THE ASTONISHING SIGNIFICANCE OF RED HEIFERS IN OUR DAY

 

Article Source: One For Israel

You may have heard rumors about red heifers in Israel: hushed whispers of cattle kept in secret locations and clandestine sacrifices near the Temple Mount… or perhaps you even saw the statement by Hamas a little while ago that it was these red heifers that precipitated “Operation Al Aqsa Flood”. That's right, apparently the mere existence of some red cows in Israel triggered the October 7 massacre according to a Hamas spokesman.

The Middle East is a wild place, and this is about as mad as it gets, but when we take a closer look at the biblical origins of this whole heifer debacle, you'll see why it's all so significant. Significant enough to start a war.

RED HEIFERS IN THE BIBLE

Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come”. (Numbers 19:1-2)

God's law, given to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, included the requirement of perfect red heifers. No defects, no blemishes. The unyoked, flawless heifers become “unkosher” once hairs are spotted that are not uniformly red. They have to be perfect. What happens to these red heifers? Their fate is not good, at least from the cows' point of view. They are incinerated in complete totality, even including their dung. However, their death brings life. The ashes of the red heifer were required for proper priestly sacrifices to be made, in order to make atonement for sin.

“And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.

And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.

Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening. The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening. And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.” (Numbers 19:3-9)

Today this passage about the red heifers is read in synagogues in the lead up to Passover, since it concerns ritual cleansing. The portion of Scripture in Numbers 19 relates to this cleansing issue, as those going up to make sacrifices could only do so if they had been cleansed by water mixed with the ashes of a perfect red heifer. Ever since the temple was destroyed by the Romans, this passage is read as part of the Passover preparations.

For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel. Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean. (Numbers 19:17-19)

The ashes of the perfect red heifer go into a vessel with fresh water, and this water of purification cleanses from sin and death.

RABBINIC TRADITION

What might be slightly surprising is that according to the Bible, those involved in every stage of the production of these ashes, including those distributing them to make others ritually clean, become unclean by virtue of doing so.

The ashes of the heifer purify the contaminated and contaminate the pure.

As it says in ancient Jewish literature (Midrash Tanchuma):

The clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean person . . . and he shall be clean at evening. . . [But] he who sprinkles the water of sprinkling . . . shall be unclean (Numbers 19:19–21) All who are involved in the preparation of the heifer, from beginning to the end, become impure, but the heifer itself purifies the impure! But G‑d says: I have made a chok, decreed a decree, and you may not transgress My decrees.

Midrash Tanchuma also contains the statement that the red heifer in a way atones for the golden calf, meaning that the ashes of red heifers have atoning power over sin, such as the sin of idolatry. It's thought to be for this reason that Eleazar the priest is the one who first has to sprinkle the blood towards the sanctuary, not his father Aaron who was complicit in the golden calf incident: “Because Aharon made the calf, this service was not performed through him, for the prosecution cannot serve as the defense,” as it says in Midrash Aggadah. A ritually clean kohen or priest is not required to carry out the slaughter, but only the distribution of the blood and the water of purification.

According to the Bible, the red heifers had to be burned “outside the camp” as the priest is described in Numbers 19:7 as coming back into the camp with the ashes. So this perfect specimen had to be killed outside the camp, and its death brought atonement and life in the place of sin and death, breaking the curse of death. Sound familiar?

Rabbinic commentary elaborates to specify three camps: it must be outside the camp of the Divine Presence, outside the Levite camp, and just to be on the safe side, outside the Israelite camp as well. In Tractate Yoma of the Talmud, which primarily deals with matters concerning the Day of Atonement, it's explained that “outside the camp” means east of Jerusalem:

With regard to the red heifer, “outside the camp” (Numbers 19:3) just as here, it is burned outside three camps, so too there the heifer, it is burned outside three camps. And just as there it is burned east of Jerusalem, since the heifer must be burned “toward the front of the Tent of Meeting” (Numbers 19:4) – Yoma 68a

Due to this tradition, red heifers could be sacrificed on the Mount of Olives, which is east of the Temple Mount, and outside the walls of the city.1 We read in rabbinic commentary that in later generations, when this rite was to be performed outside the Temple in Jerusalem, the priest should stand to the east of Jerusalem and “direct his gaze toward the entrance to the Temple” while sprinkling the blood (Sifrei Chukath 14). So as long as the Temple Mount is in eyeshot, the red heifer can be sacrificed anywhere on the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is also called Har HaMishkah (the Mount of Anointing) and is considered “outside Jerusalem” (Mishna Middos 1:3).

A revered Medieval rabbi commonly known as the Rambam said that nine red heifers were prepared from the time that the Jewish people received the commandments until the Second Temple was destroyed. The first, he explained, was prepared by Moses, the second by Ezra, and another seven were prepared from Ezra until the temple’s destruction. Rambam then declares that the tenth heifer would be prepared by the Messiah, adding: “May he speedily be revealed, Amen, may it be the will of G‑d.”

These red heifers are like a key in rabbinic thinking to the time of the Messiah. They are a sign that the Messianic age is on the way, a time in which the temple will be restored.

It's important to note that the ashes of the red heifer can be gathered and kept without a time limit. There's no use-by date for the ashes, so no rush to use them right away, but the cow must be perfect at the time of its slaughter. This leads to a discussion in the Talmudic tractate on the subject to raise about how long one should wait before slaughtering the cow. A red heifer might be flawless one day but grow a stray white or dark hair overnight. Catching them at the right moment before imperfections develop is the critical issue, and within 1-5 years old is the acceptable timeframe.

Finding perfect red heifers with absolutely no hairs of any other color is easier said than done. Without such cows the priests cannot be ritually pure and therefore cannot offer sacrifices according to the biblical law. There has been no way of purifying the priests to offer sacrifices according to the law laid out in the Bible. The people of Israel may be back in the land and free to follow Jewish law, but sacrifices have not been possible without a perfect red heifer.

They have hunted high and low to find a suitable candidate for years, but with no success…

…until now.

THE INCENDIARY EFFECT OF THE RED HEIFERS IN ISRAEL

On Thursday afternoon, September 15, 2022, at 5 pm, five flawless red heifers arrived in Israel. They were originally spotted in Texas and were flown all the way from the USA. The Temple Institute, dedicated to the restoration of a Jewish temple, reported:

“A modest ceremony was held at the unloading bay of the cargo terminal at Ben Gurion airport, where the new arrivals were greeted and speeches were made by the incredible people who have put their hearts and souls and means into making this historic/prophetic day become a reality.”

That's right, they've found some perfect red heifers. They are being kept under careful watch, and not all in the same place. Three are in Shiloh, and can be seen by the public, but others are being kept safely elsewhere. More than that, preparations are being made to burn any that are still perfectly red, probably at Passover or perhaps 50 days after that at Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. It's all happening! But as exciting as this may be for those dedicated to the law of Moses, it's proved nothing short of a severe provocation to Israel's enemies.

A spokesman from Hamas gave this speech, 100 days into the war precipitated by the massacre of October 7:

“We look back 100 days to remember the educated, the complicit, and the incapacitated among the world powers governed by the law of the jungle, reminding them of an aggression that reached its peak against our path (Al-Quds) and Al-Aqsa, with the start of its actual temporal and spatial division, and the bringing of red cows as an application of a detestable religious myth designed for aggression against the feelings of an entire nation in the heart of its Arab identity, and the path of its prophet (the Night Journey) and Ascension to heaven.”2

Yes, these red cows have hurt the feelings of Hamas apparently, and their presence has been interpreted as an intolerable act of aggression.

It must be remembered that the entire operation on October 7 was named “Al Aqsa Flood” (Al Aqsa being the grey-domed mosque on the Temple Mount). Like a red rag to a bull, news of the red heifers has signaled to the watching Islamic world that the Temple Mount might not be exclusively theirs forever. Concerns about the “desecration” of the Temple Mount plaza and the Al Aqsa mosque have been the cause of multiple outbreaks of violence, and this news is as incendiary as it gets.

Very few Jewish people support the idea of deliberately doing away with the Muslim places of worship on the Temple Mount but many will cautiously assent to the belief that one day God Himself will bring about the third temple. How events will play out no one is quite sure. The Temple Institute are passionate about reinstating the sacrificial system, but not keen on Jesus. At all. However, we who do love Jesus can read in the New Testament that the antichrist will set up shop in that third temple towards the end, and that this abomination will only be done away with when the Messiah comes back to Jerusalem:

 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-8)

WHAT NOW?

So now we have apocalyptic cows causing trouble left and right: religious Jewish enthusiasts eagerly planning the third temple, furious terrorists groups resorting to extreme violence in their determination to thwart any possibility of such a thing, and misguided Christians all over the world lending their support to one side or the other… and a whole library of prophetic literature in all three traditions about what happens next. It's hard to know how or when a third Jewish temple could appear, although there is enough room up on the Temple Mount to build a structure without destroying anything. Israel handed the Temple Mount over to Jordanian control when they conquered Jerusalem in 1967 in order to keep the peace, and there are no indications of a policy change any time soon. Time will tell how it all pans out. One thing's for sure, the Temple Institute guys are ready and waiting, and the whole thing could be up and operational within months, if permission were ever to be granted. The only thing holding them back really, apart from a place to build, was the absence of red heifer ash. But that hurdle looks like it's going to be overcome in the very near future.

The third temple will be built, but it will also be desecrated, according to Scripture. However, at the end of this age, the Messiah will come and take His rightful place on the Temple Mount, on the throne of David:

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. (Isaiah 9:4-7)

Satan knows his time is short. He is violently opposed to this plan, and is railing against it with all his might. But you cannot stop the Lord Almighty. Nothing can. In the meantime, we who love the Lord need to be thinking about preparing ourselves, and getting ready. What does that look like? We need to be getting rid of impurity in our lives, and rededicating ourselves to Him. When we read the passage about the red heifer in context, we see that it's immediately followed by the death of Miriam and then water from the rock, and Moses' sin of hitting that rock instead of speaking to it. This context gives us a clue as to what it all means for us today.

Rashi says the reason that Miriam’s death is juxtaposed with the red heifer is “To teach you that just as sacrifices bring atonement, so the death of the righteous secure atonement”. 3

The rabbis saw that the death of the righteous provides atonement.

These red heifers are symbolic of the perfect Messiah, an innocent sacrifice, whose death brings life.

Our unrighteousness was put upon Him, and His righteousness is imparted to us when we wash ourselves in that living water, the water of purification from the ashes of sacrifice. The clues are all there… the hyssop harking back to the Passover blood on the doorframes, the scarlet thread of redemption which runs through the Scriptures, the perfect sacrifice without defect or flaw, the red color of blood, the death of the righteous which atones for sin, the priest made unclean and the unclean who are made clean by virtue of their service, and the water of purification which gives life… Moses getting the water from the rock reminds us not only how much we need that living water for survival, but also that obedience to the Lord is vital: Our striving to do unsanctioned good works don't help. Just one word from Him is enough. If He has declared us clean, then that is what we are. Thank Him for His sacrifice that paid for your sin, and just believe. He has done it. One day, maybe someday soon, we will be able to thank Him face to face.

And since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. (Hebrews 10:21-23)

 

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1. See Rashi on verse 12:9 and place them outside the camp: He divided it into three parts; one was put on the Mount of Olives, one was divided among all the watches, and one who put on the rampart surrounding the Temple area. The one given to the watches was outside the courtyard, allowing access to it for the inhabitants of outlying cities, whoever needed to purify himself. The one on the Mount of Olives was for the kohanim gedolim to sanctify themselves from it for use with other [red] cows. The one put on the rampart was kept as a keepsake by Scriptural ruling, as it says,”It shall be as a keepsake for the congregation of Israel. — [Sifrei Chukath 30, Parah 3:11 Tosefta Parah 3:8]
2. The speech was translated into English by the Palestinian Chronicle.
3. Rashi, Medieval rabbinic commentator, was referring to this explanation in the Talmud: “Even as the red heifer afforded atonement [by the ritual use of its ashes], so does the death of the righteous afford atonement [for the living they have left behind]”. (Mo'ed Katan 28a)

Days of Noah:Contraceptives and Birth Control End-Times

In the days of Noah was the origins of contraceptives and birth control, the fallen angels were teaching mankind all kinds of vile things to sin against G-d. Jesus warns us in Luke 17:26 that the end-times would be similar as the days of Noah, with  modern day contraceptives and birth control such as Plan B Pill, and Abortion Pill are prime examples were seeing the return of the days of Noah where people through sexual immorality are using contraceptives against G-d's divine plan for mankind and sex. Click here to listen to online radio broadcast Jesus: The Days of Noah and End-Time Prophecy Part 4 on contraceptives and birth control.  Please read some the writings below, which documents the actions of the people during the Days of Noah in regards to contraceptives. These documents are good resources, but don't override the Bible.

Book of Jasher Chapter 2:17-25

And Lamech, the son of Methusael, became related to Cainan by marriage, and he took his two daughters for his wives, and Adah conceived and bare a son to Lamech, and she called his name Jabal. And she again conceived and bare a son, and called his name Jubal; and Zillah, her sister, was barren in those days and had no offspring. For in those days the sons of men began to trespass against God, and to transgress the commandments which he had commanded to Adam, to be fruitful and multiply in the earth. And some of the sons of men caused their wives to drink a draught that would render them barren, in order that they might retain their figures and whereby their beautiful appearance might not fade. And when the sons of men caused some of their wives to drink, Zillah drank with them. And the child-bearing women appeared abominable in the sight of their husbands as widows, whilst their husbands lived, for to the barren ones only they were attached. And in the end of days and years, when Zillah became old, the Lord opened her womb. And she conceived and bare a son and she called his name Tubal Cain, saying, After I had withered away have I obtained him from the Almighty God. And she conceived again and bare a daughter, and she called her name Naamah, for she said, After I had withered away have I obtained pleasure and delight.

Midrash Rabbah of Genesis

"And Lamech took two wives, Adah and Zillhah(Genesis 4:19): This what the men of the generation of the Flood would do. Each of them would take two wives, one for procreation, and the other for mere sexual pleasure. The one for procreation would sit like a widow in her lifetime[since she was used only to be made pregnant, but then had no sexual relations for any other purpose]. The one for sexual pleasure would be given a cup of bitters so that she would not become pregnant, and she would sit before her husband like a common whore."  

Book of Enoch Chapter 7

1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

North Koreans Reportedly Turn to Cannibalism Due to Famine

Source The Atlantic Wire

News out of North Korean in notorious unreliable, but food shortages in the country have gotten so bad and people so desperate that there are now reports of men murdering their own children for food. These startling reports were compiled by independent reporters commissioned by Asia Press, a independent press agency focusing on Asia, and were published by the Sunday Times. And here's one of the most disturbing thing you'll read this morning: 

The source said: "While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat.'

"But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."

And another from Gu Gwang-ho, one of the Asia Press's citizen journalists said:

"There was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."

The big question here is whether this is all true or new urban legends. Considering this is North Korea and taking into account the country's propensity to keep secrets and publish propaganda pieces—we'll likely never get real confirmation from their end. But Asia Press has worked with citizen reporters in the famine-struck regions of North and South Hwanghae for the past year, and The Independent considers their reports credible. 

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Sadly, this isn't the first time we've heard reports of cannibalism from North Korea. Back in 2003, during another food shortage there were refugee accounts that people in the country began killing and eating their children and then selling their children's corpses. The Telegraph's Mark Nicol reported at the time:

Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".

And then there's the fact that we know North Korea was devastated by storms and flooding in the summer of 2012. You can't hide a tropical cyclone. Thing have grown so desperate, that they almost took South Korean aid this September, which is a big deal considering the rocky relationship between the two countries and the North's fierce pride of independence. Reports of previous famines have been well documented and Asia Press claims that as many as 10,000 people may have died because of the "Hidden Famine" this year. 

Jesus warned one of the signs before HIS Second Coming their will be an increase of famine in the world in the Last Days. Folks were seeing Bible Prophecy fulfilled right before your eyes.

Matthew 24:7

King James Version (KJV)

⁷ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Art Katz: The Time of Jacob's Trouble: Endtime Bible Prophecy

Could 2012 Be Year Destruction of Damascus Syria? Bible Prophecy Fulfilled?

Source: By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu/Usrael National News

Syria Warns It May Use Chemical Weapons on ‘Foreign’ Forces

Syria has admitted it has chemical weapons and in what might have been a veiled threat against Israel, said it will use them if attacked.
The regime promised it would not engage in chemical warfare against rebels, who by all accounts except for that of the government are pushing President Bashar Assad out of power.
Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi “assured” the world that it has secured chemical weapons, which it previously has not admitted to be in its possession but never would be used "inside Syria."
"No chemical or biological weapons will ever be used, and I repeat, will never be used, during the crisis in Syria, no matter what the developments inside Syria," he said on state television. "All of these types of weapons are in storage and under security and the direct supervision of the Syrian armed forces and will never be used unless Syria is exposed to external aggression."
Israel is concerned that the chemical weapons will fall into the hands of Hizbullah, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared Sunday his government will “have to act” if Assad’s regime collapses, leaving Hizbullah with the possibility of taking over his military arsenal. Assad already is suspected of having smuggled some of the chemical weapons into Lebanon for Hizbullah to stockpile.
Prime Minister Netanyahu told Fox News Sunday said that “there are other possibilities” than crossing the Syrian border in order to deal with Assad’s chemical weapons.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak was ore blunt and stated on Israeli television last Friday, “I’ve ordered the Israeli military to prepare for a situation where we would have to weigh the possibility of carrying out an attack” against Syria’s arsenal, which is believed to include mustard gas and nerve agents that can reach Israel via Scud missiles.
Syria never signed the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.
Despite the Syrian Foreign Ministry’s vow not to use chemical weapons against the opposition, U.S. Senator John McCain does not trust the regime.
"These are helicopter gunships, tanks, artillery that are slaughtering people, and now there is a risk -- and I'm not saying it is going to happen -- a risk that in his desperation, Bashar al-Assad might use those chemical weapons," McCain said on CNN.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters traveling with President Barack Obama on Air Force One, "We believe that Syria's chemical weapons remain under Syrian government control. But given the escalation in violence, and the regime's increasing attacks on its own people, we remain very concerned about these weapons."

Isaiah 17:1

King James Version (KJV)

17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Could 2012 fulfill Bible Prophecy of the destruction of Damacus, Syria?

Could President Assad threat to use chemical weapons cause this destruction?

Could Israel launch an pre-emptive attack on Damacus, Syria to avoid a chemical weapon attack by Syria?

As Christians we need to study Bible Prophecy a little bit more!

 

Days of Noah: Same-Sex Marriage End-Time Sign

Same-sex marriage is widely being accepted in societies all over the world. Just a couple of months ago President Barak Obama stated he believed it was okay for same-sex couples to marry.  Recently the nation of Denmark legalized a same-sex marriage bill in Parliament 85-24 making them the eighth European country to legalize it, and eleventh country overall (source). The bill in Denmark now makes it legal for the Lutheran Church of Denmark to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies.  In Great Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron and his political party are pushing to legalize same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom (here).

Jesus Christ Spoke About the Days of Noah 

I wrote an article about the days of Noah and same-sex marriage entitled, "Jesus, the Days of Noah, and Same-Sex Marriage"  in February 27, 2010 for the blog, "Gay Christian Movement Watch" (www.gcmwatch.com).  It was one of the first documented articles of its kind that dealt with how same-sex marriage is nothing new and was prevalent in the days of Noah.

Ironically, Jesus said in Luke 17:26-30, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when Son of man is revealed.”

Jesus being a first century Rabbi, like most Jewish teachers, coupled Sodom with the flood generation as a typical image of evil.  His intent was to inform his audience that at His second coming the conditions of the world would mirror Noah’s days and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jewish Writings, Days of Noah and Same-Sex Marriage

The Midrash Rabbah Genesis is a specific form of rabbinic literature of ancient Judaism commentaries of the Hebrew Scriptures. It is based on the interpretation of the Torah (Old Testament). It speaks about the subject of same-sex marriage during the days of Noah.

The rabbis wrote in the Midrash Rabbah Genesis that the flood in Noah’s day was primarily triggered when males starting writing marriage deeds with other males, and between men and beasts (bestiality).  Based on the account of Midrash Rabbah Genesis, same-sex marriages took place during the days of Noah. There was nothing new under the sun and this is stated by Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:9.  Lot, in Sodom and Gomorrah, is synonymous with the destruction of the flood generation in Midrash Rabbah Genesis.  It states that Lot pleaded all night for mercy for the Sodomites, and that the angels permitted him to plead for them.  But once the people said, “… bring them out [the angels] so we may have sex with them,” mercy ran out. The angels told Lot, “for now on you have no right to plead anymore.”  Judgment was sent upon Sodom.  Flood water was the judgment of God on the people in Noah’s day.  Fire and brimstone was the judgment against Sodom and Gomorrah.

The book of Enoch was written before the birth of Christ and although it is not an inspired book, it is a good resource.  Parts of it are quoted in Jude 14-15. 2nd Enoch 34-1, 3-4 states,

“God convicts the persons who are idol worshipers and sodomite fornicators, and for this reason he brings down the flood upon them. And all the world will be reduced to confusion by iniquities, wickedness and abominable fornications. That is, friend with friend in anus, every other kind of wicked uncleanness which is almost too disgusting to report, and the worship of the evil one. And that is why I shall bring down the flood onto the earth, and shall destroy everything, and the earth itself will collapse in great darkness.”

Second Enoch states that perverse homosexual relationships were the main cause of the flood.  Both Midrash Rabbah Genesis and the second book of Enoch state that God frowns on homosexuality in cultic prostitution, and in so-called “loving consensual” homosexual relationships. So don’t believe the liberal Christian theologians, gay-affirming churches and inclusionists. Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are an abomination in God’s eyesight.

In 2008 on the radio program Faith2Action host Janet Porter had guest Rabbi Aryeh Spero verified that the Babylonian Talmud, a book written 1000 years before Christ, states that men began to write marriage contracts to other men (homosexual marriage) in the days of Noah.  Rabbi Spero went on to say that G-d was compassionate. That He was patient, and  gave the people of that day a hundred and twenty years to repent.  Spero went on to say, “Even in ancient Greece they did not write marriage contracts between men. There was homosexuality, and it was wrong, but there was not an official ‘blessed’ policy. … Marriage is ‘sanctification’ (not simply a partnership).” He said to confer the title of sanctification and holiness upon this behavior is “probably one of the greatest sins of all that one does against God’s plan for this world (source).”

We are definitely in the last days that Jesus spoke about!  In the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John wrote that there would be an explosion of fornication during the Tribulation period.  There will come a time when the heart of men will become so hard that they will not repent and they will be given over to a reprobated mind.

Revelation 9:20-21

King James Version (KJV)

²⁰ And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

     

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February Interfaith Week (March to One World Religion)

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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in October 2011open his interfaith center for tolerance called The King Abdullah Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna, Italy(source). The governing board for the center is set to be staffed by two Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), three Christians (Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox), a Buddhist, a Hindu and a Jew. The organization will also have a consulting body with 100 representatives from the five world religions plus other faiths as well as academics and members of civil society(source). In November of 2007 King Abdullah made history when he met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, making him the first Saudi monarch to visit the pope(source). 

King Abdullah II of Jordan and Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad  in 2010 proposed to the United Nation General Assembly, World Interfaith Harmony Week. The proposal was special week in February of every year, during which the world's people, in their own places of worship, could express the teachings of their own faith about tolerance, respect for the other and peace(source).

On the fast track of fulfilling Revelation 13 !

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http://endtimeshofar.blogspot.com/2011/10/pope-benedict-xvi-one-world-church.html

http://endtimeshofar.blogspot.com/2012/01/episcopal-bishop-demonic-vision-of-new.html

Days of Noah: Abortion and the End-Times

Jesus said in Luke 17:26-30, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when Son of man is revealed.”

As a 1st century rabbi, Jesus, like most Jewish teachers, coupled Sodom and the flood generation as signal images of evil. His intent was to inform his audience that at His second coming the conditions of the world would mirror Noah’s days and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. The people of Noah's day and in Sodom and Gomorrah were practicing all types of abominations, which eventually cause the judgment of G-d to come upon them.

 A historical glimpse of abortion in the Days of Noah

The book of Enoch was written before the birth of Christ and although it is not an inspired book, its a good resource (some of it is quoted in the Book of Jude). First Enoch 69:13 has an interesting quote on abortion. It mentions a fallen angel named “Kasadya” who teaches mankind the knowledge of aborting babies within the womb of a woman. People were seduced into following the paradigm of the occult. Occult is defined as any system (particularly magic and astrology) which claims use of secret knowledge through supernatural powers or agencies. Occult knowledge is forbidden by God and violates His Word.

The Jewish writings of the Midrash Rabbah Genesis state that the “Nephilim” used the unrestrained sexual conduct of the to multiply abortions in the world because the people of Noah’s time were licentious or sexually unrestrained. It was sexual immorality that eventually led to the origination of abortion through the occult.

Genesis 6 says that the Earth was filled with violence, all flesh was corrupt, and that the wickedness of men was so great that their imagination and thoughts were continually evil. Every type of abominable act was performed including the division of abortion and the actual act of abortion. Hands that shed innocent blood and a heart that devised wicked imagination are abominations that the Lord hates ( Proverbs 6:16-18).

The faces of child hate evolve and emerge

As modernism gave way to postmodernist ideology, satan introduced a new kill strategy aimed at the most vulnerable: unborn children. His plan was to teach people to systematically murder and connect it to common sexual sin. Satan hates children because according to Psalms 127:3, children are a gift of God. Thus, satan has dispatched his ministers to destroy children as quickly and as efficiently as possible. As we fast forward to the early twentieth century, we see the foundations of abortion springing directly from satanic devotion.

Alice Bailey

Alice Bailey (June 16, 1880 – December 15, 1949) was an occultist and founder of Lucis Trust (Lucifer Trust) and Lucis Publishing (Lucifer Publishing). In her book Education in the New Age, Bailey laid out a ten point strategy to destroy Christianity. Of note: points 3,4 and5. Point three of the strategy was to remove restrictions on sex. Bailey believed sex was “big joy” and Christianity robbed people of it. The fourth point of Bailey’s strategy stated that since sex is the greatest expression of man’s enjoyment of life, man must be free to express sex in all its forms. Bailey had no problem with homosexuality, orgies or even bestiality just as long as no one was being abused or harmed. Lastly, she states in point five that people must be free to abort unwanted children. She taught that if men can have sex and live without the consequences, then the same should apply to women. This writing of Bailey helped fuel emerging deception that abortion was just a mere method of birth control and not murder.

Margaret Sanger

Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was without question a significant catalyst in contemporary legal child murder. Not only was Sanger a treacherous racist, she too was heavily involved in the occult. She was a disciple of Theosophy (the worship of Lucifer/Satan). Its founder Madame Blavatsky , Alice Bailey and Adolf Hitler were disciples of Theosophy. Sanger was a racist, occultist, and in real terms a serial slut. She practiced sleeping with multiple partners which she called her “voluntary mates.” Sanger claimed that she was a god. And like most madmen, her delusions of divine grandeur has led to fifty million(and counting) innocent deaths in America. These deaths caused by abortion are otherwise known as ”America’s Secret Holocaust.”

Gloria Steinem

Towards the end of the 1960s the feminist movement gave birth to activist and co-founder of Ms. magazine Gloria Steinem. Like abortion advocates before her, Steinem embraced occultic mysticism known as theosophy. In the Sep-Oct 95 edition of Ms. Steinem was quoted as saying, “Witches were freedom fighters for women because they taught contraception and abortion. The modern contribution is to elevate reproductive freedom to a universal human right.” Her statement makes it clear that not only is abortion immoral and murderous, its roots are demonic.

53 Million Babies Aborted in America Since Roe vs. Wade

The United States has now surpassed 53 million babies abortions have been done since 1972 Roe v. Wade United States Supreme Court decision(source).

Abortion Stats for the United States of America

UNITED STATES(Source)

Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)


Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700


Who's having abortions (age)?

52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.

Who's having abortions (race)?


While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.


Who's having abortions (marital status)?


64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.

Who's having abortions (religion)?

Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical".

Who's having abortions (income)?

Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions; Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.

Why women have abortions


1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

At what gestational ages are abortions performed:


52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th week and 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.



Likelihood of abortion:

An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.

Abortion coverage:

48% of all abortion facilities provide services after the 12th week of pregnancy. 9 in 10 managed care plans routinely cover abortion or provide limited coverage. About 14% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds, virtually all of which are state funds. 16 states (CA, CT, HI, ED, IL, MA , MD, MD, MN, MT, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA and WV) pay for abortions for some poor women.


Worldwide Abortion Stats (Source)

54 countries allow abortion, which is about 61 percent of the world population.

97 countries, about 39 percent of the population, have abortion laws that make it illegal according to the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy in New York. Estimates are 36-53 million abortions world wide each year (Cf. The Alan Guttmacher Institute).

Abortion is legal in:

France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, Romania, Australia, China, United States, Russia, Italy, Japan

Abortion is Illegal in:

Poland, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, South Korea Mexico

Using the statistics given to us by the CDC - every 14 days, there are as many deaths by abortion in the United States as there were in the entire ten years of the Vietnam War.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the former director of New York’s first abortion clinic, is convinced that he supervised the taking of 60,000 lives. (1976)

It was stated in Chicago, “One out of every three children conceived will be aborted here this year…An estimated 200 abortions will be performed each day in Chicago.” (1973).

In 1974, about 900,000 abortions were performed in the U.S. The rate in Russia is about ten times higher or about ten million abortions per year. (1976)


Abortion is an Abomination/ Why God Will Judge America and Other Nations for it!

Here are five significant reasons God will judge nations that endorse abortion/infanticide:

1. Abortion is murder (6th commandment thou shalt not kill).

2. God requires protection of the unborn(Exodus 21:22-23).

3. The shedding of innocent blood pollutes the land of a nation(Psalm 106:38).

4. Hands that shed innocent blood is an abomination to God (Proverbs 6:17).

5. Murderers and the abominable shall inherit the Kingdom of God, but will have a place in the Lake of Fire for eternity(Revelation 21:8). This is the final judgement those who practice abortion, and don't repent fall under the category of the abominable and murderers.

To conclude Jesus Christ had prophesied over 2000 years ago as it is in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the world at  the end of the age extreme wicked condition just as the people in Noah's day before the Son of Man return. The increase in sexual immorality and abortions are prophetic sign that were living in the last mininutes of the last days. The end is near. The Church has to sound the trumpet to dying rebellious world to repent, because Jesus Christ is coming to judge this world.