room” was located physically in the midst of the Essene Quarters of southwestern
section of the ancient walled city of Jerusalem. Not only that, this Prince of King David,
known as Rabbi Yahshua was sitting right over the traditional Tomb of King
David; a powerful political statement. Today, this same
site is now the central campus of the Diaspora Yeshiva on the hill called Mount
Zion. Back in October, 2005, BibleSearchers Reflections
quoting Israel National News stated this report:
Israel National News – “An official
Vatican newspaper has reported that during his upcoming visit to the Vatican, President Moshe Katsav will sign an
agreement giving parts of David’s Tomb over to papal control. If such an
agreement is signed, it will put an end
to drawn out negotiations that began in 1998. Israeli and Vatican
representatives began discussing issues
of jurisdiction over certain sites around seven years ago. These sites include various buildings and parcels
of land that the Catholic Church claims it used to control.
The church is now seeking to reclaim
its ownership of these sites. Among the places under debate is an area
that the church refers to as the site
of the “last supper,” which is situated at the burial site of Kings David, Solomon, Rechavam (Rehoboam), Assa (Asa),
Chezekiyahu (Hezekiah) and Amatzia (Amaziah). The Vatican newspaper, El
Messagero, reports that President
Katsav is expected to sign an agreement during his visit that will give the
church control over the upper part of David’s Tomb. The church has
already shown Israel a trial agreement, according to which the Vatican will
receive.”
The news after that
time went underground. Now eight years later it is resurfacing again. This time
it was not open to the media or to the Jewish people but in the back offices of
the Foreign Ministry department. In 2005, there was an uproar that was led in
part by the indomitable Jewish Israeli reporter
Barry Chamish, that uncloaked the underhanded diplomatic agreements
that were about to be signed by the Israeli President Moshe Katsav. This
included also the threat, later to Israeli President Olmert of creating a “Jewish
Holocaust in Rome” if the State of Israel did not accept the Vatican sovereignty
to the site of the “House with the Upper Room”, and did not accept the “Spanish
Initiative” to remove Israeli soldiers in Gaza and replace them with soldiers
from Vatican Europe. It was Richard Owen
in Rome in “The Times on Line” who
continued to document this historic move by the Vatican on October 13, 2005, in an article
titled, “Vatican offers swap
deal to regain site of Last Supper.”
The Times on Line – “Vatican is hoping to regain control of the Room of the Last Supper in
Jerusalem, one of the most sacred sites in
Christianity. It will, in exchange,
hand over to the Jewish community
the historic synagogue at Toledo in Spain, at present a Catholic
church.
The proposals, contained in a draft
agreement between the Israeli
Government and the Vatican, come on the eve of a state visit to the
Vatican next month by President Katsav. Final
details on a long-delayed accord on the status of Roman Catholic
properties in
the Holy Land are expected to be agreed during the visit, marking a new
era of reconciliation between Christians and Jews after centuries of
hostility.”
The
current site of the “Church with the Upper Room” was rebuilt by the Roman
Christian Crusaders in the 13th century upon the earlier foundations
of the original Jewish
Hebrew Nazarene Synagogue that was spared
by the Roman general Titus in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70
CE. Today, it is also believed that
three walls of this current structure still exist from its earliest Jewish
roots built by the guardians of King David’s Tomb. The
Holy Zion Octagonal Church was later built by Theodosius I about 382 CE, and
later enlarged by Bishop John II into a rectangular basilica with five naves
alongside and outside the original and ancient foundations of the historic
Synagogue of the Nazarene’s Apostles. This latter building was razed by the
Persian in 614 CE, and partially rebuilt by the Patriarch Modestus. It
is stated that the entire structure was razed to the ground by the Muslim
caliph, Al-Hakim in the 7th century CE, and afterwards was replaced
by the current structure built by the Roman Christian Crusaders in the 12th
century as a five aisled basilica in what is called today the Dormition Abbey named
after the Jewish Princess of David whom the Roman Christian Church recognizes
as Mary, the mother
of Jesus. The
strangest fact is that this same site was once located within the walled
compound of the ancient
Essene Quarters that was located at the southwestern corner of the Walled Old
City of David. These secretive
people, the Essenes, who were probably disciples of the famed
Torah giant and Nasi of the Great Sanhedrin, Hillel the Great and his Vice-President,
Menahem the Essene where they were stationed
both in Damascus, where their disciples fled in 20 BCE, in the Essene
Quarter of Jerusalem and at Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls
were discovered. In
ancient times, there were four
religious parties in the 1st century Temple of Herod era culture
in Jerusalem. These were the Sadducees that included the aristocratic families
of the high priests of Jerusalem, the Pharisees Beit Shammai,
the competing yeshiva (Jewish seminary) to Beit Hillel, the party of the Scribes
and the Lawyers (Mechoqeck), and what was known as the 4th Philosophy or
the 4th
Party of Judaism; the Essenes and the Hassidim. As BibleSearchers
Reflections wrote in 1999:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “The tradition
of the Essenes goes back to about 150
BC when the Chasidim, rebelled and split off from the Jewish hierarchy
in protest to their secular accommodation with Persian and Roman
authorities. They were the most
mysterious of all the sects in Judea. Outside of Josephus and Philo, the early Jewish
and Christian scholars had very little documentation until the Dead Sea Scrolls
were uncovered in the Qumran site near the Dead Sea about this mysterious sect.
The most prominent thesis accepted today is that Qumran was a library and manuscript production site, and
possibly the major headquarters of the Essenes in Judea. Hundreds
of documents, scrolls and fragments have been discovered and catalogued on every book of the Old Testament except the
Book of Esther. Also included were scores of books and commentaries outside the Old Testament Canon.
What was even
more revealing were the words and their meaning of their literature such as, ‘the poor’, ‘the meek’, the ‘four thousand’,
the ‘five thousand’, the ‘elect’, which were used in the teachings and
ministry of the Nazarene. They were a prophetic group with a defined
apocalyptic mission. They felt they were to wait the soon coming messiah
and to protect him when he arrived.
The Essenes, about one hundred fifty years before Yahshua HaNotzri’s
(Jesus the Nazarene’s) birth, split as part of the Chasidim separatists, over the Sadducee party who were working as
‘accomplices’ with the Romans to rule and for the security of Judea. To
them, the Sadducees were usurpers of
the role of the temple priests. Later the High Priest from the descendants
of the Levitical priestly line of Zadok, the appointed High Priest of King
David, but they too, were collaborators with Herod the Great, who brought them
over from the Jewish
temple in Leontopolis in Egypt.”
Understandable, during this era, Imperial
Rome was trying to take control of Judea using Herod the Great as their ally
and accomplice. In the year of 37 BCE,
Herod the Great sent a courier to Alexandria, Egypt and to the Jewish temple at
Leontopolis. The noted priest by the name
of Boethus was requested to return to the land of Israel and assume the control
of the office of the high priest in the Temple in Jerusalem that Herod the
Great was now expanding to become the largest and most opulent temple in the world. The Zadokians, according to some experts had set up a separate Temple service outside of Jerusalem,
at Khirbet Mird, a Hasmonean Palace, which they claimed was ministered
by the pure line of Zadok temple priests. Yet, it was in year of 6 CE that
the high priests now ruling as the official high priests of the House of Zadok became
corrupted when the famed high priestly dynasty of Ananus (Ananias) the Great
took control of the office of high priest by out bidding “bribing” the
Procurator of Rome sent to rule the Roman province of Judea and whose dynastic
family virtually controlled the office of the high priest until the temple was
destroyed in 70 CE. To
the Essenes, Herod the Great was the personification of evil. The
princes of the House of David and Solomon by this time were being followed by
the masses of Jewish peasants, who rose in revolt against Rome, and became known as the Zealots of Judea. What is known is that one of their prime
duties was to become the guardians
of every Prince of David; each of whose life was watched and protected by
the Secret Guardians of the Essenes. The
Cenacle was later destroyed again in 1219, yet was again spared and rebuilt in
1340 CE, when the Franciscan Order of Friars took custody and possession of this site. This
possession by the Roman Catholic Church lasted only 200 years when in 1552, the
Ottoman Turks took possession and transformed this building into an Islamic Mosque. The
truth of this fact is that within the Cenacle is a semicircular niche called a
mihrab that indicated to the Muslim worshippers the qibla, or the direction where the Kaaba in Mecca was located. This
was important to know by every Muslim worshipper for they were to pray towards
that direction; not towards the Temple Mount and the sight of Solomon’s Temple but
towards Mecca. This again suggests the
disregard that the Arabs who lived during the Middle Ages had towards the
Temple Mount. Even then the Arabs did not place any sanctity to this place but
only further to the East in Mecca. It
was in 1967, when the State of Israel won the 6-day war against her Muslim
neighbors who once again sought to annihilate the Jewish people in Israel.
Amazingly, it was seven hundred years earlier that a famous 12th
century Jewish rabbinic sage, Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel predicted, in that in the year
of 1967 the Jewish people would once again take possession of all Jerusalem and
the Temple Mount. He
proclaimed that they, the Jewish people, would hold possession of this site for
one Jubilee (fifty years) before the Messiah son of David would begin his
messianic reign in Jerusalem in the year of 2017. Nowhere in any biblical or Jewish prophecy
does it suggest that the Jews with the State of Israel will relinquish
sovereignty of the Temple Mount. The Nazarene Judaism prophetic testimony
stated that there would be “Two Witnesses” who would protect Jerusalem and the
Holy Land for 1260 days (3½ years) up until about 18 hours before the revealing
of the Messiah, when they would be executed as the Islamic hordes dance over
their bodies. That said, there are numerous hints that a Jewish temple or a
Temple for all religions (Masonic Temple) would be built upon the Temple Mount
in an ecumenical bid to “Peace, with Great Security” for the whole earth. Since
1967, the Jewish government in Jerusalem has faithfully guarded and allowed
peoples from all religions to worship in every holy site in the State of Israel.
This is a historical fact to the credit of the Jewish people and the State of
Israel. It contrasts, non-the-less,
against the Arab guardians of the Temple Mount called the Islamic Waqf, who
have desecrated every bit of Jewish evidence upon the Temple Mount even though
the State of Israel still maintains sovereign control and that they have been
given only semi-autonomous rule over the Temple Mount. When
we look at the history of the Roman Christian Church, we also see an even more
predator like role, of possession for the sake of power, greed and control.
This gave rise to the Roman
Catholic Inquisition in the 13th century and its role of
destroying all forms of free speech and the right to the free expression of
worship. What
is the historical truth today? Of all
peoples that come to worship in the Holy Land of Israel, as former Labor MK
Daniel ben Simon shockingly observed, only the Jewish
people are discriminated from worshipping upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; the holiest sacred place in Judaism today.
Another historical truth, the Cenacle where the disciples of the Jewish rabbi
called Jesus the Nazarene participated in a sacred ritual called the “Last
Supper” that was akin to the Wednesday evening Passover rituals as celebrated
by the ancient Essenes in Judea. As
a matter of symbolism, it was a statement of authority when Yahshua, the Prince
of David sat in his reclining couch as was the custom in that age. Why? He was
sitting directly over the Tomb of David. The fact that it was protected and
guarded by the Essenes in its original site in the 1st century city
of Jerusalem and that it was the Essenes who were the guardians of all Princes
of David, suggest, that layers of hidden truth still remains as to the identity
of this mysterious rabbi who claimed that his only mission was that he was
“sent by his Father, to find the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.” (Matthew 15:24) When
all the apparent and literal knowledge we know of this “One Man” who has made
the most profound impact upon human history, whether it be in its most simple
understanding (peshat) or in his most
hidden and mysterious meanings (sod)
and understandings, the most profound implication is that the Roman Christian
“Jesus Christ” and the Jewish Orthodox Nazarene “Jesus the Nazarene” are about
the same historical man, but the Roman Christian Jesus of corruption of the
Prince of David Yahshua. There
is overwhelming evidence that the Jewish messiah of the Nazarenes was lifted
out of the philosophic and religious domain of historical Judaism in the 1st
century Temple of Herod era and corrupted and replaced with the philosophical
and religious understanding of the Greco-Roman Hellenistic world at that time. The
archetypical and historical reality is that when the Jewish (yehudi) neshama soul was placed in time
and space in Judea and Galilee as an observant Jew, a prince of David, and a
Jewish Pharisee who evoked the halakhic understanding of Torah after the
Yeshiva (school) of Hillel the Great, his imprint upon the majority of the
peasantry class of Jews was profound in its impact. Yet this understanding was three
centuries later carefully remolded and amalgamation with the surrounding pagan
ideas of Mithraism and the Roman gods of the Greco-Roman world. It was the First
Church of Rome that destroyed the documentation and original historical archives of
this Jewish prince of David and messiah and replaced its authentic Jewish
history with a power structure that rose up in history as the Roman Catholic
(world-wide) Church who sought to smother all of his authentic Jewish roots. The
facts still exist that the pathway of halakhic Torah truth as espoused by 1st
century Judaism was permitted by the G-d of Israel to become the pathway of
restoration eventually for the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. It was they who completely lost their identity,
their way, and their G-d. Even so, the G-d of Israel promised them that He
would restore them also to their chosen destiny as Klal Yisrael (All Israel). Since
the day of the liberation of Eastern Jerusalem from the Occupiers of the State
of Jordan in 1967, this site, the “Upper Room” sitting directly over the Tomb
of King David has also been for almost one Jubilee the site of Jewish religious
schools called yeshivas. Today they are teaching the new generations of
observant Jews how to live and keep the commands of the Torah.
Yet,
like the Temple Mount, who also the State of Israel claims sovereignty rights
over its possession, did give control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf,
only to have the Waqf begin a process of systematically destroying all the
evidence of its Jewish heritage and replace it with Islamic mosques forbidden
by Jews and Christians alike from entering. So today, the sites of these Jewish
seminaries (yeshivas) are now being threatened to be turned over to the control
of the apostate Christianity called the Roman Catholic Church.
Yet,
Jews have already walked that walk before, when in 1967, they turned over the
managing control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem. What did
they receive in return; riots, Jewish people arrested, rocks thrown down from
the Temple Mount to the praying worshippers below and more recently
throwing “fire bombs” as Israeli police
protecting the Temple Mount that turned one policeman into a fireball? All of
these things are committed by the Islamic occupiers while the Jews have to observe
that the sanctity of the site where once stood the two sacred temples of
Judaism; Solomon’s Temple and King Herod’s Temple while they also observe children
playing games, adults loitering with abandonment, and no real care given to the
real sanctity of this site to the G-d of Israel.
The
control of the Cenacle officially had been sought by the Roman Christian Church
every since the days of Oslo
Peace Accord in the early 1990s when in that agreement, the Temple Mount was to
have been given possession to the Roman Catholic Church. It was in the
year of 2005 that this fact was made official, when this same dispute once again
flared up and again the G-d of Israel put His divine finger down and halted this
hegemony of sovereign power sought by the Roman Catholic Church. Yet, it was
done in the strangest of ways. At
that time, the official negotiator of the “Upper Room” was the President of
Israel, President Moshe Katsav. Yet this same Israeli president later received
his reward by the Divine when on December 3, 2011, President Moshe Katsav began
serving a seven year sentence in the Israeli Maasiyahu Prison in Ramlafor two counts of rape,
obstruction of Justice plus other charges in a landmark decision that was
upheld by the Israeli Supreme Court. Will this same scenario also be repeated
today? Or will the City of Jerusalem truly have to descend once again to the 49th
level of Tuma (Degradation) as it did in the 40
years between 30 CE and 70 CE
when the entire city of David and Herod’s Temple were destroyed in a fiery
inferno. As BibleSearchers Reflections wrote in 2005 in the article titled: “The
Vatican seeks to reclaim it own; “The Vatican wants Jerusalem”:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “Within all the conflicts of the Middle East, the first
implication is what Jesuit Father
Francesco Rossi de Gasperis of the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Jerusalem called
a “theological negation of the people
of Israel, a kind of cultural and spiritual Shoah, not dissimilar to what was
seen in the churches of Europe during the age of ‘Christendom’.”
By creating a Catholic Church within Israel and “for
Israel” comes from its deep seated denial for even the very existence of the
state of Israel. Over the course of Christian history, the original “Church”
was actually a Hebrew community composed of Jews that were faithful to the
Torah, believers in the Jewish rabbi, Yahshua haMaschiah (Jesus the
Messiah). Is the guiding hand of
the G-d of Israel even calling the core of the Catholic faithful back to
a “historical turning point,” nominating
a Catholic bishop ´ad Judaeos´? Is the soul of the Catholics also at stake in
that the overarching bid to gain
control over the holy sites of Jerusalem will in turn radically change the nature of Christian
Catholicism today?
While this shift may isolate the Jewish
secular Zionists, it also isolates
a Latin patriarchate that is intentionally of an “overwhelming
Palestinian character.” This political
and religious battle for the hearts of souls of both the Arabs and the Jews,
the Vatican is playing very carefully. It is a battle that does have its costs.
Over
the years the Latin patriarchate has
overtly declared its diminishing interest in any dialogue with the Jewish
people. In the city of
Jerusalem, there is no Catholic library at all. In 2001, the Pontifical Institute “Ratisbonne” in
Jerusalem was shut down and placed for sale. The contenders to buy
were the Opus Dei (of Dan
Brown’s “De Vinci Code” fame), the Salesians
and the Neocatechumenal Way.
Abbot Gourion came under the
wrath of the patriarchate for receiving an honorary award in one of the halls of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament
while the Melkite pastor of
Nazareth, Émile Shoufani, who though an Arab is not anti-Semitic
nor anti-Israeli when he was
attacked mercilessly for taking an ecumenical pilgrimage of Jews and Palestinians together to Auschwitz.
While
the prophetic vision of bringing all
men to Jerusalem as the “house of the Lord of hosts” is seriously
considered in the revival of Hebrew
Christianity, the Jewish
rabbinate see a threat to the survival of Judaism with the rise of Jewish
believers who believe in Jesus as the Jewish and Christian messiah.
The pathway to the expectations of the
coming of the coming messiah may bring some unexpected surprises to both Christians and Jews.
This rift or fissure in the Catholic community is
serious and thought provoking
especially within the orthodox circles
of the Roman Church. The Christian Church is already fractured by
many different denominations. Now within the Catholic community the dialogue centers around whether the
Hebrew-speaking Catholic ecclesiastical church should remain separate or in
close affiliation with the Arab Latin patriarchate. Though the Jewish Catholic members number about 250
members, it is a vibrant community with its leader, French Benedictine abbot, Fr. Jean-Baptiste Gourion of
the Monastery of the Resurrection in Abu Ghosh. What is
fascinating is that in Israel, two of
the three main Catholic representatives in Israel are of Jewish descent.
This tension between the Jewish and the
Arab interests keeps the
Roman Catholic Church embroiled in the
broader issues between the
Israeli-Palestinian and the
Jewish-Christian.”
With
the inauguration of the new Pope Francis I, as the visible supreme head of the
Roman Catholic Church, we may be in for a big surprise if the Prophecy of St.
Malachi comes to its final prophetic fulfillment. Today,
the outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon, who has retired and
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
who has recently taken a leave of absence awaiting trial for charges of fraud
and breach of truth are about to face off in court over charges that include money
laundering and bribery. Both of these
“servants of the State of Israel” officially represented the State of Israel
with the Vatican in Rome’s legal dispute for sovereignty rights to multiple
sites in Judea and Samaria. According
to the LA Times, outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon will now
become an instrumental witness against his former boss and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior ally with Lukud-Beitinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman.
It was this controversial Israeli foreign minister who was indicted in
December, 2012 on charges of fraud and breach of trust that included prior
charges of money-laundering and bribery. Yet,
Danny Ayalon
also has shadows of corruption hovering over him. Over the years he has been
implicated in cozy relations now not only as the chief negotiator with the Vatican
in Rome but with numerous Christian Evangelical Organization who also continually
seek possession to claim and possess the sacred land in the Land of Israel, but
also the political rights, to “missionize” and proselytized Jews into becoming “apostate
Christians.” According to JewishIsrael:
Both Daniel Ayalon and
his wife, Anne, are intimately involved with the Evangelical and Catholic
communities and have comfortably appeared on missionary television. Anne hassignificant business and real estate dealingswith the Christian community and was listed as a "Talking Head" for the
Pope's Visit on Christian-Israeli Relations” in a pamphlet put out by The
Israel Project (T.I.P.) at the time of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in May 2009
In November 2005, this
writerreacted
to reportsof an apparent swap deal
between Israel and the Vatican which would grant the Vatican control of the
Upper Room. I was in correspondence with David Chappell, then deputy managing
editor of the Times of London,
who confirmed my concerns of a draft agreement. At the time, a number of
activists formed theCommittee to Save Mt. Zionand effective pressure was exerted on the
Israeli government to abandon the plans to relinquish control of the Upper Room.”
It
is important to look at the context of the above international diplomatic push
for the Roman Catholic Church to take possession of one of Israel’s most
important landmarks, the tomb of King David. It is also important to see these
present international Vatican thrusts to not only grab Mount Zion that not only
includes the ancient site of the “Church with the Upper Room” and sits
literally over the “Tomb of King David”.
So
we ask, will we soon see Pope Francis I, who is being reincarnated as the new
Francis of Assisi in the Roman Catholic Church, now carry forth the mantle of the
Franciscan Order of Friars who have over
the centuries sought complete control and rights to the Land of Israel? Will
this current pope, representing the Roman Catholic “Saint” Francis of Assisi, one
of the most venerated religious figures in religious history also carry the
mantle of the transformed human life by giving up wealth and fortune and become
one of the iconic poor where wealth is evil and poor is righteous except for global
possession, when “The Church” has every spiritual right to become the temporal and
spiritual ruler over the entire world? Though
Barry Chamish and Benjamin Fulford do not walk in the corridors of international
power that seek Power, Greed, and Control over the entire world, they both,
being Jewish, do appear to pose the microscope of international investigation
with the same premise, the global powers that have controlled the world of the
past, are still active and well today. As Benjamin
Fulford recently posted his perspective on the New Pope, the New Israeli
government and their relationships as the One World Order is created to rule
during the “Last Days”, as we read the hints of this fact in the following:
Benjamin Fulford – “It may
be just a coincidence but it may also be a sign that something big is about to
happen. There will be a new Pope, a new Bank of Japan governor and a new
Israeli government taking office on March 19th, a date of occult significance
for Asian secret societies (and also, by sheer coincidence, this writer’s
birthday).
Pope Francis has
already made it clear the soon to be reformed Vatican bank will now be spending
its money helping the poorest and weakest people on the planet. Haruhiko
Kuroda, the new BOJ governor, also supports plans to use Japan’s overseas
assets, the world’s largest, to finance a major campaign to end poverty and
stop environmental destruction. The new
Israeli government is bankrupt and cannot finance anything but perhaps they
are about to become serious about peace for the first time since that troubled
country came into being.
There are also many
reports of bad guys dropping off the radar screen recently.
In Japan, for
example, the Zionist slave and war-mongering right-wing crypto-North
Korean pseudo-nationalist politician Shintaro Ishihara has gone into
hiding, according
to Japanese military intelligence. This is clear a sign the entire
post-war
cabal apparatus for secret control of Japan is falling apart. In the US
and
Europe the arrests and resignations are continuing as well. See this site
for a partial list:
As far as Queen
Elizabeth, (who like the Pope supports a big push to end poverty), is
concerned, this is what an MI5 source had to say:
“She is well. She has
some ‘lingering’ symptoms which she said last week that the doctors can’t
explain. This serves to confirm our previous reports of avoiding the Rome trip
[for security reasons]. She has missed some public appointments in the UK also
but is working hard behind the scenes.”
However, the biggest
change in the past week has been at the Vatican. Pope Francis, the first Jesuit
to become Pope, chose March 19th to formally take the job
because it is theFeast
day of St. Joseph, the guardian of Jesus.
The name Francis was
chosen for a series of reasons, according to a P2 freemason source. First of
all, St. Francis of Assisi, among other things, introduced the concept
of caring for nature to Catholicism. Another namesake, Francis Xavier,
was the top Jesuit for Japan and India. Finally, the third head of the Jesuits,
Francis Borgia (from the aristocratic Italian family) challenged corrupt
popes. The Jesuits are also
featured as prominent fighters against Satan, notably in the movie the
Exorcist, which was supposedly based on a true story. However, there is
also a spooky side to the name because the Pope’s family comes from Rome and
one of his birth names was Peter. For believers in the prophecies of St.
Malachi, it means he is Peter the Roman, the last pope. The prophecy of
Malachi, according to Wikipedia, ends thus:
“Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many
tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e.
Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The
End.”
If Pope Francis is
serious about reforming the Vatican bank, he will confront the Satanic cabal
that has illegally commandeered the Western financial system. The last time
somebody tried to do that, the (Rothschild) cabal staged the 911 terror
attacks to preserve their financial control. It is thus extremely urgent to
make sure the cabalists are prevented from any attempt to destroy Rome and its
priceless cultural and social heritage.” As
we see with the “Signs of the Times” swirling around us, it suggests that there
is truly more undercurrents flowing in the vast prophetic river than we can
imagine. It appears that all the mini-streams of prophetic history are now
merging into the final raging vortex of the “time of the end”. The important
thing to remember, the G-d of Israel is the sovereign G-d of the Universe. His
power and control is universal and in the end, the rule of our planetary system
will be by the Maschiah ben David, who will rule with the “Rod in his mouth” as
evil people and as evil systems will be destroyed. Only then will the Era of Messianic
Torah Enlightenment begin in Israel.
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Re-unification of the 2-Houses of Israel without
proselytizing
BibleSearchers
Reflections and Destination Yisra’el is a supporter of The Kol HaTor Vision and
recognizes the great Stumbling Block that evangelizing of Jews presents in the
Reconciliation Process between Judah and Messianic 10-Israel. The most extensive
damage done to the Jewish people over the centuries has been the attempts Christians
to convert the Jews to Apostate Roman Christianity.
Kol HaTor, as a
representative Voice not only of Judah, but also of Returning 10-Israel, does
not support any of these missionary activities, either historically or
currently. Kol HaTor associates of the House of 10-Israel declare their commitment
not to proselytize Jews, or to influence Jews in any way whatsoever to
abandon their historic and correct faith.
Rather, Kol Ha Tor
strives to influence re-identifying 10-Tribers to return to their Hebraic
Roots of the Original One True Faith, to Torah and to Jewish Halakhah and
Rabbinic authority.
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We
invite You to Read both Parts of this Destination Yisrael Series: “Pope Francis
I and the Final Days”
The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness will battle with the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle for the souls of men are played out on Planet Earth. Out of these epic
war will come the restoration and redemption of All Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes
of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of Judah.
The Roman Catholic
Church has been a major part of this Drama of the Ages and will continue to do
so until the Final Act of that Divine Drama. It will include the Jews of the
House of Israel, the Lost Sheep of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Northern
Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel). It will also include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of
Isaac. It will also include the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to
Isaac of the House of Abraham.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
The author of this
blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing the
Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean
Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return
of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All
Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
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